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                Kittisaro's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Kittisaro  
 
    
        
                            
      Kittisaro, from Tennessee, a Rhodes Scholar and a Buddhist practitioner for over 35 years including 15 years as a Theravada monk in the Forest School of Ajahn Chah. He is also a practitioner of Pure Land and Chan Buddhism. He is co-founder, with Thanissara of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat in South Africa and has completed two year long retreats. Kittisaro currently lives in the North Bay, California, teaches at IMS and Spirit Rock, and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Journey to Engaged Buddhism. He lives in the North Bay CA, and is on the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock, and is a core teacher at IMS.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2018-03-08
            "Might There Be Another Way": The Turning Point In The Buddha's Life. 
    
        2015-01-13
            A Heavenly Messenger Arrives: Today My Father Died.  
    
        2011-03-11
            A Kind Abiding 
    
        2016-10-18
            A Root Home: Listening to the Hearing 
    
        2006-10-03
            A Tour of the Universe 
    
        2002-07-19
            A Unified Heart 
    
        2022-11-22
            Accessing Peace through Letting Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-01-11
            Ajahn Chah's Advice about "Terrorists" 
    
        2002-07-13
            Alchemy Of Body And Breath 
    
        2018-09-24
            Alchemy of Joy 
    
        2009-01-27
            All Beings are of One Substance 
    
        2018-03-12
            All Living Beings Are Our Family 
    
        2009-06-07
            An Easeful Abiding - Samadhi and the Jhana Factors 
    
        1998-08-15
            Appreciation And The Meditative Path 
    
        2012-09-24
            Arriving Here - Touching the Earth Retreat 
    
        2018-03-11
            As Silence Is To Sound 
    
        2017-10-10
            Attending To The Immovable 
    
        2010-03-07
            Awakening 
    
        1997-08-18
            Balance Of Samatha And Vipassana: Realising Anatta Dhamma Through Deeply Knowin… 
    
        2008-08-20
            Being Dharma 
    
        2015-03-20
            Being Dharma - Destined to Wake Up 
    
        2017-11-22
            Beyond the Tangle of Thought (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2012-02-20
            Blessing  Powers Of Concentration 
    
        2009-06-07
            Breaking the Spell 
    
        2009-06-07
            Breaking the Spell 
    
        2024-11-26
            Breaking the Spell: Fingersnaps of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2004-01-01
            Buddham Varantam Sirasa Namami 
    
        2014-11-26
            Buddhas Never Waver 
    
        2004-01-01
            Buddhist Heart Mantras 
    
        2009-01-31
            Change of Lineage 
    
        2011-03-11
            Chanting 
    
        1995-08-01
            Contemplating The Breath 
    
        1995-01-01
            Contemplation Of The Five Khandas 
    
        2012-02-25
            Cultivating A Heart Of Kindness 
    
        2014-05-16
            Deathless Heart 
    
        2014-05-16
            Deeping Into The Four Noble Truths 
    
        1998-08-18
            Desire - Clear Seeing 
    
        2013-05-21
            Developing Our Practice 
    
        2015-01-07
            Developing the Yoga of the Mind  
    
        2010-03-09
            Dhamma As Nature 
    
        2012-09-28
            Dharma as Medicine 
    
        2025-03-18
            Dharma Medicine: Samādhi & Guided Anapanasati Meditation 
    
        2023-11-19
            Dharma Talk: Mindfulness, the Path to the One 
    
        2023-11-22
            Dharma Talk: The Great Return (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-11-24
            Dissolving the Walls of the Mind with Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2013-02-23
            Divine Abiding Of Metta 
    
        2016-08-12
            Do Everything with a Mind That Lets Go 
    
        2009-02-02
            Ekayana - The Way to One 
    
        2019-10-09
            Entering The Mula Sutta: Journey To Freedom 
    
        2016-08-14
            Form and Emptiness, Perfectly Fused 
    
        2002-07-21
            Freedom As Essence Of All Dhammas 
    
        1998-08-17
            Freedom Is The Essence Of All Things 
    
        2021-11-24
            Freedom is the Essence of All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2018-03-16
            Freeing Our Concsciousness (Friday) - Opening Chants 
    
        2018-03-16
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Friday) - Opening Talk 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon opening: Chants and Meditation… 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon stories about standing up 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon Talk and Q&A 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning closing 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Guided Meditation 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Talk 
    
