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Dharma Talks
2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 Evening talk on Effort 36:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Effort and commitment are the engagement of the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-03 Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:02
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 It Was Like This 25:30
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-03 Heart + spine = committment 33:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Effort is the engagement of heart with a topic. In satipatthana, the engagement is with body as an intelligent entity. When heart meets the ‘spinal sense’ there is resolve and stability.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-03 Lightening the Intensity of Practice 1:17:29
Ajahn Jutindharo
Suggestions to make practice more easeful and everyday.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-02 GM - Standing 9:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-02 Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher 41:23
Carol Cano
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Mindfulness of Breathing: Body, Feelings, Mind and Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:26
Ayya Santussika
A gentle guide through all the steps with a focus on Dhamma reflection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-02 Body, in and of itself, Internal - external 56:38
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the Sattipatthana as a holistic practice
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-02 Allowing Endings to Be What They Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:36
Ayya Santacitta
Reflections on Impermanence & Cessation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-02 Body in and of itself, internal-external 42:43
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the Satipatthana as a holistic practice
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-01 GM - Standing 19:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-01 Environmental Balance 1:28:16
Ajahn Sucitto
How precepts and understanding support environmental balance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-01 Environmental balance 36:51
Ajahn Sucitto
How precepts and understanding support environmental balance
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-01 Opening comments, introductions 6:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-01 Metta mish mosh, choose your practice 29:39
JoAnna Hardy
Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-06-01 Making the Spaciousness of the Mind Accessible (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:54
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection on the Four Brahmavihara followed by a guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-01 Closing Reflections, Forgiveness, Sangha 17:19
Ayya Anopama, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-06-01 Trust Impermanence 47:00
Bart van Melik
How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-31 Untangling the Innter Tangle: Relationship with Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:18
Ayya Santussika
Based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, this talk explores our relationship with the body, feelings, mind and Dhamma - to untangle the tangle of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-05-31 Emergency Metta 44:29
Bart van Melik
How kindness and the breath can be used when feeling fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-31 Vistas We Have Never Seen Before (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:34
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-05-31 Mettā and Compassion 13:14
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

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