Howard Cohn's Dharma Talks
Howard Cohn
The more I rest in present awareness, and don't separate myself out from life, the more I appreciate the impact that I have on others. Only when I am present am I sensitive to my connection to the world, am I able to feel how important it is to be non-harming in my words and actions. When I am lost in thought, I lose that simplicity and sensitivity.
I continually point toward this secret of the present moment, for if I am really present, I don't suffer as much, I don't cause as much suffering, and I am less afraid. I may experience intense pain or pleasure, but the degree of mental suffering lessens. Practicing mindfulness de-conditions the habits that prevent me from being centered in the present. This in turn gives me a more stable awareness, which allows me to recognize my inherent peace and freedom.
It is this taste of nowness--introducing people to the living quality of the present moment and its sense of freedom--that most engages me in my teaching practice. I find no evidence of suffering, in my mind, unless I remind myself of some event that is not in the present. Suffering arises when I am lost in my imagination, reviewing the past or fearfully anticipating the future.
I feel tremendous gratitude and love for the dharma, and the practice of awareness. Knowing my mind a little better, and being less preoccupied with my internal drama, makes me more available to the suffering of others. Consequently, I am moved to give to others rather than focusing on what I can get. In spite of being more attuned to suffering, staying present allows each day to become more joyful, compelling and intereesting. My desire to run from this moment, by running after an imagined, better future, or away from a past fear, has diminished. It is present wakefulness that helps me recover my capacity to live with balance and ease in the world.
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2021-04-27
A Case of Mistaken Identity
2021-05-25
A Tribute to Yvonne Ginsburg
2021-07-20
An Open Mind is Free
2021-10-05
Beyond the Story of Self
2016-01-07
Day Two, Instructional Sit
2021-09-21
Harvest Moon
2021-07-27
Kindness
2021-09-28
The Immeasurable Qualities of the Heart
2015-02-10
30th Anniversary Q&A
2012-04-04
4 Noble Truths in Real Time
2011-12-17
A Case of Mistaken Identity
2015-09-05
A Case of Mistaken Identity
2016-07-05
A Feast of Joy To Which All Are Invited
2019-01-22
A View of Self Is Not Self
2011-05-03
A Wise Relationship with Suffering
2008-12-11
Against The Stream
2011-01-18
Against the Stream
2015-06-19
Aim for the Highest Happiness
2010-06-25
All About Me
2018-06-19
All In This Together
2013-03-26
Altruistic Joy
2012-01-21
An Overview of the Eightfold Path
2012-01-21
An Overview of the Eightfold Path
2008-02-14
At The Still Point Of The Turning World
2014-10-10
Awakening this Natural Mind of the Buddha
2013-10-15
Awareness
2013-04-22
Awareness is Natural
2011-04-27
Awareness of Body
2013-04-16
Awful - Responding with Compassion after the Boston Marathon Bombing
2011-08-16
Back to Nature
2012-06-21
Back To Nature: Mindfulness of the Body
2012-09-04
Back to School
2016-01-19
Be In Your Groove
2016-10-25
Be Kind to Yourself
2017-06-20
Being Human Beings
2017-12-19
Between the Thoughts
2012-03-13
Beyond I, Me, Mine
2015-05-16
Big Mind
2013-08-13
Big Mind
2008-02-23
Big Mind Meditation
2014-08-31
Big Mind Meditation
2008-08-31
Big Sky Meditation With Bells
2016-03-15
Book Launch and Interconnectedness
2013-12-03
Brilliant Selling of Samsara
2020-02-11
Buddha Not Buddhist
2012-05-17
Buddha's Way To Happiness
2015-05-14
Buddha's Way to Well Being And Happiness