        2018-03-17
            Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts 
    
        2020-12-04
            Friday Afternoon Session 
    
        2020-12-04
            Friday Morning Session 
    
        2009-01-12
            From Coarse to Subtle 
    
        2009-06-05
            From Practice of Dharma to Being Dharma 
    
        2025-03-16
            From the Perilous to Safety through the Cultivation of Meditation 
    
        2004-01-01
            Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha 
    
        2012-02-22
            Giving Everything Back 
    
        2016-08-16
            Gradual Path, Immediate Realization 
    
        2004-01-01
            Great Compassion Mantra 
    
        2012-02-18
            Ground Of Presence 
    
        2016-08-16
            Group Recitation (Chanting) 
    
        2015-01-16
            Hatred is Never Appeased by Hatred 
    
        2011-03-04
            Heartwood 
    
        2012-02-21
            Higher Training Of The Mind 
    
        2015-01-09
            Higher Training of the Mind/ Heart 
    
        2018-11-01
            Honoring the Sacred in this Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2011-03-09
            Ice To Water As Dukkha To Peace 
    
        2010-03-13
            Immeasurable Abiding.  
    
        2019-10-15
            Indestructible Samadhi. 
    
        2002-07-14
            Instructions On Flexibility In Practice 
    
        1999-08-19
            Introduction To Great Compassion Ceremony Of Kuan Yin And Mantras 
    
        2019-10-08
            Introduction To The Anapanasati Sutta 
    
        2009-01-16
            It's Uncertain 
    
        2025-04-02
            It's Ungraspable - the Multiplicity Within Wholeness 
    
        2004-01-01
            Itipi So Bhagava Araham Sammasambuddho 
    
        2002-07-12
            Jhana Factors 
    
        2011-12-02
            Journey to the Deathless 
    
        2010-03-11
            Just A Handful Of Leaves 
    
        1996-08-01
            Karma, Creation And Cessation 
    
        1994-08-02
            Kindness 
    
        2009-01-27
            Kuan Yin - Bestower of Fearlessness 
    
        2022-11-25
            Kuan Yin Bowing Practice Mantra:
Namo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa 
    
        2021-11-27
            Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-11-28
            Kuan Yin: Bestower of Fearlessness: Dharma Medicine for These Times (Retreat at… 
    
        2015-01-08
            Leaving Behind Apartheid of the Heart 
    
        2016-08-10
            Let the Alchemy Happen 
    
        1998-08-19
            Letting Go 
    
        2017-10-03
            Like a Cool Mountain Lake: Cultivating Jhana 
    
        2017-10-30
            Like A Still Forest Pool 
    
        2019-10-16
            Like Drew Drops And A Lightning Flash 
    
        2013-08-24
            Limitation & Beyond 
    
        2015-03-28
            Listening to the Heart - Sat. AM 
    
        2015-03-28
            Listening to the Heart - Sat. PM 
    
        2015-03-29
            Listening to the Heart - Sun 
    
        2015-03-27
            Listening to the Heart: Evening Talk & Book Signing - Friday 
    
        2013-02-19
            Making Our Practice Even 
    
        2015-05-03
            Measureless Abiding 
    
        2018-09-26
            Meditation on Dukkha and Release 
    
        2018-11-04
            Meditation: Peace as the Ground of Resilience 
    
        2003-07-25
            Merging Of Wisdom And Compassion 
    
        2017-11-18
            Metabolizing the Momentum of our Lives (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2016-04-23
            Might there be another way? 
    
        2013-02-17
            Mindfulness - Pathway to One 
    
        2011-03-05
            Mindfulness: Feet Touching The Ground 
    
        2018-05-21
            Monday Night Dharma Talk 
    
        2021-11-01
            Monday Night Dharma Talk - The Power of Holding a Sacred Name 
    
        2017-11-19
            Morning Instructions Day 2-Samadhi: The Blameless Pleasure Principle (Retreat a… 
    
        2015-11-23
            Morning Instructions Day 3 
    
        2015-11-26
            Morning Instructions; Day 6 
    
        2023-11-23
            Morning Sitting with Instructions: The Two Fundamental Roots; Contemplating Con… 
    
        2015-01-14
            Mother of All Phenomena - Contemplating Thus! 
    
