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Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's Dharma Talks
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia has been offering instruction in Theravada Buddhist teachings and practices since 1990. She is a student of the Western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Sumedho and Ajahn Chah, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in association with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California. She has served as resident teacher at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, taught many months at IMS's Forest Refuge, and served as a Core Faculty member at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She co-authored Older and Wiser: Classical Buddhist Teachings on Aging, Sickness, and Death and has written numerous articles for the Insight Journal of the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies.
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2018-05-29 Entering the Stream: Eradicating Self-View 42:34
This talk examines sakkāyaditthi or self-view—the subtle way that we relate to experience from the vantage point of self. Through training and insight, sakkāyaditthi is eradicated at the first stage of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-05-21 Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals —Part II 56:53
This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-05-14 Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals — Part I 51:29
This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-05-07 Entering the Stream: Overcoming Skeptical Doubt 47:30
This talk examines skeptical doubt which, through our training and practice, is overcome at the first stage of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2018-05-01 Refuge As Practice 45:47
Going for refuge mirrors the process of waking up. We settle enough to know what we are experiencing (Buddha); we learn to let things be the way are (Dhamma); and we experience directly the happiness and release that comes from skillful behavior (Sangha).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge
2017-01-30 Words of Encouragement 53:22
This talk addresses several potential difficulties in practice – attaching to ideas about mindfulness and concentration, thinking that nothing is happening in practice, feeling half here and half not, and the tendency to “do” the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-01-23 Māna: Conceit 47:18
The Buddha defines three kinds of conceit—conceit itself (māna), the inferiority complex (omāna), and arrogance (atimāna). Conceit is a player in giving rise to a sense of self and perpetuating it though ignorance. This talk offers practical guidance to help meditators see conceit and uproot it through understanding and insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-01-16 Tanhā: Craving 51:05
This talk outlines the Buddha’s teaching on the three forms of craving—craving for sensual pleasures, craving for becoming, and craving for non-becoming. Taraniya encourages the practitioner to use the retreat environment to observe craving in what may seem like minor or insignificant moments. These moments hold potential for major insights.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-01-02 Practicing for the New Year 2017 47:40
Given the conflicts, wars, and divisiveness over the past year, many people ask, “How do we practice with all of this?” Taraniya offers reflections on opening to difficulty, making practical adjustments in our lives to support inner balance, and increasing our capacity to manage mindstates through understanding and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-01-26 Self-view and the Fourth Satipatthana 58:57
Here we look at fourth satipatthana and its specific instructions on what to see and how to see it—the five hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of awakening, and the four noble truths—with an eye to realizing how this practice helps us overcome self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-01-19 Rethinking How We Get Free 52:06
This talk examines popular strategies for behavior change such as willing ourselves into compliance and analyzing our history. And it contrasts these "old ways" with the strategies of Buddhist practices.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-01-12 Deconstructing the Layers of Self-View 57:43
This talk includes real practice stories about working with the hindrances and seeing how we deconstruct the layers of self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2015-01-05 Classical Teaching on Non-Self 51:40
The Buddha never denied or affirmed the existence of a self. He merely noted that when we relate to the body, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness with attachment, we suffer. Non-identification with the body and mind frees us.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-12-30 New Year 2015 47:28
Making full use of perception of the new year to skillfully look back to where we have been and forward to where we are going. .. and at the same time, collapsing time to the present moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-12-23 Perception: Ideas, Views, Biases 54:32
This talk looks at how we tend to form views based on likes and dislikes... and how we extend our views to form value laden statements about the world, the people in it and even ourselves. We move away from the direct experience into a world of fabrication and delusion. Our ideas become more real than the experience they represent.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-12-16 Perception: Naming, Associating and Relating 47:20
This talk examines how the mind names or assigns qualities or characteristics to the things we contact. How it relates and draws associations to similar things we have known...and what it is like to attach to that.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-12-09 Perception: Remembering the Past 49:07
What goes on in the mind when we remember things we have sensed, felt or thought in the past. It is through this activity of perception, and our attachment to it, that we have a very real sense of the past.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-12-02 Perception: Getting a Fix on What is Happening 52:14
Perception is the function or activity of the mind through which we receive, sort and interpret sensory date. While it serves a very useful purpose... much of this activity is both unconscious and distorted. It is in our interest to see it meditatively and learn to relate to it skillfully.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2014-09-29 Refuge in the Buddha 53:10
This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Buddha for refuge. The classical refuge in the Buddha involves refuge in the historic Buddha, while the subtle refuge occurs whenever we rest in the simple knowing of experience.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 4 (ISPP4)
2014-09-30 Refuge in Dhamma 54:59
This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Dhamma for refuge. The classical refuge in Dhamma involves refuge in the teachings of the Buddha as set forth in the Pāli Canon. The subtle refuge involves taking refuge in things as they really are … understanding the subtle truths underlying all experience.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 4 (ISPP4)
2014-10-01 Refuge in Sangha 46:22
This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Sangha for refuge. The classical refuge in Sangha involves going forth into monastic life and/or turning to elders for guidance along the way. The subtle refuge involves knowing directly the happiness that comes from keeping impeccable silā.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 4 (ISPP4)
2014-06-02 Right Understanding and Right Intention 52:54
This talk examines the classical teaching on the wisdom section of the eightfold path—right understanding/view and right intention/attitude.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)
2014-06-03 Contemplating Impermanence 53:07
Opening to the uncertainty of life and learning to stop expecting things to be any way other than the way they are.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)
2014-06-04 Nuns' Tea and the First Noble Truth 39:40
Using a simple example of stress in every day life, this talk examines the Buddha’s teaching on the first noble truth – particularly, “having to associate with things we don’t like, be separated from things we like, and not get what we want.” It considers the insights that accompany opening to this truth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)
2014-06-05 The Threefold Bliss 50:18
The talk explores worldly or human happiness, celestial or heavenly happiness and transcendent happiness or Nibbana.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)

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