2002-04-16 Compassion And Wisdom 66:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk looks at the intimate connection between wisdom and compassion. Insight into the three characteristics leads to compassion. Compassion needs to be tempered by wisdom so it does not become misguided or superior.
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2002-04-15 Who is My Teacher 62:28
Yvonne Rand	Download Listen
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2002-04-14 Non-Grasping 69:37
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk explores the process of grasping, which limits and reduces us. It also looks at non-grasping in various areas or our life.
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2002-04-10 Working With Thoughts - Papanca 1:10:43
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Working skillfully with the thinking mind. Understanding how perceptual distortion and mental proliferation obscures the truth and takes us away from the present.
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2002-04-08 Awakening Is Always Possible 61:49
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Seeking the sacred. The possibility of awakening exists in every moment. We all can sense our potential for bringing compassion to present world conflict. Stories of India and questions about the Middle East.
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2002-04-08 Awakening Is Always Possible 62:31
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Seeking the sacred. The possibility of awakening exists in every moment. We all can sense our potential for bringing compassion to present world conflict. Stories of India and questions about the Middle East.
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2002-04-03 Awakening Wisdom And Compassion 69:46
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk elucidates perspectives on the Buddhist Path. The possibility of freedom here and now and how to integrate understanding into our lives.
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2002-03-27 Renewing Our Hearts in 2002 63:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2002-03-25 No Right, No Wrong 49:55
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
A story about misunderstanding and compassion —teachers and students in an Asian monastery.
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2002-03-20 Resting in Awareness 1:10:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2002-03-18 Cultivating Equanimity 63:25
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Stories of different ways to cultivate peace, balance and calm in the midst of life and death.
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2002-03-16 Joys On The Path 58:10
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Cultivating happiness.
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2002-03-13 Resting in Knowing 64:13
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
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2002-03-12 Fear 52:47
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Paying attention to the different ways of working with fear.
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2002-03-11 Living in a World of Change 55:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
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2002-03-05 Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice 53:01
James Baraz	Download Listen
Developing faith as a quality of heart that is essential for our selves, our practice, and releasing the angst of doubt and the illusion of suffering. What is the place of faith in practice? How can we cultivate faith, trust and confidence? What is faith and how does it work?
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2002-03-05 Faith: Bring The Heart To Practice 59:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
Developing faith as a quality of heart that is essential for our selves, our practice, and releasing the angst of doubt and the illusion of suffering. What is the place of faith in practice? How can we cultivate faith, trust and confidence? What is faith and how does it work?
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2002-03-04 Comparing Mind 59:17
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2002-03-01 Integrating Insight 49:11
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
The effect of insight on our attitudes, thoughts and feelings.
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2002-02-27 Ardency 1:12:36
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2002-02-25 Healing Separation 45:34
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
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2002-02-22 Empty Knowing 56:50
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
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2002-02-20 Living Your Life Out Loud 53:11
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2002-02-19 Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor 1:33:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
Using forgiveness, patience, and humor as we open up to what is unpleasant without experiencing aversion, and to what is pleasant without experiencing grasping.
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2002-02-19 Opening To Experience: Forgiveness, Patience & Humor 60:57
James Baraz	Download Listen
Using forgiveness, patience, and humor as we open up to what is unpleasant without experiencing aversion, and to what is pleasant without experiencing grasping.
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2002-02-18 Bad Things 55:35
Darlene Cohen	Download Listen
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2002-02-18 The Tides Of Conceiving 59:24
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight as a shift of perception--How our perceptions give rise to thoughts, associations, interpretations--the whole realm of papanca and suffering. Not to be caught in papanca is to be at peace.
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2002-02-16 Clear Comprehension: The Context For Practice 57:35
James Baraz	Download Listen
Mindfulness as bare attention is supported and developed by bringing the content of clear comprehension, or full awareness, into practice. This includes clear comprehension of purpose, of suitability, of domain of meditation, and of reality.
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2002-02-13 Consolation 1:11:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2002-02-12 Reporting To The Mother Ship: Wonder, Awe, Interest, Investigation 61:00
James Baraz	Download Listen
While Dharma practice takes courage to open to suffering, one also can bring a spirit of wonder and awe to the quality of investigation. We can open to the moment with interest, discovering reality in a fresh, new way.
