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

2002-07-04 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

2002-07-03 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 Right Speech 2 33:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen

2002-06-01 Emptiness, Empathy, & Acts 48:36
Stephen Batchelor	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 Thai Forest Teachings 2:01:45
Ajahn Jamnian	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-29 Verses from the Center, Opening Talk, Meditation Instructions 52:14
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen

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

2002-05-27 Untitled with Ajahn Jumnien 1:53:50
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2002-05-23 The Three Characteristics 55:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The three characteristics of existence -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- summarize the state of this world as in constant dissolution. Yet, a refuge can be found in an ever-available awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-22 Three Characteristics 56:12
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How being with and understanding suffering and it's causes leads to deep insights into the nature of Anicca and Anatta. Ways of working with impermanence and "non-self" in our lives and practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-05-21 Radical Acceptance 51:34
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The Buddha taught that suffering arises when we want life to be different than it is. Radical acceptance cuts through grasping and aversion and reveals the freedom of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2002-05-20 Buddha and the Devil 66:05
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2002-05-18 Opening Talk 63:10
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen