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Thanissara's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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.
2012-02-18 Blessing Chants 15:53
Recollections of the triple jewel, Metta Sutta, Victories of the Buddha
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-03-12 A Mindful Way 53:03
Mindfulness as: training of attention container for transformation, wise discernment way to - the beyond and refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-12 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 40:06
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-10 Honoring Our Human Journey 51:33
Mindfulness as a healing container for meeting and transforming our deeper wounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-10 Without Walls Of The Mind 39:27
Practice and dispassion leading to Nibbana. Methods for opening into the "deathless"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-08 Sujata's Gift 53:04
The Buddha's journey and the four truths. The unknowing of knowing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-08 The River Of The Self 45:01
Calm and insight as a base for exploration of the five khandas; replacing reactivity with mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-06 The Prisoner 44:43
The light awareness illuminates the dark. Working with hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-06 Independent Abiding 41:31
Supports for the cultivation of samadhi; fruits of samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2010-03-12 Noticing The Context. 59:25
Practice of the 3rd Noble Truth. Meeting patterns of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

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