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Dharma Talks in English
2018-10-10 Interdependence Always Arising 40:50
Marcia Rose
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-10 The Stars in Our Scars: Opening to Mystery on the Path 58:48
Sebene Selassie
The Buddhdharma invites us not to believe anything but to come see for ourselves: the practice transforms our lives and through practice we come to understand the power of this path firsthand. But knowing that the practice works is not the same as knowing how it works. This talk explores the truth of mystery in our practice and in our lives. It invites us to open to the mysteries of the universe as a portal to a deep faith and wisdom on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-10 Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care 43:07
Martin Aylward
Martin looks at these Curiosity qualities as both inherent qualities of awareness, and qualities we can support and cultivate in each moment, whether in meditation or daily activity, in silence or in communication.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-10 Thoughts Are Not the Enemy of Meditation 32:23
Anushka Fernandopulle
Practicing awareness of thoughts. Explanation of the relationship we can have to mind objects. Befriending the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-10 Morning Reflection: 4th Domain of Mindfulness – Mindfulness of Dharmas/Truths 12:14
Marcia Rose
Exploring how we can ground our practice in mindfulness of the truth of the way of things…the truth of the natural laws.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-10 How to Be Sick - Guest speaker Toni Bernhard 2:00:26
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-10-10 Dharma as Nature 47:19
Anushka Fernandopulle
Learning about what is true about our loves. Practicing on retreat and what we can learn.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-09 Liberation Through Understanding The Three Marks Of Existence 59:37
Bhante Buddharakkhita
A full understanding of the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self can lead to wisdom and liberating the mind from mental defilements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-09 Inhabiting the Fields of Experience 42:14
Martin Aylward
This talk looks at expanding fields of presence, exploring the composites of experience (khanda) through inhabiting the 'body-field', the 'citta-field' and a whole, or all-inclusive field of experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-09 3rd Domain of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Mind 1:19:07
Marcia Rose
Exploring mindfulness of the mind from the perspective of our experience of the transformation and relinquishment of affective states of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-09 Transforming Reactivity in Everyday Life 54:05
Donald Rothberg
We look at "reactivity" as a non-literal "translation" and clarification of the nature of dukkha, and examine, through a talk and discussion, a number of ways to practice when reactivity or dukkha arises. We remember the Buddha's teaching: "I have taught one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the cessation of dukkha.”
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2018-10-09 Attention to the Body 27:52
Anushka Fernandopulle
Anchoring attention in the field of the body. Retreat day 1 instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-09 The Exertion That Brings Confidence 42:29
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-08 Not Self and Selfing 62:12
Andrea Fella
We can start to understand the teaching on not-self (anatta) by getting familiar with the experience of the sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-08 Karma - Week 4 - Talk 27:56
Mark Nunberg
This recording begins 10 minutes into the talk due to a microphone issue.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-08 Karma - Week 4 - Chant and Meditation 30:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-08 Practice in Painful Times - Monday Night Dharma Talk 60:48
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-08 Morning Reflection: 2nd Domain of Mindfulness – Mindfulness of Feelings/Vedana 11:36
Marcia Rose
Exploring the freedom that is available with a clear and present mindful awareness of the ‘feelings’ of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-07 The Dance Of Faith And Wisdom 53:38
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-07 Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear 59:35
Tara Brach
While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physical tension, anxious thinking, emotions and behaviors; and how this constellation prevents us from inhabiting our full wisdom and love. We then explore two interrelated pathways of healing—unconditional presence, and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat 31:15
Tara Brach
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 The Dharma and the Drama 43:18
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the meaning of dharma as Nature. What would it be like to meet all our experience as natural? To let in all that arises so as to meet and explore the whole of experience. And what of the drama that we generate? Maybe, the more we can make room for our inner dramas, the less hold they might have over us.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-07 Earth Care 2018 40:06
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-10-07 Wholesome and Unwholesome Intention - Talk 57:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Wholesome and Unwholesome Intention - Meditation 30:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Soften with Compassion Guided Meditation 21:50
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-07 Cultivating a Mind Fit for Action 62:55
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-07 Humility and Authenticity of the Present Moment - Talk 40:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Humility and Authenticity of the Present Moment - Meditation 29:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Third Morning Meditation 9:25
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-06 Knowledge and Vision of the Practice 37:43
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-10-06 Chant: Buddam, Dhamman, Sangham 11:20
Sebene Selassie
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-06 On Retreat with the Hindrances - with Sebene Selassie and Jonathan Foust 60:35
Sebene Selassie
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-06 Pregiudizi verso il buddhismo. Prejudice towards buddhism 59:10
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insegnamenti di buddismo Theravada. 16 giugno 2018 Ritiro di Satipatthana Vipassana a Pian dei Ciliegi, Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation retreat in Pian dei Ciliegi
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi

2018-10-06 Dana Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 14:21
Rick Hanson, Rachel Lewis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2018-10-06 Metta Chant 9:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-06 Loving Kindness - Awakening and Expressing our Heart (Short talk and Guided meditation) 36:50
Tara Brach
This short talk and guided meditation remind us that we each have the capacity to awaken our hearts. We explore together the lovingkindness (metta) meditation, and emphasize holding our own being and dear ones with a tender, open and loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-06 Brahma Vihara practice 37:11
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-06 The Brahma Viharas 56:12
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-06 Day Five, Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:36
Rachel Lewis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2018-10-06 Outside Meditation 30:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-06 Expanding Awareness - A Guided Meditation 43:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-06 Second Morning Meditation 37:55
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-05 The Three Characteristics (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:03
Rachel Lewis
Seeing anicca, dukkha and anatta through the lenses of science and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2018-10-05 Karma 53:43
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-05 The four sublime attitudes. 49:50
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-05 Metta Chant 8:45
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-05 Metta Meditation 37:26
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-05 Day Four, Guided Self-Compassion across the lifespan, from childhood to old age. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:04
Alisa Dennis
Can we travel into our past and into our future through the power of our intention and the magnetic pulse of our hearts? Maybe? And what’s wrong with living in the Maybe Place? This guided meditation supports us in deepening the capacity of our hearts to listen deeply and at ease to our own pain and suffering across our lives. Widening the heart's capacity to hold our own grief and sorrow will strengthen our capacity to turn toward, be with, and then respond thoughtfully to the pain of the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2018-10-05 Graceful and Steady Heart 54:31
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

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