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Donate to Rob Burbea Rob Burbea's Website Rob Burbea has practiced and studied Buddhism since 1985. Teaching since 2004, he is currently a Gaia House Resident Teacher and a member of its Teacher Council, as well as a Guiding Teacher of Freely Given Retreats (www.freelygivenretreats.org). He is a co-founder of Sanghaseva (www.sanghaseva.org), an organization exploring the Dharma through international service work, and also a co-initiator of DANCE, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (www.thedancewebsite.org). Rob is the author of Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising (www.seeingthatfrees.com). -- Select from Rob Burbea's 458 talks -- VIEW ALL 2007-11-03 "A Body At Peace With Itself" 2016-07-28 "I Sing The Body Electric": On Orientations in Practice 2019-05-29 "Until All is Liquid" (Emptiness and Sensing with Soul) 2017-02-07 'The Holy Life' (Part 1) 2017-02-08 'The Holy Life' (Part 2) 2017-02-09 'The Holy Life' (Part 3) 2009-12-31 'There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground' (A Talk on Devotion) 2010-02-06 'To see no-thing is to see excellently' 2019-12-19 A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances 2015-08-08 A Little Exercise for the Imagination 2011-08-04 A Mystical Kiss (...for Mystics, Anti-Mystics, Lovers and Realists...) 2007-11-08 A Question of Faith 2019-03-24 A Rite of Angels 2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) 2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) 2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) 2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) 2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5) 2018-02-05 A Temenos Exercise (in fours) 2018-02-07 A Temenos Exercise (in threes) 2010-01-28 A Wise Relationship To Practice 2010-08-06 About Metta Practice 2011-08-05 Am I Free to Inquire? 2015-12-21 An Ecology of Love (Part 1 - Introduction) 2015-12-21 An Ecology of Love (Part 2) 2015-12-21 An Ecology of Love (Part 3) 2015-12-21 An Ecology of Love (Part 4) 2010-01-21 An Introduction to Emptiness 2019-12-18 An Introduction to the Jhanas 2008-11-06 Approaches to the Hindrances 2012-11-18 Approaching the Dharma: Part One - Unbinding the World 2012-11-22 Approaching the Dharma: Part Two - Liberating Ways of Looking 2006-04-23 Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 1) 2006-04-23 Aspects of Mindfulness (Part 2) 2017-12-15 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 1) 2017-12-16 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 2) 2017-12-17 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 3) 2017-12-18 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 4) 2017-12-19 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 5) 2017-12-20 Aspects of the Imaginal (Part 6) 2011-08-02 At Home in the Universe 2019-12-20 Attitude, Effort, Achievement, and View 2008-03-08 Awakening 2017-03-31 Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A) 2017-04-01 Beauty and the Buddha 2018-01-09 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 1) 2018-01-10 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 2) 2018-01-11 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3) 2018-01-12 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Three … 2018-01-13 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta) 2018-01-14 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha B… 2018-01-14 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Script… 2018-01-14 Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking wi… 2008-12-31 Beyond Impermanence 2006-02-11 Beyond the Prison of the Self 2016-07-27 Beyond the Search for Freedom 2009-09-10 Blessing Life - The Power of the Generous Heart 2018-02-03 Body and Soul (Q & A) 2011-11-14 Body/Image - A Guided Meditation 2009-09-12 Breath and Space - Reactivity, Emptiness, Piti (4th Instructions) 2009-09-09 Breath Meditation (1st Instructions and Guided Meditation) 2009-09-10 Breath Meditation (2nd Instructions/Guided Meditation) 2009-09-11 Breath Meditation (3rd Instructions) 2019-12-19 