Kim Allen's Dharma Talks
at Insight Santa Cruz
Kim Allen
Kim Allen has been practicing Insight meditation since 2003, and has trained intensively in the U.S. and Asia with cumulative years of silent retreat. She has practiced with primary teacher Gil Fronsdal and other Western teachers, Theravādan monastics, and a few Mahāyāna teachers, and now offers retreats, sutta study, and experiential Dharma engagement. A teacher and author, Kim aims to bring classical Dharma to a modern context and to encourage lay practitioners in fully living a life of Dharma. Her education includes a PhD in physics and a master’s degree in environmental sustainability, and her website is https://www.uncontrived.org.
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2019-05-25
2019 Come and Go Retreat - Identity: What We Take to be Our Self
2019-03-10
8-Fold Path course -- Wise Effort part 1
2019-03-10
8-Fold Path course -- Wise Effort part 2
2018-03-12
8FP - Wise Effort part 1
2018-03-12
8FP - Wise Effort part 2
2017-05-14
8FP -- Wise Concentration 1
2017-05-14
8FP -- Wise Concentration 2
2017-03-12
8FP program - Wise Effort part 1
2017-03-12
8FP program - Wise Effort part 2
2017-03-12
8FP program - Wise Effort part 3
2017-10-15
8FP Program - Wise View 2
2017-10-15
8FP Program - Wise View 3
2019-01-13
8FP Program -- Wise Action
2019-05-12
8FP program -- Wise Concentration part 1
2019-05-12
8FP Program -- Wise Concentration part 2
2018-04-15
8FP program -- Wise Mindfulness part 2
2018-12-09
8FP Program -- Wise Speech part 2
2016-12-11
8FP Wise Speech part 1
2016-12-11
8FP Wise Speech part 2
2017-04-11
A Model of the Universe
2017-08-29
Alone with Others ISC
2017-12-21
At Ease with Others
2017-08-10
Aug 2017 Story plus Q and A
2018-04-02
Balance Itself as the Object
2021-01-24
Chariot Halfday - Part 1 - Spontaneous speech
2021-01-25
Chariot Halfday - Part 2 - Not self
2021-01-25
Chariot Halfday - Part 3 - Dharma Chariot guided meditation
2021-01-25
Chariot Halfday - Part 4 - Dharma talk on The Dharma Life
2018-09-06
Coming to the Surface
2018-01-23
Conceit - Better Worse Equal
2018-01-25
Conceit and Beyond
2016-04-04
Conditions for Practice
2020-10-12
Core Teachings of the Buddha Series-- Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfuln…
2018-03-08
Cultivation or What Are We Doing?
2020-03-23
Dawn of Dharma 1 - The Body
2020-03-24
Dawn of Dharma 2 - Feeling
2020-03-25
Dawn of Dharma 3 - Perception
2020-03-26
Dawn of Dharma 4 - Mental Fabrications
2020-03-27
Dawn of Dharma 5 - Consciousness
2021-10-05
Dedicated Practitioners -- Disenchantment and Dispassion
2021-09-07
Dedicated Practitioners -- Making Our Own Refuge
2021-11-02
Dedicated Practitioners -- The Three Characteristics, Misperceptions, and Perce…
2021-08-03
Dedicated Practitioners -- The Wisdom of Change, the Path of Faith
2024-08-03
Dharma Talk: Fullness of Renunciation
2018-05-01
Dharma Winds
2024-08-03
Dharmette: Trading Up to Happiness
2018-11-09
Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 2
2018-11-16
Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 3
2018-12-20
Effort, Heart, and Anti-Fragility
2018-01-15
Eightfold Path Program - Wise Action part 2
2018-01-14
Eightfold Path Program - Wise Action part 3
2019-04-15
Eightfold Path program - Wise Mindfulness pt 1
2019-04-15
Eightfold Path program - Wise Mindfulness pt 2
2016-10-16
Eightfold Path Program - Wise View part 2
2016-10-16
Eightfold Path Program - Wise View part 3
2018-11-11
Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention Part 1
2018-11-11
Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention part 2
2018-10-14
Eightfold Path Program -- Wise View 1 -- Karma
2018-10-14
Eightfold Path Program -- Wise View 2 -- Four Noble Truths
2017-10-14
Equanimity
2018-10-18
Ethics as Integral to Enlightenment
2017-01-10
Faith and Hope in a Changing World
2017-02-23
Faith and Verified Faith
2017-05-11
Faith, Wisdom, and Prayer
2020-07-07
Features of Developed Mindfulness
2020-08-15
Finding Clarity - the Five Faculties part 1
