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Dharma Talks
2019-04-02 Instructions et méditation guidée 29:36
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-04-02 Intuitive Wisdom and Embodiment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:46
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Power of Insight

2019-04-02 Day 1 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:16
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Power of Insight

2019-04-02 Reflection on the Satipatthana 48:01
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-01 "A Bend In The Road" 47:57
Christina Feldman
A Reflection On Karma
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-01 Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart - Week 2 - Meditation 28:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart

2019-04-01 Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey - Monday Night Dharma Talk 68:09
Donald Rothberg
We explore the nature of the spiritual journey, using three reference points: (1) Mary Oliver’s poem, “The Journey”; (2) the life of the Buddha; and (3) the experiences of our own journeys. The journey goes from taking life for granted through questioning, looking for something deeper, leaving the habitual, going through challenges and “purification,” awakening, and then a return.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-04-01 Appropriate Samatha-Vipassana 44:11
Nathan Glyde
How to practice in daily life, or whenever there is more going on than on the beneficial fabrication of a silent meditation retreat. Primarily we'll develop vibrant tranquility (samatha) via getting to know body-heart-mind, cultivating gratitude and mettā, and nourishing a spacious breath and body awareness. Once we've established attentional stability via this relaxed diligent attitude we can investigate and inquire into experience (vipassanā). The vipassanā techniques suggested in this meditation are more fully explored in other guided mediations on this retreat, and at DependentOrigination.org/resources
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-31 Intimacy 44:20
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-03-31 The Healing of Appreciative Joy - Talk 54:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-31 Morning Reflection - First Morning 54:10
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-31 Healing the Delusion of Separateness - Chant and Talk 45:25
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-30 Closing Comments From Rob - Soulmaking and Sangha 18:53
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-30 Opening Talk 51:46
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-30 Ajahn Vajiro In Conversation 2:03:26
Ajahn Vajiro
Arrow River Forest Hermitage

2019-03-30 Four Noble Truths, LGBTQI+ Retreat 67:06
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-03-29 Bringing the Retreat Home: "Let Your Life and Practice Be One” (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:09
Donald Rothberg
As we are poised to return from one or two months of practice, we consider a number of supports for continuing our practice in all the parts of our life, whether more individual, more relational, or more collective, including the archetype of the Bodhisattva, which can inspire us to connect inner and outer practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-29 Awareness of Thoughts, Guided Meditation, Q&A, LGBTQI+ Retreat 59:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-03-29 Image, Ethics, and Awakening (Q & A) 1:32:46
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-29 Taking the Reins - Reflecting on Areas of Practice to Develop 52:57
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-28 A Unified Theory of Well-Being 64:14
James Baraz
Though there are many different approaches and styles of practice they all have one common principle that neuroscience corroborates and other spiritual traditions agree on. This talk explores this unifying practice principle and how we can simply and effectively apply it both in formal practice and daily life when we're lost in the prison of our mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-03-28 Guided Meditation 40:17
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-03-28 Divine Participation 34:51
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-28 Reflections on Logos 59:34
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-28 Queer Dharma Transmissions, LGBTQI+ Retreat 56:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-03-27 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality 17:37
Tara Brach
Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be as it is. As our “Yes” to the changing flow becomes full, we discover the freedom of awake awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-27 The Four Remembrances 50:43
Tara Brach
When we attune to the reality of impermanence and death, we remember what most matters to us. But in daily life we can lose precious swaths of time in a reactive trance, on our way somewhere else, and lost in problem solving, judgment and worry. This talk reflects on four remembrances or practices – Pausing, Yes to life, Turning toward love, and Resting in awareness – that help us awaken from trance and live true to the loving presence that is our essence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-27 Eros and Desire (Q & A) 68:53
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-27 Eros and Desire (Instructions, Day 4) 54:33
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-27 The Four Noble Truths 2:32:18
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-03-26 Staying Home While Connecting with Others (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:50
Sharda Rogell
How do we relate to others while staying connected to ourselves, so we don't get LOST. The Power of Present Moment mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-26 Guided Dyad Practice: Being Seen with Soul, As Soul 45:43
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-26 Limbering Up - Some Contemplative Exercises on the Way to the Imaginal 46:28
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-26 I Let Myself Feel It 36:05
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2019-03-26 On Practising with Images (Q & A) 1:10:33
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-25 Integrating Insights to Deepen Our Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:24
Heather Sundberg
This innovative talk describes the process and advanced practice of Integrating our Insights, including types of insight, what the mind does immediately after an insight, teasing apart the clinging & the natural impulse to integrate insight, how to test the insight, how to include & purify 'the clinging that remains', and learning to live the insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-25 Dukkha and Emotions in Soulmaking Practice 59:26
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-25 Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart - Week 1 - Talk 60:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart

2019-03-25 Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart - Week 1 - Meditation 27:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart

2019-03-25 Cultivating Inner and Outer Transformation 51:05
Nathan Glyde
Opening the concept of meditation (bhāvanā) from a stillness and steadiness practice to the full scope of the 8-fold path. How do we live with wisdom and compassion? What supports an interactive, engaged, and awake life, and what reveals it?
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-25 First Dharma Talk at IMS 54:26
Tuere Sala
Seeing the faculties to help turn towards the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-25 Anatta Grounded in Metta Field 38:04
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-25 Sacredness and Meaningfulness 58:51
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-25 Monday Night Dharma Talk 59:30
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-03-25 Day 6 Instructions - Overview of Instructions Thus Far and Anatta 63:53
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-25 Emotions and Dukkha (Instructions, Day 2) 56:32
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-25 Day 3 Instructions - Review and Emotions 50:20
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-24 Renunciation: The Freedom of Non-Grasping (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:38
Oren Jay Sofer
The entire path can be understood as a cultivation of the ability to let go. In this talk, we explore this core quality of renunciation in Buddhist practice: What it is and what it isn't, what we let go of and how, what supports the maturing of renunciation. We include some specific suggestions for ways to practice renunciation in lay life as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-24 A Rite of Angels 64:28
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 Women Buddhism Awakening 33:39
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-03-24 The Intimacy of Refuge - Part 2 - Talk 53:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-24 The Intimacy of Refuge - Part 2 - Meditation 30:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-24 Reflections of Self 52:05
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-24 The Imaginal-Energy Body (Q & A) 1:17:43
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 Clarity, Compassion, and Freedom 60:06
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-24 Metta to All Things Everywhere 43:38
Nathan Glyde
Extending the mettā lens to include all the phenomena and processes that make up experience.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-24 Ways of Reading the Seven Stories 5:02
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 Day 5 Instructions - Dukkha Opening 47:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-24 The Balance of Attention 24:23
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 The Intimacy of Refuge - Part 1 - Talk 42:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-24 The Intimacy of Refuge - Part 1 - Meditation 31:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-24 Ensouling the Energy Body (Instructions, Day 1) 56:17
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 Guided Meditation Instructions: Body and Breath 38:42
Pamela Weiss
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-23 Seven Stories for Lovers of a Soulmaking Dharma 29:04
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-23 Loving Kindness (metta) 47:09
Tuere Sala
Evening instructions and practice - begins with a renunciation of cell phones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-23 This Retreat 61:51
Catherine McGee
This is a shared talk with both Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea. It appears twice as to enable it to be shown for both teachers. The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-23 This Retreat 61:51
Rob Burbea
This is a shared talk with both Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee and will appear twice in the retreat listing. PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-23 Dukkha, Fabrication, & Fading 48:18
Nathan Glyde
What does dukkha mean? What does a path with the ending of dukkha mean to us? How do we feel about a fading sense of "I, me, and mine"? What is the unfabricated? And other enjoyable deep and meaningful questions.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-23 Listening With Love 58:55
Pamela Weiss
A talk about the transformational power of mindfulness as an intimate loving engagement with experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-23 Guided Metta II 44:06
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-23 Day 4 Instructions - Anicca 53:49
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-23 Day One Instructions - Breath and Body/Walking Meditation 52:34
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Clarity, Compassion and Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-22 Vedana Unveiling Wisdom Views 57:12
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-22 Day 3 Instructions - Vedana 53:49
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-21 Meeting the Buddha: Commentary on Sutta 54:11
Sharda Rogell
This talk is an offering of one of the discourses from the Majjhima Nikāya (MN 140) in which the Buddha gives a disciple named Pukkusāti, who has never met the Buddha and doesn't know he's talking with him) a powerful teaching on the destruction of all suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-21 02 The Body - Kayagasati Sutta MN131 47:30
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2019-03-21 Coming Back to Life 46:14
Nathan Glyde
Expanding out of Experiential Fusion (being lost) into Meta-awareness (knowing) we come back to life. Realigning to our place in the universe (Copernicus) or our place among other beings (empty-interconnectivity) has a similar flavour. By being more honest, humble and kind, we rediscover and recreate flexible wise aliveness.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-21 Guided Metta 43:07
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-21 Day 2 Instructions - Pleasant and Unpleasant Sensations in the Body 62:25
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-21 Humility and Confidence 59:19
James Baraz
The Buddhist writer Wei Wu Wei says: "True humility is the absence of anyone to be proud." We are often humbled by life. How we handle it can either lead to defeat or profound growth. We will explore how being humbled can deepen our capacity to open to all of our experience and strengthen our confidence and trust as we align ourselves with something greater than ourself.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-03-20 Mature Mindfulness, Emptiness, and Release (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:43
Heather Sundberg
Offered on the Spring Equinox Full Moon, the Talk opens with stories & metaphors of the Moon, and then moves into exploring a map of practice from the Thai forest tradition from the perspectives of theory, practical application and guided practice. Sati (Mindfulness) - MahaSati (Great Mindfulness) - Sati-Panna (Mindfulness Wisdom) - Panna-Vimutti (Wisdom which leads to Release).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-20 Meditation: Being Here (with community OM’s) 20:42
Tara Brach
We miss many moments of this precious life drifting in a virtual thought world. This meditation helps us collect and calm ourselves with the breath; relax through our bodies; and then include the changing dance of sounds, sensations and feeling in open awareness. Our practice is to recognize the quality of Hereness, and when we drift, return again to this open presence, relaxing with the changing flow of life. “…learning to relax with the flow of life… to be fully here.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-20 Embodied Presence: Portal to the Sacred – Part 2 50:54
Tara Brach
This two part series explores how we regularly leave our body and skim life’s surface in a mental trance, and the ways we can train our attention to come home again. We look at working with physical and emotional pain, and the gifts of love, wisdom, creativity and aliveness that arise as we learn to fully inhabit these living forms and all our senses with awareness. Includes a meditation to guide us in working with pain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-20 01 The Body - The Buddha's World View and the role of Materiality (rupa) 42:44
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2019-03-20 Embracing the Feminine - Talk 57:48
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-03-20 Befriending Hindrances 53:21
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-20 Exploring Breath Energy 43:56
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-20 Day 1 Instructions - Breathing Long and Free 49:56
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-19 Freely Engaging 55:35
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Building on and referring to the previous talks on the retreat, these reflexions serve as an invitation to reflect on our engagement with the world. Reflections draw on a full and free engagement with thought, speech and action for showing up amidst the turbulence and uncertainty of the world we live in.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-03-19 We Don't Know What's Going To Happen 30:42
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2019-03-19 Visions of Wisdom and Kindness 50:41
Nathan Glyde
Mindfulness and introspective awareness have a mutually supportive relationship with compassion and deep understanding.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Meditation and Sustainable Living Work Retreat 2019

