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2025-03-29 Morning Welcome, Guided Sit - Anapanasati Concentration, Metta Practice for Self & Benefactor 43:26
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Explanation of Kuan Yin’s Great Compassion Ceremony 45:14
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-28 Equanimity Meditation 45:04
Kaira Jewel Lingo
This meditation explores upekkhā, or equanimity—the deep steadiness of heart that meets life’s joys and sorrows with wisdom and care. Through reflections, guided phrases, and a progression of categories (from self, to loved one, neutral person, difficult person and finally all beings), we cultivate balance and spaciousness in the face of life’s ever-changing conditions. Rooted in the Brahmavihārā tradition, this practice invites us to rest in the truth that all beings are moving through causes and conditions beyond our control.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-28 Opening Session for the Retreat 43:08
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-28 Introduction to Retreat Topic: Metta & Mudita retreat format, schedule, questions followed by Guided Sitting Meditation... Anapanasati concentration and Metta practice for oneself 60:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Dhamma Talk - Metta Closing comments Dedication and end of evening gathering 65:45
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 The Alchemy of Compassion 51:50
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-28 Dharma Reflection: Dhamma Chanda 18:56
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to work with deep desire for deliverance and how to smooth out the energy body when things get intense in retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-27 Practicing Upekkha (Equanimity) 1:49:20
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-27 Spiritual Friendship (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:28
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-27 Light on Path - deconstruct, return to presence 40:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our 'Dhamma home'. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-27 The Extraordinary Blessings of Metta 46:26
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-27 Upekkha: Holding the World in the Heart of Wisdom 54:04
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-27 Transforming Struggle with Metta- Kind, Welcoming Attention 55:08
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-27 Mindfulness of Thoughts 52:48
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk, we explore mindfulness of thoughts as part of the third foundation of mindfulness—learning to meet thoughts not as distractions or enemies, but as present-moment experiences to observe with curiosity and care. Through guided practice and teachings, we investigate the nature of thinking, including how to relate to repetitive or difficult thoughts with clarity and compassion. By developing this skill, we discover a deeper steadiness and freedom in the midst of the mind’s activity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-27 Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself 51:20
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-26 Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: Following the Buddha’s Recipe for Liberation 56:55
Will Kabat-Zinn
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-26 Our Filters and Emotions (3rd & 4th Foundations of Mindfulness) 19:14
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-26 Guided Meditation: Everything Included 34:50
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-26 Light on knowing - empty, open, secure 43:08
Ajahn Sucitto
What is the knowing? It’s not the phenomena, not the mood, not the mind. It’s a basic openness that helps one get less impacted by the pleasant and unpleasant. Recognize the aggregates and how they are activated, then stay with the knowing where is no establishment, no activation. This knowing makes way for discernment to arise.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-26 Closing Session: Maintaining Joy in a Chaotic World 1:29:26
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-26 Citta & Manas: Bringing the Mind Home 49:32
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-25 Evening Session: Advice to Rahul (MN62) 1:44:41
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Confidence in Goodness - Meditation 31:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-25 Confidence in Goodness - Talk 51:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-25 Light on concentration – a skilful gathering of factors and fruits 55:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi is generally translated as 'concentration' but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-25 Freude Teil 1 52:13
Renate Seifarth
Praxis ist ein Weg, der zu innerer Freude führt. Meist kennen wir Freude über schöne Dinge, Erfahrungen oder Begegnungen. In der Praxis empfinden wir Freude in Momenten echter Achtsamkeit, tiefen Mitgefühls und Dankbarkeit.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-25 Sky-line Heart: Beyond Concept and Conditioning 39:29
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-25 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas and the Practice of Metta 58:28
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with a song and for the first half hour Kaira Jewel gives a brief overview the Four Brahmaviharas followed by an introduction to the practice of metta: what it is, how it can transform our lives, what some of the challenges are and then how to practice with the categories and the phrases. Then in the second half hour Kaira Jewel leads a guided metta meditation offering metta to ourselves, our benefactor and a dear friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-25 Learning from Lethargy, Resistance & Freeze (Sloth & Torpor) 15:47
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-25 Guided Meditation: Breathing for Energy or Relaxation 37:44
