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Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Eradicating Self-View(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines sakkāyaditthi or self-view—the subtle way that we relate to experience from the vantage point of self. Through training and insight, sakkāyaditthi is eradicated at the first stage of awakening.2018-05-2942 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Eradicating Self-View(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines sakkāyaditthi or self-view—the subtle way that we relate to experience from the vantage point of self. Through training and insight, sakkāyaditthi is eradicated at the first stage of awakening.2018-05-2942 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals —Part II(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).2018-05-2156 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals —Part II(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).2018-05-2156 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals — Part I(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).2018-05-1451 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals — Part I(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).2018-05-1451 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Overcoming Skeptical Doubt(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines skeptical doubt which, through our training and practice, is overcome at the first stage of awakening.2018-05-0747 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Entering the Stream: Overcoming Skeptical Doubt(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines skeptical doubt which, through our training and practice, is overcome at the first stage of awakening.2018-05-0747 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge As Practice(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Going for refuge mirrors the process of waking up. We settle enough to know what we are experiencing (Buddha); we learn to let things be the way are (Dhamma); and we experience directly the happiness and release that comes from skillful behavior (Sangha).2018-05-0145 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge As Practice(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Going for refuge mirrors the process of waking up. We settle enough to know what we are experiencing (Buddha); we learn to let things be the way are (Dhamma); and we experience directly the happiness and release that comes from skillful behavior (Sangha).2018-05-0145 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Words of Encouragement(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk addresses several potential difficulties in practice – attaching to ideas about mindfulness and concentration, thinking that nothing is happening in practice, feeling half here and half not, and the tendency to “do” the practice.2017-01-3053 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Words of Encouragement(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk addresses several potential difficulties in practice – attaching to ideas about mindfulness and concentration, thinking that nothing is happening in practice, feeling half here and half not, and the tendency to “do” the practice.2017-01-3053 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Māna: Conceit(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha defines three kinds of conceit—conceit itself (māna), the inferiority complex (omāna), and arrogance (atimāna). Conceit is a player in giving rise to a sense of self and perpetuating it though ignorance. This talk offers practical guidance to help meditators see conceit and uproot it through understanding and insight.2017-01-2347 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Māna: Conceit(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha defines three kinds of conceit—conceit itself (māna), the inferiority complex (omāna), and arrogance (atimāna). Conceit is a player in giving rise to a sense of self and perpetuating it though ignorance. This talk offers practical guidance to help meditators see conceit and uproot it through understanding and insight.2017-01-2347 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Tanhā: Craving(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk outlines the Buddha’s teaching on the three forms of craving—craving for sensual pleasures, craving for becoming, and craving for non-becoming. Taraniya encourages the practitioner to use the retreat environment to observe craving in what may seem like minor or insignificant moments. These moments hold potential for major insights.2017-01-1651 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Tanhā: Craving(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk outlines the Buddha’s teaching on the three forms of craving—craving for sensual pleasures, craving for becoming, and craving for non-becoming. Taraniya encourages the practitioner to use the retreat environment to observe craving in what may seem like minor or insignificant moments. These moments hold potential for major insights.2017-01-1651 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Practicing for the New Year 2017(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Given the conflicts, wars, and divisiveness over the past year, many people ask, “How do we practice with all of this?” Taraniya offers reflections on opening to difficulty, making practical adjustments in our lives to support inner balance, and increasing our capacity to manage mindstates through understanding and wisdom.2017-01-0247 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Practicing for the New Year 2017(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Given the conflicts, wars, and divisiveness over the past year, many people ask, “How do we practice with all of this?” Taraniya offers reflections on opening to difficulty, making practical adjustments in our lives to support inner balance, and increasing our capacity to manage mindstates through understanding and wisdom.2017-01-0247 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Self-view and the Fourth Satipatthana(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Here we look at fourth satipatthana and its specific instructions on what to see and how to see it—the five hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of awakening, and the four noble truths—with an eye to realizing how this practice helps us overcome self-view.2015-01-2658 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Self-view and the Fourth Satipatthana(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Here we look at fourth satipatthana and its specific instructions on what to see and how to see it—the five hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of awakening, and the four noble truths—with an eye to realizing how this practice helps us overcome self-view.2015-01-2658 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Deconstructing the Layers of Self-View(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk includes real practice stories about working with the hindrances and seeing how we deconstruct the layers of self-view.2015-01-1257 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Classical Teaching on Non-Self(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha never denied or affirmed the existence of a self. He merely noted that when we relate to the body, feeling perception, formations and consciousness with attachment, we suffer. Non-identification with the body and mind frees us.2015-01-0551 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: New