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2024-08-28 Meditation: Awake, Relaxed and Open 26:26
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. The training is a relaxing back, noticing the sounds that are here, feeling the aliveness of the body. We call on the two wings of wakefulness and openness, noticing what’s happening moment-to-moment with a kind, allowing attention. We rest and relax back, discovering the presence that’s here – our senses awake… wide open awareness… awake, relaxed, and open.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-28 Trusting Your Basic Goodness: Part 2 58:29
Tara Brach
This talk continues the exploration of what causes our distrust of ourselves, others and life, and the pathways to realizing and trusting who we are. We explore the steps of awakening from limiting beliefs, dissolving the resistance to direct embodied presence, and discovering the space and tenderness – the formless dimension – that is indivisible and whole. “How can we trust basic goodness, what lets us trust?” “…imagine how might your life change if you dedicated yourself to realizing and trusting this basic goodness sometimes called Buddha nature or loving presence that’s within.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-28 Staying As the Knowing ~ Stretch But Not Tear 55:09
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-28 Give Ear To Silence 16:56
Ayya Medhanandi
Listen to the interior silence with audacious selfless attention and see how pure awareness catapults us into a dynamic intuitive presence. We connect to the Dhamma without obstructions. Silence is formless, soundless, complete. We are witness to an emptiness beyond attachment where the burdens of identification have no footing. There is no 'one' to be in that – for when the intellect bows in faith to the heart, we abide in the loving presence of what is here and now. Ahh! but can we sustain it?
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-08-28 Practicing with Mystery 1 59:56
Donald Rothberg
Inviting a sense of mystery as we practice can bring further aliveness, presence, and openness, and help us go beyond our habitual patterns of thinking and practicing. In the talk, we explore seven ways of practicing with mystery, with the aid of a number of poems. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-25 Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:43
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2024-08-25 A Community Program on Palestine/Israel: Session 3: A Buddhist Toolkit for Skillful Response 1:33:32
Donald Rothberg, Ronya Banks
In the final session of this series, teachers Ronya Banks and Donald Rothberg offer a number of resources that can help one navigate these times and the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. After a brief period of meditation, we offer four teachings and practices, each first explored through teachings and then briefly guided experientially: (1) the teaching of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination pointing to the nature of reactivity--habitual and often unconscious grasping after the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant or painful; (2) the teachings about attachment to views; (3) the cultivation of wise speech and empathy, increasingly pointing toward universal empathy and what Dr. King called the "beloved community"; and (4) practicing with difficult emotions, body states (including traumatic reactions), and thoughts. These teachings and practices are followed by a period of discussion, closing intentions, and the dedication of merit.
Southern Dharma Retreat Center A Community Program on Palestine/Israel

2024-08-25 Instructions - Realise the Boundlessness of Not Just Me 55:53
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty; Cultivating a Fearless Heart

2024-08-24 Talk - It Can't Just Be Me 47:26
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty; Cultivating a Fearless Heart

2024-08-24 Guided Meditation On Inspiration 16:26
Ayya Santussika
This guided meditation was offered on August 24, 2024 as part of “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

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