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Dharma Talks in English
2025-10-03 Morning Reflection: Further Reflections on the Four Noble Truths 19:42
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-02 talk: Reflections on retreat practice and the cultivation of muditā: gladness and appreciative joy 22:45
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-02 Dry and Wet Loving Kindness 41:42
Diana Winston
Two forms of practicing loving kindness are explored here: Dry– thoughts based, and wet– emotions based.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight 63:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-02 meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness 28:03
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-02 The Merging of Love & Wisdom 50:24
Diana Winston
This talk explores the way wisdom develops and focuses on the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and not self. It touches on not clinging, dropping bananas, two arrows, and how love fits into it all.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Talk: The 32 Parts Practice within the Context of the Satipatthana Sutta; Meditation: Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow, Kidneys (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:13:31
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Undoing obsessions through mindfulness 46:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Ingrained habits and obsessive emotions can be met and released through mindfulness established in the body. The practice of mindfulness of breathing purifies perception and volition to undo the sense of self based in time,
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-02 Energy Body (guided meditation) 15:18
Victor von der Heyde
Sparcely guided energy body practice
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-02 Guided Meditation: Working with Emotions 47:45
Leslie Booker
RAIN DROP!
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Morning Instructions on Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:26
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Wild Wise Words: A Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Retreat

2025-10-02 Talk: How to practice the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. Meditation: Head Hair, Body Hair, Nails, Teeth, and Skin (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:07
Nikki Mirghafori, Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Clock Time, Heart Time, Deep Time: Songs, poems, reflections on navigating our relationship to time 54:05
Betsy Rose
Singer ,Songwriter, Dharma Teacher, Betsy Rose shares some songs, poems and reflections on navigating our relationship to time. How many of us are experiencing time as a vanishing “commodity?” The speed and amount of digital inputs (email, activist alerts, webinars, headlines and more..) threaten to overwhelm us. Feeling pressured, squeezed, and overloaded can be a familiar experience. This talk explores practices and choices that can help restore a sense of spaciousness and wise view to the mysterious construct we call “time.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center OD Course | White & Awakening (CJ1N24)

2025-10-01 What does Buddhism teach about the natural world? 48:48
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-01 Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It 52:46
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-01 The Hindrances 46:31
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-01 Wisdom of the Body, part 1 16:58
Dawn Neal
A very brief introduction to the discourse on Mindfulness of the Body (Kayagatasati Sutta)
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-10-01 Effort means using energy wisely 46:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-01 Morning Instruction 40:34
Diana Winston
Focus on Investigative Awareness and Working with Pain
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Metta practice 43:03
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Is it Okay to be Aware of Just This? 43:18
Diana Winston
This foundational talk on mindfulness offers insight into why and how to practice mindfulness, what makes meditation difficult, the qualities of a mindful mind, and the fruits of the practice.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Indriya allies for citta's release 50:50
Ajahn Sucitto
The five indriya are factors that are accessible and take one's attention from the sensory world of circumstance to the citta -heart or mind. The initial indriya is faith, a quality that serves as a wellspring off support through the ups and downs of life.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-09-30 Morning Instructions 45:05
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Morning Reflections: Purity and Purification 64:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 The Four Great Efforts: PACE Yourself on the Path 58:31
Marjolein Janssen
Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

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