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Dharma Talks
2020-06-10 Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- Session 2 1:16:20
Kim Allen
Second class of 6
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-10 66 The Honeyball Discourse 17:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-10 Smoothing the Bumpy Ride 47:28
Zohar Lavie
Looking at how dukkha is constructed/fabricated, and finding skilful ease through ways of relating.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-10 39 Discourse on Mindfulness of the Body 20:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-06-10 Opening to Joy and Difficulty 42:37
Zohar Lavie
Muditā and Karuṇā
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-10 Day 3 Meditation Instructions - Vedanā 51:26
Nathan Glyde
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-09 20 talk: wisdom and compassion 48:03
Jill Shepherd
How insight and the heart qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity balance each other out to support the development of deep freedom
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-09 65b Greater Discourse to Sakuludayin MN77 15:46
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-09 Where Is This Going? 39:04
Nathan Glyde
A talk about the directionality of our thinking, based on the wisdom of the two sorts of thinking sutta (MN19). With less identification, and a sense of supporting samadhi, we can navigate the world of the heart-mind.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-09 Intro to Mettā as Welcoming, Allowing, Opening to More 38:38
Nathan Glyde
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-09 18 guided meditation: practising with thoughts and emotions 26:12
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying the awareness on the breath and physical sensations, then opening to include sounds, then thoughts and emotions
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-09 22 guided meditation: compassion and self-compassion 17:03
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with compassion for someone we're close to who's experiencing some kind of pain, then extending compassion to ourselves, our co-meditators and all living beings
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-09 17 instructions: mindfulness of the mind 14:52
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for practising with mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-09 21 instructions: practising compassion 2:30
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to practising compassion and self compassion
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-09 The Four Foundations Are a Complete Support (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 12:17
Dhammadīpā
Contemplation of dhammas, 7 factors of awakening, bringing all the foundations of mindfulness to bear on the Path
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The First Free Women - Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-09 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Openness with the Unpleasant 63:15
Zohar Lavie
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-08 16 talk: befriending the mind 43:27
Jill Shepherd
Exploring Mindfulness of the Mind as a means to develop a friendlier and more skilful relationship with our thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-08 Turning a Moment into a Movement: In Honor of George Floyd 65:08
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-08 65a Greater Discourse to Sakuludayin MN77 22:22
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The 37 Factors that lead to liberation.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-08 Ways of Well-Being 45:57
Zohar Lavie
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-08 Immeasurable Metta for Nourishing the Heart (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:40
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation on radiating metta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The First Free Women - Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-08 Guided Stretched Awareness Meditation 39:00
Zohar Lavie
By opening the space of awareness actively we can engender more wellbeing and enjoyable energy into our practice.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-08 15 guided meditation: opening to sounds 28:49
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to steady the awareness, then opening to physical sensations throughout the body, then opening to the experience of hearing, staying present to sounds as they arise and pass away
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-08 14 instructions: opening up the field of awareness to include hearing 11:48
Jill Shepherd
Incorporating sounds into mindfulness practice
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-08 Day 1 Instructions - Opening the Space of Awareness 53:19
Nathan Glyde
Playfully exploring breath or sounds to open experience–easing the dukkha of contraction.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-07 Courage & Compassion: Living the Dharma Now 1:26:22
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-07 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Q&A - Do Your Dharma 42:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Reflections given on questions about how to deal with other people, the social order based on human domination, and how to practice with sickness.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-07 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Q&A on Kamma 42:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-07 64 Discourse on Upali MN56 22:10
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-07 Coming to Life with Equipoise 44:45
Nathan Glyde
There are many ways to come to life: exploring freedom from…, relating well with…, and multiple ways of liberating peace and joy in life.
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-07 Guided Meditation and Walking Instructions 26:31
Zohar Lavie
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Coming to Life - Waking up and getting intimate with existence

