2016-06-13 Day 3: Morning Instructions 57:42 Download Listen Buddhas early life and awakening. Awareness of thoughts and emotions. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Walking Our Path Together: Insight Meditation with LGBTQI Community

2016-04-14 Evolving Together: Meditation and Modern Science, Talk 3 44:56 Download Listen Inspiration from Inky (the octopus). Let go of the past, future and present. Six sense doors. Relativity of sight. Resting in not knowing. Robots and dark matter. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness, Meditation and Modern Science Retreat

2016-04-05 The Truth of the Way Things Are 37:59 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2016-03-22 Bright Guardians of the World 45:07 Download Listen Hiri and Otappa are aspects of conscience that support our awakening. Reflections on the path, advice at the end of long retreat. The ethical fabric of the universe. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-15 Developing Perception that Frees 48:40 Download Listen 3 Characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha). 5 aggregates, perception as impermanent, unsubstantial and unreliable. Seeing through illusions of time and space. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-08 Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat 54:37 Download Listen Fourth foundation of mindfulness, six sense spheres, Bahiya sutta, advice on long retreats. Eat what's on your plate! Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-03-01 Diving Into Long Retreat 52:03 Download Listen Reflections on coming to a long retreat: continuity, humility, arrival, investigations, renunciation (CHAIR!). Awareness of the body in all the in between times. Rohitassa. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2016-01-28 Waking Up in Every World 51:26 Download Listen Continuing practice after retreat, taking a wide angle view to step out of self absorption and into freedom, contributing to collective liberation. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Waking up in Every World

2015-09-06 Path Of Upward Mobility 46:10 Download Listen Possibility of transforming the mind, relationship of conduct and speech in the world to our freedom Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2015-09-05 Metta Practice Day 29:26 Download Listen Description of kindness/friendliness as a state of heart/heart and guided practice Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2015-07-22 Distortions of Perception, Mind & View 51:17 Download Listen Vipallasa Sutta: Understanding perception and the ways in which we have errors in understanding of the three characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha) and asubha that keep us spinning in delusion. Doggies and empty boats. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-07-18 The Skate Park of Your Mind 46:16 Download Listen What is dharma practice, dealing with challenges to meditation, meeting life with friendliness. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-06-16 Envisioning Your Practice 39:16 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2015-05-08 Renunciation & Why We Go on Retreat 44:28 Download Listen True North Insight :  Balanced Sensitivity, Embodied Wisdom

2015-03-10 Three Instructions for Life 50:30 Download Listen The path in brief, a tour of other realms, practicing to support the erosion of racism and Islamohobia in our society Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-07 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Body 66:28 Download Listen 1st day of 5 day retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-15 Heart Practices - Cultivating Wholesome Qualities of Heart and Mind 26:59 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-02-15 Morning Instructions 62:47 Download Listen Taking refuge, remembering compassion, seeing impermanence, not self, unsatisfactoriness, (3 characteristics - anicca, anatta, dukkha) Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-02-14 Compassionate awareness, Balanced Awareness 45:37 Download Listen Reflecting on care and balance in our retreat Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight and Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-01-18 Dharma For MLK Day 44:06 Download Listen Holding our practice in a larger context of social change movements and the ongoing work for racial justice and civil rights in our society. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Clear Mind, Open Heart: Insight Meditation Weekend

2014-12-11 Thursday Morning Guided 52:16 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds 45:52 Download Listen Dharma as nature, why we practice, seeing what is unseen; opening to dukkha and the truth; retreat and social/political activism. Title is from Mexican saying from liberation movement. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-10-26 Mindfulness and Sports 56:05 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-09-30 Keep Calmly Knowing Change 38:42 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-09-06 Meditation Instructions- Day 4 - Thoughts and Preception 63:57 Download Listen Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-03 Morning Instructions 57:14 Download Listen Posture, meditation instrutions for sitting and walking Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-08-31 Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice 41:03 Download Listen Cultivating the heart - metta in different directions Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat 48:24 Download Listen Orientation to the mind and sense doors Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-07-15 Equanimity 48:10 Download Listen Afternoon Brahma Vihara practice Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-12 Summer Camp of Metta 51:08 Download Listen The place of metta in Buddhist practice. Understanding wise effort. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-11 Guided Loving Kindness-Benefactor 42:43 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2014-07-01 Training the Mind 37:41 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-06-17 The Dharma of Sports 37:24 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2014-03-02 Intro to Insight Meditation: Root Cause of Suffering 14:17 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-02 Intro to Insight Meditation: Mindfulness and Friendliness 20:10 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-11-28 Gratitude, Joy & Humility 62:03 Download Listen Thanksgiving reflections on wholesome qualities including gratitude, generosity, joy humility. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-11-25 Suffering and Kindness 53:55 Download Listen Facing the truth of Dukkha *(strain, unreliability, stress, unsatisfactoriness, suffering) and how kindness is connected. Developing a gentle continuity of awareness on retreat. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-09-22 Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought 9:29 Download Listen Dealing with criticism and staying open to creative ideas. Avoiding the traps that shut down innovation Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-22 Mindfulness and Innovation 10:46 Download Listen Intro to daylong on mindfulness and innovation Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-08-31 Morning Instructions 61:53 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Retreat

