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Dharma Talks
2022-10-13 Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:19
Devon Hase
Reflections and guided practice on equanimity, including images and phrases
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-13 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:34
Devon Hase
A guided practice on open awareness and the nature of the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-13 Morning reflections. Cultivating samadhi/gathered nests of mind. 14:46
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-12 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 18:42
Tara Brach
This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence. When there is tightening, holding or confinement in thoughts, we recognize and re-open, letting go into the presence that is always here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-12 Beyond the Controlling Self – Part 1 53:01
Tara Brach
It’s natural that we do what we can to ward off danger and further ourselves. While our control strategies – such as aggression, judging, planning, seeking approval, pretending – have a developmental role, they are not a recipe for happiness, intimacy and freedom. An essential part of our evolution is to recognize when we are over-managing our lives, and learn to let go of the controls. These talks explore how we can release the grip of the over-controller, and the profound awakening of our hearts and minds that is possible in the shift from doing to being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-12 Mindfulness of Breathing - the first 12 steps 38:47
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation using the first three tetrads of anapanasati
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2022-10-12 Contemplating the Supports for Faith in the Practice 14:05
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-12 Cultivating Metta in Our Hearts and in the World 62:51
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-11 Conventional Mind & Luminous Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:01
Eugene Cash
Exploring the pith instruction from the Satipatthana refrain: 'one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world'. This level of letting go or release reveal what is here: both ordinary mind and Luminous Mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-11 Understanding Faith and Doubt in our Practice 55:05
Mark Nunberg
Refuge is how we connect our heart's deepest aspiration with practices that reveal more tastes of freedom and clarify the path that is good in the beginning, middle, and end.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-10 Spiritual Urgency and Love: Reflections on ardor, energy, and the wisdom that knows what to do (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:13
Devon Hase
A talk about samvega and sampajanna, and the healthy desire that leads to practical and magical wisdom on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-09 Perception of impermanence. 54:58
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-09 Compassion: Teaching and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:16
Devon Hase
Teaching on compassion including poetry and stories, followed by a guided meditation for self, friend, neutral person, and all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-09 Guided Meditation and Further Instructions 37:50
Gavin Milne
Awakening the stream of the mind during the day.
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-09 Dispassion with Mental Activity Leads to Tranquility - Meditation 36:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-10-09 Dispassion with Mental Activity Leds to Tranquility - Talk 34:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-10-09 Emptiness, Aggregates, the Path 43:18
Kirsten Kratz, Yahel Avigur
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-09 Instructions 36:46
Gavin Milne
Awakening the stream of the mind.
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-09 Morning sit and Q&A 14:45
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-08 Atonement: At-One-Ment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:56
Eugene Cash
Exploring how we atone: become one with what our experience in meditation and with the truth of each moment. Learning Right Effort as relaxing and giving ourselves to the dharma experientially. True samadhi means to come into harmony with this moment and discover what unfolds now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-08 Guided Practices - seeing as 'friend', holding the hall in Metta, elements practice 54:21
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-08 Dharma Talk - Crossing the Flood 68:08
Gavin Milne
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-08 Further Instructions 15:47
Gavin Milne
Establishing the flow during the day.
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-08 The Way of Looking of Anatta - not self 40:35
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-08 Meditation 25:56
Gavin Milne
Establishing the Flow
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-08 A Kind Questioning and Meditation on Impermanence 48:35
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-08 The Ultimate Letting Go Addendum 1:42
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2022-10-08 Instructions 33:56
Gavin Milne
Establishing the flow of awakening
Gaia House The Flow of Awakening

2022-10-08 Q&A 14:39
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-08 Vedanā: Teaching and Guided Meditation 28:58
Devon Hase
A short teaching and explanation of vedana from the satipatthana sutta, followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-08 The Ultimate Letting Go 15:42
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2022-10-08 Morning reflections. Cultivating whole body awareness and the Brahma viharas together. 16:19
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-07 Hello Little Neurosis: Working with the Nivaranas (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:10
Devon Hase
A description of the hindrances using simile, image and lots of personal stories from solitary retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-07 Guided Meditation - Tuning into Metta 65:44
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-07 Working With Difficult Emotions 62:57
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-07 Patience 42:45
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-07 Meditation on awareness, Dhamma talk Part 3 on Satipaṭṭhāna: Mind (citta) 1:33:55
Bhante Sujato
Meditation on awareness. Dhamma talk Part 3 on Satipaṭṭhāna: Mind (citta). The power of awareness. Movement towards subtlety, like an echo or an animal. Focussing on how greed, hate or delusion effect the mind; the mind with or without these. Awareness emerging from contemplation of the body and feeling. Discussion of wanting and not wanting, noticing when hate is reduced. How to see delusion in meditation; moha as thinking you know, delusion as a destraction from knowing often by way of greed and hate.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-10-07 Q&A 40:18
Ajahn Sucitto
01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to stop? 20:28 How can I work for the benefit for other people without being fearful of making mistakes and hurting others? 22:42 How can I turn the mind from outside to inside with other people around? 27:51 I experience constant internal discussions, comments and judgements about past events. What do I do with this sense of self? 34:02 How do I follow Ajahn’s suggestion to make resolution and intention without getting into goal-seeking on the other hand?
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-10-07 GM Quietening and investigating 14:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-10-07 Mitgefühl, Mitfreude und Gleichmut 47:12
Renate Seifarth
Die drei Brahmavihara Karuna (Mitgefühl), Mudita (Mitfreude) und Upekkha (Gleichmut). Um welche Haltungen geht es hierbei, welche Hindernisse gilt es zu überwinden und wie können wir sie entwickeln.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta

2022-10-07 More About the Way of Looking of Annica and the 5 Aggregates 46:03
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-07 Kindfulness of Breathing Guided Meditation 38:50
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2022-10-07 The Way of Looking of Annica - Impermanence 31:08
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-07 Renunciation or Letting Go? and How? 25:50
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2022-10-06 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - A Thorn in One's Heart 51:25
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-10-06 From Heartbreak to Compassionate Action 55:06
James Baraz
Kaye Cleave is a sangha member and film producer of the award-winning movie Catherine's Kindergarten. Catherine’s Kindergarten is the story of Kaye's emotional journey to confront her grief after the death of her only child, juxtaposed with her physical journey to a Nepalese mountain village to open a school in memory of her daughter. It is a truly moving experience. I'm proud to be part of Kaye's journey and in the film. Kaye will share some of her story of how the practice helped her process her grief and transform it into compassionate action. We share a clip of the movie and discuss the process of how we can turn heartbreak into meaning.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-10-06 Skilful Creativity and Imagination 63:54
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

2022-10-06 The Solid Ground of Dhamma 49:51
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2022-10-06 Vertrauen und Vergebung 43:50
Renate Seifarth
Beim Üben von Metta mit der Kategorie der Freunde, welche Rolle spielt Vertrauen, was weckt Vertrauen und wie können wir Vertrauen fordern. Gleichzeitig ist es fast normal, dass Vertrauen erschüttert werden kann. Durch Vergebung können wir es wieder herstellen. Eine Reflexion dazu, kann das unterstützen.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta

2022-10-06 Guided Meditation and Short Reflection - No Preference 46:49
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Liberating Ways of Looking

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