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Dharma Talks
2019-11-17 Mark Sunday AM Mindfulness Breathing 30:21
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Sunday AM guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-17 Mark Sunday AM Mindfulness Breathing Q and A 33:06
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Sunday Morning Q & A only
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-17 Second Morning, Instructions 48:07
Gavin Milne
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 The Upside of Desire 48:19
Cara Lai
How to recognize craving (tanha) and wholesome desire (chanda) and how all of it points to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-16 Dharma Talk - Dukkha and Lightheartedness 49:55
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 First Morning, Instructions 27:58
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 Who are we? Exploring Our 'Selves' and Identities 5:46:00
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-16 We Are Here To Forgive 42:16
Ayya Medhanandi
Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go, setting them free? Living harmlessly, fearless in the good and devoted to this radical healing, the face of enlightenment appears in the trenches of our own suffering.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto :  SIMT Fall Monastic Retreat

2019-11-15 Sankhara Dukkha 58:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Suffering due to conditional foundations - being contingent - vulnerability.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Wisdom and the Body - Part Two 49:22
Jill Shepherd
Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the body, using three practices from the Satipatthana Sutta as support for developing a wiser relationship to the body: contemplating the body in terms of its anatomical parts; its elemental qualities; and as a corpse in decay
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-15 Compassion For The Neutral Person 54:37
Beth Sternlieb
When we practice with the people we do not know we broaden our awareness and open our hearts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Morning Q&A 14:12
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Day 3: Selfing & Freedom from Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock): Afternoon Session 55:40
Susie Harrington
The activity of selfing is dukkha. Freedom from selfing is onward leading towards liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Day 2 Emptiness and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:45
Brian Lesage
This talk connects the teachings on dependent origination and emptiness. It then connects them to our lives and our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Neither Tarring Nor Hurrying 51:03
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-14 Day 2 Afternoon Session 62:07
Gil Fronsdal
Repeated Question Experience on Inconstancy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Morning Reflection 11:28
Jaya Rudgard
Wanting and not wanting on retreat - taking a break from the written word.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-13 Doors To The Deathless 43:52
Jaya Rudgard
The door of non-clinging is always open. Readings from verses on the Faith Mind and Tilopa's "Song Of The Maharudra"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-13 Ecodharma 57:47
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-11-13 Meditation - The Silence that is Listening 21:05
Tara Brach
Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-11-13 Listening to the Song - Part 1 52:39
Tara Brach
Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-11-13 The Five Aggregates - Meditation 33:16
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-13 The Five Aggregates - Talk 50:33
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-13 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 57:53
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation III
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-12 Sila 44:40
Winnie Nazarko
The 8 fold path emphasis moral restraint. This talk discusses the hows and whys of this set of practices.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-12 Patience 44:59
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-12 The Flickering Nature of Things and Self, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 60:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-12 Meeting the Agreeable & the Disagreeable, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 52:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Meditation 10:22
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates

2019-11-11 Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Talk 54:22
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates

2019-11-11 S.E.S-November-Fire Element-Dharma Talk 24:40
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 S.E.S-November-Fire Element-guided meditation 16:35
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 S.E.S. November - Fire Element - Reflections 23:01
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 What is an Insight?, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 65:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:54:28
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-11 Changing the View, , LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 65:23
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Morning Reflections On Not-Self 17:14
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-11 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 53:12
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation II
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-10 Reflections On The Four Noble Truths/ Eightfold path 47:11
Beth Sternlieb
Training the mind. Causes for happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-10 Freeing Self and Others from Judgments, A guided Meditation, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 29:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Steps to Calming the Mind - Meditation 38:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-10 Steps to Calming the Mind - Talk 47:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-10 The Creation of the World We Inhabit, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 57:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Nothing There: Beyond the Prison of 'Self' 29:14
Ayya Medhanandi
The Fourth Insight known as udayabbaya ñāņa arises bestowing six qualities of upekkha as well as intimate knowledge of anicca through seeing the arising and disappearance of all conditioned things - most importantly, the emptiness of 'self'.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2019-11-10 What is a Thought?, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 32:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Meeting Uncertainty & Uncontrolability, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 13:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Emotions & Mind States, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 41:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 The Doorway Of The Present Moment. 12:57
Jaya Rudgard
Morning reflection on awareness as the escape from the attention traps of past and future.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-10 2019 3CE Retreat : Final Day Concluding Talk : Bhante Gunaratana 47:12
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-10 Coming Home to Wisdom - Women's Day Retreat 6:17:44
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-10 Coming Home to Wisdom Part 1: Intro and Meditation 9:43
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL6 Retreat #1

