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2019-12-18 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Diligence 15:42
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-18 Pick Up the Thread 30:41
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we practice to find the balance of both focused and open awareness. We place the mind on a concept, and linger there letting the meaning run through the heart. Mind finds it difficult, but body does it naturally. The body can teach us the right kind of attention that lifts the mind and makes it happy.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-17 Counting Within the Breath (Guided Meditation) 48:15
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2019-12-17 Mindfulness is Intimacy with Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:12
Oren Jay Sofer
This talk explores different aspects of mindfulness and qualities that support it as well as offers encouragement on the first day of the retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat

2019-12-17 Orienting to This Jhana Retreat 1:29:31
Rob Burbea
This talk also contains short sections by Kirsten Kratz and trainee teacher Sari Markkanen.
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2019-12-17 Ways to Awaken: Five Ways to Become An Arahant 47:22
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores five ways that one may become fully awakened—an arahant. The teaching is based on a discourse found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 5:26). These ways include awakening 1) by listening to someone teach the dhamma, 2) while teaching the dhamma, 3) by reciting the teachings in detail as one has learned them, 4) while pondering, examining and investigating the dhamma, and 5) through penetrative wisdom with an object of concentration. Study, reflection, and deep meditation create conducive conditions for awakening. Study informs and inspires our meditation practice; meditation produces depth and clarity in understanding. We can balance our engagement with both study and meditation to optimize the cultivation of this liberating path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-17 Death and the Poignancy of Life 61:37
Matthew Brensilver
William James said that death was the ‘worm at the core’ of the human condition that turns us all into ‘melancholy metaphysicians.’ A century later, awareness of mortality is documented to affect our thinking and emotional lives in powerful ways. It figures prominently in Buddhist practice. In what ways does consciousness of death distorts our view and lead us away from wisdom and compassion? Alternatively, how can we open to the truth of finitude such that our heart is softened? Can we intuit the freedom or love that might be released were we more deeply at peace with our mortality? In this evening program, we’ll consider the way death can harden or soften our heart – and how dharma practice might lead us to a life that feels complete. All are welcome.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2019-12-17 Emotional Stability 61:23
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-17 Returning to the Fullness of Human Nature 59:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Human nature is empathic and seeks harmony. The personality structure masks our true nature. It tries to stop and dominate urges and emotions. But the practice is to go directly to feeling. We can use this natural body to help untangled the mind.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-17 How to Come to the Place of Harmony 67:10
Ajahn Sucitto
We’re driven by craving and it causes suffering. The relinquishment of craving leads to ease and harmony. Dispassionate acceptance of these drives makes liberation possible.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-17 Using Chanting to Steady the Mind 29:28
Ajahn Sucitto
The untrained mind energy is ragged, sluggish and incoherent. With its simple tones and slow, repetitive rhythm, chanting can steady the mind.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-16 Guided Meditation - Love As Renunciation 29:34
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-16 The Glass Half Empty: Emptying and Creating the Container to Receive 24:16
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-12-16 Q&A 1 60:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Samatha and vipassanā; dullness and hindrances; samādhi for lay people; witnessing cruelty; awareness and mindfulness
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-16 Loving the World | Monday Night talk 45:03
Jack Kornfield
Winter Solstice and finding inner light in times of darkness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-16 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Self 17:22
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-16 Morning Instructions - What If There Were Only Four Ways 57:16
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-16 Meditation: Loving the World | Monday Night 23:16
Jack Kornfield
Loving Kindness Meditation for the World
