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Dharma Talks
2025-02-28 20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness 42:46
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-28 Intro to Lovingkindness class 2 63:28
Dawn Neal
Homework for this class is: Daily meditation: 15-20 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced. --At least 2/3 metta for easy being/benefactor & self. (start with easy being if it’s helpful). --Up to 1/3 mindfulness (or end with a bit of mindfulness). --If it gets challenging, return to where it’s easy. 2. Micro-practice: Stop, notice, appreciate, kindness/positive regard for self or others: Appreciation, gratitude, or inspiration as a form of mindfulness. If you don’t notice in daily life, recall/write down a few in the evening. Due to a recording error, the second mini lecture was not recorded. The topic was the Buddhist and Scientific rationales for cultivating lovingkindness for oneself. The scientific study referenced is entitled "Open Hearts Build Lives," by Barbara Fredrickson, et al. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-0XLchUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-0XLchUAAAAJ:geHnlv5EZngC
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-02-27 19 talk: Reflections on samādhi 21:38
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 Introduction to Brahmaviharas 1 (Mettā) 1:32:17
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-02-27 Loving Letting Go: Metta and Letting it All Be 46:16
Yong Oh
Renunciation and Refuge - Metta and the path of letting be, of loving. Our ground of liberation is love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-27 The Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances: Part 2 49:14
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-27 18 instructions and meditation: Finding the loveliness of the breath 41:08
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping 45:38
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: equanimity 17:20
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-26 16 talk: Relating to afflictive mind-states with wisdom and compassion 26:02
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

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