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Instructions: For each phase of the course, listen to the audios in the corresponding volume number, as listed below. To listen to a talks online, click on the link to play in your browser, or right-click to download the audio file for playing later or on another device. Alternatively, get them as an iTunes podcast.
There are also 5 Volumes of supplemental talks. It is recommended (though not required) that Supplemental Volume 5 "Liberating Emotions" be listened to during Phase 6 of the course. It is also recommended (though not required) that you listen to either Supplemental Volume 3 "Inquiry" or Supplemental Volume 4 "Devotion" during Phase 7 of the course, depending on whether you identify yourself as being primarily a jnani or a bhakta.
- WOS DSC: Volume 1
- First Fundamental: Consciousness Alone Is Absolutely Real — 9/15/1996
- Second Fundamental: Ignorance of the Real... — 10/13/1996
- Third Fundamental: the End of Suffering... — 11/10/1996
- Fourth Fundamental: the Way of Selflessness — 1/19/1997
- Fifth Fundamental: Perfect Realization — 2/9/1997
- Four Principles of the Path — 11/8/1998
- Chain of Conditioning — 7/8/2001
- Meditation #1: Concentration Practice — 10/12/2003
- WOS DSC: Volume 2
- Consciousness: Two Worldviews — 10/29/2000
- To Practice or Not to Practice — 12/17/2000
- What Are Sacred Sciences? — 10/27/2002
- What to Practice — 6/13/2004
- Here to Learn, Here to Love, Here to Serve — 9/14/1997
- The Function of Insight — 3/18/2001
- Practices of the Night, Part 1 of 2 — 4/19/1998
- The Retreat — 7/21/1996
- WOS DSC: Volume 3
- Two Truths: the Relative and the Absolute — 6/13/1993
- Why Morality Matters — 3/14/1999
- Practicing Precepts: part 1 of 4 — 9/26/1999
- Beyond Good and Evil — 1/19/1992
- The Purpose of Suffering — 11/24/1996
- Passion on the Path — 11/10/2002
- Depression and The Dark Night — 11/11/2001
- Meditation #2: Choiceless Awareness — 10/13/2003
- WOS DSC: Volume 4
- The Relationship Between Love and Truth — 12/9/2001
- God and Emptiness — 3/21/1999
- I Was a Treasure — 2/14/1999
- The Heart of Yearning — 9/18/1994
- Practicing Precepts: part 2 of 4 — 11/21/1999
- The Role of Devotion on the Mystical Path — 3/26/2000
- Remember to Remember — 6/18/1995
- Mystical Prayer — 11/23/1997
- WOS DSC: Volume 5
- Cutting Through Spiritual Attachment — 3/17/2002
- Practicing Precepts: part 3 of 4 — 12/19/1999
- Practicing at Work — 5/28/1995
- Spiritual Warfare — 5/23/1999
- Is There Help from Above? part 1 — 7/18/1993
- Is There Help from Above? part 2 — 7/25/1993
- Boundaries and Compassion — 7/26/1992
- Cultivating Love and Compassion — 9/26/2004
- WOS DSC: Volume 6
- Transforming Relationships — 9/29/1996
- Practicing Precepts: part 4 of 4 — 1/30/2000
- Synchronicity on the Mystical Path — 2/13/2000
- Expectations — 6/27/1999
- Deconstructing the Delusion of Time — 6/30/2002
- Varieties of Mystical Experience — 2/17/2002
- Truth Cannot Be Denied — 8/11/2002
- Meditation #3: Liberating Thoughts, Desires, and Aversions — 10/15/2003
- WOS DSC: Volume 7
- Liberating Emotions — 1/28/2001
- Thought — 12/19/1993
- Self Inquiry: a Guided Meditation — 3/24/2002
- The Paradox of Self-will — 2/23/1997
- Practices of the Night, Part 2 of 2 — 4/26/1998
- Go as Nothing — 5/29/1994
- Fear of Enlightenment — 6/28/1992
- Meditation #4: Returning to the Source — 10/16/2003
- WOS DSC: Volume 8
- Forsaking Yourself Day by Day — 5/27/2001
- What's the Story on "Stories?" — 7/14/2002
- The Subtleties of Surrender — 6/18/2000
- Spiritual Death — 8/10/2003
- Anatomy of Awakening — 8/13/2000
- The Journey In God — 12/13/1998
- How Does a Gnostic Live? — 8/9/1998
- Meditation #5: Doing Nothing — 10/17/2003
- WOS DSC: Volume Supplemental 1
- Stage One of the Spiritual Path: Awakening of Faith — 3/9/1997
- Stage Two of the Spiritual Path: Investigation of Teachings — 4/27/1997
- Stage Three of the Spiritual Path: Unification of Self — 5/11/1997
- Stage Four of the Spiritual Path: Purification of Mind — 6/22/1997
- Stage Five of the Spiritual Path: Illumination of Heart — 7/13/1997
- Stage Six of the Spiritual Path: Kenosis — 7/20/1997
- Stage Seven of the Spiritual Path: Gnosis — 8/10/1997
- Finding a True Teacher — 2/8/2004
- WOS DSC: Volume Supplemental 2
- First Virtue: Courage — 11/12/1995
- Second Virtue: Humility — 12/10/1995
- Third Virtue: Justice — 1/14/1996
- Fourth Virtue: Patience — 2/25/1996
- Fifth Virtue: Gratitude — 3/10/1996
- Sixth Virtue: Mercy — 4/14/1996
- Seventh Virtue: Joy — 5/12/1996
- What's Inside My Head? — 2/21/1999
- WOS DSC: Volume Supplemental 3
- Inquiry #1: Preparation Meditation — 10/14/2006
- Inquiry #2: Impermanence and Emptiness — 10/15/2006
- Inquiry #3: Causes and Correlations — 10/15/2006
- Inquiry #4: Are You a Body? — 10/16/2006
- Inquiry #5: Are You Emotions? — 10/17/2006
- Inquiry #6: Are You Thoughts or Will? — 10/18/2006
- Inquiry #7: Are You the Experiencer? — 10/19/2006
- Inquiry #8: Doing Nothing — 10/20/2006
- WOS DSC: Volume Supplemental 4
- Devotion #1: Verbal Prayer — 10/16/2005
- Devotion #2: Prayer-in-the-Heart — 10/17/2005
- Devotion #3: Purifying the Heart — 10/18/2005
- Devotion #4: Entering the Spiritual Heart — 10/19/2005
- Devotion #5: Unceasing Prayer — 10/20/2005
- Devotion #6: Silent Prayer — 10/21/2005
- Devotion #7: Doing Nothing — 10/21/2005
- The Feminine Face of Mysticism — 7/31/2005
- WOS DSC: Volume Supplemental 5
- Liberating Emotions #1: Spacious Awareness — 10/10/2009
- Liberating Emotions #2: Understanding Emotions — 10/12/2009
- Liberating Emotions #3: Desire and Aversion — 10/13/2009
- Liberating Emotions #4: Pride and Envy — 10/14/2009
- Liberating Emotions #5: Ignorance — 10/15/2009
- Liberating Emotions #6: True Nature, part 1 — 10/16/2009
- Liberating Emotions #7: True Nature, part 2 — 10/16/2009
- Drop the Story — 7/9/2006