Thanissara's Dharma Talks
Thanissara
Thanissara, from London, was a nun for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 30 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. She is a member of the Teacher Council at Spirit Rock and co-guiding teacher of Sacred Mountain Sangha.
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2011-12-03
Nothing is Outside the Heart
2009-06-08
Teaching of This Moment
2012-07-04
1. Buddha's Essential Guidance
2012-07-04
10. Training of Mind
2012-07-04
11. Four Truths
2012-07-04
12. Practice of the Four Truths
2012-07-04
13. Leap Beyond
2012-07-04
14. Original Mind
2012-07-04
15. Divine Within Human
2012-07-04
16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation
2012-07-04
17. Daily Life Practice
2012-07-04
18. Taking Precepts
2012-07-04
2. First Foundation of Mindfulness
2011-08-26
2.8.40 - The River of Self
2012-07-04
3. Basic Sanity
2012-05-10
3.9.68 - Icon of the Heart
2012-07-04
4. Guided Meditation on the Body
2012-07-04
5. Samadhi - Path into Here & Now
2012-07-04
6. Jhana Factors & Balanced Effort
2012-07-04
7. Hindrances & Stopping
2012-07-04
8. Balance of Calm & Insight
2012-07-04
9. Contemplating Change & Worldly Winds
2012-09-27
A Burning World
2014-11-28
A Compassionate Training for Our Times
2012-02-25
A Human Journey
2011-03-12
A Mindful Way
2022-11-22
Accessing Peace through Letting Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 1 - recorded thich nhat hanh chant - poem - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 2 - dharma talk - sharing triad - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Afternoon, part 3 - closing Namo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa chant and brief dedication …
2019-10-25
Ajahn Chah's Transmission Of Right View
2008-05-30
An Exploration of Mindfulness
2007-08-11
Archetypel Journey
2015-01-15
Attitude of Kindness & Great Compassion Ceremony
2014-05-17
Authentic Relationship
2007-11-13
Awakening the Heart: The role of trust and devotion in meditation practice
2003-07-20
Balanced Effort
2013-02-17
Before you react...
2016-08-08
Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being
1998-08-18
Being Fully Human And The Six Realms
2012-09-26
Being Present
2009-06-06
Being present to body & breath
2009-06-06
Being Present to Body Breath
2018-09-23
Being with Body
2019-10-18
Beyond Walls Of The Mind
2012-02-18
Blessing Chants
2019-10-05
Breaking the Spell of Patterning
What's Happening Now?
2022-11-20
Breath Meditation: Steps to Shift out of Suffering
2019-10-04
Breathing into Being Knowing
2018-03-14
Bring Daily Life Into Practice
2004-01-01
Buddham Varantam Sirasa Namami
2004-01-01
Buddhist Heart Mantras
2012-09-25
Carried by Dharma
2009-06-11
Chanting
1995-08-02
Chanting
2004-09-17
Chi Gong
2009-12-16
Closing Remarks and Q&A
2016-08-15
Compassion - A Vital Motivation for Our Times
2007-08-15
Compassion, Emptiness and Kuan Yin
1996-08-01
Compassion, Transcendence And Transformation
2015-01-15
Compassionate Transformation
2015-01-14
Compassionate Transformation
1995-08-04
Contemplating Anatta
1995-08-05
Contemplating Nirodha
1995-08-03
Contemplating The Hindrances
1995-08-06
Contemplating The Path
2009-06-08
Contemplation of Desire and Aversion
2012-02-24
Contemplation Of Mind
2017-10-20
Coursing The Depths Of The Mystery.
2002-06-11
Cultivating A Peaceful Abiding Echo
1997-08-18
Cultivating A Supportive Inner Environment For The Practice Of Insight
2022-11-13
Cultivating the Four Wise Efforts: Nurturing the Wholesome, Embracing Suffering…
2006-09-30
Cultivating the Unshakeable Heart
1998-08-16
Cultivation Of The Four Efforts
2015-01-12
Cultivation of Wise Reflection
2007-08-17
Daily Life - the Ground of Paramita
2007-01-20
Dawn of Contemplation
2018-04-25
Day 6: Engaged Dharma Part 1
2018-11-06
Day 6: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-08-13
Deconstructing the House of Self
2009-06-09
Desire & Aversion
2013-05-21
Developing Our Practice
2017-11-19
Development of the Path
2019-11-29
Dharma Practice Within Our Planetary Emergency (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-11-24
Dharma Talk: Beyond Separative Consciousness in These Times (Retreat at Spirit …
2023-11-20
Dharma Talk: The Taste of Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-04-28
Diamond Heart
2016-08-11
Difficulty as Opportunity
2010-03-08
Discerning Mind and It's Activity
2003-07-21
Dispassion - The Foundation Of Samadhi
2019-11-28
Dissolving the Colonial Mind in the Heart Sutra
2017-10-05
Disturbance is the Path.
