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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
2001-06-09 Establishing Our Practice: Concentration And Mindfulness 52:07
Rebecca Bradshaw
Paying attention to how concentration and mindfulness work together to provide a foundation for meditative investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-06-06 Purity Of Heart 52:01
Michele McDonald
Creating the understanding that purifies love, compassion, appreciation and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2001-06-04 Encouraging The Light Of Metta 56:00
Steven Smith
Understanding metta as a concentration and purification practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2001-06-03 The Kindness Of Patience 43:19
Susan O'Brien
Patience as it supports the practice of the Brahma Viharas.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2001-06-02 Does Metta Work? 46:10
Michele McDonald
Exploring how and why the Loving Kindness practice works.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta Retreat

2001-05-26 Cultivating The Wholesome: The Brahma Viharas 64:27
James Baraz
Right Effort includes developing and increasing wholesome states by recognizing them or inclining the mind to their development. The four states of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity can be consciously developed through practice. (Includes experiential exercises.)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2001-05-17 Investigating George W. Bush Mind 64:23
Ajahn Amaro
A talk discussing how to apply investigation in practice and how to skillfully use thought to explore Dhamma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-16 Investigate Down To The Core 66:09
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Through meditation practice, we become more skilled at identifying what we are experiencing, opening to it with a loving heart, and examining it with an eye to insight. When we connect fully with what we feel, the heart is not troubled and the nature of experience is apparent.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-15 Listening To The Inner Committee 1:29:41
Ajahn Amaro
A sharing of ideas about an alternate form of self view, helpful especially in terms of depersonalizing emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

2001-05-13 Nothing Is Everywhere 66:59
Ajahn Amaro
Ajahn offers reflections on the myth of the adversary practicing with the Four Noble Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Buddhist Contemplation

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