2018-11-17 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic 6:24:22
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-16 Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 3 1:17:41
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Third of three classes on sutta study.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-16 Boredom and ordinariness. 57:36
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses the goal of practice as becoming more ordinary and how boredom can be a doorway into peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 02 - The Importance of Daily Meditation Practice 34:12
Ajahn Achalo	Download Listen
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 01 - Breath meditation for Peace and Insight 32:36
Ajahn Achalo	Download Listen
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-16 Believing in Me, Netherlands Retreat 55:53
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-16 17 Intention and Effort 63:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Take away the track of conditioned intentions – better, more efficient, goal orientation. Learn to sense into the intention of the citta here and now. Effort informed by the spiritual faculties is a means to stave off hindrances. The first right effort is to dwell in what is skillful.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-16 Four Hooks, Netherlands Retreat 59:01
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-16 16 Nothing Works - Get Used to It 61:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our conditioning and underlying programs have us aiming at unattainable benchmarks. We come to believe it’s possible to make everything work, make things efficient, clear, comfortable. But this only sets us up for suffering. So we practice to purify intention and attention, widening the range of what our citta can bear with and accommodate. We’re then able to be with the uncomfortable without suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-16 The House that Ego Built: Understanding Self, Not-Self and Indentity 6:29:38
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-15 "Power of Mindfulness" 46:07
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-15 Is Meditation About Ending Thinking? 38:29
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-15 The Parami Of Generosity 60:12
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-15 IMCB Meditation Sit before the Dharma Talk 49:15
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-15 Satisfaction Not Guaranteed, Netherlands Retreat 62:56
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight

2018-11-15 Compassion: Cultivating This Heat Quality. 61:38
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-15 The Pleasure Bubble, Netherlands Retreat 62:31
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-15 15 Learning to Cultivate Relationship 61:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We can learn to relate to the conditioned world with a sense of knowing it doesn’t work, dealing with the inevitable clashes and frictions with a mind that is spacious, that can digest the chafing. Nourish and strengthen citta through qualities of goodwill, patience and acceptance facilitate disengagement. Then the heart is not troubled by things not going its way.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-14 Friends, Enemies, and Strangers 48:51
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-11-14 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach	Download Listen
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 :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 53:26
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
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 :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 The Fire Sermon 51:54
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-11-14 Purification - Talk 55:59
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-14 Purification - Meditation 30:28
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-14 The Tree, the Flood & the Flame, Netherlands Retreat 61:50
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-14 14 Sangha Heals Afflictions of Exclusion 50:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
With devotional practices we choose to direct ourselves in terms of awakening. Pūjā gives the occasion to settle in our Refuge quality rather than our personal kamma. This is the way we build up a reference point to cultivate and clear the kamma of the person within the field of sangha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-14 Two Foundations for Mindfulness,, Netherlands Retreat 59:39
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-14 13 Soothing and Steadying Body Energies 53:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The deeply ingrained reactivity to jump from unpleasant feeling is saṇkhāra. We leave the richness and intelligence of embodiment for the virtual world of programs and drives. Steadying and stabilizing the bodily energies with ānāpānasati develops a different kind of saṇkhāra, one that responds to phenomena with non-demand and acceptance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-13 Impermanence: The Arising And Falling Of The Ten Thousand Joys and The Ten Thousand Sorrows 61:27
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-13 The Internal Story We Carry With Us 34:53
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-11-13 Contemplating Mortality 55:13
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-13 The Internal Story We Carry With Us 34:53
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-11-13 The River, the Cage & the Horse, Netherlands Retreat 55:37
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-12 The 7 Factors of Awakening. 62:35
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk describes how one can develop certain "mental factors" which lead to awakening. Mindfulness initiates a beneficial cycle which does so.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-12 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:16:43
Ruth King	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-12 12 Nourishing the Citta 47:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Creating a feedback loop to keep citta refreshed and nourished strengthens our ability to meet the uncomfortable. This can’t be done through the virtual realm of the intellect; take time every day to touch into bodily presence without adjusting anything or turning away. That steady presence becomes the place of regeneration and refreshment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 1 53:23
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of the first establishment of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention part 2 35:20
Kim Allen	Download Listen
The intention of Renunciation or Letting Go. Questions and responses.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention Part 1 66:01
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Introduction to practicing with Intention. The intentions of non-ill-will and non-cruelty.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 11 Q&As 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Q1: ways of strengthening the citta; Q2 31:37 How can one best work with the citta? Q3 34:01 What is the relationship of intuitive awareness to the citta? Q4 36:56 Could you say something more about the sacred? Q5 40:10 greed and aversion – are they two sides of the same coin? Can one exist without the other? Q6 46:46 What is animita (signless) samādhi as opposed to nimitta samādhi or jhāna?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 10 Weaning the Citta from Clinging 63:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The habit of clinging stems from a search for safety and security, yet we cling to that which can never provide security. It’s not easy to give up clinging, so an inner strengthening is required – energetically, psychologically and emotionally.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 09 Guided Meditation: Feeling Grounded and Safe in the Space 40:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Before reviewing the themes that present themselves to us in meditation, we need the support of safety and ground. Guidance is provided to establish center, ground and safety in this embodiment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 08 Resourcing the Faculty of Heart, Our Responsive Capacity 58:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Phenomena that are mutable, not solid, and dependently arisen become experienced as fixed and solid by unconscious grasping and holding on. The relationship is then one of fixation. A more mature relationship is not based on eliminating displeasure but on responsiveness and flexibility. With practice one can feel comfortable with things that are uncomfortable.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 2 of 2 6:59:52
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-10 Being Somebody and Being Nobody 51:57
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-10 To Dare the Impossible 57:24
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-10 07 Intention - a Property of Citta 31:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-10 06 Walking Instructions: Human Bodies Walk Like This 12:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: A Moving Balance