Year 2015(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Making full use of perception of the new year to skillfully look back to where we have been and forward to where we are going. .. and at the same time, collapsing time to the present moment.2014-12-3047 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Perception: Ideas, Views, Biases(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk looks at how we tend to form views based on likes and dislikes... and how we extend our views to form value laden statements about the world, the people in it and even ourselves. We move away from the direct experience into a world of fabrication and delusion. Our ideas become more real than the experience they represent.2014-12-2354 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Perception: Naming, Associating and Relating(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines how the mind names or assigns qualities or characteristics to the things we contact. How it relates and draws associations to similar things we have known...and what it is like to attach to that.2014-12-1647 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Perception: Remembering the Past(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What goes on in the mind when we remember things we have sensed, felt or thought in the past. It is through this activity of perception, and our attachment to it, that we have a very real sense of the past.2014-12-0949 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Perception: Getting a Fix on What is Happening(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Perception is the function or activity of the mind through which we receive, sort and interpret sensory date. While it serves a very useful purpose... much of this activity is both unconscious and distorted. It is in our interest to see it meditatively and learn to relate to it skillfully.2014-12-0252 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge in Sangha(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Sangha for refuge. The classical refuge in Sangha involves going forth into monastic life and/or turning to elders for guidance along the way. The subtle refuge involves knowing directly the happiness that comes from keeping impeccable silā.2014-10-0146 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge in Dhamma(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Dhamma for refuge. The classical refuge in Dhamma involves refuge in the teachings of the Buddha as set forth in the Pāli Canon. The subtle refuge involves taking refuge in things as they really are … understanding the subtle truths underlying all experience.2014-09-3054 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge in the Buddha(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk examines both the classical and subtle meaning of going to the Buddha for refuge. The classical refuge in the Buddha involves refuge in the historic Buddha, while the subtle refuge occurs whenever we rest in the simple knowing of experience.2014-09-2953 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Threefold Bliss(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) The talk explores worldly or human happiness, celestial or heavenly happiness and transcendent happiness or Nibbana.2014-06-0550 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Nuns' Tea and the First Noble Truth(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Using a simple example of stress in every day life, this talk examines the Buddha’s teaching on the first noble truth – particularly, “having to associate with things we don’t like, be separated from things we like, and not get what we want.” It considers the insights that accompany opening to this truth.2014-06-0439 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Contemplating Impermanence(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Opening to the uncertainty of life and learning to stop expecting things to be any way other than the way they are.2014-06-0353 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Right Understanding and Right Intention(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk examines the classical teaching on the wisdom section of the eightfold path—right understanding/view and right intention/attitude.2014-06-0252 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Unexpected Insights While Dancing with the Hindrances(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Developing skill in meditation involves making peace with mental states so that we can investigate them properly and understand them correctly.2014-02-0551 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Straight Talk about Practice(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk examines how we attach to the meditation practice in a way that actually obstructs practice. More than anything else … difficulties in practice have to do with an incorrect understanding of practice rather than something we are doing or not doing.2014-02-0348 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Satipatthana: A Brillant Teaching(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) A practical understanding of the four foundations of mindfulness—seeing them as both meditation instructions and as a description of presence of mind.2014-02-021h 00Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Important Things to Know About Intention(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Though its role in the process of waking up is pivotal, intention is very subtle, rarely conscious, and outside the control of self. Purification of intention is made possible through calm awareness of the things we think/do/say, kindness, and non-judging.2013-10-0341 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Internalizing Morality(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Over the years of practice we work with the precepts in a number of ways—using resolve and restraint, becoming acquainted with our karmic patterns and feeling the consequences of these, and strengthening skillful states by noticing what it feels like to do good, to behave well.2013-10-0255 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Faith: Obstacles and Supports(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) We confront many obstacles in practice—our karmic conditioning, cultural conditioning, and resistance to the realities of anicca, dukkha, anatta. In order to surmount these obstacles, anyone who wishes to progress along the path, must act on faith and the factors that support that.2013-09-3056 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Asavas: Avoiding and Removing(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.2013-02-1449 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Asavas: Enduring (brief reflection and reading)(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.2013-02-1411 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Asavas: Restraining and Using(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.2013-02-1348 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Asavas: Seeing and Developing(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) This talk is part of a five part series on the Sabbasava Sutta (MN2), one of the most important and practical suttas in the Pali Canon. It summarizes our deeply entrenched patterns of delusion and suffering and the methods by which these are managed and overcome.2013-02-1252 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Seeing The Asavas(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) The Sabbasava Sutta, Majjhima Nikaya 2 (All the Taints), deals with