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2022-05-11 Meditation: The Space and Aliveness of Presence (21:53 min.) 21:53
Tara Brach
We arrive in presence by deepening attention in the body; relaxing and awakening through a body scan. That presence deepens as we bring our attention to the space of awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, sensations and feelings. In that wholeness of formlessness and form, we discover our natural being – open, awake and tender.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-11 Equanimity – Part 4 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 51:20
Tara Brach
Part 4: Equanimity – unfolds as we find a wise balance and spaciousness in the midst of this living, dying world. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-11 How am I relating to this? 62:20
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight :  A Heart That Resonates

2022-05-11 Before it is too late ~ a gentleness which comes from clarity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:44
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Seven Factors of Awakening, Emptiness and Mortality
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-11 Guided meditation: meditative questions 26:08
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-11 Meditative questions 45:04
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-11 Wise Understanding and Wise Intention 1:25:37
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-05-11 When the student is ready, the teacher appears (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 20:08
Ayya Santacitta
Nibbida = Disenchantment or 'Not Finding'
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-11 Morning Instructions 58:42
Mark Nunberg
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-11 Faith and Doubt on the Path of Purification 65:58
Katy Wiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2022-05-10 Evening dharma reflection: understanding delusion 41:33
Mark Nunberg
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-10 Dependent Origination Revisited 44:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2022-05-10 The Weight of the World is Love: The Transforming Power of Compassion 55:52
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the practice of Compassion and is followed by a guided meditation
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-05-10 4 Foundations for Mindfulness 69:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight :  A Heart That Resonates

2022-05-10 Awareness with thinking. 42:28
Carol Wilson
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-10 Radiant Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:34
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation on cultivating the heart qualities
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-10 Guided Meditation on "Form to Formless" 29:04
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-10 Always and forever plus a guided meditation 44:13
Rodney Smith
Exploring time free of thought plus a guided meditation on the timeless
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-10 A Wise View, Instructions and guided meditation 52:14
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight :  A Heart That Resonates

2022-05-10 A bumpy ride or nothing whatsoever should be clung to as 'me and mine' (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 22:05
Ayya Santacitta
Three kinds of dukkha
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-10 Meditation instructions/guided sit/Q&A 58:26
Alexis Santos
Some instructions on exploring and being interested in various attitudes in our meditation practice. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-09 Perception of Impermanence Washes Away Craving (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:31
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-09 What Really Matters 37:17
Alexis Santos
Exploring the essence of what our Dhama practice is all about. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-09 Images of Mindfulness 59:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight :  A Heart That Resonates

2022-05-09 Awareness of what hinders awareness. 41:36
Mark Nunberg
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-09 Impermanence & Wonder of Belonging 45:31
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation on the five elements
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-09 Life Koans 40:43
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-09 The Guard, the Messenger & the Queen, Instructions and guided meditation 54:16
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight :  A Heart That Resonates

2022-05-09 Morning instructions: receptive awareness 60:37
Carol Wilson
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-08 Reflections on right view and wise attention. 43:57
Carol Wilson
Right attitude in awareness. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-08 Both/And - The Paradox of Living the Dharma 1:35:11
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2022-05-08 Gently tending to the meditating mind. 39:52
Alexis Santos
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-08 Living a Life of Courage and Ease (Part 3) 7:29
Leela Sarti
Introduction to Theme of Inquiry Practice
Gaia House :  Timeless Presence in Daily Life

2022-05-08 Living a Life of Courage and Ease (Part 2) 29:39
Leela Sarti
Teachings
Gaia House :  Timeless Presence in Daily Life

2022-05-08 Faith and Confidence 1:27:23
Zohar Lavie
A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - May 2022

2022-05-08 Not Wasting this Opportunity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:18
Ayya Santacitta
Working with the five hindrances (nivarana)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Seeing the Path Clearly

2022-05-08 Living a Life of Courage and Ease (Part 1) 53:37
Leela Sarti
Guided Meditation
Gaia House :  Timeless Presence in Daily Life

