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Dharma Talks
2019-02-20 Meditation: Listening to Life 18:53
Tara Brach
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence (a favorite from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-02-20 The Karma of Now 32:49
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-02-20 Cultivating Meditative Absorptions (Jhanas) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:40
Tempel Smith
There are two larger categories of meditation: samatha meditations and vipassana meditations. Samatha meditations are intended to calm, unify, balance and develop strengths of the heart, and vipassana meditations lead toward insight into our patterns of suffering, confusion, clarity and freedom. The samatha meditations can develop to the point where we are fully absorbed into our meditation subject. This talk describes this process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2019-02-20 Equanimity: The Equipoise in the Mind 68:26
Marcia Rose
What is equanimity? How is it cultivated through meditation practice? What are the two understandings that are the root of equanimity? All of this and more is explored in this Dharma Talk.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-02-20 The 84th Problem 47:31
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-02-20 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 47:28
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

2019-02-20 Morning Instructions 24:02
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Freedom Through Insight Meditation

2019-02-20 Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey 1:16:50
Donald Rothberg
Partly in honor of the recently deceased poet, Mary Oliver, we use her poem, "the Journey", as a reference point for understanding the nature of the spiritual journey. Two other reference points are the life of the Buddha, and then the experiences of our own lives. After an exploration of the very nature of the journey, and how a journey may take years, or two weeks, or an hour, we explore seven stages of the spiritual journey, starting with taking life for granted, being caught up in habitual and conditioned mind and behavior, and ending with some degree of awakening and then re-entering the "ordinary" world, often bringing gifts from the journey. In between is the heart of the journey. [The talk ends at 1.06.23.]
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-02-19 Bringing the Dharma into Our Daily Lives 48:10
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to fold retreat practice back into our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Freedom Through Insight Meditation

2019-02-19 The Wonder of Being Is in Plain Sight 37:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

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