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Dharma Talks
2007-12-14 Opening Talk for Gladdening the Mind 40:16
Christina Feldman
Opening Talk for a retreat that explores what it means to have a meditative journey unfold in a mind of gladness.
Gaia House Gladdening The Mind

2007-12-14 It's All About Me 62:03
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-13 Here 51:34
Gil Fronsdal
Here and how we are with here
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-13 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Naeb 50:52
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-12-13 Hindrances - part 2 63:13
Myoshin Kelley
Working with restlessness and doubt.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-12 Path Of Transformation 1:16:34
Tara Brach
This talk investigates three core themes on the path of spiritual awakening: forgiveness, inner fire or aspiration, and the awareness of what we are...awareness itself. These living currents on the path are explored through an ancient Indian teaching story and guided reflections.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-12-12 Joseph's Dharma Story - part 2 67:13
Joseph Goldstein
Joseph's Dharma Story Part 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-10 The Divine Abodes 66:01
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-12-09 Practice In Daily Life 59:34
Andrea Fella
Bring mindfulness into daily life is a challenging aspect of our practice. Using specific practices for daily life helps to bring the thread of mindfulness throughout our days.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-08 The Manner Is The Meaning 35:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-12-08 Forever Taking Leave 54:37
John Peacock
Gaia House Living With Impermanence And Uncertainty

2007-12-07 Devotional Practice 1:53:34
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL DPP Reunion Retreat

2007-12-07 Opening Talk For Living With Impermanence and Uncertainty 54:19
John Peacock
Gaia House Living With Impermanence And Uncertainty

2007-12-07 Eight Worldly Conditions 58:49
Sally Armstrong
The world spins around the alternating pairs of gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disrepute, and happiness and unhappiness. When we bring them into our awareness, we see how much of our time and energy is spent trying to create and hold on to the positive ones, and avoid or get rid of the negative ones. If we see with wisdom, we realize that these conditions are always operating no matter what we do, and that the skillful way to respond to them is to come to a clearer understanding of what actually brings us true happiness and a sense of well-being, and to cultivate that, rather than chase after gain, praise, fame, and superficial happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-06 Mindfulness 34:36
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-12-06 Hindrances - part 1 56:21
Myoshin Kelley
Working with desire and aversion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-03 Loving-Kindness And Gratitude 61:04
Guy Armstrong
The four divine abidings show us a way to hold all the joys and sorrows of life. This talk focuses principally on the qualities of loving-kindness, which overcomes isolation and connects us to all of life; and gratitude, as a form of appreciative joy that leads to greater contentment and well-being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-03 Prajna Paramita In The Dragon Mountains 61:01
Thanissara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-12-02 Questions and Answers 47:17
Eugene Cash, Kittisaro
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-02 No Road Maps 41:18
Jose Reissig
To be really present in our journey through life we need to put aside the road maps -- i.e. the grids that position us within the familiar -- and transcend them.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat with Jose Reissig

2007-12-02 Turning The Mind Towards Equanimity 54:58
Sharda Rogell
This talk explores two of the Buddha's discourses that teach how to establish equanimity associated with insight. He teaches us what leads to more happiness and what leads to more suffering, and essentially, how we can cultivate more pleasure in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-12-01 The Crucial Shift 48:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2007-12-01 The Journey And The Goal 42:10
Jose Reissig
In our compulsive pursuit of goals we contrive a dichotomy between journey and goal. Understanding that they are one gives poignancy to our lives.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat with Jose Reissig

2007-12-01 A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 49:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path Of Peace And Happiness Dana Retreat

2007-12-01 Love Is Wisdom's Natural Radiance 55:00
Pamela Weiss
Returning to the Market Place with Gift Bestowing Hands. Allowing the breaking apart to reveal the luminous heart. Love as connection, Kuan Yin and the appropriate response.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-30 Getting 37:22
Jose Reissig
In the habitual process of getting, the main point is not getting this or that, but getting "the getter" -- that is, becoming somebody.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat with Jose Reissig

