Thanissara's Dharma Talks
Thanissara
Thanissara, originally from London, was a nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally the last 30 years. She is co-founder and director of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa and has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the UK. She is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry. She currently lives in the North Bay, California and teaches at IMS and is on the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock, a Core Teacher at IMS, and Guiding Teacher of Sacred Mountain Sangha.
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2011-12-03
Nothing is Outside the Heart
2009-06-08
Teaching of This Moment
2012-07-04
1. Buddha's Essential Guidance
2012-07-04
10. Training of Mind
2012-07-04
11. Four Truths
2012-07-04
12. Practice of the Four Truths
2012-07-04
13. Leap Beyond
2012-07-04
14. Original Mind
2012-07-04
15. Divine Within Human
2012-07-04
16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation
2012-07-04
17. Daily Life Practice
2012-07-04
18. Taking Precepts
2012-07-04
2. First Foundation of Mindfulness
2011-08-26
2.8.40 - The River of Self
2012-07-04
3. Basic Sanity
2012-05-10
3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart
2012-07-04
4. Guided Meditation on the Body
2012-07-04
5. Samadhi - Path into Here & Now
2012-07-04
6. Jhana Factors & Balanced Effort
2012-07-04
7. Hindrances & Stopping
2012-07-04
8. Balance of Calm & Insight
2012-07-04
9. Contemplating Change & Worldly Winds
2012-09-27
A Burning World
2014-11-28
A Compassionate Training for Our Times
2012-02-25
A Human Journey
2011-03-12
A Mindful Way
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 1 - recorded thich nhat hanh chant - poem - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 2 - dharma talk - sharing triad - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 3 - closing Namo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa chant and brief dedicatio...
2008-05-30
An Exploration of Mindfulness
2007-08-11
Archetypel Journey
2015-01-15
Attitude of Kindness & Great Compassion Ceremony
2014-05-17
Authentic Relationship
2007-11-13
Awakening the Heart: The role of trust and devotion in meditation practice
2003-07-20
Balanced Effort
2013-02-17
Before you react...
2016-08-08
Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being
1998-08-18
Being Fully Human And The Six Realms
2012-09-26
Being Present
2009-06-06
Being present to body & breath
2009-06-06
Being Present to Body Breath
2018-09-23
Being with Body
2012-02-18
Blessing Chants
2018-03-14
Bring Daily Life Into Practice
2012-09-25
Carried by Dharma
2009-06-11
Chanting
1995-08-02
Chanting
2004-09-17
Chi Gong
2009-12-16
Closing Remarks and Q&A
2016-08-15
Compassion - A Vital Motivation for Our Times
2007-08-15
Compassion, Emptiness and Kuan Yin
1996-08-01
Compassion, Transcendence And Transformation
2015-01-15
Compassionate Transformation
2015-01-14
Compassionate Transformation
1995-08-04
Contemplating Anatta
1995-08-05
Contemplating Nirodha
1995-08-03
Contemplating The Hindrances
1995-08-06
Contemplating The Path
2009-06-08
Contemplation of Desire and Aversion
2012-02-24
Contemplation Of Mind
2017-10-20
Coursing The Depths Of The Mystery.
2002-06-11
Cultivating A Peaceful Abiding Echo
1997-08-18
Cultivating A Supportive Inner Environment For The Practice Of Insight
2006-09-30
Cultivating the Unshakeable Heart
1998-08-16
Cultivation Of The Four Efforts
2015-01-12
Cultivation of Wise Reflection
2007-08-17
Daily Life - the Ground of Paramita
2007-01-20
Dawn of Contemplation
2018-04-25
Day 6: Engaged Dharma Part 1
2016-08-13
Deconstructing the House of Self
2009-06-09
Desire & Aversion
2017-11-19
Development of the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-28
Diamond Heart
2016-08-11
Difficulty as Opportunity
2010-03-08
Discerning Mind and It's Activity
2003-07-21
Dispassion - The Foundation Of Samadhi
2017-10-05
Disturbance is the Path.
2017-10-13
Dukkha and Beyond: A Vital Practice
1999-08-17
Dukkha And Its Arising
2015-03-20
Dwelling With The Divine
2016-04-24
Embodied awareness
2016-08-09
Empty Hands
2009-01-20
Emptying the Boulders of the Mind
2015-03-25
Engaged Dharma in a World On Fire
2018-04-25
Engaged Dharma Part 2
2011-04-04
Establishing Mindfulness
2015-03-16
Establishment Of Right View.
2018-04-20
Evening Session Day 1: Generosity/Renunciation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-06
Evening Talk & Book Signing: Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto ...
2008-05-31
Exploring Mindfulness
2009-01-30
Facets of the Diamond
2018-09-27
Faith and the practice Within Intensity
2013-02-23
Footprints
2013-02-21
Four Truths To Live By
2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
2017-10-27
From Separate Consciousness To Seamless Reality
2015-10-04
From Separation to Seamless Reality
2014-05-17
From Shattering to Capacity
1998-08-20
From The Mountain Top To The Market Place
2009-01-13
Fruit Arises According to the Dharma
2015-03-16
Fruits Of the Path
2009-01-11
Gathered Attention Here and Now
1998-08-22
Gratitude And Milarepa's Parting Song
2011-03-12
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
2009-12-12
Guided Meditation
1997-08-20
Guided Meditation On Death
2013-02-23
Guided Metta Meditation
1995-08-01
Guided Metta Meditation
2010-03-10
Handful Of Leaves
2011-03-10
Honoring Our Human Journey
2010-03-06
How Is It Now?
