Rob Burbea's Dharma Talks
Rob Burbea
Rob Burbea has practiced and studied Buddhism since 1985. Teaching since 2004, he is currently a Gaia House Resident Teacher and a member of its Teacher Council, as well as a Guiding Teacher of Freely Given Retreats (www.freelygivenretreats.org). He is a co-founder of Sanghaseva (www.sanghaseva.org), an organization exploring the Dharma through international service work, and also a co-initiator of DANCE, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (www.thedancewebsite.org). Rob is the author of Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising (www.seeingthatfrees.com).
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2007-11-03
"A Body At Peace With Itself"
2016-07-28
"I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice
2017-02-07
'The Holy Life' (Part 1)
2017-02-08
'The Holy Life' (Part 2)
2017-02-09
'The Holy Life' (Part 3)
2009-12-31
'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground' (A Talk on Devotion)
2010-02-06
'To see no-thing is to see excellently'
2015-08-08
A Little Exercise for the Imagination
2011-08-04
A Mystical Kiss
(...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers and Realists...)
2007-11-08
A Question of Faith
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1)
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2)
2015-08-12
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3)
2015-08-13
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4)
2015-08-13
A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5)
2018-02-05
A Temenos Exercise (in fours)
2018-02-07
A Temenos Exercise (in threes)
2010-01-28
A Wise Relationship To Practice
2010-08-06
About Metta Practice
2011-08-05
Am I Free to Inquire?
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 2)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 3)
2015-12-21
An Ecology of Love (Part 4)
2010-01-21
An Introduction to Emptiness
2008-11-06
Approaches to the Hindrances
2012-11-18
Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World
2012-11-22
Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking
2006-04-23
Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1)
2006-04-23
Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2)
2017-12-15
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1)
2017-12-16
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 2)
2017-12-17
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3)
2017-12-18
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4)
2017-12-19
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5)
2017-12-20
Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6)
2011-08-02
At Home in the Universe
2008-03-08
Awakening
2017-03-31
Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A)
2017-04-01
Beauty and the Buddha
2018-01-09
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1)
2018-01-10
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2)
2018-01-11
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3)
2018-01-12
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Thre...
2018-01-13
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta)
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha...
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scri...
2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking ...
2008-12-31
Beyond Impermanence
2006-02-11
Beyond the Prison of the Self
2016-07-27
Beyond the Search for Freedom
2009-09-10
Blessing Life (The Power of the Generous Heart)
2018-02-03
Body and Soul (Q & A)
2011-11-14
Body/Image - A Guided Meditation
2014-11-19
Buddhism Beyond Modernism
2009-01-31
Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self
2009-02-02
Cittamatra
2017-03-28
Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A)
2008-02-04
Compassion
2005-11-22
Compassion and Emptiness
2008-02-05
Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves)
2010-01-30
Concepts, Views, Reality
2011-02-12
Contact and The Construction of Self
2005-11-12
Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 1) - Impermanence and Dukkha
2005-11-16
Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 2) - Anatta (Not-Self)
2016-07-31
Creating the Path (Q & A)
2014-11-02
Creative Samadhi
2008-03-07
Death
2011-02-16
Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4)
2010-02-14
Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned
2009-02-14
Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time
2018-02-07
Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A)
2007-04-01
Developing Samatha/Concentration
2017-01-18
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 1)
2017-01-19
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 2)
2017-01-20
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 3)
2017-01-21
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 4)
2017-01-22
Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 5)
2018-02-08
Discernment in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2017-02-05
Doubt and Discernment (Part 1)
2017-02-06
Doubt and Discernment (Part 2)
2017-12-28
