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Greg Scharf's Dharma Talks
Greg Scharf
Greg Scharf has practiced with Western and Asian teachers in the Theravada tradition since 1992, and has been teaching residential retreats since 2007. His teaching emphasizes the confluence of love and wisdom on the path to liberation. If you feel drawn to donate to Greg on this website, he says, "Please consider making a donation to Dharma Seed instead - Dharma Seed needs your support!"
2017-12-26 Three Kinds of Happiness 56:42
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-12-13 Prince Five-Weapons and the Sticky-Haired Monster 45:20
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
2017-12-06 Mindfulness of Mind. 44:16
An exploration of the 3rd Establishment of Mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-11-27 Great Joy The Ox 60:02
This talk starts with a Jataka Story as an introduction to an exploration of Buddha's teaching on the law of karma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-11-08 Introduction To Compassion and Guided Meditation 55:05
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-11-06 Five Subjects For Frequent Reflection 55:56
Five Subjects For Frequent Reflection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-11-03 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 16:47
Guided Standing Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-10-30 Working With The Hinderances 58:14
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-10-26 The Suffering That Leads To The End Of Suffering. 51:24
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-10-25 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 56:07
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2
2017-09-29 20 Instructions: Reflections on the Satipatthana Sutta refrain 18:04
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-28 19 Talk: The development of equanimity 52:32
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-28 16 Instructions and guided meditation: difficult emotions 23:14
Instructions on working with difficult emotions, using an expanded version of the RAIN acronym (recognise, accept, investigate, non-identification)
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-26 12 Talk: Walking the Path 50:18
This talk uses the Noble Eightfold Path as a framework for understanding how practice unfolds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-26 09 Instructions and guided meditation: vedana or feeling-tone 23:37
Introduction of vedana or feeling-tone
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-25 07 Instructions and guided metta meditation 45:16
Instructions and guided metta meditation for an "easy being"
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-24 04 Talk: the suffering that leads to the end of suffering 45:56
An overview of the Four Noble Truths, and developing a wise relationship to suffering
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-24 01 Instructions: beginning with mindfulness of the body and the breath, then opening to sounds 22:01
Beginning meditation instructions: mindfulness of the body, breathing, and sounds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-12 Talk: karma 52:31
Karma and forgiveness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-10 Talk: equanimity 48:42
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-08 Talk: the ten parami and patience 53:30
An overview of the ten parami (perfections) with an emphasis on patience
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-09-06 The Four Noble Truths and the end of dukkha 52:37
The dukkha that leads to the end of dukkha, through the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom
2017-07-22 Stories and Poems from the Therigatha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:57
This talk looks at the lives and practice of the first Buddhist nuns through the verses in the Therigatha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-07-18 The Suffering that Leads to the End of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
An exploration of our search for happiness and contentment and the way that opening to, and developing a wise relationship with dukkha is an essential aspect of that search.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-07-16 Introduction to Metta Meditation and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:36
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

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