2006-07-19 Guided Meditation - Lifting The Heart 42:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The process of samādhi is as important as anything else, wherever the process lands. Give priority to 3 fundamental roots: inclination towards kindness/well-being; protection/warding off what’s harmful; letting go of sense contact.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-19 Understanding Right Effort #3 56:41
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-19 Happiness - part 4: Letting Go 58:25
James Baraz	Download Listen
The joy of letting go includes restraint expressed as sitting with integrity as well as letting go of stories, expectation & experiences. This letting go is not a sacrifice but rather releasing the burden of holding onto the things that cause us suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-19 Entering the Stream 56:57
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-18 The Precious Flaw 42:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation is not about getting any particular state or feeling. It’s about knowing what’s happening without getting bonded to it. Only by handling experience is there freedom. What we handle is our precious, necessary flaw – our suffering. Meet it and know it as Mara.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-18 Listening, Part 2 36:43
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
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2006-07-18 Refinement of the Mind 52:25
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-18 Contingency and Emptiness 57:36
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-17 The Person And The Undefinable 60:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A reflection on the theme of being a person without a self. Only working with what can be defined – knowing what is skillful and unskillful, what causes suffering and what causes non-suffering. Far more than the benefit of calm, you’re then working with the roots of this personhood, learning how to handle aspects of the person without constructing a self.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-17 Relaxed Attention 60:10
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-17 Buddhist Psychology - Delusion 61:15
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2006-07-17 Creative Engagement with Contact 51:55
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-17 Going Against the Stream 56:37
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-16 Resonating With Suchness 26:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The capacity of the resonant mind to listen, to be empathetic, is tremendously helpful. It’s what we set up in puja. The mundane is held in a blessed way. Things we didn’t know we needed to be felt are felt – it goes beyond words.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-16 The Whole Person - Integrating Bodily/Emotive/Rational Patterns 56:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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2006-07-16 Guided Meditation On Energetics - Deepening Ground 47:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation the ground has to be both clear and enjoyable. Make a joyful kind of effort. Refer to breathing to give focus; refer to the physical when the mind spins out. Track energy along the chakras – expand it, spread it around. May this be well.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-16 Being The Knower 51:19
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-16 The Whole Person - integrating bodily, emotive, rational patterns 56:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A teaching on the faculties of body, speech and mind and their patterning, saṇkhāra. In meditation, we work with the energy of these patternings. Clear and soothe body energies with breathing, and heart energies open. Upright presence of body allows us to remain attuned with the madness of the mind.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-16 Motivation, Faith and Inquiry 51:46
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-16 Birth and Death 57:57
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
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2006-07-15 Getting To The Root Of The Problem 69:22
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-15 Death and Deathless 52:13
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-07-15 The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:34
James Baraz	Download Listen
The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity. When brought to fruition they lead to the highest happiness we can experience. How can we cultivate these qualities consciously in our meditation practice and in our life?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-15 The Ox Herding Pictures 42:10
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The ox herding pictures trace the seasons of a spiritual journey from confusion to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-14 Hindrances & Entering The Place Of Presence 60:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There’s a glow and energizing effect to the hindrances that we’re attracted to. But if we lose presence in their pursuit, we don’t notice how they burn us. Samadhi is the overcoming of this, the coming into presence. The stages of samadhi cultivation are described, grounding the heart in the body so doesn’t rush out with feeling.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-14 What Is The Unconditioned 61:39
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-14 The Art Of Non Doing 48:24
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
We are either interconnected or not. If we are not then let's move on. If we are then we must deeply understand the art of non doing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-13 Guided Meditation - Opening To The Sense Of 'other' 21:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The tendency is to conceive ourselves as being a separate entity; yet, we’re always in something. There is something around us without which we wouldn’t survive. Practice sensing into the ‘us-ness’, the sense of me and something else. Mindfulness of body and breathing support this practice.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-13 Steadying Presence - Breathing Where You Are 46:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
With breathing we are coming into different aspect of body, the energy body. Feel the internal body with reference to breathing. Use the thinking mind to keep pointing – where am I? Heart picks up feelings of space, gladness ease. Body, heart mind work together to clear kammic disturbances in the energy field. Walking instructions at the end.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-13 An Opportunity To Be Free 60:37
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-13 Healing Ill Will 45:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The first precept and the practice of Loving Kindness meet in their commitment to uprooting the ill will that harms our world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-12 Guided Meditation - Posture 17:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-12 Connecting Body To Mind In Terms Of Energy 44:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The kind of effort energy that is often brought to ‘trying to meditate’ lacks balance. Guidance is given to establish a steady upright posture with the external frame of the body. Energy is sensed at chakra centers to support its free flow through the body.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-12 Terrorist In The Bushes 46:45
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery :  Vassa Retreat

2006-07-12 Understanding Right Effort #2 54:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-12 Listening, Part 1 27:57
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-12 Mana: The Conceit of I 44:15
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Our innate dignity and freedom is revealed in understanding and letting go of conceit.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-12 Compassion, The Heart that is Open and Engaged 51:27
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
MK137, MD157
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2006-07-12 Guided Meditation – Posture 17:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Guidance to use attention to set up a steady, relaxed frame. Breathing sustains a sense of flow throughout, clearing blocked areas.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-11 Metta: Freeing The Heart From Clinging 51:16
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
What keeps our heart from expressing pure lovingkindness? Understanding "tanna" or clinging, that gives rise to attachment & aversion, is the obstacle.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-07-11 Untying The Knot Of Contraction 46:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Contracting around either the comfortable or uncomfortable aspects of life will inevitably cause conflict. The resolution of that conflict is the Buddha's teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-10 Selfless Persons 65:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On this Path, there is release, and there is also awakening into something vaster. Wherever suffering occurs, that’s the place of release. Apply yourself to the restricted places, and effortlessly, the revelation arises.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2006 Group Retreat

2006-07-10 Gladdening The Heart 48:52
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The liberation of our heart from ill will and hostility rests upon our discovery of what it means to abide with equanimity in our emotional world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-09 Understanding Right Effort #1 58:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2006-07-09 Opening Vipassana Retreat with Rodney Smith and Fred Von Allmen 34:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2006-07-08 Healing the Heart Through Compassion 1:20:33
John Peacock	Download Listen
How compassion can become a healing way of being in the world, and how it affects all of our inter-relationships with others.
Gaia House :  Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-07 Patterning Samsara 1:18:55
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Kindness, Tranquility and Insight

2006-07-06 A Sense of Possibility 49:47
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-07-06 Varieties of Cultivation 1:17:37
John Peacock	Download Listen
A guide to the varieties of meditative practices, and the difference between them.
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2006-07-05 Dependent Origination and Craving 1:19:37
John Peacock	Download Listen
An examination of the Buddha's most profound teaching, and what it means to us in everyday life.
Gaia House :  Kindness, Tranquility and Insight