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Dharma Talks
2015-10-08 "The Truth of Suffering and the Way That Leads to the End of Suffering" 59:39
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-08 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 1) 48:14
Martin Aylward
This teaching examines our problematic associations with ideas of Purity, and explores ways that the practice of sitting meditation can be purificatory - both in terms of developing wholesome qualities, and in healing and releasing stored tension patterns.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Day Two - Morning Instructions 47:15
Martin Aylward
No wrong experience. Allowing the passage of all that arises. Exploring the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in meditation.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04
Marcia Rose
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:20
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 1:12:33
Tara Brach
How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence. "Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-07 Guided Metta 45:18
Kamala Masters
Oneself, benefactor, dear friend and neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus 45:40
Martin Aylward
Martin points out the 3 different kinds of stimulation (vedana) and explores skilful ways of exploring and responding to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience. Emphasis is given to somatic practice, recognizing the physical contractions that form around the 3 types.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-07 The Urgency of Now - Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation 66:23
Donald Rothberg
As we face multiple crises, yet also open to new transformations - inner and outer- a new type of spiritual practitioner is needed, who is able to connect inner and outer transformation. Echoing the Buddhist bodhisattvas, Jewish prophets, Jesus, many indigenous leaders, Gandhi, King, and Dorothy Day, among others, the "new bodhisattva" follows a new kind of training which is outlined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-07 Day One - Morning Instructions 39:08
Martin Aylward
Grounding meditation in bodily experience. Activating qualities of awareness through the posture: Grounded - steady, upright - bright, open - receptive, relaxed - gentle.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

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