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-16 Refreshing the Art of Sitting 39:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding the right posture when sitting can open up the belly and the chest. Safety is sensed in the belly, receptivity in the chest. When the body is relaxed the mind is happy in its own presence – this is samādhi.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Guided Meditation On Compassion 29:35
Jeff Haozous
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing, Part 2 - Meditation 32:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing, Part 2 - Talk 55:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Sañña and Saṇkhāra Lead to Saṃsāra 67:35
Ajahn Sucitto
A description of the cycle of saṃsāra, from contact, to feeling, to perception (sañña), to habit reaction (saṇkhāra). We remain stuck in this cycle of rebirth. The way out is direct experience at the point of feeling. Unpleasant feeling is discharged through the body.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 What We Attend To And How 58:57
Pascal Auclair
... to find freedom from suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-15 Orientation and Instructions 63:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Opening instructions to start the retreat: set aside destructive influences, put forth an attitude of kindness and sensitivity, give attention to direct experience.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Suggestions on Positions and Comfort 5:29
Ajahn Sucitto
We have to support the limitations of this body. Don’t add the unnecessary stress of expecting to keep completely still during meditation. Move the body, sense the whole body, take deep breaths, relax.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Using the Food Offering Skillfully 12:53
Ajahn Sucitto
The meal offering provides an opportunity for practice. We practice to generate skillful qualities, to restrain the sense faculties, and to find balance in our actions.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 How to Cultivate Samādhi in Walking Meditation 17:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Walking meditation supports the mind to come to a very balanced state. Let unskillful states and attitudes steam off as you walk. What’s left is something bright, warm and comfortable. Let the mind rest in that.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing - Meditation 36:26
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing - Talk 39:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Mindfulness Of The Body 51:03
Bonnie Duran
Skin, flesh, and bones body scan.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Metta: Guided Meditation 29:41
Rachel Lewis
Defination of Metta; practicing with receiving Metta from benefactors and offering it to self and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Just Sweep it all Out 46:51
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-12-14 How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering 55:40
Bonnie Duran
How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering with what we view, how we view it and in what view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Opening into Allness 4:47:56
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-13 Retreat Opening Session - With Pascal Auclair, Jeff Houzous, and Rachel Lewis 69:18
Bonnie Duran
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-13 Authentic Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:15
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-13 The Brahma Viharas. 44:02
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-13 Holy Days 41:10
Pamela Weiss

2019-12-13 Sīla – A Vehicle for Happiness 33:39
Ajahn Sucitto
When we make the intention to keep the precepts, we give ourselves the possibility to steer our own lives rather than being swept up in it. The basic principle is not fear and law but sensitivity and concern. We have the intention to live in an atmosphere of goodwill and respect for all sentient beings.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-13 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 2:02:43
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-12 Letting Go Of Busyness 54:01
Kate Munding
An appropriate topic for this time of year. Many subthemes fall under this theme, such as how to be mindful of abundance and scarcity, feeling connected with others, and the nourishment of renunciation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-12-12 I Return My Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:13
Cara Lai
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-12 Patient and Loving Acceptance 68:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The body is much more than an idea, it’s something that’s here for us. With patient and loving acceptance we can clear disturbances from the body and experience a pleasant and steady abiding here and now.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-12 Day 3 Afternoon Session: Metta Practice- Instructions for Forgiveness Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:58
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-12 Fourth Morning Instructions 52:43
Nathan Glyde
All sense contact met with kindness.
