2008-03-05 Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 37:03
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Opening talk for a retreat that looks at how we may create artificial divisions between what seems 'sacred' and what seems 'worldly'; between 'retreat life' and 'everyday life', 'meditation' and work' and so seek transformation through only a small part of our lives. In opening to a profound wisdom that sees beyond such dualities, we can come to know an authentic freedom that is truly boundless.
Gaia House :  A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening

2008-03-04 The Spirit of Service - Session 1 63:01
Frank Ostaseski	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-03-04 Unpacking The Judgmental Mind 46:25
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The judgmental mind offers the opportunity for profound insight if it is investigated rather than avoided.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-03-02 Precious Human Life 43:03
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Our life is precious, holding within it the possibility on nurturing liberating wisdom. Reflections on death and impermanence bring a sense of urgency to our path
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-03-02 Guided Meditation 48:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2008-03-01 Metta: Developing Goodwil 56:41
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2008-03-01 Opening Talk with Narayan and Maddy 38:05
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2008-03-01 On Happiness 45:15
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
We all seek happiness, but what are we actually seeking? This talk explores a deepening understanding of the conditions for happiness, and the struggle inherent in our searching for it. Martin points to our deepenng capacity for recognizing and resting with what the Buddha referred to as 'a path of happiness, leading to the highest happiness, which is peace'.
Gaia House :  Tranquility Insight and Awakening

2008-03-01 Dissolving The Crystal Of Perception 45:38
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka :  Winter Retreat

2008-02-28 Power 39:29
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-28 Mingling Our Minds With The Dharma 63:31
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
This talk describes how the journey of our life and practice is to mingle our hearts and minds fully with the Dharma. The eight-fold path is the descriptive template we can use; this talk focuses particularly on wise view and wise intention, the first two steps.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-27 The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 1:12:58
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
In the Art of Practice, we explore key techniques in preparing the grounds for true meditation. These include relaxation, identifying a home base, awakening the senses and re-mindfulness. These "skillful means" allow us to arrive Here, and to rest in a natural mindfulness, awake and open awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 26:00 Download Listen The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 46:58 Download Listen

2008-02-27 Practicing in Daily Life: The Creative Use of Restraint 56:17
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-27 The Universality Of The Dharma 47:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The Universality of the Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-27 Growing Goodness 60:16
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of the Buddha's teachings are counter intuitive - we sit still to find freedom, we let go to receive. Opening to suffering and working skillfully with the kilesas - greed, aversion and delusion - actually bring us greater freedom and happiness. This talk is on the beautiful qualities called the Paramis that directly counter the force of the kilesas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-26 Facing Fear With An Inquiring Mind 53:42
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Application of Shamatha Vipassana practice in working with fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-02-26 Consciousness, Awareness And Nibbana 63:33
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
It is the direct realization of the unconditioned, or nibbana, that is considered enlightenment in the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores how consciousness and awareness can be understood as links in practice to the flavor of the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-25 Monday Night Meditation 1:41:16
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-02-25 Faith And Wisdom 55:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Two of the five Spiritual Faculties. Exploring: -What we actually believe in, rely on, value. -The difference and sometimes distance between knowledge, ideas, beliefs and wisdom - the integrated absorbed and deeply understood truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-25 Noble Eightfold Path - part 2 - Right Effort, Mindfulness And Concentration 55:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Preparing the ground for wisdom to flourish.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-25 Contact and Creative Engagement 50:52
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Breaking Free Of Habits

2008-02-24 Unplugged: Reflections from One Month on Retreat 41:59
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-02-23 Acht ethische Grundlagen des Glücks 39:15
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Verbundenheit und Glück durch nicht-verletzendes, heilsames Verhalten
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-02-23 Big Mind Meditation 43:33
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
A version of Joseph Goldstein's Big Mind meditation using bells and reminders to allow your mind to be like a clear empty sky and allow the different experiences to arise and pass without interference.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-23 Breaking Free of Mental Habits 61:19
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the three different levels of habits - intense, habitual and light - and exploring the mental patterns.
Gaia House :  Breaking Free Of Habits

2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-21 Wise Effort 33:01
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-21 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 60:51
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-20 Listening Presence 69:12
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
A full and listening presence is the gateway to genuine intimacy with our self and others. This talk explores the challenges to deep listening and the teachings and practices that guide us in developing this healing and liberating capacity.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation 23:51 Download Listen Listening Presence 45:21 Download Listen

2008-02-20 Practicing in Daily Life: The Taste of Freedom 57:32
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-02-20 What Actually Is The Truth? 58:48
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How this truth-telling practice is a process which reveals ever deeper levels of what really is so. In this way, what we mistook for real is seen through and released, over and over again, leaving - what?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-19 Heavenly Messengers—Aging, Illness, and Death 49:16
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
We are all vulnerable to aging, illness, and death. Everything born will eventually die. How can we contemplate death in a way that brings us to realize the deathless liberation of mind? How can we go beyond birth and death by facing the reality of our existence? Reflecting on death is one traditional way to contemplate the nature of the body. These meditations include contemplating the decaying corpse, body contemplations, noticing that our friends and loved ones perish. We are all friends who share birth, old age, sickness, and death.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Tuesday Talks

2008-02-18 Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm 63:28
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The culmination of the Brahma Viharas, the ten paramis, and the factors of awakening. Equanimity allows us, like the Buddha, to 'sit in the middle'. Moment to moment mindfulness brings balance and openness to meet our joys and sorrows.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-18 Noble Eightfold Path - part 1 59:37
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Path allows us to bring the totality of life to our spiritual journey. This talk explores ethical conduct as a foundation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-02-16 Metta In The World 61:52
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Taking Metta practice into the world with intention and integrity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-16 Morning Instructions 57:34
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-16 Coming Out Of The Fog Of Delusion 56:11
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The distortion of delusion operates in many ways, including when we are disconnected from our direct experience, or only allow in information that doesn't challenge our deluded state of mind. Learning how to recognize when delusion is distorting our experience allows us to wake up out of its spell and discover clarity and peacefulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-16 The Eightfold Path 48:27
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Young Peoples Retreat The Eightfold Path

2008-02-15 Morning Instructions 57:13
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Relationship Of The Four Brahma Viharas 53:49
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Relationship of the Four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-15 Joy Ushers In Calm 60:36
Heather Martin	Download Listen
By welcoming joy we become content, so we relax, thus letting go of the need to do something - anything about it - thus calming down. Inner and/or outer joy facilitates the shift from doing to being - from trying to letting go - crucial steps on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-14 Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien 53:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-14 Meaning 34:28
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-02-14 Compassion And Appreciative Joy 59:30
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the experience of compassion, how does it arise, what are it’s obstacles. This talk also discusses the Bhrama Vihara of mudita, appreciative joy and how we cultivate this rare and beautiful quality of gladness and celebrating the joys of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-14 At The Still Point Of The Turning World 61:06
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Exploring the concept of time and the way our reality is colored by the views of time that obscure the inexhaustible resource of the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 Qualities To Be Cultivated In Metta Practice 55:07
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Metta – Its value, and bring precision, gentleness and the ability to let go, to practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2008-02-13 Essential Dharma - part 1, week 7 - part 1 of 3 30:15
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Part 1 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings

2008-02-13 Metta, Tenderness And Connection 60:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connectedness to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-13 The Ethics of Sunyata 1:31:39
John Peacock	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House :  Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-12 Morning Instructions 52:49
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat