James Baraz's Dharma Talks
James Baraz
I try to convey that the wisdom and compassion we are looking for is already inside of us. I see practice as learning how to purify our mind and heart so we can hear the Buddha inside. In doing so, we naturally embody the dharma and help awaken that understanding and love in others we meet.
I try to use the formal teachings as a doorway for people to see the truth in themselves. I feel I'm doing my job when people look into themselves to come to their own deep understandings of the truth, access their own inner wisdom and trust in their "Buddha-knowing," as Ajahn Chah called it, which is different from their intellectual knowing.
The Buddha-knowing is a deeper place, underneath the concepts, which is in touch with the truth, with our seed of awakening. I want practitioners to have more and more confidence in, and familiarity with, that deeper place of knowing. It is accessing this dimension of our being that becomes the guide to cutting through the confusion caused by greed and fear. We have everything we need inside ourselves. We do not need to look to a teacher when we remember who we really are.
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2017-05-18
"Courage: An Essential Quality of Practice"
2009-04-09
“Am I Good Enough?”
2018-08-23
'The Dharma and Nature'
2016-08-25
"A Box Full of Darkness"
2014-10-09
"A Moment of Freedom: Interrupting Negative Thoughts."
2018-05-03
"A New Dawn for the Dharma"
2016-09-08
"All It Takes Is a Moment"
2015-09-17
"Anchoring Our Wisdom: Embodied Awareness"
2017-05-25
"Appreciating our Benefactors"
2014-09-25
"Behind is Just a State of Mind"
2017-01-19
"Being a Sacred Warrior in These Tough Times"
2018-02-01
"Belonging" --- (James was on retreat this day but invited two guests speake…
2007-07-19
"Calling All Bodhisattvas"
2018-09-13
"Changing Hearts and Minds"
2020-10-08
"Choosing Earth" with Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin
2018-04-19
"Clear Comprehension Part 1"
2018-05-10
"Clear Comprehension Part 2"
2017-03-02
"Connecting With the Enemy"
2020-09-17
"Contributing Effectively in Times of Crisis" Part 1
2020-09-24
"Contributing Effectively in Times of Crisis" Part 2
2018-10-11
"Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times"
2016-11-17
"Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times"
2014-06-19
"Finding What Your Looking For"
2018-03-02
"Getting Perspective On Our Perspective"
2014-11-20
"Grace Disguised as Obstacle"
2015-11-19
"Gratitude"
2017-08-17
"Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred"
2017-09-03
"Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred" (Retreat Version) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-22
"How Liberating to See Clearly--
How Humbling to Still Get Caught."
2015-10-22
"I Didn't Know I Had It In Me: A Talk on Courage"
2014-10-23
"I Just Can't Decide!" - Wise Discernment in Daily Life
2016-03-03
"Intensive Practice: Benefits and How It Works"
2018-05-17
"It's All in Your Mind"
2009-01-29
"Letting In The Love"
2015-12-03
"Letting Your Heart Break."
2016-06-23
"Light brings out the darkness. Darkness brings out the light."
2015-10-01
"Loving the Earth"
2015-06-18
"Nice Guys Sometimes Finish First: Barbara Weiss, Steve Kerr and Pope Francis"
2017-09-07
"Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times"
2018-03-22
"Personal and Collective Karma"
2018-10-01
"Playground of the Mind: Exploring Bhikkhu Analayo's Brahma Vihara and Emptines…
2015-08-20
"Refinement of Mind, Part 1"
2017-12-28
"Reflections of the Past ---- Facing the Future"
2010-01-07
"Refuge in the Sangha"
2018-04-12
"Remembering What We Know"
2016-03-24
"Sacred Activism Part. 2: We Don't Know What We Don't Know"
2016-03-31
"Sacred Activism Part. 3: Working with Anger and Frustration" often natural res…
2016-10-20
"Schadenfreude: Working with Your less than Noble Thoughts"
2015-06-25
"Seeing the Big Picture"
2018-01-25
"Struggling is Extra"
2016-11-03
"The Big Shift: Learning to Open to Experience"
2016-03-10
"The Brightness of Awareness: An Evening with Catherine Ingram"
2018-03-08
"The Buddha’s Words on How to Skillfully Give Feedback."
2015-03-26
"The Choice Is Ours"
2016-09-29
"The Four Faults of Natural Awareness"
2016-09-22
"The Issue of Othering"
2017-11-16
"The Multiplication of Courage"
2015-01-29
"The Payoff in Suffering"
2016-12-08
"The Power of Equanimity"
2017-03-30
"The Problem With Being a Good Meditator"
2016-08-18
"The Tall Poppy and the Shrinking Violet"
2018-06-07
"The Teachings of Ajahn Chah"
2018-10-04
"The Third Precept: Trauma, Respect and Cultural Wake Up"
2017-03-09
"This Fleeting World"
2018-01-04
"Three Principles for Living a Good Life"
2016-01-07
"Turning Ghosts into Ancestors" Guest tonight: Joe Bobrow.
2018-04-26
"Voter Registration as Engaged Dharma Practice"
2017-11-09
"We are all Connected: Interconnectedness Within and Between Us"
2017-01-26
"What Are You Going To Do Now?"
2015-03-05
"What Do They Really Think About Me"
2024-10-17
"What, Me Worry?"
2016-05-26
"Who Are You Anyway - Attachment to Identity"
2018-02-22
“Facing the Unacceptable Without Burning Out”
(James was on retr…
2018-06-28
“Letting Go, Cessation and the Third Noble Truth”
(James was on retreat this d…
2015-12-10
“Mainlining Goodness”
2016-06-02
“Taking the Focus Off ME“
2015-12-17
“Tenderizing the Heart”
2015-03-12
“What Lineage Will You Choose?” or "Choose Your Lineage"
2011-03-17
1. Mindfulness (sati)
2013-04-18
1st Part: Working with our Habits, 2nd Part: Boston Marathon Bombings
2011-03-24
2. Interest/investigation (dhamma vicaya)
2015-10-24
2015-10-24 The Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thupten
2010-05-10
3 Principles of Awakening Joy
2011-03-31
3. Energy/effort (viriya)
2011-04-07
4. Joy/rapture (piti)
2022-06-09
5 Methods to Work with Troublesome Thoughts:
MN #20: Vitakkasanthana Sutta
2018-01-28
5 Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-05-21
5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-04-14
5. Calm/tranquility (passaddhi)
2011-04-21
6. Concentration (samadhi)
2011-04-28
7. Equanimity (upekkha)
2010-03-18
A Life Well Lived
2019-09-12
A Lineage of Goodness: Ode to Benefactors
2009-02-10
A Meditative Instruction: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2000-02-25
A Path With Heart
2012-10-18
A Simple Twist of Fate
2013-09-12
A Star at Dawn: A Buddhist Perspective on Loss
2020-10-29
A Time For Equanimity
2012-12-20
A Time For Healing
2019-03-28
A Unified Theory of Well-Being
2010-02-15
Abundant Enoughness: The Practice of Contentment
2021-07-15
Accessing Your Triggers for Insight
2020-11-12
Across the Great Divide: What the Dharma Can Offer for Healing Our Country
2001-07-18
After the Honeymoon, the Marriage
2001-07-18
After The Honeymoon, The Marriage: Plateaus In Practice
2013-02-08
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Instructions
2013-02-25
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Mudita for All Beings
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 1
2013-02-22
Afternoon Brahma Vihara Practice - Part 2
2016-06-09
Ajahn Chandako from Austraila with James
2005-09-05
Aligning Our Life With The Dharma
2021-10-28
Am I Enough?
