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2022-09-03 34 instructions: equanimity 12:54
Jill Shepherd
Orienting to impermanence and not-self as supports for strengthening equanimity as we come to the end of the retreat
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-02 Citta internal-external in balance 28:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Contemplating citta reveals how its external manifestations are formed – in speech and behaviours from its internal moods and feelings that overwhelm. Taking refuge internally through embodiment supports the contemplation leading to liberation.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-09-02 Hindrances: An Origin Story (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:10
Leslie Booker
This classic talk on the hindrances dives into the story of the Buddha's awakening, and his interaction with Mara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-02 33 talk: Anattā and the Five Clinging-Aggregates 42:02
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-02 Satipatthana: Kontemplation von dhammas 56:44
Yuka Nakamura
Im vierten Satipatthana geht es um die Kontemplation der Erfahrung im Licht des Dharmas und des Pfads. Das Herzstück bildet die Kontemplation der fünf Hindernisse und der sieben Erwachensfaktoren sowie der zu ihnen führenden Bedingungen. Dies ermöglicht ein geschicktes Kultivieren des Geistes.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-09-02 GM 22:26
Ajahn Sucitto
A combined talk, examining how chanting contributes to external and internal practice, and guided meditation (at 12:15) addressing the framing of the body.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-09-02 Retreat Opening 43:14
Jaya Rudgard, Sumedha
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-02 The Dharma Medicine of Joy - Talk and Meditation 61:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2022-09-02 Metta for this Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:14
Howard Cohn
After reading the Metta Sutta, guiding our loving attention through our body from the top of the head to the tips of the toes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-02 30 meditation: spaciousness 43:10
Jill Shepherd
Tuning into space as a support for spaciousness of mind
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-02 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:15
James Baraz
Opening the meditation filed to include breath, sensations and sounds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-01 Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:06
James Baraz
A description of how the meditation practice unfolds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-01 29 talk: Awakening Factors of Tranquility and Samādhi 42:09
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-01 Satipatthana: Kontemplation des Citta 59:03
Yuka Nakamura
In der Kontemplation von Citta geht es um das achtsame Gewahrsein der geistigen Zustände, der Psyche, besonders um das Erkennen, ob unheilsame oder heilsame Zustände im Geist sind. Die eigenen Geisteszustände achtsam wahrzunehmen bedeutet, sie weder zu unterdrücken noch von ihnen überschwemmt zu werden, sondern sie im Gewahrsein zu halten und zu erforschen. Das Akronym RAIN stellt ein nützliches Schema für den achtsamen und weisen Umgang mit den Geisteszuständen dar.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-09-01 Guided Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 31:06
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-01 28 meditation: compassion and self-compassion 21:45
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with compassion for a good friend, then oneself
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-01 27 instructions: compassion 19:31
Jill Shepherd
A brief exploration of some of the challenges to practising compassion, and ways to help stay balanced
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-09-01 Putting our mind in our Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Howard Cohn
First Morning of the retreat instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-08-31 Satipatthana: Kontemplation der Vedanas - Der zweite Pfeil 61:01
Yuka Nakamura
Vedanā - die Gefühlstönung jeder Erfahrung - hat einen großen Einfluss auf unsere Entscheidungen und Verhaltensweisen und spielt eine entscheidende Rolle bei der Entstehung von Leiden. Aus diesem Grund ist es wichtig, sich ihrer gewahr zu werden. Ausgehend von der Salla-Sutta, der Lehrrede über den Pfeil, erläutert der Vortrag, wie sich der Geist in Reaktivität verfängt und so weitere Schichten des Leidens hinzufügt. Durch das Verstehen der unbeständigen und bedingten Natur der Vedanās entwickelt der Geist Gleichmut und erlangt Befreiung von diesen reaktiven Mustern.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-08-31 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-31 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 54:54
Tara Brach
We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores how meditation and conscious relating with each other can restore the connections so vital to healing and spiritual freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-31 "I Teach Dukkha and the End of Dukkha"--2 63:43
Donald Rothberg
This is the second of three talks in successive weeks on the "dukkha and the end of dukkha," at the center of the Buddha's teachings. Last week was an introduction and focused on individual practice; this week gives a review and then focuses on relational practice, with others. In the review, we once again point to the multiple meanings of "dukkha" in the Buddha's discourses, all but one of which don't help us to make sense of the "end of dukkha.". Rather, only an interpretation of dukkha coming out of the teachings of the Two Arrows and Dependent Origination, in which dukkha is understood as reactivity, as grasping or pushing away habitually in a variety of ways, can help us understand what "the end of dukkha" means (see the attached PDF file on the sequence from contact to grasping in the teaching of Dependent Origination). We then look at a number of ways of practicing with reactivity, and open to exploring the nature of reactivity in relational contexts, followed by pointing to a number of ways of practicing with reactivity in our relationships. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • The Sequence of Contact to Grasping in the Buddha’s Teaching on Dependent Origination by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2022-08-31 Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity and Feeling-Tone 35:00
