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Thanissara's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

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Thanissara, from London, was a monastic for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 35 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.

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Episodes

Thanissara: Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being 08.08.2016

(Gaia House) This talk also includes Kittisaro.

Eugene Cash, Thanissara: Questions and Answers with Thanissara and Eugene Cash 19.06.2016

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 08.05.2016

(New York Insight Meditation Center) Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisivene...

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 07.05.2016

(New York Insight Meditation Center) Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisivene...

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 07.05.2016

(New York Insight Meditation Center) Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisivene...

Thanissara: Evening Talk & Book Signing: Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto For Our Earth 06.05.2016

(New York Insight Meditation Center) Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisivene...

Thanissara: Diamond Heart 28.04.2016

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Forging a diamond like heart through path activity in the midst of an intense world

Thanissara: Embodied awareness 24.04.2016

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Mindfulness of body and feeling. Working the jhana factors as support

Thanissara: Remembering to be here 23.04.2016

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Journey into consciousness and presence through the use of attention and metta

Thanissara: Morning Instructions, Day 7 27.11.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Thanissara: Morning Instructions, Day 4 24.11.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Thanissara: The Happiness of the Buddha 23.11.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Balance between samadhi and vipassana; hindrances as cause for liberation; teachings of Ajahn Chah.

Thanissara: Morning Instructions - Day 1 21.11.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Thanissara: From Separation to Seamless Reality 04.10.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At the core of our climate crisis, is the dualistic mind that continually generates an ‘other’ that is ‘out there,’ distorting the reality of deep inter-being. From economic systems founded in colonialism, slavery, and servitude, the mindset of ‘less important lives’ fuels a process of abuse that is now killing our living planet. How can our practice inform us as we...

Thanissara: Reclamation of the Sacred 05.05.2015

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Recognizing causes of collective dislocation. Naming colonial devastation. Way of the tender heart.

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Listening to the Heart - Sun 29.03.2015

(New York Insight Meditation Center) This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and...

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Listening to the Heart - Sat. PM 28.03.2015

(New York Insight Meditation Center) This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and...

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Listening to the Heart - Sat. AM 28.03.2015

(New York Insight Meditation Center) This Dharma teaches “our heart / mind (citta) is already pure, luminous, free and endowed with wisdom.” Realizing this is the fruit of practice while the embodiment of this truth is the path of practice. To walk this path is a life time undertaking which is made all the sweeter through fellowship within “beloved community.” This weekend we explore teachings and...

Kittisaro, Thanissara: Listening to the Heart: Evening Talk & Book Signing - Friday 27.03.2015

(New York Insight Meditation Center) Join Kittisaro & Thanissara for the launch of their new book, "Listening to the Heart" for this Friday evening talk. The Buddha taught “Be a light unto yourself.” He also encouraged the development of spiritual friendship for mutual support along the path. Tonight we invite you to join us in friendship and celebration of the Dharma in our lives that ever guides...

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