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Dharma Talks
2025-10-13 08 meditation: cultivating sati and samadhi through mindfulness of breathing 26:52
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-13 Morning session: Mudita 30:51
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-10-13 Five Powers for Awakening: Faith Part 2 28:20
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society

2025-10-13 07 instructions: cultivating sati and samadhi through mindfulness of breathing 16:36
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-13 Indigenous Healing Through the Dharma 1:30:29
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-10-12 Five Powers for Awakening: Refuges, Precepts and Faith - Part 1 68:49
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society

2025-10-12 Wk 3 Pt 1- Is Freedom From Thought Absence or Autonomy ? 1:25:36
Bernat Font
Responding non-discursively to oppressing thoughts through behaviour, skilful qualities, and engaging with the meditation object. List of common cognitive distortions; more tips for practice. Relying on a refuge & island.
Gaia House Oh No - Not This Thought Again ! (Online Series)

2025-10-12 05 short instructions: continuity of mindfulness 7:56
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-12 04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 24:56
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-12 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing 9:17
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-12 Afternoon Meditation Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:35
Bob Stahl
Choiceless or Open Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-12 02 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and breathing 22:00
Jill Shepherd
A body scan inviting ease, then resting the awareness on the rhythm of breathing
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-12 Morning session: karuna, guided meditation, small group instructions 34:31
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-10-12 01 instructions: Mindfulness of the Body 9:36
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to the First Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of the body
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-11 Ordinary Love 40:20
Devon Hase
In this evening talk, devon hase reflects on metta as a simple act of caring — the willingness to stay close to our own experience, even when it feels plain or uncertain. Through stories of early practice, pilgrimage, and everyday kindness, she shows how love reveals itself in ordinary moments, asking nothing special of us beyond our presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Remembering Each Other Always (LB1C25)

2025-10-11 Lying down somatic metta meditation 36:04
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-10-11 Guided meditation and brief walking meditation instructions 34:41
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-10-11 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:49
Bob Stahl
Bringing awareness to the nature of change with either the breath, sounds or sensations. Transitioning from solely concentration to insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-11 Morning Questions and Reflections 18:02
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-10 Questions and responses 68:14
Joseph Goldstein
Responses to а variety of Dharma questions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-10 Two Wings of a Bird: Concentration and Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:34
Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-10 Step 10 and Inventory of the Mind 1:12:26
Kevin Griffin
Meditation, Dharma talk, & short Metta practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-10-09 talk: Equanimity as the fourth brahmavihāra 28:19
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-09 Disenchantment and Dispassion 61:25
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-09 meditation: Orienting to equanimity 27:23
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

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