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-12 Skillful Means in the Cultivation of Wisdom 61:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Wisdom is a natural feature of the mind. With its cultivation comes the ability to discern skillful from unskillful. But just knowing things are unskillful doesn’t stop the mind from doing it, we have to develop skillful means. We use mindfulness to be able to see through ignorance and stand back from the unskillful pulls of mind.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Emotional Stability 64:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-11 Day 2 Dharma Talk: Metta, Restlessness, Fear, Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:29
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-11 Gratitude for Earth, Water, Fire and Air 53:08
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-12-11 Part 2 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing 53:08
Tara Brach
Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-11 Dharma Talk - The Meeting of Wellbeing 47:06
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-11 Instructions and Guided Meditation 27:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-11 Meditation as Re-education 66:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Modern modes of attention, information and meaning-making cut us off from our natural intelligence. Mindfulness of body and breathing puts us back in touch with the tonality, naturalness and rhythm of embodied intelligence. We use this way of meditation to re-educate us.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Q&A 58:59
Ajahn Sucitto
1) What is citta? 2) Regrets, how to forgive oneself 3) How to practice appamano states in everyday life (mudita, equanimity) 4) How to work with obstructive mind-states (judgmental, not good enough, lonely, regretful, hopelessness) 5) How to practice reclining meditation 6) Headaches in certain mind-states
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Morning Instructions: Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:56
JoAnna Hardy
Settling in the first foundation of mindfulness using breath, body and sound
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-11 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Desire 22:37
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-11 The Gentle and Harmonious Tonality of Puja 16:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning the day with puja, a certain tonality is established. Not the abrasive, pushy, congested one of modern day, but something beautiful, timeless, gentle and steady. As we enact puja, we establish the Triple Gem as a heart quality that we can sit within. This is our refuge place.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 11: Time 2 63:00
Donald Rothberg
Following last week’s initial inquiry into our experience of time, and, for many, a week of practice related to time, we explore (1) further aspects of the nature of the ordinary conditioning related to the experience of time, bringing some of our own findings as well as material from philosophy, physics, and psychology; (2) some further material on how the Buddha and other awakened beings teach about time and the timeless; and (3) several main practices that help us to explore and transform our conditioning related to time, including developing mindfulness in the moment, opening to “flow” states, and exploring impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-11 Title: Guided Meditation Exploring Our Experience of Time 39:06
Donald Rothberg
Guidance generally on mindfulness practice, followed by guidance on several ways to explore time, including being in the present moment, noticing patterns to time, and opening in different ways to the impermanence of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-10 Power Of Balance 35:19
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine suggests that everyone is responsible for their own state of balance. She explores several practical areas for cultivating a balanced approach to practice including: aligning the body posture with the force of gravity, recognizing how mindfulness brings a balanced relationship to sensory experiences, and cultivating a non-reactive attitude toward both pleasant and unpleasant feelings. We learn to quickly restore our emotional balance whenever we find ourselves entangled in stories or personal dramas. We refine our ability to apply balanced effort in the way that we engage with meditation. And we continuously refine the powerful balance in the meditating mind by perceiving how the five spiritual faculties and the seven awakening factors are affecting our attention and understanding.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-10 L’équilibre mental 52:29
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-10 Guided Meditation: Heartful Sympathy for All Beings 42:01
Ajahn Sucitto
This guided meditation touches into a fundamental quality that arose with the Buddha’s final realization – anukamapa, heartfelt sensitivity and sympathy for the welfare of sentient beings. We practice by generating perceptions and relating directly to the resulting experience.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-10 Mind’s Nature Is to Be Happy 62:55
Ajahn Sucitto
We live in the sense world, but we don’t have to run out into it. We can see, hear and touch, but keep the heart collected inwardly. This gives a sense of balance and peace, an inner happiness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-10 Second Morning Instructions 45:59
Nathan Glyde
Calming bodily fabrications
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-10 Make the First Effort of the Day with Wisdom and Persistence 16:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Take the opportunity when you begin your day to turn away from unskillful states and start putting down the seeds for skillful states. Committing to precepts and recollecting Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha bring mental firmness. Breathing and chanting bring physical vitality and brightness. This builds up the reserves of wisdom and vitality to sustain you through the day.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 The Practice of Forgiveness 27:44
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-12-09 Care for the Mind – It’s Your Home 56:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Whatever we incline our minds toward will affect us. Where do I want to give my attention? Where do I want to commit my time? These are helpful reflections. The mind is our home. Practicing with themes of restraint, mindfulness and careful attention, we have a chance to brighten and purify it.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 How to Stand Back from the Stream of Mind 63:35
Ajahn Sucitto
It can be humbling to recognize that we’re not getting the results we’re going for in practice. We cultivate 4 Dhamma factors – motivation, energy, relinquishment & investigation – to understand the stream of mind we keep getting caught in, and to develop the capacity to stand back from it.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 Guided Body Meditation 45:55
Nathan Glyde
Guided body meditation on the felt sense of presence.