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-25 Instructions - What Am I Not Noticing ? 54:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-25 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Brahma Viharas 32:56
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Sakkha’s Question: The Cause of War and its End 56:45
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-24 The Power and Freedom of Equanimity in Polarized Times 60:11
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk we explore the power of equanimity to help us remain steady and spacious in the face of life's ups and downs. Trusting, relaxing and letting go all help us to see we don't have to hold the challenges of life alone, we can open to the larger mystery holding us all. We also look at how to engage with the suffering and injustice of our world, to practice sacred criticism, and depolarizing ourselves and our communities. We take inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement and their practices of self-emptying and how we can give our whole hearts to the task and then let go of attachment to the outcome. Kaira Jewel ends by singing the poem Recommendation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Talk - More than Meets the Eye 23:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-24 Understanding Dukkha - Meditation 29:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2025-03-24 Understanding Dukkha - Talk 62:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2025-03-24 Not self from a heart paradigm 55:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-24 The Importance of Emptiness, Hiri and Ottappa 55:51
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-24 Light on desire 52:54
Ajahn Sucitto
This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-24 Evening Session: Tetrad 4 + Equanimity 1:35:16
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 Mara's Teaching Us to Love More Deeply 36:23
Yong Oh
Talking about the paradox of perfection and improvement. Loving ourselves to wholeness. Love as the path. Mara as teacher rather than foe or antagonist. Teaching us to love ever more deeply.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Guided Meditation - Mudita (Appreciative Joy) 38:34
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-24 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrads 1, 2 + 3 40:04
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 Hiri-Ottappa: Guardians of the World 54:52
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-23 The Lion’s Roar: Courage in These Times 37:14
Devin Berry
Rooted in the simile of the Lion Sutta (4.33), this talk explores how the power of the Lion’s roar—Buddha-Dharma—awakens the courage to face suffering with clarity, inner steadiness, and a heart aligned with truth and presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-23 Evening Session: Tetrad 3 + Compassion 1:48:34
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-23 Light on effort, an oar in the stream 40:37
Ajahn Sucitto
With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-23 Der Köder - MN25 44:14
Renate Seifarth
Hier geht es um die Art und Weise wie und wo wir praktizieren, um die negativen Geistesströmungen in uns zu überwinden.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-23 Guided Meditation - Compassion 37:27
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-23 More Beautiful Than Beautiful (includes Refuges and Precepts) 17:18
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-23 Guided Meditation: Taking Your Seat 41:13
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-23 The Attitude of Goodwill - Meditation 32:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-23 The Attitude of Goodwill - Talk 37:55
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-23 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrad 1 + 2 + Mudita 31:23
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-23 Instructions - Skilfully Attending to the Unpleasant 58:40
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-23 Keep the Faith! -- in What? 62:58
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-03-23 Keep the Faith! -- in What? 62:55
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-03-23 Morning Session: The Best Kinds of Joy 36:36
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Evening Session: Guided Meditation 35:42
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Talk - Dukkha, Reactivity & Skilful Response 45:14
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-22 Three kinds of Nibbana in our western Insight traditions 52:57
Tempel Smith
Within our blessed lineages of Venerables Ajahn Cha and Mahasi Sayadaw, and the teachings within the Pali Canon, we have found three kinds of nibbana. Nibbana is closely related to the full liberation from dukkha (suffering). To even talk about one kind of nibbana can be difficult as it is beyond language, yet there is another confusion within western Insight meditation. By practicing in Mahasi's Burmese meditaitons, in Cha's Thai Forest meditations, and here in North America, there are roughly three kinds of nibbana: a) an unperturbed background field of awareness, b) a perfect zero of cessation, and c) a stream of transient mind-body moments without greed, hatred or craving. Knowing of these three kinds of nibbana can clarify what our vipassana practices are aimed at.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-22 Evening Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 2 + Metta 67:17
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Light on balance 35:57
Ajahn Sucitto
March 2025 retreat - talk 1 - This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-22 One Taste, Peace of Nibbana, Asankhata Dharma 60:50
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-22 Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation: Tetrad 1 + Metta 29:46
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Feel truth, avoid plastic 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-22 Poems, Perceptions & Freedom 18:30
River Wolton
Dharma reflection: the story of Chiyono’s enlightenment poem; poetry, fearlessness, and flexibility of perception.