        2003-07-24
            Mother Of The Buddhas 
    
        2017-10-19
            Moving Beyond Duality 
    
        2004-01-01
            Na Mo Ban Shr Shr Jya Mo Ni Fo 
    
        2004-01-01
            Na Mwo Da Bei Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa 
    
        2004-01-01
            Na Mwo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa 
    
        2004-01-01
            Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa 
    
        2025-04-04
            Namo, Faith and Returning my Life into the Way 
    
        2015-01-12
            Nature of Phenonmena Through Insight 
    
        2015-11-25
            Nibbana: The Homecoming 
    
        2025-03-20
            Nirodha (cessation of dukkha) and the Return to One Heart 
    
        2024-11-27
            No Footprints in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2016-10-20
            No Footprints in the Sky: Returning to the Sacred 
    
        2012-02-23
            Not Two 
    
        2010-03-12
            Noticing The Context 
    
        1998-08-16
            Obstructions To Samadhi 
    
        2004-01-01
            Om Mani Padme Hum 
    
        2025-03-22
            One Taste, Peace of Nibbana, Asankhata Dharma 
    
        2019-10-15
            One Taste: Return To The Root 
    
        1997-08-16
            Opening Into The Moment 
    
        2018-03-06
            Opening Talk: The Eight Great Gifts 
    
        2015-03-17
            Opening To Reality 
    
        2025-03-22
            Overview of the Four Truths Leading to Peace 
    
        2015-03-13
            Ox and Cart. Blessing Chant 
    
        2016-04-29
            Patience, refuge, service 
    
        1994-08-03
            Patience, The Donkey And Generosity 
    
        2021-11-20
            Patiently Arriving : The Alchemy of Awareness--Retreat at Spirit Rock (Day 1) 
    
        2017-10-02
            Power Of The Precepts 
    
        2015-01-18
            Practice Guided by Wisdom 
    
        2012-02-19
            Practice of Mindfulness 
    
        1994-08-04
            Practice, Relationship And Faith 
    
        1994-08-01
            Praising The Buddha - Prayer And Insight 
    
        2013-02-24
            Precepts 
    
        2025-04-02
            Primal Bright Essence of Consciousness 
    
        2016-10-18
            Protecting the Heart: Devotions Skillful Means 
    
        2009-02-03
            Pure Consciousness 
    
        2009-06-11
            Questions & Answers 
    
        2007-12-02
            Questions and Answers 
    
        2013-02-20
            Radical Reflection 
    
        2025-04-04
            Raft to the Peaceful Shore 
    
        2009-12-13
            Reading the Book of the Heart 
    
        2011-03-07
            Reading The Book Of The Heart 
    
        2019-10-22
            Receive The Moment: Cultivating The Friendly Heart 
    
        2018-11-21
            Reclamation of the Sacred 
    
        2016-05-07
            Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 
    
        2016-05-07
            Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 
    
        2016-05-08
            Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 
    
        2015-05-04
            Recognizing the Sacred 
    
        1995-08-03
            Reflecting On The Qualities Of Good Friendship 
    
        1995-08-02
            Reflection On The Four Noble Truths 
    
        2023-11-13
            Remembering Ajahn Chah 
    
        1999-08-17
            Resting In The Ground Of Being 
    
        2025-03-16
            Restoring Well-Being & Working with Long-term Illness 
    
        2025-04-09
            Retreat Review-All Practices point to the Mind/Heart 
    
        2011-03-09
            Return to The Deathless 
    
        2022-11-22
            Reverence: Opening the Door to the Deathless  (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2012-09-25
            Rooted in Prescence 
    
