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Dharma Talks
2001-11-06 Guided Compassion 43:07
Kamala Masters
Learning how to direct compassion toward one's self, a difficult person, and a benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month Retreat Part 2

2001-11-05 Compassion 53:41
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-26 Aspiration And Compassion 56:29
Carol Wilson
Intention is the seed of kamma; when we consciously hold in our minds our highest aspirations, they inform our present moment decisions and give us courage and vision. In the light of awareness, the compassionate response shines forth as our natural response to life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-10-23 Awakening From The Trance 58:56
Tara Brach
The sense of being a "separate self" seems quite real and both filters and contracts our moment to moment experience of life. This talk investigates how the compelling show of separate self arises and how we can recognize and relax into our naturally radiant, compassionate and unconfined awareness.
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center

2001-10-07 Internal Disarmament: Healing Ourselves 55:46
Adrianne Ross
Using compassion and mindfulness as we work with negative emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-10-06 Forgiveness and Compassion to the Difficult 1:17:15
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-08-12 The Invitation 48:53
Sharda Rogell
This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and strength, and a deeper sense of connection

2001-08-12 The Invitation 50:13
Sharda Rogell
An invitation to use adversaries to enhance our practice. This is the path to compassion. This talk invites us to use what is difficult in our lives to enhance our practice. Compassion awakens within us through opening our hearts to the challenging and painful. Approaching obstacles with a receptive attitude, we can enter into life with more courage and strength, and a deeper sense of connection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-07-27 Compassion 62:21
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
It takes so much compassion to be with the letting go we have to do to come into peace with the difficult truths of life. This talk explores ways we can cultivate compassion in our practice and in our lives.

2001-07-06 Compassion and Wisdom 41:52
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2001-07-03 Great Faith, Compassion and Inquiry 46:29
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Gaia House Retreat

2001-06-13 Transforming Fear 59:17
Tara Brach
When we are identified inside the body of fear, our life contracts and our heart becomes hard. With the practices of mindfulness and compassion, we open our sense of being into the loving awareness that has room for fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-11 Courage And Tenderness: Stories For An Awakened Heart 59:16
Jack Kornfield
Stories that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which can bring us to freedom. Includes questions and answers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2001-06-06 Purity Of Heart 52:01
Michele McDonald
Creating the understanding that purifies love, compassion, appreciation and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2001-05-26 Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas 64:27
James Baraz
Right Effort includes developing and increasing wholesome states by recognizing them or inclining the mind to their development. The four states of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity can be consciously developed through practice. (Includes experiential exercises.)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-02 When Things Don't Go Our Way 49:52
Michele McDonald
Instead of pretending to be okay when our beautiful dreams get blown apart, can we learn to respond with compassion, ease and balance?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-29 Refuge 52:22
Christina Feldman
Taking refuge is an invitation to explore our inner capacity for awakening wisdom and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-02-08 Cemetery Contemplations, Old And New 56:14
Sylvia Boorstein
Sharing reflections on wisdom and compassion, and the cemetery contemplations of the Mahasatipatthana Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-01-06 Inanna’s Journey to Compassion 47:49
Julie Wester

2001-01-05 Entering the Heart of Compassion 61:14
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-01-05 Am I Doing Enough? 45:06
Myoshin Kelley
Bringing purpose and compassionate action into our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2000-12-11 Compassion 1:12:12
Jack Kornfield

2000-12-11 Compassion 52:56
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2000-12-06 The Heart's Release- Abiding In The Immeasurables 60:35
Marcia Rose
Lovingkindness, compassion, empathetic/appreciative joy and equanimity. We weave a tapestry of clear, caring, balanced and appropriate responsivity through our practice. This growing and maturing tapestry made up of these perfectly natural capacities of heart weave into the whole of our life and into all of our relationships.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 2000 Three Month Retreat

2000-11-27 A Dharma Hologram 54:36
Sylvia Boorstein
Reading the Cowherd Sutta illustrates how we need the sangha as a refuge and the practice of metta--as well as right effort, renunciation, right intention, equanimity and compassion--in order for us to come to safety.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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