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1)
2017-12-29
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2)
2017-12-30
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3)
2017-12-31
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - 'Mastering the Fire')
2018-01-01
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5)
2018-01-02
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6)
2018-01-03
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7)
2018-01-04
Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 8)
2018-02-03
Elements of the Imaginal (1 - 2)
2018-02-06
Elements of the Imaginal (15 - 18)
2006-11-16
Emotional Healing
2009-11-05
Emotions and Freedom
2009-01-24
Emptiness
2009-12-29
Emptiness and Insight Meditation
2010-01-31
Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness
2011-02-09
Ending Blame
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (1)
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (2)
2010-12-04
Ending the Inner Critic (3)
2016-07-28
Energy and Transubstantiation: The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A)
2017-03-30
Energy Body and Image (Q & A)
2015-08-07
Energy Body: Instructions (1)
2015-08-08
Energy Body: Instructions (2)
2015-08-07
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1)
2015-08-08
Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2)
2006-12-28
Equanimity
2007-02-08
Equanimity in Compassion
2017-03-27
Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul
2017-02-16
Eros and the Brahmaviharas
2017-03-27
Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation)
2017-01-23
Eros Unfettered (Part 1)
2017-01-24
Eros Unfettered (Part 2)
2017-01-25
Eros Unfettered (Part 3)
2017-01-26
Eros Unfettered (Part 4)
2017-01-27
Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing)
2009-01-30
Exploring the Relationship with Practice
2008-01-30
Exploring the World of Loving Kindness
2007-01-25
Expressions of Metta
2017-03-27
Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2011-02-10
Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-09
First Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Impermanence
2011-02-06
First Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-09
First Instructions on Breath Meditation and Guided Meditation
2008-08-09
First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2007-03-31
First Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation on the Breath
2009-09-12
Fourth Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Welcoming
2011-02-09
Fourth Instrctions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-12
Fourth Instructions (Breath and Space) - Reactivity, Emptiness, Piti
2008-08-12
Fourth Morning Instructions
2007-07-16
Freedom From Fear And Anxiety
2009-09-12
Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge
2011-02-06
Freeing the Self
2006-11-04
From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana)
2016-07-31
From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment)
2007-01-27
From Insight to Love
2017-02-19
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul ...
2017-02-20
From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul ...
2007-03-17
God and the Ultimate Truth
2018-06-23
Growing the Energy Body (Q & A)
2009-02-02
Guided Meditation - Cittamatra
2008-02-10
Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas
2011-02-22
Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances
2014-12-07
Guided Meditation 1
2008-02-09
Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion
2009-01-26
Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics
2007-02-04
Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena
2010-01-31
Guided Meditation: The Vastness of Awareness
2010-01-23
Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics
2016-07-29
Healing the Imagination (Q & A)
2016-07-30
Hearing All Sounds as Mantra: A Jewelline World
2018-06-24
Heart Art and an Introduction to Image
2010-08-08
Heart Work
2007-03-15
Home and Homelessness
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One)
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three)
2014-12-07
Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two)
2016-07-31
Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation)
2015-08-07
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1)
2015-08-07
Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2)
2011-02-14
Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3)
2017-02-10
In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self
2014-11-25
In Praise of Restlessness
2011-11-06
Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States
2011-11-04
Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body
2011-01-01
Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought
2017-03-28
Instructions: Letting Go
2017-03-29
Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire
2009-02-01
Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing
2017-03-30
Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation)
2009-05-09
Into the depths of Silence
2007-11-17
