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Dharma Talks
2023-11-15 Let Us Do the Job: Attune, Grow Up & Respond 52:44
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Six Elements & Awareness
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-11-15 Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence 13:10
Tara Brach
Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment-to-moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-15 Becoming Happier: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Arthur Brooks 1:18:52
Tara Brach
The Dalai Lama regularly says that everyone wants to be happy, nobody wants to suffer. Arthur Brooks, in his new book on getting happier (co-authored with Oprah Winfrey) digs into the practical and science-based approaches that increase deep wellbeing. In this conversation Tara and Arthur discuss the ingredients of happiness, the role of unhappiness in our lives, how to work with core ego-fears, the power of metacognition, the necessity of transcendence of small self and the love that is the grounds of true happiness. Learn more about Arthur’s work & pick up a copy of his new book, Build the Life You Want at: https://arthurbrooks.com.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-15 Being Mindful of Influence 25:59
Victor von der Heyde
Australian Insight Meditation Network High Country Walking Retreat

2023-11-15 Week 7 - Guided Meditation - Arriving and Settling 22:19
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-15 Morning Reflection: Embodied Calm 34:17
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-14 Equanimity: finding balance, cultivating peace 57:16
DaRa Williams
Arriving home through the practice of equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-14 The Buddha's Map of Awakening–The Five Spiritual Faculties Week 2 of 3 55:14
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-14 A Different Way of Knowing ~ Let the Boundless Qualities Shine Forth 52:34
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation on Metta, Mudita and Awareness of the More-Than-Human-World
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-11-14 Vedanā - Contemplating Hedonic Tone 40:23
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-13 The Emptiness Which Is a Fullness or Loosening Our Grip 51:41
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Five Elements and Impermanence
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-11-13 Liberation through non-clinging 63:00
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging can lead to freedom from clinging and letting go of conceit and wrong view
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-13 The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States 59:40
Yahel Avigur
Part 2: Modes of attunement
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-13 Morning Reflection: Three Wise Intentions 38:15
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-13 Remembering Ajahn Chah 1:55:50
Kittisaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-11-13 Being Cooked or a Journey of Revelation 31:21
Ayya Santacitta
Overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-11-12 Practice in Difficult Times 52:36
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-11-12 Exploring Vedana 53:10
Jill Shepherd
Looking at the role of Vedanā in fueling reactivity, and ways to relate more skillfully to it; includes an exploration of worldly and UNworldly feeling-tones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-12 Not Questioning the Self | Sunday Sound of Dhamma 45:46
Ayya Dhammadīpā
Brief meditation followed by a dhamma talk.
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-11-12 Q&A Session 56:24
Bhante Buddharakkhita
How to deal with the absence of hinderances plus other questions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-11 Perception: The Arising and Passing of Different Worlds 52:18
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-11 Coming Home, Slowing Down, Not Turning Away from the Trouble 42:06
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Four Elements as a support for shifting the cultural narrative
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-11-11 Spiritual Faculty 37:31
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-11 Morning reflections, and silent sit 55:52
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-10 Understanding, dependent origination 61:09
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-10 Cultivating a wise relationship with thought. 45:32
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-09 Craving 61:22
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses being with craving with mindfulness, and connecting also with the absence of craving
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-09 Possibilities of Joy 51:20
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-09 Morning reflection 63:43
Jill Shepherd
How to decide which practice method to use and when
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-09 Fnding Refuge - Skillfully holding it all 52:06
James Baraz
Refuge is a word that is often used in Buddhist teachings. We long to feel safe and protected from inner and outer harm. When everything seems out of control where can we find true refuge? How can the practice help us hold it all? This talk refers to a highly recommended conversation on the Mideast situation between two women (one Israeli, one German) who give communication trainings based on Nonviolent Communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16F_lL4N1w.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-11-08 Season of Letting Go 65:42
Carol Cano
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2023-11-08 Week 6 - Guided Meditation - Enjoying the Breath 39:51
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-08 Dispelling Hyper-individualism ~ Decenter Yourself! 46:26
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-11-08 Week 6 - Teachings - How to Enjoy the Breath 27:55
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-08 Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment 18:49
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-08 The Wise Heart of Radical Acceptance 68:26
Tara Brach
When we are caught in self-judgment we forget the truth of who we are – our wholeness, awareness and love. This talk examines how we take the imperfect waves of our being personally, and become imprisoned in the trance of unworthiness, a limited and distorted reality. We then look at how the practice of Radical Acceptance enables us to come home to a fullness of being, and live from a growing sense of loving connectedness with all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-08 Dependent Arising and Emptiness 60:34
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center LEAP #2 Emptiness & Liberation

