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Dharma Talks
2024-08-11 A Community Program on Palestine/Israel: Session 2: A Dialogue between Teachers and Friends (with Ronya Banks and Donald Rothberg) 1:31:09
Donald Rothberg, Ronya Banks
In session 2 of this series, Donald Rothberg and Ronya Banks will engage in dialogue around their Jewish and Palestinian identities, their family histories, and their own experiences of being Buddhist teachers navigating the complexities of the conflict in Palestine/Israel. During the course of the conversation, they will offer reflections on what has been most helpful to each of them in dealing with painful truths, strong emotions, and difficult conversations. In the last part of the session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer reflections.
Southern Dharma Retreat Center A Community Program on Palestine/Israel

2024-08-11 Instructions - Expanding into Goodwill 50:36
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

2024-08-11 The Qualities That Bring Joy, Happiness and Awakening 58:19
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 10, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-08-11 Morning practice instruction: mindfulness of intention 65:30
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-10 Talk - Freeing Kindness 38:49
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

2024-08-10 Relative and absolute 54:35
Deborah Ratner Helzer
What are these two layers of reality and how do we relate to them in life and meditation?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-10 Four qualities inducive to stream entry 9:51
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Guided meditation 37:43
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Drawing upon our own wisdom 36:36
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Instructions - Receiving Experience in Kindness 53:38
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

2024-08-10 Morning instructions on practicing with vedana 65:30
Tara Mulay
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 How Metta supports Insight practice 60:24
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Walking the Path 50:19
Greg Scharf
Using the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eight-fold Path as a framework for understanding the unfolding of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Joy 1:15:16
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2024-08-09 Morning Instructions – thinking 59:33
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Some suggestions for noting and noticing thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-08 short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body 12:33
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:59
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing and bodily sensations, then opening to the experience of hearing
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 Beginning lovingkindness practice 58:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Connecting with a sense of caring for oneself and a benefactor figure
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 Meditation: The Blessings of Yes 20:31
Tara Brach
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. “What happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 49:41
Tara Brach
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Introduction to the Mahasi method 57:10
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Some history and key features of Mahasi style practice: working with primary objects, noting, momentary concentration, and balanced effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 The Quail and the Hawk: Fields of Full Awareness 23:44
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-07 As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love 53:07
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-07 Guided Meditation: Full Awareness 34:49
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-07 A Noble Heart 28:24
Ayya Medhanandi
We can't think our way to awakening. How then can we ennoble the heart? Practising right resort will purify the mind with present moment awareness. We give truth a voice, a prevailing knowing reinforced by mindfulness and wisdom. Instead of allowing delusion to rob us of our chance to awaken, we burn it away in its many guises of selfishness, hatred, despair and a host of dark states of mind. Patiently, faithfully, and gently, we navigate the way to true peace, unconditional love, and compassion.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

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