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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
1998-12-30 Awakening Through Shame 52:04
Tara Brach
Much of our suffering is due to a pervasive and often buried sense of core deficiency. This talk investigates the source of self-aversion, how it hides and the enormous healing and freedom that is possible when this life-binding experience of shame is brought into compassionate awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-12-12 Accumulating And Sharing Merit 46:37
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk examines the Buddha's teaching on punna or meritorious action.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-12-08 Embodying Freedom 55:23
Carol Wilson
Opening the field of attention to include all circumstances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-12-08 Wakeful Relaxation 59:14
Tara Brach
exploring the radical and liberating process of "letting go"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-12-07 Equanimity - Being In Peace With The Wild 60:01
Kamala Masters
opening the heart/mind to embrace all of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 1998 Three Month Retreat

1998-12-01 The Five Aggregates - part 2 60:10
Guy Armstrong
how the five aggregates reveal the characteristics of selflessness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-11-30 Sympathetic Joy - Mudita 59:33
Kamala Masters
When we can truly be happy for another person's happiness, the sense of feeling separate dissolves. From this place of boundary-less-ness, we begin to experientially understand a quiet joy that is invisible and much bigger than we could ever imagine.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 1998 Three Month Retreat

1998-11-29 Nature of Mind 56:16
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-11-28 The Five Aggregates - part I 58:11
Guy Armstrong
Why the Buddha compared the physical world to an empty mass of form. Understanding why the five aggregates are empty and void of essence. Based on a sutta in the Samyntta Mikaya: "Form is like a lump of foam, and consiousness like a magic show."
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

1998-11-23 A Teaching From A Tear Drop 61:45
Kamala Masters
Insight into our interconnectedness with all of life can come through the deepening practice of metta. It can also be known through the emptiness of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center 1998 Three Month Retreat

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