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Dharma Talks
2024-08-09 How Metta supports Insight practice 60:24
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Walking the Path 50:19
Greg Scharf
Using the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eight-fold Path as a framework for understanding the unfolding of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Joy 1:15:16
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2024-08-09 Morning Instructions – thinking 59:33
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Some suggestions for noting and noticing thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-08 short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body 12:33
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:59
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing and bodily sensations, then opening to the experience of hearing
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 Beginning lovingkindness practice 58:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Connecting with a sense of caring for oneself and a benefactor figure
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 Meditation: The Blessings of Yes 20:31
Tara Brach
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. “What happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 49:41
Tara Brach
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Introduction to the Mahasi method 57:10
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Some history and key features of Mahasi style practice: working with primary objects, noting, momentary concentration, and balanced effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 The Quail and the Hawk: Fields of Full Awareness 23:44
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-07 As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love 53:07
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-07 Guided Meditation: Full Awareness 34:49
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-07 A Noble Heart 28:24
Ayya Medhanandi
We can't think our way to awakening. How then can we ennoble the heart? Practising right resort will purify the mind with present moment awareness. We give truth a voice, a prevailing knowing reinforced by mindfulness and wisdom. Instead of allowing delusion to rob us of our chance to awaken, we burn it away in its many guises of selfishness, hatred, despair and a host of dark states of mind. Patiently, faithfully, and gently, we navigate the way to true peace, unconditional love, and compassion.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-08-07 Tribute to Eric Kolvig 33:05
JD Doyle
Note: Some of the audio is glitchy at times. See slideshow here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0vqOKimeXtWjjyJggCluxnxDiUK17Ncb08eMADZq_E/edit#slide=id.p
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2024-08-06 Week 6, Part 2 - Guided Meditation, Short Teachings 63:04
Zohar Lavie
Mettā and insight.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2024-08-06 Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody 34:19
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2024-08-05 Monday Night Meditation 1:42:15
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-04 Right Effort: In Meditation, in Relationship & in the World 32:57
Eugene Cash
"Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment... the effort to make each activity of our day meditation." - Ajahn Chah
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2024-08-04 Wisely Guarding the Sense Gates - Meditation 32:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-08-04 Wisely Guarding the Sense Gates - Talk 39:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-08-03 On intention 29:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-08-03 Cultivating the energy of breathing 17:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-08-03 The Me in Mettā Matters 1:16:18
Nathan Glyde
Exploring the contradistinctions between the not-self strategy and radiant goodwill to all beings. And how we can put more of our personal care into the practice. Based on an insight from Thānissaro Bhikku in Good Mind, Good Heart. This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - August 2024

2024-08-03 Dharma Talk: Fullness of Renunciation 37:55
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

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