2015-09-21 Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind 59:30
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. they then no longer dominate our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 The sweet essence - Part 1 56:11
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We examine the first part of Madhupiṇḍika Sutta, The sweet essence (MN 18), where Mahā Kaccāna unpacks a brief teaching by the Buddha on how we construct our dukkha. We begin with the six sense fields and the vedanā that arises from them, and then construct a world though obsessive thinking (papañca), to the point where we find ourselves living in a world of concepts about our experience, rather than the experience itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-21 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 1 62:03
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 1 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
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2015-09-21 Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis with Empathy and Compassion 51:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-21 Standing Meditation 48:45
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Guided meditation on the standing posture, as a valuable but often neglected part of our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Mindfulness, hindrances and development 46:21
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Overview of the foundations of mindfulness. The hindrances are observed as part of the 4th foundation. Understanding the hindrances both in terms of how they need to be kept in balance as as expressions of development.
Shakti Vihara :  Portal to Pure Presence

2015-09-20 Knowing what you need 53:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Dealing with the human form and its physical, emotional needs requires care and discernment. Two instructions- observe what is arising and go where you feel comfortable. How do you know when to observe and when to be proactive?
Shakti Vihara :  Portal To Pure Presence

2015-09-20 Walking The Path 49:34
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An exploration of the 4 Noble Truths using the 8 -Fold Path as a framework for understanding how practice unfolds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-20 What Is It that We Do When We Meditate 56:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2015-09-20 Being With Life, Not Just Dealing With It. 33:34
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Sure, we need to do both. The problem is that the dealing usually takes over, leaving no room for intimacy with the world, and with ourselves.
Rhinebeck Sitting Group :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-09-19 Opening to Life 52:09
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Stepping out of our stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-19 Clinging and Freedom From Clinging 55:25
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-19 Precious Human Birth 48:06
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
First talk of the retreat. The range of human experience includes choices based on greed, hatred and confusion or non green, non hatred and non confusion. There are many fortunate conditions that give someone faculties to hear to Dhamma, contemplate, practice a gradual path of awakening. Yet there are times when the path changes suddenly and we can feel groundless. Both the gradual and sudden aspects of the path are part of what we develop and realize as part of understanding the preciousness of our human birth.
Shakti Vihara :  Portal to Pure Presence

2015-09-19 Body Scanning with Gratitude 44:49
Christiane Wolf	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-19 The Joy of Samadhi 2:56:11
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
The practice of samatha leads to a state of samadhi, where the mind is stable, bright, not distracted and spacious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Joy Of Samadhi

2015-09-19 Guided Meditation on the Elements 36:58
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Exploring Solidity, Liquidity, Motion, and Temperature in the body and the world. The barriers of separation begin to dissolve and the sense of interconnections arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-18 Facebook Dharma 54:19
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
The deepest healing aspects of the 32 parts of the the body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-18 Burning 59:50
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at Āditta Sutta (SN 35:28), where the Buddha teaches 1,000 former dreadlocks ascetics that “everything is burning.” This teaching focuses on the six sense fields and the ways in which we become entangled with them. The practice the Buddha teaches is direct, intimate, physical, and it focuses on our relationship with vedanā, the realm of affect.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-17 Working with Emotions in the Body 53:54
Christiane Wolf	Download Listen
Hands-on description on working with anxiety, a physician's take on the 32 parts of the body practice, all 4 satipatthanas grow from here.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body

2015-09-17 Four Stages in the Transformation of the Judgmental Mind 61:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We first cover an overview of the two main inter-related ways that transformation of the judgmental mind occurs: (1) mindfulness and investigation of judgments; and (2) cultivating awakened states, particularly through "heart practices." In this talk, we examine four stages of the first way: investigating and transforming judgments by first noticing them and becoming more mindful of them in terms of the body, core narratives, emotional energy, etc., and then going beneath the surface of judgments, revealing and transforming the underlying habitual tendencies and core limiting beliefs, often initially unconscious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2015-09-17 Hindrances Can Wake Us Up 62:56
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-17 "Anchoring Our Wisdom: Embodied Awareness" 53:19
James Baraz	Download Listen
How the Body Can Help Us Remember. (Note: We had some trouble with the sound system for the first few minutes.)
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2015-09-17 Equanimity 60:17
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-17 Preparing the fire 66:12
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
Tonight we follow the Buddha from Isipatana, just north of Bārāṇasī, to Uruvelā, on the near side to the Nerañjarā river. At Bārāṇasī he converts some of the commercial elite of the city, and when he has 60 arahant students sends them off on missionary journeys. The Buddha himself goes on a targeted mission to convert a community of dreadlocks-wearing (jaṭila) ascetics to his teaching. He does so by “shirt-fronting” Uruvelā-Kassapa, the senior leader of this community, with his shamanic powers, in order to prepare the way for his third teaching.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-16 From Grumpiness to Gratitude 54:08
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
The Dharma is medicine for difficulties of mind, heart and body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Finding Freedom in the Body