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2025-06-05 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech 17:50
Jill Shepherd
Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-05 The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava 46:00
James Baraz
This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of Samsara." Bhava comes right after Craving and Grasping and is usually translated as "Becoming." Bhava or Becoming is something that that most of us find ourselves caught in. However, bringing kind awareness to this tendency can be a major support for living our lives fully in the present moment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-06-04 Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States 56:42
Amana Brembry Johnson
In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:02
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 It Was Like This 25:30
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher 41:23
Carol Cano
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Mindfulness of Breathing: Body, Feelings, Mind and Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:26
Ayya Santussika
A gentle guide through all the steps with a focus on Dhamma reflection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

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