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2023-01-31 The Four Noble truths 50:28
Devon Hase
Explanation of the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta with chanting, followed by teachings on the four noble truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times

2023-01-31 A Moment of Kindness 34:39
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-01-31 Morning Reflections on Anatta 20:08
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2023-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (Week 4) - Talk and Q&A 56:11
Mark Nunberg
Mindfulness meditation leads to insight into the nature of our hearts and minds, revealing an inherent clarity, openness, and ease. This course includes exploration of the intention behind practice, an introduction to insight (vipassana) meditation techniques, instructions for working with common obstacles, an overview of the practice of lovingkindness, and a discussion on how mindfulness can be part of one’s daily life. Led by Mark Nunberg. Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice. Common Ground offers all programs freely in the spirit of generosity. If you'd like to volunteer or donate to support the teacher(s) and the center, visit https://commongroundmeditation.org/about/supporting-the-center/.
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2023-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation (Week 4) - Guided Meditation 31:35
Mark Nunberg
Mindfulness meditation leads to insight into the nature of our hearts and minds, revealing an inherent clarity, openness, and ease. This course includes exploration of the intention behind practice, an introduction to insight (vipassana) meditation techniques, instructions for working with common obstacles, an overview of the practice of lovingkindness, and a discussion on how mindfulness can be part of one’s daily life. Led by Mark Nunberg. Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice. Common Ground offers all programs freely in the spirit of generosity. If you'd like to volunteer or donate to support the teacher(s) and the center, visit https://commongroundmeditation.org/about/supporting-the-center/.
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2023-01-31 Qi Gong - 18 Movements 44:38
Devon Hase
Warm-up and Shibashi 18-movement session of Qi Gong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times

2023-01-31 Morning Instructions 57:53
Zohar Lavie
Relaxing contraction, easing dukkha.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-31 Mindfulness of thoughts – morning instructions 46:55
Devin Berry
Reflections on thinking and thoughts, thought experiment, guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times

2023-01-30 The Five Spiritual Powers 1:48:31
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2023-01-30 La 2e noble vérité (Lausanne, Suisse) 58:44
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-30 Quand 3 et 3 font 7 (Lausanne, Suisse) 59:28
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-30 Dharma Talk - The Conditionality of Dukkha. 49:21
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-30 Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:21
Susie Harrington
introduction to Metta, guided meditation with phrases for self and benefactor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-01-30 Morning Instructions 60:16
Nathan Glyde
Meeting vedanā with mettā.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-29 L’incapacité de trouver satisfaction (Lausanne, Suisse) 56:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-29 Joies et peines (Lausanne, Suisse) 52:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-29 Dharma Talk 1:12:06
Nathan Glyde
Diverting the streams of thoughts & opinions (vedanā).
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-29 An Overview of Practice on a Long Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:51
Sally Armstrong
This talk offers a big picture view of all of the different supports, practices and intentions that are helpful during long retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2023-01-29 Metta in the Suttas 1:27:43
Ariya B. Baumann
Some examples from the suttas where the Buddha talked about metta, each kind act of metta matters
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 9th Annual Metta Retreat 2023 - Part 1

2023-01-29 Heartbreak in America 52:26
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-01-29 Meditation is All We Have in the Face of the Suffering of These Times 63:07
Nolitha Tsengiwe
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-01-29 Vertical Dharma and The Four Reflections 42:33
Amita Schmidt
This talk explains the difference between horizontal verses vertical dharma practice. The talk also explores "The Four Reflections," or lojong teachings to inspire your sitting and daily life practice. These include reflections on precious human birth, impermanence/death, suffering, and karma.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2023-01-29 Guided Meditation 42:53
Zohar Lavie
Opening to, allowing & welcoming body sensations or sounds.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-29 Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 2 - Talk 41:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-01-29 Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 2 - Meditation 33:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-01-29 Below the Waves Meditation 8:26
Amita Schmidt
A unique vertical, guided meditation for dropping below your thinking, to the body breathing, and then to awareness itself. This meditation is unique in that it doesn't try to stop thinking, but includes it as part of a vertical awareness of your whole being, here now.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2023-01-29 Morning Instructions 52:43
Zohar Lavie
Mettā practice.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-29 First morning Instructions and cell phone ceremony 40:18
Devin Berry, Devon Hase
Edited
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Essential Teachings for Our Times

