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Dharma Talks
2018-05-25 Day 4: Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:11
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2018-05-24 Learning to Love Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:44
James Baraz
In order to awaken joy we have to learn to have a healthy relationship with ourselves - holding our pain and sorrows as well as learning to appreciate all of our beautiful qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2018-05-24 “Cultivating a Mature Practice Through Sila.” 57:49
Noliwe Alexander
"The Buddha spoke of Sila, the Pali word for Integrity or Virtue, as the foundation for inner peace and awakening."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-05-24 Come & Go Retreat 5/24 Dharma Talk - The 4 Heavenly Messengers and the Buddha's Journey to Awakening 34:22
Bob Stahl
Bob Stahl shares an inspiring Dharma talk on the 4 heavenly messengers and the Buddha's journey to awakening; with a brief meditation at the end for reflecting on heavenly messengers experienced in one's own life.
Insight Santa Cruz Insight Santa Cruz Non-Residential Retreat: Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion

2018-05-23 Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body 19:00
Tara Brach
Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-23 Seeing Basic Goodness – Part 2 54:13
Tara Brach
Most of us long to trust our goodness, but get caught in stories of deficiency and striving to affirm we’re ok. These talks look at the block to realizing the loving awareness that is our essence, and the practices that help us see this essential goodness – in ourselves, dear ones and in those we might habitually consider different or “other.” Both talks include reflections that can help us appreciate the basic goodness that lives through these precious, changing forms. "Think of some of the people you like and are drawn to you. Now attempt to look at each of them as if you were seeing them for the first time, not allowing yourself to be influenced by your past knowledge or experience of them, whether good or bad. Look for things in them that you may have missed because of familiarity, for familiarity breeds staleness, blindness and boredom. You cannot love what you cannot see afresh. You cannot love what you are not constantly discovering anew." Anthony de Mello from “The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-23 What is Meditation? 46:06
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-05-23 Taking the Practice Home (Closing Reflections) 13:47
Oren Jay Sofer
Reflections from Oren on taking the practice home (excerpt of closing session).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-23 Day 2: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:52
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2018-05-23 Seven Perspectives on Aging and the Stages of Life, Dying, and Spiritual Practice 62:50
Donald Rothberg
Focusing on aging, the stages of life, and dying is a major “dharma door” or gateway. We examine a number of different perspectives to orient us as we go in that door, including how such a focus helps us to clarify the centrality and urgency of spiritual practice, working through social conditioning regarding aging and dying, using the lenses of teachings and practices investigating impermanence and the nature of the self, and awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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