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Dharma Talks
2025-03-14 Exploring the Generous Heart : Reflections and Clarifications in Response to Queries 1:11:34
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-14 Meeting our Moment-to-Moment Experience with Compassion and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:14
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-14 Step 3: Taking Refuge in the Dharma 69:07
Kevin Griffin
Meditation & Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-03-14 Furcht und Schrecken 42:27
Renate Seifarth
In Anlehnung an die Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung Nr. 4 wird erläutert, was dem Buddha Mut gab, in der Zurückgezogenheit an wilden Orten zu praktizieren. Im zweiten Teil der Lehrrede sucht der Buddha gezielt Orte auf, um Furcht und Schrecken in sich zu erleben und beschreibt wie er mit ihnen praktiziert und sie innerlich überwindet.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-14 Reflections, Instructions and light Guidance : Generosity as a Complex Weaving of Relations. 49:57
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-13 talk: Foundations 3 Ethical conduct as a form of generosity 28:04
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-13 Practicing Karuna (Compassion) 1:41:21
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-13 Practicing Karuna (Compassion) 1:41:21
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-13 The Aggregate of Perception: Sañña (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:03
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-13 Reflections : Meeting Life with Curiosity and Openness. Allowing the Heart to "De-densify". 41:05
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-13 Dharma Reflection - The Two Benefits 18:32
Devon Hase
Teachings on the Queen Mallika sutta and how doing metta for ourselves naturally translates to metta for everybody.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-13 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Choiceless Attention 59:12
Tempel Smith
There is a style of mindfulness practice where we lightly attending a central, familiar anchor of attention, such as the breath or scanning the body, and then intentionally choose to watch our minds move through its habits and its nature. In this style of mindfulness practice we can watch our attention move through our six sense doors of stimulation. With this style of meditation we can directly see the dharma nature of our mind. With this style of practice we have to be careful we not lose attentiveness, which can be a shadow side of choiceless attention. We want to keep learning and discovering the dharma, and not space out into half committed mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-13 Don't Know Mind: Letting Go of Conclusions 50:09
James Baraz
It's hard to keep up with all the disorienting changes we are processing each day. We can easily get lost in confusion trying to make sense of it all. As a result, we can draw conclusions based in despair and fear, thinking that we know where this is heading. We can find strength from Korean Zen Master Seung Sahn teaching: "Keep Don't Know Mind." In this "Don't Know Mind" we let go of knowing how things will turn out. This frees us from the tyranny of our mind-created stories and allows us to see many possibilities.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-03-12 Reflections : Dimensions of the Generous and Heart and Their Impact on Heart/Mind and Perception. Seeing Co-dependency and Interdependence 47:24
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-12 Chanting Imaya Dhammanu and Karaniya Metta in Pali and English 19:20
Devon Hase
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-12 Morning Instructions : Welcoming, Simplification, Landing, Counteracting our Habitual Tendencies and Inviting the Generous Heart 46:07
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-12 Closing Day Talk 1:44:03
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-12 Mindfulness of "Knowing" through Six Sense Doors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:27
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-12 Umgang mit leidbringenden Trieben, Teil II 44:43
Renate Seifarth
Teil II setzt die Erläuterung fort. Überwindung der Triebe durch Erdulden, Vermeiden, Entfernen und Entfalten.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-11 Touching the Earth Practice 58:21
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Celebrating the Generous Heart

2025-03-11 Compassion: Learning to Love the World 33:42
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-03-11 Umgang mit leidbringenden Trieben, Teil 1 45:15
Renate Seifarth
Grundlage ist MN2. Der Buddha versteht unter Trieben die Befleckungen Habgier, Hass und Täuschung (lobha, dosa, moha). Er erklärt, was sie nährt und was sie schwächt. Sie zu überwinden, ist das höchste Ziel und führt zu Nibbana. Teil 1 bespricht wie die Triebe durch Sehen (Einsicht in die Unpersönlichkeit und Realisierung des Stromeintritts), Sinnenkontrolle und durch weisen Gebrauch von Dingen realisiert werden kann.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 29:37
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

