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Dharma Talks
2022-09-14 We Were Made for These Times: Lessons in Moving through Change, Loss and Disruption 47:44
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-09-14 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 22:50
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-14 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 2 57:05
Tara Brach
This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent on others changing; and how to engage with another person when both are dedicated to mindful communication. We also extend our exploration to societal conflict. The talks are accompanied by reflections and meditations that can directly enhance your capacity to respond to conflict from the most wise and caring part of your being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-14 Dharma Talk - Community of Compassion & Wellbeing 42:45
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-14 Religious Imagination: An event can be true even if it did not happen! 1:43:12
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:

2022-09-14 Meditation Instructions - Responding to Difficulty 37:08
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-14 Morning Instructions 55:32
Guy Armstrong
Introducing the modified meditation instructions from Mahasi Sayadaw, beginning by choosing an anchor in breath, body posture, or sounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-09-13 Dharma Talk - Wise Acceptance 45:32
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-13 Compassion. 47:55
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2022

2022-09-13 Lovingkindness Meditation for Beginners (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:29
Diana Winston
This recording includes a 51 minute overview introducing the theory and practice of loving-kindness. Then a 20 minute guided loving-kindness meditation focusing on easy person and self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-13 Guided Metta Meditation (Easy Person & Self) 41:04
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-13 Getting Started with Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:34
Diana Winston
This meditation is excellent for beginners, establishing them in their anchor or focus point, with several options of breath, sound, and body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-12 Understanding the Hindrance of Sense Desire - Meditation 33:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Relating Wisely with the Hindrances

2022-09-12 Understanding the Hindrance of Sense Desire - Talk 38:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Relating Wisely with the Hindrances

2022-09-12 The Reality of the Present Meditation | Monday Night 27:09
Jack Kornfield
With your eyes closed, sense yourself seated here in the reality of the present, just now—be here now, in this moment. Feel a connection to the ground beneath you—you're held to Mother Earth by gravity. Feel the steadiness, groundedness of taking this seat half way between Heaven and Earth, under your own tree of enlightenment. Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises in the spirit of kindness and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-09-12 Introduction to Viriya 3:55
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sep 2022

2022-09-11 Contemplating 9/11/2001 1:30:22
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-09-11 Cultivating Conditions That Support a Strong Practice 1:11:44
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-09-11 Uncovering Safety in Letting Go Talk 35:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2022-09-11 Uncovering Safety in Letting Go - Meditation 38:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2022-09-10 All Beings in All Space-Times 1:21:25
Nathan Glyde
Dukkha is contracted and selfish. What happens to the heart-mind when we open in empathy, care, and kindness to all kinds of beings? What happens when we include all locations we can imagine? What happens when we include future generations into the most distant times we can imagine? An ethically wise and kind opening of dukkha contraction is a taste of freedom.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sep 2022

2022-09-10 Dedication of merit 0:40
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 A deeper calm 17:42
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Cultivation of good will (mettā) meditation 39:33
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Talk on Good will (mettā) 12:49
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Cultivation of Insight meditation 31:13
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Talk on Seeing more clearly (Vipassanā) 27:05
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Cultivation of calmness meditation 35:25
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-10 Talk on Calmness 14:36
Jenny Wilks
London Insight Meditation Jenny Wilks – Meditation: a deeper calm than stillness

2022-09-09 Chanting, Guided meditation on the breath, Dhamma talk on leadership 1:28:17
Bhante Sujato
Chanting. Guided meditation on the breath; ways to avoid instrumentalising meditation. Dhamma talk on leadership. Comparing the Queen and the Buddha, qualities of leadership the Buddha promoted, as well as leadership in the sāngha.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-09-09 The monkey and the three questions 53:14
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-09 Dharma and Recovery 56:58
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2022-09-09 Freedom from thoughts 60:00
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-08 Releasing you from my expectations 28:26
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-08 Refuge in the Buddha Within 55:07
James Baraz
This talk explores the deeper meaning of "Taking Refuge in the Buddha." This is not simply honoring or being inspired by the historical figure who lived 2,500 years ago. Until we see the Buddha right inside of us we are missing the point of what that teacher was trying to have us awaken to. We will look at various teachings that point to discovering the Buddha within.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-09-08 Working with feeling tone and reactivity 53:15
Anushka Fernandopulle
Seeing through how suffering can be created through inattention to pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, valence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-07 Metta (loving-kindness) Practice 25:59
Anushka Fernandopulle
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-07 Building Resilience through Togetherness 32:36
Jessica Morey
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-09-07 Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence 20:49
Tara Brach
This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we let go into the sea of presence, we discover am increasing sense of wholeness and peace. The meditation ends with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-07 Navigating Conflict with a Wise Heart – Part 1 54:33
Tara Brach
This series of talks offers guidance in transforming conflict into a portal for awakening your understanding, flexibility and compassion. We look at how to heal our own unmet needs and not be dependent on others changing; and how to engage with another person when both are dedicated to mindful communication. We also extend our exploration to societal conflict. The talks are accompanied by reflections and meditations that can directly enhance your capacity to respond to conflict from the most wise and caring part of your being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-07 Group Chanting 26:03
Jaya Rudgard, Sumedha
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-07 In the domain of mindfulness. 51:41
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2022-09-07 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 3: Practicing in the Social Realm 67:22
Donald Rothberg
In this third of three talks on "Dukkha and the End of Dukkha," perhaps the core teaching of the Buddha, we first review what was covered in the first two talks, starting with examining the multiple meanings of dukkha in the Buddha's teaching and the fact that most meanings of dukkha don't help us make sense of "the end of dukkha." Only a sense of dukkha as reactivity, as taught in the Two Arrows and in Dependent Origination suggest what the end of dukkha means. We then review ways of practicing with reactivity in individual practice, and in our relationships. On this basis, we then go further exploring the nature of reactivity in the larger social context, whether in individuals' reactivity or in various forms of institutionalized reactivity. We then look at two ways of practicing, first exploring our various forms of social conditioning, typically linked with reactivity, and then looking at how nonreactivity in Buddhist practice maps very closely onto the traditions of nonviolence from Gandhi, King, and others. This is followed by discussion, in which we in part look at some of the complexities and challenges of this approach.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Slides on Nonviolent Movements by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2022-09-07 Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity 38:27
Donald Rothberg
After initial instructions for settling and stabiliizing, and then for basic mindfulness, there are about 10 minutes for stabilizing, followed by brief instructions to track reactivity, and about 10 minutes later for exploring moderate or great levels of pleasant or unpleasant (when in the workable range for mindfulness), noticing any tendencies toward reactivity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-09-06 Exploring how images and similes can support our dhamma practice. 39:30
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2022

2022-09-06 Instructions - Connecting To That Which Is Difficult Within Us. 59:58
Sumedha
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-05 Dreaming Ourselves Into Existence: Dukkha, Non-Self, and Waking Up 1:34:50
Joseph Goldstein
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies

2022-09-05 Dharma Talk - Devotion and the Brahma Viharas 29:40
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-05 Instructions -Reflections on Finding the Spaciousness of Awareness, & Guided Meditation 43:58
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-04 Dharma Talk - Exploring Refuge 30:13
Sumedha
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

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