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Dharma Talks
2003-06-27 The Middle Way 54:38
Anna Douglas
Finding balance in practice and in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-25 No Part Left Out 53:06
Michele McDonald
Relief, mystery and unexpected joy: living the paradox of stillness and movement, love and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2003-06-24 Working with Afflictive Emotions 56:15
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-22 Generosity 60:59
Ralph Steele

2003-06-21 The Meditative Journey: Why Do We Practice? 60:30
Joseph Goldstein
Calming the mind, collecting the attention, overcoming difficulties, and seeing with wisdom.
Garrison Institute

2003-06-21 The Meditative Journey: Why Do We Practice? 55:48
Joseph Goldstein
Calming the mind, collecting the attention, overcoming difficulties, and seeing with wisdom.
Garrison Institute

2003-06-21 On Being Free From Conditioning 49:49
Michele McDonald
Developing curiosity and the light within us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2003-06-21 Cultivating Insight & Calm 55:21
Myoshin Kelley
Working with the breath, we can cultivate both calm and insight. This talk explores ways we can strengthen concentration as a support to insight, through working with the breath.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-20 Radiance 47:31
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2003-06-19 Tolerating the Inconceivable 45:30
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2003-06-19 On Being Born 60:07
Michele McDonald
Freedom, forgiveness, joy and doubt: developing spiritual strength in this human world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2003-06-18 Wisdom 48:14
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2003-06-18 Tibetan Buddhist Teaching 52:44
Lama Palden
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-18 Sacred Presence: Awakening From The Dream 53:44
Tara Brach
This talk investigates the skillful means that help us open beyond our conditioned cocoon of thoughts and to realize the freshness, tenderness and boundlessness of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2003-06-17 Finding the Beauty of Magic 47:01
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2003-06-17 Right Effort 61:09
Joseph Goldstein

2003-06-17 Manjushri Reflection of the Sword of Compassion 26:10
Michele Benzamin Miki

2003-06-17 Right Effort 60:59
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-17 Opening The Heart Of Compassion 45:46
Rebecca Bradshaw
Recognizing and accepting our own humanity opens the heart of compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2003-06-16 Love Understanding and Compassion 40:17
Michele Benzamin Miki

2003-06-16 The Secret Teachings 37:30
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-16 Metta 52:51
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Meditation on healing wounds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-15 Home In The Heart Of Metta 64:37
Steven Smith
A description of the four brahmaviharas and the interconnected nature of things. Good acts of metta especially have far-reaching consequences —changing our patterns, and releasing powerful, previously repressed energy for awareness, love and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2003-06-15 lineage to the Real 46:16
Sharda Rogell
Gaia House Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2003-06-14 The 5 Precepts as a Revolutionary Daily Practice 46:50
Michele Benzamin Miki
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-14 The 5 Precepts as a Revolutionary Daily Practice 45:45
Michele Benzamin Miki

2003-06-14 Mindfulness 37:38
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Mind is not pure, but it can be made pure. It has ignorance and greed, and because of ignorance and greed, we are born again and again.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-14 The Power Of Concentration 45:13
Michele McDonald
The unification of the heart. Bringing the Mother Cow within us and Baby Calf within us together in metta or mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2003-06-13 Opening Talk 64:24
Joseph Goldstein
A talk offered to yogis entering the Forest Refuge for a retreat (Joseph Goldstein and Myoshin Kelley)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-13 Opening Talk - Taking Refuge 60:56
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

2003-06-13 Opening Talk: Taking Refuge 64:26
Joseph Goldstein
with Myoshin Kelley

2003-06-13 Self-Knowing 1:20:14
Larry Rosenberg

2003-06-13 Entering The Center Of Metta 1:14:54
Michele McDonald
Opening of nature of metta retreat, instructions, refuges & precepts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2003-06-12 Craving, the Sense Realm, and Self 57:37
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines the nature of the sense realm and considers how we give rise to craving in relation to sensory experience. It also examines the distortions that self-view sets up and the relationship between craving and the wrong-view of self.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2003-06-10 Walking The Path, Hand And Hand 1:17:55
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-09 The Eight-Fold Path 1:37:43
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-08 Questions And Answers, Part2 1:48:31
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-07 Freedom From Ignorance 1:13:09
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-06 Relationship as Practice 39:52
Doug Phillips
Relationship is where we are most fully human and most clearly revealed to ourselves. It is an ever present opportunity for awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2003-06-06 Life's Cause & Effect Cycles 1:12:49
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-05 Learning How to Live 3 52:41
Larry Rosenberg

2003-06-05 Knowing Cause & Effect 1:10:03
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-04 Keeping the Heart Afloat 48:50
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-04 Knowing Mind & Matter 69:34
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-03 Learning How to Live 2 44:07
Larry Rosenberg

2003-06-03 Relief: Wrong View 64:58
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-02 Nachiketa - Lord of Death 63:39
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2003-06-02 Dana, Generosity and Self-Knowing 33:59
Doug Phillips
Dana as a practice can lead to the opening of generosity while revealing the says of the self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

2003-06-02 Practical Illustrations Of The Mind's Diseases 67:18
Sayadaw U Pandita
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2003 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2003-06-01 Learning How To Live (I) 48:28
Larry Rosenberg
Attention and the willingness to learn from what we see and hear in daily life is a major part of dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana & Viniyoga Retreat

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