2022-05-08 Morning instructions iand Q&A 60:08
Mark Nunberg
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-07 Evening Dharma reflection: keeping present moment awareness in mind. 37:31
Mark Nunberg
Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-07 Sayadaw U Tejaniya Instructions 42:33
Carol Wilson
Right view – and the condition giving rise to right view - is wise attention. Sayadaw U Tejaniya style of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-07 The Landscape of Awakening 43:16
Rodney Smith
What does awakening look like from start to finish? We are all on the continuum of waking up.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-07 Solving the Problem: Dhamma to the Rescue 1:18:49
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-05-06 Die fünf Fähigkeiten (indriya) & Leerheit 54:44
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-05-06 Abschluss der Reise in die 37 Qualitäten, die das Erwachen beflügeln 18:55
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-05-06 Meditation on the joyful, soothing breath, Dhamma talk on the three characteristics 1:32:12
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Meditation on the joyful, soothing breath. Dhamma talk on the three characteristics in historical context and their practical relationship to liberation: anicca (impermanence/not-regularity-ness), dukkha (suffering), anatta (non-self). Why are all conditions suffering but all dhammas non-self? The three characteristics as doors to dhammas of the great teachers.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-05-06 Sustaining the Middle Way Sampajañña 26:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Using the body's sensitivity we can notice what stabilizes and gladdens the citta, that moment the Buddha touches our heart. How can our practice continue this? Ajahn recommends cultivating sampajañña - fully and directly knowing what’s happening - and describes its four qualities.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Online Teaching

2022-05-06 Guided meditation: the five recollections 29:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-06 Guided Meditation 15:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  2022 Online Teaching

2022-05-06 Reflections on the five recollections 60:55
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-05 Original sin. 42:22
Rodney Smith
Our original sin is trying to discover a way to awaken using the sense of self, which is unconscious, as a mechanism toward being more conscious
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-04 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome (18:51 min.) 18:51
Tara Brach
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here with unconditional presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-04 Joy – Part 3 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 53:35
Tara Brach
Part 3: Joy – blossoms in the moments our hearts open boundlessly to reality, to the 10,000 joys and sorrows. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-04 Our friends, the parami 49:45
Jeanne Corrigal
We spend one more week understanding how the paramis show up in groups to support our daily practice. We need never feel alone, with our friends the parami.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2022-05-04 Principles of practice: Shamata, Samadhi, and Panna 58:41
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-04 Taking Leadership in Our Lives: Standing Near to Our Suffering and Awakening on Our Path of Healing and Liberation 68:44
Arinna Weisman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2022-05-03 Being Aligned with the Dharma & Ecological Perception 67:31
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on interweaving elements of ecological perception with the practice of the Dharma. It is followed by a guided meditation.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-05-02 This human life in right view 50:15
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Developing the Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-02 Magnanimous heart 58:41
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2022

2022-05-01 The Path of Practice Begins with Wise View (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:24
Gullu Singh
This is the first dharma talk of DPP7 focusing on wise view, discussing movement toward the wholesome and away from the unwholesome and the 4 noble truths
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dedicated Practitioners Program (DPP7) - Retreat 1

2022-05-01 Karma- Specific, Conditionality the Five Laws, ethical behaviour, social karma-Neoliberalism 53:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated - Forgot to say towards the end of this talk that since Neoliberalism is powered by greed, it is by nature insatiable. The investment in wealth and power will make it very difficult to change to a more socially based capitalism.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2022-05-01 Belonging 1:31:04
Frank Ostaseski
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2022-05-01 Joy 59:18
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-05-01 Taking the 3 Refuges (P) 1:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Experience as a Natural Process – Talk 41:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2022-05-01 At Ease in the World 1:21:13
Zohar Lavie
A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - May 2022

2022-05-01 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings (E) 3:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Refuge Mantra (P) 1:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Morning Chanting (P) and 5 Subjects (P&E) 8:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Morning Chanting (E), Loving Kindness (E) and 5 Subjects (P&E) 12:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Metta sutta (P) 4:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Evening Chanting (E) and Divine Abidings (E) 9:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Divine Abidings(P) 4:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-05-01 Anapanasati Sutta (P) 5:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection

2022-04-30 The True Norm Releases the World 50:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Pending
Cittaviveka

2022-04-30 The True Norm Releases the World 50:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhammas arising internally and externally merge eventually in a stable point – this is how it is now. We see the craving and becoming and release them in favour of the true assembly.
Cittaviveka

2022-04-30 Confidence in the Path – Talk 34:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-30 Confidence in the Path – Meditation 29:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-30 The Five Precepts 1:22:49
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-04-30 Guided meditation equanimity p2 47:29
Jill Shepherd
Based on the Buddha's instructions to Rahula, using the space elemental quality to find spaciousness and non-reactivity in the body, heart and mind
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2022

