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2017-05-23 Short Guided Standing Meditation - Tuesday Night Teacher-Led Sit with Amma Thanasanti Bhikkhuni 6:34
Amma Thanasanti
Amma Thanasanti will be leading our Tuesday evening sit as a special guest. The topic will be “Marrying the mystics' passion for love and the activists' passion for justice”.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2017-05-23 Realities and How We Come to See Them (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:01
Sayadaw U Jagara
Based on the quality of our life (mind included), we come to see things in a clearer perspective. (An: 11,2 Cetana Sutta)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-23 Day 1: Metta for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 32:00
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-23 Rising Up Like A Swan 15:05
Ayya Medhanandi
Reviewing our effort to practise, recalibrate and make adjustments as needed. Make peace with what arises – neither controlling nor being passive; like a parent – compassionate, mindful, discerning. Whatever hindrance is most predominant, make it skilful, waking up if we’re asleep, or settling down if we’re restless, calming when agitated or patiently balancing. This is nothing short of the way to Nibbana, the supreme goal. Step by step, through all manner of sufferings and joys, we radiate blessings in the ten directions.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-23 Funeral of the Ego & Chant on Impermanence 3:45
Ayya Medhanandi
We come on retreat from our busy lives where we can easily relapse into old unworthy mental habits, hoping that here, at last, we can put them to sleep. They too are impermanent. Reflect on their impermanence using these chants for the funeral of our ego and the death of our ignorance. Once their corpse is seen and placed in a coffin, it’s possible to sustain open compassionate awareness wherever we are.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-23 Day 1: Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:12
Matthew Brensilver
Attentional Control, Emotion Regulation and Nonidentifcation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-23 Day 1 Instructions: Arriving & Settling into the Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:52
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-22 When You Get Close to the Sun 19:40
Ayya Medhanandi
What can protect us from the repercussions of negative and unwholesome mind states? Begin the journey, the archeology of our own heart. It’s a total cleansing. Like a mountain climber, we ascend the interior slopes and our burden lightens. We clear it out moment by moment. Whatever misfortunes come, letting go, we wean ourselves away from the quicksand of habit. We grow fearless, students of life, learning to bow and bring forth these gifts, like diamonds from coal in the quiet eternity within us. Therein, we hear the timeless hymn of unspoken love.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2017-05-22 Bodhicitta - Beyond the Self 50:02
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2017-05-22 Tender Heart Of Compassion 55:14
Mark Coleman
Compassion guides us to meet the challenges and pain inherent in life. This talk explores how compassion arises to obstacles and its potential.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

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