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Dharma Talks
2019-01-05 Cultivating Liberation 69:06
Zohar Lavie
Cultivating the wholesome qualities of heart and mind.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-05 Loosening My Attachment to the Modern World View 53:49
Catherine McGee
Whether or not I see myself as an adherent of the modern world view, how might this view be acting, nonetheless, as a default and almost invisible dogma keeping me bound in certain kinds of suffering and acting to circumscribe and limit what kind of awakening might be possible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-05 Day seven instructions - Including thoughts 55:04
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Thoughts about Thoughts 62:19
Nathan Glyde
Thoughts are seen to be ephemeral and insubstantial when we turn towards them, yet they display a considerable influence over our lives when we don't give them due attention.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-04 Citta - The Knowing Heart 1:12:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Citta s the seat of experience. References to citta in the discourses. Upadana - four forms of grasping. The vision of atammayata "unconcoctability"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Patience 47:28
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-01-04 Forgiveness - Reflections and Guided Meditation 44:31
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Sensitive And Discriminating 51:09
Catherine McGee
Introduction to Citta s a topic for contemplative practice with moods, mindstates, and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi 50:50
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-04 Diving Deeply into the Ocean of Wisdom 33:57
Dhammadīpā
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Vedana Heals the View 58:53
Zohar Lavie
Dukkhā's escalation can be eased, and even fully calmed, at times, by seeing the vedanā (the underlying preference for what seems good) and bringing in conscious wisdom.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-03 JoAnna and "The Dharmettes": Staying With It (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:22
JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna and the Dharmettes: Staying With It A collaborative Dharma talk lead by JoAnna Hardy with Eugene Cash, Jozen Gibson and Devon Hase.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-03 Comptplating Mortality. 63:49
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Wise Vision, Wise Intention 60:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-01-03 Guided Compassion Cultivation 46:06
Catherine McGee
With earth below and the sky above, our heart is the meeting place for inner and outer.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Samma Samadhi - Preparation for Insight 27:56
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Review Of Tools - Orientation 55:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Four satipathana paradigm as a map. Instruction on meditative skills resourcing - orienting - attuning - forming intentions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Ways that Hinder and Ways that Free 1:17:18
Nathan Glyde
Looking at the five hindrances as opportunities for exploration.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-02 Melting the Ice Cube (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:36
Pamela Weiss
A talk about awakening as melting our habitual sense of self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-02 Taken For A Ride 61:05
Catherine McGee
Practicing knowing Vedena can save us a lot of very obvious troubles and a lot of less obvious troubles.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Morning Instructions - 51:12
Yanai Postelnik
Vedana - Feeling Tone
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Compassion: Mind and Heart Together (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:43
DaRa Williams
Exploring a way to engage this practice and these times that support well-being of self and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-01 Reset Your Nervous System Meditation 10:07
Amita Schmidt
I learned this meditation in 2003 from Tibetan monk, Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He affectionately called it the “French Press” meditation because he wanted us to follow the exhale breath down into the belly in the same slow way the hand held coffee maker pushed the grinds to the bottom. Now somatic therapists and researchers know that a belly breath also connects with your vagal nerve, and you can reset your nervous system with just a few of these breaths. This meditation meditation combines breathing into the belly and grounding in stillness.
Yellow Springs Dharma Center

2019-01-01 Guided Movement Practice 45:54
Yanai Postelnik
Metta - Loving kindness practice for our body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Right Effort - Regardless of How Things Work Out or Don't 31:37
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-01 Beautiful Attention 53:17
Catherine McGee
Morning Instruction. The place of samatha. What is contemplative attention? The co-arising of attention and the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Awareness - Marrying the Present Moment 38:37
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Impermanence and Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:20
Eugene Cash
Reality is not static. It changes, morphs and is impermanent. As we practice we see that we can’t hold on to anything. Letting go becomes the join of simply Being
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-31 Tender Heart Practice 57:20
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-31 How To Stand In Uncertainty 39:52
Molly Swan
Being and acting with uncertainty.
True North Insight New Year's Retreat - Guelph

2018-12-31 Equanimity and wisdom 52:03
Jill Shepherd
Equanimity is highly valued throughout the Buddha's teachings. It acts as a powerful support for insight, and insight in turn, strengthens this quality of ease, acceptance, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-31 Aligning with Right Livelihood 24:12
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves 26:54
Tara Brach
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-31 Breathing in Joy, Breathing out Joy 22:41
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Late Evening Brahmavihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:37
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-30 Embedded In Time, Rooted In Timelessness. 62:47
Catherine McGee
Acknowledging some of the stark sufferings of our era, and with clarity about the goal of the path, our body can root in timeless refuges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas 57:40
Pamela Weiss, Devon Hase, Eugene Cash, Jozen Tamori Gibson
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas (Retreat at Spirit Rock Pamela Weiss: Metta-Loving-Kindness Jozen Gibson: Karuna-Compassion Devon Hase: Mudita - Joy Eugene Cash: Upekkha - Equanimity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-30 From Judgment to Self-Compassion 55:58
Tara Brach
When we’ve turned on ourselves with blame and aversion, it’s very difficult to arouse self-compassion. This talk looks at the role of nurturing in freeing our hearts, and offers practice in three key steps that enable us to embrace ourselves with a healing presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-30 Intentions 42:08
Norman Feldman
An exploration of intentions.
True North Insight New Year's Retreat - Guelph