2012-01-26
Amazing Grace
2022-06-16
Amazing Grace:
Why Do Some People Turn Their Suffering into Compassion While O…
2019-05-09
An Evening with Stephen Fulder, Founder of the Israeli Dharma Community
2013-02-04
An Ode to Mindfulness
2025-08-21
Anapanasati: The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing
2008-11-20
Anapanasti
2021-01-28
Anatta and Self-Forgiveness
2000-11-21
Angulimala Sutta
2025-05-15
Anguttara Nikaya 1.483
2015-01-15
Anything Can Happen At Any Time
2012-03-29
Anything can happen at any time.
2022-10-20
Anything Can Happen at Anytime:
Holding Loss with a Tender Heart
2021-09-16
Anything Can Happen at Anytime: Working with Uncertainty
2020-07-03
Applying Early Buddhist Perspective to Contemporary Issues
1999-11-01
Appreciation As A Source Of Happiness
2012-06-14
Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point
2012-06-14
Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point: Concern for the Planet as Dharma Pra…
2011-06-02
Atammayatta: The Last Word and Final Sword of Buddhism
2006-09-26
Awakening Joy
2010-02-19
Awakening Joy
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy
2010-03-03
Awakening Joy
2010-07-20
Awakening Joy and Mudita
2022-05-28
Awakening Joy as a Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-01-30
Awakening Joy Daylong PM Session
2016-09-15
Awakening Joy for Kids: Bringing the Dharma to the Next Generation
2016-01-12
Awakening Joy in Practice as a Path of Happioness
2018-07-18
Awakening Joy part 1
2018-07-19
Awakening joy part 2
2010-01-28
Awakening Joy, the book.
2011-10-05
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2011-09-30
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 1
2011-10-06
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 2
2024-09-12
Awakening Joy: Inclining the Mind toward Well-Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-06-11
Awakening Joy: Last Seven Wholesome States to Cultivate Joy
2022-02-11
Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat …
2011-09-04
Awakening Joy: The Buddhist Path to Happiness
2010-02-07
Awakening to Joy
2004-02-20
Awakening To Joy - part 1
2004-02-25
Awakening To Joy - part 2
2013-09-14
Awareness as Basis of Connection to Self and Others
2025-05-22
Awareness Doesn't Care: Mindfulness, the Equal Opportunity Liberator
1992-04-09
Balance
1984-08-01
Balance And Patience
1994-04-16
Balance Of Effort
1998-11-25
Balance Of Effort
2011-12-01
Balancing Contentment With Aliveness
2009-01-22
Barack Obama's Inauguration In The Context Of Dharma Practice
2012-04-19
Be the Awareness
2024-12-12
Befriending Eternity: 49 Days in Darkness
2024-12-23
Befriending Eternity: 49 Days in Darkness by Adam Baraz
2021-03-28
Befriending Ourselves Daylong
2009-08-27
Being the Awareness
2016-01-19
Being Your Own Authority
2017-06-15
Benefactors: Part 2, Helping Others Shine.
2015-03-19
Berkeley Community's Own New Green Committee
2008-06-23
Beyond Belief
2023-08-31
Beyond the Comparing Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2006-09-09
Beyond The Judging Mind
2018-07-19
Big Mind
2023-02-13
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-02-19
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-06-19
Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-07-31
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 1: Benefits Of Bodhicitta
2008-08-07
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 2: Preparing The Ground
2008-08-14
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 3: What Are We Committing To?
2008-08-28
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 4: Using Our Intelligence
2008-09-04
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #5: Not Causing Harm, Gathering Virtue, And Benefitin…
2008-09-11
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #6: Working With Anger
2008-09-18
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #7: Enthusiasm, Zeal Or Heroic Perseverance
2008-10-23
Bodhisattva's Way Of Life #9: Dedication Of Merit
2002-10-02
Body of Fear Mind of Wisdom
1996-11-14
Bothicitti
2015-02-06
Brahma Vihara Day #6: Forgiveness
2015-02-20
Brahma Vihara Day 20
2021-02-11
Brahma Vihara: Equanimity
1989-11-27
Brahma Viharas
2013-02-12
Brahma Viharas - Forgivness
2015-02-15
Brahma Viharas Day 15
2010-04-29
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 1
2010-05-06
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 2
2010-05-13
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 3
2010-05-20
Breaking the Chains of Craving: Part 4, with guest Kevin Griffin.
