Myoshin Kelley's Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
Myoshin Kelley
So much of my inspiration and joy comes from bearing witness to the unfolding of the dharma in myself and others. My teaching is most engaging when I'm involved in an on-going relationship with students and having the opportunity, and honor, to see what's happening in their lives. We may begin our practice on our cushions; and yet, as we learn to bring practice to all corners of our lives, we get a glimmer of the true possibility of liberation.
Simplicity has been most helpful to me, so I stick with basic instructions and try to distill my words to the bare minimum in a simple, clear and precise way.
My interest focuses on how to liberate the mind. I like to explore and find different ways that are most useful to people. I'm aware that various aspects of the practice, and the teaching, resonate with different people at different times. What is that person's experience right now and what will be most helpful to them? Often the answer comes to me by looking at what has happened to me in practice, and using that experience to help someone discover their own intuitive wisdom.
In my teaching, lovingkindness supports the developmental unfolding of wisdom. It doesn't do us much good to practice in ways that perpetuate self-judgment. When we come from a place of caring and lovingkindness, we allow for the possibility of transformation in our lives. Lovingkindness and wisdom allow us to move from a life of reaction to a life of inner resonance with the world around us. They take us out of a place of reaction and into one of responsiveness.
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Select from Myoshin Kelley's
145
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2003-07-25
4 Foundations of Mindfulness
2006-03-17
4 Noble truths
2007-12-20
7 Factors Of Awakening - part 1
2007-12-27
7 Factors Of Awakening - part 2
2006-07-06
A Sense of Possibility
2010-04-29
A Wise Relationship with the Judging Mind
2007-03-22
Appreciative Joy: The Delight Of The Heart
2009-02-23
Awareness of the Thinking Mind
2010-04-02
Being Held in Goodness
2006-11-16
Bodhicitta: The Vastness Of The Heart
2006-11-16
Bodhicitta: The Vastness Of The Heart
2009-12-28
Center of the Cyclone
2006-07-12
Compassion, The Heart that is Open and Engaged
2004-10-28
Compassionate Wisdom
2003-06-21
Cultivating Insight & Calm
2006-07-25
Cultivating the Wholesome
2009-03-23
Disempowering the Judging Mind
2004-10-22
Dukkha As A Gateway To Liberation
2007-04-19
Dukkha-Explored
2005-03-28
Equanimity: Just What Is So
2010-04-22
Exploration on Sitting with Emotions
2008-02-11
Exploring The Terrain Of Fear
2005-01-11
Faith, Our Greatest Wealth
2006-09-13
Finding a Wise Relationship with Thoughts
2009-10-05
Finding Inspiration for Practice
2009-02-16
Finding Inspiration From Our Spiritual Heritage
2008-02-04
Finding True Refuge
2006-04-17
Finding True Refuge
2005-09-02
Finding True Refuge
2006-04-03
Finding True Refuge
2005-06-25
Five Spiritual Faculties - Beginning Of Series
2006-02-14
Five Spiritual Faculties: Energy
2006-02-07
Five Spiritual Faculties: Faith
2006-02-20
Five Spiritual Faculties: Mindfulness & Concentration
2006-02-26
Five Spiritual Faculties: Wisdom
2006-12-28
Five Spiritual Faculties: Wisdom
2009-03-02
Four Thoughts That Turn The Mind Towards Dharma
2006-11-23
Gratitude And Generosity
2004-05-02
Greed, Aversion, Delusion. 3 Personality types
2005-02-04
Guided Meditation 2
2005-02-09
Guided Meditation 4: Metta
2005-02-13
Guided Meditation 6
2013-07-22
Having a Tender Heart- Nurturing the quality of compassion.
