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Dharma Talks
2022-01-11 Wisdom - The Intelligence that Leads to Stillness 40:07
Ajahn Sucitto
The cultivation of wisdom is not just a matter of intellectually knowing something, it’s a practice of handling, and staying in touch with what’s felt. Steadying citta so it can come out of its fixed gripped state, there’s a turning towards dispassion and right response. Stay in touch with the process, do the process and see where it goes – that’s how you learn.
Cittaviveka 2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-10 Cracking the Shell Is Pleasant 39:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of cultivation is a pleasant one of cleaning away the dross and delusions that cause us suffering and stress. Drop by drop the bucket fills up with skillful actions and overflows into something more deep, steady, reliable. Be a stable presence rather than search for it, ‘out there’ – gradually the chaos will begin to still. There’s a process there, and the result is purification.
Cittaviveka 2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-09 The Dharma of 2022 1:36:07
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-01-09 Awakening Now 51:57
Amita Schmidt
May this be the year for you to Awaken. Strategies, tools, and insights to move towards awakening even in difficult times. This talk is also available via video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhZZONPLjoc
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2022-01-09 Wise Older Self Meditation (Short Version) 10:55
Amita Schmidt
This is a guided meditation that can help you with concerns about the future. It accesses your Wisdom Self. There is a short version (this one) and a longer version (25 min).
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2022-01-09 Question and Answers in New Year 2022 Retreat 26:05
Amita Schmidt
Questions about; 1) listening to the dharma 2) how to reset from difficult experiences 3)what exists after we die 4) facing environmental change 5)and using the momentum of the stress of these times to awaken.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2022-01-09 Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version 25:18
Amita Schmidt
If you have concerns about the future this is a meditation to access your Wisdom Self. This is a longer version (25 min) and there is a shorter version available as well (10 min). Many people find this meditation very helpful and do it regularly.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2022-01-09 Paramis: Abiding in Non-Aversion and Non-Fear – The Basic Goodness of the Heart – Meditation 29:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-01-09 Paramis: Abiding in Non-Aversion and Non-Fear – The Basic Goodness of the Heart – Talk 32:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-01-09 Exploring Nibbana: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein 1:31:33
Joseph Goldstein, William Edelglass
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Exploring Nibbana: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein

2022-01-09 Saddha: Conviction; Trust; Faith 63:44
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2022

2022-01-09 Careful Attention: Food for Awakening 41:52
Ajahn Sucitto
With careful attention we pick up those qualities within experience that are most supportive for liberation. It means we notice how things affect us and the results that follow. Mindfulness of body gives you something to rest in as you breathe through the rocky areas of heart and mind. Citta comes out of its restricted state and there’s a widening, stepping back, letting go.
Cittaviveka 2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-08 Conditioned Towards Freedom 1:27:57
Nathan Glyde
Exploring how a wide expanse of Buddha Dharma is implied in Dhammapada verse 1: Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a corrupted heart, then suffering follows you— as the wheel of the cart, the track of the ox that pulls it. Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow that never leaves
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2022

2022-01-08 Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:12
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking Up In The Midst Of It All

2022-01-08 To Begin and To Continue 37:14
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat

2022-01-08 Appreciative Joy - Mudita: An Introduction and Guided Meditation 36:10
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat

2022-01-08 Samadhi 1:17:48
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-01-08 Stream of Liberation 51:47
Ajahn Sucitto
There is the nutriment for ignorance and the nutriment for true knowledge and liberation. Both are dependently arising on other factors. What arises, whether skillful or unskillful, is based on how one places attention, moderates attitudes, and relinquishes self-view. This is a transpersonal process – keep filtering experience in these transpersonal terms.
Cittaviveka 2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-07 Waking up with the Five Spiritual Faculties 51:53
Susie Harrington
The five Spiritual Faculties of Faith, Energy, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom give us both a map for the natural unfolding of our practice and a guide for how to orient and encourage its development.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Waking Up In The Midst Of It All

2022-01-07 Guided Mudita, Appreciative Joy Practice 53:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2022-01-07 Guided Mudita, Appreciative Joy Discussion 27:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2022-01-07 Getting Out of the Concrete Jungle 44:15
Ajahn Sucitto
With mindfulness of breathing, subtle beneficial signs are picked up and suffused into the body. We can relinquish the signs we’ve picked up from the concrete jungle, the fear, the dread, the lack of heartfulness; we can purify the internal environment. Refer to what’s beautiful, uplifting, noble and generous. With mindfulness of breathing you’re taking in these messages.
Cittaviveka 2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice

2022-01-06 34 meditation: equanimity 23:08
Jill Shepherd
Starting with the usual anchors of body, physical sensations and sounds, then opening to choiceless attention and cultivating an attitude of equanimity or non-reactivity in relation to whatever we're experiencing
Sydney Insight Meditators :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-01-06 33 instructions: equanimity 11:52
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to equanimity as a support for the ending of the retreat
Sydney Insight Meditators :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-01-06 32 meditation: mudita as appreciation for outer conditions and inner qualities 29:13
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by acknowledging what we can appreciate about the outer conditions of being on retreat, then orienting to the skilful inner qualities that have been strengthened, specifically the seven factors of awakening
Sydney Insight Meditators :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

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