2025-12-14
Breath and Body with an Emphasis on Impermanence (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-07-22
Bringing Metta into the World
2011-04-18
Bringing Practice Into Daily Life
2014-07-17
Bringing Your Metta Practice into the World
2014-08-31
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2015-09-06
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2015-10-15
Bringing Your Practice into the World
2019-09-01
Bringing Your Practice Into The World (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-11-01
Buddha Dharma as a Path of Happiness
1995-04-22
Buddha's Advice On Working With Thoughts
2009-09-06
Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness
2008-03-13
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 1: Intention
2008-05-22
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 10: The Ease Of Being
2008-03-20
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness
2008-03-27
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 3: Opening To Suffering
2008-04-10
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 4: Gratitude
2008-04-24
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 6: Letting Go
2008-05-01
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 7: Lovingkindness Toward Ourselves
2008-05-07
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 8: How Compassion Awakens Joy (inclu…
2008-05-15
Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 9: The Mystery Of Connection
2007-11-29
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Buddhadasa
2007-11-01
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Chah
2008-02-07
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Dhammadharo
2008-02-14
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Jumnien
2007-12-13
Buddhist Master Series: Ajahn Naeb
2007-11-08
Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing
2008-01-24
Buddhist Master Series: Mogok Sayadaw
2007-11-15
Buddhist Master Series: Sunlun Sayadaw
2008-01-10
Buddhist Master Series: Taungpulu Sayadaw
2008-01-31
Buddhist Master Series: U Ba Khin
2020-04-16
Calling All Bodhisattvas
2022-03-17
Calming the Anxious Mind: Skillful Practices for Anxiety
2012-11-15
Cast Aside the Costume
2015-06-04
Castles Made of Sand
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 2 of 4
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: Talk 4 of 4
2017-04-20
Celebrating Earth Day: Calling All Eco-Sattvas
2022-12-22
Celebrating Solstice: Honoring the Duality of Light in the Midst of Darkness
2008-11-06
Change
2013-05-09
Change is Possible
2014-12-18
Change Is Possible
2023-11-17
Changing the Channel - Letting in the Good
2014-12-07
Chanting and close of evening
2020-10-15
Choosing Earth Pt. 1 with Duane Elgin and Friends
2009-10-01
Cleaning Our Slate
1989-12-01
Clear Comprehension
2022-04-07
Clear Comprehension: The Buddha's Teaching on Four Different Elements of Practi…
2002-02-16
Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice
2023-09-04
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-09-13
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2000-11-30
Closing Talk
2015-10-04
Closing the Day
1996-11-07
Commitment In Practice
2013-03-21
Community Sharing: Questions and Answers
2012-02-13
Comparing Mind
2002-03-04
Comparing Mind
2018-05-26
Compassion - Full Expression of a Joyful Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-05-25
Compassion - Why and How
2024-02-22
Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-09-23
Compassion is a verb
2013-09-28
Compassion, Equanimity and the Joy of Simply Being
2009-04-16
Confidence
2022-11-17
Confidence and Humility: It's Not about Me
2016-12-03
Connecting Mind and Heart: Awakening Joy
2017-03-16
Conscientious Compassion: An Engaged Dharmic Response to Forces of Greed and Ha…
2009-06-25
Contentment
2013-03-02
Contentment
2012-02-27
Contentment
2014-02-17
Contentment
2011-10-20
Contentment: The Peace of Not Wanting What You Don’t Have
1984-08-01
Course Closing
2020-05-21
Creating a Life of Integrity: In Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
1991-12-03
Creating Your Reality
2011-12-15
Cultivating a Bodhisattva Heart
2019-11-03
Cultivating Courage: Fearlessly Standing in Truth
2025-12-15
Cultivating Mudita (Sympathetic Joy) (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2001-05-26
Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas
2013-02-18
Cultivating Wholesome States - Part 2
2013-02-11
Cultivating Wholesome States, Part 1
1993-03-25
Curiosity
2023-10-19
Current Crisis in Israel and Gaza
2018-03-29
Dalits Buddhist in India
(formerly Untouchable Caste)
1985-04-19
Dana, Sila, Bhavana
2018-05-22
Day 1 Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-30
Day 1: Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-28
Day 1: Morning Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-06
Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2019-02-14
Day 12 - Brahma Vihara Practice - Metta for Difficult Persons (part 2) & All Be…
2019-02-14
Day 12 - Morning Sit with Instructions - Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-12
Day 13 Morning Instructions: Cultivating the Wholesome
2018-02-09
Day 13: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2020-02-16
Day 15 Morning Instructions: Big Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-11
Day 15: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-16
Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Compassion: Neutral and difficult person
2016-02-18
Day 19: Morning Instructional Sit: Breath Concentration
2018-02-15
Day 19: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2017-11-29
Day 2 - Morning Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-04
Day 2 Morning Sit w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-01
Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-29
Day 2: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-02-21
Day 20 Afternoon Instructions: Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-23
Day 23 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity: Benefactor and Dear Friend
2018-02-19
Day 23: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit R…
2019-02-26
Day 24 Brahma Vihara Practice: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-22
Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions
2017-09-02
Day 3 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-20
Day 3 Sitting/Instructions
2017-11-04
Day 3: Guided Meditation Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-01
Day 3: Morning Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-03
Day 4 Brahma Vihara Instructions: Metta for Self and Benefactor
2019-06-07
Day 4 Experiential Practice: Forgiveness - Pathway to an Open Heart (Retreat at…
2017-12-01
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-03
Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-25
Day 4: Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-25
Day 4: Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-26
Day 5 Talk/Experiential Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-07
Day 5: Brahma Vihara Guided Meditation - Forgiveness Practice (Retreat at Spir…
2016-02-07
Day 8 Morning Instructional Sit: Vedana
2020-02-09
Day 8 Morning Instructions: Choiceless Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-02-11
Day 9 - Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-08
Day 9 Brahma Viharas: Dear Friend
2018-02-05
Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-02-07
Day Six Afternoon Instructions: Brahma Viharas - Forgiveness & Metta for Self (…
2020-02-04
Day Three Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-04-08
Death and Dying
2015-02-27
Deepening & Expressing Our Practice
2013-05-21
Developing Our Practice
1992-06-11
Devotion
2014-05-29
Devotion in Dharma Practice
2014-06-05
Devotion in Dharma Practice, Part 2
2023-02-23
Devotion in Practice
2024-02-21
Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-09-28
Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-12-07
Devotional Practice
2012-02-16
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-02-11
Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2017-02-10
Dharma Practice as a Path to Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2014-06-15
Dharma Q&A
2019-08-08
Dharmas Without Blame
2025-04-29
Dharmettes & Q&A - James Baraz, Kerstin Deibert and Jean Leonard Cultivating a …
2018-07-18
Different Approaches to Taking in the Moment
2021-07-29
Different Lenses, Different Realities
2018-03-10
Discovering the Buddha Within
2014-05-22
Discussing some of the provocative articles from the current Inquiring Mind iss…
2014-05-15
Discussing some of the provocative articles from the current issue of the Inqui…
2011-01-17
Discussion with Mirka Knaster, author of "Living This Life Fully: Stories And T…
2021-06-03
Divisiveness in the Buddha's Community: The Quarrel at Kosambi
1993-07-30
Doing And Being
2025-09-04
Don't Know Mind - Letting Go of Conclusions
2025-03-13
Don't Know Mind: Letting Go of Conclusions
2020-02-16
Dukkha as a Path to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-01-16
Earth As Witness: International Dharma Teachers' Statement on Climate Change
2010-04-22
Earth Day: 40th Anniversary
2019-06-20
Eco Dharma
2017-02-20
Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-03-25
Elders (including his Mom)
2014-10-18
Emaho! How amazing! Wonder and Awe
2013-09-05
Emaho!: How Amazing
2025-12-16
Embodying Equanimity: Implications and Applications in Daily Life (Retreat at S…
2011-05-19
Embodying Passion Through Expression
2013-01-03
Embracing Change
2012-01-19
Embracing Resistance
2009-01-08
Emotional Awareness
2012-11-08
Empathy: The Key that Unlocks the Heart
2021-10-07
Emptiness and the Big Perspective
2017-05-04
Emptiness is Everything
2023-12-28
End of Year Reflection:
Honoring this Moment Together
2018-12-27
End of Year Reflection!
2022-12-29
Endings and Beginnings:
A Ritual for the New Year
2011-01-13
Enlightenment Part 1.
2011-01-20
Enlightenment Part 2.
