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Dharma Talks
2014-08-24 Joy and Presence 56:27
Leela Sarti
The fragmentation of life has a chance of ending when we drop into embodied presence. When our awareness is immediate and intimate with experience we can disentangle ourselves from inner stories, commentaries, concepts, and contracted ideas. The most basic function of the personality is the reduction and the restriction of awareness, but through our own practice we free and expand awareness and learn that it can be a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediatly filling up the space. When we are open to the immediacy of life, even when it is difficult, the heart responds with kindness, equanimity and joy.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-24 Mindfulness and the Six Sense Spheres 54:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Afternoon Part I, Talk on Lovingkindness & Instructions on Metta Walking Meditation 27:24
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part III,Talk & Q&A 60:24
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part II, Talk & Q&A 33:01
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part I, Intro Talk & Guided Meditation 29:34
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 First Morning - Joyful Living Instructions 43:03
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Power and Purpose of Concentration 56:46
Sally Armstrong
Concentration plays a central role in meditation practice. In this talk I look at the different trajectories in the development of concentration and how to use that form skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-23 Opening Talk - Joyful Living 61:36
Leela Sarti
The practice of embodied mindful meditation opens the possibility to understand and transform our habits of dissatisfaction and distraction, and invites spaciousness and openness in our day-to-day lives. Becoming intimate, moment by moment, with living reality expands our life-perspective and attunes us to what really matters in life. We can invite the practice of mind-heart-body fullness and the reorienting, and inclining of the mind towards the natural capacity for well-being, contentment, delight and kindness.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Evening Talk 1:59:18
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-23 Level 3 - Guided Meditation 4NT standing and sitting (Part 3b) 35:31
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Level 3 - (Part 3a) 16:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Reflection. Follow-up on 3 transformations of dukkha through sati. About the recurring statement of „supported by seclusion, dispassion, cessation and maturing in surrender“. 22:11
Akincano Marc Weber
Last night’s talk in a nutshell with a few added practical reflections. A brief interpretation of a somewhat enigmatic passage that occurs many times in the Suttas together with the Awakening-Factors and the 8-fold Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Seven Factors of Awakening 61:25
Adrianne Ross
How the seven factors of awakening develop in our practice and bring balance, ease, joy and liberating insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 The meeting of Dukkha and Sati - a transformative encounter. 60:29
Akincano Marc Weber
On dukkha and what it means, on sati and its seed quality in the development of stillness, wisdom, brahmavihāra and ethics. 3 specific ways in which mindfulness transforms the experience of dukkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Metta practice, Day 7 43:29
Sally Armstrong
Radiating in 4 directions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Reflection. Satipaṭṭhāna: Learning the holding skill in meditation 20:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Meditation instructions – between the basic outline and the detailed cut-out: On informed choices, defaulting to wrong options – and learning anyway.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Morning Instructions, Day 7 54:06
Tempel Smith
Reflections on the 3 characteristics
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 How to meditate when you can't meditate 25:49
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara (Against The Stream / Dharma Punx Denver, CO)

2014-08-21 Wisdom Growing Out of Samadhi 62:17
Tempel Smith
After developing some degree of Samadhi with the breath, we can use the stability of mind to explore impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 The Secret Instruction To Open Your heart And Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice 48:56
James Baraz
You're probably very familiar with the power of mindfulness. But as powerful as it is to just see things clearly, we can include a perspective that will bring richness and depth to our dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-08-21 Body Scan 42:06
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz Insight Meditation Retreat in Finland

2014-08-21 Metta Practice, Day 6 57:43
Tempel Smith
friendly creature/self/sangha/places
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 Reflection. Cittānupassanā continued. Sati as relationship; the construction of relationship in analogy to our senses. Ways in: Three practical entry points into the contemplation of mind. 26:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Follow-up on Contemplation of mind from previous week. Need to clarify the "how“ of being mindful rather than habitually resort to a – possibly unconscious – way of doing so. (Examples) How to find an entry to Contemplations of mind-states and learning to understand them rather than marinate in them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-21 Morning Instructions: Gladdening the Mind 51:57
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

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