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Dharma Talks
2014-09-24 Morning Meditation Instructions 62:13
Winnie Nazarko
Some examples of how things can be noted when practicing "open awareness". Response to a question about "trying" in meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-24 Dharma Talk 47:42
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-09-23 Body: A Matter of Life 47:34
Shaila Catherine
This talk was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." This talk focuses on "Four Elements." It is a traditional practice of mindfulness of the body. In ancient India, the materiality of the body was thought to be composed of four elements—earth, fire, wind and water. These four elements, in turn, have twelve characteristics—(earth) heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness; (fire) heat and coolness; (wind) pushing and supporting; (water) fluidity and cohesion. All of these characteristics can be known with our mind and in our body. Discerning the characteristics of material elements will lead to a profound contemplation of impermanence and death. Seeing the impermanence of the body, we know we cannot control it. The body is not-self, it is not possessable, not I, and not eternally me. Understanding the impermanence of material elements and this body composed of elements, we learn to let go. This talk concludes with a guided meditation of body scans, with emphasis on the four elements and their respective characteristics.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-23 Presence 43:07
Julie Wester
Women's Innate Wisdom - importance of practice for recognizing and stabilizing access. Stories of women's lives. Inquiry: what keeps us from being present? How does it feel to be present right now?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Power of Presence: A Retreat for Women

2014-09-23 Cultivating Kindness 34:43
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-09-22 Body and Mind 60:22
Andrea Fella
An exploration of mental and physical experience through the teaching of the aggregates
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-22 Buddhist Studies Course – Cultivating Wholesome Relationships – Week 2 61:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2014-09-22 Don't Believe Everything You Think 57:57
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

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