2022-04-29 Mettā meditation towards one's skeleton, Discussion of corporeality and the mind 1:18:07
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Mettā meditation towards one's skeleton using both visualisation and feeling. Discussion of corporeality and the mind, the sentient body, the role of the breath, the senses. Awareness and peace as a continuum.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-04-29 The possibility of awakening and taking action 14:09
James Baraz
London Insight Meditation :  James Baraz – The Dharma as Medicine for Our Planet

2022-04-29 Transforming anger and acting from love 14:09
James Baraz
London Insight Meditation :  James Baraz – The Dharma as Medicine for Our Planet

2022-04-29 Five Dharma principles that are needed for our shift of consciousness 11:45
James Baraz
London Insight Meditation :  James Baraz – The Dharma as Medicine for Our Planet

2022-04-29 Reflections on your practice not being just for you 22:13
James Baraz
London Insight Meditation :  James Baraz – The Dharma as Medicine for Our Planet

2022-04-28 Chanting and questions and response 1:33:12
Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-28 Seven Factors of Awakening p5: Equanimity 54:55
Jill Shepherd
Looking at the final awakening factor, what gets in the way, what helps it to arise and strengthen, and the insights into anicca - dukkha - anatta that it supports
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2022

2022-04-28 Seven factors of awakening in emptiness (announcements initially) 42:21
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-28 Guided meditation equanimity P1 46:14
Jill Shepherd
Based on the Buddha's instructions to Rahula, using the earth's elemental quality to orient to steadiness and non-reactivity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2022

2022-04-28 Poems of "Another Sama", Dhira, and "Another Tissa" 56:51
Ayya Anandabodhi
Sharing the poems of these three Theris and offering encouragement and guidance on taking the practice from retreat into one daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-27 Body and nature: doorways to freedom 50:53
Roxanne Dault
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-04-27 Meditation: Awareness is Our Home (21:31 min.) 21:31
Tara Brach
This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-04-27 Compassion – Part 2 of Present Heart: The Universal Expressions of Love 52:03
Tara Brach
Part 2: Compassion – the tender resonance of heart – awakens as we allow ourselves to be touched by our shared vulnerability. This series reflects on four primary expressions of an awake, wise heart: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In each talk we explore the habitual patterning that blocks our full realization of these innate capacities, and the understandings and practices that nurture their unfolding.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-04-27 Working ourselves out of Dukkha. 58:38
Ayya Santacitta
Chanting followed by silence and then a Dharma talk on the four stages of awakening and the 10 fetters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-27 Guided mudita meditation. 44:19
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-27 Practicing with Fear 1 65:30
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of last week's exploration of the relationship of Buddhist practice to Passover, Easter, and Ramadan, we explore a theme that is part of those holidays, and central to our practice--how we work with fear and anxiety. We look at the centrality of such practice, and the different types of fear, distinguishing the unskillful aspects (such as confusion, reactivity, and the continual repetition of negative narratives) from the at times skillful aspects (such as recognizing danger). We then suggest ways of bringing mindfulness to fear, as well as ways of understanding and responding to fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-04-27 Knowing that know that you know--awareness being known here and now (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:26
Phillip Moffitt
Fully established mindfulness that is aligned with the dharma allows the mind to become so still that an intuitive felt sense of awareness can arises that knows it knows awareness is like this...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-27 Realization and actualization equals wisdom and confidence 55:37
Ayya Santacitta
Sometimes the most direct path isn't a straight line
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-26 Unwavering Mind 20:53
Ayya Medhanandi
To directly know Truth, we enter the depths of the vast ocean of the mind. We refine our attention and focus it like a laser beam. In the knowing of knowing itself, impermanence is revealed together with the inherent suffering of the conditioned world and the intrinsic emptiness of everything everywhere. In the starkness of this Reality, unwavering awareness sees all that we cling to as nothing while ego capitulates to liberating insight.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2022-04-26 Stillness and Movement, Awareness and Mind Moments (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:40
Phillip Moffitt
Discovering the Stillness of the Mind that illuminates the ever changing individualized moments of consciousness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-26 The heart of Buddhism 57:55
Ayya Santacitta
Nothing whatsoever should be clung to
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

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