2015-05-05
Bugs in a bowl
2012-07-14
Calming the Restless Mind
2016-08-21
Calming the Restless Mind
2011-04-15
Cast Your Votes for Dancing
2017-08-29
Chain Of Dependent Origination
2023-09-04
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-09-13
Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-09-15
Collected and Composed
2019-05-28
Coming Out of the Tangle of Confusion
2017-01-24
Compassion and the Mystery
2012-10-02
Connecting Lovingly with Yourself and Others
2013-09-17
Connecting With Life Right Where it Touches You
2010-11-30
Connecting with this Very Moment
2019-12-03
Cultivating Compassion : Q&A and Dharma Talk
2016-11-15
Cultivating Equanimity in Times of Uncertainty
2013-09-24
Cultivating Harmlessness
2014-09-23
Cultivating Kindness
2012-09-18
Cultivating Wholesome Actions and Realizing a State of Awe
2015-03-31
Cultivating Wise View
2012-01-24
Dana, Sila and Bhavana
2019-06-04
Day 1 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit R…
2017-05-31
Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2019-06-05
Day 2 Experiential Practice: Introduction of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-09-01
Day 2 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-19
Day 2 Sitting/Instructions
2023-02-04
Day 2, Module I: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Body
2018-05-23
Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-02-05
Day 3, Module II: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, The Dhammas (Hindrances)
2017-06-02
Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2016-05-21
Day 4 Sitting/Instructions
2023-02-06
Day 4, Module III: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Vedana/Feeling Tone
2023-02-06
Day 4, Module IV: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Metta module
2023-02-07
Day 5, Module IV: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Mind
2023-02-08
Day 6, Module I: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness, The Dhammas (Factors of A…
2016-01-09
Day Four Instructional Sit
2016-05-03
Day Four Instructions
2016-05-01
Day Two Metta: Body Metta
2015-01-04
Daylong Retreat talk - The Buddha's Path to Well-Being
2015-01-04
Daylong Retreat talk - The Buddha's Path to Well-Being
2015-01-04
Daylong Retreat talk - The Buddha's Path to Well-Being
2013-11-05
Death and Deathlessness
2017-01-07
Dharma Duet: The Essential Teachings of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Ho…
2014-04-08
Dharma Joy
2015-04-21
Dig the Present
2010-11-15
Don't Believe the Second-Hand Story
2015-10-06
Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole
2016-12-06
Don't Know Mind
2015-11-17
Double Down on Sila
2015-03-03
Dwelling in the Living Present
2019-03-12
Embodied and Disembodied
2016-12-20
Embracing The Black
2010-10-26
Embracing your Mollyness
2010-02-24
Empty of Self / Full of Everything
2007-06-22
Empty Of Self, Full Of Everything
2018-05-27
Empty of Self, Full of Love
2008-02-18
Equanimity: The Eye Of The Storm
2022-01-08
Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-23
Evening Q & A Metta Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-08-07
Expanding The Circle Of Sensitivity
2012-10-09
Faith
2016-05-04
Fall into life: Simple Mindful Presence
2008-01-24
Finding A Reliable Refuge
2008-01-24
Finding A Reliable Refuge
2012-11-13
Finding Peace in this Sea of Insecurity
2017-08-01
Finding Your Own Way
2011-09-02
Following the Buddha's Way to True Happiness
2009-12-16
Footsteps of the Buddha: The Highest Happiness is Peace
2018-09-04
For The Next 100 Days
2011-03-01
Forgetting and Remembering
2011-10-11
Forgiveness
1990-08-02
Form and Space
