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2014-08-20
Morning Instructions Day 5
2012-12-01
Morning Session The Five Aggregates Are Empty and Q&A
2012-09-17
“Am I OK?”
2012-06-20
3 Characteristics of All Existence
2018-09-27
3 Kinds of Intention
2017-02-23
3 Kinds of Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-12-07
4th Foundation of Mindfulness Part 1 of 3
2012-10-28
4th Foundation of Mindfulness, part 1
2012-10-28
4th Foundation of Mindfulness, part 2
2012-10-28
4th Foundation of Mindfulness, part 3
2012-10-28
4th Foundation of Mindfulness, part 4
2012-10-28
4th Foundation of Mindfulness, part 5
2000-10-07
5 Hindrances
2000-07-25
5 Hindrances in Metta practice
2019-02-04
A Venn Diagram of Practice(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-02-13
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice
2010-09-20
Am I OK?
2023-01-29
An Overview of Practice on a Long Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-09-17
Bad Hair Cuts, Teenage Acne and Body Odor: Freedom from Identification with the…
2014-08-19
Beauty, Happiness and the Breath
2016-07-18
Befriending the Mind
2015-02-09
Brahma Vihara Day #9
2015-02-17
Brahma Vihara Day 17
2015-02-23
Brahma Vihara Day 23
2015-02-26
Brahma Vihara day 26
2013-02-19
Brahma Vihara Practice
2013-02-24
Brahma Vihara Practice -Mudita
2015-02-03
Brahma Vihara Practice Day 3
2011-07-18
Brahma Vihara: Karuna/compassion
2021-08-24
Brama Vihara Meditation: Karuna (Compassion)
2012-02-12
Bringing Kindness and Wisdom to the Judging Mind
2015-09-21
Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind
2018-09-20
Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind
2008-02-10
Choosing Kindness Rather Than Judging
2016-09-29
Clinging
2010-02-20
Clinging and Identification with I, Me and Mine
2008-02-16
Coming Out Of The Fog Of Delusion
2012-12-04
Compassion is Empty
2010-11-17
Compassion Needs Emptiness
2017-08-23
Concentration and the Development of the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-08-17
Concentration and the Path of Practice
2017-09-24
Continuation of the First Foundation Of Mindfulness
2016-01-31
Cultivating Mindfulness
2015-06-02
Cultivating Mindfulness, Working with Pain
2006-11-02
Dasadhamma Suta - part 3
2006-10-19
Dasadhamma Sutta - part 1
2006-10-26
Dasadhamma Sutta - part 2: Working With Habits
2019-02-12
Day 10 Brahma Vihara Guided Meditation - Metta for the Difficult Person (Retrea…
2016-02-09
Day 10 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta-Neutral Person
2016-02-11
Day 12 Morning Instructional Sit: Standing Posture
2019-02-17
Day 15 Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-19
Day 19: Brahma Vihara Practice: Mudita for Benefactor, Dear Friend and Self
2015-07-09
Day 1: Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of body, breath and sounds
2016-02-01
Day 2 Morning Instructional Sit
2016-07-15
Day 2 Morning Sit with Instructions: Metta for Self and Easy Person
2015-07-10
Day 2: Afternoon Instructions - Metta for self and benefactor/easy person
2018-05-15
Day 2: Sitting Meditation and Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-02
Day 3 Brahma Vihara Instructions
2018-05-16
Day 3: Brahma Vihara Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-07-17
Day 4 Afternoon Sit with Instructions: Compassion
2018-05-17
Day 4: Brahma Vihara Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-17
Day 4: Sitting Meditation and Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-07
Day 5 Sit with Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-07-13
Day 5: Morning Instructions
2016-02-05
Day 6 Morning Instructional Sit
2016-07-19
Day 6 Morning Sit: Metta Practice - The Difficult Person
2018-05-19
Day 6: Big Mind meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-10
Day 8 - Morning Sit w/ Instructions - Mindfulness of the Mind
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2010-04-10
Day for Experienced Students: Dependent Origination
2015-06-04
Day three: Guided loving-kindness practice
2012-09-24
Deepening concentration, developing happiness
2012-07-07
Deepening Kindness
2010-07-21
Deepening Metta and Concentration
2012-12-02
Dependent Origination
2010-11-15
Dependent Origination As a Pointer to Emptiness
2008-11-20
Dependent Origination: An Overview
2018-08-23
Developing a Skillful Relationship to Happiness in Practice and in Life (Retrea…
2014-08-15
Developing Concentration
2015-02-24
Diagnosing the Predicament: The 10 Fetters
2010-07-17
Dimensions of Metta
2015-04-20
Discomfort
2010-02-26
Easing into the Boundless, Just Where it Touches Us
2007-12-07
Eight Worldly Conditions
2009-09-28
Embodied Practice
2019-06-26
Emptiness and Compassion
2016-04-08
Equanimity and Kamma
2018-05-18
Facets of Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-08-13
Factors of Awakening
2009-05-12
Factors That Support and Hinder Concentration
2016-02-10
Factors that Support the Deepening of Meditation.
