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Dharma Talks
2008-02-27 Practicing in Daily Life: The Creative Use of Restraint 56:17
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-27 The Universality Of The Dharma 47:15
Sylvia Boorstein
The Universality of the Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-27 Growing Goodness 60:16
Sally Armstrong
Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-26 Facing Fear With An Inquiring Mind 53:42
Michael Grady
Application of Shamatha Vipassana practice in working with fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-02-26 Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana 63:33
Guy Armstrong
It is the direct realization of the unconditioned, or nibbana, that is considered enlightenment in the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores how consciousness and awareness can be understood as links in practice to the flavor of the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-25 Monday Night Meditation 1:41:16
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-25 Faith And Wisdom 55:43
Heather Martin
Two of the five Spiritual Faculties. Exploring: -What we actually believe in, rely on, value. -The difference and sometimes distance between knowledge, ideas, beliefs and wisdom - the integrated absorbed and deeply understood truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-25 Noble Eightfold Path - part 2 - Right Effort, Mindfulness And Concentration 55:42
Myoshin Kelley
Preparing the ground for wisdom to flourish.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-25 Contact and Creative Engagement 50:52
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Breaking Free Of Habits

2008-02-24 Unplugged: Reflections from One Month on Retreat 41:59
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-02-23 Acht ethische Grundlagen des Glücks 39:15
Fred Von Allmen
Verbundenheit und Glück durch nicht-verletzendes, heilsames Verhalten
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-02-23 Big Mind Meditation 43:33
Howard Cohn
A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-23 Breaking Free of Mental Habits 61:19
Martine Batchelor
Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring the mental patterns.
Gaia House Breaking Free Of Habits

2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn
We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-21 Wise Effort 33:01
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-20 Listening Presence 69:12
Tara Brach
A full and listening presence is the gateway to genuine intimacy with our self and others. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening and the teachings and practices that guide us in developing this healing and liberating capacity.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-02-20 Practicing in Daily Life: The Taste of Freedom 57:32
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-20 What Actually Is The Truth? 58:48
Heather Martin
How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-19 Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death 49:16
Shaila Catherine
We are all vulnerable to aging, illness, and death. Everything born will eventually die. How can we contemplate death in a way that brings us to realize the deathless liberation of mind? How can we go beyond birth and death by facing the reality of our existence? Reflecting on death is one traditional way to contemplate the nature of the body. These meditations include contemplating the decaying corpse, body contemplations, noticing that our friends and loved ones perish. We are all friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn
The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-18 Noble Eightfold Path - part 1 59:37
Myoshin Kelley
Path allows us to bring the totality of life to our spiritual journey. This talk explores ethical conduct as a foundation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-16 Metta In The World 61:52
Gina Sharpe
Taking Metta practice into the world with intention and integrity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-16 Morning Instructions 57:34
Sharon Salzberg
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-16 Coming Out Of The Fog Of Delusion 56:11
Sally Armstrong
The distortion of delusion operates in many ways, including when we are disconnected from our direct experience, or only allow in information that doesn't challenge our deluded state of mind. Learning how to recognize when delusion is distorting our experience allows us to wake up out of its spell and discover clarity and peacefulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-16 The Eightfold Path 48:27
Caroline Jones
Gaia House Young Peoples Retreat The Eightfold Path

2008-02-15 Morning Instructions 57:13
Mark Coleman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Relationship Of The Four Brahma Viharas 53:49
Sharon Salzberg
Relationship of the Four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Joy Ushers In Calm 60:36
Heather Martin
By welcoming joy we become content, so we relax, thus letting go of the need to do something - anything about it - thus calming down. Inner and/or outer joy facilitates the shift from doing to being - from trying to letting go - crucial steps on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-14 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien 53:48
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-14 Meaning 34:28
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-14 Compassion And Appreciative Joy 59:30
Mark Coleman
What is the experience of compassion, how does it arise, what are it’s obstacles. This talk also discusses the Bhrama Vihara of mudita, appreciative joy and how we cultivate this rare and beautiful quality of gladness and celebrating the joys of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-14 At The Still Point Of The Turning World 61:06
Howard Cohn
Exploring the concept of time and the way our reality is colored by the views of time that obscure the inexhaustible resource of the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 Qualities To Be Cultivated In Metta Practice 55:07
Gina Sharpe
Metta – Its value, and bring precision, gentleness and the ability to let go, to practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 Essential Dharma - part 1, week 7 - part 1 of 3 30:15
Richard Shankman
Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings

2008-02-13 Metta, Tenderness And Connection 60:06
Guy Armstrong
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 The Ethics of Sunyata 1:31:39
John Peacock
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-12 Morning Instructions 52:49
Sharon Salzberg
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-12 The Five Hindrances 55:02
Sharon Salzberg
The Five Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-12 Seclusion 57:07
Carol Wilson
Seclusion - viveka in Pali - is a theme the Buddha was asked about: "Teach me...release, emancipation, seclusion for beings." This talk explores various aspects of this word viveka: seclusion of body, seclusion of mind, seclusion from suffering - and how these are manifest in the retreat setting and mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-12 The Birth of a Bodhisattva 1:13:46
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-11 Peacemaking In The Middle East 61:15
Jack Kornfield
The hundred beautiful seeds of peace in Israel and Palestine, as reflected in the words of the Dhammapada.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-02-11 Monday Night Talk with Jack Kornfield 61:15
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-11 Mindfulness, Metta And Wisdom 47:40
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and the qualities of loving kindness, how they support each other and how this leads to living with wisdom and compassion in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-11 The Hindrances And The Awakening Factors 60:37
Heather Martin
What obstructs us and what helps us on our journey to awakening. How these two clearly explained aspects of our experience alternatively trap us and free us over and over again, as we invite their interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-11 Exploring The Terrain Of Fear 57:37
Myoshin Kelley
Fear often drives our lives in unhealthy ways. This talk explores having a conscious and wise relationship to it.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-10 Choosing Kindness Rather Than Judging 58:58
Sally Armstrong
Many of us have internalized the message that we are not ok. To begin to be free of this distorted view, we need to understand how it became formed and why it no longer serves us. It is important to bring humor and kindness to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-10 Love and the Emptiness of Things 1:30:39
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-10 Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas 38:49
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-09 Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 47:40
Rob Burbea
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

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