2017-10-13
Dukkha and Beyond: A Vital Practice
1999-08-17
Dukkha And Its Arising
2019-10-11
Dukkha: The Master Teacher
2015-03-20
Dwelling With The Divine
2016-04-24
Embodied awareness
2016-08-09
Empty Hands
2009-01-20
Emptying the Boulders of the Mind
2014-10-05
Engaged Buddhism
2015-03-25
Engaged Dharma in a World On Fire
2018-04-25
Engaged Dharma Part 2
2019-10-19
Equinimity. Let go of the struggle
2011-04-04
Establishing Mindfulness
2015-03-16
Establishment Of Right View.
2018-04-20
Evening Session Day 1: Generosity/Renunciation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-06
Evening Talk & Book Signing: Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto Fo…
2022-06-05
Exploring Dharma Practice and Right Action in an Age of Climate Change
2008-05-31
Exploring Mindfulness
2009-01-30
Facets of the Diamond
2018-09-27
Faith and the practice Within Intensity
2013-02-23
Footprints
2013-02-21
Four Truths To Live By
2018-03-16
Freeing Our Concsciousness (Friday) - Opening Chants
2018-03-16
Freeing Our Consciousness (Friday) - Opening Talk
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon opening: Chants and Meditation…
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon stories about standing up
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon Talk and Q&A
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning closing
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Guided Meditation
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Talk
2018-03-17
Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts
2020-12-04
Friday Afternoon Session
2020-12-04
Friday Morning Session
2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
2017-10-27
From Separate Consciousness To Seamless Reality
2015-10-04
From Separation to Seamless Reality
2014-05-17
From Shattering to Capacity
2019-11-26
From Suffering to Compassion(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1998-08-20
From The Mountain Top To The Market Place
2009-01-13
Fruit Arises According to the Dharma
2015-03-16
Fruits Of the Path
2004-01-01
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
2009-01-11
Gathered Attention Here and Now
1998-08-22
Gratitude And Milarepa's Parting Song
2004-01-01
Great Compassion Mantra
2011-03-12
Guided Loving Kindness Meditation
2009-12-12
Guided Meditation
1997-08-20
Guided Meditation On Death
2013-02-23
Guided Metta Meditation
1995-08-01
Guided Metta Meditation
2023-11-25
Guided Quan Yin Compassion Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-03-10
Handful Of Leaves
2011-03-04
Heartwood
2011-03-10
Honoring Our Human Journey
2010-03-06
How Is It Now?
2009-01-26
I Have Faith in Nights
2009-12-13
If you understand one thing, you understand everything's journey
2011-03-06
Independent Abiding
2021-11-23
Inner Peace is Not Apart from Activism
2002-07-22
Instructions On Contemplation Of Body And Feeling
2002-07-24
Instructions On Listening Inwardly and Outwardly
2014-05-13
Introduction to Meditation
2008-08-09
Introduction to Meditation
2014-05-15
Investigation of dhammas
2010-03-08
It Is Not As It Should Be.
2004-01-01
Itipi So Bhagava Araham Sammasambuddho
1997-08-19
Karma Vipaka
2021-11-27
Kuan Yin Compassion Ceremony (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-03-31
Kuan Yin for the Planet - Bringing the Heart Suttra Down to Earth
1998-08-19
Leaving The Palace
2006-10-04
Let the Beauty You Love Be What you Do
1996-08-03
Letting Go, Fear And Intimate Relationship
2018-03-10
Liberation Through Wisdom
2017-10-30
Like A Still Forest Pool
2015-03-28
Listening to the Heart - Sat. AM
2015-03-28
Listening to the Heart - Sat. PM
2015-03-29
Listening to the Heart - Sun
2015-03-27
Listening to the Heart: Evening Talk & Book Signing - Friday
2009-01-13
Mara - The Ultimate Teacher
2009-06-08
Meeting Dukkha
2014-10-05
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1
2014-10-12
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2
2014-10-19
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 3
2014-10-26
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 4
2014-11-02
Mindfulness and Climate Action : 5
2008-05-31
Mindfulness and the Indriyas
2013-02-20
Mindfulness Of Feeling
2009-12-14
Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper
2015-03-14
Mindfulness: Step by step
2018-03-11
Mindfulness: The Flood Stopper.
