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Dharma Talks in English
2024-08-29 The Miracle of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 11:13:16
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the most direct way to overcome suffering and realize the highest happiness. This talk explains power of mindfulness and why it is so liberating.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-29 meditation: Mettā for a good friend 26:50
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings

2024-08-29 Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:35
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-29 Calling and Being Called 54:56
Betsy Rose
Betsy shares some of her recent work called "Singing into the Unknown: Songs for Reimagining the Future" coming out the particular time of uncertainty we are currently in.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2024-08-28 Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open 26:26
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention. We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that’s here – our senses awake… wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, and open.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-28 Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:29
Tara Brach
This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible and whole. “How can we trust basic goodness, what lets us trust?” “…imagine how might your life change if you dedicated yourself to realizing and trusting this basic goodness sometimes called Buddha nature or loving presence that’s within.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-28 Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear 55:09
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-28 Give Ear To Silence 16:56
Ayya Medhanandi
Listen to the interior silence with audacious selfless attention and see how pure awareness catapults us into a dynamic intuitive presence. We connect to the Dhamma without obstructions. Silence is formless, soundless, complete. We are witness to an emptiness beyond attachment where the burdens of identification have no footing. There is no 'one' to be in that – for when the intellect bows in faith to the heart, we abide in the loving presence of what is here and now. Ahh! but can we sustain it?
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-08-28 Practicing with Mystery 1 59:56
Donald Rothberg
Inviting a sense of mystery as we practice can bring further aliveness, presence, and openness, and help us go beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and practicing. In the talk, we explore seven ways of practicing with mystery, with the aid of a number of poems. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-25 Samadhi in Context (and a short piece about Dana before that) 20:46
Yahel Avigur
Final Session.
Gaia House Samadhi - Reliable Joy

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