2007-07-23 Liberation 2:18:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-22 Understanding The Defilements 57:31
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Wisdom removes the defilements. Awareness is the foundation for growing wisdom. Defilements are visitors to the mind that cause suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-22 The Seven Factors of Awakening 40:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
A description of the Seven Factors and how they balance each other. The overarching importance of the Factor of Awareness is stressed.
Gaia House :  The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-22 Satipatthana 4: The Four Noble Truths 1:27:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-21 Knowing, Awareness And Wisdom 55:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Understanding these differences helps deepen our understanding and insights into the nature of this body and mind.

2007-07-21 The Practice as a Whole 36:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
The Seven Factors of Awakening are put into the perspective of the practice of Vipassana as a whole.
Gaia House :  The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-21 Being In The Stream Of Dhamma 35:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Sankhara

2007-07-21 Knowledge of Arising and Passing 2:05:49
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-20 Nibhana 46:31
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The 3rd Nobel Truth the Buddha describes as the heartwood of the path. This talk focuses on the insights and renunciations that liberate the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-20 Equanimity 1:24:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-19 The Abundance Of Generosity 42:40
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Opening to the connecting and liberating power of generosity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-19 "Calling All Bodhisattvas" 58:39
James Baraz	Download Listen
We are not practicing for ourselves alone. Everyone benefits from the fruits of our practice. This talk explores how to actively and skillfully express our compassion, held with equanimity, in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-19 The Imperfections of Insight Part 2 1:19:48
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-18 The Mind and the Way: Science of Goodness 55:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Compassion in the Face of Suffering 1:13:52
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Intimacy, Acceptance And Release 45:25
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
In the path of liberating our hearts we learn to be intimate with all things. This talk focuses upon the power of aversion to create alienation and division and the power of mindfulness to uproot ill will.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-18 Mudita: Practicing Joy And Gratitude 61:01
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Appreciative joy (Mudita) is the third of the divine abidings (Brahma Viharas). When directed to oneself, it enhances the sense of gratefulness. This is an important practice because joy is an integral part of the path to liberation.

2007-07-18 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 2 53:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this second session, we first review the path of the Bodhisattva, exploring both the Theravada and Mahayara roots and the qualities (paramis, paramites) developed. We focus on vow – intentions, patience, and meditation, looking at how to make the Bodhisattva training real in our daily lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-18 The Imperfections of Insight Part 1 1:36:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-17 The Three Principles Of The Path 39:03
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Cultivating renunciation and letting go, kindness and compassion and insight into the empty nature of things.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-17 A Purified Heart 50:00
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Our spiritual practices allow us to reconnect with our deepest caring for our own happiness and well-being. When this is awakened, we purify our heart and our caring expands to include all beings everywhere.

2007-07-16 Freedom From Fear And Anxiety 56:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This talk explores in detail the tools and approaches we can develop to work skillfully with fear in our lives, both those fears that are obvious and those that are more hidden. There is a genuine possibility of liberation from the power that fear seems to have to constrict us
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-16 Forgiveness 59:10
James Baraz	Download Listen
Forgiveness is an essential part of Metta practice so that the heart can stay open and the kindness flows out easily. In this talk forgiveness toward ourselves, asking and extending forgiveness with others and forgiveness towards life are explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-16 Factors Of Enlightenment 61:13
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The Factors of Enlightenment: A reminder to the heart of our natural awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-16 The Seven Factors Of Awakening, Part2: Calm And Concentration 64:01
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-15 The Mind and the Way Q&A Chap 14 58:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-15 Wisdom Of Boredom 48:04
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Boredom is one of the mental states most difficult to understand yet a familiar companion in our lives. Boredom has much o teach us about the sources of wakefulness and is a doorway to understanding calm and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-15 Metta As Purification 65:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
As we settle more into our hearts, we find our beauty. How to hold them all in friendship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2007-07-14 Freeing The Heart And Mind From Hindrances 50:42
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
How to skilfully work with the five hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Path of Liberation

2007-07-14 The Benefits Of Metta 53:55
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explains how the practice of loving-kindness works to bring five benefits: a tender heart, the purification of heart and mind, concentration, connection to life, and happiness.

2007-07-14 Go Forth into the World 60:40
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Having entered the stream of the eightfold path, one becomes 'independent of the views of others'. This autonomy is the ground for a new way of being with oneself and the world. It deepens insight and expands empathy, leading to compassion and social engagement.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-14 The Development of Wisdom 1:45:22
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-13 Awakening, Love and Compassion 64:54
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the symbols of awakening representing selflessness, showing the importance of love in our spiritual lives, and exploring compassionate activities.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-13 Satipatthana 3: Mindfulness of Mind States 2:00:53
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-12 Reflections On Power 55:31
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is a reflection stemming from the "Money, Sex, & Power" issue of the Inquiring Mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-07-12 Mindfulness Of Mind 56:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-12 Rembrandt's Eyes 64:12
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Rather than four propositions to believe, the four enobling truths are to be seen as injunctions on which to act: Fully know suffering, Let go of craving, Experience cessation, and Creatre a path. Awakening is not, therefore, a 'state', but an ongoing process.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-12 Satipatthana 2: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone 1:20:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-11 Wisdom And Compassion 56:22
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
How wisdom and compassion are developed in the practice of mindful awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-07-11 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 1: Intention - Vow And Patience 59:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The path of the Bodhisattva is both a traditional and contemporary way of connecting inner practice and helping others. After an overview of the Theravada and Mahayara roots, we explore the practice of (1) intention - vows, and (2) patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-11 Breaking Free of Habits 61:54
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring mental patterns.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-11 Satipatthana 1: Mindfulness of the Body 1:26:00
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-10 Turning the Wheel 59:31
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Although initially reluctant to teach, the Buddha goes to Benares and explains to five of his former companions what he has realized. This first sermon, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma (Dhammacakkapavatana Sutta), expands the principle of conditioned arising into the practice of 'four enobling truths'.
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-10 The Five Hindrances 1:34:29
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-09 Five Hindrances 52:25
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Five Hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2007-07-09 Buddhist Psychology 63:44
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-09 The Seven Factors Of Awakening, Part1 57:34
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-09 The Three Characteristics 50:36
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awareness, Questioning, and the Path of Compassion

2007-07-09 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension 1:36:52
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  Vivekananda

2007-07-08 The Mind and the Way: Themes For Daily Practice 54:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center