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2002-02-09 Benefits Of Metta Practice 62:09
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The qualities of metta-lovingkindness-the essence of metta is simply connection. Exploring the habits of mind that obscure the natural recognition of non-separation which are desire and ill-will.
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2002-02-04 Contentment With Awareness 51:21
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Learning how to shift our motivation from wanting results to appreciating awareness.
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2002-02-03 The Happiness of the Buddha 52:53
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
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2002-02-03 The Joy In Renunciation 56:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Renunciation of the activities and relationships in our daily life is one of the chief supports of meditative deepening on retreats. Because renunciation is the active practice of non-desire, it leads to greater peace and happiness.
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2002-01-30 All is Suffering, All is Compassion 62:44
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2002-01-28 Not Always So 46:10
Ed Brown	Download Listen
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2002-01-21 Martin Luther King, Exploring Racism & Interconnection 64:49
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
The eloquent words of Martin Luther King, Jr. are woven through an exploration of subtle forms of privilege and racism.
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2002-01-10 Turning Mara’s Arrows Into Flower Petals 56:32
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Through suttas and stories that teach us how to recognize and work with mara, we find that self judgment, temptation and fear can become Dharma gateways.
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2002-01-07 The 5 Precepts 57:33
Nina Wise	Download Listen
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2002-01-02 Courageous Non-Violent Activism 59:11
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-12-26 Kindness Is Contagious 40:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-12-12 Who Will Stay Awake With Me? 54:42
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-12-10 Equanimity 59:03
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-12-05 Faith 57:36
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-12-03 Sympathetic Joy 61:55
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-11-29 Since Feeling Is First 58:23
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explores the role of heart practices in general, and the brahma viharas in particular, in our overall dharma practice. When we ask, "Is insight enough?" our answer might depend on our relation to the bodhisattva ideal.
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2001-11-28 Non-Greed, Hatred, Delusion 61:00
James Baraz	Download Listen
Exploring the different spiritual paths that use the fundamental themes of non-greed, hatred, delusion, love, service, and remembrance.
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2001-11-28 Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion 60:19
James Baraz	Download Listen
Connecting the Buddhist values of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion with another spiritual axiom: "Love everyone, serve everyone, and remember God."
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2001-11-26 Compassion 65:34
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-11-26 Determination 53:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Recognizing how determination and dedication help us undo the habits of mind that lead to suffering.
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2001-11-22 Thanksgiving Talk For 2001 57:57
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Acknowledging the ability of the human heart to move past intolerable suffering in order to mourn, remember, care, learn, create and love.
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2001-11-21 Gratitude 66:42
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Gratitude for the Triple Gem, spiritual teachers, parents, friends, good fortune, difficulties, etc.
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2001-11-19 Loving Kindness 62:10
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-11-17 What Are We Doing Here? 53:53
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Reflecting about the first day of retreat: common thoughts and experiences, remembering our potential for happiness, and the three characteristics (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
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2001-11-16 What Are You Expecting? 34:05
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Opening retreat comments inviting yogis to use the retreat to examine their plans and expectations. Plus brief remarks regarding the retreat and the precepts as voluntary limitations to be seen as a vehicle toward our destination. Ajahns Amaro and Sundara.
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2001-11-12 The Power of Intention 58:48
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-11-07 Give Me Your Hand 52:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-11-05 Love 51:33
Nina Wise	Download Listen
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2001-10-31 Faith in Goodness in Complex Times 66:06
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-10-30 Buddha Dharma At People Of Color Retreat 60:39
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the way of the Dharma—including the Four Noble Truths and foundations of mindfulness from the elders of the Forest for Retreat Practice—to nourish our own practice.
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2001-10-29 Embracing Contradiction in a Time of War 52:18
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-10-24 Finding Refuge in Trust 52:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2001-10-22 Forgetfulness and one Who knows 52:37
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-10-17 Working with Fear 26:09
James Baraz	Download Listen
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2001-10-15 Working With The Heart In Troubled Times 56:30
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How do we work with the energies that are touched in us by the terrorist attacks and all the upheaval in society and the world since then? This talk is an offering of teachings from the Buddhist tradition intended to support us in addressing events wisely.