2019-11-10 Coming Home to Wisdom Part 2: Talk 28:20
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL6 Retreat #1

2019-11-10 Coming Home to Wisdom Part 3: Meditation 15:20
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL6 Retreat #1

2019-11-10 Coming Home to Wisdom Part 4: Talk with Drawing Exercise 31:03
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center CDL6 Retreat #1

2019-11-10 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 29:24
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation I
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-09 Metta for a World in Crisis 23:05
Dhammadīpā
Context for metta practice in a world full of delusion, guided meditation on loving kindness.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-09 Queer Dharma?, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 60:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-09 Achtfache Pfad 40:38
Renate Seifarth
Der achtfache Pfad ist zweierlei: eine Anleitung wie wir uns weiter entwickeln inmitten unseres alltäglichen Lebens und eine Illustration wie wir uns neu ausrichten in Einklang mit unseren Erkenntnissen in der Meditation.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-09 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 3 Q&A : Bhante Jayasara 1:10:51
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-09 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 3 Dhamma Talk Anatta : Bhante Jayasara 1:13:24
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-09 1st Morning Instructions, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 53:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-09 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 3 Guided Meditation : Bhante Jayasara 32:46
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-09 Restoring Well-Being with QiGong and Meditation 6:07:47
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-08 Metta for Climate Crisis 18:02
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-08 Karmic Knots - 5 Stages 64:27
Rebecca Bradshaw
Working with deeply conditioned patterns of thoughts and emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-08 Wisdom and the Body 51:58
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating a wiser relationship to the body through an understanding of the First Noble Truth, focusing on some of the ways we cling to our bodies
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-08 Freude entwickeln 47:13
Renate Seifarth
Freude kommt eine wichtige Bedeutung auf dem spirituellen Weg zu. Zwei Quellen der Freude können unterschieden werden. Die Freude, die aus dem Kontakt mit freudvollen beglückenden Erfahrungen und Objekten kommt, und die Freude, mit der uns bestimmte Geisteszustände wie Achtsamkeit, Mitgefühl, Großzügigkeit und Dankbarkeit erfüllen. Letztere Quellen können wir uns aktiv erschließen durch unsere Praxis.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-08 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 2 Q&A : Bhante Seelananda 1:17:01
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-08 Dharma and Recovery 1:51:38
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-08 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 2 Dhamma Talk Dukkha : Bhante Seelananda 67:19
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-08 Minding the Body - Somatic Exploration of Emotions (part 2 afternoon) 3:21:31
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-08 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 2 Guided Meditation : Bhante Seelananda 30:04
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-08 Minding the Body: Somatic Exploration of Emotions 2:16:43
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-07 Metta Basics 25:04
Dhammadīpā
a guided meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-07 Mindfulness of the Body 54:32
Kate Munding
mindfulness of the body and how it helps us understand and navigate change
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-11-07 Relying On This, Abandon That. 54:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-07 Belonging: The Racially Aware Bodhisattva 60:17
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-07 Faith in our Sensitive Heart 56:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Residential Retreat at Metta Meditation Center with Mark Nunberg and Shelly Graf

