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All Episodes

Spring 2011 Shamatha Retreat — 95 episodes

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94 Finishing with Loving-kindness

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93 Integrating Into the Outside World

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92 Easy Comings and Goings

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91 Final Afternoon Session: The History and Development of Buddhism

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90 Morning Q&A #3

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89 Integrated Vipashyana

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88 Evaluating Practice

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87 Vipashyana: Identifying Rigpa

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86 Vipashyana: Continuing the Search

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85 Releasing the "Shoulds" and Relaxing

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84 Vipashyana: Searching for the Mind

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83 Morning Q&A #2

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82 Vipashyana

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81 Morning Q&A

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80 Equanimity and Rigpa

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79 Spatial Awareness of Awareness

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78 Equanimity and Imperturbability

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77 Breaking Through: Awareness of Awareness

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76 Virtue and Mudita

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75 Shamatha Without a Sign

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74 Contentment and Mudita

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73 Pure Being

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72 The Origins of Suffering

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71 Settling the Mind, Phase Three

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70 Responding to the Reality of Change

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69 The Power of Settling the Mind

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68 Gaining Understanding, Insight, and Confidence

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67 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

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66 Loving-Kindness and Feelings of Separation

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65 Vivid Mindfulness of Breathing

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64 Loving-Kindness and Q&A

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63 Mindfulness of Breathing, Phase Two

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62 Sleepitation, Loving-Kindness, and Q&A

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61 The Cultivation of Relaxation

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60 Even-Heartedness for All Sentient Beings

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59 Expanding One's Awareness of Awareness

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58 Emotional Equilibrium and Mental Imperturbability

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57 The Witness of Awareness (of Awareness)

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56 Empathetic Joy for the Causes and Fruits of Happiness

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55 The Second Phase of Awareness of Awareness

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54 Taking Delight in Good Fortune

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53 Awareness of Awareness

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52 Wisdom and Compassion

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51 Observing the Space of the Mind

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50 Attachment and Compassion

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49 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

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48 Compassion and Freedom from Blatant Suffering

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47 In The Seen, Let There Be Just The Seen

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46 Boundless Loving-Kindness

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45 Increasing Vividness with Mindfulness of Breathing

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44 Breaking Barriers with Loving-Kindness

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43 Grounding in Mindfulness of Breathing

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42 Imagining Loving-Kindness for Oneself

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41 Settling Body, Speech and Mind in their Natural State

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40 Equanimity, Loving-Kindness, and Compassion

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39 Stretching Awareness of Awareness

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38 Cultivating Equanimity Towards All

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37 The Observer and Awareness of Awareness

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36 The Roots of Empathetic Joy

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35 Awareness of Awareness

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34 Effusion of Empathetic Joy and Gratitude

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33 Awareness of Awareness: Inversion

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32 Compassion at the Deepest Level

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31 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

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30 Compassion and the Suffering of Change

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29 Settling the Mind it its Natural State: Body to Mind

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28 The Common Ground of Compassion

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27 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

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26 Loving-Kindness Spatially

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25 Mindfulness of Breathing: The Classic Approach

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24 Loving-kindness for Self and Others

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23 Mindfulness of Breathing: Grounding

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22 Loving-Kindness: Visualizing One's own Happiness

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21 Back to Basics: Mindfulness of Breathing

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20 Equanimity Focused on Sentient Beings

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19 Awareness of Awareness: Stretching

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18 Equanimity: A Theravaden Perspective

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17 Shamatha without a Sign: Awareness of Awareness

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16 Empathetic Joy as an Aspiration

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15 Shamatha without a Sign: The Next Phase

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14 Empathetic Joy

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13 Shamatha without a Sign

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12 Compassion and the Suffering of Conditioned Existence

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11 Settling the Mind in its Natural State: The Background

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10B Compassion and the Suffering of Change

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10A Compassion and the Suffering of Change

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09 Settling the Mind in its Natural State: The Foreground

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08 Compassion

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07 Settling the Mind in its Natural State

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06 Loving-Kindness in All Directions

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05 Mindfulness of Breathing, the Third Stage

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04 Loving-Kindness for Self and Others

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03 Mindfulness of Breathing, the Second Stage

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02 Introduction to Loving-Kindness

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01 Introduction to Shamatha: Mindfulness of Breathing