2016-08-30
Fountain of Teaching
2014-08-05
Freedom
2012-07-10
Freedom from Clinging
2014-05-23
Freedom from the Prison of Self
2011-06-14
Freedom is Right Here
2013-06-11
From Me to We
2017-01-31
Gain and Loss
2012-08-21
Generosity and Lovingkindness
2015-08-18
Go For It
2018-05-22
Going Nowhere We Find Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2024-04-01
Guided meditation on the self-like nature of mind
2023-09-01
Guided Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1999-03-24
Happier and Freer
2012-02-21
Happiness Free of Hunger
2011-11-29
Happiness Now - Why Wait for the Weekend
2013-01-31
Happiness Of A Buddha
2000-03-10
Happiness of the Buddha
2007-05-24
Healing Power Of Mindfulness
2015-06-02
Here
2011-10-25
Here and Now
2009-08-19
Hindrances as a Door of Awakening
2015-06-17
Housebuilder, You Have Been Seen
2019-03-26
I Let Myself Feel It
2016-04-12
Ignorance of Racism
2015-01-27
Immediate Living Experience
2010-09-03
In Harmony With The Truth
2014-04-22
In Honor of Earth Day
2013-01-10
In The Footsteps of The Buddha
2011-10-18
Inclusion and Exclusion
2015-05-26
Individual yet Not-Self
2016-04-19
Individuality and the Absolute
2020-01-21
Insight
2012-01-10
Insight and Clear Perception
2017-01-05
Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-01-07
Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2021-09-19
Integrating Life into Practice
2013-12-10
Integrating Your Life into Your Practice
2013-11-19
Interbeing
2015-11-10
Interconnectedness
2013-09-03
Introduction to 100-Day Retreat in Daily Life - The Five Training Precepts
2016-06-25
Introduction to Insight Meditation
2013-06-29
Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 1 of 4
2013-06-29
Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 2 of 4
2013-06-29
Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 3 of 4
2013-06-29
Introduction to Insight Meditation, Part 4 of 4
2017-07-22
Introduction to Meditation (Daylong at Spirit Rock) part 1
2017-07-22
Introduction to Meditation (Daylong at Spirit Rock) part 2
2015-11-15
Introduction to Mindfulness - Part One
2015-11-15
Introduction to Mindfulness - Part Two
2007-12-14
It's All About Me
2011-02-02
It's all Miraculous
2013-08-27
It's Too Close, Too Vast, Too Wondrous, and Too Easy
2014-09-09
Joy
2017-05-09
Joy and Freedom
2014-06-12
Joy of Awakening
2014-08-26
Joy On and Off of the Cushion
2011-06-30
Jumping into the Midst of Everything: Realizing the Four Noble Truths
2012-07-31
Keep it Simple
2016-07-12
Keep Your Heart Open
2015-07-28
Keeping One's Center
2018-01-15
Kusala
2016-08-02
Learning to Touch The Inner Safety
2013-07-02
Let Go and Find Unshakeable Peace and Freedom
2017-05-02
Let Our Hearts Not Forget
2012-10-30
Let the World Adjust to You
2010-12-09
Let Your Difficulties Become the Path
2012-06-23
Let's Grow Up: Exploring The 4 Noble Truths
2019-10-01
Letting Go
2012-10-16
Letting Go of Attachements
2011-03-15
Letting Our Hearts Break
2016-03-29
Liberation through Dana, Sila, Bhavana
2011-08-23
Liberation through Non-Clinging
2014-04-01
Light and Love
2012-02-28
Live a Life that Leads to Freedom
2019-01-15
Living in Accordance With the Truth
2012-03-06
Living with Calm Abiding and Don't Know Mind
2012-02-07
Living with Ease
2012-08-31
Look Around: Wake Up to Reality
2011-12-15
Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
2011-04-05
Loss, Grief, and Love
2012-02-14
Love
2015-02-03
Love
2011-03-08
Love - The Reason we Practice
2016-09-02
Loving Kindness Practice
2010-05-07
Loving The House That Ego Built
2011-01-29
Loving The House That Ego Built
2015-07-26
Loving the House that Ego Built
2016-03-19
Loving the House that Ego Built
2019-08-16
Loving the House that Ego Built
2013-01-20
Loving The House That Ego Built, Part 1
2015-07-26
Loving the House that Ego Built, Part 1 of 2
2013-01-20
Loving The House That Ego Built, Part 2
2015-07-26
Loving the House that Ego Built, Part 2 of 2
2014-10-07
Luminous is the Mind
2017-05-11
Malaika Morning Instructions
2014-02-04
Marry the One Who Won't Divorce You
2016-03-01
May you truly be happy
2014-03-18
Meditation - Skylike Nature of the Mind
2016-05-31
Meditation Is Enlightenment Itself
2013-10-10
Meeting Your Life as it Is
2017-05-16
Melting Our Heart Open
2011-02-08
Metta - Reteaching a Thing its Loveliness
2022-09-02
Metta for this Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2015-01-20
Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension
2014-06-24
Mindfulness of the Body and Feelings
2011-03-29
Minding the Gap and Stepping into Life
2016-01-12
Mini-Nirvana
2019-02-12
Missing What's Happening in Real Time
2017-10-17
Mission Dharma's Commitment Statement
2016-09-13
Monkey Mind
2013-02-01
Morning Instructions - Day 2
2024-09-11
Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-02-08
Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation
2018-01-22
Morning Instructions Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-01-25
Morning Instructions Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-08-31
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-09-03
Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2011-09-13
Music of the Heart
1998-01-02
Nature of Self, Nature of Mind
2015-01-08
No Mud, No Lotus
2017-06-13
Not Waiting For Happiness
2023-09-02
Nothing Can Make You Happier than You Are
2016-08-16
Nothing Ever Happened
2014-11-25
On Ferguson - When the Way Things Are is Hard to Bear
2014-03-18
One Essential Mind- Myriad Forms
2017-03-21
One's Approach To Practice
2018-08-21
Open Conversation Q&A
2014-02-18
Open Relaxation and Letting Go
2018-02-20
Open Secret
2017-09-05
Open To Suffering
2016-11-22
Open Your Heart
2016-05-17
Opening Night Talk
2017-01-04
Opening Night Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2023-08-30
Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-06-03
Opening to Freedom
2012-01-03
Opening to Life
2015-02-24
Opening to Silence
2018-01-02
Others and No Others
2016-11-29
Our Capacity to Awaken
2013-10-02
Our Dear Green Earth
2023-06-18
Our Lineage and Love of Dharma
2012-04-17
Pacify the Bully
2008-02-08
Papanca - Why I Can't Be Happy Now
2017-07-25
Path of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-03-07
Peace In The Awareness
2015-08-25
Peace is the Natural State of the Mind
2011-08-30
Planting Seeds
2018-03-27
Possibility of Inner Peace
1999-03-11
Practical People make a Peaceful World
2014-09-16
Practice for Difficult Times
2014-08-12
Practicing in Difficult Times
2014-05-27
Practicing in Difficult Times
2020-03-10
Practicing in Place #1
2020-03-24
Practicing in Place #2
2012-05-22
Practicing the Dharma with Others
2009-06-09
Practicing with the Four Noble Truths
2010-09-21
Purity and Happiness
2022-09-01
Putting our mind in our Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2017-02-28
Q&A
2011-03-22
Q&A - The Road Less Traveled
2018-09-25
Questions & Answers
2014-10-14
Questions & Answers
2012-03-27
Questions and Answers
2013-03-19
Questions and Answers
2017-01-17
Racial Awareness
2020-03-31
Rain
2012-01-31
Rains Retreat
2017-09-12
Redemption Song
2015-01-10
Rediscovering Your Mollyness
2015-01-13
Reflections for the New Year
2017-02-07
Refuge in the Dharma
2017-11-14
Relating to the Present
2018-09-11
Relationship To Practice
2015-04-14