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2001-10-15 Working With The Heart In Troubled Times 56:38
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How do we work with the energies that are touched in us by the terrorist attacks and all the upheaval in society and the world since then? This talk is an offering of teachings from the Buddhist tradition intended to support us in addressing the current situation wisely within ourselves.
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In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-13 Courage, Forgiveness And Acceptance 60:06
Gavin Harrison	Download Listen
In an era of terrorism, vengeance and a thirsting for enemies, the practice of insight meditation offers the possibility of a trustworthy and transformative response to the heartbreak of these times. Following the talk is a guided forgiveness meditation.
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In collection: In Response to September 11

2001-10-11 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 52:46
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Developing and balancing the seven factors of awakening (mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, calm, concentration and equanimity) to support life and practice.
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2001-10-07 Internal Disarmament: Healing Ourselves 55:46
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Using compassion and mindfulness as we work with negative emotions.
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2001-10-06 Forgiveness and Compassion to the Difficult 1:17:15
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
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2001-10-04 The Four Noble Truths 56:32
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Relating Buddha's core teachings from his first discourse, with quotes from the suttas on our human dilemma of suffering and its end.
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2001-10-01 Listening to Find the Way 56:15
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-09-27 Collective And Individual Shadow In Contemporary Times 48:58
John Travis	Download Listen
The creation of war begins in the mind. Can we own the shadow in ourselves that wages war with our own experience? Can we see this in the roots of the incredible violence in the world? What would it be to put down the collective and individual struggles that we keep creating?
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2001-09-24 Response to 9/11/01, with Salaam Kajlili 55:36
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-09-18 An Appropriate Response? 1:15:46
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Question and answer about the events of September 11th, 2001.
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2001-09-10 Four Maras 59:47
John Travis	Download Listen
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2001-08-27 The Heart's Respect 64:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-08-27 The Heart's Respect 66:02
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-08-22 Nature of Mind 1:23:58
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
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2001-08-22 Nature of Mind 1:27:29
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
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2001-08-20 The Heart of Enjoyment 53:09
Ed Brown	Download Listen
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2001-08-20 The Heart of Enjoyment 2:04:11
Ed Brown	Download Listen
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2001-08-13 Simplicity And Sympathy 47:58
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The spirit of simplicity, presence and sympathy of heart can carry us through the most difficult and beautiful of times.
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2001-08-06 Equanimity and the Drama Queen 40:39
Nina Wise	Download Listen
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2001-08-06 Equanimity and the Drama Queen 40:27
Nina Wise	Download Listen
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2001-08-01 Vicissitudes of Life 65:37
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
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2001-08-01 Vicissitudes of Life 31:41
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
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2001-07-18 Liberation Through Non-clinging 60:57
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
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2001-07-16 All You Need To Know 55:14
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
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2001-07-09 Emptiness & the 4 Seals of Buddhism 65:57
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
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2001-07-09 The Fruits Of Metta Practice 50:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The qualities of lovingkindness and concentration unfold most strongly from the basic goodness that arises out of our wise effort in metta practice.
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2001-07-02 The 5 Aggregates 55:40
Zachoegye Rinpoche	Download Listen
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2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 3 67:41
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 2 1:34:32
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-06-24 Day Long - Equanimity Pt 1 1:42:18
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-06-20 Everyone Is Responsible, No One is Guilty 62:37
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
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2001-06-11 Courage And Tenderness: Stories For An Awakened Heart 59:16
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Stories that remind us of the qualities of faith and compassion which can bring us to freedom. Includes questions and answers.
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2001-06-10 Cascading Pools of Metta 45:26
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
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2001-05-27 The Eight Worldly Conditions 57:41
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our lives are always touched by the changing conditions of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, success and failure. How the meditator finds refuge in not clinging.
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2001-05-23 The Buddha Knows The Dhamma 61:49
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our deepest nature is a purified awareness like the Buddha's. This awareness has the power to know and liberate the phenomena of afflictive emotions.
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