2019-02-11
Monday Night Dharma Talk
2021-11-08
Monday Night Dharma Talk - Climate Code Red: A Needed Shift to Meet These Times
2017-11-20
Morning Instruction Day 3: Wise Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-11-21
Morning Instructions - Day 1
2015-11-24
Morning Instructions, Day 4
2015-11-27
Morning Instructions, Day 7
2017-11-24
Morning Instructions, Day 7: Jeanie Daskais (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-02-24
Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind
2017-11-04
Morning, part 1 - Introduction - chanting - dharma talk
2017-11-04
Morning, part 2 - intro to dyad then sharing discussion
2002-07-23
Movements Beyond Structure
2004-01-01
Na Mo Ban Shr Shr Jya Mo Ni Fo
2004-01-01
Na Mwo Da Bei Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa
2004-01-01
Na Mwo Kuan Shr Yin Pu Sa
2004-01-01
Namo Tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammasambuddhassa
2012-02-21
No Desire, No Path
2010-03-12
Noticing The Context.
2004-01-01
Om Mani Padme Hum
2011-06-07
One Earth Sangha
2003-07-24
Opening Into The Bodhisattva Heart
2002-06-14
Opening Kwan Yin Dharmas
2007-08-10
Opening Talk for Illuminating the Heart of Awareness
2007-01-19
Opening Talk from Dawn of Contemplation
2013-02-16
Opening Talk: Introduction to Retreat and protection chants.
2015-03-18
Orginal Mind - Guided meditation
2015-03-19
Path of Transformation
2019-10-18
Patience with the non-production of Dharmas
2012-09-28
Placing the Personal Self
2014-05-13
Practice & Climate Change
2013-08-23
Practice in a Burning World
2007-12-03
Prajna Paramita In The Dragon Mountains
2013-02-24
Precepts
2014-11-22
Putting Down the Burden
2009-06-11
Question and Answer Session
2009-06-11
Questions & Answers
2007-11-25
Questions and Answers
2016-06-19
Questions and Answers with Thanissara and Eugene Cash
2018-11-03
Reclamation of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-05-05
Reclamation of the Sacred
2018-09-23
Reclamation of the Sacred
2018-11-21
Reclamation of the Sacred
2016-05-07
Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon
2016-05-07
Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning
2016-05-08
Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning
2016-10-30
Reflections on Refuge
2002-07-26
Relationship And Metta
2018-09-25
Release from Samsara
2016-04-23
Remembering to be here
2015-01-08
Renunciation1 - Entering the River of Reality
2015-01-09
Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness
2019-10-26
Resilence In Our Times
2022-11-24
Return to Earth: Dharma in Times of Dismemberment
2022-11-22
Reverence: Opening the Door to the Deathless (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-11-22
Sacred Activism, The Heart Sutra & Standing Rock (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-05-06
Samadhi
2012-02-20
Samadhi - Healing Mind, Body, Heart
2017-10-04
Samadhi - the three streams of energy
2022-11-19
Samadhi: Cultivating a Gathered Heart & Mind
2022-11-13
Samadhi: Training, Benefits, Healing, Pitfalls (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-11-23
Samatha Meditation: A Training for Focusing Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-25
Sati, Samadhi, Sampajanna
2020-12-05
Saturday Afternoon Session
2020-12-05
Saturday Morning Session
2010-03-10
Skill With Thought
2006-10-04
Stillness and Inquiry
2003-07-26
Stories Of Kuan Yin
2009-01-18
Suffering as Opportunity
1997-08-17
Suffering Is A Gift - Receive It With Attention
2011-03-08
Sujata's Gift
2020-12-06
Sunday Afternoon Session
2020-12-06
Sunday Morning Session
2015-03-14
Surrender and Grace
2018-03-08
Sustaining Calm and Focus.
2017-11-25
Taking the Practice to Mordor: Yong Oh and Thanissara (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2004-01-01
Tayata Om Muni Muni Mahamunaye Soha
2017-11-03
TBIF: on The Mula Sutta - q+a
2017-11-03
TBIF: on The Mula Sutta: Through the Portal of Self into the Non-Dual Heart
2002-07-21
The Buddha, Renunciation, Samadhi
2012-02-23
The Buddha's Core Teaching
2018-03-07
The Buddha's Path For Our Times.
1996-08-02
The Burning House And The Bodhisattva
2009-01-18
The Centrality of Minfulness
2007-11-29
The Dharma Is Not The Dharma
2023-12-04
The Dharma of Engaging These Times
2010-03-06
The Eight Streams of Blessings.