Breathing with the Energy Body (Guided Meditation) 2014-11-19 Buddhism Beyond Modernism 2009-01-31 Chandrakirti's Chariot and the Unfindable Self 2009-02-02 Cittamatra 2017-03-28 Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A) 2019-03-30 Closing Comments From Rob - Soulmaking and Sangha 2008-02-04 Compassion 2005-11-22 Compassion and Emptiness 2008-02-05 Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves) 2010-01-30 Concepts, Views, Reality 2011-02-12 Contact and The Construction of Self 2005-11-12 Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 1) - Impermanence and Dukkha 2005-11-16 Contemplating The 3 Characteristics (Pt 2) - Anatta (Not-Self) 2019-12-17 Counting Within the Breath (Guided Meditation) 2016-07-31 Creating the Path (Q & A) 2014-11-02 Creative Samadhi 2019-05-30 Daimon, Refracted 2008-03-07 Death 2011-02-16 Deepening Into Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 4) 2010-02-14 Dependent Cessation and the Unconditioned 2009-02-14 Dependent Origination, Awareness, and Time 2018-02-07 Destiny, Autonomy, Love, and Soul (Q & A) 2019-12-21 Developing Piti, Developing Focus, Developing Wellbeing 2007-04-01 Developing Samatha/Concentration 2019-06-06 Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 1) 2019-06-07 Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 2) 2019-06-08 Dharma(s) Discovered and Created (Part 3) 2017-01-18 Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 1) 2017-01-19 Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 2) 2017-01-20 Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 3) 2017-01-21 Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 4) 2017-01-22 Dilemmas and Delineations: How did we get <em>here</em>?! (Part 5) 2019-05-31 Dimensionality, Humility, Duty, and Love 2018-02-08 Discernment in Soulmaking (Q & A) 2017-02-05 Doubt and Discernment (Part 1) 2017-02-06 Doubt and Discernment (Part 2) 2019-03-25 Dukkha and Emotions in Soulmaking Practice 2017-12-28 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 1) 2017-12-29 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 2) 2017-12-30 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 3) 2017-12-31 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 4 - 'Mastering the Fire') 2018-01-01 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 5) 2018-01-02 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 6) 2018-01-03 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 7) 2018-01-04 Dukkha and Soulmaking (Part 8) 2018-02-03 Elements of the Imaginal (1 - 2) 2018-02-06 Elements of the Imaginal (15 - 18) 2006-11-16 Emotional Healing 2009-11-05 Emotions and Freedom 2009-01-24 Emptiness 2009-12-29 Emptiness and Insight Meditation 2010-01-31 Emptiness and the Vastness of Awareness 2020-02-11 Emptiness and Ways of Looking 2011-02-09 Ending Blame 2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (1) 2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (2) 2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (3) 2016-07-28 Energy and Transubstantiation: The Alchemy of the Body (Q & A) 2017-03-30 Energy Body and Image (Q & A) 2015-08-07 Energy Body: Instructions (1) 2015-08-08 Energy Body: Instructions (2) 2015-08-07 Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 1) 2015-08-08 Energy, Image, Emotion (Part 2) 2006-12-28 Equanimity 2007-02-08 Equanimity in Compassion 2019-03-27 Eros and Desire (Q & A) 2017-03-27 Eros and Equanimity in the Movements of Soul 2017-02-16 Eros and the Brahmaviharas 2017-03-27 Eros in the Imaginal (Guided Meditation) 2017-01-23 Eros Unfettered (Part 1) 2017-01-24 Eros Unfettered (Part 2) 2017-01-25 Eros Unfettered (Part 3) 2017-01-26 Eros Unfettered (Part 4) 2017-01-27 Eros Unfettered (Part 5 - Otherness and the Art of Disappearing) 2009-01-30 Exploring the Relationship with Practice 2008-01-30 Exploring the World of Loving Kindness 2007-01-25 Expressions of Metta 2017-03-27 Faith in Soulmaking (Q & A) 2011-02-10 Fifth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 2011-02-06 First Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 2008-08-09 First Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 2007-03-31 First Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation on the Breath 2019-12-19 Focusing on One Point (Intensity, Directionality, Subtlety) (Instructions) 2011-02-09 Fourth Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 2008-08-12 Fourth Morning Instructions 2007-07-16 Freedom From Fear And Anxiety 2009-09-12 Freedom, Reality, and the Razor's Edge 2011-02-06 Freeing the Self 2006-11-04 From Feelings to Freedom (Exploring Vedana) 2016-07-31 From Inertia, Towards the Solutio (A Fragment) 2007-01-27 From Insight to Love 2017-02-19 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (P… 2017-02-20 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (P… 2007-03-17 God and the Ultimate Truth 2020-01-08 Going Forwards 2018-06-23 Growing the Energy Body (Q & A) 2009-02-02 Guided Meditation - Cittamatra 2008-02-10 Guided Meditation - Directing Love Towards dharmas 2011-02-22 Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances 2014-12-07 Guided Meditation 1 2008-02-09 Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 2009-01-26 Guided Meditation on the Three Characteristics 2007-02-04 Guided Meditation: Metta to phenomena 2010-01-31 Guided Meditation: The Vastness of Awareness 2010-01-23 Guided Meditation: Three Characteristics 2016-07-29 Healing the Imagination (Q & A) 2016-07-30 Hearing All Sounds as Mantra: A Jewelline World 2018-06-24 Heart Art and an Introduction to Image 2010-08-08 Heart Work 2019-05-28 Heat and the Material 2007-03-15 Home and Homelessness 2019-03-29 Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A) 2014-12-07 Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part One) 2014-12-07 Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three) 2014-12-07 Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Two) 2016-07-31 Images of the Breath: Energy Body, Colour, and the Beloved (Guided Meditation) 2015-08-07 Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 1) 2015-08-07 Imaginal Practice: Doorways and Directions (Part 2) 2011-02-14 Impermanence, Love, Emptiness (Question and Answer Session 3) 2017-02-10 In Love with the Way: Images of Path and of Self 2014-11-25 In Praise of Restlessness 2019-12-21 Insight Ways of Looking, Other Energy Body Possibilities, and Summarized Instru… 2011-11-06 Instructions on Mindfulness of Mind States 2011-11-04 Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body 2011-01-01 Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought 2017-03-28 Instructions: Letting Go 2017-03-29 Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire 2009-02-01 Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing 2017-03-30 Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation) 2009-05-09 Into the depths of Silence 2007-11-17 Into the Depths of Silence 2007-04-02 Jhana Practice 2020-01-02 Jhanas and Insight 2007-12-31 Joy 2009-09-29 Joyful Effort 2006-10-17 Letting Go of Judgement 2010-12-31 Liberation and the Self - A Guided Inquiry 2009-09-09 Liberation From the Inner Critic 2008-11-21 Living in the Truth 2019-06-02 Logoi and Leanings 2017-02-02 Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 1) 2017-02-03 Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 2) 2017-02-04 Logos in the Garden of Souls (Part 3) 2017-04-01 Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros 2007-02-04 Love and Emptiness 2008-02-10 Love and the Emptiness of Things 2010-02-07 Love, Healing, and Emptiness 2009-02-08 Love, Karma, and Healing 2008-03-07 Love/The Difficulties of Love 2010-02-05 Maps for the Journey (A Brief Overview) 2016-07-30 Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 1) 2016-07-30 Matter, Bodies, Worlds (Part 2) 2008-11-27 Maya and Nirvana (Beyond the Measure of Mind) 2010-08-07 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 1 2010-08-08 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 2 2010-08-09 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 3 2010-08-09 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 4 2010-08-10 Metta Instructions and Guided Meditation 