2011-01-27
Enlightenment Part 3
2011-02-03
Enlightenment Part 4
2022-02-18
Equanimity
2013-05-18
Equanimity with Things As They Are
2022-01-20
Equanimity with Uncertainty: Finding Balance in Difficult Times
2017-02-16
Equanimity: Bringing Balance to our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-24
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice
2021-06-11
Everything is held in Awareness
2020-06-04
Exploring Racial Injustice and White Privilege
1992-04-24
Expressing The Dharma
2012-03-22
Facing in the right direction
2013-08-08
Facing in the Right Direction
2013-03-28
Facing in the Right Direction
2013-05-23
Faith
2009-06-05
Faith and Confidence
2008-06-09
Faith And Devotion
2009-02-20
Faith In The Dharma
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
2002-03-05
Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice
1993-09-05
Fear As Practice
2012-02-20
Fear as Practice
1984-09-01
Fear As Practice
2023-02-16
Fear as Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-04-17
Fear or Love: We Have a Choice
1985-08-30
Feminine Aspects Of Practice
2016-10-06
Finding Freedom Through Grief
2020-04-17
Finding Refuge
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
2001-10-24
Finding Refuge in Trust
2020-04-28
Finding Your Center (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-04-29
Five Dharma principles that are needed for our shift of consciousness
1997-04-08
Five Hindrances
2018-07-15
Five Spiritual Faculties
2019-02-03
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-08-29
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2020-02-03
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-09-01
Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2005-04-22
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2007-02-08
Five Spiritual Faculties: How Awakening Happens
2017-01-30
Five Spiritual Faculties: Understanding how Intensive Practice Works (Retreat a…
1984-09-01
Flavors Of Experience
2023-11-09
Fnding Refuge - Skillfully holding it all
2013-08-22
Follow Your Heartbreak
2025-04-28
Following the Spiral-Going Forth - Cultivating a Joyful Resilient Heart
2025-12-04
For Goodness Sake:
Consciously Cultivating the Wholesome
1983-06-09
Forgiveness
1984-08-01
Forgiveness
2007-07-16
Forgiveness
2014-06-12
Forgiveness
2014-07-12
Forgiveness
2021-02-05
Forgiveness
2016-12-02
Forgiveness Practice
2009-09-28
Forgiveness; Cleaning Your Slate
2005-07-11
Forgiveness: The Doorway To An Open Heart
2021-05-13
Forgiving the Unforgivable: Angulimala Sutta (MN #86)
1990-08-02
Form and Space
1993-03-06
Foundations Of Practice
1994-04-07
Four Noble Truths
2015-05-14
Freedom From Worry
2020-05-22
Friday Morning Dharmette and Instruction (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-11-10
From Cynicism to Love
2022-10-06
From Heartbreak to Compassionate Action
2013-04-20
From Me to We
2017-11-06
From Me to We:
How Inter-Connectedness Manifests Intra-personally, Interperso…
1999-12-15
Generosity As A Source Of Happiness
2008-12-03
Getting Unhooked
2012-03-01
Gifts of Practice
2005-02-12
Gladness Of The Wholesome - Awakening Joy
2019-02-09
Gladness of the Wholesome ( Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-12-29
Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017: Reflecting on What We've Learned and Where We're Head…
2014-07-16
Gratitude
2021-02-25
Gratitude
2022-04-21
Gratitude for Our Home: Celebrating Earth Day
2025-04-17
Gratitude Practice: "It Would Have Been Enough"
2024-03-21
Great Female Disciples of the Buddha
2020-12-10
Gregory Kramer on his book “A Whole Life Path" a fresh exploration of the 8-Fo…
2024-03-07
Groundlessness: A Doorway to Liberation
1985-04-15
Growth Through Experience
2022-02-04
Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-02-10
Guided Instructions: Incorporating Awareness as a Meditation Object (including …
2014-06-15
Guided Meditation
2019-03-28
Guided Meditation
2017-10-17
Guided Meditation - First Breath, Last Breath
2018-07-17
Guided Meditation - Looking Through Different Lenses
2019-03-07
Guided meditation and honoring Hime Levine
2017-09-23
Guided Meditation on Refinement of Mindfulness on the Breath
2021-02-04
Guided Meditation on Refinement of the Breath
1985-09-02
Guided Metta Meditation
2018-07-15
Guided Metta Meditation
2013-04-29
Guided Metta Meditation and Question/Response
2022-02-21
Guided sit with brama vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2006-02-08
Happiness - part 1: Wise Effort And Wholesome States
2006-02-14
Happiness - part 2: Opening To Suffering As Well As To Joy
2006-02-22
Happiness - part 3: Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-02-27
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
2006-07-19
Happiness - part 4: Letting Go
1991-02-09
Happiness And Joy
2008-06-28
Happiness: Not Forgetting The Gladness Of Heart In Practice
2008-06-28
Happiness: Not Forgetting The Gladness Of Heart In Practice
2016-05-21
Heart Practices for Awakening Joy
2009-10-15
Heaven or Hell: The Choice is yours.
2020-09-10
Holding a Positive Vision
2020-10-01
Holding a Positive Vision: Part 3
2019-10-03
Holding Grief Through Connection
2019-10-17
Holding Grief Through Connection
2021-02-03
Holding the Judging Mind with Compassion
2021-03-18
Honeyball Sutta: The Buddha's Teaching on Papanća
2019-12-26
Honoring Ram Dass and End of Year Reflections
2020-07-10
How Not to Be a Hot Mess
1999-09-02
How Suffering Can Lead To Faith
2015-09-03
How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
2022-01-31
How The Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
2010-06-24
How to get what you want...and not get what you don't want.
2010-09-16
How We Hold Ourselves with Others
2012-05-17
How Wonderful to See Defilements in the Mind: Practicing with U Tejaniya
2011-02-10
Humility and Confidence
2019-03-21
Humility and Confidence
2008-03-06
I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out!
2001-09-19
In Response to September 11
2004-02-15
Inclining Our Mind Towards Freedom: The Power Of Intention
2022-05-29
Including body sensations and sounds in the field of awareness. (Retreat at Spi…
2021-06-09
Including sensations, sounds and other objects in the field of awareness
2010-07-01
Independence Day: True Independence and Its Wider implications
2014-06-13
Inner Harmony, Outer Contribution
2017-03-26
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-26
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-25
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-24
Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our C…
2017-03-24
Inspired by Changes: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our …
2024-06-13
Inspiring Motivation for Practice:
The Four Mind Changers
2025-10-30
Instructions from My Teachers
2024-06-17
Instructions Including Breath, Body Sensations and Sounds (Retreat at Spirit Ro…
2024-09-12
Instructions: Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-06-02
Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2000-05-22
Intention
2016-05-18
Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy
2017-05-31
Intention and Mindfulness as the Basis for Awakening Joy (Retreat at Spirit Ro…
2021-02-11
Intention from the Heart
1986-09-07
Interest
1986-09-07
Interest
2009-03-19
Interested Awareness
2019-05-02
Internally & Externally - Holding It All
2009-08-10
Intersecting Realities
2009-08-06
Intersecting realities
1998-06-26
Intimate Relationship As Spiritual Practice
2024-06-20
Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Co…
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-03-14
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke
2015-10-04
Introduction to A Day of Connectoin
2017-09-15
Introduction To Metta Practice - Self and Benefactor
2025-08-29
Intrusctions: Opening to the Breath, Body and Physical Realm of Experience (Ret…
1993-04-01
Investigation Of Truth
2013-10-24
Is There a Place for God in Buddhist Practice?
