2023-06-07 Sense Restraint, Moderation in Eating, Wakefulness 1:11:37
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Two purposes for sense restraint - wise decisions about what to take in through the senses - using sense restraint to break the chain of dependent origination at the feeling-craving link - moderation in eating - working with drowsiness - using the SN 36:95 Malunkyaputta Sutta, SN 3:13 A Bucket Measure of Food and AN 7.61 Nodding Off.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Contemplating the Four Elements, Impermanence, and the Sense of Self 64:18
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Overview and guided meditation.
Gaia House :  The Four Elements (onine series)

2023-06-07 How does one gain wisdom? 49:01
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
We learned last night that two factors are the proximate causes for wisdom to arise, namely, wise consideration, (yoniso manasikara), and concentration. This talk further examines the factors which contribute to the arising of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2023

2023-06-07 Hindrances as energies moving through mind–body. 54:35
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
What if we consider the five hindrances not as obstacles, but as veils, coverings, or energies moving through the body?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-07 Anapanasati Tetrad 3 and 4 -- Guided meditation 48:47
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Brief instruction on Tetrad 3 and 4 of Anapanasati - Mindfulness of in and out breathing, followed by a guided meditation for the 16 instructions.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-07 Closing Talk 49:34
Nathan Glyde, Tony O'Connor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Making a Wish and With Cunda on Purity 63:42
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Description of the two suttas in the Numerical Discourses, AN 11.2 Making a Wish and AN 10.76 With Cunda.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Guided Meditation 34:44
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Muditā
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Anapanasati Part 1 37:13
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
A short explanation and guided meditation for the first two tetrads of Mindfulness of In and Out Breathing.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Meditation Instructions 50:10
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Opening to wellbeing.
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-06 Changing those Deep Patterns 26:19
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
We may think that our anger, anxiety, regret, jealousy, longing, sorrow, etc. are just a part of our character, or our karma, or that they assail us and we have no control over them or the power to abandon them. In this talk, we look at how to challenge this perception and stop feeding our mental and emotional patterns.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Compassion and the Fragility of Life 67:23
Devin Berry	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-05 Dharma Talk 49:00
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Including Appreciating
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-05 Fire Meditation 40:00
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Using the fire element as found internally and externally as a meditation object.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-05 Meditation Instructions 56:40
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Opening to the unpleasant.
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-04 Welfare and Happiness in this Life and in Lives to Come 21:19
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
A lay man asks the Buddha how lay people can have welfare and happiness in this life and in lives to come. the Buddha answers with four accomplishments for welfare and happiness in this life and four accomplishments ensuring welfare and happiness in future lives.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-04 Dharma Talk 43:57
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Opening Compassionately to the Human Condition
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-04 Recollection of the Buddha 1:15:35
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
This practice is the first of the Four Protective Meditations, which show us the potential as well as the limitations of a human life. These are reminders of what is true, real and possible.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2023-06-04 Highest Blessings 44:18
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
The Mangala Sutta (Highest Blessings) as another version of the gradual training as it applies to lay life and also reaches the highest goal: realization of Nibbana.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-04 Equanimity and Right View 59:31
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-06-04 Guided Meditation 36:45
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Mettā to sensations.
Gaia House :  Living With Illness and Loss

2023-06-04 Meditation on Water 37:18
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Guided meditation on the water element, internally and externally, and meditating "like water" so "arisen agreeable and disagreeable contacts will not invade the mind and remain."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 3 formes de protections menant à 3 formes de joie 56:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  Un coeur vaste et stable

2023-06-03 The Gradual Path in MN 39 At Assapura 1:10:43
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
This is an examination of the steps in the Gradual Training as represented in MN 39 The Longer Discourse at Assapura. Here the Buddha includes beautiful similes for the five hindrances and the experience of the four jhanas. Our study has the aim to deepen our own practice and progress on the path.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 The Freedom of Renunciation - Talk 45:23
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Southern Dharma Retreat Center :  Awareness, Wisdom and the Release of the Heart

2023-06-03 The method of the Buddha's awakening 57:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The Buddha's Awakening and release came through firm intent and rigorous inquiry into the roots of mental behaviour: something we can all practise.
Cittaviveka :  2023 Dhamma Talks

2023-06-03 Earth Meditation 24:27
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Guided meditation on the earth element, internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Advice to Rahula 24:59
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Using the Buddha's advice to his son, Rahula, on developing different types of meditation, starting with meditating on the earth element internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-03 Le bol et la balance 56:54
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  Un coeur vaste et stable

