Not Stealing, Lying and the Pabhassara Citta by Trudy Goodman

Trudy Goodman is Executive Director and Founder of InsightLA, a non-profit organization for Vipassana
meditation training and secular mindfulness education. She teaches extensively in the field of meditation and psychotherapy at conferences and retreats nationwide. In 1995, she co-founded the very first Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy in Cambridge, MA, where she lived and taught at the Cambridge Buddhist Association from 1991-98. Trudy has studied Buddhist meditation for 35 years, with Asian and Western teachers, and is a contributing author of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy (Guilford Press, 2005) and Clinical Handbook of Mindfulness (Springer, 2008).

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How to Be an Earthling... by Wes Nisker

Wes “Scoop” Nisker is an author, radio commentator, Buddhist meditation teacher, and performer.

His most recent book is entitled Crazy Wisdom Saves the World Again! (Stonebridge Press). Other titles include The Big Bang, The Buddha, and the Baby Boom (Harper San Francisco, 2003), the newly edited version of his national bestseller, Essential Crazy Wisdom (Ten Speed Press, 2001), and Buddha’s Nature (Bantam, 1999).

Mr. Nisker is also the founder and co-editor of the international Buddhist journal Inquiring Mind.



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Perception, Agitation, Stillness, and the Second Foundation of Mindfulness by Carol Perry

Carol Perry leads retreats, weeklong bush yatras (mindfulness walks) & dharma workshops. She has 30 years of Insight meditation experience. She works the process of transformation on many levels and is rooted in a practice of bringing insight into all facets of life.

Carol is the co-founder of Dharmananda a sustainable community in northern NSW. She has lived in community for 40 years. Her commitment to community led to her work as a dispute mediator and teacher of mindful communication workshops. In addition Carol has a mindfulness-based psychotherapy (Hakomi) practice.



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Two Talks by Akincano Marc Weber

Akincano Marc Weber was born in Berne (Switzerland) and is a Buddhist teacher and contemplative psychotherapist. He learned to sit still in the early eighties as a Zen practitioner and later became a monk in Ajahn Chah’s tradition where he studied and practiced for 20 years in the Forest monasteries of Thailand and Europe. He has studied Pali and scriptures, holds a degree in Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy and lives with his wife in Cologne, Germany from where he teaches Dhamma and meditation internationally.

The following are two short talks offered as morning reflections during an Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge retreat.

Attuning to the signless (animitta)



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Orientation: attention and intention as factors of practice



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Concentration by Marcia Rose

Marcia Rose lives in Taos, New Mexico, USA. She is the founding and guiding teacher of The Mountain Hermitage and founding teacher of Taos Mountain Sangha. She has been studying and practicing Buddhist teachings and meditation with Asian and Western teachers since 1970, primarily in the Theravada-Vipassana (Path of the Elders) tradition. Her own teaching reflects a clear influence from the Burmese Pa-Auk Forest Monastery and Mahasi Vipassana lineages. She has also studied and practiced in the Dzogchen Tibetan Buddhist tradition with Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche, Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche. Marcia was resident teacher for staff at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Barre, MA from 1991-1995. She continues teaching at IMS as an occasional visiting teacher and is also a regular visiting teacher at The Forest Refuge in Barre, MA. Marcia also teaches Concentration, Vipassana and Brahma Vihara retreats in other U.S. and international venues, and is dedicated to offering these ancient and timeless teachings in ways that make them accessible and authentic for contemporary culture.



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Dependent Origination by Gil Fronsdal

Gil Fronsdal is the primary teacher for the Insight Meditation Centre in Redwood City, California; he has been teaching since 1990. He has practiced Zen and Vipassana in the U.S. and Asia since 1975. He was a Theravada monk in Burma in 1985, and in 1989 began training with Jack Kornfield to be a Vipassana teacher. Gil teaches at Spirit Rock Meditation Centre where he is part of its Teachers Council. Gil was ordained as a Soto Zen priest at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1982, and in 1995 received Dharma Transmission from Mel Weitsman, the abbot of the Berkeley Zen Center. He is currently serving on the SF Zen Center Elders’ Council.



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This talk is from a 7 day retreat on the subject of "Emptiness". You can access all of the retreat talks HERE.

What is Non-Duality by Charles Genoud

This is a series of talks by Charles Genoud on the subject of non-duality. The language is heavily accented but the talks are well worth the effort. Monsieur Genoud approaches the subject from some unusual and illuminating angles.

Charles Genoud is the cofoundeur of the Vimalakirti Centre in Geneva and has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1970. He was, for several years, student of the Venerable Geshe Rabten and then of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. His unique approach, Gesture of Awareness, is the result of the Buddhist Madhyamika point of view applied to meditation techniques and complementary work in the field of sensory awareness under the guidance of Michael Tophoff. Charles Genoud teaches Buddhist meditation and leads workshops in France, the USA, and Switzerland.

What is non-duality



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Non-duality of object and subject



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Where are we when we are absent



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Right view



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Our Relationship to Thinking by Brian Lesage

Brian Lesage has practiced Buddhist meditation since 1988 and has taught meditation since 2000. He has studied in the Zen, Theravada and Tibetan schools of Buddhism. He was ordained in the Rinzai Zen tradition in 1996. His training in Vipassana Meditation includes doing extended meditation retreats in Myanmar (Burma), Nepal, and India as well as numerous retreats in the U.S. He leads retreats and teaches meditation courses nationwide.



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Equanimity by Sylvia Boorstein

This talk by Sylvia Boorstein is rather "conversational", it starts half way through a discussion of the "recent" election and Obama's re-instatement as U.S. President.

It takes a look at all of the Brahma Viharas, while concentrating upon upekkhā, or equanimity.



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Putting Down The Aggregates - Part I by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia

This is the first of two talks by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia looking at the five aggregates in terms of practise.

Gloria has been offering instruction in Theravada Buddhist teachings and practices since 1990. She is a student of the western forest sangha, the disciples of Ajahn Chah and Ajahn Sumedho, and is a Lay Buddhist Minister in association with Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery in California. She has served as resident teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts from 1996 through 1999. Taraniya teaches at the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and at Dhamma centres in the United States.



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And here is part two...........



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