Donald Rothberg
After brief basic meditation instructions related to stabilizing attention with an anchor, and then being present to the anchor or whatever else is predominant, there is an 8-minute or so period of settling and stabilizing. Then there is guidance to notice and be mindful of any kinds of reactivity (manifesting in the body, emotions, and thoughts), if in the workable range. After another 10 minutes or, there is guidance to notice a moderate or greater level of the pleasant or unpleasant (as long as it is workable), staying with the sense of pleasant or unpleasant, noticing any tendencies to reactivity (wanting and grasping, or not wanting and pushing away, at the levels of body, emotions, and/or thoughts).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-08-31 23 meditation: mindfulness of mind 28:55
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations and sounds, then bringing awareness to mental activity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-31 22 instructions: mindfulness of mind 15:13
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to mental activity: thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states, and training in knowing the process of thinking without getting involved in the content of the thoughts
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 21 talk: Working with Afflictive Thought Patterns 46:52
Jill Shepherd
Exploring common afflictive thought-patterns such as lack mind, comparing mind and the inner critic, and orienting to wisdom and compassion to help them release
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 Satipatthana: Die Kontemplation des Körpers 58:34
Yuka Nakamura
Achtsamkeit auf den Körper ist eine wichtige Grundlage der gesamten Praxis. Sie fördert die Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit, Sammlung und Einsicht. Im Vortrag werden drei Satipatthana-Kontemplationen über den Körper vorgestellt: Anatomische Teile, Elemente und Sterblichkeit.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-08-30 Sila, Part 2, and Gods 34:14
Kim Allen
Graduated Discourse 3
Uncontrived In This Very Life Sutta Study Class – SN 12

2022-08-30 Keeping the Practice Simple - Talk and short Meditation 60:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 55:53
Jenny Wilks
A Deeper Calm, Based on Insight.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 45:51
Jenny Wilks
Seeing Clearly.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 18 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness 6:50
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to the quality of mindfulness itself, and changing to different "styles" of mindfulness to help the mind stay balanced.
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 55:11
Jenny Wilks
Calming the Body and Mind.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 17 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 29:55
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 16 instructios: mindfulness of hearing 11:45
Jill Shepherd
Opening up the field of awareness from breathing, to physical sensations to receiving sounds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 15 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 40:37
Jill Shepherd
kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 Practicing with Wise View - Talk 56:45
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2022-08-29 14 meditation: standing, noticing feeling-tones 24:23
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 13 instructions: feeling-tone or vedanā part 2 20:54
Jill Shepherd
Beginning to deconstruct our experience into its component parts, beginning with sense contacts and feeling-tones, and seeing how these condition reactivity when there's no mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 Awareness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:12
Mark Coleman
Exploring Open awareness, nature of awareness in this 'Big Mind' meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-28 Realization & Actualization = Resilienz or the Capacity to Stay in Relationship with our Experience 55:26
Ayya Santacitta
Talk & Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-08-28 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 7:33
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-28 Exploring the Nature of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:28
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-28 Dharma Talk - Nibbāna 52:45
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-28 Compassion in the Midst of a Culture of Dominance 59:09
Leslie Booker
Talk on Compassion and Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-28 The Joy of Renunciation - Meditation 41:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-28 The Joy of Renunciation - Talk 39:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-28 08 instructions: continuity of mindfulness 8:24
Jill Shepherd
How continuity of mindfulness supports deepening awareness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-28 07 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 27:24
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying awareness on the simple rhythm of breathing, then refining mindfulness on the details of the breath
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-28 06 instructions: mindfulness of breathing 18:32
Jill Shepherd
Exploring different approaches to mindfulness of breathing, to support stability of mind (samādhi) or more refined awareness (sati)
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

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