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2025-06-14 Understanding Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:41
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Awakening Emotions (230R25), with Tuere Sala, in CMC

2025-06-14 Taking on Personality View Directly 10:41
Ayya Santussika
Seeing our life through the lens of Dhamma instead of through the perspective of Personality View.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 No Exaggeration 1:23:43
Nathan Glyde
A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of wise perception: knowing this is a dependently originating appearance. And expanding wise and skilful (right) speech to include not exaggerating or simplifying! Perhaps these alongside other ideas, will support our practice to deepen, and widen to help liberate peace into the world.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - June 2025

2025-06-14 The 4 Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path 62:10
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight and Dependent Origination

2025-06-14 Arriving Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:21
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Awakening Emotions (230R25), with Tuere Sala, in CMC

2025-06-14 Five Elements Meditation: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space 24:57
Ayya Santussika
These meditations were taught to the Buddha's son Rahula (MN 62) on the elements: earth, water, fire, air and space, followed by the advice to develop meditation like each of these of these elements so that whatever might be experienced by the mind, likeable or dis-likeable, that would not invade the mind and remain.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 The Buddha's Advice to Venerable Mahāpajāpati Still Relevant Today 9:14
Ayya Santussika
The Buddha's step-mother and most senior bhikkhuni, Venerable Mahāpajāpati, came to him for a teaching in brief that she could use for ardent practice. We can use this advice to guide our practice today and our relationship with the world.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-14 Arriving (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:10:48
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Awakening Emotions (230R25), with Tuere Sala, in CMC

2025-06-13 Opening Night Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:51
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Awakening Emotions (230R25), with Tuere Sala, in CMC

2025-06-13 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 55:55
Tara Mulay
With a discussion of how to practice with them in any given moment
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Natural Clarity of Awareness: A Two-Week Insight Meditation Retreat - 25WMRT

2025-06-13 How the Practice Ripens in Letting Go 31:10
Ayya Santussika
We know there is a need for letting go when we experience suffering, but how do we do it? When we find that we can't let go just because we want to, we need to know how to put in the causes and conditions so the practice ripens in letting go.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-13 Introduction, Methods for Access Concentration 1:13:01
Leigh Brasington
This recording also includes assistant teachers Matt Harvey and Claralynn Nunamaker
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight and Dependent Origination

2025-06-13 Nature as Beloved 56:24
Mark Coleman
Exploring the four diving abodes amidst the natural world
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-13 Step 6: Ready to Let Go 1:10:08
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-06-13 Not Like It Says in the Books 26:42
Ayya Santussika
Our experience may not match what we've read in the suttas or heard teachers describe. The encouragement here is to use the teachings as guideposts and learn for ourselves what works and what doesn't.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-13 Tracking experience with feeling 53:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Turn away from the measuring mind to track how experience is, and the arising and passing of stress. In this way, we engage with the ‘noble pleasure’ that leads to samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-12 09 talk: Sīla part 7 Fifth Training Precept 29:14
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the training to refrain from misusing intoxicants and broadening it to investigate other aspects of our lives where there can be a more compulsive or addictive relationship, for example in how we relate to our phones and technology
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-06-12 Intuiting Your Way into Joy and Tranquility 17:26
Ayya Santussika
Tips on cultivating the awakening factors of piti (joy) and tranquility (passaddhi) and encouragement to follow your intuition.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-12 Mid-retreat Q&A 22:00
Ayya Santussika
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-12 Belonging, Reciprocity and Gratitude 40:42
Kirsten Rudestam
This talk looks at the dependent co-arising in the context of nature-based practice and the tenderizing of the human heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-12 Who Do You Need to Pay and What Do You Need Them to Say? 15:05
Ayya Santussika
How do we change the habits that continually bring us suffering? This is a reflection based on SN 3.13 "A Bucket of Rice" and a personal experience providing some ideas on how to let go of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, anger, resentment, righteous indignation, and so on that keep us bound up in suffering, pointing to Nibbāna here and now.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 Trusting Reality: Equanimity Amid the Worldly Winds 47:16
Jessica Morey
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-06-11 Freedom from the First Two Fetters 40:34
Ayya Santussika
How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 Practicing with Emotions and the Six Senses 21:31
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-06-11 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 53:31
Mark Coleman
Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-11 Sterben & Tod (4. Tag) 62:37
Ariya B. Baumann
Gibt es ein Leben nach dem Tod? Wie würdest du leben? Fünf Phasen im Umgang mit einer Krankheit, die im Tod endet.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-11 Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable 55:09
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-06-11 Body Meditation and Chi Gong 44:41
Ayya Santussika
Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 You Can Do It 16:20
Ayya Santussika
There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 The Karma of Forgotten Stories 31:36
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-06-10 Brahma Vihara Practice Instructions on Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:17
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-10 Building up the Awakening Factors 38:29
Ayya Santussika
The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-10 Listening for the Deeper Silence 27:08
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-10 Appreciating Restraint as a Skillful Means - Meditation 31:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-06-10 Appreciating Restraint as a Skillful Means - Talk 56:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-06-10 Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence 27:32
Brian Lesage
This accompanies the talk entitled: Listening for the Deeper Silence
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-10 "When you know the place you are, practice begins" -- Working with obstructions to clear, embodied knowing 49:22
Kirsten Rudestam
This talk describes hindrances as fuel for our practice and offers suggestions for working skillfully with them.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-10 Sterben & Tod (3. Tag) 1:29:00
Ariya B. Baumann
Hilfreicher und heilsamer Umgang beim Sterben. Wir müssen alles loslassen, wir können nichts mitnehmen. Einzig die direkten Erkenntnisse in die wahre Natur der Dinge, d. h. ein tiefes Verständnis des Dhamma, begleiten und unterstützen uns auf der letzten Reise. Das Hinscheiden des Buddha.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-10 Bahia & Prajnaparamita Walk into a Stone Circle: Reflections on Embodied Emptiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:18
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-10 Mindfulness in Daily Life 14:48
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-06-10 Roots of felt body - sensing the field 50:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-10 Energy without Striving 21:33
Ayya Santussika
How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 53:53
Ayya Santussika
The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Sterben & Tod (2. Tag) 1:31:56
Ariya B. Baumann
Der eigene bevorstehende Tod oder der nahende Tod einer lieben Person führt oft zu Kummer und ist begleitet von Angst. Maraṇassati – die Betrachtung des Tods wie sie in der Visuddhimagga erklärt wird.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-09 Meditation on Loving-Kindness 21:30
Ayya Santussika
Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 5:38
Ayya Santussika
A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Morning Instructions: Orienting to Pleasure (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:39
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-09 Awakening from the Illusion of Separation 1:53:35
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-06-08 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:41
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-08 Wise Effort and Faith: The Heart of Steady Practice 35:06
Devin Berry
Explores the relationship between wise effort and faith on the path of insight. Through story, sutta, and reflection, this talk offers guidance for navigating striving, doubt, and comparison.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Natural Clarity of Awareness: A Two-Week Insight Meditation Retreat - 25WMRT

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