Thanissara's Dharma Talks
at Gaia House
Thanissara
Thanissara, from London, was a monastic for 12 years in the tradition of Ajahn Chah and has taught internationally for over 35 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.
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2009-06-08
Teaching of This Moment
2012-09-27
A Burning World
2008-05-30
An Exploration of Mindfulness
2007-08-11
Archetypel Journey
2003-07-20
Balanced Effort
2016-08-08
Beginning Retreat - Return to the Ground of Being
1998-08-18
Being Fully Human And The Six Realms
2009-06-06
Being present to body & breath
2009-06-06
Being Present to Body Breath
2012-09-25
Carried by Dharma
2009-06-11
Chanting
1995-08-02
Chanting
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
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
1997-08-18
Cultivating A Supportive Inner Environment For The Practice Of Insight
2006-09-30
Cultivating the Unshakeable Heart
1998-08-16
Cultivation Of The Four Efforts
2007-08-17
Daily Life - the Ground of Paramita
2007-01-20
Dawn of Contemplation
2016-08-13
Deconstructing the House of Self
2009-06-09
Desire & Aversion
2016-08-11
Difficulty as Opportunity
2003-07-21
Dispassion - The Foundation Of Samadhi
1999-08-17
Dukkha And Its Arising
2016-08-09
Empty Hands
2008-05-31
Exploring Mindfulness
2006-10-05
From Grasping to Gently Holding
1998-08-20
From The Mountain Top To The Market Place
1998-08-22
Gratitude And Milarepa's Parting Song
1997-08-20
Guided Meditation On Death
1995-08-01
Guided Metta Meditation
2002-07-22
Instructions On Contemplation Of Body And Feeling
2002-07-24
Instructions On Listening Inwardly and Outwardly
1997-08-19
Karma Vipaka
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
2009-06-08
Meeting Dukkha
2008-05-31
Mindfulness and the Indriyas
2002-07-23
Movements Beyond Structure
2003-07-24
Opening Into The Bodhisattva Heart
2007-08-10
Opening Talk for Illuminating the Heart of Awareness
2007-01-19
Opening Talk from Dawn of Contemplation
2012-09-28
Placing the Personal Self
2009-06-11
Question and Answer Session
2009-06-11
Questions & Answers
2002-07-26
Relationship And Metta
2006-10-04
Stillness and Inquiry
2003-07-26
Stories Of Kuan Yin
1997-08-17
Suffering Is A Gift - Receive It With Attention
2002-07-21
The Buddha, Renunciation, Samadhi
1996-08-02
The Burning House And The Bodhisattva
2009-06-06
The Five Indriya's
2009-06-06
The Five Indriyas
2007-08-13
The Floodstopper
2006-10-02
The Four Noble Truths
2002-07-25
The Four Noble Truths And Blessing
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
2009-06-10
The Magic Show of the Mind
1998-08-23
The Precept Vehicle
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2009-06-10
The Regal Tree
2006-10-02
Untitled Talk
2003-07-22
Well Being As A Base For Inquiry
1999-08-19
Wisdom Says I Am Nothing, Compassion Says I Am Everything
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Select one of Thanissara's 15 retreats
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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
2009-06-05
The Wings of Awakening
2009-06-05
Wings of Awakening
2012-09-24
Touching the Earth
2016-08-08
From Separation to Seamless Reality