2019-03-18 Why Practice? Quelling The Fire 50:36
Jean Esther
Thru the doorway of the Buddhas teaching on the four noble truths. We are offered a pathway out of greed, hatred, and ignorance and their impact on our minds and hearts.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-18 Practicing to Investigate Anatta (Not-Self) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:24
Donald Rothberg
After a brief overview of the “three ways of seeing that liberate” (into anicca, dukkha, and anatta, or impermanence, reactivity or suffering, and not-self), and how to practice investigating anicca and dukkha, we explore a practical way to understand and investigate anatta or not-self. We focus on two ways of investigation: (1) noticing when the sense of self is “thick,” and studying it; and (2) learning in a number of ways to be with the flow of experience with less or little or no sense of self, as we “thin” the self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-18 Freely Allowing 40:53
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. Dharma practice is an invitation, and training, in meeting experience spaciously and graciously. These reflections unpack what that means, pointing to the inherently spacious nature of awareness, and the free heart’s capacity to hold experience tenderly.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-03-18 Somatic Metta Meditation 29:18
Chas DiCapua
Using the breath and body as a foundation for Metta meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-18 Monday Night Dharma Talk 57:29
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-03-17 Mindfulness Of The Body 47:06
Chas DiCapua
Why the body is important for cultivating calm and clear seeing. Descriptions of different areas of body practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom Here and Now: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-03-17 Freely Knowing 46:55
Martin Aylward
These talks build on one another and work well as a series. This talk looks at the inherently knowing nature of mind. Martin looks at the way we get stuck in knowledge, or knowing about, and generate anxiety and a sense of deficiency about not knowing. He invites us beyond conventional knowing into non-conceptual awareness, and the direct knowing of whatever is happening.
Gaia House Freeness and Friction: How We Meet Ourselves and the World

2019-03-17 Right Understanding (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:57
Oren Jay Sofer
For the practice to be effective we must integrate the proper understanding, known as "Right View." This talk explores right view in three ways: as a foundation for the practice through understanding our everyday life, as a view of all events as a natural unfolding of causes and conditions, and as the liberating understanding of the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month

2019-03-17 Reflections on Equanimity - Talk 40:01
Shelly Graf
Co-teacher: Gabe Keller-Flores
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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