5 2019-12-20 Metta Practice, and a few things about Piti (Instructions) 2016-07-27 Mindfulness and Myth 2005-11-05 Mindfulness of Mind States 2009-10-01 Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation 2017-04-01 Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) 2016-07-30 Neither 'Is' nor 'Is Not': Of Emptiness and the Imaginal (Q & A) 2008-06-24 Nirvana and Transcendence 2010-02-12 No Mind 2009-05-15 No Self, No World 2010-02-04 Non-Duality and the Fading of Perception 2018-02-09 Nothing Happens By Itself 2007-09-17 Ocean of Patience 2018-06-29 Of Hunger and Humility 2017-03-31 On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path 2016-07-28 On Orientations in Practice (Live and Shortened version) 2019-03-26 On Practising with Images (Q & A) 2008-09-17 On the Essence of Being 2009-02-13 On the Nature of Mind 2018-06-22 Opening Talk ('To Kiss a Falcon') 2010-01-20 Opening Talk - Orienting and Relating to the Emptiness Retreat 2011-02-05 Opening Talk for Metta and Emptiness (Level 1): Being on Retreat 2008-03-05 Opening Talk for Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 2017-02-17 Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 1) 2017-02-18 Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2) 2019-05-27 Opening the Sense of the Energy Body 2009-09-08 Opening the Sense of What's Possible 2017-03-29 Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A) 2015-08-10 Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (1) 2015-08-10 Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) 2015-08-11 Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3) 2019-12-17 Orienting to This Jhana Retreat 2020-02-13 Pain, as Void and as Sacrament 2007-03-16 Passion, Desire, and the Path 2020-03-06 Perfection and Christ's Blessing 2009-01-26 Practicing with the Three Characteristics 2020-02-20 Practising with Death and Dying 2020-03-01 Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 1) 2020-03-02 Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 2) 2020-03-03 Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 3) 2020-03-04 Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 4) 2020-03-05 Preliminaries, Regarding Voice, Movement, and Gesture (Part 5) 2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 2019-12-30 Q & A 2019-12-27 Q & A 2019-12-23 Q & A 2019-12-22 Q & A 2019-12-20 Q & A 2020-01-01 Q & A 2019-12-24 Q & A, and Short Talk 2019-12-29 Q & A, and Short Talk 2011-02-10 Question and Answer Session 2 2014-11-12 Questioning Awakening 2011-02-19 Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) 2009-05-21 Realizing the Nature of Mind 2011-02-08 Refining the Metta Practice (Question and Answer Session 1) 2011-07-29 Reflections on the Retreat and on the Path 2017-02-13 Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 1) 2017-02-14 Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 2) 2017-02-15 Refractions: Of Body, Sensuality, and Sexuality (Part 3) 2014-10-05 Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 1) 2014-10-05 Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 2) 2014-10-05 Releasing the Self, Freeing its Demons (Part 3) 2006-02-09 Renunciation and Joy 2018-06-27 Sailing the Oceans of Soul (Q & A) 2006-11-07 Samadhi 2010-01-21 Samadhi and Insight (a few pointers) 2007-01-22 Samadhi in Metta Practice 2009-01-24 Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness 2007-03-30 Samatha (Concentration Practice) - Introductory Talk 2008-10-04 Second Day Instructions - Vedana 2011-02-07 Second Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation 2008-08-10 Second Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 2007-04-01 Second Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation 2010-08-10 Selflessness and a Life of Love 2008-11-14 Sense Desire 2016-08-01 Sensing Divinity 2017-12-21 Sensing with Soul (Part 1) 2017-12-22 Sensing with Soul (Part 2) 2017-12-23 Sensing with Soul (Part 3) 2017-12-24 Sensing with Soul (Part 4) 2017-12-25 Sensing with Soul (Part 5) 2017-12-26 Sensing with Soul (Part 6) 2017-12-27 Sensing with Soul (Part 7) 2018-06-26 