2020-08-15
Finding Clarity - the Five Faculties part 2
2018-04-05
Five Faculties 1 -- Faith
2018-04-12
Five Faculties 2 -- Faith into Energy
2018-04-26
Five Faculties 4 -- Mindfulness into Concen
2018-05-03
Five Faculties 5 -- Conc into Wisdom
2016-12-06
Five Principles of Inner Safety
2020-04-07
Flowers as Dharma Beauty
2020-06-20
Growing Wisdom through Meditation -- session 3
2020-07-12
Growing Wisdom through Meditation 4
2017-06-27
Guarding the Sense Doors
2016-03-29
Guided Meditation
2021-11-02
Guided Meditation - Steadying the Mind and Seeing Change
2020-07-12
Guided Meditation -- Anicca or Inconstancy
2020-06-17
Guided Meditation -- Attitude of Metta
2020-08-23
Guided Meditation -- Breath and the Awakening Factors
2020-06-03
Guided Meditation -- Direct Experience
2020-06-10
Guided Meditation -- Ease and Calm
2020-05-23
Guided Meditation -- Finding Ease
2020-07-01
Guided Meditation -- Gathering the Mind
2020-08-22
Guided Meditation -- Gathering the Mind
2020-07-12
Guided Meditation -- Investigation
2021-03-19
Guided Meditation -- Mindfulness of Sound
2021-03-19
Guided Meditation -- Mindfulness of the Breath in the Body
2020-05-23
Guided Meditation -- Samatha
2021-12-07
Guided Meditation -- Seeing the body freshly
2020-06-24
Guided Meditation -- the changing breath
2020-07-08
Guided Meditation -- the Four Elements
2020-06-20
Guided Meditation -- Trust
2020-07-12
Guided Meditation: Anicca or Inconstancy
2021-05-13
Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought
2021-05-13
Guided Reflection on the Dhamma
2021-06-01
Heart and Mind in Harmony Retreat - Day 2 - Metta
2021-05-31
Heart Mind Harmony - Day 1.1 - Retreat theme
2021-05-31
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 1.2 - Guided med and short talk
2021-05-31
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 1.3 - Dhamma talk
2021-06-02
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 3 - Compassion
2021-06-03
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 4 - Appreciative Joy
2021-06-04
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 5 - Equanimity
2021-06-05
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 6.1 - Instructions
2021-06-05
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 6.2 - Final guided meditation
2021-06-05
Heart Mind Harmony retreat - Day 6.3 - Dhamma talk
2018-08-18
How Much Effort?
2017-12-14
Ideal Solitude
2016-02-25
Impermanence
2020-04-24
In This Very Life -- 2020-04-24
2020-05-01
In This Very Life -- 2020-05-01
2020-05-15
In This Very Life -- 2020-05-15
2020-05-22
In This Very Life -- 2020-05-22
2020-05-29
In This Very Life -- 2020-05-29
2020-06-05
In This Very Life -- 2020-06-05
2020-07-03
In This Very Life -- 2020-07-03
2020-07-10
In This Very Life -- 2020-07-10
2020-07-17
In This Very Life -- 2020-07-17
2018-03-22
Insight Ways of Seeing -- Honoring Ven Nanananda
2019-01-10
Integrating the Dhamma: A Monthlong Retreat in Your Daily Life
2024-08-03
Introduction and Sitting with Simplicity
2017-03-21
Introduction to Sutta Study 2017 - part 2
2017-03-28
Introduction to Sutta Study 2017, part 3
2018-11-15
Is Meditation About Ending Thinking?
2018-01-27
Journey of Faith
2017-01-12
Joy 1 -- Mudita
2017-01-19
Joy 2 -- Piti -- Meditative Joy
2017-02-09
Joy 3 -- Joy in the Path and Practice
2017-07-06
July 2017 Q and A
2018-10-06
Knowledge and Vision of the Practice
2017-08-24
Leading away from Suffering
2018-08-28
Lesser and Greater Happiness
2020-10-06
Letting Go
2020-04-10
Liberating Teachings of the Buddha - 4
2020-04-08
Liberating Teachings of the Buddha -- 3
2020-09-01
Life as Practice and Path
2018-08-31
Liminality
2018-12-06
Lojong Slogans
2018-04-10
Love 2.0
2017-08-22
Luminous Mind
2017-06-03
Meeting Change Daylong 1 -- Intro and Guided Med
2017-06-03
Meeting Change Daylong 2 -- Responses to Change
2017-06-03
Meeting Change Daylong 3 -- Why Challenging
2017-06-03
Meeting Change Daylong 4 -- Fearlessness
2017-06-03
Meeting Change Daylong 5 -- Peace
2016-12-10
Meeting Suffering -- Ignorance or Trust?
