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Dharma Talks in English
2023-10-19 Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for a Friend 20:00
Devon Hase
Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a classical Buddhist technique for cultivating the warm qualities of the heart-mind. Please enjoy this twenty-minute guided meditation using phrases, images, and felt sense in wishing kindness for a friend.
Various

2023-10-19 Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for a Benefactor 20:00
Devon Hase
Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a classical Buddhist technique for cultivating the warm qualities of the heart-mind. Please enjoy this twenty-minute guided meditation using phrases, images, and felt sense in wishing kindness for a benefactor.
Various

2023-10-19 Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for Yourself 20:00
Devon Hase
Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a classical Buddhist technique for cultivating the warm qualities of the heart-mind. Please enjoy this twenty-minute guided meditation using phrases, images, and felt sense in wishing kindness for ourselves.
Various

2023-10-19 Current Crisis in Israel and Gaza 1:33:07
Stephen Fulder, James Baraz
Israeli Dharma Teacher Stephen Fulder joins James and shares about the current crisis in Israel and Gaza
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-10-18 Week 3 - Guided Meditation - Narrowing the Lense of Attention 33:51
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-18 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 23:00
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

2023-10-18 Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times 51:34
Tara Brach
When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation – disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other and the web of life. This talk explores four inquiries that help us reconnect with presence and heart. Rather than reacting with aggression or blame, these inquiries allow us to respond to our struggling world with our naturally wise and caring heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-10-18 Week 3 - Teachings - Narrowing the Lense of Our Attention 21:45
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-18 Week 3 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 30:13
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-18 Inner Activism & Response-Ability 49:40
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-10-18 Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 1 66:41
Donald Rothberg
We begin by identifying the importance of developing skillful practice with differences and conflicts, whether inner conflicts or interpersonal conflicts or group or organizational conflicts or social or international conflicts. The claim is that the general principles and practices are fundamentally the same, even as the practices take different forms when there are more complexities. We first give a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or strategies, and as not necessarily involving hostility or aggression. This definition may help to go against the prevalence of negative conditioning about conflicts; we look at a number of reasons why bringing our practice to conflicts is commonly difficult. For the rest of the talk, we examine four more "inner" foundations of skillful practice with conflict: examining our own conditioning; working with the core relevant teachings of the Buddha, particularly about the nature of reactivity (as in the teaching of the Two Arrows); practicing with difficult emotions, body states, and thoughts; and bringing in the heart practices. After the talk, there is a discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-17 Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 35:29
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-10-17 Thoughts and thinking. 52:10
Jaya Rudgard
Cultivating a wise relationship to thoughts and thinking in meditation and in daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2023

2023-10-16 The Power of Attention 1:37:29
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Meditation 36:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Talk 31:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-15 Duality, Merging, Not-Self and Differentiation in the Interpersonal World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:27
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-15 In this world... 34:34
Pamela Weiss
In this world hatred never ceases from hatred. By love alone is hatred ceased. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. —Buddha
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-10-15 What Is The Solution? 25:48
Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha said it simply. The awakened mind is the best solution. The mind-heart needs happiness to be well and to extend that well-being to others. So we tune inward, listen, meditate and resolve the dis-ease. We teach ourselves to be resilient, joyful and discerning rather than feeding on delusion and misery. When the loss is too great or madness reigns everywhere, we pour benevolent ingredients into awareness itself, patiently practising this way. Then we radiate true compassion, true forgiveness and true peace in all directions.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2023-10-15 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Mediation 27:44
Mark Nunberg
The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Mediation
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-10-15 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Talk 41:20
Mark Nunberg
The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-10-15 No Hiding From the World | Sunday Sound of Dhamma 41:55
Dhammadīpā
Brief meditation followed by a dhamma talk.
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-10-15 Morning sit with instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:27
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-14 Awakening & Letting Go 56:05
Eugene Cash
What is to Awake? What is it to Awaken? Different forms and levels of awakening. How awakening begins in each moment. The relationship of love & awareness to awakening in Buddhist teachings and suttas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-14 Upekkha - Abiding in Equanimity 37:17
Devon Hase
Teaching and guided meditation on the practice of equanimity. From Ruth King: ”Equanimity can feel internally like a great mountain, with the mind solid and stable, undisturbed by the changing seasons. Or it can be like the ocean, with the mind vast, deep, and immeasurable, undisturbed by whatever swims, floats, or is housed in its waters. Equanimity can be like a strong fire — roaring, engulfing, and transmuting, undisturbed by whatever is thrown into it. Or like immense space — open, allowing, and receiving, undisturbed by the objects that arise and pass away”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

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