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Dharma Talks
2021-06-17 The Lake of Lovingkindness 34:55
Diana Winston
Using guided imagery, we practice loving kindness expansively. We start with ourselves and ultimately include the whole world. The lake is a metaphor, image, and guide.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 How we Hold the Practice: Guided Meditation and Instructions 38:49
Oren Jay Sofer
Morning instructions and guided meditation on how to hold and relate to the primary object/anchor.
Insight Meditation Retreats Awareness and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2021-06-16 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome 18:51
Tara Brach
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here with unconditional presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-16 Fierce Self-Compassion – A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff 61:52
Tara Brach
Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion – tenderness and fierceness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-16 Preliminary Experiential Tastes of Emptiness 46:12
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Being Somebody and Being Nobody 45:20
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Loving Well is the Best Response 67:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-16 Fluidity of Mind: Reflections on Awareness 53:53
Alex Haley
This talk details the importance of embodied awareness, especially as known through felt-sense experience, and how this awareness can be temporarily obscured. Investigative awareness is discussed as a practice method for working with these temporary hindrances and how the sense of fluidity that we cultivate through investigative awareness supports a deeper knowing of natural awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-16 Appreciative Joy 37:28
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on Appreciative Joy followed by a guided meditation
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Self-Directed Loving Kindness 45:25
Diana Winston
We practice loving kindness with an emphasis on how to send it to ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-15 The Spectrum of Awareness Practices 51:07
Diana Winston
This talk details the Spectrum of Awareness Practice-- a map for exploring how many types of awareness meditations fit together. We explore how to move from narrow, focused awareness, through an investigative awareness, to open awareness, and to natural awareness-- an open, spacious, awareness of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-15 Freeing Our Hearts through Forgiveness 37:56
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the practice of forgiveness as well as a guided meditation on Forgiveness.
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-14 Equanimity 38:55
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-14 Week 1: Cultivating Mindful Awareness 1:17:33
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

2021-06-14 Summer Solstice | Monday Night Talk 55:50
Jack Kornfield
Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning. The sun is something for us to pay attention to, something we often take for granted. Notice the way the gift of sunlight streams behind everything—it feeds the plants we eat. We can be grateful for sunlight and trees, for people we love, for moments of goodness, and for the breath within our breast. And as our gratitude grows, we may discover a happiness without cause.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-14 Q and A: Summer Solstice | Monday Night talk 21:30
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from Monday Night Dharma Talk, Summer Solstice 06-14-2021
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-14 Meditation: Summer Solstice | Monday Night 26:41
Jack Kornfield
May you be at ease. May you be well. May you be healed. May you be happy. As you offer this lovingkindness to yourself, image you can fill yourself with the light of your loving awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-13 The Five Elements & Metta 46:13
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Seattle Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-13 Stop Running and Your Real Home Appears 56:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The tendency to keep running out into concepts eventually results in overload, insecurity, anxiety, collapse. We’re desperately looking for sanity. The steadiness and fulfillment we seek is already here, in the non-conceptual intelligence of body and heart. Rather than going out, return to where body, mind and heart energy come together. In this presence our real home appears.
Cittaviveka

2021-06-13 Impermanence 45:21
Kamala Masters
a talk on impermanence
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

2021-06-13 Gratitude, Generosity and Giving 1:31:45
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-06-13 Guided Standing Meditation 2 30:03
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-13 Dhp 256 157 Judgmental v Judicious 17:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma
These two verses are about the process of judging. It is something we are doing all the time whether of people, political parties, other countries and so on. So it is as well to remnd ourselves how we come to a just and correct judgements especially with all the fake news about. I made a mistake at the end quoting the Pali Dhammassa gutto which means Protector of the Dhamma/Law. I ought to have quoted Dhammattho, Standing in the Dhamma - Righteous.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2021-06-13 Death 32:11
Anushka Fernandopulle
True North Insight Body as Nature, Nature in the Body: Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth

2021-06-13 Sensitivity and Restraint 31:52
Ajahn Sucitto
One of the most fundamental requirements in meditation is restraining the mind. Rather than running out, energy can settle and calm. Then one’s effort is neither straining towards some goal, nor enmeshed in agitation. There’s space for sensitivity, receptivity, listening. When the outflows are restrained goodwill, compassion, clarity and wisdom come forth on their own.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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