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2025-04-05 Guided Meditation 18:24
Ajahn Sucitto
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2025-04-05 Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness 38:05
Ajahn Sucitto
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A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
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2025-04-05 The Liberating View of Interconnection 1:24:18
Nathan Glyde
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A meditation, reflection, and responses to questions on the power of conceiving of ourselves as interconnected. With examples from Palestine, the meditation cushion, and living with illness and loss. In all cases, perhaps this transformative idea is more potent than it is true. Some links from this session: Essential Surgery in Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/123753-essential-surgery-for-palestinian-medical-student James Skeet, from Just Stop Oil, talking to Scroobius Pip on Distraction Pieces Podcast: https://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/dp-player/?fl=https://embed.acast.com/$/ad4e2f12-9862-4cf6-b6af-3ae392c45fad/612jso&dl= Sacred Places with SanghaSeva | Meditation in Action: https://www.sanghaseva.org/comingup.html#sacred
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - April 2025

2025-04-05 Morning reflections – Different tools and practices. Different reasons for sleepiness and lethargy. 50:20
Akincano Marc Weber
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Relationship of different instructions to each other. Many spices, but we don't cook with all of them at once. Orientation: how to find out and recognize what's going in your mind. (Using the satipaṭṭhāna map) Relationship: a) getting reliably in touch with and b) learning to relate skillfully to the states. Shifting attention away from habits. Mindfulness does not mean 'no discernment' – it is quite capable on discerning what is wholesome and unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 The Liberating Power of Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:29
Jessica Morey
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In this talk, we explore compassion as a liberating force—one that allows us to stay present with suffering so we can respond with wise action. Drawing on the myth of Avalokiteśvara, the science of empathy, and the felt experience of care, compassion becomes a courageous presence rooted in tenderness and connection. We also reflect on how a deep understanding of dukkha, paired with a direct knowing of freedom, strengthens our compassion and helps us see the wish for liberation as real and available—even in the most difficult places.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-04 Instructions on Metta for the Difficult Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:51
Cara Lai
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Sensing into a field of support and care hat can hold it all, even the enemy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-04 Introduction and guided meditation on compassion 45:58
Yuka Nakamura
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Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 Metta: The Intention of Turning Toward 23:27
Tim Geil
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Metta can be seen as turning toward with friendliness. This talk explores how to turn toward charged experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-03 talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given 26:17
Jill Shepherd
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How the practice of dāna, generosity, supports a sense of abundance rather than lack, then looking at the wider societal and environmental benefits of bringing more awareness to not taking what's not freely offered
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-04-03 Three Friends: Appamada – Sati – Sampajañña 55:48
Akincano Marc Weber
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The interplay of three functions of the mind in helping the contemplative practice. Appamada – an attitude of care Sati - a relationship: mindfulness as creating presence Sampajañña – a value context
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

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