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2025-07-07 Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path 66:51
Donald Rothberg
For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in later Buddhism, including Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further. In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It’s outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-06-14 The 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path 62:10
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight and Dependent Origination

2025-05-28 Illuminating the Present Through the Past and the Noble Eightfold Path 36:01
Andrea Castillo
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-04-09 Talk: The Practice of Developing Samadhi (Concentration) 61:45
Donald Rothberg
This talks focuses on one of the three areas of practice discussed a week before, on developing samadhi (or concentration), the theme of Donald's four weeks of practice in March. We begin by more generally discussing the nature of samadhi, including short account of the etymology in Pali, and the Tibetan sense of samadhi as "staying," as developing in the nine stages of the "Elephant Path." We look at the place and importance of developing samadhi in our practice and its relationship to insight practice; developing samadhi is one of the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path and appears in many of the Buddha's core teachings. We discuss some ways to practice developing samadhi, and then focus especially on several challenges of such practice and how to work with such challenges. The talk is followed by discussion, including further exploration of the relationship of cultivating samadhi and insight practice, the nature of skillful effort, and the joy that can arise in the development of samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-01-26 Fortifying Your Practice in these Challenging Times 25:54
Ayya Anandabodhi
An encouragement to bring the Noble Eightfold Path out of the conceptual and into a lived experience, bringing strength and clarity to our lives.
Parayana Vihara

2024-12-31 The Fourth Noble Truth: The Journey of the Eightfold Path 32:06
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
Attached Files:

2024-12-01 The Four Noble Truths, Part 2 60:31
Tuere Sala
The Eightfold Path
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2024-09-29 Reflections on the eightfold path 53:10
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – A Fresh Look at the Path

2024-07-07 The Eightfold Path 67:20
Tuere Sala
This was the fourth talk given by Tuere Sala during the July 2024 BIPOC Retreat at Common Ground's Retreat Center.
Common Ground Meditation Center July 2024 Residential Retreat for the BIPOC Community with Tuere Sala

2024-06-01 The Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path 53:44
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight and Dependent Origination

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