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Dharma Talks
2008-02-08 Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now 66:52
Howard Cohn
Our thinking mind, when unnoticed, spreads out into imaginary worlds about an imaginary version of ourselves. How mindfulness helps us recognize the various trances our mind spins.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-08 Sunyata 62:00
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)

2008-02-07 Practicing in Daily Life 54:24
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-07 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Dhammadharo 55:31
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-07 Heart Of Kindness 47:46
Christina Feldman
Compassion is the deepest motivation of spiritual practice. Resting upon our understanding of interconnectioness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-07 Morning Instructions 53:37
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-07 Inspiration For Practice: The Four Heavenly Messengers 61:22
Heather Sundberg
The talk explores the story of Prince Siddartha's encounters with the Four Heavenly Messengers - old age, sickness, death and those who have 'gone forth' in search of the highest happiness. Woven with personal stories and the examples of contemporary masters, the talk also offers practical advice on how to use the experience of the Four Messengers as our teachers and inspiration in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-06 Gateways To Happiness 1:12:45
Tara Brach
While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How do we relax and open to the blessings of our life that are always and already here? Though these reflections we explore together our potential to live from a profound place of inner freedom, peace and happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-02-06 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 32 1:18:52
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2008-02-06 Four Noble Truths 60:40
Carol Wilson
The Buddha said that our path of awakening is like swimming upstream - in relationship to the habits of society and the habits of our own minds. So our deep motivation needs to be supported by accurate information. The 4 Noble Truths is a basic context/description of life, suffering and freedom that serves to support and inform all our various methods of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-06 Dependent Origination 1:27:27
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)

2008-02-05 The Taste Of Freedom 47:58
Christina Feldman
The Four foundations of mindfulness are the doorway in which we can discover a taste of freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-05 Morning Instructions 48:12
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-05 Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves) 18:19
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)

2008-02-04 Morning Instructions 56:40
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-04 Mindfulness Of The Body 65:43
Heather Martin
Why and how mindfulness of the body reveals so much so clearly as we untangle the knots.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-04 Finding True Refuge 47:04
Myoshin Kelley
This talk explores what we can look to for refuge amidst as life in a sea of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-04 Compassion 69:55
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)

2008-02-03 Morning Instructions 49:16
Christina Feldman
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-03 Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places 56:31
Sally Armstrong
Because we don't understand what brings us true happiness, we often find ourselves trying to control or resist our experience, in a futile attempt to find relief. Seeing more clearly and working skillfully with our difficulties brings us true peace and calm.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-02 What Reality Are We Practicing 41:56
Rodney Smith
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-02-02 Gladdening The Heart 52:16
Christina Feldman
Loving kindness, generosity, appreciative joy and spaciousness are the cornerstones of a gladdened heart upon which our practice deepens.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-02 An Attitude Of Mindfulness 52:18
Guy Armstrong
The right attitude for meditation is one that is free of greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also explores the functions of mindfulness, attention and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-02 Using Insight To Deepen Love and Compassion 1:49:51
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)

2008-02-01 Samatha and - or Vipassana 51:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2008-01-31 Buddhist Master Series: U Ba Khin 57:05
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-01-30 The Power Of Inquiry 65:26
Tara Brach
Inquiry, or mindful investigation, is a direct way to deepen our attention and reveal the nature of reality. This talk explores the attitude, types of questions and practice of non-conceptual presence that awakens our deepest wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-01-30 Mindfulness & Renunciation 57:47
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-30 Three Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice 58:57
Donald Rothberg
It's very challenging for our daily lives to be places of deep transformation, yet many of us want this. After looking at one of the challenges, we explore three ways to meet the challenges: 1) knowing what is important 2) taking "our bodies as our monasteries" 3) learning to "break the mirror", get unstuck, over and over again. For each of the three ways, a dharma reading and a poem are given.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-30 Ways Of Deepening Daily Life Practice 58:57
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-30 Anatta 1:22:03
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)

2008-01-30 Exploring the World of Loving Kindness 1:11:25
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)

2008-01-29 The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice 1:26:04
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)

2008-01-28 The Discussion Of The Wisdom Dakini 1:14:52
Lama Palden
Dakinis are activity aspects of awakened mind. Outwardly the dakini can support, nurture and protect us. She also can show up to cut through conceptuality. Ultimately dakini is the wisdom aspect of our own minds; the openness aspect that is the space for and is inseparable with everything that is. When this aspect is realized all phenomena, all experience become workable, eventually blissful. True nature is wisdom, openness, compassion and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-27 Instructions on Loving Kindness and Guided Meditation 41:19
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend

2008-01-27 Opening Talk for the Metta Retreat - LovingKindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening 60:21
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)

2008-01-26 Instructions on Loving Kindness 41:49
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend

2008-01-26 Loving Kindness 53:16
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend

2008-01-26 A Gradual Unfolding 41:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-01-25 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend Retreat 59:25
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving Kindness Weekend

2008-01-24 Buddhist Master Series: Mogok Sayadaw 54:32
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-01-24 Vast Sky Visited By Clouds 55:01
Heather Sundberg
After sharing a personal story, th talk explores working with some of the challenging states of mind and body, followed by a teaching on the essence of Prajnaparamita, emphasizing the qualities of vast space, bliss and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Coming Home: A Retreat for Experienced Women Practitioners

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn
Turning toward the dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, dharna and sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well being born of mindfulness that is free and open
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-01-24 Going For Refuge 54:51
Chas DiCapua
What is it we are taking refuge from? Where do we find refuge? What is our relationship to taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha? The investigation of these questions is a practice in and of itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn
Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-24 Stillness In Movement - Walking Meditation 22:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Within the movement of walking, the mind becomes still. There is a lovely quality of movement and stillness. That’s where a centre that begins to occur, a centre of awareness. Not held through fixation or obsession, it arises with the factor of ease, factor of repeated process, just going through it again and again, and clearing out the obstacles.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
In collection: A Moving Balance

2008-01-23 Fourth Noble Truth 60:58
Sylvia Boorstein
This is the last of four lectures on the Four Noble Truth. It has a lot of group sharing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-20 The Five Indriya Or Spiritual Faculties 65:13
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk defines what constitutes the five spiritual faculties and what it takes to develop them. It offers a hands-on understanding of how faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed, lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-19 The Self Thing - A Personal Approach 51:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

2008-01-18 Patience - The Way Out Of Heartbreak Hotel 38:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat

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