2007-12-06
Hindrances - part 1
2007-12-13
Hindrances - part 2
2007-04-05
Honoring The Courage Within
2004-10-15
Impermanence: A Gateway To Liberation
2006-10-12
Impermanence: The Great Teacher
2006-09-20
Intimacy With Fear
2009-12-07
It Wasn't Meant to Last
2006-03-11
Journey From Fear To Fearlessness
2007-08-16
Learning Patience Through Impatience
2006-04-24
Lessons From Nature
2005-02-22
Lessons From Nature
2009-11-19
Lessons from Nature
2004-03-25
Lessons from Nature
2006-04-10
Life At The Edge
2009-04-20
Life At The Edge
2006-09-29
Living a Life of Dhamma Inquiry
2009-11-13
Meeting This Moment
2004-01-02
Metta: Loving Kindness
2009-10-12
Mind as a base for Mindfulness
2007-07-12
Mindfulness Of Mind
2005-09-15
Mindfulness: Becoming Intimate With Life
2004-01-26
Mudita
2010-04-15
Mudita: Empathy Through Appreciating the Good
2003-07-05
Mudita: The Joy That Multiplies
2005-03-20
Mudita: The Joy That Multiplies
2008-02-18
Noble Eightfold Path - part 1
2008-02-25
Noble Eightfold Path - part 2 - Right Effort, Mindfulness And Concentration
2008-03-10
Noble Eightfold Path - part 4 - Right Intention
2009-03-09
Nuggets of Truth
2007-07-06
Old Habits And Right View
2011-04-05
Out Of The Comfort Zone
2008-12-16
Parami Series #10 Equanimity: The Unshakable Heart
2008-12-08
Parami Series 9 Metta; The Heart That Is Inclusive"
2008-05-05
Paramis Series #1 Dana: The Joy Of Sharing
2008-05-12
Paramis Series #2 Virtue: Living Well And In Harmony
2008-05-26
Paramis Series #3 Energy That Sustains
2008-06-05
Paramis Series #4 Patience; The Enduring Heart
2008-06-12
Paramis Series #5 Renunciation: The Joy Of Relinquishment
2008-06-19
Paramis Series #6 Wisdom
2008-06-26
Paramis Series #7 Truthfulness
2004-11-03
Patience
2013-07-08
Power of the Mind
2009-12-21
Putting Down the Burden of Self
2006-10-26
Putting Down the Burden of I Am
2013-07-29
Questions and Answers
2007-05-03
Reflection On The Power Of Refuge
2007-11-28
Requisites For Enlightenment
2003-06-29
Resolve The Heart
2006-03-23
Right Thought Intention
2006-10-05
Right View: A Context for Practice
2006-03-04
Right View: Understanding Karma
2004-08-29
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: #3 Effort
2004-09-05
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: #4 Rapture and Tranquility
2004-09-12
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: #5 Concentration
2004-09-18
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: #6 Equanimity
2004-09-25
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: #7 Conclusion
2005-02-01
Seven Factors of Enlightenment Series: Mindfulness, the Master Key
2005-02-11
Seven Factors: Concentration, Power Of The Unified Mind
2005-02-06
Seven Factors: The Effort That Sustains
2009-10-26
Sitting in the Seat of Truth
2009-04-27
So how come I'm not happy?
2010-09-16
So You Like to Think!
2006-03-28
Spiritual Friendship
2013-07-02
Taking Another View
2004-05-13
The 10 Paramis Series: #1 Introduction, Generosity - Dana
2004-08-19
The 10 Paramis Series: #10 Metta & Summary of 10 Paramis
2004-05-21
The 10 Paramis Series: #2 Virtue - Sila
2004-05-25
The 10 Paramis Series: #3 Renunciation - Nekkhama
2004-06-02
The 10 Paramis Series: #4 Wisdom - Panna
2004-06-18
The 10 Paramis Series: #6 Patience - Khanti
2004-06-24
The 10 Paramis Series: #7 Truth - Sacca
2004-01-09
The 5 Hindrances
2004-02-19
The Aggregate Of Feeling Tone -Vedana #3
2004-02-12
The Aggregate Of Material Form- Rupa #2
2004-02-26
The Aggregate Of Perception- Sanna #4
2004-03-04
The Aggregates Of Volitional Formations (Sankhara) & Consciousness (Vinnana)
2010-04-08
The Dynamic Combo: Ease of the Heart with Natural Curiosity
2004-02-05
The Five Aggregates As Not-Self - Introduction
2005-03-01
The Four Noble Truths
2009-10-19
The Grace of Patience
2006-09-06
The Hindrances Are Underrated
2004-10-01
The Journey from Fear to Fearlessness
2006-11-09
The Joy Of Renunciation
2003-12-19
The Noble Eight-Fold, Part 3
2003-12-26
The Noble Eight-Fold, Part 4
2003-11-20
The Obscurations of Faith
2010-09-09
The Open Heart that is Wise
2006-09-02
The Power of Taking Refuge
2009-11-05
The Rest of Renunciation
2005-01-24
The Rewards of Renunciation
2009-12-14
The Rub of Life
2007-11-13
Thoughts Without Suffering
2009-11-27
To Stand in the Middle of All Things
2005-09-21
Torment of the Judging Mind
2006-11-02
Torment of the Judging Mind
2005-02-15
Torments Of The Judging Mind
2007-11-20
Tranquil And Alert
2006-10-20
Understanding Dukkha as a Universal Characteristic
2005-01-17
Untangling the Web of Thought
2008-05-19
Vesak Celebration
2008-04-21
Watching The Mind (In A Tropical Paradise)
2010-09-02
When All Else Fails - Patience
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2006-12-01
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2009-11-01
November 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2009-12-01
December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2010-04-01
April 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2010-09-01
September 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2011-04-01
April 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-07-01
July 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge