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Dharma Talks
2015-08-07 Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2) 62:22
Rob Burbea
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-07 Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1) 59:28
Rob Burbea
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-07 Morning Instructional Sit, Day Four 53:19
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-06 Three Poisons 44:02
Bob Stahl
This talk by Bob Stahl is the fifth in a speaker series titled Fundamental Buddhist Principles 2015. The Three Poisons are greed, hatred and ignorance. They are called the three poisons because they fuel suffering. For example, the nature of desire keeps us wanting something that we can’t quite get. The suffering is the misconception that we need to get that something outside of ourselves in order to be whole. Fortunately, the antidote is simply the relinquishment of the poison. By relinquishing greed, in its place arises contentment. By relinquishing hatred, in its place arises open heartedness. By relinquishing ignorance, in its place arises clear seeing into the nature of things and into the causes of suffering and the path to freedom.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Fundamental Buddhist Principles 2015

2015-08-06 A Contract you Wouldn't Sign 68:55
Pascal Auclair
The arc of practice, going from noticing phenomena and their uniqueness to becoming intimate with their universal characteristics. All this to free the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-06 "The Courage to Cultivate Wisdom" 56:09
Kate Munding
Tonight I will start a short series on the Eight Fold Path (listed below). This quintessential list from the Buddha is a guide to ending our stress, suffering and unsatisfactory overlay on life. It is the path towards true happiness and freedom. The suggested reading is: "The Noble Eight Fold Path, The Way to the End of Suffering" by Bhikkhu Bodhi See: http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/noble8path6.pdf This will be discussed during the next Dharma talk.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-08-06 Loving Kindness Meditation, Day Three 30:40
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-06 Morning Instructional Sit, Day Three 51:39
Dori Langevin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-05 Mining the Gems of the Hindrances 64:18
Dori Langevin
When we can wisely relate to grasping, aversion, sleepiness/dullness, restlessness/worry and doubt as visitors rather than enemies, they can transform into their wisdom nature. Note: Description of the gem of sleepiness is at the end of the next morning's instructional sit.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-05 The Sacred Art of Listening 68:42
Tara Brach
Deep listening - the kind of listening that brings intimacy and understanding - takes intentional practice. This talk looks at the societal and inner obstacles to an undistracted presence, and the mindfulness strategies that nourish our capacity to listen in a way that heals and connects.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-05 Bodhisattva Path: Inspiration, Aspiration and Appropriate Response 48:11
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-08-05 Walking the Bodhisattva Path 56:57
Pamela Weiss

2015-08-05 The Mind Heart & Emotional Heart 59:26
Sylvia Boorstein
The Mind Heart & Emotional Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-05 Morning Instructional Sit, Day Two 59:13
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-04 An Intimate Life 63:04
Tempel Smith
Breath by breath, step by step, we deepen our intimacy with life. This opens us up to what is beautiful and also gives us a capacity to be conscious during difficult times as well. The more aware we are, the better the choices we make.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-04 Bring Wisdom and beautiful qualities into our daily life and community. Also speaking with Jean Ester and John Martin 13:29:17
Arinna Weisman
Building equity and love in our communications and relationsships
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community

2015-08-04 Continua of Practice: From the Horizontal to the Vertical 55:26
Rodney Smith
We often miss how close we are to the sacred. We make it into a journey of distance and time when actually it is an excursion into stillness. We want some proof that all this work has been worthwhile and that proof is in comparison to what we were and what we are becoming. Though this comparison supports our spiritual egoic image, we will not find the sacred in the past or the future, but only within the living present.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society Continua of Practice Series
Attached Files:

2015-08-04 Loving Kindness Meditation, Day One 30:30
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-08-03 Waking up and Meeting Life with Awareness 44:06
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-03 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Body - Week 7 - Four Elements and Corpse Reflection 61:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Body

2015-08-03 Guided Metta 5:01:31
Arinna Weisman
Metta for the different stages/ages in our lives. Optional strategies when metta is difficult
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community

2015-08-02 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Morality - week 2 56:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2015-08-01 I've Got You (Under My Skin) 43:17
Ofosu Jones-Quartey
A Talk About Connection
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

2015-07-30 Three Characteristics 45:07
Kim Allen
This is the fourth talk in a speaker series titled Fundamental Buddhist Principles 2015. As we observe our daily and meditative experience, the mind naturally begins to notice "universal" qualities of experience: impermanence (anicca), unsatisfactoriness (dhkkha), and emptiness (anatta). These three - especially impermanence - are gates to spiritual freedom. It's how we relate and react to these three characteristics that determine whether we suffer or be at peace.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Fundamental Buddhist Principles 2015

2015-07-30 Metta for Self, Others and Self-and-others. 39:46
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Family Retreat

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