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2006-05-03 Healing Ill Will 49:32
Christina Feldman
Liberating our hearts from ill will is to liberate ourselves from the sorrow of separation. The first precept and the path of loving kindness are in the service of healing ill will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-05-02 Opening Talk 27:27
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-29 Appropriate Attention 69:12
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
According to the Buddha, appropriate attention is the most important mental factor for attaining Awakening. So what does he mean by attention, and what kind of attention is appropriate? How do the factors of appropriate attention apply to our meditation practice, how do they apply to our lives?
Metta Forest Monastery

2006-04-28 Overview of Instructions 65:31
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-28 How To Relate To Throughts 52:04
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-26 The Four Noble Truths, Part 1: An Overview 59:34
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-26 Long Enduring Mind 65:17
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-26 Recognizing the Qualities of the Observing Mind 59:17
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-24 Tenderness And Reality 48:16
Kamala Masters
Experiencing the vividness of an unfiltered life with compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Vipassana Retreat

2006-04-24 Lessons From Nature 59:16
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-23 Recognizing the Defilements - 1 63:25
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-23 Recognizing the Defilements - 2 62:22
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-23 Sunday Closing Talk - Anger 1:10:06
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-23 Dhamma Wings 7:47
Ayya Medhanandi
Practice means we keep trying to purify the mind and strengthen our commitment to the precepts. There is no failure – we just begin again and again until we find our Dhamma wings. A short talk given during a Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) retreat in Toronto.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2006-04-23 The Present Moment 51:56
Andrea Fella
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-04-23 Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2) 63:40
Rob Burbea
Gaia House One Day Retreat

2006-04-23 Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1) 27:24
Rob Burbea
Gaia House One Day Retreat

2006-04-22 Introduction to Practice 59:57
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-22 Saturday Afternoon Program 1:12:31
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-22 Opening, Suffusing, Releasing 61:06
Ajahn Sucitto
A lot of suffering is related to a particular mode of doing, an involuntary overwhelming doing. Through mediation we cultivate a different way. By shifting the mind to presence, mind opens to a subtler aspect of doing on the feeling, subjective level – suffusing. We come out of the grip of how we usually attend. This is release.
Cittaviveka

2006-04-21 Friday Afternoon Program 55:34
Norman Fischer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-21 Happiness and Harmlessness 61:40
Carol Wilson
date uncertain

2006-04-21 Guided Meditation - Big Sky Mind 42:28
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Meditation Retreat

2006-04-20 Wisdom Parami 54:10
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-20 Generosity 52:31
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-20 Creativity 52:36
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-19 Ethics and Compassion 43:57
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-18 Lovingkindness 51:07
Kamala Masters
The practice of Lovingkindness creates pathways in the mind/heart that become more clear and accessible to us.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Parami & Concentration Retreat

2006-04-18 Sudden Awakening 56:15
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-17 I Had to Learn the Hard Way to Let it Pass 53:44
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-17 Finding True Refuge 57:07
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-17 Practice and Awakening 55:10
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-16 Reflections on “The Journey”, by Mary Oliver 46:57
Donald Rothberg
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2006-04-16 The Five Obscurations 61:30
Diana Winston
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley)

2006-04-16 Settling Into Mindfulness 40:03
Sharda Rogell
What is mindfulness? Exploring the qualities of mindfulness: knowingness, openness, curiosity and kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-16 Spirit of Zen 46:55
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-15 Patience 56:10
Kamala Masters
Developing the parami of patience, and the strength of the heart that comes from cultivating that virtue.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Parami & Concentration Retreat

2006-04-15 Taking the Practice Home 55:10
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-15 Cultivating Conscience and Concern 61:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka

2006-04-15 The Heart of Buddhist Meditation 47:58
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Zen Meditation

2006-04-14 Opening Talk 55:56
Steve Armstrong

2006-04-13 Rigpa Consciousness and Nirvana 1:14:49
Guy Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-13 Compassion 48:54
Patricia Genoud-Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-12 Practicing Rigpa - Part 2 46:57
Guy Armstrong
The talk explores different methods for the technique of looking in dzogchen practice as taught by Tsoknyi Rinpoche. It also describes some meditation states that might be mistaken for rigpa (near relatives).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-12 Nahid Angha Discusses Sufism with Sylvia 67:37
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-11 Practicing Rigpa - Part 1 54:04
Guy Armstrong
This talk discusses the basic approach of look, see and rest in Rigpa practice, with an emphasis on trust in our own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-10 The History of Buddhism in India - Part 2 64:28
Guy Armstrong
This talk discusses the development of Buddhism in India beginning with the origins of the Mahayana school around 100 BC and continuing through Nagarjuna, the Yogacara school, Vajrayana, and the beginnings of Dzogchen. As in part 1, the philosophical differences are highlighted.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-10 Intention of the Heart 63:23
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2006-04-10 Life At The Edge 42:31
Myoshin Kelley
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2006-04-09 The History of Buddhism in India - Part 1 44:24
Guy Armstrong
This talk recaps some key elements in the development of Buddhism in India from the death of the Buddha through the splits that occurred in the early schools of what could be called classical or Nikaya Buddhism. It highlights some of the philosophical issues that caused the divisions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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