2009-06-06
The Five Indriya's
2009-06-06
The Five Indriyas
2014-11-25
The Flickering Play of the Mind
2012-02-22
The Flood Stopper
2007-08-13
The Floodstopper
2006-10-02
The Four Noble Truths
2002-07-25
The Four Noble Truths And Blessing
2009-12-14
The Four Truths
2015-11-23
The Happiness of the Buddha
2009-01-23
The Heroic Human Heart
2017-10-12
The Immensity Of Awareness
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-12-12
The Map Of The Five Indriyas
2018-09-27
The Mula Sutta: Beyond the Constructs of the Mind
2009-02-01
THe Naked Heart
2008-11-09
The Paradigm Shift
2019-10-11
The Power Of Ajahn Chah's Transmission
2021-11-25
The Power of Dharma in Groundless Times.
1998-08-23
The Precept Vehicle
2011-03-06
The Prisoner
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2011-03-08
The River Of The Self
2020-12-03
Thursday Afternoon Session
2020-12-03
Thursday Morning Session
2009-12-16
Touching Earth
2013-02-18
Training For Times Of Intensity
2012-02-19
Training of Attention
2021-11-26
Transforming Unwholesome Karma Through Compassion
2019-10-04
Trust the Path
2014-05-15
Truths For Life
2004-09-17
Unfolding into the Awakened Heart
2006-10-02
Untitled Talk
2013-02-19
Vipassana: Investigation of "Dhammas"
2020-12-02
Wednesday Afternoon Session
2020-12-02
Wednesday Morning Session (Part 1)
2020-12-02
Wednesday Morning Session (Part 2)
2003-07-22
Well Being As A Base For Inquiry
2023-03-15
Where to Now? Mindfulness in the Apocalypse
1999-08-19
Wisdom Says I Am Nothing, Compassion Says I Am Everything
2011-03-10
Without Walls Of The Mind
2013-02-22
Working The Four Truths
2019-10-12
Working With Patterns Of Mind
2021-11-24
Yin Meditation - Depth receptivity to internal experience.
2015-01-17
Yoga of the Heart
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Select one of Thanissara's 53 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
1900-01-01
NYI Regular Talks
1995-08-01
Retreat with Thanissara and Kittisaro
1996-08-01
Retreat with Thanissara and Kittisaro
1997-08-17
Retreat with Thanissara
1998-08-16
Retreat with Thanissara
1999-08-17
Retreat with Thanissara
2002-07-21
Retreat with Thanissara
2003-07-20
Retreat with Thanissara
2006-09-29
The Union of Wisdom and Compassion
2007-01-19
Dawn of Contemplation
2007-08-10
Illuminating the Heart of Awareness
2008-05-30
An Exploration Of Mindfulness
2009-01-10
Original Brightness Retreat
2009-06-05
The Wings of Awakening
2009-06-05
Wings of Awakening
2009-12-11
Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties
2010-03-05
The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-03-04
The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet
2011-04-01
Sacred Mountain Study-Practice Program
2011-11-29
Being Dharma
2012-02-18
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-06-14
Embodied Dharma
2012-09-24
Touching the Earth
2013-02-16
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-08-22
Touching the Earth
2014-05-12
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-11-21
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-01-07
Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa
2015-01-24
Life, Death, Etc. ...All in a Year!
2015-03-13
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-05-01
Sacred Tenderness: Exploring the Energies of Our Hearts
2015-10-04
A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World
2015-11-20
Thanksgiving Insight Retreat
2016-04-22
An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-05-07
Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion
2016-08-08
From Separation to Seamless Reality
2017-10-01
October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2017-11-04
Thanissara and Sebene Selassie: Reclamation of Heart in Our Times of Dismemberm…
2017-11-17
Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace and Gra…
2018-03-06
Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh…
2018-03-16
Freeing Our Consciousness
2018-04-19
Dedicated Practitioners Program Six; Retreat #3
2018-09-22
Reclamation of the Sacred
2018-10-31
Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insigh…
2019-09-10
Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
2019-10-01
October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2019-11-22
November Insight Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace, & Gratitude
2020-12-02
"Essence: Accessing Peace Within Uncertain Times" with Kittisaro and Thanissara
2021-11-19
Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love
2022-11-11
DPP7#2
2022-11-18
Journey Into Refuge, Presence, and Love
2023-11-18
Refuge, Resilience, Presence, and Love In Our Times
2016-05-08
Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning
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Kittisaro ,
Thanissara
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.
The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center
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Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion
