Various Talks

A discussion with Bhikkhu Anālayo about his book "Deepening Insight: Teachings on vedanā in the Early Buddhist Discourses."

Deepening Insight presents a selection of passages from the early Buddhist discourses that provide perspectives on the cultivation of liberating insight into vedanā, sensation, feeling, or feeling tone. For meditators, such passages can be of considerable help as a reference point for deepening insight.

A metaphor that can offer considerable help when facing vedanās describes bubbles arising on the surface of a pond during rain...they arise and soon enough burst and disappear. Contemplation of the changing nature of vedanā provides a firm foundation for the growth of insight into not self. Such insight proceeds through successive layers of the mind's ingrained habit of self-referentiality. Based on relinquishing the explicit view of affirming the existence of a permanent self, increasingly subtler traces of conceit and possessiveness need to be successively overcome until with full awakening all selfing in any form will be removed for good.

Interview and Q&A with Bhikkhu Anālayo
interviewer: Marta Van Patten
2021
90 minutes

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The Equanimous Mind by Manish Chopra
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The Equanimous Mind (2nd Edition) chronicles the author's first ten-day Vipassana meditation camp experience at the end of 2010 and the life-changing impact it has had on his personal and professional life since that time.

This new second edition comes at an important milestone in Manish's journey as ten years have passed since that first ten-day retreat. A new epilogue in this 10th anniversary edition has been expanded and enriched with updates on his progress since the journey began a decade ago.

Stepping forward with an act of daring confession, Manish Chopra tells us in detail what was wrong with his life, and how, by learning Vipassana meditation, he reoriented every waking moment to be in greater harmony with himself, life, and truth.

The Equanimous Mind has a particular heartwarming quality because of the earnestness with which the author seeks to grow into being the best possible person he can be. Many people will benefit from this volume of clear sentences, deep feelings, and important messages.

Out of gratitude for the benefits the author has received from the practice of Vipassana meditation, he will be donating the proceeds from this book to spreading awareness about the technique, so that others can draw value from it as well.

Interview with Manish Chopra
2021
1 hours 16 minutes

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'The Equanimous Mind' as a book and eBook can be found here.

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Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest by Nyanaponika Thera
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This is the audiobook version of the Wheel Publications booklet Wheel Publication No. 26, The Five Mental Hindrances, compiled and translated by the venerable scholar and founder of the Buddhist Publication Society, Nyanaponika Thera. It is a compilation of selected texts from the Pali Canon and its commentaries on the five obstacles to progress on the spiritual path.

Narrated by Parag Sampat
2015
1 hours 16 minutes

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'Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest' can also be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Wheel Publications Vol. 2 as well as at BPS as a free eBook download.

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Vipassana Meditation Talk by Patrick Given-Wilson
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This is an introductory talk about Vipassana meditation as taught by S. N. Goenka as presented online by Patrick Given-Wilson. This talk was hosted by the Stanton Library, North Council in October of 2021.

Presented by Patrick Given-Wilson
2021
43 minutes

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Buddhist Therapy by Ruth Walshe
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"Is Buddhism closely related to psychology? To some extent, yes - but with one tremendous difference: While psychology helps you to understand yourself intellectually and, at best emotionally, Buddhism helps you to get beyond the intellect to the actual experience of life itself. That's why applied Buddhism goes so much deeper than any school of psychology can ever claim to do…"

Narrated by Judy Swift
2018
42 minutes

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'Buddhist Therapy' can also be found in the Pariyatti Edition of Collected Bodhi Leaves Vol. 1 as well as at BPS as a free eBook download.

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