2012-04-12
It's Already Here
2022-10-13
It's Never Too Late: Responding Wisely with Unskillful Habits
1993-04-06
It's Okay (Equanimity)
2012-07-10
It's Really Possible!
2018-09-29
James Baraz and Adam Baraz - Embodying Presence: Relaxing the Body into Being
2016-05-12
James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe
2008-12-18
James' Son, Adam's, First Dharma Talk
2019-12-05
Just Another Ego Trip
2015-05-28
Just Like Me
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 1 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 2 of 3
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop: Part 3 of 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 1
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 2
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 3
2013-06-16
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day with James Baraz, June 16, 2013, part 4
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2014-03-09
Kalyana Mitta Half-Day workshop with James Baraz and Elad Levinson
2012-07-05
Karma and Sila as Gaia Practices
2020-08-06
Keep Out the Hate, Let in the Love
2024-11-07
Keeping the Heart Open in Uncertain Times
2020-08-27
Keeping Your Heart Open
2009-03-26
Kind Awareness
2013-08-01
Kindness
2018-05-24
Learning to Love Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2001-01-01
Learning To Love Yourself: A Bodhisattva Act
2009-01-12
Learning To Open To Experience
1999-01-01
Learning To Ride The Roller Coaster: Dealing With The Unexpected
2001-10-27
Letting Go Of Knowing
2020-11-05
Letting Go of Knowing
2021-10-14
Letting Go of Knowing: Loving The Mystery:
2012-03-08
Letting Go of Spiritual Views
2021-11-11
Letting Your Heartbreak Open to Active Hope
2011-07-14
Life Coming Together As You
2024-09-26
Like an Instrument with Sarah Marie Hopf
2014-01-09
Like Minded Friendship
2025-09-18
Longing for the Sacred
2017-12-07
Looking At Your Life Through a Dharma Lens
2000-03-23
Losing It: How Being Humbled Can Lead To True Humility
2020-05-09
Loss, Grief and Death: Impermanence in Pandemic Times
2024-09-19
Love Serve Remember
2016-12-01
Love, Serve, Remember = Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2018-06-14
Loving Goodness
2013-05-15
Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older
2024-04-18
Loving the Earth through Joyful Connection
2022-02-05
Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2025-08-30
Loving the Whole Package: Self-Compassion and Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit…
2016-06-11
Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thubten
2008-11-13
Making A Difference Together: Deepening Sangha Bonds
2016-11-29
Making Friends with Ourselves: Working with Judging Mind
2016-02-06
Making Friends with the Judging Mind
2022-04-14
Maranasati: Practice with Death and Dying
2012-05-31
Melting into Love
2018-08-31
Metta
2022-05-30
Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-10-13
Metta For the Difficult
2016-11-29
Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor
2022-09-03
Metta Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-07-19
Metta Instructions: The Neutral Person
2016-09-03
Metta Practice - Self and Dear Friend
2018-07-19
Metta to all
2014-10-19
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 3
2016-09-01
Mindfulness with Attitude
2018-07-16
Morning Instructions
2018-07-17
Morning Instructions
2014-02-02
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2014-02-08
Morning Instructions - Day 7
2017-09-17
Morning Instructions - Shifting the focus of attention
2024-09-10
Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-02-12
Morning Instructions #12
2015-02-06
Morning Instructions Day #6
2015-02-01
Morning Instructions Day 1
2014-02-13
Morning Instructions Day 12
2013-02-05
Morning Instructions, Day 2
2013-02-12
Morning Instructions, Day 9
2014-02-16
Morning Instructions: Day 15
2022-02-01
Morning instructions: Focusing and unifying the mind
2022-09-02
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-08-31
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-09-01
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-01-12
Motivation from the Heart: The Place of Devotion in our Practice
2011-07-19
Mudita
2022-02-15
Mudita Practice
2023-02-17
Mudita Practice
2025-10-09
Navigating the Truth of Suffering
2021-12-30
New Year's Gathering: Letting Go and Moving On
2016-01-05
No Comparisons - Working with The Judging Mind
2012-10-04
No Credit, No Blame.
2014-10-18
No Doing
2012-09-27
No Place to Land
2019-09-19
No Time to Play Small: Acting with Courage, Wisdom and Love
2019-02-23
Non Greed, Non Hatred, Non Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1996-04-18
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion
1995-12-01
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2001-11-28
Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion
2021-05-27
Not Seeing Dukkha is Dukkha
1996-12-06
Nourishing Healthy Seeds: Compassion, Mudita And Equanimity
2012-06-23
Obstacles to Connecting in Relationships
2024-01-18
On Having No Head: A Simple, Effective Anatta Practice
2009-07-16
On Metta
2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
2014-12-03
Opening (with Jill) - Basic Attitudes for Intensive Retreat Practice
2018-07-15
Opening Instructions
2016-05-17
Opening Night Talk
2023-08-30
Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2002-02-19
Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor
2017-02-05
Opening to Experience: How and When (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-09-26
Opening to Suffering as a Path to Happiness
2016-05-20
Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness
2009-03-05
Opening to the Heart's Tender Spot
2011-03-02
Opening to the Moment
2024-02-04
Opening to the Whole Show (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-02-09
Our Greatest Protection
2025-01-16
Our Greatest Protection
2011-03-10
Overview of the 7 Factors of Awakening
2003-02-19
Passion For Practice
1999-03-09
Passion for Practice
2013-12-26
Past, Present and Future: The start of a new year.
2012-12-27
Past, Present and Future.
2004-12-27
Past, Present, Future: A Journey Through Time
1995-04-16
Path Of Purification
2010-09-09
Personal and Global Responsibility
1990-09-02
Personalizing The Dharma
2016-02-17
Planting Seeds of Happiness: Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion
1998-11-21
Power of Intention
2017-06-01
Practical Tips on Opening Up to Suffering and Exploring Generosity (Retreat at …
1985-04-11
Practice & Skillful Action
2009-02-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness
2015-02-11
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2015-10-12
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2016-09-04
Practice as a Path of Happiness
2017-10-03
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2
2017-10-16
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 3
2017-10-22
Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 4
2020-02-09
Practice as a Path of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-04-26
Practice As A Path To Happiness
1987-12-06
Practice As Purification
2012-12-13
Practicing With Difficult Emotions.
