2002-07-13 Alchemy Of Body And Breath 45:59
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Kittisaro

2002-07-13 A Care for the Present moment 1:33:43
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen

2002-07-13 Metta and the Purification of the heart 54:48
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen

2002-07-12 Jhana Factors 44:41
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Kittisaro

2002-07-08 Perfection of Energy 46:47
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-07-08 Reflection And Insight 34:37
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk describes the use of contemplation and reflection in the meditation practice and explains the difference between reflective and discursive thought.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-07 Refuge In The Triple Gem 41:52
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk includes reflections on the practical and transcendent aspects of going to the Triple Gem of refuge.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-05 Learning To Live In Real Time (Part Iii) 1:14:40
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-04 Taming Karmic Impulses 46:58
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
As meditators, we develop the capacity to relate anew to sensory input so that we are less and less preoccupied with the content of sensations, feelings and thoughts. From this new vantage point we are more able to see the clinging that leads to suffering.
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2002-07-04 A Positive Attitude 42:27
Corrado Pensa	Download Listen
Developing a positive attitude as much as we can throughout the day is an essential development of practice. Hindrances to it are explored and a few suggestions are offered.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-03 Learning To Live In Real Time (Ii) 47:00
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-07-03 Keeping the Faith 57:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-07-03 Visit with Yanai and Katherine 34:23
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2002-07-01 Renunciation 62:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-30 Not Here, Not There 34:24
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
We often make a division, a duality, between a retreat and daily life. Is there reality in this division or it is a projection of our mind?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-29 Embrace Of Suffering And 9/11 47:12
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-06-29 Inquiry 54:25
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Christopher engages in individual inquiry at the frong of the hall with five yogis at a retreat at spirit rock.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2002-06-29 Introduction To The Retreat, Refuges And Precepts 60:58
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Importance of taking refuge as a ritual and as a practice in itself. The precepts cannot develop unless they're rooted in the practice and in the refuges. Basic meditation instructions and word of encouragement.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Old Yogi Retreat

2002-06-29 Responsibility 45:04
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
What prevents me from being responsible here and now? Be aware of superficial explanations about your circumstances or busyness. Continue to ask the question through the range of excuses. Whenever the mind stops and says, "This is the reason," pause, and ask yourself if this is true. Is your ability to hold responsibility strengthened through living this question?
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2002-06-29 Embrace Of Suffering And 9/11 46:40
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
This talk explores issues of struggle following 9/11, ways to resolve suffering. These teachings emphasize the necessity to explore deeply our relationship to each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-24 Q&A 66:26
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-24 Questions and Answers 65:53
Jack Kornfield, Ajahn Sundara, Tami Postlenik	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-23 From Self Judgement To Being Yourself 31:02
Diana Winston	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-06-22 Happiness And The Obstacles To Happiness 37:39
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
This talk describes how meditation leads to an increased sense of presence and acceptance in our lives. It also describes how to work with thoughts in a skillful way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-06-17 Virtuous Heart 59:18
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-15 Seeing The Feeling In The Feeling 46:47
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Christopher Titmuss

2002-06-14 Opening Kwan Yin Dharmas 54:41
Thanissara	Download Listen
Unifying wisdom and compassion, cultivating Bodhisattva Heart, use of prayer.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-14 Taking Refuge In The Dhamma (Truth) 46:42
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
As we learn to trust the Dhamma we learn to trust our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-06-12 Faith Practices of the Third Zen Patriarch 63:23
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen

2002-06-11 Cultivating A Peaceful Abiding Echo 30:46
Thanissara	Download Listen

2002-06-10 Generosity 66:32
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-09 Navigating Through The Darkness 47:48
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Developing a taste for the truth rather than being lost in the darkness of our complicated evasions of the truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Vipassana Retreat

2002-06-08 Vipassana Meditation In Daily Life 46:07
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Focus on bringing to our daily lives and relationships the same vitality, motivation and interest that characterizes our formal meditation practice.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2002-06-06 Metta & Intention 59:28
Carol Wilson	Download Listen

2002-06-05 Self Knowing - A Quiet Passion (6) 1:46:15
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center :  CIMC Wednesday Talks

2002-06-05 Mindfulness as Intuition Practice 1:11:29
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-05 The Essence Of Love And Wisdom 59:42
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
What do our hearts truly need and want? How does loving ourselves and others happen? How does the heart open the essence of love and wisdom?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-06-03 Tending the Garden of the Heart 59:33
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-06-02 Sublime Contingency 41:51
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-02 Brahma Vihara - Metta 29:25
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-06-01 Emptiness, Empathy, & Acts 48:36
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-01 Right Speech 2 33:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen

2002-06-01 The Nature of Cessation 57:16
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-06-01 Giving Birth To Lovingkindness 54:07
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Different ways that Lovingkindness practice offers us levels of protection, concentration and deep understanding.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2002-05-31 The Five Nama Factors, Non-grasping and Emptiness 51:11
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-31 The Nature of Fixation 61:18
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 The Contingent Nature of Consciousness 59:16
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 The Cultivation of Intelligence 50:26
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

2002-05-30 One Dharma 1:43:30
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
The new western Buddhism is a deep pragmatism that harkens back to the Buddha himself. It is allegiance to a very simple question: “what works to free the mind from suffering?”
New York Insight Meditation Center

2002-05-29 Memorial Day Re-dedication to Peace 58:09
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center