2018-11-10 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 1 of 2 6:48:07
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-09 Life Of The Buddha - The Heavenly Messengers 56:50
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-09 Anapanasati Sutta 57:40
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma II, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 55:12
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Q&A, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 16:13
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Investigating Human Nature, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 42:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Freeing Metta, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 29:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma I, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 61:07
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Morning Instructions, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 44:20
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Changing Values, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 10:10
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 05 The Wisdom Faculty 52:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The search for happiness, security and steadiness binds us in a tangle of stressful and unsatisfactory experiences – because we’re looking in the wrong place. Wisdom/discernment helps us detangle and discern what to set aside and what is worth bearing in mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-09 Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 2 1:19:55
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Second of a 3-session class looking at situations where people ask the Buddha a question.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 Tenderness Practice 52:39
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 Meditation sit with some spaces in between before the Dharma talk. 50:00
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 The Six Realms 40:48
Kim Allen	Download Listen
A way to understand and practice with difficult (reactive) emotions
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 04 Calm and Discernment Work in Tandem 20:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Discernment helps filter from the amalgam of experience what’s skillful now. Having picked up what is skillful one lingers in it, dwells in it, sustains it. This is calming. So skim off stressful habits of “trying to make it work”, “getting on to the next”. Use the body to learn what the mind is happy to linger in.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-08 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence 37:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha--Individual and Collective 1:24:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the core teaching of the Buddha; he says, "I teach one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the end of dukkha." We examine how we can understand and practice this teaching in terms both of individual and collective dukkha, especially understanding dukkha as reactivity.
Asheville Insight Meditation

2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 19:52
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Part 2 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion 54:58
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for others. They look at the blocks to compassion and accessible powerful practices that awaken the full wisdom and tenderness of our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Contemplating Conventions and The Four Noble Truths 40:04
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-11-07 02 Going for Refuge - Reorientation of Citta 58:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
What is it that we need to take Refuge from? The poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that mask themselves and corrupt our hearts and minds. This requires reorienting from worldly ways and orienting around what has value and meaning, that which you can trust: virtue, embodiment, nature and other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 01 Setting up the Relational Context of Dhamma 22:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Four compass points to orient around while on retreat: how you relate to the earth, to other people, to your body and to the sacred; an explanation of pūjā – recollections and making offerings, as with the offering of food.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Courage as the Buddhist Equivalent of Hope 2:06:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-11-06 The Bridge of Sangha, Taking the Sacred Home With You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:50
Noliwe Alexander	Download Listen
It's one thing to cultivate awakening, it;s another thing to stay woke, fierce tenderness, we are the ones we have been waiting for, practicing for 7 generations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-06 The Miracle Of Awakening 32:04
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-11-06 Stinkin Thinkin 50:18
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-06 Day 6: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:22
Thanissara	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-05 Mixing Things In 54:45
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha describes Wise Effort in specific ways. But we have our own particular ideas of what we want to accomplish. How to practice"when worlds collide?"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 Contemplating Citta - Mind States 43:15
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Chant and Meditation 29:22
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Talk 39:55
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Guided Standing Meditation 22:18
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 The Deepest Holding is the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:41
Erin Treat	Download Listen
Waking up together, personal and collective awakening, eve of election day, the dispassion that can hold the fullness of what and who we are, divesting from grasping.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-04 An Overview Of The Four Brahmaviharas. 50:30
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of the Metta/Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity and the interrelationships between them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-04 First Aid 10:51
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
To free us from our relentless conceptualising and the suffering that comes of it, the Buddha has thrown us a lifeline. We can grab hold of it by continually using the perspective that “this is impermanent”, and, thereby, we can pull ourselves to safety. A breakfast reflection given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in 2018.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2018-11-04 Working With Distracting Thoughts - Talk 57:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-04 Working With Distracting Thoughts - Meditation 31:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-04 Instruction and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:35
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Gradual entry into release and peace as the ground of resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-04 Closing Talk 52:54
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-04 Morning Instructions - Keeping It Simple 47:39
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
Review of what we have covered in the first two weeks of instruction.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-04 Trust the Path: Medicine for Our Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:39
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-03 Guided Meditation on Thoughts 28:41
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 Sexual Energy and Intimacy 57:09
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-03 Mindfulness of Body and Guided Reflection on the Elements 64:36
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-03 Paradoxes in Practice 17:40
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Exploring four paradoxes in practice; thoughts and stillness; effort and relaxed, the personal and the profound, right now and forever.
Tri State Dharma

2018-11-03 Twelve Steps and Dharma 22:29
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
12 Steps and the Dharma: Freedom from the Bondage of Self as it relates to Buddhism. Thoughts on addiction and no self.
Tri State Dharma

2018-11-03 Very Dependent Me 53:46
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 From Being Hindered to Being Insightful 58:51
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 Reclamation of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:35
Thanissara	Download Listen
The Abstraction and disconnect of Seperative Consciousness The Journey through the Shadow Entering the depth feminine Awareness: the root to the living Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-02 The Dharma Lives in You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:49
Erin Treat	Download Listen
nurturing faith in awareness, removing the thorn from our hearts, the danger of deadening our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-02 Embodying Quiet 19:31
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
How to embody a deep quiet in your practice and your life. Ways to work with thoughts and find more stillness.
Southwest Sangha