2012-09-20
Praise and Blame
2015-05-21
Q & A on Daily Life Dharma Practice
2014-06-15
Q&A
2000-02-26
Questions And Answers
2020-06-18
Racism and White Privilege - Part 3: Working with Guilt and Shame
2020-06-11
Racism and White Privilege with Special Guest Deb Kerr - Part 2
2001-03-22
Refinement Of Mind - part 1
2001-03-29
Refinement Of Mind - part 2
2015-08-27
Refinement of Mind, Part II.
2001-04-11
Refinements of Life 1 and 2
2010-11-18
Reflections on Bhikkhunis
2007-06-28
Reflections On Money
2009-06-11
Reflections on our Deepest Truths
2007-07-12
Reflections On Power
2007-07-05
Reflections On Sexuality
2020-01-03
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching on Intention
2022-04-29
Reflections on your practice not being just for you
2017-11-02
Refuge in Sangha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-09-08
Refuge in the Buddha Within
2014-01-02
Refuge in the Sangha
2010-01-21
Refuge in the Sangha & Kalyana Mitta
2010-01-14
Refuge in the Sangha part 2
1999-01-01
Refuge In The Sangha: Importance Of Like-Minded Friendship
2009-03-12
Relaxed Awareness
2010-09-02
Relaxed Interested Kind Awareness
2022-01-27
Remembering Thich Nhat Hanh
2002-02-12
Reporting To The Mother Ship: Wonder, Awe, Interest, Investigation
2010-06-10
Responding to the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
2013-04-20
Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2002-03-20
Resting in Awareness
1984-09-01
Retreat Opening
1998-10-15
Right Thought: Creating An Inspiring Vision
2016-03-17
Sacred Activism Part 1: The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative
2016-04-14
Sacred Activism Part 4: Holding a Vision
2016-04-21
Sacred Activism Part 5: The Seven Laws of Sacred Practice
2022-03-03
Sad Heart, Breaking Heart:
Working with the Invasion of Ukraine
2008-10-13
Samsara -The Wheel Of Birth And Death
2023-04-27
SANGHA! In Person and Online, Our First Hybrid Gathering!
2004-11-20
Saturday Night Closing Session
2021-05-06
Saying Goodbye: When a Friend Dies
2024-10-31
Scary Times on Halloween:
Working with Fear
2011-12-08
Seeing Beyond Appearances
2021-09-23
Seeing Beyond the Mask: Looking Past Our Assumptions
2014-07-24
Seeing Everyone as Your Benefactor
2018-02-23
Seeing Our Practice in a Wider Context (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-07-13
Seeing the Good-Inside and Out
2012-06-28
Seeing the System You Are Part Of
1999-11-27
Seeing Through Limiting Beliefs
1999-03-16
Seeing Through Our Stories
2013-01-31
Seeing Through Views.
2013-09-27
Seeing Who You Really Are Beyond the Comparing Mind
1987-11-25
Self-Image/Hindrances
2017-11-27
Setting the tone for Magic of Awareness Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2003-02-10
Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2013-01-10
Shifting perspectives
2011-06-16
Shifting the Focus: From In Here to Out There
2009-12-10
Shower the People with Love
2023-08-24
Showing Up as a Joyful Responsibility
2021-11-04
Showing Up for Reality with Humility and Grace:
Terry Patten's Last Teaching
2020-03-05
Skillful Letting Go Practice for Intense Times
2018-01-18
Special Guests: Harold Hedelman, Lee Ballance and Mary Selkirk from Citizens Cl…
2016-12-11
Spirit Rock - Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice with James Baraz
2024-09-09
Spirit Rock Founders Remember the Early Days (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2007-02-13
Spiritual Passion
2001-02-24
Spiritual Passion: The Iddhipadas (Bases Of Power)
2012-07-19
Stewardship and Intention as Gaia Practices
1991-04-22
Strive On Lightly
2024-02-01
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation:
The Process of Purification
2005-02-21
Sudden Awakening, Gradual Cultivation: The Purification Process
2014-09-11
Sudden Awakening/Gradual Cultivation
2010-07-08
Suffering is Grace
2020-05-24
Sunday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-02-26
Supports for Practice
2015-10-04
Sustained by the Gladness of the Wholesome
2014-04-17
Sutta Series: Anatta-lakkhana Sutta - The Discourse on the Not-Self Characteris…
2014-03-06
Sutta Series: Capala Sutta: The Buddha's Advice for Overcoming Sloth and Torpor…
2014-05-01
Sutta Series: Instructions to Anathapindika (MN #143)
2014-04-03
Sutta Series: The Angulimala Sutta - MN #86
2014-03-27
Sutta Series: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts - MN #20
2014-03-20
Sutta Series: The Simile of the Saw - Majjhima Nikaya #21
2014-03-13
Sutta Series: The Vacchagotta Suttas (MN(#71, #72, #73)
2025-03-06
Taking Sides in a World of Non-Duality
2012-08-23
Teaching what we need to learn.
2001-04-11
The 2nd Refinements of Life
2011-08-25
The Advantages of Spiritual Friendship
2013-09-14
The Amazing Wonder and Awe of Awareness
2019-04-25
The Anapanasati Sutta: The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing
2025-01-30
The Antidote to Fear: Practicing in Uncertain Times
2012-06-23
The Art and Practice of Connection
2009-04-30
The Bamboo Acrobats
2010-10-21
The Big E. What does it mean to you?
2019-02-21
The Big Mind/Sky Practice
2009-11-19
The Body: The Storehouse of Experience
2000-02-14
The Brahma Viharas
2020-09-03
The Buddha as a Social Activist.
2009-08-13
The Buddha's 5 supports for practice
2011-11-17
The Buddha's Discourse on Blessings
2021-07-01
The Buddha's Pithiest Teaching: Bahiya Sutta
1999-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-07-15
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2006-09-09
The Buddha's Prescription For Happiness: Seven Factors Of Enlightenment
2023-05-18
The Buddha's Teaching on "One Fortunate Attachment"
2021-08-12
The Buddha's Teaching on How Practice Unfolds:
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2023-10-05
The Buddha's Teaching on Not getting Caught in Negative Tendencies
2020-12-17
The Choice is Ours:
Wise Relationship to Our Experience
2001-02-20
The Comparing Mind
2005-02-05
The Comparing Mind
2011-09-14
The Comparing Mind
2013-02-24
The Comparing Mind
1999-03-12
The Comparring Mired
2000-02-20
The Composing Mind
2018-08-16
The Conflict Campaign: A Paradoxical Thinking Experiment in Israel.
