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Dharma Talks
2022-09-18 Dhamma, the Supreme Medicine 35:57
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-09-17 Teaching on Piti and Short Meditation Sitting 12:45
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 Teachings on Viriya (continued) 21:11
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 Short Meditation Sitting & Inquiring into Clinging and Non-clinging 7:18
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 Short Meditation Sitting, and Teachings on Investigation 33:02
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 Mindfulness 33:25
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 The Bojjhanga 32:33
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-17 Retreat - Learning to Trust the Goodness of the Heart - Talk 58:39
Mark Nunberg
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Half Day Retreat

2022-09-17 Welcome, and a Short Meditation Sitting 14:10
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Cultivating the Lovely (online retreat)

2022-09-16 Mindfulness of Breathing 56:52
Guy Armstrong
The foremost meditation practice in the Theravadan tradition. There are many benefits and also some potential obstacles in this practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-09-16 Chanting, Guided meditation on the breath, Q&A 1:10:21
Bhante Sujato
Chanting. Guided meditation on the breath as a simple kind of abiding; Audience Q&A: Q: How to overcome the body restricting the breath? ~A: 1. Patience. 2. Slight shift to focus on the out-breath 4. Contemplate non-self 5. Focus on pleasure in the breath. Q: How to let go of worry? ~A: Uddhacca-kukkucha one place to look, 'like conditions like' so to be happy tomorrow, do something good now. Q: Is mindfulness different to concentration? ~A: 'Concentration' term can convey controlling solutionism but concentration fine as a word. Q: Technique of being without your breath for 20 minutes by telling the breaths you love them? Q: What did the Buddha say about monarchism? Q: Meditation during lucid dreaming?
Lokanta Vihara

2022-09-15 Lake of Lovingkindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 23:25
Diana Winston
This playful guided meditation invites us to jump into a lake of kindness and bring our friends, acquaintances, and difficult people along.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-15 Recipe for Freedom: Concentration, Insight, Love, and Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:28
Diana Winston
This talk includes the ingredients needed for deepening practice and finding freedom. It explores how our practice can begin with concentration, add insight into the mix, requires a sprinkling of self- love, and when cooked, opens to the nature of awareness itself. Added bonus: A few quotes from Ted Lasso.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-15 Samma Sati 60:38
Sally Armstrong
What is mindfulness, and what was the Buddha talking about when he encouraged us to practice it? Right mindfulness, or Samma Sati, develops wisdom and understanding, decreasing unwholesome states of mind, and increasing wholesomeness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-09-15 Guided Meditation - Mudita - Appreciation 41:56
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-15 Meditation Instructions - Opening to Wellbeing 51:09
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2022-09-15 Morning Instructions 56:45
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-09-14 Meditation is Good! (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:28
Eugene Cash
As we practice we see each moment is Good whether whatever it is. We recognize the Goodness of each moment, the Goodness of being alive, the Goodness of Discover the truth and the Goodness of awakening to freedom. The whole dharma is sitting right here and it is Good!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

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 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 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

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