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Dharma Talks
2022-08-22 The Buddha's Last Teachings | Monday Night Talk 60:27
Jack Kornfield
This dharma talk centers around teachings from The Mahāparinibbāṇa Sutta which is a story about the last year of the Buddha's life. This text has two main themes: 1. The Buddha wanted to leave his teachings as guidance for his followers to empower them. 2. The Buddha wanted to encourage his followers to foster wise relationships to one another in the spiritual community and to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-08-22 Guided Meditation: Mettā to Oneself, Easy Relationship, Another, and All Beings 45:05
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-22 Metta for a friend 39:23
Devon Hase
Guided Meditation on metta for a friend with receiving practice at the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-22 Mettā Expands Beyond Dukkha 45:35
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-22 Dharma Talk - Jhanas 1-4 50:05
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-22 Meditation Instructions 2: Metta 60:04
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-21 Balancing energy on the path 45:17
Devon Hase
Stories, reflections, and images, to support wise effort and balanced energy in retreat and in daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-21 Dukkha Without Tanha: Integrating Buddhist Insights and Neuropsychology 1:32:03
Rick Hanson, William Edelglass
As the First Noble Truth, the Buddha pointed to dukkha: some experiences are painful; enjoyable experiences are impermanent; and all phenomena lack an enduring essence. Dukkha is routinely (mis)translated as “suffering” or “unsatisfactoriness” - but these are not inherent in it! The Buddha’s liberating teaching in his Second Noble Truth is that it is tanha - “craving” - which turns dukkha into suffering. Biologically, we crave when we feel something is missing or wrong. So, in this conversation with Rick Hanson, we'll explore how to build up a sense of fullness and balance that’s hardwired into the nervous system, and grow the inner strengths that can meet our needs without craving . . . and face the challenges of life with an unshakable core of contentment, love, and inner peace.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

2022-08-21 Guided Mettā Meditation 9:36
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-21 Judith Ragir and Pamela Weiss - Untangling Karma 1:27:49
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-08-21 Guided Meditation: Welcoming, Allowing, Opening 44:56
Nathan Glyde
A guided metta meditation based on Rob Burbea's Dukkha Ways of Looking practice.
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-21 Wise View and the Cultivation of Wisdom 69:36
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-08-21 Dharma Talk - The Hindrances. 51:59
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-21 Immeasurably Freeing Ways of Relating 51:24
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-21 Understanding the Pleasure of Bodily Calm - Meditation 37:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-21 Understanding the Pleasure of Bodily Calm - Talk 36:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-21 Guided instructions: second foundation of mindfulness 43:16
Matthew Hepburn
Instructions on practicing mindfulness of feeling tone (vedana) during sitting meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-21 Meditation Instructions 1: Attending Well 54:59
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-20 Dharma Talk - The Four Noble Truths. 53:47
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-20 Opening to the Illimitable 30:29
Nathan Glyde
Opening Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-20 Morning instructions, working with hindrances 33:31
Devon Hase
A short talk on hindrances, guided Meditation on body, breath, and sound followed by a short guided walking instruction
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-19 How to guide your own practice 40:03
Matthew Hepburn
Once a practitioner understands the interplay between the five spiritual faculties, it becomes possible to triage age and fine-tune our practice to build momentum toward freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-19 Guided meditation on death, Dhamma talk on death 1:30:46
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation on death: 'Life is uncertain, death is certain'. Dhamma talk on death; how the Buddha talked about death as something knowable, and what happens after death.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-08-19 Meditation: accepting, allowing, opening to how it is right now 27:00
Jill Shepherd
Settling in and making space for whatever our experience is in this moment, meeting it with acceptance and kindness
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-08-19 Metta For The Body 29:45
Devon Hase
Short talk and guided metta body scan
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

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