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Dharma Talks
2024-07-20 Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 2) 28:51
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 1) 31:11
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 01 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 22:36
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to keep the heart in balance
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 AsalhaPuja - Adhitthana | Part 1 of 3 52:52
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 Morning Instructions - Hindrances in Awareness Practice 57:21
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-19 Fortunate heart energies 47:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2024-07-19 Working with the Hindrances in Awareness Practice 56:00
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-19 The Importance of Bhikkhuni Ordination for Buddhism - Eng/Thai 18:51
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2024-07-19 Skills in Samadhi 47:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Quality of Mind being in relation to different objects. Metta practice in general.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2024

2024-07-19 Guided Meditation: Building All the Awakening Factors with Emphasis on Concentration 16:47
Shaila Catherine
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine highlights the powerful role that concentration plays as we cultivate the awakening factors. The instructions slowly walk through the sequence of Awakening Factors demonstrating how they create the conditions for the next factor in the sequence, and then explores various qualities of the collected mind and choices the meditator may make to further develop the mind once samadhi has been established.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 The Nature of Awareness, Part 1 61:51
Guy Armstrong
Sense consciousness is the simple knowing of a phenomenon at one of the six sense doors. Awareness is the broad field that includes all six types of sense consciousness. Awareness can be freeing when we see that it's empty.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Cultivating Loving Kindness (Metta) and Compassion (Karuna) 45:51
Shaila Catherine
This is a long guided meditation in which Shaila Catherine offers systematic instruction for cultivating loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) through the use of intention filled phrases directed toward beings in various categories.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Metta, Friendliness 42:05
Yuka Nakamura
Metta for self and all directions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 Morning Instructions – hindrances in awareness practice 60:08
Sally Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 The 'Six Realms' as we experience them now 59:25
Judi Cohen
Dear Friends, Join guest teacher for a look at the Buddhist teaching on "The Six Realms" - as we might be experiencing them right now. Judi Cohen is a mindfulness teacher, law professor, and long-time student of Vipassana.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2024-07-17 Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle 55:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-17 short talk: an overview of brahmavihāra practice 14:00
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation

2024-07-17 Meditation: Awareness and Flow (20:17 min.) 20:16
Tara Brach
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-17 From Head to Heart 61:59
Tara Brach
If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-17 Meditation: resting into mettā / kindness 29:40
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation

2024-07-17 Talk 12 - Day 6 Eve - BVs in Daily Practice Teaching Announcements 1:39:48
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-17 Mindfulness of the Body Meditation Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:22
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Tenderness Retreat: Compassion for Self and All Beings

2024-07-17 Morning guided meditation 56:50
Jaya Rudgard
Gathering and steading attention with body, breath, and sounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-17 Talk 11 - Day 6 Morning - Guided Forgiveness meditation - Practice for day 46:06
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-16 Opening evening 53:52
Jaya Rudgard, Sally Armstrong
Viveka/Seclusion. The different ways we practice seclusion when we come on retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

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