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Dharma Talks
2009-07-06 Freedom 36:37
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-07-06 Welcoming Experience 17:30
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2009-07-06 Finding Security Within Insecurity 50:40
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry

2009-07-04 Morning Chanting of Three Refuges and Eight Practice Precepts 2:22
Steve Armstrong
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-07-04 Jumping Mouse, Commentary on a Native American Story of Spiritual Transformation 59:04
Steve Armstrong
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-07-03 Sure Hearts Release Part 2 Living in Harmony, Development of Mind 1:10:01
Kamala Masters
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-07-02 You Never Know... 54:28
James Baraz
You Never Know...
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-07-02 Universal Heartbeat: Applying Skillful Effort and Right Diligence to Our Practice 62:55
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center People of Color

2009-07-02 Sure Hearts Release Part 1 Generosity 59:06
Kamala Masters
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-07-01 Why didn't the Buddha return to lay life 57:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2009-07-01 Part 3 - Wise Practice - The Heart of Buddhism 1:14:17
Tara Brach
This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover the strategies that help us arrive in presence, the key elements of mindfulness, working with difficult emotional states and the practices that awaken our heart. Each week will include guided meditations and reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-07-01 First and Last Freedom: Right View 62:01
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Spirit Rock Meditation Center People of Color

2009-07-01 Mindfulness: On and Off The Cushion 15:40
Larry Rosenberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Audio Files

2009-07-01 Gratitude 62:04
Sylvia Boorstein
Giving away fixed views as the path to peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-07-01 Aspiration, Knowledge, Wisdom 57:01
Steve Armstrong
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-06-29 Wise Thought & Freedom with Bhante Buddharakkhita 66:10
Jack Kornfield
How to understand and work with the mind, to awaken compassion and understanding. Skillful thoughts and Unskillful thoughts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-29 Faith 29:23
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-06-29 The Parami of Generosity 1:18:09
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-28 The Eightfold Path: Right Intention 60:09
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-06-28 Cultivating a Spacious, Balanced Mind of Equanimity 1:10:42
Kamala Masters
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-06-28 Five Spiritual Faculties 58:37
Kamala Masters
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-06-27 Service as a Path of Practice 45:25
Donald Rothberg
How do we take our service as a path of practice? Most basically, we take helping others as the center (or a major part) of our lives, and we examine, in our service, what helps develop “selfless” service and the barriers to such service, especially a sense of duality between self and other. We explore how a connection between “inner” and “outer” practice structures a life of service, and how such practice can also be understood as the development of particular qualities—we focus on the development of (1) clarity of intentions, (2) generosity, (3) gratitude, and (4) compassion, and on some of the challenges that arise when cultivating such qualities, and in service generally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Volunteer Appreciation

2009-06-27 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 62:45
Steve Armstrong
Christine Center :  Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2009-06-26 Right Speech 51:34
Joseph Goldstein
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-25 Mindfulness As A Prayer For Peace 65:35
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-25 Contentment 53:37
James Baraz
Contentment
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2009-06-25 Letting Go 35:19
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-06-25 Generosity 61:42
Carol Wilson
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-25 Equanimity 1:14:10
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-24 Part 2 - Wise Practice 1:18:00
Tara Brach
This four week series reviews many key components of Buddhist meditation practice. Beginning with intention and attitude, we cover the strategies that help us arrive in presence, the key elements of mindfulness, working with difficult emotional states and the practices that awaken our heart. Each week will include guided meditations and reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-06-24 Kshanti Paramita - Cultivating Patience 53:13
Pamela Weiss

2009-06-24 Essential Dharma Part II- Class 8: Wise Concentration, Richard Shankman 44:42
Richard Shankman
Essential Dharma Part II- Class 8: Wise Concentration, Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings Part 2

2009-06-24 Mindfulness Practice and the Jewish Year 58:37
Rabbi Sheila Weinberg
Reflection on what we seek to remember in practice, developing the capacity to see which stories serve to develop wholesome qualities and reduce suffering. The center of the talk is a tour through the Jewish year, interpreting each holiday as a form of retreat practice and the opportunity to awaken and develop heart qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-24 Compassion 53:28
Joseph Goldstein
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-23 The Awakening Prophet 63:39
Donald Rothberg
One interpretation of Jewish mindfulness connects mindfulness with the Jewish prophetic tradition. This suggests an understanding of spiritual practice as involving both "inner" transformation toward liberation and "outer" transformation toward a liberated society; actually, the two are intimately connected. We first explore, partly through music, the prophetic tradition. We then examine how both our inner and outer practice can be understood in similar ways, following the core principles, in terms of development in wisdom and mindfulness (the mind), compassion and love (the heart), and courage and skillful action (the body).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-23 Three Point Eight Billion Years Ago 48:22
Rodney Smith
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-22 Obstacles to Awareness of the Divine Presence 58:28
Rabbi Jeff Roth
In contemporary Jewish meditation the Divine is a reference to the interconnected unity of all being. This talk unfolds this metaphor and points out obstacles that occur in "small mind" that aggrandizes the self and cuts one off from unity, compassion and loving-kindness. A set of practice instructions proposes processes to turn the obstacles into compost for spiritual growth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Jewish Mindfulness

2009-06-22 Aggregates 54:55
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-06-22 Desire 42:19
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-06-22 Liberation Through Non-clinging 61:48
Joseph Goldstein
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-22 Wise Concentration 53:33
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Vivekananda

2009-06-21 The Eightfold Path: Right View 42:13
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-06-21 Shifting Paradigms 53:21
Carol Wilson
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-20 A wise Orientation to Practice 49:01
Rodney Smith
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-19 Heavy Metta 60:28
Vinny Ferraro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Meditation

2009-06-19 Courage To Live: Practice of Forfiveness 66:22
Larry Yang
How we bring a profound practice of letting go into our day to day lived experience in our multicultural lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2009-06-19 Opinions 33:20
Ayya Medhanandi
Are you watching your breath or watching your opinions? It is not enough to just watch the breath; you must reflect closely on what is arising. Come to the truth of the way things are by identifying and letting go of your opinions. Reflect on what you pay homage to and how to give birth to the truth in your heart.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2009-06-19 Sixth Metta Instructions, Guided Practice-All Individuals 69:24
Kamala Masters
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Insight and Loving Kindness

2009-06-19 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation Retreat 65:28
Joseph Goldstein
Talk given with Carol Wilson and Rodney Smith
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2009-06-18 Arrows To Flower Petals 57:25
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Meditation

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