the eradication of the three taints: desire for sensual pleasure, desire for being, and ignorance. The taints are defilements brought about and strengthened by unwise attention. The seven methods are: Seeing, Restraining, Using, Enduring, Avoiding, Removing and Developing. This talk begins a five part series on this sutta. It addresses Seeing.2013-02-111h 02Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Seeing the Dhamma in the dhammas(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The fourth foundation of mindfulness lists five groupings for contemplation - the five hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of awakening, and the Four Noble Truths. We gather insights into these categories as we practice with the first three foundations of mindfulness and as we attend to mundane activities of our lives.2011-05-271h 00Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Subtle Levels of Greed, Hatred and Delusion(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines the subtle levels of greed, hatred and delusion in the mind and invites inquire into these.2011-05-2050 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Working With Mental States(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Through meditation we become more skilled at identifying mental states - discovering what we are experiencing and learning to relate appropriately.2011-05-061h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Contemplating the Aggregates, Part 2(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk looks at experience through the lenses of the Buddha's teaching in the five aggregates. We take a close look at the ways we cling to feeling, perception and formations.2011-01-281h 00Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Contemplating the Aggregates, Part 1(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk looks at experience through the lens of the Buddha's teaching on the five aggregates. We take a close look at the ways we cling to the body, feeling and consciousness2011-01-2159 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: How Did I Get Here?(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we snap out of states we often ask: how did I get here? How we answer depends on our levels of non-attachment and insight.2011-01-1448 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Way We Are... and The Way We Want To Be(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk address the apparent conflict in practice between opening to the way we are and, at the same time, aspiring towards freedom.2011-01-0747 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: It May Get Worse Before It Gets Better(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In the early years, practice is driven by the very states we are trying to overcome. But it seems to get worse before it gets better - as we let go of self-view.2010-08-1653 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Cultivating Non-Attachment(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Through practice we learn to relate with non-attachment to the condition of the body and mind as well as the conditions of our lives. We do this through the practice of the four foundations of mindfulness, the cultivation of samadhi, and the gradual eroding of self-view. Then we are well-positioned for insight.2010-08-0952 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Recognizing and Understanding Obstructive Tendencies(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Examines the tendency to seek gratification through the senses and the tendency to be preoccupied with objects of the mind.2010-08-0257 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Intention: The Last Stronghold Of Self-View (Chanting and Talk)(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Explains how intention operates and how it is not self.2010-05-061h 27Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Opening Talk(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Refuges and Precepts2010-04-3053 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Understanding the Practice of Generosity(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) The talk includes stories about learning generosity through giving to monks and nuns during the daily dawn walk (pindapad) in Thailand … that is, eeing how this opens a logjam in the heart and one experiences the sheer joy of giving. This talk also outlines and gives examples of the different kinds of giving as listed in AN 8.31 and 8.33.2009-06-0749 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Five Indriya Or Spiritual Faculties(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk defines what constitutes the five spiritual faculties and what it takes to develop them. It offers a hands-on understanding of how faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed, lead to freedom.2008-01-201h 05Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Resolving To Change And Accepting Who We Are(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explains the skillful use of resolve and restraint. It also examines the open-hearted acceptance of who we are and what arises within us.2008-01-0548 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Cleaning Up Our Act(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk examines the Buddha’s Teaching on intention. It walks through how we identify with all the five aggregates.2007-11-2450 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: What Is Wisdom All About?(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk address the experience of wisdom as understanding the noble truths and the law of karma which results in a mind/heart that has replaced greed, hatred, and cruelty with non-attachment, kindness and compassion.2007-11-1148 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Spiritual Friendship(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk examines some of the Buddha's teachings on wise companionship. It outlines what constitutes spiritual friendship.2007-05-2652 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Dana: the Buddha's Teaching on Generosity(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk outlines the different kinds of giving and reflects upon the Buddha's teaching on generosity.2007-05-0157 min
AudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksWorking With Difficult States of MindThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2005.07.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2005-07-0755 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksThe Threefold BlissThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2005.07.03 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2005-07-0341 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksGetting the Gist of PracticeThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2005.06.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2005-06-3050 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksInsight Into SufferingThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2005.06.27 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2005-06-2744 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksThe First Stage of EnlightenmentThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2005.06.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2005-06-2641 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Where's The Joy In Practice?