2023-11-08 Week 6 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 25:31
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-08 Morning Reflection: Themes for Beginning Again 20:15
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-07 The Buddha's Map of Awakening–The Five Spiritual Faculties 52:01
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-07 Radiating loving kindness 49:41
Brian Lesage
An introduction to this practice followed by a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-06 Monday Night Live Dharma Talk: Right View, Right Intention 58:42
Louije Kim
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-11-06 Liberation through non-self 62:47
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the five aggregates of clinging, can give insight into non-self, and can break through self delusion, and lead to freedom from suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-06 Monday Night Live Welcome and Opening Meditation 46:17
Louije Kim
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-11-06 Left brain, right brain balance 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma teaching is never completed because it has to be right at the right time. It points to something; it never describes or defines. This allows the mind to decompress and get free from the conditioning forces of data and the pressure to make things happen.
Cittaviveka 2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-11-06 The House of Mirrors of Emotions and Mind States 59:25
Yahel Avigur
Part 1: Approaching the hall of mirrors
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-06 Morning Reflection: Dharma Interest 23:20
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-06 P2, instructions synthesis, reflection and a poem 55:47
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-05 Liberation depends on you 32:23
Ajahn Sucitto
When the citta is out of touch with Dhamma, reactive tendencies arise and we start responding to the designating and naming that the mind creates, thereby destroying the freshness of our experience.
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams

2023-11-05 Q&A 68:09
Joseph Goldstein
Jill Shepard asking questions of Joseph that were submitted by the meditators in the second half of the three month course
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-05 GM - Moving from Reactiveness to Responsiveness 18:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Excellent resource in the current news environment
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams

2023-11-05 Practice Not Complaining 33:30
Gullu Singh
Complaints are typically a manifestation of some kind of aversion, whether mild or extreme. In this talk Gullu will explore the practice of not complaining in the context of the Buddha's teachings on aversion and ill-will.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-11-05 Trust 37:32
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-05 Introduction + Dharma Talk: Fierce Compassion and Equanimity in Action 1:31:31
Kaira Jewel Lingo, Konda Mason
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Sacred Justice for Our World: Embodying Compassion and Equanimity

2023-11-05 Morning reflections in silent sit 58:23
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-05 Facts & Truths to Remember: the 5 Recollections 51:00
Devin Berry
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-11-04 Opening to Loss 43:38
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-04 Reflections on Poetry and Dharma (includes a song) 16:49
River Wolton
Gaia House Between the Words : Poetry and Meditation

2023-11-04 Deux niveaux à la réalité?! 65:52
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-04 Body - the First Foundation 45:30
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-04 Introduction + Dharma Talk: The Mindful Activist 1:26:13
Konda Mason, Kaira Jewel Lingo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Sacred Justice for Our World: Embodying Compassion and Equanimity