Into the Depths of Silence
2007-04-02
Jhana Practice
2007-12-31
Joy
2009-09-29
Joyful Effort
2006-10-17
Letting Go of Judgement
2010-12-31
Liberation and the Self - A Guided Inquiry
2009-09-09
Liberation From the Inner Critic
2008-11-21
Living in the Truth
2017-02-02
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1)
2017-02-03
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2)
2017-02-04
Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3)
2017-04-01
Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros
2007-02-04
Love and Emptiness
2008-02-10
Love and the Emptiness of Things
2010-02-07
Love, Healing, and Emptiness
2009-02-08
Love, Karma, and Healing
2008-03-07
Love/The Difficulties of Love
2010-02-05
Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview)
2016-07-30
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1)
2016-07-30
Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2)
2008-11-27
Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind)
2010-08-07
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 1
2010-08-08
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 2
2010-08-09
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3
2010-08-09
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 4
2010-08-10
Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5
2016-07-27
Mindfulness and Myth
2005-11-05
Mindfulness of Mind States
2009-10-01
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation
2017-04-01
Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A)
2016-07-30
Neither 'Is' nor 'Is Not': Of Emptiness and the Imaginal (Q & A)
2008-06-24
Nirvana and Transcendence
2010-02-12
No Mind
2009-05-15
No Self, No World
2010-02-04
Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception
2018-02-09
Nothing Happens By Itself
2007-09-17
Ocean of Patience
2018-06-29
Of Hunger and Humility
2017-03-31
On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path
2016-07-28
On Orientations in Practice (Live and Shortened version)
2008-09-17
On the Essence of Being
2009-02-13
On the Nature of Mind
2018-06-22
Opening Talk ('To Kiss a Falcon')
2010-01-20
Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat
2011-02-05
Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1): Being on Retreat
2008-03-05
Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening
2007-03-30
Opening Talk on Samatha (Concentration Practice)
2017-02-17
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1)
2017-02-18
Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2)
2009-09-08
Opening the Sense of What's Possible
2017-03-29
Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A)
2015-08-10
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1)
2015-08-10
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2)
2015-08-11
Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3)
2007-03-16
Passion, Desire, and the Path
2009-01-26
Practicing with the Three Characteristics
2011-02-10
Question and Answer Session 2
2014-11-12
Questioning Awakening
2011-02-19
Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5)
2009-05-21
Realizing the Nature of Mind
2011-02-08
Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1)
2011-07-29
Reflections on the Retreat and on the Path
2017-02-13
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1)
2017-02-14
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 2)
2017-02-15
Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2)
2014-10-05
Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3)
2006-02-09
Renunciation and Joy
2018-06-27
Sailing the Oceans of Soul (Q & A)
2006-11-07
Samadhi
2010-01-21
Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers)
2007-01-22
Samadhi in Metta Practice
2009-01-24
Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness
2008-10-04
Second Day Instructions - Vedana
2009-09-10
Second Guided Meditation on The Space of Awareness - Silence
2011-02-07
Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation
2009-09-10
Second Instructions on Breath Meditation - Guided Meditation
2008-08-10
Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2007-04-01
Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
2010-08-10
Selflessness and a Life of Love
2008-11-14
Sense Desire
2016-08-01
Sensing Divinity
2017-12-21
Sensing with Soul (Part 1)
2017-12-22
Sensing with Soul (Part 2)
2017-12-23
Sensing with Soul (Part 3)
2017-12-24
Sensing with Soul (Part 4)
2017-12-25
Sensing with Soul (Part 5)
2017-12-26
Sensing with Soul (Part 6)
2017-12-27
Sensing with Soul (Part 7)
2018-06-26
Sensitivity, Receptivity, and Respect in Soul Work (Q & A)
2011-02-12
Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness
2017-04-02
Shaping Vessels
2018-06-28
Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise)
2018-06-28
Soul Making Dharma (Q & A)
2018-02-05
Soulful Movement and Elements of the Imaginal (6 - 10)
2015-08-10
Soulmaking (Part 1)
2015-08-10
Soulmaking (Part 2)
2018-02-06
Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A)
2008-08-12
Talk Five: Samatha, Nibbana, and the Emptiness of Perception - The Relationsh...