2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 41:30
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

2025-03-10 Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion 61:24
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mark Coleman - Monday Night Live - March 10, 2025

2025-03-10 Being the Earth - Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration 44:50
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mark Coleman - Monday Night Live - March 10, 2025

2025-03-10 Morning Instructions on Mindfulness of Arising & Vanishing (Anicca) & Intention or Volition (Cetana) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:35
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-09 Steady recognition of awareness untangles confusion 51:28
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-09 Wozu achtsam sein? 37:07
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha erklärt in der Lehrrede MN1, was einen Erwachten von einem Weltling unterscheidet. Der Unterschied besteht im wesentlichen aus drei Punkten. Ein Erwachter ist unmittelbar in Kontakt mit Erfahrung, ohne davon ausgehend in Konzepte zu verfallen, die ihn zu der Ansicht führen, dies ist Mein. Aufgrund dessen ergötzt er sich nicht an der Erfahrung. Dieses Ergötzen ist der Ursprung allen Leidens. Achtsamkeit ermöglicht das direkt unmittelbare Erfahren und kennzeichnet sich durch Akzeptanz, Interesse und Nicht-Identifikation. Gerade Letzteres braucht Sammlung als Stütze, vor allem einer Sammlung auf unaufgeregte Erfahrungen, so dass kein Ergötzen sich mit einschleicht.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-09 It's Already Here - Meditation 32:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-09 It's Already Here - Talk 38:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-09 Shifting to Right View 61:45
Louije Kim
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-03-08 Vedana: The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 54:44
Tempel Smith
An incredibly important aspect of mindfulness is to direct attention to "vedana" which is the tone of every moment which is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This one tone of conscious experience is at the very root of all suffering and therefore all liberation from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-08 Meditation Vacation| Ayya Santussikā 52:48
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on 8th of March , 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-03-08 East Bay Dhamma--Dhammapada Verses 21-27 | Ayya Santussikā 1:48:41
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on March 8, 2025 for East Bay Dhamma. 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK with Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-03-08 Dharma Reflection - Beautiful Qualities of the Heart 20:38
Devon Hase
Guided practice on the five jhana factors and how they antidote the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-08 Morning Reflection 51:11
Carol Wilson
Reflections on being awake and trusting awareness, yet learning not to strive or try to create awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-08 Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:19
Anushka Fernandopulle
Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Mindfulness and Inquiry into the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:39
Kristina Bare
Seeing deeper into the true nature of body while cultivating the first two awakening factors of mindfulness (sati) and inquiry (dhamma vicaya)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 59:08
Tempel Smith
5 mins for chanting refuges and precepts, then a careful guided meditation on mindfulness of thought. We create a base of being mindful with the breath and body to allow us some perspective on thought as a direct stream of phenomena.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-06 talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2 22:31
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-06 Liberating Simplicity of Awareness 46:22
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas 2 (Mettā) 1:37:41
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-06 Short Reflections; Unguided Meditation 35:33
Jaya Rudgard
Metta, Samadhi, and the perception of anatta, are all in service of letting go.
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-06 Metta - Neutral Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:05
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-06 Instructions - Metta-ful Anatta Practice 57:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-06 Dharma Reflection - To Be a Person 12:46
Devon Hase
Short reflection on metta and the human condition, inspired by Jane Hirshfield's poetry.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-06 Introductory Instructions to "When Awareness Becomes Natural" 65:18
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Taking Sides in a World of Non-Duality 49:46
James Baraz
This talk explores the view that the wide and profound perspective of Non-Duality sees that everything belongs. One is not creating divisions between "good and bad" or "right and wrong". It is all part of the dance of life. However, in the relative level of reality these categories are real and shape our thoughts, reactions and actions. The Buddha advises us to not be attached to views and opinions. How can we reconcile this paradox and live with this wise non-dual perspective while taking a courageous stand against the forces of greed, hatred delusion that are creating suffering?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-03-05 Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart 37:04
Rebecca Bradshaw
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

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