2013-07-17 Loving The Enemy 46:45 Download Listen How metta practice can help us deal with difficult situations and difficult people. Being an activist with love and courage. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-07-13 Voyage on the Ocean of Metta 47:40 Download Listen Why we practice metta: connecting to the Eightfold Path, opening insight. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Heart of Love Metta Retreat

2013-05-21 Developing Our Practice 9:20:03 Listen to tracks Show 10 Tracks with Anushka Fernandopulle, Arinna Weisman, Ayya Anandabodhi, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Carol Wilson, Jack Kornfield, James Baraz, Joseph Goldstein, Kittisaro, Thanissara Working With The Judging Mind 63:13 James Baraz Download Listen Disturbance is the Path. 44:41 Thanissara Download Listen Attending To The Immovable 62:00 Kittisaro Download Listen Four modes of progress and working with difficult emotions. 62:10 Bhante Buddharakkhita Download Listen Aspiration and Courage 62:12 Carol Wilson Download Listen Respecting the Defended Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:08 Arinna Weisman Download Listen Liberation and Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:48 Jack Kornfield Download Listen Worldly And Unworldly Feelings 62:43 Joseph Goldstein Download Listen Shifting Perspective towards Freedom 54:29 Anushka Fernandopulle Download Listen Applying the Practice 44:26 Ayya Anandabodhi Download Listen

2013-02-09 Intro to Insight, Practicing in your Life 23:01 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-02-09 Intro to Insight, Thoughts and Emotions 21:40 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-24 Love, Revolution and Idea of Self 55:45 Download Listen An exploration of how we construct identity, truth of interconnection, and the power of love. What we learn about dharma from the city, wooly mammoths, and the axial age. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-09-02 Aligning With Truth 51:23 Download Listen Description of the three characteristics of existence and living in accord with the truth of the way things are. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2012-09-01 Love For The Body 63:05 Download Listen Introduction to the heart practice of kindness (metta) guided meditation towards one's own body and Q&A Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2012-09-01 Meditation Instruction 59:00 Download Listen Guided meditation instructions on first day of weekend retreat. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2012-07-19 Catching the Right Thought Trains 55:18 Download Listen Learning how to work with thoughts and "train" the mind for the benefit of yourself and others. Based on Sutta "Two Kinds of Thought" MN19 Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-15 Refuge and Renunciation 64:52 Download Listen What is true refuge and making the practice of refuge your own. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-30 Walking as Spiritual Practice 52:06 Download Listen Encouragement about walking meditation as an important aspect of spiritual practice, life, pilgrimage and social change. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma

2012-05-25 Right Action2 - Morning Session 63:22 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Right Action 1 - Morning Session 22:45 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Right Speech and Listening 1:25:29 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-22 An Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 36:07 Download Listen Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path during the Living Dharma Study Retreat. Subsequent sessions discuss each step on the path in greater depth. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-04-03 Dying to Ideas of the Self and Practicing Resurrection 38:40 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Craving and the Arising of Self 45:02 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-12 Dharma and Technology: Mindfulness and Focus 35:20 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-01-17 Practicing the Five Recollections 44:38 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2012-01-15 Wise Mindfulness 54:29 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-08 Wise Concentration 38:19 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-01 Wise Livelihood 52:06 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2011-12-18 Wise Effort 52:10 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2011-12-11 Wise Intention 58:26 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2011-11-26 Dharma in the World 57:23 Download Listen Leaving retreat, what should we pay attention to in our life? How can we continue to cultivate our practice? Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2011-11-24 Instructional sit 35:43 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2011-11-22 Buddha's Recipe for Happiness 58:51 Download Listen There are many levels of happiness and joy available to us on the spiritual path. Here are descriptions of several levels, their relationship to each other, and how to get there. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2011-11-06 Wise Action 53:12 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2011-11-01 Occupy the Six Senses 43:03 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2011-05-12 Finding Refuge As We Leave Retreat 59:52 Download Listen Review of the 3 characteristics and 5 precepts. Exploration of faith and refuge as we leave retreat. Explanation of 'karooke' as appreciation practice. Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-03-14 Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma 68:51 Download Listen Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33 Download Listen First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-11-02 Realms of Consciousness 41:02 Download Listen Mission Dharma

2010-09-27 Dharma and Technology 68:37 Download Listen Relates the Buddhist teachings to our use of modern communication technology such as emails, texting, cell phones, etc. Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-07-08 Mindfulness & Liberation of the Body 50:27 Download Listen How to practice awareness of the body and why it is helpful. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  People of Color Meditation Retreat

2009-08-01 Metta: Digging A Good Trench In The Heart 54:49 Download Listen Explains cultivating the heart of well-wishing and other heart practices. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2009-07-23 Metta in the context of spiritual practice. 57:31 Download Listen Last talk after a week long metta retreat. Puts metta in context of other dharma teachings and mindfulness practice. Some suggestions of practicing metta in daily life. Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Metta Retreat

2009-06-17 Mindfulness: Befriending Yourself 50:58 Download Listen Description of awareness practice and its benefits, including truthfulness with yourself. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2008-08-02 Guided Meditation - Day 3 with Questions And Answers 41:51 Download Listen Reflecting on own goodness, forgiveness; benefactor, self and friend. Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2008-08-01 Top Five Weather Patterns Of Mind 58:37 Download Listen Buddha’s spiritual quest, three marks of existence and five hindrances Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2008-05-18 The Dharma of Food 52:52 Download Listen San Francisco Insight Meditation Community