        2011-03-07
            Sacred Gateway 
    
        2014-05-14
            Sacred Template 
    
        2025-03-25
            Sakkha’s Question: The Cause of War and its End 
    
        2009-01-12
            Samadhi - The Destroyer of Ignorance 
    
        2015-11-22
            Samadhi and the Here and Now Dharma 
    
        2022-11-19
            Samadhi: Cultivating a Gathered Heart & Mind 
    
        2020-12-05
            Saturday Afternoon Session 
    
        2020-12-05
            Saturday Morning Session 
    
        2014-11-23
            Savoring the Way 
    
        2002-07-15
            Shipwrecks, The Mange, And Joys Of the Path 
    
        2025-03-31
            Shurangama Samādhi: The Great Return 
    
        2025-03-25
            Sky-line Heart: Beyond Concept and Conditioning 
    
        2025-03-18
            Stepping Out of Samsara 
    
        2010-03-13
            Still Forest Pool 
    
        2020-12-06
            Sunday Afternoon Session 
    
        2020-12-06
            Sunday Morning Session 
    
        1999-08-16
            Supports And Obstructions And Easeful Presence 
    
        2009-12-15
            Take Heart 
    
        2015-03-15
            Take Heart 
    
        2012-09-27
            Taste of Peace 
    
        2015-03-17
            Taste Of Peace 
    
        2007-11-30
            Tasting The Unconditioned 
    
        2025-03-31
            Tathagatagarbha - Primordial Matrix of Being 
    
        2004-01-01
            Tayata Om Muni Muni Mahamunaye Soha 
    
        2014-05-18
            The Advanced Course 
    
        2017-10-17
            The Akaliko (timeless) Dharma 
    
        2017-10-24
            The Alchemy Of Kindness: From "Locked In" to the Immeasurable.  
    
        2018-03-09
            The Bathman: Simile For For The First Jhana 
    
        2009-01-12
            The Capacity to Bear Reality 
    
        2009-01-31
            The Empty Bell 
    
        2011-03-11
            The Empty Bell  
    
        2009-01-19
            The End of Mark Making 
    
        2025-03-27
            The Extraordinary Blessings of Metta 
    
        2017-10-09
            The Extraordinary Power Of Contemplating Impermanence. 
    
        2025-03-20
            The Extraordinary Transformative Power of Dharma + Story of Angulimala 
    
        2019-10-02
            The Five Great Gifts 
    
        2002-07-18
            The Great Compassion Repentance Ceremony 
    
        2022-11-22
            The Great Return: A Taste of Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2009-06-11
            The Guest House 
    
        2009-06-11
            The Guest House 
    
        2019-11-24
            The Happiness of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2003-07-26
            The Heart Of Non-Contention And Guided Meditation 
    
        2009-06-09
            The Heart Sutra 
    
        2009-06-09
            The Heart Sutra 
    
        2009-12-15
            The Host and the Guest 
    
        2019-10-23
            The importance of cultivating the measureless. 
    
        2021-11-23
            The Interplay Between Samatha and Vipassana 
    
        2019-10-08
            The Liberating Power Of Breath Practice 
    
        2017-11-21
            The magnetic Pull of the Unconditioned (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2014-11-29
            The Miracle of Listening 
    
        2016-04-27
            The mysterious Dharma: words fall silent before it. 
    
        2015-11-28
            The Path in a Finger Snap 
    
        2013-08-26
            The Patience of Awakening 
    
        2018-09-28
            The Practice of the Dharma and its Magical Response 
    
        2018-09-26
            The Primal Essence of Consciousness 
    
        2006-10-05
            The Salt Crystal 
    
        2009-06-09
            The Second Arrow 
    
        2009-06-09
            The Second Arrow 
    
        2009-01-29
            The Shurangama Samadhi 
    
        2010-03-05
            The Template and Blessing Chants 
    
        2009-01-14
            The Terrorist and the Treasure 
    
        2015-01-10
            The Training of Samadhi - Guided Meditation 
    
        2002-07-17
            The Unconditioned And The Power Of The Kuan Yin 
    
        2014-05-12
            The Undisturbed  
    
        2015-03-19
            The Unobstructed Heart 
    
        2015-03-15
            The Value Of Moments Of Mindful Presence 
    
        1999-08-18
            The Vows Of The Buddha 
    
        2009-06-05
            The Wings of Awakening 
    
        2008-08-18
            The Yak Enamoured by its Tail 
    
        2021-11-25
            There Are No Footprints In The Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2006-10-03
            There are No Tracks in the Sky 
    
        2013-02-21
            This Is Peaceful 
    
        2019-11-27
            This is Peaceful 
    
        2019-10-22
            This Is The Happiness Of The Buddha 
    
        2009-01-19
            Through the Gateway of Dukkha 
    
        2020-12-03
            Thursday Afternoon Session 
    
        2020-12-03
            Thursday Morning Session 
    
        2012-09-26
            Touching Nibbana 
    
        2013-02-18
            Touching The World Lightly 
    
        2014-05-14
            Train The Heart 
    
        2025-03-27
            Transforming Struggle with Metta- Kind, Welcoming Attention 
    
