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Dharma Talks
2024-10-09 Meditation: Disarming Our Hearts 10:53
Tara Brach
Most of us know the suffering of feeling separate from others. In this guided meditation, we explore how we can re-open our hearts by intentionally bringing a caring mindful presence to our own vulnerability, and then extending that presence to include others. When inhabiting that presence, we are able to respond to relational conflict and distance with a growing creativity and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-10-09 Timeless Heart Wisdom for our Times – Tara Brach and Dan Harris 1:11:29
Tara Brach
How do we meet the violence and suffering in our world with a quality of openheartedness and wisdom? In this interview Dan and Tara look at the teachings from the Bodhisattva path (path of awakening beings), Tara’s early draw to this path, and the perspectives and practices that can help us all in responding to our world with as much clarity, equanimity and love as possible. Learn more about Dan Harris and subscribe to his new substack platform at https://www.danharris.com
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-10-09 Mindful Awareness and Samadhi (Spiritual Faculties 3 & 4) 23:14
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series)

2024-10-09 Guided Meditation: Returning to Awareness 34:56
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series)

2024-10-09 Guided Reflection: Sense of Self 20:21
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Exploring the perception of personality in experiences
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024

2024-10-08 Q and R’s with Jean Esther & nakawe cuebas 54:39
Jean Esther, Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-08 Metta/Karuna guided body scan meditation 46:30
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-08 Silence is Golden, The art of deep listening 43:34
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-08 Introduction to Equanimity as a Brahma Vihara followed by a guided practice 43:45
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-08 Working with emotions using R.A.I.N. 0:00
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
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True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-08 Relating to Meditation Skillfully 48:17
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Some helpful and not so helpful attitudes we may bring to our meditation as experienced yogis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024

2024-10-08 The Root Cause of Suffering 37:21
Amita Schmidt
In this talk you will learn tools to loosen the attachment to the ego perspective: how to step outside the snow globe of you; how to move away from the trance of thoughts; and ways to pendulate to a bigger perspective/view. This talk also has some science quotations from Donald Hoffman and others on infinite consciousness.
Tri State Dharma

2024-10-08 Mind the Gap! 16:56
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series)

2024-10-08 Guided Meditation: Noticing the Silence Between 42:38
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Five Spiritual Faculties Supporting Freedom (A 3-part Series)

2024-10-08 Monday Night Dharma talk: non-self 45:26
Kate Munding
The Buddha's teachings are sometimes misunderstood or described out of context to give the impression that to awaken means that our sense of self must disappear, that our personality becomes flat-lined, and that we become indifferent to the world around us. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Buddha's teachings show us the way to fully embody this life. To be fully awake is to fully live! The Buddha did not teach vacancy; he taught people how to live without clinging. Please join me this evening for a talk that comes from the inspiration and the clarity this path has to offer on how to live in these times without shutting down, giving up, or turning away.
Assaya Sangha

2024-10-07 Difficulty as a Doorway: Exploring the Five Hindrances 53:35
Jean Esther
This talk, focused primarily on Sense Desire and Aversion also emphasizes all hindrances as a doorway for awakening.
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-07 Practicing with the sixth sense door of ‘Thinking’ as a means of release from being lost in identification with it. 23:30
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-07 Cultivating Wholesome Relationships - Week 5 of 5 - Meditation 30:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2024-10-07 Cultivating Wholesome Relationships - Week 5 of 5 - Talk 41:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2024-10-07 Reconciliation 1:45:39
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-10-07 Guided Reflection: Opening to Impermanence 43:04
Deborah Ratner Helzer
A consideration of impermanence inspired by a gentle rain
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2024

2024-10-06 Quatre qualités du coeur 33:15
Pascal Auclair
Quelques mots sur la joie, la compassion, l’équanimité et la bienveillance et une pratique guidée sur quelques unes d’entre elles.
True North Insight Présence et silence au cœur de la nature

2024-10-06 The Fourth and Fifth Aggregates: Sankhara & Vinañña 55:52
Tara Mulay
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2024-10-06 Dhamma Reflections on Resilience 37:20
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

2024-10-06 Guided Metta Practice for Easy Person/Benefactor, Self, and Neutral Person 41:47
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience of Love and Wisdom in Meeting Our Lives

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