2020-06-07 Dimanche 7 juin 2020 1:27:46
Sayadaw U Jagara
Il a été question des quatre fondements de la qualité de présence (sati), du sentiment de rejet et de l’égo, de la foi et de l’amour.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-06-07 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Guided Meditation 9:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions for widening the reference point, and notice that everything arises within awareness. Practice being with, not in.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-07 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Kamma 17:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Kamma – what it is, how it works, and why understanding it is crucial
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-07 Intimacy and Non-attachment as Refuge - Guided Meditation 37:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-06-07 Intimacy and Nonattachment as Refuge Talk 38:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-06-07 Feelings at the Six Sense Gates 49:42
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation on vedana (feeling tone) as it is experienced with sense contact
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The First Free Women - Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-06 07 talk: mindfulness and clear comprehension 24:08
Jill Shepherd
Exploring a variety of definitions of mindfulness, highlighting the aspect of clear comprehension as a support for insight, ending with dyad (pairs) practice investigating the experience of mindfulness in the moment
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

2020-06-06 63 Discourse on Upali MN56 18:37
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-05 The Unequivocal Law of Kamma 13:44
Ayya Medhanandi
Responding to questions about social change during pandemic time protests: seeing that we are the owners of our actions, subject to the law of kamma, we can embody the Buddha's teachings by respecting all beings with compassion, nonviolence and our foundation in virtue, and choosing wise leaders who uphold these principles.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2020-06-05 Bowing On Two Knees: Covid Compassion and Nonviolence 19:27
Ayya Medhanandi
When change and unrest foment around us, we must guard the mind and protect it from disruptive emotions such as fear or anger that may lead us to speak or act unskillfully. In this pandemic of moral decay and heightened fear, seeing how we are not in control, we care both for ourselves and others, morally and spiritually. To bring reform or healing in the world, we speak or act from an inner quiet, not boiling with anger or resentment, but from a heart tempered with patience, compassion, wisdom and peace. A talk given online during Covid-19 and global anti-racism protests.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2020-06-05 On the Altar of This Moment 23:36
Ayya Medhanandi
A guided meditation into the heart of our struggles and fears where, on the altar of our tears, the jewels of the Dhamma are revealed radiant within us. Breath by breath, wisely seeing through and courageously defying all obstacles to our freedom, we embark into the miracle of pure presence in this moment.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2020-06-05 In This Very Life -- 2020-06-05 55:15
Kim Allen
Sutta study -- MN 4
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-05 Equanimity Meditation 47:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2020-06-05 Equanimity Talk 38:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2020-06-05 Fully Embodied Breath (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:53
Dhammadīpā
Detailed posture instructions, whole body awareness, in and out breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The First Free Women - Original Poetry Inspired By the Early Buddhist Nuns

2020-06-05 Closing Session 34:21
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-05 Short Dharma Talk 27:24
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-05 Podcast: If You Won't Create Your Own Life the World Will Create It for You 1:11:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-05 Morning Instructions and Meditation 44:12
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 Exploring Racial Injustice and White Privilege 64:09
James Baraz
In the aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy and the protests that followed the community explores Racial Injustice and White Privilege. Special guest Deb Kerr, who is a Core Teacher of East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. DE, who is one of EMBC's founders and has served on the EBMC Board has led White Privilege groups there.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-06-04 Evening Dharma Talk 44:30
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 62 The Greater Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN136 24:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Ven.Payutto Good Evil and Beyond, a basic text book on Kamma : http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/good_evil_beyond.pdf
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-04 Guided Yoga Practice 2:09:19
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 44:12
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence 20:04
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with us standing in mindful movement, guiding us in awakening awareness in the body. Then in sitting practice, we open all our senses, resting in the wakeful presence that can include the changing waves of our life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-03 A Courageous Presence with Racism 38:13
Tara Brach
Anti-Black racism is the core wound of American culture, and we each have a role to play in fighting racism, a medicine to bring to these times. This talk explores how we can offer an honest and courageous presence to key domains of this suffering. We then look at affirming that Black lives truly matter with our dedicated and wise action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-03 Evening Dharma Talk - Treat Your Body Like a Bee Hive 43:43
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Ananda on How to be an Ally 61:48
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-03 61 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135 18:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-03 The Peace of a Boundless Heart 1:41:27
Nathan Glyde
Teachings and practices to ease us from habitual patterns towards something endlessly (boundless heart) liberating. Exploring through a mediation, talk, and Q&R, freedom with what appears, freedom from what appears, via the freedom teachings of anicca and dukkha, and particularly sankhara–how we participate in the creation of 'the all of the all'.
SanghaSeva The Peace of a Boundless Heart

