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Dharma Talks
2019-07-20 Day 1 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:01
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-20 Mindfulness and Non-Grasping 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The trained mind is fluid and flexible – natural. The untrained mind is fixed and grasping – loses its agility. Training comes through mindfulness of the 4 bases and 3 aspects of mind. Body gives mind something to anchor itself on so the habits of grasping that create a fixed self can be released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-19 You Are Not Doing This Alone. 47:00
Jaya Rudgard
Reflections on sangha and belonging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-19 The Brahma Viharas 41:48
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-19 Developing Mindfulness Of Thoughts and Thinking 54:39
Chris Cullen
Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-18 Metta (Loving Friendliness) | Dharma Talk 47:29
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-18 Not Self 48:54
Kate Munding
I will continue talking about the three truths of existence, aka The Three Characteristics. Last week we explored the truth of impermanence and what it would be like to fully live from the understanding that all of nature, including us, in constant flux. This week I'll be talking about the second truth, not-self. This is a concept in Buddhism that is often miss-understood as no-self giving an impression of nihilism. We unpack the truth of not-self, how it fits with this spiritual path, and how it can inspire us in our day-to-day.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-07-18 Day 8: Metta and the Many Beautiful Qualities of Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:25
Tempel Smith
When we develop the Brahma Viharas, we also develop many beautiful qualities of heart named the Paramis, such as Generosity, Harmlessness and Renunciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2019-07-18 Practicing Insight: Unfrabricationg Saṅkhāras 52:02
Chris Cullen
An exploration of ways of practicing and deepening personal and universal insights so as to gradually unbind body and heart (citta) from fabrications that constrict and compress.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-18 Body Trains Mind 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Body provides a steady reference for mind. Mind by itself runs off and gets lost it thoughts and emotions. Body gives a place from which to review mental phenomena. Simply by paying attention to what’s happening directly in the body, the mode of attention shifts. We can use body to empty mental proliferation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

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