Portland Insight Meditation Community Dharma Talks
118 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsDharma Talks from Robert Beatty and the Portland Insight Meditation Community.
PIMC is an experiment in American Buddhism. The purpose of PIMC is to improve the lives of participants, their families and the greater community through meditative practice and a lifestyle that supports liberation from suffering, the awakening of wisdom, and the manifestation of compassion.
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Episodes
Three Questions
August 01, 2019 04:00 - 58 minutes - 35.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 30th, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Anicca is Really True! - Compassion and Impermanence
June 29, 2019 17:28 - 44 minutes - 42.1 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 23rd, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Honoring The Person Who Played The Role of Father
June 29, 2019 17:26 - 59 minutes - 56.2 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 16th, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Treat Each Guest Honorably
June 29, 2019 16:59 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 9th, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Studying Your Own Consciousness Like a Scientist
June 09, 2019 02:23 - 53 minutes - 26 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded June 2, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
BONUS: Project Mindfulness Episode with Christiaan Neeteson
June 09, 2019 02:01 - 160 MBThis is an episode of the Project Mindfulness Podcast hosted by Christiaan Neeteson. For information about Project Mindfulness please visit projectmindfulness.com A full transcript of this episode is available at https://projectmindfulness.com/podcast/can-we-fully-heal-from-our-traumas/ Mindfulness & Psychotherapy In this episode, I have a talk with Robert Beatty. Robert is a member of the first wave of Theravada Buddhist Teachers who brought the Dharma from Asia in the 1970’s. Robert ...
Suffering, The Cause of Suffering and The End of Suffering
June 09, 2019 01:42 - 56 minutes - 27.8 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded May 26, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Radical Acceptance Of Our Imperfect Mothers
May 18, 2019 23:39 - 55 minutes - 27.4 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded May 12, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The 5 Aggregates The Doorways To Freedom
May 18, 2019 23:16 - 53 minutes - 26 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded May 5, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Meditation In Difficult Times 4-29-19
May 18, 2019 16:04 - 54 minutes - 26.5 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded April 29, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Easter: Jesus & The Buddha
April 23, 2019 17:49 - 54 minutes - 26.5 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded April 21, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
One Night At The Emergency Room
April 20, 2019 18:45 - 48 minutes - 24.1 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded April 13, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
PIMC Community Meeting April 7 2019
April 13, 2019 21:35 - 1 hour - 42.8 MBThis meeting was held to celebrate the remarkable success of PIMC since its inception in 2004. It contains a slide show, a history and vision by Robert Beatty, an update on the accessiblity project, statements by teachers, information from our "engaging the Dharma volunteers, a view of the 2018 budget and opening the 2019 budget. Opening and closing with the community in song led by Kirsten Smith and Robert Beatty. The original slide show had All You Need is Love for a soundtrack...
Christine Gieben: Expectations& Premeditated Disappointment
April 13, 2019 21:19 - 41 minutes - 20.6 MBDharma talk by Christine Gieben. Recorded March 31, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Gregory Maloof: The First Noble Truth
April 02, 2019 18:45 - 56 minutes - 27.5 MBDharma talk by Gregory Maloof. Recorded March 24, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Gary Sanders: Angulimala - Meeting The Wreckage Of Our Pasts
March 26, 2019 18:04 - 42 minutes - 21.1 MBDharma talk by Gary Sanders. Recorded March 17, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Liking & Disliking Set Yourself Free to Love
March 16, 2019 16:01 - 45 minutes - 22.7 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded March 10, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Is This True, The Buddha's 3 Hypotheses
March 10, 2019 16:52 - 54 minutes - 26.6 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded March 3, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Death, Change, and Skillful Speech
March 10, 2019 16:35 - 1 hour - 30.4 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded February 24, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Visiting Teacher: Richard Lang - The Headless Way
February 23, 2019 15:43 - 1 hour - 39.8 MBDharma talk by Richard Lang. Recorded February 17, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Visiting Teacher Mary Stancavage - There is NO Salami The Buddhas Two Arrows
February 17, 2019 16:13 - 53 minutes - 63 MBDharma talk by Mary Stancavage. Recorded February 10, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Getting Along and Waking Up - The 5 Precepts
February 09, 2019 21:02 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded February 3, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
I Have No Enemies - Not Taking Sides
February 01, 2019 17:39 - 51 minutes - 25.4 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded January 27, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Dharma Wisdom of Mary Oliver
February 01, 2019 17:38 - 48 minutes - 24.1 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded January 20, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Visiting Teacher: Frank Leder - Meditations on "The Book of Ruth"
February 01, 2019 16:58 - 53 minutes - 26.5 MBDharma talk by Frank Leder. Recorded January 13, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Doyle Banks: The Buddhas Meditator Improvement Plan
January 23, 2019 18:11 - 56 minutes - 27.8 MBDharma talk by Doyle Banks. Recorded January 6, 2019 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The 12 Links of Dependent Origination (The Outer Circle of the Wheel of Life)
January 04, 2019 18:10 - 50 minutes - 24.9 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 30, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Jesus, The Myth (Not "The Truth")
January 04, 2019 17:53 - 59 minutes - 29.2 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 23, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Pale Blue Dot: Who We Really Are
December 22, 2018 16:08 - 54 minutes - 26.7 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 16, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Pale Blue Dot: Who We Really Are
December 22, 2018 16:07Dharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 16, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
What Do You Need to Know?
