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Dharma Talks
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 Buddhanussati 64:00
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

2005-05-17 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 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 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 Signs To Annul Negativity 55:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2005-04-26 Morning Instructions: Tactile & Somatic Awareness 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
An aspect of our Kammic patterning is the mode of consciousness that is selected to process experience—normally this is visual or conceptual. If we use the tactile consciousness it has an emotive resonance and truer response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Wisdom, Courage and Compassion 55:07
Donald Rothberg
Our practice "flies" through the two wings of the dharma - wisdom, clear seeing, and insight into the 4 truths; and compassion, the awakening of the heart. In between is the body of courage, that supports our action in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-25 Wisdom, Courage, & Compassion 55:31
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-25 The Bodhisattva Path 62:06
Tara Brach

2005-04-25 Embodied Language - The Elements 53:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Embodiment: Handling Dukkha 61:26
Ajahn Sucitto
By spreading awareness through the "field" of the body, we can establish a ground to limit, curtail and discharge the Dukkha of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Giving Ourselves Permission 43:39
Anna Douglas
FOR CREATIVITY RETREATANTS ONLY ----- Giving ourselves permission to explore and disvoer all aspects of body and mind in a direct and immediate fashion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-24 Breathing - The Kamma Of Meditation 49:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation as a way of purifying Kamma - brings clarity, assurance, and good heart in a simple, intimate way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-24 Non-Attachment Is Presence, Not Absence 54:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Non-attachment is not to be confused with avoidance, spacing out, losing connection to what is happening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-24 Wise Intention (Sutta On The Two Kinds Of Thought) 45:52
James Baraz
Working consciously with intention is the key to creating wisdom and happiness in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-24 Decolonizing Our Minds From Greed, Hatred And Delusion 67:07
Michele McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2005-04-23 Introductory Remarks 52:55
Jack Kornfield

2005-04-23 Breathing, Body, Speech, & Mind 69:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Embodying the mind - mindfulness of body - counteracts the effects of "loss" (ignorance). Loss is loss of presence - accompanied by either tightening or collapsing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-23 Recollection Of Death And Of Buddha 50:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Recollection connects the thinking mind and heart and generates felt values for inspiration, clarity, and blessing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-22 Overview Of Embodied Mind 65:33
Ajahn Sucitto
"Citta" - The center of awareness extends through thinking, emotion, and somatic senses. Dhamma practice covers all these.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-22 Co-Dependency And Delusion 67:03
Arinna Weisman
Delusion seduces us into thinking we are dependent on people, material objects or pleasant experiences for our happiness. Renunciation and the practice of the precepts bring us to the peace we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-22 Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens 64:46
James Baraz
How the process of awakening unfolds in meditation practice starting with faith and culminating in wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-21 Satipatthana Sutta - part 17 - Mindfulness Of Dhamma: Hindrances - Sloth & Torpor 61:50
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2005 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Satipatthana Sutta Series

2005-04-20 Right Effort, Right mind 37:34
Sylvia Boorstein

2005-04-20 The Four Contemplations 47:44
Arinna Weisman
Contemplating the blessings of birth as a human being and our capacity to awaken the gates of impermanence, karma and imperfection to wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2005-04-20 Karma & Not-Self 10:19
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Looking at the teaching of not-self in the context of the teaching of Karma, and not the other way around.
In collection: Self & Not-Self Series

2005-04-19 Ten Guided Meditations: 10 - Metta 21:20
Marcia Rose

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