2014-09-18
The Contagion of Goodness
2023-03-02
The Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
2013-10-17
The Courage to Be Yourself
2017-09-26
The Dharma As A Path Of Happiness
2022-03-10
The Dharma of Good Leadership
2011-09-01
The Essence of Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2022-06-12
The Five Daily Reflections
2000-09-02
The Five Faculties
2013-03-14
The Five Reflections
2014-12-05
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2015-02-05
The Five Spiritual Faculties
2014-12-06
The Four Noble Truths
2009-02-04
The Grace Of Suffering
2009-12-13
The Hard Things That Open the Heart
2010-10-23
The Hard Things That Open The Heart
1990-08-01
The Hindrances
2012-01-12
The Honeyball Sutta:
The Source of Our Confusion and the Way Out
2018-02-10
The Journey of Awakening- From Personal to the Universal (Retreat at Spirit Roc…
2018-08-30
The Journey to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 1
2010-10-24
The Joy of Letting Go, part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 1
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 2
2011-05-21
The Joy of No Self, with Anam Thubten Rinpoche - Part 3
2011-02-21
The Joy of Wholesome States
2025-12-18
The Light Inside the Darkness
2023-12-22
The Light Inside the Darkness:
A Winter Solstice Reflection
2010-02-04
The Lion's Roar
2010-02-11
The Lion's Roar
2014-10-16
The Magic of Awareness
2017-11-30
The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-06-17
The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 1
2014-10-18
The Magic of Awareness, Part 3
2024-08-29
The Miracle of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-31
The Payoff From Fear
2022-04-29
The possibility of awakening and taking action
2024-05-02
The Power of Collective Intelligence: The Magic in Community
2025-12-13
The Power of Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-01-17
The Power of Generosity
2013-04-04
The Power of Habit - Part 1
2013-04-11
The Power of Habit - Part 2
2005-09-04
The Power Of Intention
2006-09-16
The Power Of Intention
2008-06-02
The Power Of Intention
2011-09-21
The Power Of Intention
2013-09-25
The Power of Intention
2019-02-16
The Power of Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-11-19
The Power Of Mindfulness
2018-10-18
The Power of Sangha + Moving Letter from Australia
2025-06-05
The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava
2022-05-19
The Problem with Resisting Reality: The Possibility of Real Freedom
1999-09-05
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
1999-11-23
The Process Of Awakening: Five Spiritual Faculties
2020-04-17
The Profound Implications of Interconnectedness
1990-05-26
The Qualities Necessary For The Journey
2020-01-30
The Quarrel at Kosambi
2011-10-27
The Race between Ignorance and Consciousness: Good or Bad News?”
2019-01-24
The Refinement of Mind
2019-01-31
The Refinement of Mind Part 2
2001-03-08
The Retreat Experience: Why Intensive Practice?
2010-07-29
The Secret Ingredient for Equanimity
2021-02-18
The Secret Ingredients of Dharma Practice
2023-05-15
The Secret Ingredients of Dharma Practice
2014-08-21
The Secret Instruction To Open Your heart And Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice
2023-04-06
The Secret to Bringing Out the Best in Others
2023-03-23
The Shift of Practice from “Doing” to “Being”
2011-09-08
The Shorter Discourse on Ways of Undertaking Things
2016-04-28
The Story of Devadatta: Lust for Power in the Buddha's Time
2009-05-28
The Storytelling Monk, Swami Sarveshwarananda Giri
2019-02-25
The Three Roots of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-09-29
The Time is Now: Engagement as Practice
2017-10-10
The Trajectory Of Practice
2014-08-28
The What, Why and How of Dharma Practice
2013-08-29
The What, Why and How of Mindfulness Practice
2012-02-03
The Wise Attitude in Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness
2009-07-30
The Woman at the Well
2010-07-15
This Business of Wanting.
2012-02-08
This Precious Opportunity
2014-06-10
Three Paths to Joy
2020-12-03
Three Pillars of Dharma
2017-06-03
Three Qualities of the Heart that Awaken Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock
2021-06-08
Three Wholesome States for Cultivating Joy
2024-05-23
Thursday is Wesak! Thursday is Wesak!
Honoring the Life and Teaching of the Bu…
2012-09-13
Titrating our Dukkha.
2020-11-19
Transformation is Possible
2022-04-29
Transforming anger and acting from love
2013-09-01
Transforming Fear into Love
1993-04-21
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2006-03-27
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2012-09-02
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
2013-04-27
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
1999-03-23
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
1989-09-03
Transforming Suffering into Happiness
2018-07-16
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness
2014-12-09
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion)
2020-05-24
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-02-04
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-06-02
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-02
Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-09
Transforming suffering into happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-09-03
Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1985-04-21
Transitions
2024-02-29
Transitions as a Focus of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2006-09-23
Tronsforming Suffering Into Happiness
2014-02-15
Trust
2016-02-21
Trust
2024-02-16
Trust (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-11-03
Trust and Surrender is Available in Any Moment
2014-12-08
Trusting in Your Buddha-Knowing
1998-11-29
Trusting Our Buddha Knowing
2000-03-02
Trusting Your Buddha
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2008-06-16
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-02-25
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2010-09-05
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2015-02-21
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2021-02-09
Trusting Your Buddha Knowing
2003-08-31
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2005-02-16
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
2011-10-12
Trusting Your Buddha-Knowing
1999-08-26
Truthfulness
2020-05-26
Tuesday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-01-26
Turning Suffering Into Happiness
2023-06-22
Unhooking Yourself from Suffering
2000-05-25
Unknown
2014-01-23
Update on our progress in building community and more on Bob Doppelt's climate …
2009-05-14
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 1.
2009-06-04
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-T'san (3rd Zen Patriarch of China), part 3
2009-05-21
Verses on the Faith Mind by Seng-Tsan (3rd Zen Patriarch of China),
part 2.
1995-01-02
Waking Up: Interesting Hobby Or Committed Vision
1998-06-19
Waves On The Oceans-Not Being Bothered By Thoughts
2020-07-17
We Are What we Think
2025-01-09
We Are What We Think
2013-06-06
We Are What We Think, With Our Thoughts We Make the World
2020-04-29
Wednesday Morning Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2026-01-01
Welcoming in the New Year Together!
2012-08-30
What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It?
1993-07-24
What Am I Doing? Why Am I Doing It?
2017-01-05
What Channel Are You Tuned To?
2024-11-21
What Do I Need Right Now?
2012-06-07
What do the three refuges mean?
2003-08-28
What Is Mindfulness
2011-01-06
What really matters
1994-04-20
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
1994-04-20
What Really Matters: The Path Of Awakening
2012-06-23
What supports Connecting?
2014-02-23
What Thought Am I Believing Right Now?
2014-08-14
What Will You Do With Your Wild And Precious Good Karma?
2019-06-08
What's coming, end of retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2009-07-21
What's Not Wrong...Mudita, Uplifting States and Looking for the Good.
2012-04-05
When bad things happen to good people.
2012-11-29
Who we really are
2011-07-18
Whose Love is it Anyway?
2019-06-04
Why "Awakening Joy"? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2008-07-03
Why Do Intensive Retreat Practice?
2013-01-24
Why I teach Awakening Joy.