December 16, 2018 17:04 - 51 minutes - 25.2 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 9, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
A Model of Awakening
December 16, 2018 16:44 - 52 minutes - 25.8 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded December 2, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Thriving The Holidays: 3 Characteristics of Existence (Anicca, Dukkha, & Annatta)
December 02, 2018 01:22 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded November 25, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Jim Dalton: The 10 Perfections of the Heart
November 22, 2018 15:27 - 51 minutes - 72.5 MBDharma talk by Jim Dalton. Recorded November 19, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Remaining Sane in Difficult Times (Q&A with Robert)
November 15, 2018 04:06 - 47 minutes - 23.4 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded November 11, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Not Your Ordinary Dharma Talk: The Ubiquitous Nature Of Mistaken Identity........Sabre Sankhara Ani
November 15, 2018 03:10 - 55 minutes - 27.2 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded November 4, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Who Am I? The Five Aggregates of Clinging
October 30, 2018 03:09 - 54 minutes - 26.7 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded October 28, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
What Would Be Useful to You?
October 28, 2018 00:45 - 52 minutes - 26 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded October 21, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Doyle Banks: A Meditator's Guide to Creating Safety
October 14, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes - 27.4 MBDharma talk by Doyle Banks. Recorded October 14, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Grief, Anger and Empowerment: Women Speak
October 07, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 29.7 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty and Christine Gieben. Recorded October 7, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. The Dharma Talk begins with a song sung by Kirsten Smith and Doyle Banks. In response to the political developments and the supreme court hearings of the last week this morning was devoted to hearing from the women in our community. How to honor the pain and surface the wounds so that we can go beyond enemy images and find paths of compassionate action To support PIMC ple...
The Power of Lineage
September 30, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 38.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded Sept. 30, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
We Don't Own Anything
September 23, 2018 16:00 - 50 minutes - 24.8 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded Sept. 23, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Christine Gieben: Equanimity
September 16, 2018 16:00 - 29 minutes - 15 MBDharma talk by Christine Gieben. Recorded September 16, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
If Theres No Self, Who Makes the Decisions (Q&A with Robert)
September 09, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes - 27.5 MBDharma talk and Q&A with Robert Beatty. Recorded September 9, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
So, Why Meditate?
September 02, 2018 16:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded September 2nd, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
The Five Precepts
August 26, 2018 16:00 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 26, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Gregory Maloof: Taking Refuge
August 19, 2018 16:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBDharma talk by Gregory Maloof. Recorded August 19, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Life Is Difficult: The Five Hindrances and The Sense of Self
August 12, 2018 16:00 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 12, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. [There was an error with the original audio file. This episode has been republished to correct. Apologies for the inconvenience!] To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Questions And Answers
August 08, 2018 16:13 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded July 22, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving
Changes (Thoughts on Impermanence)
August 05, 2018 16:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBDharma talk by Robert Beatty. Recorded August 5, 2018 at Portland Insight Meditation Community. To support PIMC please visit http://www.portlandinsight.org/giving