Dharma Talks

This site is an archive of Dharma talks given by Mary Grace Orr and other teachers at Vipassana Santa Cruz. The links will take you to talks by individual speakers. The download instructions provide technical information on retrieving the talks. Please enjoy the talks. These talks are freely available for download or to listen to in streaming audio.

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Mary Grace Orr
Actualities Download Play 16:38
Anger Download Play 45:10
Buddhist Lists Download Play 42:30
Faith Download Play 43:57
Five Faculties Download Play 25:45
Finding Meaning Download Play 34:28
Four Bases of Power Download Play 39:29
Mindfulness Download Play 34:36
Nothing to Do, Nowhere to Go, No One to Be Download Play 54:59
The Nature of Suffering Download Play 17:21
On Becoming a Buddha Download Play 1:00:19
The One Who is Not Busy Download Play 33.12
Relationship as Practice Download Play 29.31
The Sea Turtle Dharma Talk Download Play 44:52
The Wings of Awakening Download Play 52:10
Wise Effort Download Play 33:01
Carla Brennan
Avoidance, Idenification or Wisdom Download Play 31:14
Creating Space for Spaciousness Download Play 31:10
Generosity Download Play 48:00
Healing Power of the Mindful Heart Download Play 47:29
Peace Download Play 29:35
Noah Levine
Dharma Punx Talk Download Play 41.36
Jason Murphy
The Four Noble Truths Download Play 26:19
Judgement vs. Discernment Download Play 20:19
Richard Shankman
Working with Difficulties Download Play 1:01:35
Bob Stahl
The 32 Parts of the Body Download Play 45:27
Opening the Heart Download Play 54:03

The fine print...

There are no charges for using this site. You may stream talks (by clicking "Play" next to the talk) to listen online right away. You may also click "download" to put a copy of the MP3 file on your computer. You may then listen to this copy, burn it to a CD, and share it with others. However:

The vast majority of these files are covered by Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved license. You can't repackage talks to sell to others (as opposed to giving them away), nor can you use only portions of the talks in another project or product. You must always credit the person or organization who owns this Creative Commons copyright. If you give the talks to others, you must inform them the talks are protected by copyright in this way.

Some teachers, including most monastics, have placed their talks in the public domain, so even the modest restrictions above do not apply. This is an act of trust by those making these talks available as an offering, not an invitation to take any particular action. We ask that you keep in mind that treating these talks as precious Dharma teachings is itself a valuable practice of the teachings.