2023-01-26
Why Intensive Practice
1984-09-01
Why We're Here
2021-12-23
Winter Solstice and Holidays: A Time to Keep the Heart Open
2009-09-03
Wise Attitudes In Practice
2005-05-25
Wise Effort
2024-02-10
Wise Effort: Balance and Cultivating Wholesome States (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-07
Wise Effort: Finding Balance and Inclining toward the Wholesome
2023-02-01
Wise Effort: Finding Balance and Inclining toward the Wholesome
2000-11-25
Wise Intention
2005-04-24
Wise Intention (Sutta On The Two Kinds Of Thought)
1999-05-22
Wise Reflection And Practice In Daily Life
2019-01-03
Wise Vision, Wise Intention
2001-10-12
Working with Fear
2001-10-17
Working with Fear
2014-12-04
Working with the Comparing Mind
2015-02-16
Working with the Comparing Mind
2011-02-15
Working with the Judging Mind
2011-02-17
Working with the Judging Mind
2017-09-19
Working With The Judging Mind
2017-09-01
Working With the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-31
Working with the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1995-11-27
Working With Thought
2011-02-25
Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment
2025-09-25
You Are Loving Awareness
2020-02-23
You Are Loving Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-07-07
You Have a Choice
2009-07-02
You Never Know...
2022-09-22
You've Got a Friend: The Buddha's Advice on Good Friendship
2024-01-04
Your Heart Was Made For This
2020-04-30
Your Practice as a Gift to Others (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2022-02-24
Your Practice is Not Just for You
2022-04-11
Your Practice is Not Just for You
2025-08-31
Your Practice is Not Just for You (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-28
Your Practice Makes a Difference!
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Select one of James Baraz's 83 retreats
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1900-01-01
IMCB Regular Talks
1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
1990-08-01
Gaia House Retreat
2006-09-01
September 2006 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2007-07-13
Metta Retreat
2007-12-04
CDL DPP Reunion Retreat
2008-06-01
June 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2009-02-01
Insight Meditation February
2009-06-02
Practice in Difficult Times
2009-07-17
Metta Retreat
2009-09-02
Labor Day
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-07-16
Metta Retreat
2010-09-01
Labor Day Retreat
2011-01-30
Kalyana Mitta / Dharma Friends Facilitators Workshop at the Berkeley Buddhist M…
2011-02-05
February Monthlong Insight Retreat
2011-07-15
Metta Retreat
2011-08-31
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-09-10
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2012-02-01
Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long
2012-05-12
CDL & DPP Reunion: May 12th, 2012
2012-07-06
Metta Retreat
2012-08-29
Labor Day Retreat
2012-10-30
Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness
2013-02-03
February Insight Meditation - 1 Month Retreat
2013-04-20
Responses to Climate Change: Awareness, Action and Celebration
2013-04-26
2013 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy With Life
2013-05-13
Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-09-24
Awakening Joy Retreat
2014-02-01
February Month Long Retreat - 2014
2014-06-09
Awakening Joy
2014-07-09
Metta Retreat
2014-08-27
Labor Day Retreat
2014-12-03
Casa Pallotti Melbourne Retreat
2015-01-31
February Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-09-02
Labor Day Retreat
2015-10-04
A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World
2015-10-09
2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life
2016-01-01
January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-01-09
Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-01-16
Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti…
2016-01-26
IMS Staff Retreat 2016
2016-01-30
February Month-long
2016-05-17
Awakening Joy Retreat
2016-08-31
Labor Day Insight meditation Retreat
2016-11-28
Connecting Mind and Heart
2017-01-28
February Month-long Retreat
2017-05-30
Awakening Joy
2017-08-30
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-09-12
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2017-11-01
Waking Up Together
2017-11-27
Magic of Awareness
2018-01-27
February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat
2018-05-21
Awakening Joy
2018-05-29
Connecting Heart & Mind
2018-07-11
July Metta
2018-07-14
Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz
2018-08-29
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-02-02
February Monthlong
2019-06-03
Awakening Joy
2019-08-28
Labor Day Insight Retreat
2020-01-25
Dharma and Yoga Training Program 2020
2020-02-01
February Monthlong
2020-04-27
Centering: The Gift to Ourselves and Others - Online
2020-05-20
The Magic of Awareness - Online
2021-02-01
February Insight Meditation Retreat: A Retreat for Experienced Students with Ja…
2021-06-07
Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being
2022-01-29
February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat
2022-04-29
James Baraz – The Dharma as Medicine for Our Planet
2022-05-27
Awakening Joy and Wellbeing
2022-08-31
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-01-28
February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat
2023-08-30
Labor Day Insight Retreat
2024-02-03
February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month
2024-06-15
The Magic of Awareness
2024-08-28
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-09-09
Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers
2025-04-25
EcoDharma Meditation Retreat
2025-05-09
Spring Insight Retreat
2025-08-27
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2025-09-26
Devotion to the Sacred (262R25)
2025-12-12
Equanimity: Finding Balance in Uncertain Times
2026-01-01
Welcoming in the New Year Together!
38:18
This talk will
1. Look back at 2025 reviewing what we've learned
2. Open to where we are in the present
3. Get in touch with our intention for the 2026 envisioning the qualities that will be most needed for us to deepen our understanding and inner peace
We will also share a New Year's ritual of letting go and cultivation. If you're at home bring a candle.
Please pause the audio to perform the exercises.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2025-12-18
The Light Inside the Darkness
43:57
As we head into the darkest period of the year we are processing dark forces of ignorance and hate in the news each day. The light and loving awareness can hold all the forces of ignorance-- both inside us and around us--with compassionate understanding This is a time to remember all that is good.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2025-12-04
For Goodness Sake:
Consciously Cultivating the Wholesome
46:21
The capacity to be touched by and love goodness is, in some sense, the heart of spiritual practice. Something in us loves the truth and is drawn to goodness around us. It makes us yearn to activate the good inside. It requires commitment to choosing wholesome qualities as our default instead of being drawn to the forces of attachment, aversion and ignorance within us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2025-10-30
Instructions from My Teachers
40:12
We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations?
What have you learned from them? I thought I'd share some ways that instructions from two of my
teachers--Ram Dass and HWL Poonja (Papaji)-- have shaped how I see the world and how I practice.
The talk includes a recording of a significant dialogue from 1990 with Poonjaji that reconnected me
with my joy.
Here is a link to the dialogue of the Poonjaji satsang where James asked the question
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16TnL2Zev-6r_mZPrgdSxSTaYLoyzdLOg3CnJ2U3D6C8/edit?tab=t.0
Here is a link to the video on Youtube that is over an hour long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjspK5fHiQ. James is at 23:38
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
2025-10-09
Navigating the Truth of Suffering
44:34
Suffering is the Buddha's 1st Noble Truth. Sometimes it can feel like it's all too much, especially in these days of extreme unpredictability. Legitimate reactions of anger, confusion and discouragement can lead to feeling of hopelessness or resigned acceptance. How can we use the practice to not only skillfully hold those feelings, but to transform them into wholesome uplifting responses such as courage, trust and compassionate action?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
