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2023-05-28 Evening Session 47:26
Sari Markkanen
Brahma Viharas and Self Compassion, Mettā Meditation.
Gaia House Family Retreat

2023-05-28 Recognizing the Good (week 3) - Meditation 33:46
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-05-28 Recognizing the Good (week 3) - Talk 37:28
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-05-28 Selfless Drive to Nibbana 19:46
Ayya Medhanandi
We are travelling a spiritual highway. Our precepts are like safety belts – upholding the core of our humanity with moral restraints that serve as both compass and anchor. They also act like brakes on our Dhamma vehicle, safeguarding us through the wilderness of the world while grounding the mind in an integrity of presence. With pure awareness, we have a stethoscope of the mind, steering and balancing us joyfully on the path so that we can wake up out of the darkness. We carry the Buddha in our hearts like an imperishable lamp, a supremely compassionate parent, our wise and formidable shepherd to help us overcome every hardship. Yes, we’re in self-drive – selfless – crossing to the far shore, Nibbana.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  Uncompromising Nobility

2023-05-25 Compassion and Boundaries (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:41
Ayya Santussika
What the Buddha said about boundaries, saying "no", when to leave, who to spend time with, when and how to tell someone off, while being compassionate and kind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Compassion - Why and How 50:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-05-25 Metta and Karuna: Unlimited Kindness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:19
Ayya Santussika
Developing a felt sense of loving-kindness and compassion as based on the meditation instructions the Buddha taught
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-21 Recognizing the good (Week 2) - Talk 35:28
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-05-21 Recognizing the good (Week 2) - Meditation 35:25
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-05-17 Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit – Part 2 59:34
Tara Brach
Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve our freedom. Key to this process is reconnecting with our inner life, and remembering we are in this together, awakening together.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-13 Guided Compassion Practice (Saturday) 27:23
Jill Shepherd
London Insight Meditation Jill Shepherd – Exploring the four brahmavihāra heart qualities in daily life

2023-05-13 Compassion (Karuṇā) (Saturday) 16:07
Jill Shepherd
London Insight Meditation Jill Shepherd – Exploring the four brahmavihāra heart qualities in daily life

2023-05-10 Releasing the Habits That Imprison Your Spirit – Part 1 50:52
Tara Brach
Addictions of all levels of intensity arise from disconnection and are spiking globally. Humans are experiencing epidemic levels of loneliness, and this combined with engineered products and substances that are highly addictive leads to great suffering. In these two talks, we explore how we get hooked on behaviors that we know cause harm, and how mindfulness and self-compassion can serve our freedom. Key to this process is reconnecting with our inner life, and remembering we are in this together, awakening together.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-09 Meditation: Befriending Fear with RAIN (15 min.) 14:55
Tara Brach
When we have the courage to pause and meet fear with the mindfulness and compassion of RAIN, our awareness and wisdom awaken. This RAIN meditation will guide you in unhooking from anxiety and fear, offering a pathway to inner transformation and a fearless heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-07 That Seed of Awakening Within Us 24:07
Ayya Medhanandi
Remember compassion like the Buddha’s. Remember courage like the Buddha’s – a mind strong, centered, wise and welcoming; spacious, supple and open. We look within and wake up to that seed of awakening.  Standing for truth instead of delusion and weakness, even if what we have is not enough – we make it enough. Even from a tiny seed of awakening, plant it in the soil of contentment. Watch it grow into a tall, magnificent refuge in Truth that is not conceptual but is realized intuitively. You are here in the moment like never before.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2023-05-03 Radical Acceptance – Gateway to Love, Wisdom and Peace 51:46
Tara Brach
Acceptance is radical because it undoes our resistance to reality. This talk explores how our meditation practice can cultivate a liberating acceptance, a heartspace that includes all of life and enables us to respond to our world with deep intelligence and compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-26 Seven Factors of Compassion: Samādhi 55:19
Tuere Sala
Exploring the intersection between compassion and samadhi/concentration (the 6th Factor of Awakening).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 7 Factors of Compassion - Investigation/Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:11
Tuere Sala
In this retreat, we will be looking at compassion through the lens of the 7 Factors of Awakening. We are calling it the 7 Factors of Compassion and we'll be exploring how a compassionate response to each of the factors supports awakening. Tonight I am exploring the intersection of compassion and mindfulness, investigation, and energy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-08 Compassion 55:55
Yahel Avigur
Instructions and Meditation
Gaia House Your Body, Buddha's Body

2023-04-06 Compassion 1:24:40
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 3-Week Spring 2023 Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2023-03-31 Morning Instructions - Creative Approches to Thoughts and Thinking 53:10
River Wolton
An exploration of thoughts that lead towards and away from non-harming and compassion; short guided practice; further silent practice.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion

2023-03-27 The Three Refuges - Understanding Dhamma - Week 3 - Talk 39:03
Mark Nunberg
Please join in for this four week course examining the traditional three refuges as the central practice of clarifying and strengthening one’s spiritual aspiration and intuition about the path. Without this ongoing deepening of understanding regarding the means and ends of our spiritual practice we tend to pick and choose what we like from the many choices that exist today. The Buddhist practice of taking refuge as a conscious intentional act goes against the stream of our habit energies. Taking refuge as an ongoing practice is how we keep what is most important in mind as we practice meditation and navigate our busy days. The Three Refuges exist to strengthen our allegiance with intimacy and clear comprehension of the way things are, allowing for a wiser, more compassionate and creative engagement with our lives.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies - The Three Refuges

2023-03-27 The Three Refuges - Understanding Dhamma - Week 3 - Meditation 30:05
Mark Nunberg
Please join in for this four week course examining the traditional three refuges as the central practice of clarifying and strengthening one’s spiritual aspiration and intuition about the path. Without this ongoing deepening of understanding regarding the means and ends of our spiritual practice we tend to pick and choose what we like from the many choices that exist today. The Buddhist practice of taking refuge as a conscious intentional act goes against the stream of our habit energies. Taking refuge as an ongoing practice is how we keep what is most important in mind as we practice meditation and navigate our busy days. The Three Refuges exist to strengthen our allegiance with intimacy and clear comprehension of the way things are, allowing for a wiser, more compassionate and creative engagement with our lives.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies - The Three Refuges

2023-03-27 My Religion is Kindness 22:39
Ayya Medhanandi
Joy comes softly. First, we plow through the labyrinth of our emotional compost. We know anguish, selfishness, and all their truant cousins. Then we learn skillful ways to let go. Dying to the ‘self’, the heart is purified. Even despair and the darkest energies vanish in the presence of a happiness that is beyond ownership. There is no ‘one’ to hold on, die, or awaken, but the heart is compassionate, free, and at peace with all things.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2023-03-21 Eightfold path – taking the practice into our lives 46:00
Jean Esther
Wise view and wise thought, and ethical conduct are elucidated as guides for living a life with wisdom and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Two Wings of the Dharma: Infusing Our Lives with Wisdom & Compassion

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