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2022-11-16 Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart 23:33
Tara Brach
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever being in our life we most experience as calm, wise and compassionate. How do we find that inner place of calm in the midst of the storm?
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-14 Deep roots of compassion 44:09
Winnie Nazarko
This talk reflects on the deep causes and conditions for what arises in our individual experience. This view supports an understanding of "not self" and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-30 An overview of the four Brahmavihāra heart qualities 44:02
Jill Shepherd
How the four skillful qualities of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to support balanced practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-22 Our Dhamma Compass 23:09
Ayya Medhanandi
Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use the compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwholesome thoughts and endless fabrications. We learn to live and respond to life compassionately, responsibly, mindfully, with integrity and noble presence of mind. Healing from above and below, from the outside and internally, we listen to the unspoken silence of the heart that resounds in the galaxies. Keenly aware, supremely blessed, we rejoice in the totality of unbounded compassion.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2022-10-22 And Then Your Heart Will Shine 19:02
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we tread the path of nonviolence that rises above anger, blame, and mistrust? Try choosing compassion, kindness and forgiveness. For inner peace is nowhere to be found if not within your own heart. Even in the throes of tempestuous life situations, draw out courage from that as water from a deep well within. By the power of refuge in what upholds Truth, you navigate through the most fearsome obstacle even if it seems impossible. And then your heart will truly shine.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

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

2022-10-06 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

2022-09-29 The Time is Now: Engagement as Practice 49:39
James Baraz
Practice is more than stress reduction or finding calm within ourselves. A natural expression of a wise heart is the wish to relieve suffering not only in ourselves but in others and in our world. As Thich Nhat Hanh teaches: "Compassion is a verb."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-09-28 Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self 14:28
Tara Brach
We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing these inner resources by calling on the most evolved part of our being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-27 Dharma Talk - Insight, Compassion, the 4 Brahma Viharas 65:47
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/MBSR Foundations

2022-09-21 Radical Acceptance – Our Gateway to Love and Freedom 39:38
Tara Brach
Our capacity to realize the truth of who we are and to love fully, arises from moments of true acceptance. This means meeting our unfolding life with an unconditional, open and tender presence. This talk on Radical Acceptance explores how the trance of unworthiness contracts us away from presence, and how activating mindfulness and self-compassion with RAIN loosens the grip of self-aversion and awakens our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-09-18 Compassion in Brahmavihara Practice 64:39
Kamala Masters
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Metta Retreat with Kamala Masters and Mark Nunberg

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

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

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

2022-09-07 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

2022-09-01 28 meditation: compassion and self-compassion 21:45
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with compassion for a good friend, then oneself
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-01 27 instructions: compassion 19:31
Jill Shepherd
A brief exploration of some of the challenges to practising compassion, and ways to help stay balanced
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 21 talk: Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 46:52
Jill Shepherd
Exploring common afflictive thought-patterns such as lack mind, comparing mind and the inner critic, and orienting to wisdom and compassion to help them release
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 15 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 40:37
Jill Shepherd
kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-28 Compassion in the Midst of a Culture of Dominance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:01
Leslie Booker
Talk on Compassion and Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-26 Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating - A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle‘s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen. - 58:09
Tara Brach
A vegetarian diet, while encouraged in most schools of Buddhism, isn’t a requirement of the Buddhist path. But there are powerful spiritual opportunities in embracing a plant-based diet. Following a vegetarian or plant-based diet is one way to practice compassion, reduce harm, and recognize our interconnectedness with all living beings and the earth itself. So what does the dharma say about vegetarianism? How might plant-based eating support our spiritual practice?
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-24 Meditation Instructions 4: Compassion 60:56
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

2022-08-23 Compassion 50:40
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva The Heart Unbound

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