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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
2011-07-23 Purpose, goal and how to balance the practice. 1:16:57
Sayadaw U Jagara
What is your aim in life? Find out! How to reach it? Balance body and mind. Simile of Bath Attendant describing experience experiences of 1st jhana explained
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-20 Questions and Answers 63:14
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-16 Good Friendship and How To Calm Down The Thinking Mind. 65:50
Sayadaw U Jagara
Friendship is necessary in life for the support of psychological and educational growth. It can equal the Dhamma or eight fold path. How to make our mind our friend, tentative exploration owith " Vitaka SanThona Sutta" MN -19 + MN -20
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-13 Questions And Answers 62:45
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-09 Gradual Training 1:14:16
Sayadaw U Jagara
Tentative elaboration of the gradual Training found in the suttas. Starting with Sila and Samadhi and sub-divisions. Simple description of guarding the sense doors. Full understanding and the five hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-02 Brief Introduction 30:06
Sayadaw U Jagara
How we can use a tradition and learn something from it. Reminder that the Buddha's teaching refers to "The Gradual Training"
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-02 Instructions, Questions and Answers, and Precepts 39:18
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-05-06 Working With Mental States 64:58
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Through meditation we become more skilled at identifying mental states - discovering what we are experiencing and learning to relate appropriately.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-04-14 Life is Practice, Practice is Life 53:04
Greg Scharf
We often find that we have unconsciously divided our experience into times of "practice" and "life". This talk discusses ways to integrate life and practice both on and off the meditation cushion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-04-08 Renunciation 54:48
Greg Scharf
The practice of renunciation goes to the very heart of the Buddha's teachings. This talk explores the power of renunciation - the very substance of freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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