2018-07-02 Confidence, Faith (saddhā) 58:14
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Confidence is crucial for any undertaking, also for our spiritual journey. Our confidence in the teaching, the actual practice, and in our ability to do the practice grow and deepen as we move along the way.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-07-02 Practical Causality: Seeing Causes and Conditions Intimately. 52:22
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
General introduction to the one-month retreat theme together with the 3 modes of mindfulness, adjustable according to circumstances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-02 Equanimity 53:39
Ruth King	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2018-07-02 24 Closing: Unfolding Your Dhamma Field and Carrying It Within 20:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We entered retreat as “personal packages” that unfolded into a collective field of Dhamma. This field has immense capacity to hold wholesome potencies beyond the world of space and time. We can continue to enrich and access this field after leaving the retreat form as support for our ongoing Dhamma practice.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-07-02 23 Guided Meditation: Distilling and Dwelling in Your Dhamma Potential 24:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Imagining there is only an hour left to live, recollect what has been meaningful and of value. The word just acts as the suitcase, then we have to open it and get a feeling for it in the heart and body.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-07-01 Letting the Present Moment Tenderize the Heart - Talk 41:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-01 Letting the Present Moment Tenderize the Heart - Meditation 33:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-01 A Thousand Thoughts 56:53
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Through understanding the nature of thoughts, we come to understand the nature of the mind. Thoughts are not to be feared or condemned but to be closely looked at and mindfully observed.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-07-01 22 Q&A: Relational Snags, Power of Resolve, Liberation from Clinging 1:10:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Why did you become a monk; the place of women in this lineage; relational snags; strengthening pāramīs; what survives death; stream entry; identifying is another word for clinging; responses to the group process exercises
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-07-01 21 The Skill of Thinking: Allowing the Heart to Speak 58:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instructions for restraining the human tendency to dominate. Learning to set up the right relationship and allow experience to speak for itself. Only after the truth is spoken can there be silence.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-07-01 20 “About to”: The Moment of Becoming 8:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Training to notice the point when the “I am” is born. Allowing a fresh response. Learning to follow, not lead.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-07-01 3rd Morning - Instructions - Hinderances 46:30
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2018-07-01 19 Standing Meditation: Opening to Feeling 18:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Getting a sense of the tones that arise in the body. Don’t act immediately, awareness is open and non-intrusive. Noticing the tendencies towards favoring and opposing.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-30 Compassion Practice 42:30
Ruth King	Download Listen
Self and migrant children and families, carried by the wisdom of the whales
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2018-06-30 Dharma Talk 63:20
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Cultivating an Open Heart Weekend

2018-06-30 Guided Meditation and Talk: Right Effort 1:17:54
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-06-30 Our Shared Humanity (about Metta) 55:06
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
When we see our shared humanity and understand that we all seek happiness and do not want suffering, the heart’s response is naturally one of kindness and friendliness.
Perth, Australia :  Retreat at Jhana Grove: June/July 2018

2018-06-30 Lecture 22 1:19:59
Bhikkhu Analayo	View Download Listen
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files: Nibbana - Lecture 22 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2018-06-30 Self Compassion 24:09
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Cultivating an Open Heart Weekend

2018-06-30 Suffering Sadie 66:37
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Talk on compassion - How we hold ourselves, close ones, all.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2018-06-30 18 Comfortable or Ignorant? Choose Dhamma 53:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
One thing to keep in mind about wilderness training: you’re never ready, but that’s how you cultivate pāramīs. Stay in touch with your Dhamma field and you’ll always be ready to meet the uncomfortable.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-30 Lovingkindness 56:32
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Cultivating an Open Heart Weekend

2018-06-30 17 Pūjā: The Occasion for Refuge 18:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through pūjā we take refuge not in a world of time and structure but in what the mind knows. We take refuge in knowing the heart can open to suffering.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-29 Mindfulness and Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:19
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Working with 2 basic practices of mindful awareness and loving awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Our History, Our Present, Our Future - An Insight Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2018-06-29 Opening Talk 31:51
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Cultivating an Open Heart Weekend