Gaia House Between the Words - Poetry & Meditation

2025-03-22 Overview of the Four Truths Leading to Peace 53:30
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-22 Morning Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 1 + Metta 1:24:37
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-21 Opening Session: Settling In 1:30:30
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-21 Aging, Illness, and Death 53:14
Devon Hase
The Four Heavenly Messengers and the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, with a focus on practicing with aging, illness. and death.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-21 Dispassion as Pathway to the Peace of Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:51
Kristina Bare
Seeing impermanence leads to dispassion and letting go into deepening peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-21 Einsicht in Leerheit 32:55
Renate Seifarth
Ein Vertreter einer anderen spirituellen Gruppierung zweifelt an der Lehre von Anatta und versucht sie zu widerlegen. Im Disput zwischen ihm und dem Buddha wird er überzeugt, da er keine der 5 khandha Kontrolle ausüben kann. Genauso können wir in unserer Praxis vorgehen und das, was wir erleben, in Hinblick darauf untersuchen, ob wir eine Kontrolle darüber ausüben können und falls nicht, wieso wir davon ausgehen können, dass dies Ich oder Mein sein kann.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-21 Ajahn Chah on Stream Entry - Four Truths 52:47
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-21 Being Dharma - Stream Entry: The End of All Falsehood 46:26
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-20 Practicing Mudita (Sympathetic Joy) 1:47:58
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-20 The Five Aggregates: Sankhara & Consciousness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 Nur eigene Einsicht befreit 45:41
Renate Seifarth
Ausgehend von der Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung 22 wird erläutert, dass nicht kognitives Wissen, sondern eigene direkte Einsicht befreit, die wir gewinnen können, wenn wir Buddhas Aussagen selbst überprüfen und durchdringen. Im weiteren geht es um das Wesensmerkmal der Vergänglichkeit und wie wir darüber unser Haften am Glauben eines Ichs durchdringen können.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-20 The Extraordinary Transformative Power of Dharma + Story of Angulimala 66:07
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-20 Equanimity Brahma-Vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:18
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 Nirodha (cessation of dukkha) and the Return to One Heart 52:37
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-20 Dharma Reflection: Four Brahma Viharas in Nature 11:50
Devon Hase
Reflections on nature as our teacher of metta, karuna, mudita, and upekkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-20 Fine-tuning the Mind & 4 Tasks in an Age of Endings 35:10
Ayya Santacitta
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2025-03-19 Not Sure 53:55
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-19 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Seeing Our Own Filters 26:39
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-19 Staying Humane in these Times, Dhamma Vicaya- the Engine of Wisdom 48:30
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-19 The Way of Love Is Not a Subtle Argument 52:27
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Rumi | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-19 Unshakable Liberation of Heart, Seeing Dukkha - Guided Meditation 48:26
Thanissara
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-18 That's How Evolution Works ~ it's messy 41:35
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2025-03-18 Can There Be Kindness in Dispassion - Talk 55:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-18 Can There Be Kindness in Dispassion - Meditation 34:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-18 Dharma of Time and Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:02
Anushka Fernandopulle
The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-18 Dukkha durchzieht unser Leben 48:46
Renate Seifarth
Grundlage ist MN9 Buddha spricht in dieser Lehrrede über dukkha, das auf verschiedenen Ebenen Teil des Lebens ist. Der Ursprung liegt für ihn im Begehren nach Dasein und Nicht-Dasein. Erkennen wir das damit verbundene dukkha werden wir entzaubert und geben die Ansicht und den Dünkel von „Ich bin“ auf.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-18 Stepping Out of Samsara 59:52
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-18 Dharmette: Working with Worry 18:01
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-03-18 Dharma Medicine: Samādhi & Guided Anapanasati Meditation 45:19
Kittisaro
Big Bear Retreat Center Being Dharma

2025-03-17 The Five Elements Revisited ~ as earthworms do 52:13
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2025-03-17 Stepping Back from Striving 54:05
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk explores active and receptive effort, and relaxing back into a more effortless relationship with the moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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