Relax a little bit
2013-01-22
Reliable Refuge
2018-06-12
Resilience
2017-09-19
Resilience
2010-11-23
Rest in Natural Great Peace
2012-05-29
Rest in the Mind's True Nature
2015-10-13
Right View
2016-09-06
Sanctuary of Sanity
2013-02-26
Seconds Away from Freedom
2018-04-03
Security
2019-02-26
See Your Fellow Bugs
2018-07-31
Seeing Into The Heart Of Humanity
2008-08-30
Seeing Through The Self Illusion
2009-06-12
Seeing through the Self Illusion
2012-05-19
Seeing Through The Self Illusion
2015-05-19
Self View and Insecurity
2014-06-20
Self, No Self and Freedom
2013-07-16
Selflessness and Interconnection
2018-02-13
Service and Sangha
2013-08-06
Serving the Divine
2015-03-24
Shift Happens
2011-11-15
Simplicity of the Quiet Mind
2008-11-15
Simply Waiting
2016-12-13
Sitting In The Middle Of It
2012-12-11
Skillfully Responding to the Voices of Mara
2012-12-04
Solving the Case of Mistaken Identity
2011-01-07
Song of Awakening: Confronting the Three Marks of Existence
2019-01-19
Song of Freedom
2012-05-01
Soothing the Anxious Heart
2024-09-09
Spirit Rock Founders Remember the Early Days (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2012-12-31
Spirit Rock Meditation Center, No Self, No Problem: An Exploration of Self-View
2016-12-10
Spirit Rock, The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness
2013-03-05
Spring Cleaning
2011-07-26
Stay Where You Are
2011-09-06
Stay Where you Are
2013-10-22
Stay Where You Are - Q&A
2024-03-31
Stepping out of a view of self
2010-10-19
Stepping Out of Our Identities
2018-10-16
Suffering & Happiness
2018-04-24
Survivability
2014-08-19
Taking Refuge
2012-05-15
Taking Refuge in the Laughing Buddha
2016-07-19
Teacher Appreciation
2014-10-28
Teachings on Not-Self
2015-11-24
Thank You
2017-11-21
Thankful for Nothing
2011-11-22
Thanksgiving
2012-11-20
Thanksgiving
2010-02-18
The Awakening of Equanimity
2014-07-29
The Bliss of Consciousness
2012-07-03
The Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha
2016-01-03
The Buddha's Path of Well Being and Happiness - Morning Session
2016-01-03
The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness - Afternoon Session
2008-04-04
The Buddha's Way To Happiness
2010-05-25
The Buddha's Way to Happiness
2009-04-11
The Buddha's Way To Happiness and Freedom
2013-03-12
The Clear Light of Your Existence - In Memory of Carlos Ramirez
2015-12-15
The Compelling Present
2009-04-13
The Complicating Nature of the Self View.
2009-11-18
The Cure for Pain Is in the Pain
2010-06-22
The Cure for Pain is in the Pain
2013-06-25
The Desire for Awakening
2013-05-21
The Dharma is Not an Escape - The Way Out is In
2012-09-25
The Dharma of Non-Postponement
2015-05-16
The Door Is Wide Open
2012-05-08
The Dukkha of Praise and Blame
2013-05-28
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
2012-06-26
The Four Noble Truths
2011-01-11
The Four Noble Truths - Kickoff of the 100 Day Retreat
2014-04-29
The Four Noble Truths in Action
2008-02-22
The Four Reminders
2013-04-09
The Four Wise Efforts
2014-06-10
The Gifts of Practice
2012-07-24
The Graveyard of Memory and Q&A
2010-04-01
The Happiness Of A Buddha
2002-02-03
The Happiness of the Buddha
2013-08-20
The Happy Sangha
2014-01-21
The Healing Power of Mindfulness and Love
2014-02-06
The Highest Happiness
2016-09-03
The Highest Happiness
2024-09-10
The Highest Happiness is Peace (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
1990-08-01
The Hindrances
2012-09-11
The Home of Experience
2013-07-08
The House of Self
2018-11-16
The House that Ego Built: Understanding Self, Not-Self and Indentity
2013-02-05
The Idea of You is Not You
2018-10-02
The Illusion Of Separateness