(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) With so much emphasis on dukkha, on overcoming the five hindrances, etc., our practice can at times seem bleak. We can balance this and lighten the heart by knowing where and how to find the joy in practice.2005-05-141h 31AudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksDealing with ConflictThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2004.05.31 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2004-05-3144 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksFeeling ToneThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2004.05.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2004-05-3043 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksMindfulness of the BodyThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2004.05.27 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2004-05-2750 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Freedom Through Form: Reflections On The Monastic Life(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections upon (1) the importance of having a common value base and actively living by those values. (2) the great support that living in community offers, and (3) the importance of making an emotional connection with the teachings through devotional practices.2004-04-221h 03Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Reflections On The Establishments Of Mindfulness(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)2004-04-1956 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksCraving, Sense Realms, SelfThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2003.06.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2003-06-1255 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Craving, the Sense Realm, and Self(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk examines the nature of the sense realm and considers how we give rise to craving in relation to sensory experience. It also examines the distortions that self-view sets up and the relationship between craving and the wrong-view of self.2003-06-1257 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksGenerosityThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2003.01.26 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2003-01-2647 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: The Cultivation Of Generosity(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk examines generosity, the quality of heart that takes us from self-absorption to open-heartedness. Generosity is one of the principle antidotes for the suffering states of greed, hatred and delusion.2003-01-2647 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksExamining Meditation PracticeThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2003.01.23 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2003-01-2359 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksPutting Down the Aggregates Part 2This talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.29 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2948 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Putting Down The Aggregates - part II(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk is about understanding the five aggregates of clinging and seeing them as not self.2002-07-2949 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksEnjoying the Fruits of PracticeThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2550 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2505 minAudioDharma: Collection of talks from Guided MeditationsGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2505 minAudioDharma: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent dharma talksPutting Down the Aggregates Part 1This talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.22 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.*******For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org*******If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.*******This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2241 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Putting Down The Aggregates - part I(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk is about understanding the five aggregates of clinging and seeing them as not self.2002-07-2241 minAudioDharma: Collection of talks from Guided MeditationsGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-2106 minAudioDharma: Collection of talks from Guided MeditationsGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-1806 minAudioDharma: Collection of talks from Guided MeditationsGuided MeditationThis talk was given by Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia on 2002.07.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License2002-07-1406 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Reflection And Insight(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk describes the use of contemplation and reflection in the meditation practice and explains the difference between reflective and discursive thought.2002-07-0834 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Refuge In The Triple Gem(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) This talk includes reflections on the practical and transcendent aspects of going to the Triple Gem of refuge.2002-07-0741 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Taming Karmic Impulses(Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula) As meditators, we develop the capacity to relate anew to sensory input so that we are less and less preoccupied with the content of sensations, feelings and thoughts. From this new vantage point we are more able to see the clinging that leads to suffering.2002-07-0446 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Restlessness And Worry(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Contemplating restlessness and worry -- what this mind state consists of and how to recognize it; name it; embrace it; and investigate it according to the Buddhist teachings.2001-05-301h 13Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Investigate Down To The Core(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Through meditation practice, we become more skilled at identifying what we
are experiencing, opening to it with a loving heart, and examining it with
an eye to insight. When we connect fully with what we feel, the heart is
not troubled and the nature of experience is apparent.2001-05-161h 06Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Contemplating The Body As The Four Elements(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk draws from a number of suttas to demonstrate both the importance of developing body awareness and the skills needed to do it well.2000-06-1050 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Accumulating And Sharing Merit(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk examines the Buddha's teaching on punna or meritorious action.1998-12-1246 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Dealing With Ill-Will(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk examines all kinds of ill-will from mild irritation to murderous rage and how to deal with it.1998-04-1550 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Getting The Most Out Of Practice(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk examines situations that come up during integration week - the openness, the tending to hold on to retreat, the tendency to judge our practice.1997-12-1153 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia's most recent Dharma talksGloria Taraniya Ambrosia: Softening The Heart (Around Difficult Mind States)(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talks addresses noticing how the practice results in an ever-increasing capacity to embrace one's difficult states of mind.1997-04-0955 min