2007-11-30 Tasting The Unconditioned 60:22
Kittisaro
The heart already Radiant gets confused by what moves through it. If it shouldn't be this way, it wouldn't be this way. Unfolding into the 4 Noble Truths, realizing the unshakable heart tasting the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-30 Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 55:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House A Path Of Peace And Happiness Dana Retreat

2007-11-29 Wise Attention 65:43
Carol Wilson
The Buddha spoke of wise attention as the tool that uproots the underlying tendencies of our minds that cause suffering. This talk discusses various means the Buddha taught for practicing wise attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-29 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Buddhadasa 55:21
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-29 Wings of Awakening 52:10
Mary Grace Orr
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-29 The Dharma Is Not The Dharma 60:04
Thanissara
Buddhism + the Dharma is the peel left behind. The immediacy of here and now Dharma. Disenchantment as a doorway is the transcendent. The irritation that rubs to the pearl. The immovable suchness of Being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-11-28 The Mysterious Power Of The Breath 53:19
Eugene Cash
Often the power of mindfulness of the breath is underestimated. This talk illuminates the depth of breath as skillful means to develop samadhi, oneness, intimacy, mystery and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Radiant Awareness of Being

2007-11-28 Questions And Answers 65:20
Joseph Goldstein
Questions and Answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-28 Requisites For Enlightenment 1:11:10
Myoshin Kelley
The 10 paramis or requisites for enlightenment that bring a meaningful application of our practice to how we live our lives. This talk explores some of the ways these qualities get strengthened.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-27 Faith & Interrelatedness : Practice in Action 43:50
Ajahn Metta
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-11-27 Guided Meditation On Equanimity 45:49
Sharda Rogell
This is a 45 minute introduction and a guided meditation on Equanimity. By repeating certain phrases, we can decondition our reactive attitude and open our heart to the way things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-26 Third Noble Truth & Nibbana 61:06
Guy Armstrong
This talk explores the third noble truth, or the end of suffering, also described as Nibbana. Nibbana is seen as a transcendent dimension of our being accessible in any moment. Practices that approach this unconditioned element are described also.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-25 Questions and Answers 56:01
Eugene Cash, Thanissara
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-25 The Awakening Factor of Rapture 34:37
Mark Nunberg
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-11-25 Internalizing The Retreat 40:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-25 Sakkaya Ditthi: Who Do I Take Myself To Be? 58:00
Sharda Rogell
Our mind becomes obsessed with three views that define who we take ourselves to be, me, mine and myself. Born from confusion about the way things are, we see ourselves and others in a narrow, contracted way and lose contact with our deepest nature. This talk is a clear and candid exploration that encourages practicing with awareness to find out what is true about this person I take myself to be.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-24 The Gift Of Dhamma 45:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-24 Exploring Vedena - Feeling Tone 51:01
Andrea Fella
Exploring the pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral feeling tone of our experience, we have the opportunity to witness the birth of reactivity to that feeling tone, which allows us to deeply understand the nature of our suffering. In this understanding of suffering are the seeds of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-24 Cleaning Up Our Act 50:51
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines the Buddha’s Teaching on intention. It walks through how we identify with all the five aggregates.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-24 Living Life In Silence 57:25
Robert K. Hall
Living life's path with openess to all of it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-24 Time and the Emptiness of Time 56:55
Rob Burbea
Time is one of the fundamental aspects of existence we usually take for granted, leaving its seeming ‘reality’ unquestioned. But Dharma practice and inquiry can puncture and shatter our belief in the real independent existence of time – both the past/future and the present/the ‘Now’, and, in so doing, open awareness up to a truly inconceivable and immeasurable liberation.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-23 Guided Metta Meditation 40:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-23 Sexual Desire - Meditation In Relationship 50:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Amaravati Monastery November 2007

2007-11-23 Transcendent Dependent Origination 58:46
Sally Armstrong
In the teaching on Transcendent Dependent Origination, the Buddha gives us a map for our spiritual journey, beginning with the common human condition of suffering, which, when opened to with wisdom, leads to faith and many other beautiful qualities. These qualities support the deepening that leads to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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