2008-08-11
Talk Four: Jhanas One to Four
2008-08-08
Talk One: Introduction to the Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation)
2008-08-10
Talk Three: Wise Effort and Wise Attachment
2008-08-09
Talk Two: Understanding the Heart
2016-08-03
Tending the Flame
2005-12-17
The Art of Letting Go
2016-07-28
The Art of Perception
2011-11-19
The Beauty of Desire (Part 1)
2011-11-26
The Beauty of Desire (Part 2)
2008-02-12
The Birth of a Bodhisattva
2008-10-03
The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions
2018-06-23
The Energy Body (A Little Bit of What, Why, and How)
2010-01-22
The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond)
2009-02-09
The Freedom of No-thing-ness
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1)
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2)
2016-08-01
The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3)
2016-08-01
The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A)
2015-08-11
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1)
2015-08-11
The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2)
2008-12-28
The Meaning of Refuge
2011-07-31
The Meditator as Revolutionary
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Live and Shortened Version)
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Part 1)
2016-07-29
The Movement of Devotion (Part 2)
2010-11-06
The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation
2006-11-22
The Nature of Awareness
2016-07-27
The Nature of Enchantment
2012-12-31
The Necessity of Fantasy
2012-11-01
The Place of Calm
2005-12-29
The Place of Love in Insight Meditation
2008-01-29
The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice
2007-02-01
The Practice of Compassion
2017-03-26
The Problem of Desire
2010-11-12
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1)
2010-11-20
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2)
2010-11-26
The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey)
2018-02-08
The Rhythms of Soulmaking and Elements of the Imaginal (23 - 28)
2009-09-11
The Self and Its Search for Security
2007-09-20
The Self and the World
2009-01-25
The Sense of Self
2010-01-29
The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The Self cannot be found anywhere)
2018-06-28
The Spreading of Five Wings
2010-02-13
The Subtlety of Dependent Origination
2013-11-10
The Theatre of Selves (Part One)
2013-11-24
The Theatre of Selves (Part Three)
2013-11-17
The Theatre of Selves (Part Two)
2009-02-15
The Unfabricated, The Deathless...
2010-02-15
The Union of Appearance and Emptiness
2008-10-04
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1)
2008-10-05
The Unshakeable Heart (Part 2)
2017-01-15
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1)
2017-01-16
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2)
2017-01-17
The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3)
2009-11-17
The Wisdom of Non-Duality
2017-02-11
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1)
2017-02-12
The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2)
2015-08-12
Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions
2009-09-11
Third Guided Meditation on the Space of Awareness - Only Impressions in Aware...
2009-09-11
Third Instructions on Breath Meditation
2008-08-11
Third Morning Instructions
2007-04-02
Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation
2016-08-02
This Fire, This Longing (Q & A)
2011-12-31
This Matter of Emptiness
2012-11-06
Thoughts and Images in Meditation
2010-01-23
Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy
2007-11-24
Time and the Emptiness of Time
2018-02-04
To Sense with Soul
2018-06-25
Towards the Imaginal
2018-02-05
Transformation in Soul (Q & A)
2018-06-24
Trust, Ethics, Image (Q & A)
2018-02-04
Trusting in Soulmaking (Q & A)
2009-11-02
Truthfulness and Authenticity
2009-02-03
Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of ...
2008-02-02
Using Insight To Deepen Love and Compassion
2006-12-31
Views In Practice (...They make all the difference)
2017-03-30
Visions of the Beyond
2018-06-24
Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (1)
2018-06-26
Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (2)
2011-02-13
Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca
2011-02-15
Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha
2011-02-17
Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta
2015-08-09
What is an 'Image'? (Part 1)
2015-08-09
What is an 'Image'? (Part 2)
2018-01-05
What is Awakening? (Part 1)
2018-01-06
What is Awakening? (Part 2)
2018-01-07
What is Awakening? (Part 3)
2018-01-08
What is Awakening? (Part 4)
2007-12-29
What is Insight?
2009-05-03
What is ‘Insight’?
2018-06-27
Wisdom and Desire
2017-01-28
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1)
2017-01-29
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2)
2017-01-30
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3)
2017-01-31
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4)
2017-02-01
Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 5)
2013-11-02
Wise Responses to the Hindrances
2008-09-14
Working with Anger and Aversion
2011-08-03
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five)
2011-08-02
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four)
2011-07-30
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day One)
2011-08-05
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Seven)
2011-08-04
Working With The Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Six)
2011-08-01
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three)
2011-07-31
Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two)
2007-03-31
Working with the Hindrances
2008-11-09
Working with Thought in Meditation
2008-03-07
Death
63:39
A free and honest life includes the very real awareness of death. If we can find the courage to deliberately contemplate death, to keep it in mind, this can open our life in a profound way to a nobility, urgency, purposefulness and beauty. The heart grows in compassion and moves toward the Deathless.
Gaia House
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A Work Retreat: Working And Awakening
