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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

2025-06-12 Who Do You Need to Pay and What Do You Need Them to Say? 15:05
Ayya Santussika
How do we change the habits that continually bring us suffering? This is a reflection based on SN 3.13 "A Bucket of Rice" and a personal experience providing some ideas on how to let go of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, anger, resentment, righteous indignation, and so on that keep us bound up in suffering, pointing to Nibbāna here and now.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-04 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of sensations, including pain 40:06
Christiane Wolf
Mindfulness of breath opening into mindfulness of the whole body, including working with the feeling tones and pain
Big Bear Retreat Center Deep Belonging

2025-05-18 One Arrow is Plenty, Thanks 39:49
Gullu Singh
Gullu explores Vendana (Hedonic Tone) which is a central and vital Buddhist teaching and the speaks about the Sallata Sutta which explores how we make our suffering worse with resistance, seeking pleasure to cover over the pain, and over-identifying with pain. Sutta text can be found at: https://links.gullusingh.com/8d6c9a
Big Bear Retreat Center Coming Home to Our Senses

2025-04-03 Morning instructions: Mindful awareness and meeting physical pain in meditation. 41:59
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Morning reflection: Cultivating voluntary attention: Relating to one's patterns, voices, habits. 44:21
Akincano Marc Weber
The workings of not-knowing – the workings of attentional habits. Involuntary attentional patterns seem to govern much of our experience. Yet training is possible, training is needed. Such training entails acknowledgement, attentional tasks and specificity. Negotiating pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-03-17 Compassion Instruction and Guidance 51:33
Tempel Smith
We need to explore how to find and develop true compassion which is a beautiful quality of opening our hearts to the suffering inside and outside ourselves. While there is pain in suffering we can actually grow to have a sweet heart of compassion when we know how to breath open heartedly in contact with pain and suffering. When we find true compassion we don't need to shrink back from what is difficult but rather use the commonalities of difficulties to feel warm and expanded.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-25 Beyond Control, Within Our Hands: The Power of Compassion & Equanimity. 42:06
Oren Jay Sofer
How do we meet suffering—our own and the world’s—without being overwhelmed? Compassion invites us to turn toward pain with an open heart and respond, while equanimity offers balance and perspective. The two work together, allowing us to engage wholeheartedly, without attachment to outcomes, responding with wisdom and care in the face of uncertainty, loss, and change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-23 The Audacity of Joy 2:40
Amita Schmidt
A response to a question about feeling joy during difficult times. The student was concerned that feeling joy might decrease connections with others who are suffering. They also felt some guilt about feeling joy when others were in pain.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2024-12-25 Short Talk and Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Our Life 11:46
Tara Brach
Our habitual ways of avoiding pain keep us from experiencing intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This short talk and guided meditation offers instruction in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our truest nature (a reflection from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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