Larry Rosenberg's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
Larry Rosenberg
The method I use most in teaching is anapanasati or mindfulness with breathing. Breath awareness supports us while we investigate the entire mind-body process. It helps calm the mind and gives us a graceful entry into a state of choiceless awareness--a place without agendas, where we are not for or against whatever turns up in the moment.
In this state we relax into ourselves. We allow the mind to empty itself of its own content and take us into a realm of silence.
Choiceless awareness, with the transition into and out of silence, has fascinated me for a long time. What are the barriers to our minds becoming silent? How do we remain in silence long enough to receive its countless benefits? Can we learn to bring thought-free wakefulness into each aspect of our ordinary, daily living?
As lay people we need a practice that helps us learn how to live whole-heartedly, to do justice to the many challenges of lay life, and at the same time grow in the dharma. This includes moving gracefully back and forth between our daily life and intensive retreat practice.
Presently, I am deeply interested in using Buddha's Charter of Freedom of Inquiry, the Kalama Sutta, as a framework for my teaching. In this teaching, the Buddha invites us to question and doubt. It invites us to use personal experience to test and verify the truth of the teachings. This in turn encourages us to acknowledge life's greatest teacher: Life itself.
The challenge for us all is to question ourselves. Do we know how to live? If the answer, in any way, is no, then bring in the dharma and let's see how the teachings help us live in a wise and kind way.
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114
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2014-02-19
Brain Washing, Part 3 - Everyday language, Dharma language
1993-07-10
Anapanasati Set
1993-07-10
Anapanasati: A Condensed Approach To Practice - part I
1993-07-12
Anapanasati: A Condensed Approach To Practice - part II
1993-07-13
Anapanasati: A Condensed Approach To Practice - part III
1995-03-06
Anapanasati: The Consolidated Method (1)
1995-03-08
Anapanasati: The Consolidated Method (2)
1995-03-10
Anapanasati: The Consolidated Method (3)
1995-03-12
Anapanasati: The Consolidated Method (4)
2014-02-15
Brain Washing, Part 1 - Everyday language, Dharma language
2014-02-17
Brain Washing, Part 2 - Everyday language, Dharma language
1994-07-11
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom
1994-07-11
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom - 1
1994-07-12
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom - 2
1994-07-13
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom - 3
1994-07-15
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom - 4
1994-07-16
Breath Awareness Meditation As A Gateway To Living Wisdom - 5
1999-07-05
Choiceless Awareness - The Quiet Passion Part I
1999-07-07
Choiceless Awareness - The Quiet Passion Part II
1999-07-09
Choiceless Awareness - The Quiet Passion Part III
2001-04-19
Choiceless Awareness In Action
2012-03-03
Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different?
2012-03-05
Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different? part 2
2012-03-07
Daily Life, Intensive Practice - Same Or Different? Part 3
2010-07-10
Dogen's Instructions To The Cook - Part 1
2010-07-12
Dogen's Instructions To The Cook - Part 2
2010-07-14
Dogen's Instructions To The Cook - Part 3
2010-07-16
Dogen's Instructions To The Cook - Part 4
2014-06-12
Don't Turn Away - The Liberating Practice Of Relationship
2014-06-15
Don't Turn Away - The Liberating Practice Of Relationship II
2014-06-18
Don't Turn Away - The Liberating Practice Of Relationship III
1993-07-14
Freedom From Selfing I
1993-07-16
Freedom From Selfing II
2007-06-22
Introduction To Retreat For Experienced Yogis
2002-06-29
Introduction To The Retreat, Refuges And Precepts
1999-04-04
Is There Life Before Death - Part I
1999-04-06
Is There Life Before Death - Part II
1999-04-08
Is There Life Before Death - Part III
1999-04-04
Is There Life Before Death Album
2003-06-01
Learning How To Live (I)
2007-02-24
Learning How To Live - part 1 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats
2007-02-26
Learning How To Live - part 2 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats
2007-02-28
Learning How To Live - part 3 - Reflections On Daily Life And Intensive Retreats
2000-07-18
Learning How To Live - Reflecting On The Kalama Sutta (Part I)
2000-07-20
