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Dharma Talks
2023-04-29 Meditation 46:07
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Freeing the Heart at Home - Spacious Practice Weekend

2023-04-29 Morning Teaching, Instructions and Practice 35:56
Gavin Milne
Gathering the mind within the shape of our life.
Gaia House Freeing the Heart at Home - Spacious Practice Weekend

2023-04-28 Dana Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 14:34
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-27 SANGHA! In Person and Online, Our First Hybrid Gathering! 50:43
James Baraz
James and Eve are delighted to host the first in person meeting at the Berkeley Buddhist monastery since Covid changed our lives. In addition to a Dharma talk and exploration about Sangha, Eve brings her guitar and shares some music.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-04-27 Body - internal and external 34:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn describes the framework of factors that the human body and mind have that receive experience. Walking instruction at 32:29
The Buddhist Academy Berlin Brandenburg :  The Touch of Release

2023-04-27 Morning Instructions - Thoughts/Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:34
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-27 Morning reflection: equanimity. 52:19
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2023

2023-04-26 Evening Chanting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 21:03
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-26 Seven Factors of Compassion: Samādhi 55:19
Tuere Sala
Exploring the intersection between compassion and samadhi/concentration (the 6th Factor of Awakening).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-26 A Deeper Look at Practice Instructions 41:29
Matthew Hepburn
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-04-26 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:54
Tara Brach
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-26 Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness 56:51
Tara Brach
The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-26 Consciously Turning Towards the Evolutionary Challenge 51:44
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-04-26 What is the Key to Open the Heart 1:53:48
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-04-25 Evening Chanting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 15:23
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-25 The four noble truths 48:19
Tara Mulay
Following the noble eightfold path is caring enough to truly live. This talk also touches on the three kinds of dukkha, and the three kinds of craving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-25 To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time 26:28
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-04-24 Everyday is Earth Day 1:27:23
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-04-24 Trust and confidence in the practice. 33:46
Devin Berry
Reflections on faith, through personal stories of the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-24 The Map of Wisdom: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein on the Core Buddhist Teachings 1:32:03
Joseph Goldstein
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies The Map of Wisdom: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein on the Core Buddhist Teachings

2023-04-24 Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:20
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-24 Body Anchor 43:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 7 Factors of Compassion - Investigation/Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:11
Tuere Sala
In this retreat, we will be looking at compassion through the lens of the 7 Factors of Awakening. We are calling it the 7 Factors of Compassion and we'll be exploring how a compassionate response to each of the factors supports awakening. Tonight I am exploring the intersection of compassion and mindfulness, investigation, and energy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 The two darts 55:27
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-23 Gradual Transformation of the Heart 16:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2023-04-23 Earth Day 25:09
Dawn Neal
Deepening our Understanding of Anicca, Dukkha & Anattā in Nature
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-04-23 Closing Teachings 43:05
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-23 Posture Clinic 30:31
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Talk 39:29
Mark Nunberg
Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-04-23 Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation 29:53
Mark Nunberg
Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-04-23 Teachings, Guided Meditation (Sitting and Walking) 52:16
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-22 Teachings 24:09
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-22 Guided Meditation 40:56
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-22 Teachings 24:09
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-22 Guided Meditation (Sitting, Walking) 51:42
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-22 The Removal of Unwholesome Regret 1:15:46
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-04-22 Reflections on Earth Day. 19:34
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2023

2023-04-21 Opening Teachings, Guided Meditation 65:00
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-21 Q&A 68:18
Ajahn Sucitto
00:09 Q1 Could you speak about the experience of thinking and emotions. 06:09 Q2 I feel I have no control. The music in my mind keeps playing, I feel I am going mad. How can I cultivate mindfully without making thoughts and stories stronger. 20:59 Q3 How can I deal with grief over loosing loved ones? 28:19 Q4 Is it normal to feel warm and perspire during sitting meditation? 32:56 Q5 Does it matter how you place the hands during sitting meditation? 35:40 Q6 When one sees the light – I guess this is meditation nimitta – do you focus on the breath or follow the light? 37:47 Q7 [Should one] place attention on the entire body even when walking? 47:43 Q7 I have scoliosis and am uncomfortable in every position. Are there techniques to help with body and mental pain skillfully when I meditate? 52:59 Q8 Regarding the 12 links of dependent origination, which link is the weakest? 59:46 Q9 How do we enter the stream? 01:01:45 Q10 Can you elaborate on what you said about what Sariputta and Moggallana understood regarding the arising of the Tathagata?
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-21 Finding Peace Within Impermanence 26:15
River Wolton
Gaia House Meditation Day - Impermanence as a Way to Peace

2023-04-21 Q&A 39:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Questions are précised 00:15 Q1 Can you clarify why the Buddha recommended sense restraint in cultivating citta? What harm does sense desire to the citta? 04:20 Q2 I have a picture that the sense organs are shooting stuff into the citta. Is that correct? 12:42 Q3 How can I overcome sound distractions to focus more on my breathing ? 18:59 Q4 The Buddha said, light arose and vision arose. What does this mean? 20:27 Q5 If we trust in awareness, would this lead to attachment to citta and become another soul? 24:09 Q6 I feel emotions deeply and am sometimes affected by other being seen and unseen, like ghosts. Also getting angry gives me power and sometimes I feel that metta softens and weakens myself to others. How can I protect citta, one’s sensitivity? 30:45 Q7 How to distinguish between self-care and attachment?
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-21 Attending to and letting go 50:43
Ajahn Sucitto
What we attend to and what we leave out needs wise assessment. This leads to a deepening of wisdom and the abandonment of daily compulsive habits.
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 talk: pāramī of patience 29:23
Jill Shepherd
Patience is a quality that is undervalued in mainstream society with its emphasis on instant gratification, but in the Buddha's teachings, it's seen as the foremost of all the pāramī. Fortunately, it's something that can be trained in, initially by recognising where we're IMpatient, then making the effort to orient to steadiness and non-resistance.
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-04-20 Reviewing and learning from experience 39:24
Ajahn Sucitto
We interact with experience as it happens, liking, disliking and bearing with. Developing a quality of balance provides for the end of personal dissatisfaction.
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 The 4 Spiritual Centers and the 4 Instinctual Drives--The Belly Center and the Self-preservation Instinct 1:23:51
Tina Rasmussen
Insight Meditation Tucson

2023-04-20 Q&A 58:12
Ajahn Sucitto
00:15 Can you clarify what is citta? And the asavas? 31:02 Q2 What is meant by nimitta? I’ve never experienced a light nimitta, but I experience calm and peace after I meditate. How can I go deeper into this? Q3 34:31 How can one speed up the process of becoming a stream enterer? 45:26 Q4 How do we practice mindfulness in daily life?
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 Walking Meditation Instructions 7:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 Nimittas are signs 26:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Examine how things become signs that catch our attention and enter our heart. Understanding the process can lessen delusion and provide us with protection and the development of wisdom.
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 Instructions - Sitting, moving, reclining meditation 13:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-20 Mindfulness of body and the Brahma viharas 20:47
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2023

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