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Dharma Talks in English
2022-02-11 Opening Our Hearts to Love—For Ourselves and For Others 51:11
Donald Rothberg, Fresh Lev White
Just before this Valentine’s Day, we’ll explore, in meditation and a talk and discussion, what helps us to open our hearts to our deep loving nature, and what gets in the way of such opening. We’ll focus on how central it is, and often how hard it is, to be able to develop and express self-love and self-compassion. Yet these qualities are necessary for bringing love into our relationships and into our world, which deeply needs love and heart connections. We’ll identify perspectives and practices which help us to open our hearts to love!
East Bay Meditation Center

2022-02-11 Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:14
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that one should cultivate and, when possible, maintain wholesome states. This talk explores teachings on cultivating states of well-being and how to deepen them in our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Dharma Talk - How an Empty Self Transforms the World 53:03
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Meditative states vs. process, Meditation on impermanence, Dhamma talk on Madhupiṇḍikasutta, Q+A 1:30:59
Bhante Sujato
Bhante Sujato on meditative states vs. meditative process. Meditation on impermanence guided by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk on a passage from the Madhupiṇḍikasutta (MN18): about the proliferation going on in the mind. Katukurunde Ñānananda: concept and reality. Q+A: choice without a chooser.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • MN 18 - The Honey Cake Sutta by suttacentral.net (Link)
  • Concept and Reality by Katukurunde Ñānananda (Link)

2022-02-11 Dharma and Recovery 1:20:13
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-02-11 Guided Meditation 43:48
Zohar Lavie
Metta to phenomena.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Guided Compassion Meditation for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:10
JD Doyle
Sharing the Buddha's aspiration to teach out of compassion for the world, you are invited to bring that inspiration into your compassion practice. This guided meditation starts with an overview of compassion and then the guided meditation focuses on an easy being and then opens to all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Questions and Responses 38:03
Zohar Lavie
This recording also includes Nathan Glyde.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Meditation Instructions 56:04
Zohar Lavie
Welcoming all vedanas.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Guided Mindfulness of Intentions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:00
Tempel Smith
In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Guided Mindfulness of Intentions 26:15
Tempel Smith
In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-10 talk: Sangha as refuge 22:35
Jill Shepherd
Weaving together themes of dāna or generosity, mettā or kindness, and kalyanamitta or dharma friendship as supports for creating and maintaining a healthy sangha or community
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-02-10 Dharma Talk - the Construction of Dukkha and Release 55:50
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 meditation: metta infusion 25:23
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by attuning to the body, then listening to the heart, and inviting a sense of warmth and kindness that can be suffused through the whole being
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-02-10 Guided Meditation 45:44
Nathan Glyde
Metta with a dash of Anicca.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 Guided Karuna/Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:48
Tempel Smith
Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own vulnerability and that of others. Practicing compassion strengthens our hearts to stay conscious and even move lovingly towards ourselves and others when we are in pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-10 Questions and Responses 29:45
Nathan Glyde, Zohar Lavie
This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 Meditation Instructions 59:47
Nathan Glyde
Inconstancy
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Curiosity and Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:29
JD Doyle
Exploring Anatta, with an invitation to curiosity and intimacy with the not knowing, beyond the conceptual mind of the constructs of the self. As we investigate the constructions of self, we begin to untangle the sense of self that we are familiar with and open to the possibility of the fullness of Anatta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-09 One Auspicious Day: The Bhaddekaratta Sutta 50:22
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-02-09 Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness 22:41
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, clear awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-09 Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing 53:57
Tara Brach
The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroying our larger body, Earth. We then look at the pathways of awakening to the truth of “interbeing” and responding to our precious world with love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-09 Dharma Talk - Inconstancy 51:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Sudden awakening, gradual cultivation 48:27
Bart van Melik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-09 Stories and Songs Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh 16:40
Betsy Rose
I met Thay in 1987 and assisted him in many retreats and public talks, singing the songs I wrote inspired by his teachings and poetry. In this talk, I share some stories and songs from these early days that focus on his unorthodox, creative, intuitive, and courageous embodiment of dharma.
Assaya Sangha

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