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Dharma Talks
2023-08-02 The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:05
Cara Lai
The foundational teaching of Buddhism.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Young Adult Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-02 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 14:56
Tara Brach
Our breath is always available as a pathway back to presence. This simple meditation guides us to relax and awaken in the body, and then establishes the breath as a home base for our attention. Our practice is to notice when the mind becomes distracted, and gently return to our breath and senses. This helps the mind to become increasingly settled, calm and clear. We close with a short heart blessing. “As you let your attention go inward, you might ask yourself a very simple question: What is most important to me? What is it that brings me to practice right now? What does your heart long for?"
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-02 Part 1: Rewiring for Happiness and Freedom 52:55
Tara Brach
The Buddha said, “I would not be teaching this (a path of awakening) if genuine happiness and freedom were not possible.” While this is our potential, we each have deep conditioning to get stuck in feelings of fear, deficiency and separation from others. These talks explore the two interdependent pathways of undoing the conditioning that blocks our potential. In Part I we will look at how we can intentionally arouse states of wellbeing, and with practice, develop them into ongoing traits that bring presence and joy to our lives. In Part II, we will investigate how to cultivate an unconditional presence, and the radical acceptance and love, that are the grounds of true happiness and inner freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-02 Equanimity - The Taste of Freedom - Talk 55:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-02 Equanimity - The Taste of Freedom - Meditation 29:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-02 Cultivate Sense-fulness rather than Meaning-fulness 49:09
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-08-01 Grasping grips our world 60:06
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha’s teaching is crucial and profound for the world. It points to the clinging and owning that disfigures our world – and how to give that up.
Cittaviveka

2023-08-01 Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin 26:36
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-07-31 Guided instructions: metta for self and neutral person 40:48
Matthew Hepburn
Instructions for seeing beings (including) oneself as part of nature, while offering metta to self and the neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-31 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Wisdom - Meditation 26:54
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-31 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Wisdom - Talk 35:48
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-31 Morning Reflections #26: Sharing of Merit 41:27
Sayadaw U Jagara
A guided practice starting with a reflection from the Buddha on the value of merit, to recollect our merit form our practice and then sharing the merits expansively to many realms of beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-31 Morning Instructions: (vedana) feeling Tone 17:17
Chas DiCapua
Noticing, pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral in relationship to sense door contact. Why it's important, and how to practice with it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-30 Q&A 33:41
Ajahn Sucitto
00:42 Q1 How can one protect one’s axis/ centre after a retreat is over? 11:55 In daily life my system gets stuck in a previous experience with someone. Although they have left, the turmoil is still there and I feel stuck.
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-07-30 Guided Meditation 17:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-07-30 Misperceptions about dhama practice 42:11
Chas DiCapua
Exploring for misperceptions about how best to approach practice. Through understanding these, beings are able to better understand ways that are more onward leading
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-30 Self-Compassion 45:51
Jeff Haozous
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-07-30 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 6 - Meditation 33:43
Mark Nunberg
This guided meditation begins with a four-minute introduction. The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-30 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 6 - Talk 41:44
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-30 Guided instructions: mindfulness of thoughts and thinking 39:36
Matthew Hepburn
When we're not mindful of them, thoughts have so much power over our lives. These instructions are intended to help lead the way to freedom from these fleeting mental phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-29 Five hindrances: navigating difficult terrain. 48:05
Matthew Hepburn
In moments, when meditation feels like a struggle, you are most likely in the terrain of the five hindrances. The Buddha's teachings show us how to navigate this terrane with confidence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-29 Contemplations on Ultimate Peace and Loving-Kindness 61:03
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-07-29 Dāna as A Practice of Participation and Liberation 25:36
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Cultivating The Beautiful

2023-07-29 Morning Reflections #25 37:37
Sayadaw U Jagara
A guided meditaion with a story line of having an ideal and compassionate categiver for our wounds. The compassion was extended to others.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-28 Soaking and Radiating Mettā - Guided Meditation 7 45:32
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Cultivating The Beautiful

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