Sensitivity, Receptivity, and Respect in Soul Work (Q & A) 2011-02-12 Seventh Instructions and Guided Metta Meditation: Metta and Emptiness 2017-04-02 Shaping Vessels 2018-06-28 Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise) 2019-06-09 Sila and Soul (Part 1) 2019-06-10 Sila and Soul (Part 2) 2019-06-11 Sila and Soul (Part 3) 2019-06-12 Sila and Soul (Part 4) 2019-06-13 Sila and Soul (Part 5) 2019-06-14 Sila and Soul (Part 6) 2019-06-15 Sila and Soul (Part 7) 2019-06-16 Sila and Soul (Part 8) 2019-06-17 Sila and Soul (Part 9) 2018-06-28 Soul Making Dharma (Q & A) 2018-02-05 Soulful Movement and Elements of the Imaginal (6 - 10) 2015-08-10 Soulmaking (Part 1) 2015-08-10 Soulmaking (Part 2) 2019-06-03 Soulmaking Dyad Practice 2018-02-06 Soulmaking Rivers (Q & A) 2008-08-12 Talk Five: Samatha, Nibbana, and the Emptiness of Perception - The Relationship… 2008-08-11 Talk Four: Jhanas One to Four 2008-08-08 Talk One: Introduction to the Art of Concentration (Samatha Meditation) 2008-08-10 Talk Three: Wise Effort and Wise Attachment 2008-08-09 Talk Two: Understanding the Heart 2016-08-03 Tending the Flame 2005-12-17 The Art of Letting Go 2016-07-28 The Art of Perception 2011-11-19 The Beauty of Desire (Part 1) 2011-11-26 The Beauty of Desire (Part 2) 2008-02-12 The Birth of a Bodhisattva 2019-05-26 The Crucible 2008-10-03 The Development of Equanimity: Introduction and First Instructions 2020-01-06 The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) 2020-01-07 The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 2018-06-23 The Energy Body (A Little Bit of What, Why, and How) 2019-12-18 The Energy Body and the Whole-body breath (Instructions and Guided Meditation) 2010-01-22 The Experience Of Self (Personality and Beyond) 2020-01-03 The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) 2019-12-22 The First Jhana, and Playing and Working in (and out of) any Jhana 2019-12-31 The Fourth Jhana 2009-02-09 The Freedom of No-thing-ness 2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 1) 2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 2) 2016-08-01 The Gift and the Artifice of Self (Part 3) 2020-02-14 The Image of Ethics (Part 1) 2020-02-15 The Image of Ethics (Part 2) 2020-02-16 The Image of Ethics (Part 3) 2020-02-17 The Image of Ethics (Part 4) 2020-02-18 The Image of Ethics (Part 5) 2020-02-19 The Image of Ethics (Part 6 - An Inconclusive Conclusion, or A Prolegomenon) 2016-08-01 The Imaginal and the Middle Way (Q & A) 2019-03-24 The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A) 2019-06-01 The Invitation of Otherness (Autonomy, Eros, and Intentionality) 2015-08-11 The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1) 2015-08-11 The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) 2008-12-28 The Meaning of Refuge 2011-07-31 The Meditator as Revolutionary 2016-07-29 The Movement of Devotion (Live and Shortened Version) 2016-07-29 The Movement of Devotion (Part 1) 2016-07-29 The Movement of Devotion (Part 2) 2010-11-06 The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 2006-11-22 The Nature of Awareness 2016-07-27 The Nature of Enchantment 2012-12-31 The Necessity of Fantasy 2020-02-12 The Ontology of the Soul, and the Soul of Ontology ( ... inevitably) 2019-06-04 The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 1) 2019-06-05 The Phoenix of Metaphysics (Part 2) 2012-11-01 The Place of Calm 2005-12-29 The Place of Love in Insight Meditation 2008-01-29 The Place of Samadhi in Metta Practice 2007-02-01 The Practice of Compassion 2017-03-26 The Problem of Desire 2010-11-12 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 1) 2010-11-20 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2) 2010-11-26 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey) 2018-02-08 The Rhythms of Soulmaking and Elements of the Imaginal (23 - 28) 2019-12-25 The Second Jhana 2009-09-11 The Self and Its Search for Security 2007-09-20 The Self and the World 2009-01-25 The Sense of Self 2010-01-29 The Seven-Fold Reasoning (The self cannot be found anywhere) 2020-01-05 The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) 