Thanissara's most recent Dharma talks (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(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 divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally.

Copies of Thanissara's book, Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author.

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

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

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

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

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(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 stop the madness, and enter the journey of reclamation, healing, resistance and activism.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Martin Luther King’s term, “Beloved Community,” points to our potential for living together with love, justice and respect. This talk explores the often hidden expressions of racism that fuel separation and violence, and pathways toward healing and freeing our collective hearts.