Susan O'Brien's most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Susan O'Brien has been practicing vipassana meditation since 1980 and has studied with a variety of Asian and Western teachers. She began teaching in 1996 and coordinates the Insight Meditation correspondence course.

Susan O'Brien: For the Benefit of all Beings

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Realizing the ways in which our practice can never be for ourselves alone.

03-28
52:04

Susan O'Brien: Impermanence

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The liberating power of knowing the truth of change.

03-21
55:34

Susan O'Brien: 'Reflections on Refuge'

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What might refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha mean for us?

03-14
51:01

Susan O'Brien: 'Concentration is Possible'

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at the possibility of non-distractedness

03-07
52:58

Susan O'Brien: What Are We Doing Here?

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An invitation to explore the areas and the ways that our practice is alive, fresh, engaged - and where and how it isn't

03-01
47:21

Susan O'Brien: Reflections on Death

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How reflecting on our own impermanence can be a support in practice.

11-09
49:04

Susan O'Brien: Aspiration, Expectation, Acceptance

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What inspires our practice, what obstructs it and the role of acceptance in practice.

11-02
46:27

Susan O'Brien: Selfing

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How we create a sense of self by identifying with experience.

07-26
54:52

Susan O'Brien: Forgiveness

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A look at the process of forgiving, ending with a guided meditation.

07-19
42:51

Susan O'Brien: Refuge

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

07-13
51:19

Susan O'Brien: Trust

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Remembering to relax into the truth of our experience.

07-06
47:27

Susan O'Brien: Walking Meditation

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

03-08
51:25

Susan O'Brien: Hoping, Fearing, Seeing the Truth

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

02-22
45:27

Susan O'Brien: Compassion

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Compassion's powerful role in meeting suffering.

09-11
58:16

Susan O'Brien: Metta Chant

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) with Kathleen Conrad

03-05
04:13

Susan O'Brien: Factors Of Awakening

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Seven wholesome states of mind and heart that develop through meditation practice.

02-09
01:01:37

Susan O'Brien: Patience

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The cultivation and practice of patience as an important support and powerful ally.

02-02
56:55

Susan O'Brien: Desire And Aversion

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How we might recognize and free ourselves from the pull of wanting and not wanting.

01-26
53:19

Susan O'Brien: The First Noble Truth

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How a skillful engagement with suffering leads to greater ease.

01-19
53:48

Susan O'Brien: Three Characteristics

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Freeing the mind through understanding impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.

01-25
53:13

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