        2021-11-22
            True Peace Is Not Far Away 
    
        2018-11-04
            Trust the Path: Medicine for Our Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2002-07-20
            Under The Rose Apple Tree 
    
        2019-11-27
            Understand, Release, Realize, and Cultivate (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2011-03-05
            Unification Of Body, Mind And Heart 
    
        2004-09-15
            Unification of Mind and Body 
    
        2006-10-01
            Unifying the Mind 
    
        2025-04-07
            Universal Door 1: One Substance, One Heart, One Body, Kuan Yin–Holding the Sacr… 
    
        2025-04-07
            Universal Door 2  Living Dynamic Refuge - Kuan Yin Recitation Samadhi 
    
        1998-08-20
            Vow Power Of The Buddha And The Bodhisattvas And Chanting 
    
        2003-07-23
            Waterfall Of An Unhindered Mind 
    
        2010-03-09
            Waterfall Of Impermanence.  
    
        2002-07-16
            Ways Of Exploring Suffering 
    
        2020-12-02
            Wednesday Afternoon Session 
    
        2020-12-02
            Wednesday Morning Session (Part 1) 
    
        2020-12-02
            Wednesday Morning Session (Part 2) 
    
        2006-10-01
            What Am I Going To Do About It? 
    
        2010-03-11
            What Remains? 
    
        2004-09-18
            Where is Solid Ground 
    
        2009-01-22
            Where Letting Go and Embracing the World Meet 
    
        2009-12-11
            Wings Of Awakening Opening 
    
        2013-02-22
            Yoga of the Heart 
    
        2018-09-28
            Yoga of the Heart 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        1900-01-01
            Monday and Wednesday Talks 
    
        1994-08-01
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        1995-01-01
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        1995-08-01
            Retreat with Thanissara and Kittisaro 
    
        1996-08-01
            Retreat with Thanissara and Kittisaro 
    
        1997-08-16
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        1998-08-15
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        1999-08-16
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        2002-07-12
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        2003-07-23
            Retreat with Kittisaro 
    
        2006-09-29
            The Union of Wisdom and Compassion 
    
        2007-11-27
            The Radiant Awareness of Being 
    
        2009-01-10
            Original Brightness Retreat 
    
        2009-06-05
            The Wings of Awakening 
    
        2009-06-05
            Wings of Awakening 
    
        2009-12-11
            Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties 
    
        2010-03-05
            The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet 
    
        2011-03-04
            The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet 
    
        2011-11-29
            Being Dharma 
    
        2012-02-18
            An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2012-09-24
            Touching the Earth 
    
        2013-02-16
            An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2013-08-22
            Touching the Earth 
    
        2014-05-12
            An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
 
    
        2014-11-21
            Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-01-07
            Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa 
    
        2015-01-24
            Life, Death, Etc. ...All in a Year!  
    
        2015-03-13
            An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2015-05-01
            Sacred Tenderness: Exploring the Energies of Our Hearts  
    
        2015-11-20
            Thanksgiving Insight Retreat 
    
        2016-04-22
            An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat  
    
        2016-05-07
            Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion 
    
        2016-08-08
            From Separation to Seamless Reality 
    
        2016-10-16
            Balancing Liberation and Devotion: Opening the Kuan Yin Dharma Doors 
    
        2017-10-01
            October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2017-11-17
            Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace and Gra… 
    
        2018-03-06
            Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh… 
    
        2018-03-16
            Freeing Our Consciousness 
    
        2018-09-22
            Reclamation of the Sacred 
    
        2018-10-31
            Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh… 
    
        2019-10-01
            October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge 
    
        2019-11-22
            November Insight Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace, & Gratitude 
    
        2020-12-02
            "Essence: Accessing Peace Within Uncertain Times" with Kittisaro and Thanissara 
    
        2021-01-01
            Year to Live 2021 
    
        2021-11-19
            Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love 
    
        2022-11-18
            Journey Into Refuge, Presence, and Love 
    
        2023-11-18
            Refuge, Resilience, Presence, and Love In Our Times 
    
        2024-11-22
            Reclamation of the Sacred: Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love 
    
        2025-03-13
            Being Dharma