2020-01-04 The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) 2009-09-09 The Space of Awareness - Impermanence (1st Guided Meditation) 2009-09-11 The Space of Awareness - Only Impressions in Awareness (3rd Guided Meditation) 2009-09-10 The Space of Awareness - Silence (2nd Guided Meditation) 2009-09-12 The Space of Awareness - Welcoming (4th Guided Meditation) 2018-06-28 The Spreading of Five Wings 2010-02-13 The Subtlety of Dependent Origination 2013-11-10 The Theatre of Selves (Part One) 2013-11-24 The Theatre of Selves (Part Three) 2013-11-17 The Theatre of Selves (Part Two) 2019-12-28 The Third Jhana 2009-02-15 The Unfabricated, The Deathless... 2010-02-15 The Union of Appearance and Emptiness 2008-10-04 The Unshakeable Heart (Part 1) 2008-10-05 The Unshakeable Heart (Part 2) 2019-05-25 The Way of Image 2017-01-15 The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 1) 2017-01-16 The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 2) 2017-01-17 The Way of Non-Clinging (Part 3) 2009-11-17 The Wisdom of Non-Duality 2017-02-11 The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 1) 2017-02-12 The World and More: Immanence, Tantra, and Transcendence (Part 2) 2015-08-12 Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions 2008-08-11 Third Morning Instructions 2007-04-02 Third Samatha Instructions and Guided Meditation 2016-08-02 This Fire, This Longing (Q & A) 2011-12-31 This Matter of Emptiness 2019-03-23 This Retreat 2012-11-06 Thoughts and Images in Meditation 2010-01-23 Three Characteristics - Three Avenues to Freedom and Joy 2007-11-24 Time and the Emptiness of Time 2018-02-04 To Sense with Soul 2018-06-25 Towards the Imaginal 2018-02-05 Transformation in Soul (Q & A) 2019-12-26 True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) 2018-06-24 Trust, Ethics, Image (Q & A) 2018-02-04 Trusting in Soulmaking (Q & A) 2009-11-02 Truthfulness and Authenticity 2009-02-03 Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of th… 2008-02-02 Using Insight To Deepen Love and Compassion 2006-12-31 Views In Practice (...They make all the difference) 2017-03-30 Visions of the Beyond 2018-06-24 Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (1) 2018-06-26 Voice, Movement, and the Possibilities of Soul (2) 2011-02-13 Ways of Looking: (1) Anicca 2011-02-15 Ways of Looking: (2) Dukkha 2011-02-17 Ways of Looking: (3) Anatta 2015-08-09 What is an 'Image'? (Part 1) 2015-08-09 What is an 'Image'? (Part 2) 2018-01-05 What is Awakening? (Part 1) 2018-01-06 What is Awakening? (Part 2) 2018-01-07 What is Awakening? (Part 3) 2018-01-08 What is Awakening? (Part 4) 2007-12-29 What is Insight? 2009-05-03 What is ‘Insight’? 2018-06-27 Wisdom and Desire 2017-01-28 Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 1) 2017-01-29 Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 2) 2017-01-30 Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 3) 2017-01-31 Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 4) 2017-02-01 Wisdom, Art, Balance (Part 5) 2013-11-02 Wise Responses to the Hindrances 2008-09-14 Working with Anger and Aversion 2011-08-03 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Five) 2011-08-02 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Four) 2011-07-30 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day One) 2011-08-05 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Seven) 2011-08-04 Working With The Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Six) 2011-08-01 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Three) 2011-07-31 Working with the Emotional Body (Instructions and Guided Meditation: Day Two) 2007-03-31 Working with the Hindrances 2008-11-09 Working with Thought in Meditation 2010-11-06 The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 69:19 Download Listen The contemplation of vedana, the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, provides a powerful tool to dismantle suffering; it can also reveal surprising and profoundly liberating truths about the nature of reality. 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