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Dharma Talks in English
2015-09-19 Clinging and Freedom From Clinging 55:25
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-19 Precious Human Birth 48:06
Amma Thanasanti
First talk of the retreat. The range of human experience includes choices based on greed, hatred and confusion or non green, non hatred and non confusion. There are many fortunate conditions that give someone faculties to hear to Dhamma, contemplate, practice a gradual path of awakening. Yet there are times when the path changes suddenly and we can feel groundless. Both the gradual and sudden aspects of the path are part of what we develop and realize as part of understanding the preciousness of our human birth.
Shakti Vihara Portal to Pure Presence

2015-09-19 Body Scanning with Gratitude 44:49
Christiane Wolf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-19 The Joy of Samadhi 2:56:11
Nikki Mirghafori
The practice of samatha leads to a state of samadhi, where the mind is stable, bright, not distracted and spacious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Joy Of Samadhi

2015-09-19 Guided Meditation on the Elements 36:58
Bob Stahl
Exploring Solidity, Liquidity, Motion, and Temperature in the body and the world. The barriers of separation begin to dissolve and the sense of interconnections arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-18 Facebook Dharma 54:19
Bob Stahl
The deepest healing aspects of the 32 parts of the the body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-18 Burning 59:50
Patrick Kearney
We look at Āditta Sutta (SN 35:28), where the Buddha teaches 1,000 former dreadlocks ascetics that “everything is burning.” This teaching focuses on the six sense fields and the ways in which we become entangled with them. The practice the Buddha teaches is direct, intimate, physical, and it focuses on our relationship with vedanā, the realm of affect.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-17 Working with Emotions in the Body 53:54
Christiane Wolf
Hands-on description on working with anxiety, a physician's take on the 32 parts of the body practice, all 4 satipatthanas grow from here.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-17 Four Stages in the Transformation of the Judgmental Mind 61:42
Donald Rothberg
We first cover an overview of the two main inter-related ways that transformation of the judgmental mind occurs: (1) mindfulness and investigation of judgments; and (2) cultivating awakened states, particularly through "heart practices." In this talk, we examine four stages of the first way: investigating and transforming judgments by first noticing them and becoming more mindful of them in terms of the body, core narratives, emotional energy, etc., and then going beneath the surface of judgments, revealing and transforming the underlying habitual tendencies and core limiting beliefs, often initially unconscious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2015-09-17 Hindrances Can Wake Us Up 62:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-17 "Anchoring Our Wisdom: Embodied Awareness" 53:19
James Baraz
How the Body Can Help Us Remember. (Note: We had some trouble with the sound system for the first few minutes.)
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-09-17 Equanimity 60:17
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-17 Preparing the fire 66:12
Patrick Kearney
Tonight we follow the Buddha from Isipatana, just north of Bārāṇasī, to Uruvelā, on the near side to the Nerañjarā river. At Bārāṇasī he converts some of the commercial elite of the city, and when he has 60 arahant students sends them off on missionary journeys. The Buddha himself goes on a targeted mission to convert a community of dreadlocks-wearing (jaṭila) ascetics to his teaching. He does so by “shirt-fronting” Uruvelā-Kassapa, the senior leader of this community, with his shamanic powers, in order to prepare the way for his third teaching.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-16 From Grumpiness to Gratitude 54:08
Mary Grace Orr
The Dharma is medicine for difficulties of mind, heart and body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-16 Practicing Awareness with love 59:47
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-09-16 The Four Sublime Abidings 56:35
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-16 Anatta & the problem of life-after-life 1:22:53
Patrick Kearney
Here we look at one aspect of the teaching of anattā, that of life-after-life, or rebirth. We see that this teaching does not say that any being or thing transfers from one life to the next, and yet because we are caught up in identity we can’t help but think in such terms. We also look at some characteristics of our culture that make it particularly difficult for us to come to terms with this teaching.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-16 The Essence of Our Practice 55:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2015-09-16 Meditation Instruction on Head Hair, Body Hair, Nails, Teeth, and Skin. 40:59
Bob Stahl
Introduction meditation on the first five body parts of the 32 parts of the body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-15 Listening to the Heavenly Messengers and we have a Body! 32 Parts! 52:58
Bob Stahl
What brings us on the path of Awakening is the Heavenly Messengers. Introduction to the 32 parts of the body Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-15 Transforming the Judgmental Mind: An Overview 56:26
Donald Rothberg
We explore the nature of the judgmental mind, including the distinction of reactive judgments with non-reactive discernment, how judgments often carry insight and intelligence, and the two main ways of inner transformation of the judgmental mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2015-09-15 Collected and Composed 39:33
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2015-09-15 The Three Distortions 68:21
John Peacock
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-15 Faith 62:48
Kamala Masters
Confidence in our innate potential for transformation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-15 The not-self characteristic - Part 2 58:57
Patrick Kearney
We continue with Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta, here focusing on the turning point represented by disenchantment (nibbidā). This creates a process of the fading of obsession, liberation and the exhaustion of birth. The Buddha expresses as a state of intimacy, conveyed by the statement, “There is no more of this!”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

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