2020-06-03 Guided Yoga Practice 2:00:25
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Guided Meditation -- Direct Experience 16:14
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-03 Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- 1 1:10:17
Kim Allen
A six-session class on Maturing the Analytical Mind through Dharma practice
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-03 Morning Instructions and Meditation 43:50
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Evening Dharma Talk 50:23
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 60 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135 19:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-02 Short Talk and Guided Yoga Practice 2:09:07
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 43:16
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns 58:32
Ayya Anandabodhi, Matty Weingast
Ayya Anandabodhi and Matty Weingast read from their new translation of the Therigatha - The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2020-06-01 Coming Undone 63:16
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-01 59 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 23:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Elements and What is Possible and what is Impossible
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-31 Dharma talk 46:45
Michele McDonald
Closing dharma talk, given during an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Pandemic of Racism: For George Floyd 68:54
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-31 58 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 22:13
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Continuing Dependent Origination. For further reading: PDF download - Ven.P.A.Payutto : Dependent Origination - The Buddhist Law of Conditionality. For a deeper understanding: Bhikkhu Bodhi - The Great Discourse on Causation DN15
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-31 Sit with Instructions 50:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions, given on the final day of an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Dimanche 31 mai 2020 1:39:13
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara a discuté de notre capacité de développer une intimité avec le moment présent, avec toutes les relations qui composent notre monde et notre environnement. En comprenant les relations entre les phénomènes et entre les êtres, nous pouvons mieux agir et interagir.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd - guided meditation 25:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd Talk 40:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Traditional Pāli Dhamma Talk Request Chant 0:40
Ayya Medhanandi
The deity Brahma Sahampati appeared before the Blessed One and urged the Buddha to teach to those who had little dust in their eyes so that they could learn the Dhamma and practice for their own awakening.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2020-05-31 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Healing Potential of the Heart 47:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Training involves the pause – connect to what’s happening, and use careful attention to deepen into citta. There’s more than just discomfort there – there’s healing potential if one can touch into the healthy spots. *Sutta reference Udāna 4:1
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-30 Dharma talk: Our World is on Fire 50:45
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk on the Fire Sermon discourse, given during online self-retreat during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-30 57 The Many Kinds of Elements MN115 20:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The basic law of conditionality - This-that Law Idhapaccayata. Dependent Origination - the First Six Links : ignorance, habits, consciousness, body and mind, and the six sense bases and contact
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-30 Sit with Instructions 53:00
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation with instructions, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Dharma talk: Finding Peace, Ending the War 45:00
Michele McDonald
Dharma talk on annica, dukkha, anatta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort 51:16
Ajahn Sucitto
There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-29 56 The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka 1:21:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-29 Sit with Instructions 51:02
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Saṅkhāra Dharma Going Forward 30:54
Nathan Glyde
Continuation, Crossing the Threshold, or more commonly called Closing Talk of our retreat. Gathering our insights, transferring our practice, and going forth.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice) 14:08
Zohar Lavie
Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Mettā to the Sensate World 28:20
Zohar Lavie
Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 In This Very Life -- 2020-05-29 55:14
Kim Allen
Sutta contemplation: AN 5.193 and MN 4
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-28 Dharma talk 52:25
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk given on the second day of online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Metta for a Sangha of All Beings 42:04
Nathan Glyde
Opening our sense of community to expand to include more and more of the world.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 55 The Greater Discourse to Rahula 1:20:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha skilfully guides his son, around 18 years of age, to navigate the desire to return to the household life.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-28 Awakening the Heart 48:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 Sit with Instructions 46:30
Michele McDonald
Instructions on setting the intention for sitting followed by guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Meditation 24:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Talk 67:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Open Palm Attention 51:56
Nathan Glyde
Expanding the world through skilful wholesome modes of relating. When there is an object in attention there is always some degree of push or pull happening. The contraction is what holds attention there. It is not something we’re doing wrong, it is the nature of experience. What happens when we invite an opening in the contraction, either in the body sense, or the sense of awareness, or by bringing in a bit more metta in the atmosphere of attending?
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

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