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-09 Monday Night Dharma Talk 60:18
Susie Harrington
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-09 The Key to Standing Meditation: Balance 23:37
Ajahn Sucitto
If the back is not yet strong enough to sustain the sitting posture, standing offers relief. The feet, legs and ground sustain the upright posture so shoulders and upper body can relax. The key reference is balance.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of View 15:48
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-09 Skillful Placement of the Mind 38:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning our day, we realize the potential of the mind for confusion or clarity. We need to be quick to steer the mind towards the skillful. In puja we raise up skillful qualities of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha as images and perceptions. This establishes a tone of brightness, persistence and open-heartedness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Helpful Attitudes For Practice 49:21
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Our attitude toward practice is key.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release, Part 2 - Meditation 38:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release, Part 2 - Talk 51:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 How to Settle and Calm 43:52
Ajahn Sucitto
When the heart can’t access its own centeredness and stability, the experience of insecurity and discomfort results. We can intentionally introduce skillful thoughts and perceptions to settle and calm the heart.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Vulnerability & Transmission 39:50
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-08 The Path to Liberation Is through Direct Experience 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto
There are two modes of experience, conceived and direct. Conceived experience keeps us stuck in the endless cycle of saṃsara. The way out is through direct experience. Practice with sensing the direct experience of body.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release - Meditation 37:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release - Talk 36:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Puja: A Purification Process 1:16:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja is more than just thinking and recollecting. It’s very much an embodied, vocalized, participatory practice. You don’t really think about puja, you do it. In the doing of it there’s a particular energy, a collective harmony and a collective action that has purification effects.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Preparing the Heart and Mind for Practice 63:48
Ajahn Sucitto
An explanation of the opening rituals: what offering respect to the Triple Gem means; what the shrine offerings represent; how the precepts support our intention to train. Closes with the exhortation to make an effort with friendliness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Honoring All Life: Exploring the First Precept of Non-Harming 2:35:16
Bob Stahl
Bob Stahl, Richard Shankman, James Baraz, Thanissara, Bob Isaacson, Patti Breitman, WIll Tuttle, Jina Shah, Tara Brach, Konda Mason, Dawn Mauricio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-06 Working with disturbance. 43:15
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-06 Lovingkindness Guided Meditation 42:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-12-06 Freedom from the Inner Critic 6:10:26
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-05 Just Another Ego Trip 46:16
James Baraz
Sometimes our shyness or concern about what others think keeps us from expressing our gifts and making as meaningful a contribution as we can. In seeing through the constructed sense of self—the understanding of Anatta—those thoughts lose their power and don’t get in the way of expressing our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention 18:55
Tara Brach
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Part 1 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World Into Healing 55:04
Tara Brach
Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara’s new book, including pre-order links.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence 19:50
Tara Brach
In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Meditation 32:33
Shelly Graf
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Talk 43:18
Shelly Graf
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Worthy of Waking Up 47:13
Dhammadīpā
a talk given to the Sierra Insight Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-04 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 10: Time 68:36
Donald Rothberg
In this initial inquiry into our experience of time, we explore (1) the nature of the ordinary conditioning related to the experience of time, including how we relate to past, present, and future, how we take time to be objectively “real,” and how we learn as children to use the construction of time; (2) how the Buddha and other sages seem to experience and teach about time, including about the “timeless”; and (3) how to practice to explore and transform our conditioning related to time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Virtue 17:38
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments 1:46:26
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Samyutta Nikaya (SN 45:49-90): good friends, virtue, desire, completeness of mind, view, diligence, and careful attention. This speaker series introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how developing each one can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-03 Quand « je » disparaît pour un moment 64:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-03 How Meditation Supports the Path of Awakening 34:33
Shaila Catherine
Scientists have documented some significant and measurable changes that occur as a result of meditation. But Buddhist practice is not limited to calm, pleasant, relaxing states of meditation. The liberating path includes a broad range of practices that produce a wide variety of benefits. We learn how we encounter the world of the senses; we unravel distortions of perception. We weaken defilements. We learn to let go. In this talk, Shaila Catherine points to the liberating potential of the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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