2023-11-04 Practicing without instruction 56:08
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Reminding yogis to slow down in order to see more details of this practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-04 La fin de la confusion 1:11:09
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-03 Großzügigkeit als Säule der Dhammapraxis 42:57
Renate Seifarth
Großzügigkeit gilt als eine von drei Säulen der Dhammapraxis. Im Geben finden wir eine Quelle der Freude und Verbundenheit. Wir können Vieles geben und erleben im Gegen großen Reichtum, vorausgesetzt wir geben aus ganzen Herzen.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2023-11-03 Relating wisely to difficult emotions. 43:45
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-03 Comprendre, abandonner, atteindre et cultiver 63:57
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-03 Welcoming , Appreciating and Gathering: Tuning into the Retreat 40:48
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2023-11-03 Reflections on clinging 57:47
Jill Shepherd
Brief exploration of clinging, and how to help it to release
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-03 C'est l'intention qui compte 60:17
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-02 Working with thinking 60:10
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-02 Gelassenheit und Mut für Veränderung 50:07
Renate Seifarth
Gelassenheit als Kraft, die Lassen-Können und den Mut zur Veränderung beinhaltet. Beides üben wir in Vipassana. Gelassenheit als Kraft balanciert zwischen Polen und balanciert das Wünschen in den Brahmavihara. Das Unmögliche zu tun wird möglich wie wir es im Bodhisattva-Gelübde wiederfinden.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2023-11-02 Ce qui se développe dans la pratique 1:10:12
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-02 Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention 60:26
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-11-02 Comment éviter le pire 63:56
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-01 Mindful Glimpses: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Loch Kelly 1:12:24
Tara Brach, Loch Kelly
Loch Kelly is an author, psychotherapist and highly respected meditation teacher known for his instructions for effortless mindfulness. Our rich and wide-ranging conversation includes themes of interconnectedness, the natural weaves of psychology and meditation, the healing of self-compassion, the power of short glimpses into the nature of reality, RAIN, prayer, awakening through social identities, turning toward dying, centering joy and much more! Loch Kelly is the creator of the new groundbreaking Meditation and Wellness App, Mindful Glimpses. This new app seamlessly weaves together ancient wisdom, cutting-edge psychology, and neuroscience research. Drawing from over 40 years of mindfulness teaching and psychotherapy practice, Loch Kelly has crafted an app that provides simple yet advanced micro-meditations to return you to home base anytime of the day.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-01 Guided Meditation: The Sea of Awareness 15:33
Tara Brach
Our attention habitually fixates on the foreground of thoughts and feelings, and fuels an unconscious identification with a sense of separate self. This meditation guides us in recognizing the awareness that is the background and source of all experience. By resting in and as the awareness that we are, all sense of separation dissolves revealing the vastness and oneness of Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-11-01 Week 5 - Guided Meditation - Exploring Wellbeing & Pleasure (Piti) 33:02
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-01 Week 5 - Teachings - Piti 27:19
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-01 Ce qui est à abandonner 68:22
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-11-01 Week 5 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 24:02
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-11-01 Honoring Our Ancestors & Being of Service 56:14
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-11-01 There's Nothing Left to Do But... Be Kind to Yourself & Everyone Else You Meet 1:20:17
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes meditation & dharma talk (Group Q/A has been removed)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • The Metta Sutta (Sylvia's Adapted Version) (PDF)
  • Mimesis by Fady Joudah (PDF)

2023-11-01 Morning Reflection: Open to Freedom 51:55
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2023

2023-11-01 Juste assez d’énergie pour être au contact 57:52
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-10-31 Bring it on: happiness awaits, 54:04
DaRa Williams
Hindrances – growth along the path, and the utility of engaging them for growth and deepening of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-31 Die drei Daseinsmerkmale erkennen 48:01
Renate Seifarth
Achtsamkeit führt zum Gewahrwerden der drei Merkmale des Daseins. Ihr Erkennen ändert uns tiefgreifend. Worum handelt es sich hierbei? Und wie erkennen wir sie? Im Zentrum stehen Vergänglichkeit, anicca, und Nicht-Selbst, anatta.
Seminarhaus Engl

2023-10-31 La pleine conscience ne révèle pas la chose 52:18
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-10-31 Brahmavihara practice: Metta for benefactor and good friend 46:14
Jill Shepherd
Establishing some well-being in the body then cultivating metta for the benefactor or easy being, then a good friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-31 Guided meditation on intentions 56:43
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the intentions can help us to see our motivation behind actions. Also, this practice can reveal the relationship between cause and effect
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-31 Une présence créative 55:14
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Quatre efforts sages

2023-10-30 Navigating Uncertainty with Awakened Tenderness 1:31:53
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-30 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 8 of 8 - Meditation 35:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-30 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 8 of 8 - Talk 30:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-30 Meeting emotions with mindfulness and wisdom 69:11
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Twelve ways of meeting emotions with mindfulness and wisdom. Search practices pave the way to peace, happiness, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-30 Geisteszustände, ihre Bedeutung und unser Umgang mit ihnen 44:54
Renate Seifarth
Geisteszustände leiten uns in unseren Handlungen und führen entweder in die Richtung von Leiden oder von Frieden. Kilesa oder Klesha werden die Befleckungen genannt, die Unheil hervorbringen. Sie wollen wir erkennen und einordnen. Die Gegenmittel liegen im rechten vierfachen Bemühen, das direkte wertfreie Gewahrwerden fördert ihr Verstehen und erlaubt eine freie Entscheidung des Umgangs mit ihnen.
Seminarhaus Engl

2023-10-30 morning Instructions - vedana 59:21
Tuere Sala
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-29 Clinging and release in relation to mindfulness of the body 52:18
Jill Shepherd
Exploring clinging IN the body and clinging TO the body (ie identification with it), and ways to experience release of this clinging
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2023-10-29 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 3 - Chanting Introduction & Meditation 39:29
Mark Nunberg
Includes opening remarks by Mark about the Suffusion with the Divine Abidings chant. Guided meditation begins at 7:55
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-29 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 3 - Talk 36:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-29 Instruction – thoughts 58:50
Rebecca Bradshaw
Guided meditation on thinking
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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