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Dharma Talks
2024-05-31 Opening Talk for the Retreat 58:24
Alan Lewis, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Knowledge From the Present Moment

2024-05-31 Q&A 56:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 If I remember it well citta follows moving, shifting energy. How can we feel moving energy? Is it the feeling of the breath or sound? What is non-moving energy? 08:37 Q2 what's the difference between virya, translated as energy, and citta energy? 12:12 Q3 You don't seem to use the word awareness which is often used to denote the knowing of something. Is there a connection between the felt energy and awareness? 28:28 Q4 How do you reconcile the fire of an animated heart with Buddhism's perfume of disengagement and dispassion? 32:36 Q5 how can sensation and the sequence that leads to it be described in a subtle energy approach? 43:43 Q6 What's the difference between vedana and emotion? 44:48 Q7 Sadness, sorrow, fear, joy. Are the emotions or more fixed states? 49:20 Q8 Observing the breath seems quite important, but as soon as I focus on the breath it gets forced and heavy. Do you have any advice on observing the natural breath without interfering? 52:17 Q9 What does it mean when you say the breathing is a messenger? What is the message?
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Exploring Animate Reality

2024-05-31 Challenging mind states 51:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn explores kaya and citta sankharas; building up resources; sabotage programs; mudita as a resource.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Exploring Animate Reality

2024-05-30 Wise speech. 49:09
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2024

2024-05-30 The process of samadhi 56:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Exploring Animate Reality

2024-05-30 A practice for taking leave of a beloved place. 17:04
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2024

2024-05-29 Q&A 36:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 Can it be that Qi Gong releases long forgotten memories? 06:40 Q2 If everything is empty, who or what dies and what is reborn if rebirth is not only a concept? 16:19 Q3 Does the Buddhist path result in the loss of loved ones because they're not on that path. For example partner, family, friends? Is there a way to have both? I feel that one side goes at the cost of the other. 20:14 Q4 I've been feeling quite bored sometimes today. How do you recommend to deal with this phenomenon? How could it be explained from a Buddhist point of view? 27:13 Q5 When I'm meditating sitting down, I sometimes feel that I'm losing the perception of a three-dimensional space. I can still feel my body but I don't feel like there's an up or a down or left or right. Is this something common?
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Exploring Animate Reality

2024-05-29 Learning to Trust the Journey, the Art of Letting Go 51:06
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-05-29 Meditation: Listening to Life 18:23
Tara Brach
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-05-29 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror 57:51
Tara Brach
This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature. The three qualities often described as the essence of awareness: wakeful, open, tender.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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