2019-03-05
The Imagined Me in Our Mind
2013-07-05
The Immediacy of the Four Noble Truths
2013-05-07
The Innocence of Identity
2018-08-28
The Internal Dialogue
2018-11-13
The Internal Story We Carry With Us
2018-11-13
The Internal Story We Carry With Us
2016-05-20
The Joy of Awakening
2014-05-03
The Light of Wisdom
2012-07-17
The Manure of Bodhi
2014-10-21
The Mark of No-Self
2016-08-23
The Metta Sutta
2018-11-06
The Miracle Of Awakening
2014-02-11
The Miracle of Awakening
2016-04-26
The Miracle of Mindfulness
2013-01-15
The Miracle of the Present Moment
2014-12-02
The Nature of Mind
2015-03-10
The New Normal
2010-02-03
The Obstacles are the Path
2007-04-18
The Open Secret
2012-11-05
The Open Secret
2013-01-29
The Paramis
2014-05-13
The Paramis
2014-08-29
The Pathless Path
2012-04-07
The Preciousness of Life
2013-06-04
The Promise of Awakening
2013-09-10
The Sacred Pause
2011-07-12
The Search for Safety
2014-11-18
The Second Arrow
2013-05-14
The Skylike Nature of Mind
2016-06-21
The Solstice and the Light of Awareness
2014-01-29
The State of Union
2009-09-05
The Thoughts Keep Coming
2018-09-18
The Three Fetters
2011-07-19
The Topic for Every Day is Love
2010-01-21
The Transformative Potential in our Difficulties
2011-01-25
The Triple Gem
2011-11-08
The True Happiness of Freedom
2016-01-25
The Way to the End of the World
2017-02-26
The Wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion, afternoon session (Daylong at Sp…
2017-02-26
The Wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion, morning session (Daylong at Spir…
2012-01-19
The Wisdom of Vulnerability: Working with the Four Noble Truths
2019-02-19
The Wonder of Being Is in Plain Sight
2018-10-23
The World We Create With Our Mind
2011-04-12
The World, the Cause of the World, the End of the World
2014-01-11
There is no Big Dipper
2016-11-08
Things As They Are
2011-02-15
This Body, The Path
2016-01-08
This Gift of Awakening
1999-03-18
Time
2010-05-27
To Be Realized in the Here and Now
2014-09-02
To See Through the Self
2010-10-12
Touching our Fear
2010-02-12
Trance of Time
2013-01-01
Transcendence, Connection to the Timeless, and New Year's Intentions
2016-06-18
True Happiness
2012-06-05
Trust in Awareness
2017-06-01
Turn Your Existence Into Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-12-16
Turning the Wheel of the Dharma
2018-06-26
Unconditionally Happy
2016-03-08
Unstuck from the World
2016-09-20
Untrained Mind and Trained Mind
2014-02-25
Vive la Difference
2014-05-20
Wake Up, You're Behind a Farting Camel
2021-10-12
Waking Up Where We Are
2015-11-03
Walking Each Other Home
2011-01-27
Walking The Buddha's Path Of Happiness
2019-04-16
Wanting More of This & Less of That
2019-06-18
Waves Don't Get Separated From the Ocean
2000-05-27
We Are All Doing Time
2017-08-15
We Are All In This Together
2010-12-14
We are the Ones we are Looking for
2011-09-27
We Are What We Practice
2019-03-19
We Don't Know What's Going To Happen
2015-07-21
What Am I Defending?
2014-11-11
What Are You Doing for the Rest of Your Life?
2015-12-01
What are you practicing
2013-02-19
What Can I Give to the World Today?
2012-06-19
What is Your Next Step?
2014-01-14
What Seed Will You Plant?
2016-08-09
What We All Share
2000-03-16
What We Need Is Here
2019-08-31
What We Need Is Here
2016-10-04
What You Are Feeling Is Just Right
2019-02-05
What You Frequently Dwell Upon Becomes the Inclination of Mind
2016-01-06
What You Need is Here
2012-08-28
What's Happening Now?
2013-04-30
When the Heart-Mind is Open
2012-10-23
When We Have No Preferences
2019-11-16
Who are we? Exploring Our 'Selves' and Identities
2013-12-17
Who is Skeptical?
