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Thanissara's Dharma Talks
Thanissara
Thanissara, from London, was a nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 30 years. She is co-founder of Dharmagiri Sacred Mountain Retreat, South Africa, Sacred Mountain Sangha, California, and Chattanooga Insight, Tennessee. She has an MA in Mindfulness Psychotherapy Practice from the Karuna Institute UK and is co-author of Listening to the Heart, A Contemplative Guide to Engaged Buddhism, author of Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, and several books of poetry. She is a member of the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock and co-guiding teacher of Sacred Mountain Sangha.
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2017-10-05 Disturbance is the Path. 44:41
Balance and samatha (calm) and vipassana (insight). The hindrances and beyond.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Developing Our Practice
2017-10-04 Samadhi - the three streams of energy 23:58
Breath, jhana factors, kaya sankhara, citta sankhara, vaci sankhara, calming body, uplifting heart/mind, stilling thought
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-10-30 Reflections on Refuge 49:14
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2016-08-15 Compassion - A Vital Motivation for Our Times 55:37
Beyond self obsession. Cultivating heart within the relational field. Supporting a sustainable world. A deadly situation turned around by the power of compassion.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-13 Deconstructing the House of Self 58:01
A teaching for an open mind: The Four Noble Truths. Practice within four domains of experience to free the mind. Realization of the unconditioned, peace, nibbana.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-11 Difficulty as Opportunity 46:16
Calm as ground for insight. Disturbance is the path. What hinders can awaken. Emptying reactivity to painful feeling.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-09 Empty Hands 48:51
Cultivating path activity. Samadhi, inner refuge. First Foundation of Mindfulness. Putting down the burden.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-08-08 Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being 64:14
This talk also includes Kittisaro.
Gaia House From Separation to Seamless Reality
2016-06-19 Questions and Answers with Thanissara and Eugene Cash 59:25
with Eugene Cash, Thanissara
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community
2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
with Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

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