2023-06-02 Brief intro 11:06
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Gradual Path outline
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-06-02 At the Shrine of Forgiveness 22:02
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
It’s good to clear everything before we die, to leave no spiritual debts that may heavily impact our karma. Seeing the powerful healing of joy and kindness, I take up the practice of inner cleansing day by day, applying metta – loving-kindness practice – through the luminosity of forgiveness. This potent flame of reconciliation melts away any harmful residue or holding in the heart so that not a flutter or tremor of ill-will remains. Let us avail ourselves of its power. At the shrine of forgiveness, we light the light of joy and freedom within while fostering happiness for other beings. This is the fount of both medicine and cure – reconciliation and liberation of the heart.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2023-06-02 Awakening in Nature through Insight into Interconnection and Anatta 54:05
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Nature teaches us so many things about the nature of reality, including how profoundly interconnected and interdependent we are with all life. By sensing this directly, it profoundly shifts and dissolves belief in the reality of a separate, independent self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awake in the Wild

2023-06-02 The heart at home in the body 42:16
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How embodied awareness supports and nurture is the heart
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-06-02 Fundamentals of Satipatthana 1:21:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
After laying down the scriptural foundations for this talk, Sayadaw explains that mindfulness does not occur alone: it has companions, namely, ardent effort & clear comprehension, as well as concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2023

2023-06-02 The Liberating Potential of Awareness Practice - Meditation 19:05
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Southern Dharma Retreat Center

2023-06-02 The Liberating Potential of Awareness Practice - Talk 42:03
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Southern Dharma Retreat Center

2023-06-02 Le passage des états affligeants aux états bénéfiques 55:40
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  Un coeur vaste et stable

2023-06-02 La pensée, révélée 52:57
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  Un coeur vaste et stable

2023-06-02 Practice Instructions 69:43
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Sayadaw gives detailed instructions for sitting, walking and observation of everything else, (ie, general activities).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2023

2023-06-01 Session 3: Including Hindrances as Companions on the Path 30:08
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Part 3: Guided Meditation
Gaia House :  Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)

2023-06-01 talk: the pāramī of resolve 35:23
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring the quality of resolve as a resource in three arenas: for strengthening our commitment to regular meditation practice; going on retreat; and facing in to the challenges of the climate crisis
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight weekly talks 2023

2023-06-01 Session 3: Including Hindrances as Companions on the Path 28:43
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Part 2: Teachings
Gaia House :  Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)

2023-06-01 Still Flowing Water: Reflections on Nature, Intimacy, and the Power of Accompaniment on the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:16
Devon Hase	Download Listen
A talk on the characteristics of anicca and dukkha, with lots of stories about love and nature, fear and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awake in the Wild

2023-06-01 Refuges, Precepts and Opening talk 1:24:39
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
After illustrating the importance of wisdom by relating a Jataka tale, Sayadaw spoke about the Buddha, the practice of satipatthana for the development of intuitive wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2023

2023-06-01 Le véritable problème 57:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  Un coeur vaste et stable

2023-05-31 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 20:53
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-31 Facing Fear (Part 2) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart 53:16
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear. (Part 2)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-31 Even the Owls Know Who 22:48
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Who are we? More than two and a half millenia ago, the Buddha hesitated to teach us, but he relented for the benefit of those with little dust in their eyes. Can we actually clear the dust away, earnestly, patiently – studying, examining and probing within to know the truth of what we are? It is a great blessing to be able to undertake this work. We have only to open our hearts to the journey, persevere and pierce the veil of ignorance. Just as the morning sun bathes the world with light, guided by the Buddha's map of consciousness, we shall come to know the highest peace.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2023-05-31 Remembering we are Earth Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:41
Kirsten Rudestam	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Awake in the Wild

2023-05-31 Even Owls Know Who 22:48
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Who are we? More than two and a half millennium ago, the Buddha hesitated to teach us, but he relented for the benefit of those with little dust in their eyes. Can we actually clear the dust away, earnestly, patiently – studying, examining and probing within to know the truth of what we are? It is a great blessing to be able to undertake this work. We have only to open our hearts to the journey, persevere and pierce the veil of ignorance. Just as the morning sun bathes the world with light, guided by the Buddha's map of consciousness, we shall come to know the highest peace.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  Uncompromising Nobility