2019-11-07 Short Talk and Guided Heart Meditation – Releasing Blame 37:50
Tara Brach
This meditation explores the meaning of forgiveness and its role in healing and transformation. We then are guided in a forgiveness practice that helps us release the armoring of blame, and inhabit an inclusive and open heart (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-07 Dukkha und Tanha 41:47
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha beschäftigt sich mit vier Wahrheiten, die wir als Gegebenheiten und Möglichkeiten den spirituellen Weg beschreiben. Der Weg stellt uns vor vier Aufgaben, von denen die ersten beiden darin bestehen, die Gegebenheit von Dukkha zu verstehen und die instinktive Reaktion darauf, Tanha loszulassen.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-07 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 1 Q&A : Bhante Gunaratana 58:06
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-07 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 1 Dhamma Talk Anicca : Bhante Gunaratana 25:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-07 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 1 Guided Meditation : Bhante Gunaratana 3:51
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-06 Two Minds On Fire: The Buddha's Fire Sermon. 52:09
Jaya Rudgard
Understanding the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion, and the fire of spiritual urgency that can combat them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-06 Experiencing Joy and Ease with Breathing, Part 3 49:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-06 Trusting Who We Are (retreat talk) 60:47
Tara Brach
When we are suffering, we are believing something untrue – usually a limiting story about who we are. This talk explores the roots of our self-doubts, and the teachings and practices that remind us of our basic goodness – the loving awareness that is our source (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat – 2019-11-06).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-06 Challenging the Construct of ‘self’ 55:13
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-11-06 2019 3CE Retreat : Opening Talk : Bhante Seelananda 1:15:45
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-06 Die fünf Khandha zur Illustration von Anatta 48:27
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha erlegt das, was wir Ich nennen, in fünf Haufen. Durch die kognitive Funktion des „Greifens“, der Identifikation entsteht der Eindruck, dass ich das bin. Eine Betrachtung unserer Erfahrung durch die Einteilung in fünf Haufen, kann dies als Illusion erkannt werden.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-05 Working With Developing The Wholesome 62:18
Winnie Nazarko
Two of the great endeavors involve foreclosing and abandoning unwholesome states. But the other two efforts involve the less discussed summoning and developing of the wholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-05 The "Salad Dressing" Discourse: The Three Characteristics - Not Personal, Permanent, or Perfect 56:41
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-05 Climate Emergency Dharma 64:52
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2019-11-05 Determination 46:16
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-05 Mudhita Meditation:Joy and Pain: Like Sunshine and Rain 38:32
Sebene Selassie
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-05 Denken als Objekt der Achtsamkeit 41:47
Renate Seifarth
In Vipassana Meditation schließen wir das Denken ein in unser Erforschen. Wir ergründen das Wesen des Denkens und erkennen das Entstehen und Vergehen der Gedanken. Gedanken sind nötig für unser Sein in dieser Welt. Problematisch ist die Identifikation mit unseren Gedanken, die zudem eine ganz zentrale Rolle in unserem Selbstverständnis spielen. Ein Resultat hierbei ist das Entstehen von Hochmut wie Minderwertigkeit. In der Praxis wollen wir uns aus der Identifikation mit den Gedanken befreien.
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-04 I want to know what love is: Self Compassion 39:16
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-11-04 Geisteszustände und schwierige Emotionen als Objekt der Achtsamkeit 47:35
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha sagt, dass gewöhnlich der Geist dem Körper voran geht. Geisteszustände und Emotionen leiten uns zu bestimmten Handlungen. Wir wollen ihnen nicht länger blind folgen, sondern entscheiden können, welchen wir folgen und welchen nicht. Ein Gewahrsein ihrer ist dafür unerlässlich. Was kann uns hierbei helfen, dass sie uns nicht davonschwemmen?
Seminarhaus Engl :  10 Tage Vipassana und Metta

2019-11-04 The Wisdom of the One Who Knows - Monday Night Dharma Talk 67:43
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-04 Morning Questions 13:51
Andrea Fella
Responding to questions about choiceless attention and the nature of attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-03 Compassion - A Wise Response 49:43
Beth Sternlieb
Compassion for self and others is fundamentally the same. Mindfulness, kindness, and our common humanity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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