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2018-10-14 18 Day 5 Guided Meditation Intention – a Softer Effort 46:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Using intention in practice means there is a wish, a prayer, an aspiration – subtle movements of energy rather than the push of effort. If we use intention too forcefully we block receptivity. It’s up to us to determine what’s skillful at this time. Perhaps it’s the intention to relax, set aside, widen, soften. Wisdom is our guide, and effort is just to use wisdom to arrive at deeper wisdom. [8:15 Begin Standing Meditation Instructions] Translating Anatomical Descriptions into Felt Sense: We all use anatomical descriptions of the body as a sketch, but the encouragement in this meditation is to translate them into energetic or felt experiences. Beginning with physical experience, guidance is provided to sense into subtler energies and felt tones and meanings.
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-14 17 Day 5 Morning Puja: Lingering 54:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning our day, we make the intention to enter the Dhamma field before entering the hallucinatory field constructed of time and space. Refrain from what’s not needed, linger in what’s needed. What you linger with increases. If you linger in the world of suppositions - ‘got to do, should do’- that increases. Find out what’s truly needed and linger there.
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 6: Indirect Practices for Resiliency with Pain 55:03
Oren Jay Sofer
Experiencing basic needs of satisfaction, meaning and connection for resiliency when living with chronic pain. Guided indirect practice for balancing nervous system with breath and hand movement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Équanimité, compassion et gratitude, Méditation guidée, Rimouski 26:36
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-13 Take the One Seat 40:52
Amita Schmidt
Have the courage, like the Buddha, to take your one seat in the world. Discover what is your truth, your stillness, and your wisdom. Be willing to embody this completely and authentically in the world.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 4: Compassion Guided Meditation 18:52
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 16 Day 4 Evening Puja: Q&A 67:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Different ways of presenting Dhamma in Theravada Buddhism (single-pointed, ‘dry insight’; Thai forest). Are there certain thought patterns that are related to nervous energy in the body? How do you do discharge? Metta practice as cultivating non-aversive, non-contractive state rather than a doing/sending out. Clarifying the term ‘fields’. Qi Gong questions (is it normal to get so hot while practicing Qi Gong? Is it good to use wu qi for standing meditation?); Responding to sexual awareness in the presence of others. Skillfully handling trauma that are still alive. Distinction between perception and consciousness. How feelings and emotions are experienced in Samadhi. Reclining meditation
New York Insight Meditation Center Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 Delusion is Not the Way Out 32:50
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for following precepts and thereby developing enough inner quiet to investigate ill-will. We begin to clearly see and understand our mind-states. This full presence enables compassion that is tireless and unconditional.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 5: Directly Facing Pain with Compassion 32:20
Oren Jay Sofer
Compassion as a way to meet pain and transform suffering into agency and freedom. How compassion works, what it is and is not, and how to develop self-compassion with chronic pain
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 3: Direct and Indirect Practices for Pain: Choice is Key 64:50
Oren Jay Sofer
When working with pain, balance is key. Choosing where to place your attention when experiencing chronic pain helps establish equanimity. How to work with indirect practices and skillful distractions. Guided indirect practices and group reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

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