2009-01-26
I Have Faith in Nights
2009-12-13
If you understand one thing, you understand everything's journey
2011-03-06
Independent Abiding
2002-07-22
Instructions On Contemplation Of Body And Feeling
2002-07-24
Instructions On Listening Inwardly and Outwardly
2014-05-13
Introduction to Meditation
2014-05-15
Investigation of dhammas
2010-03-08
It Is Not As It Should Be.
1997-08-19
Karma Vipaka
2013-03-31
Kuan Yin for the Planet - Bringing the Heart Suttra Down to Earth
1998-08-19
Leaving The Palace
2006-10-04
Let the Beauty You Love Be What you Do
1996-08-03
Letting Go, Fear And Intimate Relationship
2018-03-10
Liberation Through Wisdom
2009-01-13
Mara - The Ultimate Teacher
2009-06-08
Meeting Dukkha
2008-05-31
Mindfulness and the Indriyas
2013-02-20
Mindfulness Of Feeling
2015-03-14
Mindfulness: Step by step
2018-03-11
Mindfulness: The Flood Stopper.
2009-12-14
Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper
2017-11-20
Morning Instruction Day 3: Wise Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-11-21
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2015-11-24
Morning Instructions, Day 4
2015-11-27
Morning Instructions, Day 7
2017-11-24
Morning Instructions, Day 7: Jeanie Daskais (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-24
Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind
2017-11-04
Morning, part 1 - Introduction - chanting - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Morning, part 2 - intro to dyad then sharing discussion
2002-07-23
Movements Beyond Structure
2012-02-21
No Desire, No Path
2010-03-12
Noticing The Context.
2003-07-24
Opening Into The Bodhisattva Heart
2002-06-14
Opening Kwan Yin Dharmas
2007-08-10
Opening Talk for Illuminating the Heart of Awareness
2007-01-19
Opening Talk from Dawn of Contemplation
2013-02-16
Opening Talk: Introduction to Retreat and protection chants.
2015-03-18
Orginal Mind - Guided meditation
2015-03-19
Path of Transformation
2012-09-28
Placing the Personal Self
2014-05-13
Practice & Climate Change
2013-08-23
Practice in a Burning World
2007-12-03
Prajna Paramita In The Dragon Mountains
2014-11-22
Putting Down the Burden
2009-06-11
Question and Answer Session
2015-05-05
Reclamation of the Sacred
2018-09-23
Reclamation of the Sacred
2002-07-26
Relationship And Metta
2018-09-25
Release from Samsara
2016-04-23
Remembering to be here
2015-01-08
Renunciation1 - Entering the River of Reality
2015-01-09
Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness
2017-11-22
Sacred Activism, The Heart Sutra & Standing Rock (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-20
Samadhi - Healing Mind, Body, Heart
2017-10-04
Samadhi - the three streams of energy
2018-09-25
Sati, Samadhi, Sampajanna
2010-03-10
Skill With Thought
2006-10-04
Stillness and Inquiry
2003-07-26
Stories Of Kuan Yin
2009-01-18
Suffering as Opportunity
1997-08-17
Suffering Is A Gift - Receive It With Attention
2011-03-08
Sujata's Gift
2015-03-14
Surrender and Grace
2018-03-08
Sustaining Calm and Focus.
2017-11-25
Taking the Practice to Mordor: Yong Oh and Thanissara (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-03
TBIF: on The Mula Sutta - q+a
2017-11-03
TBIF: on The Mula Sutta: Through the Portal of Self into the Non-Dual Heart
2012-02-23
The Buddha's Core Teaching
2018-03-07
The Buddha's Path For Our Times.
2002-07-21
The Buddha, Renunciation, Samadhi
1996-08-02
The Burning House And The Bodhisattva
2009-01-18
The Centrality of Minfulness
2007-11-29
The Dharma Is Not The Dharma
2010-03-06
The Eight Streams of Blessings.
2009-06-06
The Five Indriya's
2009-06-06
The Five Indriyas
2014-11-25
The Flickering Play of the Mind
2012-02-22
The Flood Stopper
2007-08-13
The Floodstopper
2006-10-02
The Four Noble Truths
2002-07-25
The Four Noble Truths And Blessing
2009-12-14
The Four Truths
2015-11-23
The Happiness of the Buddha
2009-01-23
The Heroic Human Heart
2017-10-12
The Immensity Of Awareness
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-12-12
The Map Of The Five Indriyas
2018-09-27
The Mula Sutta: Beyond the Constructs of the Mind
2009-02-01
THe Naked Heart
1998-08-23
The Precept Vehicle
2011-03-06
The Prisoner
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2011-03-08
The River Of The Self
2009-12-16
Touching Earth
2013-02-18
Training For Times Of Intensity
2012-02-19
Training of Attention
2014-05-15
Truths For Life
2004-09-17
Unfolding into the Awakened Heart
2006-10-02
Untitled Talk
2013-02-19
Vipassana: Investigation of "Dhammas"
2003-07-22
Well Being As A Base For Inquiry
1999-08-19
Wisdom Says I Am Nothing, Compassion Says I Am Everything
2011-03-10
Without Walls Of The Mind
2013-02-22
Working The Four Truths
2015-01-17
Yoga of the Heart
2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
41:25
This talk explores how entering the Third Noble Truth opens the mind beyond its habitual addiction to interpret life from a sense of being a personality, needing to 'sort things out'. Opening the mind implies an ability to tolerate the reality of uncertainty. This talk also explores compassion and loving kindness as fearlessness and includes a simple guided meditation on well-being.
Gaia House
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The Union of Wisdom and Compassion
