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Dharma Talks
2005-09-30 Skillful Effort 52:09
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk discusses using skillful effort and energy in our practice, avoiding extremes of too much laxness and too much striving. Explores the unskillful extremes we can engage in with our effort and a skillful middle way that incorporates diligence and balance. Discussed using skillful effort and energy in our practice, avoiding extremes of too much laxness and too much striving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-28 Committed Action, Non-Attachment To Outcome Pt 1 55:51
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-28 Meditation Overview 58:55
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-28 Questions And Answers 49:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-27 Morning Instructions with Q & A 54:24
Joseph Goldstein
aiming and sustaining attention at the breath
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-25 Opening Talk for Three Month Retreat 1:19:56
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat - Part 1

2005-09-24 Faith & Doubt 1:18:48
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Truths of the observer require you simply to observe things and try to figure them out. Truths of the will, which cover relationships are skills, are things you have to bring into being or they never become a reality. In this area faith, confidence, and conviction make all the difference.
Metta Forest Monastery

2005-09-24 The Birth Of The Buddha To The Great Renunciation 49:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-24 The Powerlessness Of Now 50:40
Christopher Titmuss
There is no power to now since now is dependent on countless conditions Since there is no power to it, then there is a problem with it. Let us see through this delusion of views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-23 Inquiry 2 1:11:19
Christopher Titmuss
THIS RETREAT ONLY
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-22 What Is An Opinion? What Is Truth? 55:28
Christopher Titmuss
We may have similar and dissimilar views, but truth enters into a situation and transforms it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-21 Working With Judgments 2 58:40
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-21 Torment of the Judging Mind 61:32
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-21 The Four Noble Truths 42:25
Michael Grady
The Buddha's teaching on the 4 Noble Truths provide a comprehensive and profound framework for a path of awareness.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2005-09-21 Inquiry 1 62:54
Christopher Titmuss
THIS RETREAT ONLY
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-20 Love, Not Lovingkindness 55:34
Christopher Titmuss
Metta is love free from dependency on connection. Love explores family, service, intimacy, nature and creativity. It is a force for change in perception.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-15 Mindfulness: Becoming Intimate With Life 63:56
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-14 Working With Judgments 1 59:22
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-14 Even As A Mother 43:16
Ayya Medhanandi
Can we fearlessly accept all that life gives with a wise and compassionate heart? We see how the sun shines unilaterally on all beings giving life and nourishment. But we must use sharp wisdom to discern what is harmful and abandon that; and to know what is wholesome and cultivate that. Even as a mother, may we emulate the Buddha's compassion that flows without bias in all directions across millenia.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2005-09-12 Turning The Perfections Inward 51:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-09 Death 60:21
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Coming to terms with the inevitability of your own death and the death of those you love. If you wait until the time of death in order to think about these things, it's a huge shock. This is one of the reasons the Buddha has you contemplate if before death.
Metta Forest Monastery

2005-09-07 True Nourishment 46:32
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-09-06 Committee Mind 63:55
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Using the analogy of the 'committee mind' to free yourself from the tendency to identify with every thought that comes into the mind; using the breath as a secure place to extract yourself from the committee discussions and gain a new perspective on them.
Metta Forest Monastery

2005-09-06 Fruition, Freedom and Compassion 56:43
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-09-05 The Buddha's Previous Lives To Last Rebirth 44:36
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-05 Coming Back to Life 52:56
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-09-05 A Labor of Love: a Dialogue 64:49
Jack Kornfield, Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-05 Aligning Our Life With The Dharma 1:12:39
James Baraz
This closing talk from a silent retreat points to the integration of our practice in daily life, with mindfulness as the golden thread that runs through all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-09-04 Being Here 49:02
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-09-04 To Trust in Being 50:56
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-09-04 The Power Of Intention 52:02
James Baraz
Intention is the source of all karma. Accessing the sincerity of heart that fuels our practice and inclining it towards freedom is the basis for profound awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-09-02 Finding True Refuge 62:09
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-09-02 Embracing The Hindrances: An Illogical Happiness 58:31
Sharda Rogell
Our mind moves to manipulate our experiences to find a way to be happy. When we stop and embrace our experience, even when difficult, this present attention opens us to our deeper nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-08-30 Mindfulness In Mental States 1:13:43
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-29 Feeling Tones Giving Rise To Craving - part 2 1:13:43
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-28 Vipassana Meditation Instructions 45:20
Noah Levine

2005-08-28 Feeling Tones Giving Rise To Craving - part 1 1:14:03
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-27 Mindfulness, Hindrances, Q&A 1:14:26
Noah Levine

2005-08-27 Third Foundation - Mara is your Home 62:29
Noah Levine

2005-08-26 Retreat Opening - Present Time Awareness 1:13:26
Noah Levine

2005-08-26 Tangable Objects And Feeling Tones 1:10:40
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-25 Intergrating Theory With Practice 68:46
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-24 By Not Clinging To Views 47:52
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-08-24 Unwholesome Actions 57:03
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-23 Psychic Leanings of the Mind 64:38
Rodney Smith
Watch any tendency to lean into a problem or situation. Is the leaning motivated by a resistance to the situation or by a desire to push your own agenda? Are you willing to drop what you want and ask, Where is the vertical stance in this moment? Start by finding easier ways to practice this vertical posture (standing in a slow-moving line at a grocery store or frozen in traffic), and then progress to the more difficult situations (with family or at work). What is the value to yourself and others of standing vertically rather than pushing forward or leaning backward?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2005-08-23 Wholesome Actions 67:04
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-22 Dialogue On Basic Goodness 63:30
Jack Kornfield
with Gaylon Ferguson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2005-08-22 Mindfulness Of Feeling Tone 1:15:15
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-08-21 Skillful Emotions 61:04
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The path involves learning how to marshal various emotions--grief, joy, desire, disgust, gladness, dispassion--some of which are normally regarded as negative. But they have their uses, so learn how to cultivate them all along the way. Without these emotions, the practice doesn't go anywhere. With them it can take you to release.
Metta Forest Monastery

2005-08-21 Insight Into Impermanence 66:10
Sayadaw U Lakkhana
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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