2008-08-21
Falling In Love With The Breath
2019-06-08
Falling in Love with the Breath
2000-11-22
Five Hindrances
2014-10-17
Five subjects for frequent recollection: what the Buddha encouraged us to think…
2000-11-26
Four Wise Efforts
2017-10-15
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2017-02-18
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-02-22
Freedom Here and Now - The 3rd Noble Truth
2012-11-29
From the Three Characteristics to Emptiness
2012-08-21
Gladdening the Heart, Training the Mind
2008-02-27
Growing Goodness
2011-07-20
Growing Your Own Happiness
2012-12-04
Guided Compassion Meditation
2017-10-06
Guided Loving Kindness For Neutral Person
2015-04-14
Guided meditation
2007-11-20
Guided Meditation - Mudita
2012-09-18
Guided Metta on self and benefactor
2015-09-22
Guided Metta practice for self and friend
2010-01-12
Happiness Is Possible
2011-02-09
Inner Cultivation, Outer Expression
2015-04-02
Intro to Insight
2022-06-02
Introduction to Mindfulness of Breathing
2008-07-15
It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
2019-02-11
Judging, Fixing & Comparing (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-10-13
Kamma and equanimity
2015-07-12
Kindness and the Steady Heart
2014-07-10
Kindness is What Matters
2018-07-12
Kindness is What Matters (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-11-13
Let The Breath Just Be The Breath
2011-05-01
Letting go of Disturbance, Deepening Stillness
2012-08-17
Letting Go of Disturbance, Finding Stillness
2016-09-15
Living In Samsara
2008-02-03
Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places
2000-11-29
Madhupindika Sutta
2001-08-15
Mana: The Comparing Mind
2010-11-14
Meditation on the Aggregates
2002-07-13
Metta and the Purification of the heart
2017-10-20
Metta For All Beings
2014-07-14
Metta for the Difficult Person
2021-02-06
Metta for the neutral person
2012-03-18
Metta Instructions - Self and Benefactor
2011-07-21
Metta Instructions: All Beings
2014-08-18
Metta Practice, Day 3
2014-08-22
Metta practice, Day 7
2012-07-11
Metta, Equanimity and Concentration
2011-07-17
Metta: Self and Benefactor
2014-06-09
Mindful Happiness
2016-04-04
Mindfulness and Metta
2015-02-01
Mindfulness includes everything
2015-02-07
Mindfulness includes everything, including star showers
2021-02-03
Mindfulness of Body, Breath, and Sounds
2022-06-04
Mindfulness of breathing with counting
2022-06-06
Mindfulness of Breathing: beginning, middle, end
2022-06-10
Mindfulness of breathing: review
2017-09-18
Mindfulness Of Emotions
2012-09-10
Mindfulness Of The body
2013-01-14
Mindfulness of the Body
2009-10-12
Mindfulness of the Body.
2011-01-03
Mindfulness When It Matters
2021-10-18
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Mudita and Uppekha (Joy and Equanimity)
2011-01-03
Monday Night Meditation Lead
2017-11-06
Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) Basics of Meditation with…
2013-06-17
More than an amoeba...
2012-09-09
Morning Instruction
2019-06-25
Morning Instructions
2019-06-27
Morning Instructions
2015-02-13
Morning Instructions #13
2015-09-15
Morning Instructions - 3 month retreat
2013-02-15
Morning Instructions - Day 12
2013-02-09
Morning Instructions - Day 6
2015-02-08
Morning Instructions Day #7
2014-08-16
Morning Instructions Day 1
2015-02-02
Morning Instructions Day 2
2012-08-19
Morning Instructions Day Six
2012-08-15
Morning Instructions Day Two
2010-09-21
Morning instructions – Day 10 - Standing meditation
2019-06-21
Morning Instructions: Big Mind
2019-06-10
Morning Instructions: Introduction to Metta
2019-06-15
Morning Instructions: Metta for All Beings
2019-06-08
Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Breathing
2019-06-12
Morning Instructions: On Metta Practice
2019-06-19
Morning Instructions: Resting in Awareness
2019-06-17
Morning Instructions: The Practice of Equanimity
2022-10-04
Morning Q&A
2021-07-11
Mudita practice
2010-02-07
No Part Left Out
2014-12-29
Open Heart, Clear Mind
2016-08-21
Opening Night Talk
2001-02-23
Papanca
2006-11-10
Papanca
2014-09-18
Part 3 on 32 Parts of the Body
2014-09-19
Part 6 on the 32 Parts of the Body
2016-04-06
Patience and Equanimity
1990-01-01
Patience And The Gentle Heart
2017-02-04
Patience in Practice and Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-08-29
Patterns of Practice
2017-05-29
Paying Attention to What We Pay Attention To (Drop-in at Spirit Rock)
2014-08-23
Power and Purpose of Concentration
2008-11-27
Practicing Gratitude And Joy
2011-10-17
Practicing Patience
2021-02-09
Practicing with Vedana or feeling tone
2013-02-14
Quenching the unquenchable thirst
2010-11-17
Reflections on Compassion
2011-07-16
Relaxing into Kindness
2016-02-04
Renunciation as a Support for Practice
2012-02-07
Renunciation as Letting Go of What No Longer Serves Us
2014-07-13
Responding with Kindness
2018-07-17