2023-01-29 Q and A: meditation and memory, sadness in practice, dementia, and chronic illness. 18:15
Amita Schmidt
Questions and Answers: 1)Why meditation can make your memory worse. 2) Why does practice create sadness sometimes? 3) Dementia and true nature. 4) Some reflections on chronic illness
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2023-01-28 Quatre éléments (Lausanne, Suisse) 28:05
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-28 Intelligence émotionnelle (Lausanne, Suisse) 50:36
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-28 Comment la pleine conscience libère (Lausanne, Suisse) 47:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-28 DharmaTalk - Hindrances as Gateways to Mettā and Insight 55:39
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-28 Guided Meditation 42:54
Nathan Glyde
Mettā to an easy relationship (with an introduction).
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2023-01-28 The Hindrance of Sensual Desire 1:11:36
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-01-27 Infinie tendresse (Lausanne, Suisse) 30:07
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-27 La vulnérabilité de toutes choses (Lausanne, Suisse) 53:29
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2023-01-26 Why Intensive Practice 54:25
James Baraz
Going through the process of sitting in silence over a long period of time is a unique and profound experience. What happens on a month-long retreat and why do people do it? Though it is not possible for everyone to get away for that length of time or have the desire to do it, the principles shared can be applied to shorter retreats as well
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-01-25 Week 3, Part 2 34:47
Juha Penttilä
Guided Meditation - Dukkha 1
Gaia House The Path of Letting Go

2023-01-25 Meditation: Relaxing into Presence or Sleep 15:37
Tara Brach
This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-01-25 Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – The Power of Self-Nurturing 60:24
Tara Brach
While we all need to customize meditation, this is particularly important for those living with PTSD or strong, potentially overwhelming emotions. This talk explores how trauma cuts us off from wholeness, and is accompanied by a deep and painful experience of shame. We look at the ways meditation can be adapted to cultivate sufficient safety for the full transformational healing of mindfulness to unfold. The gift of processing trauma is that the place of woundedness becomes a gateway into profound love, healing, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-01-25 Week 3, Part 1 50:20
Juha Penttilä
Settling Meditation; Talk - Expecting Unsatisfactoriness, the Wisdom of Imperfection.
Gaia House The Path of Letting Go

2023-01-25 Just Like Me 1:29:39
Ariya B. Baumann
Other beings are just like me – I am just like others, metta and forgiveness, with metta you become a piece of art
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 9th Annual Metta Retreat 2023 - Part 1

2023-01-25 Listen to the Rain & Knit 1:47:26
Sylvia Boorstein
Short meditation, dharma talk, and group discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-01-23 Dana and Caga: The Buddha's First Teachings 1:48:25
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-01-23 Dharma Talk - Returning to Our Heart 53:42
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Dana Retreat - Returning to the Heart

2023-01-23 Awakening Factor of Energy- Week 3- Meditation 29:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Seven Factors of Awakening

2023-01-23 Awakening Factor of Energy Talk- Week 3- Talk 43:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Seven Factors of Awakening

2023-01-23 Metta Is a Universal Quality 1:31:22
Ariya B. Baumann
Metta is not restricted to any religion or spiritual tradition, nor to human beings. Metta is like a flower garland, adorning the heart & mind
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 9th Annual Metta Retreat 2023 - Part 1

2023-01-23 Dharma the Supreme Medicine 52:50
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection & Guided Meditation for San Francisco Dharma Collective
Aloka Earth Room

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