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Dharma Talks
2005-05-30 Buddha's Victory Over Mara 1:16:01
Ajahn Jamnian
Four aspects of Dhamma. Path of practice discerned as The Eight Fold Path. The Buddha's victory over Mara. The teaching is given in Thai with English translation by Ajahn Passano.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-30 Conquering Oneself With Sila, Samadhi, And Panna 1:11:24
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-29 Accomplishing The Four Noble Truths Simultaneously 1:25:09
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-28 The Value Of One Moment Of Mindfulness 62:39
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-27 Self Control 16:49
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
One of the reasons we focus on the present moment is so we can see our intentions as we act and learn to take control of our choices.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-05-27 Impermanence 1:10:07
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-26 Liberated From Taints: The Buddha's Instructions 55:45
Sylvia Boorstein
This talk uses classic scripture accounts of spontaneous liberation happening just through the hearing of Dharma truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-26 Discerning Cause And Effect 67:31
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-25 Insight and Freedom 47:52
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-25 The Barking Dog, Seeing in a New Way 64:44
Sylvia Boorstein

2005-05-25 Nature Of Insight 61:06
Carol Wilson
What is insight—how does it arise? An exploration of the spontaneous nature of insight and its inability to be forced. Aspects of our path and practice that support the arising of insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-05-25 Wise Effort 58:00
James Baraz
Wise Effort is a key issue in Dharma practice. Am I doing enough or too much. This talk explores how to develop balance with regard to effort as well as the classical Four Right Efforts pertaining to wholesome and unwholesome states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-05-25 Endowed With Learning 1:11:43
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-24 The Simplicity of Letting Go 44:08
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-24 Eight Virtues Of A Spiritual Friend 69:46
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-23 How To Know What Is Time And What Matters 53:50
Sylvia Boorstein
This talk describes Mindfulness as the balancing factor that restores the upset or confused mind to a state of expansive and benevelent peace. It is a awakening of the point of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-23 Liberating Oneself Versus Saving Others 64:20
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-22 Buddha Day 1:37:06
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-21 The Karma Of Self & Not-Self 17:21
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
When a sense of self is a useful strategy for finding happiness, and when it's not.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-05-21 Seven Virtues Of A Spiritual Friend 69:54
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-20 Endowed With Virtous Conduct 68:16
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-19 Levels of Jhana - Stages of Insight 61:50
Steve Armstrong

2005-05-19 Endowed With Clear Vision 61:06
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-18 A Decent Education 18:48
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The Core curriculum for life: How to Live, How to Die, How to deal with pain, aging, illness, death & seperation.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-05-18 Buddhanussati 64:00
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-17 Ancient Dhamma - One Of A Kind 61:52
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-16 Samadhi: The Jewel Beyond All Price 58:40
Steve Armstrong

2005-05-16 Opening Talk 1:30:13
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-15 Weisheit 46:19
Ursula Flückiger
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2005-05-14 Where's The Joy In Practice? 1:31:13
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
With so much emphasis on dukkha, on overcoming the five hindrances, etc., our practice can at times seem bleak. We can balance this and lighten the heart by knowing where and how to find the joy in practice.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2005-05-10 On the Street Where You Live 29:04
Ayya Medhanandi
When a river flows into the sea it acquires one taste, the taste of salt. As our meditation deepens, regardless of age, health, race, gender, culture or social status, delving into the mind, we discover one taste, that is the taste of truth. The world is full of suffering, not what we want it to be. And on the street where you live is your monastery, your garden, the thorns and the flowers, the compost and the field of cultivation – from feeling hopeless despair to the dawning moment when you understand the origin of suffering and the way to the Deathless. Letting go in the very marrow of the moment, spread peace and compassion in all directions – on the street where you live.
Bodhinyanarama Monastery, Stokes Valley, New Zealand

2005-05-09 The Value of Questioning 57:55
Jack Kornfield

2005-05-09 Out Beyond Our Ideas Of Right And Wrong 53:04
Sharda Rogell
What can we trust? Can we trust our conceptual framework of right and wrong? The Buddha's teachings point to something more reliable. What is it?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-05-05 Questions And Answers 67:18
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-05-02 Carrying The Blessings 62:26
Ajahn Amaro
Strategies on using the insight and peace from Retreats and regular practice through out our daily lives. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-01 One Step and One Kiss 47:39
Molly Swan
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2005-05-01 A Mind Like Fungi 59:20
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn Amaro recollects his past year on Sabbatical in India, the value of not having to be anybody, and the skillful use of thought in reflective meditation. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Permanence 37:51
Jose Reissig
This talk starts with an introduction on the futility of amassing knowledge. It then examines the genesis of our implicit belief in the permanence of things, and explores ways to unlearn it.
Philadelphia Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Clinging 34:39
Jose Reissig
Unlearning clinging is a corollary of unlearning permanence. This is so because clinging is futile as long as what we cling to is impermanent.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2005-05-01 Unlearning Me 45:51
Jose Reissig
As the Buddha showed, clinging gives birth to the I. The I, in turn, keeps puffing itself up by further clinging. When we understand that this generates nothing but suffering, we are ready to unlearn the I, that is the "Me."
Philadelphia Meditation Center

2005-04-30 Home 55:50
Trudy Goodman
Closing talk about leaving home and being home—a home for the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2005-04-30 How, Not What - Life As Rhythm 36:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping experiences life as "things." This brings stress. To handle radical insubstantiality, we attune to rhythm, energy—breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-29 Meditation Processes 57:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding a base in the present and releasing into the flow of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-28 Deepening Daily Life Practice 69:41
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-28 Cleansing The Heart Of Impression 1:19:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Contact brings impressions into the heart, which gets retrained at an involuntary level and affect our immediate response to life in terms of fear, mistrust, desire. There are ways of clearing this—the result is joy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-28 Satipatthana Sutta - part 18 - Mindfulness Of Dhamma: Hindrances - Restlessness 57:04
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Satipatthana Sutta Series

2005-04-27 The Journey 50:56
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-27 Working With Sankhara 64:50
Ajahn Sucitto
We experience life through somatic, emotive, & psychological sensitivity that adopts patterns. Practice is about releasing old afflicted patterns.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-27 Velcro Mind, Teflon Mind, Releasing Difficult Emotion 59:10
Adrianne Ross
How to work with and transform difficult mind states and emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2005-04-27 Signs To Annul Negativity 55:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

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