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Dharma Talks
2023-06-08 Session 4: Samadhi and Insight 25:13
Zohar Lavie
Part 3: Teachings
Gaia House Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)

2023-06-08 Session 4: Samadhi and Insight 31:04
Zohar Lavie
Part 2: Guided Meditation
Gaia House Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)

2023-06-08 Guided Metta Meditation 32:07
Ayya Santussika
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-08 Morning instructions: supporting softness, smoothness, and lightness characteristics of the four element meditation 51:44
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-07 Meditation – Cultivating a Relaxed Attention 21:28
Tara Brach
In this meditation we engage a relaxed and alert attention by scanning through the body, opening to sound, and resting in the awareness that includes all the senses. This presence is stabilized with the use of a home base, for many the breath, and reminders to “relax back” when the mind naturally drifts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-06-07 Unwinding Anxiety with Awareness: A conversation with Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer (Part 1) 53:03
Tara Brach, Judson Brewer
Anxiety is spiking around the world and we need the radical medicine of awareness to unwind it. In this two-part conversation, Tara and Dr. Judson Brewer look at how anxiety is a habit that can be unlearned as we cultivate a curious and kind mindful presence. Jud offers the scientific grounds for this “unwinding”, drawing on his experience as a pioneer and leading researcher in the field of mindfulness and addiction. Together they explore the power of particular mindfulness-based strategies, including noting what is happening, recognizing our habit loops, arousing curiosity and cultivating self-care. They shine a light on the genesis of worrying, how it perpetuates anxiety and ways we can become disenchanted with the habit.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-06-07 Sense Restraint, Moderation in Eating, Wakefulness 1:11:37
Ayya Santussika
Two purposes for sense restraint - wise decisions about what to take in through the senses - using sense restraint to break the chain of dependent origination at the feeling-craving link - moderation in eating - working with drowsiness - using the SN 36:95 Malunkyaputta Sutta, SN 3:13 A Bucket Measure of Food and AN 7.61 Nodding Off.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Contemplating the Four Elements, Impermanence, and the Sense of Self 64:18
Jenny Wilks
Overview and guided meditation.
Gaia House The Four Elements (onine series)

2023-06-07 How does one gain wisdom? 49:01
Sayadaw Vivekananda
We learned last night that two factors are the proximate causes for wisdom to arise, namely, wise consideration, (yoniso manasikara), and concentration. This talk further examines the factors which contribute to the arising of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-07 Hindrances as energies moving through mind–body. 54:35
Nikki Mirghafori
What if we consider the five hindrances not as obstacles, but as veils, coverings, or energies moving through the body?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-07 Anapanasati Tetrad 3 and 4 -- Guided meditation 48:47
Ayya Santussika
Brief instruction on Tetrad 3 and 4 of Anapanasati - Mindfulness of in and out breathing, followed by a guided meditation for the 16 instructions.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Closing Talk 49:34
Nathan Glyde, Tony O'Connor
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Making a Wish and With Cunda on Purity 63:42
Ayya Santussika
Description of the two suttas in the Numerical Discourses, AN 11.2 Making a Wish and AN 10.76 With Cunda.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Guided Meditation 34:44
Zohar Lavie
Muditā
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Anapanasati Part 1 37:13
Ayya Santussika
A short explanation and guided meditation for the first two tetrads of Mindfulness of In and Out Breathing.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Meditation Instructions 50:10
Nathan Glyde
Opening to wellbeing.
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Changing those Deep Patterns 26:19
Ayya Santussika
We may think that our anger, anxiety, regret, jealousy, longing, sorrow, etc. are just a part of our character, or our karma, or that they assail us and we have no control over them or the power to abandon them. In this talk, we look at how to challenge this perception and stop feeding our mental and emotional patterns.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Compassion and the Fragility of Life 1:34:06
Devin Berry
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-05 Dharma Talk 49:00
Nathan Glyde
Including Appreciating
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-05 Fire Meditation 40:00
Ayya Santussika
Using the fire element as found internally and externally as a meditation object.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Meditation Instructions 56:40
Zohar Lavie
Opening to the unpleasant.
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-04 Welfare and Happiness in this Life and in Lives to Come 21:19
Ayya Santussika
A lay man asks the Buddha how lay people can have welfare and happiness in this life and in lives to come. the Buddha answers with four accomplishments for welfare and happiness in this life and four accomplishments ensuring welfare and happiness in future lives.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-04 Dharma Talk 43:57
Zohar Lavie
Opening Compassionately to the Human Condition
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-04 Recollection of the Buddha 1:15:35
Ayya Santacitta
This practice is the first of the Four Protective Meditations, which show us the potential as well as the limitations of a human life. These are reminders of what is true, real and possible.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-06-04 Highest Blessings 44:18
Ayya Santussika
The Mangala Sutta (Highest Blessings) as another version of the gradual training as it applies to lay life and also reaches the highest goal: realization of Nibbana.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

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