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Dharma Talks
2013-05-19 Questions and Answers 48:17
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2013-05-19 Buddha's Birthday Inspiration and Awakening 42:36
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-19 What Do I Really Want? 44:03
Martin Aylward
Avoiding fixed positions and judgements about desire, Martin encourages an open inquiry into wanting. He examines the root of all desire; wanting things to be different, and explores how we can use wanting as a mirror to learn from our reflected experience. The talk points towards the deep desire to give up our endless interventions and manipulation of our experience, and discusses the freedom of undemanding, undefended, undistracted awareness.
Gaia House Right Now It's Like This...

2013-05-18 Equanimity Right Where We Are 49:10
Sharda Rogell
Equanimity is not a destination to arrive at but something we can practice right in the moment with any conditions that arise. How do we practice?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Equanimity with Things As They Are 63:13
James Baraz
The quality of equanimity is a significant factor in coming to terms with impermanence and its manifestations: agin, illness and death. Learning to find balance with regard to the reality of change is explored
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-18 Guided Equanimity Meditation 17:47
Lila Kate Wheeler
Phrases adapted from meditations by Maddy Klyne, Ken McLeod, the Reverend Howard Thurman and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Equanimity – Introduction to Equanimity Meditation 22:52
Lila Kate Wheeler
Equanimity relinquishes the subtle attachment in the other Brahma Viharas. It is the culminating divine abode. Equanimity as an aspect of mindfulness and consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Apparent Here and Now 24:37
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-05-18 Guided Mudita Meditation 25:02
Greg Scharf
The meditation begins with the practice of opening to happiness, success, good fortune in one's own life and receiving appreciation from benefactors. We then turn this quality of gladness and connection towards the good fortune of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Introduction to Empathetic Joy (Mudita) 16:02
Greg Scharf
A short introduction to empathetic joy (or Mudita) including a discussion of the qualities of appreciation, gratitude and empathetic connection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-18 Inhabiting the Body of Life 49:24
Martin Aylward
In this talk, Martin explores the ideas and images we hold of Body, the habitual ways we react to bodily experience and body image, and the tendency to relate to body as a thing rather than a process. He guides the listener through the direct experience of body as a fluid, edgeless, inconceivable unfolding, inviting us to more and more inhabit the visceral ground of all experience; the body of life.
Gaia House Right Now It's Like This...

2013-05-17 400 and Rising 42:10
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-05-17 Compassion means doing something about the crying 50:34
Lila Kate Wheeler
A Dharma talk about compassion (or karuna). The wise heart is willing to connect with what is difficult within ourselves, other individuals and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Birth & Death 64:09
Eugene Cash
Marana Sati, Mindfulness of life and death, is an inherent aspect of Buddhist teachings and practice. Both life and death are doorways to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-17 Guided Compassion Meditation 29:28
Greg Scharf
This meditation begins with the practice of opening to one's own suffering and receiving kindness and compassion from benefactors. We then turn this quality of care towards our self and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Introduction to Compassion 7:11
Greg Scharf
A short introduction to Compassion including a discussion of obstacles to its development.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Guided Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 35:54
Sharda Rogell
A guided meditation where one receives the wishes from people who care about you and are extending their wish for your happiness and well- being. Includes people from ordinary life as well as spiritual benefactors. (Phrases adapted from John Makransky
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Introduction to Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 2:38
Sharda Rogell
Recognition of the wholesome states of mind is important in their cultivation. Mindfulness of the body is encouraged as a support.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Lovingkindness 55:00
Greg Scharf
An overview of the qualities of Loving kindness emphasizing the natural luminosity of the heart. Begins with chanting of the first part of the Karaniya Metta Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Recognizing the 3 Characteristics As We Age 51:39
Anna Douglas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-16 Guided Meditation on Loving Kindness (Metta) 39:48
Lila Kate Wheeler
Kindness and friendliness for oneself, a dear person, beings nearby and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-16 Introduction to Loving Kindness (Metta) Meditation 18:04
Lila Kate Wheeler
A concise discussion on loving kindness or Metta Bhavana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-15 Dharma Talk 39:19
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-05-15 Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Love 1:23:24
Tara Brach
We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlovable, and the ways that mindfulness can dissolve our defenses and reveal our inner refuge of pure loving presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-15 Loving Ourselves As We Grow Older 59:04
James Baraz
The importance of accepting and learning to love ourselves is important at any age. But it is particularly crucial as as we learn to adjust to a body and mind going through the aging process as well as a new self-identity about who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

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