2001-06-10 Cascading Pools of Metta 45:26
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-06-10 Gateway To Freedom: First Foundation Of Mindfulness 48:55
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The essential practice for freedom.
Santa Fe

2001-06-09 Day 1: Opening Talk 23:53
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Reb Anderson

2001-06-09 Nada Practice 42:31
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen

2001-06-09 Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness 52:07
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Paying attention to how concentration and mindfulness work together to provide a foundation for meditative investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-08 Nothing Special 1:37:33
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
date uncertain

2001-06-06 Desire And Awakening Spirit 53:47
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When desire unfolds into craving and addiction, it becomes the source of great suffering. This talk examines the nature of desire, and the attitudes and practices that allow us to relate to this energy with freedom. When regarded wisely, desire is the stream that returns us to the ocean of loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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

2001-06-04 Encouraging The Light Of Metta 56:00
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Understanding metta as a concentration and purification practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-03 The Kindness Of Patience 43:19
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
Patience as it supports the practice of the Brahma Viharas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-02 Does Metta Work? 46:10
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Exploring how and why the Loving Kindness practice works.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta Retreat

2001-06-01 Freedom and Resurrection 51:56
Nina Wise	Download Listen
date unknown

2001-05-30 Restlessness And Worry 1:13:56
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Contemplating restlessness and worry -- what this mind state consists of and how to recognize it; name it; embrace it; and investigate it according to the Buddhist teachings.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2001-05-27 The Eight Worldly Conditions 57:41
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our lives are always touched by the changing conditions of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, success and failure. How the meditator finds refuge in not clinging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-26 The Secret To Happiness 48:22
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
The secret to happiness is not short-term self-interest but rather learning how to liberate ourselves through our life lessons.

2001-05-26 Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas 64:27
James Baraz	Download Listen
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

2001-05-23 The Buddha Knows The Dhamma 61:49
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our deepest nature is a purified awareness like the Buddha's. This awareness has the power to know and liberate the phenomena of afflictive emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-22 Licht der Erkenntnis 46:15
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Die Täuschung der Unwissenheit durchschauen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2001-05-20 You Are the Buddha 64:48
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-17 Investigating George W. Bush Mind 64:23
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
A talk discussing how to apply investigation in practice and how to skillfully use thought to explore Dhamma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-16 Investigate Down To The Core 66:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Through meditation practice, we become more skilled at identifying what we are experiencing, opening to it with a loving heart, and examining it with an eye to insight. When we connect fully with what we feel, the heart is not troubled and the nature of experience is apparent.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-15 Listening To The Inner Committee 1:29:41
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
A sharing of ideas about an alternate form of self view, helpful especially in terms of depersonalizing emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-14 Wedding of Body and Soul 62:44
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-05-13 Nothing Is Everywhere 66:59
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Ajahn offers reflections on the myth of the adversary practicing with the Four Noble Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-12 Personality View 60:52
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Offering reflections on the Buddhas teaching regarding self view; how it arises and how it is overcome through insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-11 Opening Talk: Refuges And Precepts 45:36
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Offering reflections on the form of retreat and the meaning of the refuges and precepts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-10 Freedom 36:25
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-09 What is the Mind 42:54
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-07 Who Are You Really? 59:43
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
An inquiry into the essence of who we really are, accepting and honoring the totality of ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2001-05-05 Moving from Retreat Life into Daily Life 67:36
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen

2001-05-03 Giving and Receiving 46:23
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-02 Practice is Not For Yourself 46:02
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-02 You Are the Buddha 60:41
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-05-02 When Things Don't Go Our Way 49:52
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
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

2001-05-01 Responding with Wisdom 45:29
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Retreat with Sharda Rogell

2001-05-01 The Great Heart of Life 50:29
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-01 Is Something Lacking ? 43:43
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat

2001-05-01 Renunciation 58:47
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Renunciation as a path to freedom: contentment and simplicity in everyday life. (Estimated date of talk. Exact date unknown)
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2001-05-01 Emotional Wakefulness 45:51
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Because of the power of our emotions, we are called upon in this practice to cultivate emotional mindfulness and emotional freedom. What is the interface then between experiencing our feelings fully, and maintaining emotional equanimity, or balance? How can we relate to our emotional life in a way that allows the creative power of our hearts to awaken?

2001-05-01 The Five Powers Of Mind 46:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
The five powers of mind are confidence, effort, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. This talk addresses how they balance and work together, bringing inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-04-30 Teachings of Ajahn Chan 62:32
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen

2001-04-30 The Teaching of Ajahn Chah 63:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-29 Buddhism and the Red Road 30:09
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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

2001-04-25 Taking Difficulties as a Path 64:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-25 Taking Difficulties as a Path 63:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2001-04-24 The Lion's Roar: Strength, Confidence And Wisdom From The Heart Of Metta 63:24
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
"When the heart enters into the mind, the mind then has quite a different quality." Learning to abide in our practice and in our life as a whole with kindness and patience--the heart of metta--we are then able to respond rather than react to what life offers. Stories woven into this talk are from the time of the Buddha and from our contemporary time that exemplify what the Buddha called "The Lion's Roar."
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-23 No 'me', No 'i', No 'mine': Liberation In Not Clinging 65:16
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The essential aim of the Buddha's teaching is toward the understanding that comes through our own direct experience; that there is no person who is a 'self' and no thing- nothing- that is a separate self.
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-22 Suffering: Its Cause And Its End 1:16:57
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Through deep understanding, we can find the end of the restlessness of constant craving and resistance; the end of suffering.
Mabel Dodge, Taos

2001-04-21 Seeing the Buddhnature 38:28
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Gaia House Retreat