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2025-07-14 Guided Forgiveness Practice 56:14
Tempel Smith
From a base of loving kindness and compassion we can consciously aim our heart's attention into a practice of Forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-07 Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path 66:51
Donald Rothberg
For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in much of Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further. In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It’s outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-05 Compassion 43:34
Kamala Masters
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation with Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong and Deborah Helzer

2025-06-23 Karuna: Compassion for the Heart-Body-Mind (Centering You) 61:14
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): guided meditation centering One’s heart-body-mind. suggested for experienced meditators only.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-22 Morning Instructions: Empty Nature of Hindrances 50:09
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 4 (3rd full day): part 2 of the dharma talk titled: “ The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom”
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-21 The Body of Emptiness, The Wings of Compassion and Wisdom (Part 1) 54:06
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 3 (2nd full day): bhavana, elements, sammā dițți, Cuļa Suññata Suta (MN 121)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-20 Wisdom of compassion 54:21
Nolitha Tsengiwe
The essence of compassion is honesty about suffering. Compassion is what naturally arises when we turn towards hurts, pain, suffering with love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

2025-06-18 The Big Picture 1 64:23
Donald Rothberg
The talk begins to give the "big picture" about the nature of our practice, and how we come, in a way suitable to our times and places, to manifest wisdom, love and compassion, and skillful responses in our lives, increasingly more of the time. We reflect first on some of the challenges of our times, and how Buddhism, as it has moved to different cultures, has always taken new forms. A main part of the big picture, which is our main focus today, is a model of how meditation develops. We articulate a model involving three main forms of practice (that we can find in multiple Buddhist traditions): Developing samadhi (concentration), opening to liberating insight, and opening to awakened awareness. We explore each of the three and their relationship to each other. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-06-08 Teachings 44:06
Gavin Milne
Boundaries and firm compassion - unfurling the heart in the world. Includes an inquiry exercise.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-07 Instructions 22:17
Gavin Milne
Reflections around inquiry practice - including the 'view' of parts as a compassionate response for our times.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-04 Supportive touch and mindful self-compassion break 42:39
Christiane Wolf
How to use touch to self-regulate and for self-compassion
Big Bear Retreat Center Deep Belonging

2025-05-31 Mettā and Compassion 13:14
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-20 The Heavenly Abode of Compassion 44:30
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Coming Home to Kind Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25BVM

2025-05-19 The Art of Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:59
Susie Harrington
Finding the balance of effort and letting go is the art of meditation practice. This applies both to times of ease in practice and in the greater challenges of meeting the hindrances. We have the opportunity to use every moment as a portal to wisdom and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2025-05-07 Guided Meditation: Exploring Emotions and Thoughts Connected to Contemporary Social and Political Events 2 40:16
Donald Rothberg
We begin with some guidance on developing samadhi (concentration) and stability, followed by practicing developing samadhi. After about 10 minutes developing samadhi, we move to mindfulness practice. After about another 10 minutes of practice, we then inquire into some of the emotions and thoughts that have been present recently, whether difficult or joyful, related to the current state of the society and world. We first relive a recent experience and then bring mindfulness to the somatic, emotional, and mental dimensions of experience. While staying silent, we also have a sense of being in community and sharing our experience. We then work with Kristen Neff's three-step self-compassion practice (shifting to a three-step joy or mudita practice if the experiences have been more positive).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-05-06 Standing in the Middle: Compassion in a Troubled World 26:09
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-05-02 Meditation Instructions - Gathering in Wellbeing & Compassion for Hard to Bear 58:45
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Limitless and Sublime

2025-04-30 Week 5, Part 1 - Compassion-based Samadhi 32:45
Juha Penttilä
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Natural peace - Exploring Vastness of Awareness

2025-04-30 Guided Meditation: Exploring Emotions and Thoughts Connected to Contemporary Social and Political Events 42:51
Donald Rothberg
After about 25 minutes of lightly guided practice, to settle with concentration and/or mindfulness practice, we explore in several ways some of the emotions and thoughts that have been present related to the current state of the society and world. We first relive a recent experience and then bring mindfulness to the somatic, emotional, and mental dimensions of experience. We then work with Kristen Neff's three-step self-compassion practice, leading to developing intentions for how to practice with such experiences in the future.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-04-23 Week 4, Part 1 - Compassion-based Samadhi 30:24
Yahel Avigur
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Natural peace - Exploring Vastness of Awareness

2025-04-14 Compassion Meditation 25:47
Tim Geil
Compassion meditation with the body and breath.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-14 Compassion vs. Codependency 25:49
Tim Geil
Compassion can be freed of patterns of codependency. We learn to trust suffering as a teacher.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-10 Compassiom Meditation 25:30
Tim Geil
Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-10 Compassion: The Personal and Universal 27:41
Tim Geil
The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-04 The Liberating Power of Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:29
Jessica Morey
In this talk, we explore compassion as a liberating force—one that allows us to stay present with suffering so we can respond with wise action. Drawing on the myth of Avalokiteśvara, the science of empathy, and the felt experience of care, compassion becomes a courageous presence rooted in tenderness and connection. We also reflect on how a deep understanding of dukkha, paired with a direct knowing of freedom, strengthens our compassion and helps us see the wish for liberation as real and available—even in the most difficult places.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

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