2018-06-29 The Human Journey: Walking the Spiritual Path - Part 2 2:54:07
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-06-29 Day 1: Heart Practices - Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:22
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Having seen that all beings like oneself have desire for happiness, health and well-being one methodically practices loving-kindness for all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Our History, Our Present, Our Future - An Insight Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2018-06-29 Conclusion de la retraite 37:16
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-06-29 16 Disengaging the Self - the First Right Effort 59:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
When we make effort to disengage and avoid the unskillful, we enter the Dhamma domain, the domain of patience, clarity, sensing. Then the Dhamma potencies, not self, naturally do the work of untangling the self-saṇkhāras.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-29 The Human Journey: Walking the Spiritual Path - Part 1 2:31:24
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-06-29 15 Guided Meditation: Breathing In Healing Energies 22:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There is an innate interest in the body to release itself. If we can meet what arises with the right kind of invitation – a mind of goodwill, patience and trust – breathing will act as a messenger and carry these qualities into the body. These then act as healing energies.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-29 Your Cosmic Coordinates 10:45
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

2018-06-29 Of Hunger and Humility 16:01
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

2018-06-29 Morning Reflection 44:44
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-06-29 14 Pāramī - Embodying Truth 13:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Pāramī are described as qualities that extend and further. When cultivated, they provide steadiness to cross over the field of dukkha and confusion into the transcendent plane of Dhamma.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-29 Instructions de méditation 7:52
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-06-28 “Letting Go, Cessation and the Third Noble Truth” (James was on retreat this day so he invited guest speaker Suzie Brown for the talk.) 59:28
James Baraz	Download Listen
Suzie Brown is from Melbourne, Australia. She’s co-founder of the Melbourne Insight Meditation Group and has taught Mindfulness to medical students at Monash University. Suzie has also been a facilitator, trainer and educator for over a decade in the areas of environmental sustainability and organizational strategy.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-06-28 Closing Dhamma Talk 61:29
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  2018 Summer Hermitage Retreat

2018-06-28 Méditation sur les brahmavihara 15:59
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-06-28 13 Guided Meditation: Everything Unfolds from the Center 8:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Establish and maintain core presence through the upright axis. Keep your tap root firmly rooted in your Dhamma field and resist the temptation to move out into what arises. Just by not getting stuck in what arises weakens the power of difficulties. [Instructions end 8:08]
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-28 Soul Making Dharma (Q & A) 41:26
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

2018-06-28 Propos sur le dhamma 1:10:28
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Relations entre metta, brahmavihara, samatha et vipassana.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-06-28 12 Q&A: Negotiating Contact & Gladdening the Mind 51:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Negotiating contact; gladdening the mind; the meaning of spirit; spiritual powers; consciousness creating duality; advice for Dhamma teachers; transmuting sexual energy; what is sampajañña; jhāna training
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-28 Sharing Soul Sense (A Temenos Exercise) 1:15:27
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

2018-06-28 11 Massaging the Closed Heart 62:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our self tends to get patterned and established by what is familiar and repeated. For most, it means being shaped and formed by negative accumulations that constrict and close the heart. Using the body-mind connection we can massage in the internal body back to life, not through words but through wholesome felt sense perceptions.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-28 The Spreading of Five Wings 14:53
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of teachings is from a retreat for experienced practitioners led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee. Although they attempt to outline and elaborate a little on some of the basics of Soulmaking Dharma practice, still the requirements for participation on the retreat included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice; without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Foundations of a Soulmaking Dharma

2018-06-28 Morning Reflection 2:38
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  2018 Summer Hermitage Retreat

2018-06-28 10 Standing Meditation: Skillful Use of Perceptions 22:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
After attuning to the subjective experience of the back, guidance is provided to use perceptions as a means for generating comfort and relaxation.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-06-28 Instructions de méditation 31:36
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Pratique de satipatthana au moyen du corps, des sentations, de l’esprit et des objets de l’esprit.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Vipassana : d’hier à aujourd’hui

2018-06-27 The Spaces created by Awareness 55:12
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks