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Dharma Talks
2024-04-24 Three important questions, three essential messages 61:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Guelph Retreat

2024-04-24 Opening to Darkness Is Bringing in the Light 56:52
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-04-24 Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body (21:56 min) 21:55
Tara Brach
When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-04-24 Cherishing Each Other: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Father Gregory Boyle 68:00
Tara Brach
Many are familiar with the Dali Lama’s words “My religion is kindness.” In this conversation you will sense the gritty and real way that we struggling humans can learn to cherish one another. We talk about the relationship between boundaries and compassion; the unshakeable goodness at our core; how we belong to each other, and how judgments arise from delusion and blind us to the blessing of that belonging. Father Greg Boyle is an American Catholic priest of the Jesuit order. He is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, the world’s largest gang intervention and rehabilitation program, author of several books, including Tattoos on the Heart; Barking to the Choir; and in 2023, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness. Father Greg’s life and work are a huge inspiration: he is dedicated to living from love and cultivating loving community with a marginalized population of ex inmates, gang members and their families. You can find out more about Father Greg and Homeboy Industries at: https://homeboyindustries.org/our-story/father-greg/
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-04-24 Visiting the national parks of the heart/mind 66:11
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Guelph Retreat

2024-04-24 Effort as intentionality, perseverance, and surrender 46:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses, helpful and unhelpful ways to make effort in our meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2024-04-24 Freeing the Mind that is Held Hostage in Tight Places:The Keys to Liberation 1:33:02
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes guided meditation, dharmettes, & select moments of group discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-04-23 How far can mindfulness take you 67:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Guelph Retreat

2024-04-23 Taking Care of Our Mind 28:20
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma reflection on caring for the mind.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-23 The Four Brahma Viharas 34:31
Ayya Anandabodhi
A guided meditation touching into each of the Brahma Viharas - the Divine Abodes~ metta - kindness karuna - compassion mudita - appreciative joy upekkha - equanimity
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-23 First morning instructions 53:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Guelph Retreat

2024-04-23 How We Meet the World 21:31
Ayya Anandabodhi
How we meet the world influences the world we meet.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-22 Awareness in Nature - Exploring Mindfulness in Nature Meditation Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:49
Mark Coleman
This talks explores how one can practice with the four foundations of mindfulness outdoors with the support of the natural world in an embodied and effortless way and how nature illuminates Dharma teachings and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

2024-04-22 The Flux and Change of Things 39:38
Ayya Anandabodhi
A reflection on the true nature of things, how we get entangled and remembering to let go.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-22 Knowing and the Known 40:52
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflections on knowing what is present, knowing how to meet it, and being the knowing...
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-21 Week 2 - Using Mettā to Cultivate Samadhi, Exploring Helpful Effort. 1:31:52
Sari Markkanen
Welcome and Introduction to the Session; Settling Meditation, Teachings, Guided Meditation.
Gaia House Skill in Calm and Happiness - A Short Introduction to Samadhi Practice (online series)

2024-04-21 Q&A 32:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 How important is it to maintain continuity of the meditation object? 0857 Q2 I'm confused by the word citta. For a long time I thought it was the physical organ of the heart, but now I understand that it may be mind. Can you help please? 2334 Q3 you talked about adhiṭṭhāna, resolution as being as one way of manifesting accepting and bowing to all the negative and unskillful thoughts that kept rising in the mind. Can you elaborate on this please? 2521 Q4 what is the relationship or differences between viññāṇa (sense consciousness) and sati (awareness). 2724 Q5 Can you comment on scattering ashes of a body after cremation? Is this about attaching to a body?
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-04-21 Talk - Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness 55:21
River Wolton
Gaia House A Path of Connection - Young Person's Retreat

2024-04-21 GM - The ending of the residues 12:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-04-21 Sila (Caring) 1:23:13
Zohar Lavie
This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - April 2024

2024-04-21 Suffering and the Ending of Suffering 18:51
Ayya Anandabodhi
The Buddha said, "I teach two things, suffering and the ending of suffering". A deep dive into how we create suffering in ourselves and in the world and a pointer to the way out of this pattern.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-21 Teachings From the Birds 27:18
Ayya Anandabodhi
Sometimes we get caught up in things that are better left alone, creating unnecessary stress. Other times, our stresses can be part of the natural process of growth.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-21 A Ray of the Absolute 22:20
Ayya Medhanandi
Just as the sun is eclipsed by the moon passing over it, so the mind is submerged in 'totality' due to the veil of our human conditioning. But we can shatter that darkness by diving deeply with moral vigilance and wise attention into the silence of the mind. There we know suffering, how it begins and the exhilarating joy of witnessing its end in the vastness of the heart's inner dimensions. With unshakeable faith, insight, and understanding, we abide in that sacred space of pure awareness and unconditional love – like the sun freed from the shadow of the moon.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-04-21 Moving from our Head to our Heart 33:13
Ayya Anandabodhi
The most important journey you will ever make is that journey from your head to your heart. A guided meditation into connection and presence.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Loving and Letting Go

2024-04-21 Stress and Release - A Pragmatic Interest in the Way Things Are - Meditation 34:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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