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Dharma Talks
2009-01-02 Big Mind Meditation 40:07
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years Retreat

2008-12-17 The Undefended Heart 1:21:40
Tara Brach
Our dedication to not pushing anyone--or any part of ourselves--out of our hearts, serves the healing of our world. This talk includes a short guided meditation on opening to our human vulnerability and forgiving another person.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-12-10 Relaxed Attentiveness 1:14:34
Tara Brach
While the heart of meditation is resting in open awareness, our conditioning to be distracted and reactive can keep us on the wheel of suffering. We awaken from trace by developing skillful ways of paying attention that create the environment for natural presence. This natural awareness, while sometimes hidden, is always here: It is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-12-07 The Retreat Never Ends 35:36
Eugene Cash
Going home, we take the understanding of that the Dharma is our lives. We enter through various Dharma Gates, Sangha, Service, Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening

2008-12-03 Medicine Heart - Guided Meditation 14:40
Ayya Medhanandi
Hospice
Sati Saraniya Hermitage Hospice Talks and Guided Meditations

2008-11-30 From Ignorance Come Impulses 61:21
Guy Armstrong
The first two links of dependent origination say that ignorance gives rise to volitional formations, or impulses. This talk describes successive layers of obscurations that form from ignorance, to a belief in self, to afflictive emotions, to unskillful actions. The path undoes these layers by focusing, in order, on virtue, meditation, and wisdom, finally penetrating to Nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-26 Miracle of the Breath - Beginner’s Guided Meditation 17:31
Ayya Medhanandi
Hospice
Sati Saraniya Hermitage Hospice Talks and Guided Meditations

2008-11-15 Loving Kindness - Cultivating The Wholesome 58:24
Greg Scharf
Begins with chanting of the Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali, followed by a talk on the history of the Metta sutta, the practice, cultivation and benefits of loving kindness meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-12 Big Mind Meditation 60:25
Joseph Goldstein
Guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-09 Working with Thought in Meditation 62:15
Rob Burbea
As meditators, it can be tempting to see the thinking mind as an enemy, but we can instead discover a wise and skillful relationship with it. This talk presents possible ways of working with the wide range of manifestations of thought: from papanca (proliferation) and obsession to creative, reflective and helpful thinking, to seeing the empty nature of all thought.
Gaia House Solitary Month Retreat

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