2018-12-30 Letting Go as a Natural Process 55:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering

2018-12-30 Questions And Answers 1:47:39
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Standing Meditation Instructions 13:50
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 A New Year's Wish 63:38
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre... Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-30 Enacting the Way of Non-Harming 40:45
Dhammadīpā
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Meditation Instruction - The Breathing Body 57:00
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-30 Karuna - Freedom from Harm 12:18
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-29 Right Speech as a Mindtraining 28:27
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-29 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal 33:29
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-29 The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:13
DaRa Williams
The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-29 The Hindrances: Let Them Be (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:13
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-29 The End of 'Business as Usual' 59:08
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2018-12-29 Understanding Attachment as the Cause of Suffering 61:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering

2018-12-29 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal -- Daylong Part 3 of 4 9:52
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-29 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal -- Daylong Part 4 of 4 19:05
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-29 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal -- Daylong Part 1 of 4 18:43
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-29 Metta Immeasurable 44:28
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-29 Right Thought ~ Renunciation, Compassion & Kindness 22:08
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-28 Right View ~ A Practical Approach 46:28
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-28 Mindfulness: Tell Me Everything (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:22
Pamela Weiss
First Night Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-28 Four Tasks 54:09
Jenny Wilks
A perspective on the four noble truths & eightfold path.
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2018-12-28 The Four Elements 24:49
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-12-28 Guided Compassion Meditation 35:52
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center 2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering

2018-12-28 The Noble Eightfold Path Isn't a Straight Line 33:20
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-27 End of Year Reflection! 46:58
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-12-27 Relating Honestly to the Truth of Suffering 53:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2018 Year End Retreat - Suffering

2018-12-26 Meditation: Awakening the Heart – Giving and Receiving Loving Blessings 11:06
Tara Brach
Our hearts awaken as we express and receive love in an embodied, conscious way. This guided practice brings our attention to dear ones in our life, and explores how we discover deep communion through offering and letting in love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-26 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 51:21
Tara Brach
Two common fears can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-25 From suffering to ease 48:13
Jill Shepherd
As the arc of practice develops from releasing suffering, dukkha, towards greater happiness, sukha, we often encounter conditioning that gets in the way of opening to deeper ease and freedom. The brahmavihara practice of mudita, appreciative joy, can be a support for releasing that conditioning.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-25 Let This Mind Be in You, a Christmas Message 49:32
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre... Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-24 Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Permanent 22:11
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on impermanence. This is the third part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-12-23 Taking Refuge in Skillful Action - Talk 43:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Dharma Leadership Training

2018-12-23 Taking Refuge in Skillful Action - Meditation 34:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-21 Guided metta mediation with a brief introduction. 41:19
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-20 Closing Meditation And Guidance 39:10
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Suggestions for coming out of retreat and taking the practice home.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-20 Effort, Heart, and Anti-Fragility 36:26
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-12-19 Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence 18:00
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-19 Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully 36:58
Tara Brach
This talk looks at three ways of awakening our hearts—seeing goodness, feeling appreciation as a bodily experience, and expressing our care. We are then guided in developing each of these capacities by focusing our attention on someone we care about, with whom we’d like to experience our full potential for loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-19 End of Year Reflection 21:06
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-12-18 Introduction To Insight 49:21
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Including an overview of the three universal characteristics.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-18 Suffering and self-compassion 52:18
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the first noble truth, and how self-compassion supports our capacity to turn towards life's difficulties with kindness and courage.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-18 Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light 64:07
Donald Rothberg
We use six metaphors for darkness to suggest ways to orient our practice, both in general and here at the time of the Winter Solstice. We look at darkness as stopping (like the earth), as being with the difficult and painful, as not knowing (and being with the mysterious), as opening to the shadow, as generative and fertile (like the earth), and as luminous.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the dark and inviting the light

2018-12-17 L’équanimité 1:24:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-17 Insights to Live By 44:50
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-17 Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Personal 25:06
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how experience is not personal. This is the second part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-12-17 Guided Metta to All Things 41:37
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-17 The Marvelous Bodhisattva Vimalakirti: A story of entering all the realms with an awakened heart. - Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:16:22
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-17 Instructions - Anatta, Non-Identification 49:11
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Anatta - Beyond Fixed Views 47:27
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Guided Meditation - Mudita 42:53
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Awareness of Feeling Tone - Talk 40:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-16 Awareness of Feeling Tone - Chant and Meditation 33:59
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-16 Instructions - Vedana 54:21
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Beginning Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:19
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Posture, Anchor, General Awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-15 Faith: The Seed of Enlightenment 1:12:19
Spring Washam
An inspiring talk on the power of faith. How to carry a lamp in the darkness. (includes Teja on guitar and chanting)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-15 Everything is a Teaching 65:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Guided Metta to Neutral and Challenging Relationships 42:53
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Instructions - Meeting the Breath as Energy 1:12:25
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Radiating Metta for All Beings 43:57
Gullu Singh
A metta practice that uses visualization and an energetic felt sense of metta, rather than phrases.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-14 A Path of Metta and Insight 44:48
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-14 Dukkha and disturbance. 49:52
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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