Learning How To Live - Reflections On The Kalama Sutta (Part II)
2006-02-25
Learning How To Live: Self-Knowing In Action - part 1
2006-02-27
Learning How To Live: Self-Knowing In Action - part 2
2006-03-01
Learning How To Live: Self-Knowing In Action - part 3
2006-03-03
Learning How To Live: Self-Knowing In Action - part 4
2005-06-25
Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 1
2005-06-27
Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 2
2005-06-29
Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 3
2005-06-30
Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 4
2005-07-01
Learning How To Live—Self-Knowing In Action: Part 5
2001-07-01
Learning To Live In Real Time
2002-07-03
Learning To Live In Real Time (Ii)
2002-07-05
Learning To Live In Real Time (Part Iii)
2006-06-25
Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves I
2006-06-27
Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves II
2006-06-29
Listening To The Teaching; Listening To Ourselves III
2013-06-22
Meditation Instructions Part 1 - Whole-Body Breath Awareness
2013-06-24
Meditation Instructions Part 2 - Breath as Anchor
2013-06-26
Meditation Instructions Part 3 - Choiceless Awareness
2003-05-31
Opening Talk
2001-07-02
Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part 1
2001-07-04
Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part Ii
2001-07-06
Q & A: Practice Can'T Be Separated From Living, Part Iii
2013-06-28
Retreat Closing
2011-02-21
Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 2)
2011-02-23
Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 3)
2011-02-19
Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part1)
1983-07-26
Right Livelihood
2000-07-16
Self Knowing
2003-03-09
Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats
2003-03-11
Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats - Ii
2003-03-13
Self Knowing And The Daily Life Of Retreats - Iii
2005-03-03
Self Knowing—Learning How To Live: Part 3
2005-03-05
Self Knowing—Learning How To Live: Part 4
2005-03-01
Self Knowing—Learning How To Live: Part 2
2005-02-27
Self-Knowing—Learning How To Live: Part 1
2004-02-29
Studying The Teaching, Studying Ourselves: Examples From Anapanasati Sutta Part…
2004-03-04
Studying The Teaching; Studying Ourselves, Examples From The Anapanasati Sutta …
2004-03-06
Studying The Teaching; Studying Ourselves, Examples From The Anapanasati Sutta …
2004-03-02
Studying The Teaching; Studying Ourselves, Examples From The Anapansati Sutta P…
2008-06-21
Taking A Fresh Look At Life On Retreat - part 1
2008-06-23
Taking A Fresh Look At Life On Retreat - part 2
2008-06-25
Taking A Fresh Look At Life On Retreat - part 3
2008-06-27
Taking A Fresh Look At Life On Retreat - part 4
2002-02-03
The Bhaddekarrata Sutta - Reflections On True Solitude (1)
2002-02-05
The Bhaddekarrata Sutta - Reflections On True Solitude (2)
2002-02-07
The Bhaddekarrata Sutta - Reflections On True Solitude (3)
2002-02-09
The Bhaddekarrata Sutta - Reflections On True Solitude (4)
2010-02-24
The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle for Self Discovery - Part III
2010-02-20
The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle For Self Discovery. Part I
2010-02-22
The Four Noble Truths - A Vehicle For Self Discovery. Part II
1996-07-06
The Power Of Silence
1996-07-06
The Power Of Silence #1
1996-07-08
The Power Of Silence #2
1996-07-10
The Power Of Silence #3
1996-07-12
The Power Of Silence #4
2011-07-18
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice #1
2011-07-20
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice. #3
2011-07-21
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice. #4
2011-07-22
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice. #5
2011-07-23
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice. #6
2011-07-24
The Way Of The Breath - Anapanasati as a complete meditation practice. #7
2007-06-24
The World Exists To Set Us Free - part I
2007-06-26
The World Exists To Set Us Free - part II
2007-06-28
The World Exists To Set Us Free III
2013-06-25
There Is Just Life
2013-06-22
There is just life-the way of awareness in action.
2009-02-28
Turning Over A New Leaf Now - The Urgency Of Self Discovery - part I
2009-03-02
Turning Over A New Leaf Now - The Urgency Of Self Discovery - part II
2007-06-28
Yoga, Tea And Buckaroo Banzai
2002-07-03
Learning To Live In Real Time (Ii)
47:00
The mind is dominated by clinging to the past and the imagined future. Even the present is not experienced directly. Why do we so frequently avoid, now? What does it mean to live in real time?
Old Yogi Retreat