Responding with Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-03-03
Right View and Intention: The Heart of the Path
2014-09-20
Sally Armstrong and Richard Shankman
Last Night's Dharmettes
2016-11-28
Sally Armstrong at Spirit Rock - Living in an Imperfect World
2014-05-25
Sally Armstrong Suttas on Concentration Practice
2022-09-15
Samma Sati
2015-09-28
Satipatthana Series - The first foundation of mindfulness: the body
2017-10-01
Second foundation of mindfulness
2019-06-22
Selfing and Clinging
2017-08-19
Skillful development of pleasure in practice and life (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-24
Stages of enlightenment: The 10 Fetters
2015-09-21
Standing Meditation
2017-09-24
Standing Meditation
2016-10-07
Steadying the Mind, Opening the Heart
2009-05-16
Supports for Samadhi: An overview of the Buddha’s teachings on some of the beau…
2018-10-11
Supports for Steadying the mind: The Jhana Factors
2021-07-08
Supports for Steadying the mind: The Jhana Factors
2010-11-17
Teachings on the Practice of Reflection
2011-06-20
The Art of Mindfulness...
2009-07-22
The Beautiful Qualities of Compassion and Equanimity
2018-08-27
The Development and Function of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-08-15
The development of concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-12
The Development of Metta
2011-02-13
The Dhamma Gate of Restlessness
2017-09-17
The First Foundation of Mindfulness
2023-02-05
The First Foundation of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-08-26
The First Foundation of Mindfulness on the Body: Practicing with the Four Eleme…
2011-02-20
The Five Aggregates & the Search for Self
2010-11-14
The Five Aggregates Are Empty
2012-02-18
The Four Noble Truths
2019-02-24
The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-10-02
The Four Noble Truths As Practice
2000-05-26
The Four Wise Efforts
2015-10-19
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2016-10-20
The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
2008-12-05
The Fourth Foundation Of Mindfulness
2016-06-23
The Fourth Noble Truth- The path
2013-02-28
The Journey to Happiness: The Eightfold Path
2022-09-22
The Judging mind
2016-07-14
The Landscape of the Heart
2009-07-18
The Practice of Metta
2015-02-18
The Radiant Wheel - Dependent Origination
2017-02-12
The Resilience and Strength of a Compassionate Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-15
The roles of mindfulness, metta and equanimity in our practice (Retreat at Spir…
2015-10-05
The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone
2016-06-20
The Second Noble Truth: The origin of suffering is craving
2019-02-17
The Seven Factors of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-11-16
The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2010-02-02
The Spiritual Journey
2013-02-08
The Suffering that Leads to the End of Suffering
2006-02-05
The Ten Reflections - part 1
2006-02-10
The Ten Reflections - part 2
2006-02-16
The Ten Reflections - part 3
2015-10-12
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind
2010-11-12
The Three characteristics as Pointers to Emptiness
2016-02-24
The three kinds of Wholesome Intention: Sankappa, Aditthana, Cetana
2015-06-05
The Wise Heart Expresses Itself as Compassion
2015-07-16
The Wise Response of the Heart
2017-10-08
Third foundation of mindfulness
2016-09-22
Three kinds of intention.
2019-06-17
Three Limbs of Equanimity
2016-08-25
Training the Mind
2012-10-15
Transcendent Dependent Arising: A map of practice
2012-02-24
Transcendent Dependent Arising: The Path to Freedom
2007-11-23
Transcendent Dependent Origination
2011-10-10
Waking up from delusion
2022-09-29
Waking up from delusion
2011-02-26
We Live in Illusion and the Appearance of Things
2007-11-02
What Are We Doing Here And Why?
2011-09-12
What Is Mindfulness?
2012-02-02
What is Mindfulness?
2015-09-14
What is Mindfulness?
2018-09-13
What is Mindfulness?
2012-06-17
What is Right Mindfulness?
2015-04-13
Willingness to be in a zone of discomfort
2012-03-22
Wisdom and Intention
2017-01-29
Wise retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-12
Working with the Discursive Mind
2007-11-09
Working With The Judging Mind
2022-09-29
Waking up from delusion
54:21
We often hear about and experience the suffering caused by greed and aversion, yet delusion, the third of the kilesas, or torments of mind, is in some ways a more fundamental cause of suffering because if we weren’t deluded, we wouldn’t believe that by grasping or pushing away we could avoid suffering. The challenge with delusion is its very definition is that we do
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2022-09-22
The Judging mind
59:57
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. The good news is, like any conditioned habit, we can learn to decondition this pattern.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