2011-09-20
Widening our Circle
2011-12-06
Working with the Hindrances
2019-05-21
You and Your Idea of You
2012-03-20
You are a Buddha
2017-09-02
You are Beautiful as You Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-02-02
You Are Buddha-Ful
2011-02-22
You are Indescribable
2015-06-09
You Are Nature
2018-01-24
You Are Not A Problem to be Solved (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-09-01
You Are Not A Problem To Be Solved (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2013-10-12
You are not what you think
2014-03-04
You Are Not What You Think
2017-07-28
You Are Not What You Think (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2010-10-05
You are that Gleam
2010-12-11
You are the Buddha
2001-05-02
You Are the Buddha
2001-05-20
You Are the Buddha
2015-08-11
You Are The Earth
2013-01-12
You are the Nameless and the Formless
2011-10-04
You Are What You Are Looking For
2017-01-06
You Are What You Are Looking For (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2014-03-11
You Are What You Think
2018-11-27
You Are What You're Looking For
2016-10-12
You are Worthy of Respect
2018-08-14
You Mind In The Same Location As Your Body
2016-06-07
You Never Know
2015-03-17
You Who are the Richest
2010-11-09
Your Basic Goodness
2013-08-30
Your Difficulties are Your Path
2014-01-09
Your Medicine is the Four Noble Truths
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Select one of Howard Cohn's 82 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
1990-08-01
Gaia House Retreat
2001-01-01
SFI Sunday Nights
2007-04-13
Spring Vipassana Retreat
2007-05-23
The Healing Power Of Mindfulness
2007-06-18
Meditation And Yoga
2007-12-12
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-01-22
Insight Meditation Retreat
2008-02-01
Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat
2008-04-01
Insight Meditation 101
2008-08-27
Labor Day Retreat
2008-11-14
Meditation and Yoga
2008-12-10
Insight Meditation
2009-04-10
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-06-07
Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat
2009-08-17
Meditation and Yoga
2009-09-02
Labor Day
2009-11-16
Insight Meditation Retreat
2009-12-15
Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat
2010-01-19
Essential Dharma
2010-01-31
February 2010 Month Long
2010-03-31
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-04-30
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2010-05-24
Essential Dharma
2010-06-20
Meditation and Yoga
2010-09-01
Labor Day Retreat
2010-12-07
Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-01-26
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-04-11
Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2011-06-27
Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening
2011-08-31
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2011-12-13
Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-01-17
Essential Dharma
2012-04-02
Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2012-05-16
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2012-06-20
Essential Dharma
2012-08-29
Labor Day Retreat
2013-01-08
Essential Dharma
2013-01-30
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-05-03
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2013-07-03
Meditation and Yoga
2013-08-28
Labor Day Retreat
2013-10-09
Natural Mind
2014-01-07
Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat
2014-02-05
The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-05-02
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2014-05-19
Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening
2014-06-09
Awakening Joy
2014-06-15
Meditation and Yoga Retreat
2014-08-27
Labor Day Retreat
2014-10-09
Discovering the Natural Mind of the Buddha
2015-01-06
Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat
2015-05-13
The Buddha’s Way to Well-Being and Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat
2015-06-15
Loving the House That Ego Built
2015-07-26
Loving the House that Ego Built
2015-09-02
Labor Day Retreat
2016-01-05
Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat
2016-01-24
Waking up in Every World
2016-04-29
Spring Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-05-17
Awakening Joy Retreat
2016-06-16
Invitation to Insight Meditation Retreat
2016-08-31
Labor Day Insight meditation Retreat
2016-10-11
An Undefended Heart
2017-01-03
Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat
2017-05-10
Awareness, Insight and Liberation
2017-05-30
Awakening Joy
2017-07-14
July Insight Meditation Retreat
2017-07-24
Insight Meditation as a Path to Freedom
2017-08-30
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-01-21
Essential Dharma Insight Meditation Retreat
2018-05-21
Awakening Joy
2018-08-29
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2019-01-16
Winter Insight Retreat
2019-06-03
Awakening Joy
2019-08-28
Labor Day Insight Retreat
2021-09-13
Days of Awe: Discovering our Humanity
2022-01-04
Waking Up In The Midst Of It All
2022-08-31
Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat
2023-02-03
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - February Retreat 2023
2023-08-30
Labor Day Insight Retreat
2024-03-26
Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat
2024-09-09
Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers
2023-09-02
Nothing Can Make You Happier than You Are
58:33
Insight Meditation reintroduces us to our natural peace and well being and shows us the difference between the immediate experience of ourselves and the version of ourselves that plays in our minds. That story is one of hope and desire, reinforcing the feeling that happiness cannot be found right now but must wait for the right conditions to be achieved. This misplaced faith must be seen through.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Labor Day Insight Retreat