2017-10-12
Metta and Wisdom
2017-10-26
Metta as Wisdom
2017-04-27
Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths
2017-06-29
Modeling the Dharma
2017-03-09
Money and Dharma
2018-08-02
Nature Stories and the Four Floods
2017-06-20
Not Too Full
2017-04-25
Noticing Absence
2018-05-10
Nurturing the Process
2021-03-15
One Year Hence day 1 -- The Mind and Faith
2021-03-16
One Year Hence day 2 -- Impermanence, Death, and Equanimity
2021-03-17
One Year Hence day 3 -- Views and Metta
2021-03-18
One Year Hence day 4 -- Not-Self, Emptiness, and Joy
2021-03-19
One Year Hence day 5 -- Big Mind and Compassion
2017-03-30
Our Relationship to Time
2017-01-15
Overview of the Pali Canon
2017-03-23
Personal, Perfect, and Permanent
2016-04-11
Practice with Relationships
2019-04-30
Progress and Happiness
2017-02-18
Progression of Practice
2016-03-21
Proliferation
2017-07-13
Purity and Purification
2017-06-01
Q and A - June 2017
2017-03-02
Q and A March 2017
2017-05-04
Q and A May 2017
2017-07-25
Quality of Heart and Mind
2018-01-11
Questioning Perception
2018-10-25
Questions as the Path
2018-03-15
Radiation Practice - Brahma Viharas
2020-04-26
Refuge -- Going Deeper
2019-07-18
Renunciation in Lay Life 1
2021-03-10
Renunciation in Lay Life 1 - Simplicity
2019-07-26
Renunciation in Lay Life 2
2021-03-17
Renunciation in Lay Life 2 -- Mental Patterns
2019-08-01
Renunciation in Lay Life 3
2021-03-24
Renunciation in Lay Life 3 -- Letting Go of Self
2017-07-03
Right Intention and the Declaration of Independence
2017-01-17
Secret Blessings
2018-11-02
Seven Ways to Let Go
2018-11-01
Seven Ways to Let Go
2017-03-21
Shadows
2024-08-03
Sitting with Stillness
2018-04-03
Solitude
2018-10-04
Speech and Views
2018-01-19
Starting from Within - Session 3
2018-01-05
Starting from Within 1
2018-01-12
Starting from Within 2
2016-05-02
Supportive Path Factors
2016-10-14
The Breath as a Gateway to Liberation - part 1
2016-10-28
The Breath as a Gateway to Liberation - part 2
2016-11-11
The Breath as a Gateway to Liberation - part 3
2020-10-04
The Dharma Life - session 1
2020-11-29
The Dharma Life - session 5 - Wisdom and Insight
2020-10-18
The Dharma Life -- session 2
2020-11-01
The Dharma Life -- session 3 -- Ethics and Relationship
2020-11-15
The Dharma Life -- session 4 -- Samadhi and Heart
2020-12-13
The Dharma Life -- session 6 - Awakening and The Dharma Life
2018-04-30
The Divine Net of Views
2017-07-14
The Five Aggregates 1 - Intro to the Aggregates
2017-07-21
The Five Aggregates 2 -- Disenchantment
2017-07-28
The Five Aggregates 3 -- Creating the Self
2017-08-04
The Five Aggregates 4 -- The Way Out
2020-08-15
The Five Faculties - Clarity and Balance (from daylong, part 3)
2017-07-20
The Fruit of Steady Effort
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 1 -- Introduction
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 2 -- Guided Meditation - Samatha
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 3 -- Teaching on papanca
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 4 -- Guided meditation - Open awareness and…
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 5 -- Guided meditation - Resting in awarene…
2021-04-11
The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 6 -- Dharma Talk and QA - Building Inner St…
2018-08-10
The Joy of Ethics 1
2018-08-16
The Joy of Ethics 2
2020-04-03
The Liberating Teachings of the Buddha - 1
2017-03-14
The Middle Way
2017-03-28
The Middle Zone and Beyond
2016-02-27
The Path of Transformation 1
2016-02-27
The Path of Transformation 2
2020-10-07
The Practice of Samadhi - Session 1: Creating the Conditions
2020-10-21
The Practice of Samadhi -- Session 3 : Samadhi and Insight
2020-10-15
The Practice of Samadhi -- Session 2: Jhana.
2018-10-25
The Precepts and Skillfulness
2018-11-08
The Six Realms
2016-03-22
The Two Streams
2017-10-19
This Is It
2017-11-02
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
2018-04-09
Tranquility and Action
2020-06-03
Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- 1
2020-06-10
Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- Session 2
2020-06-24
Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- session 4
2020-07-08
Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- session 6
2020-06-17
Transformation of the Analytical Mind 3
2020-07-01
Transforming the Analytical Mind -- session 5
2019-03-14
True and Beneficial
2015-08-29
Truth and Trust 1
2015-08-29
Truth and Trust 2
2015-08-29
Truth and Trust 3
2015-08-29
Truth and Trust 4
2015-08-29
Truth and Trust 5
2016-03-29
Two Forms of Compassion
2017-08-15
Understanding Conditions
2017-06-22
Ways of Knowing
2021-12-07
What Do We Really Know? The Surprises of Retreat
2018-09-04
What Holds You
2018-10-11
Whole Life Practice
2017-07-01
Wisdom and the Awakening Factors
2014-05-17
With Valerie Nelson: Walking the Path Toward the End of Life
2021-04-15
Working with Discomfort in the Body
2016-04-05
Working with distracting thoughts
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2015-08-29
Truth and Trust
2019-05-22
Come & Go 2019: A Non-Residential Retreat
2021-05-31
Heart and Mind in Harmony
2017-01-15
Overview of the Pali Canon
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The meditation practices taught in the Insight movement trace their origins to the earliest known teachings of the Buddha. These discourses are part of the scriptures called the Pali Canon. This session offers an overview of the texts of the Pali Canon and some historical background on the development of Buddhism. We will also read some suttas (discourses) demonstrating different styles.
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