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Dharma Talks
2022-03-24 Understanding the Whirlpools of This Heart 65:57
Mark Nunberg
The Buddha taught that we are all spinning due to our habits of greed, hatred, and delusion, long enough to have become wise and dispassionate about how we keep getting hooked into these stressful cycles. What is it that we are not seeing clearly enough that keeps this spin spinning? The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to stabilize present-moment awareness so that we can begin to see how impersonal and lawful all this inner and outer activity actually is. Understanding the river of experience in this way leads to a natural letting go and a releasing of attachment.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-03-24 Bringing the Practice to Life – Thursdays 27:48
JD Doyle
A weekly drop-in group that focuses on bringing our Buddhist practice fully into our lives. We will meditate together, listen to Dharma teaching, and share the lived experience of our practice. We aim to create a radically inclusive space where all are welcome (especially those who might have experienced marginalization such as LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, disabled, and economically impacted people). All levels of experience are invited to attend. All are welcome.
Insight Santa Cruz

2022-03-24 Aspiration – The Rising of the Heart 32:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Aspiration connects to the very fundamental wish of the heart, and acts as the basis for energy. What does the heart really rise up for? Rather than just getting by in life, where is the sense of purpose and meaning that brings forth the best in us? All of our actions and words should proceed from that place of faith. Body helps ground and moderate that energy.
Cittaviveka 2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2022-03-24 Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 2 (Dharma Talk & Guided Meditation) 1:12:24
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-03-24 Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 1 (6 Step Vagal Nurturing Sequence) 7:24
Kaira Jewel Lingo
Credit for Polyvagal Nurturing based on Dr. Marti Glenn's work & research. Kaira Jewel also offers this video as an aid for Vagal Nurturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ozoPNTqig
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-03-23 The Story of Angulimala (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:43
Andrea Fella
Angulimala murdered 999 people before he met the Buddha. This is the story of how he came to be a murderer and how his encounter with the Buddha led to his transformation. This telling of the story emphasizes the value of sila (ethical conduct) in our own lives, and the effect our ethical conduct can have on those around us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-23 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 24:13
Tara Brach
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-23 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 2 57:11
Tara Brach
All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-23 Freedom with the Whirlpools of the Mind – Talk 65:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-23 Living in the Stream of Kindness 55:51
Jeanne Corrigal
Kindness, the 9th Parami, is a quality we practice monthly in our community, and call upon frequently. This week, we will celebrate kindness and get creative about how to practice it, so that we can live more and more fully in the stream of kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2022-03-22 Nutriment, Part 2 47:18
Kim Allen
Uncontrived

2022-03-22 Guided Meditation: Equanimity Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:50
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-22 Equanimity Practice 29:12
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-21 Week 3 - Guided Meditation 23:14
Laura Bridgman
Contemplating pleasant / unpleasant, and noticing change.
Gaia House Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-03-21 Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 2 – Meditation 30:06
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-03-21 Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 2 – Talk 37:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-03-21 Week 3 - Dharma Talk 25:16
Jenny Wilks
Impermanence and dependent arising.
Gaia House Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-03-21 Non-Violence is not Pacificism 16:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Pacificism is an ideal, a concept placed opon reality and so can lead to unwise reaction. Non-violence is an attitude which may mean the use of force, but not violence which is force plus anger.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2022-03-21 Born for Love 57:56
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-03-21 Closing Session Pt 2 29:05
Laura Bridgman
Integrating Dharma practice into our life. (This recording also includes Alan Lewis)
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-21 Closing Session - Pt 1 26:31
Alan Lewis
Teachings - awareness says ‘yes’ to everything. Silent Meditation.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-21 Guided Early Morning Meditation 37:53
Alan Lewis
Allowing all experiences to pass through us.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-20 Liberation Through Non-Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:51
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-20 Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Metta Meditation 37:37
Alan Lewis
Labelling experiences as significant and insignificant. Paying attention to what seems insignificant, finding nourishment in unlikely places.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-20 The delights and pitfalls of faith 48:27
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Delights and Pitfalls of Faith

2022-03-20 Afternoon Pt 1 - The Qualities of Awareness Itself 21:04
Laura Bridgman
Noticing what we already know about our learnt experience, and how our willingness to go beyond that can allow for that experience to go deeper and reveal more of itself.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-20 Reflections on faith guided practice 33:07
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Delights and Pitfalls of Faith

2022-03-20 How faith can support our practice 8:47
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Delights and Pitfalls of Faith

2022-03-20 Morning Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation. Teachings - Practicing with Two Questions 29:53
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-20 Gratitude meditation and silent practice 32:52
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Delights and Pitfalls of Faith

2022-03-20 Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 1 – Meditation 33:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-20 Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 1 – Talk 39:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-20 Introduction to the theme of faith 27:15
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Delights and Pitfalls of Faith

2022-03-20 Morning Pt 1 - Reflections 38:30
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-20 Guided Early Morning Meditation 43:59
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-19 Afternoon Pt 2 - Lightly Guided Meditation& Teachings 41:02
Laura Bridgman
Lightly Guided Meditation - choosing what anchors you into the present moment. Teachings – Seeing and Looking, Listening and Hearing: investigating the difference between these ways of experiencing. This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-19 Afternoon Pt 1 – Noticing the Space Within Which Things Arise 29:08
Alan Lewis
Teachings on how we relate to spaciousness and capacity.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-19 Morning Pt 2 – Being Worthy of Love 32:16
Alan Lewis
Teachings - meeting our experience with honesty and inquiry, letting our experience be painful. This recording also includes a short teaching on 'walking with awareness' (walking meditation) led by Laura Bridgman.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-19 Morning Pt 1 – Reflections - Meeting the Inner Activities of Self 25:22
Laura Bridgman
Lightly guided meditation. Teachings on and how inner activity can lose its grip on us, changing our perceptions and leading to less suffering.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-19 Patience 1:19:38
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-03-19 Early Morning - Guided Meditation 42:41
Alan Lewis
Using breath as an anchoring point.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-18 Disenchantment and Dispassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:50
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-18 Evening - Posture, Energy, Sleepiness, Silent Sit. 32:25
Alan Lewis
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-18 The Five Daily Reflections 52:52
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2022

2022-03-18 Metta for Myanmar and Ukraine 46:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2022-03-18 Sīla, Mettā meditation, Q+A 1:22:34
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Sīla - a life in the Dhamma as foundation for meditation. Mettā meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Q+A: gratitude as an aspect of mudita. The role of mettā when dealing with trauma.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-03-18 Afternoon Pt 3 - Reflections on Awareness and Feeling 29:17
Laura Bridgman
This recording also includes Alan Lewis.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-18 Afternoon Pt 2 - Guided Meditation and Teachings 25:04
Alan Lewis
Noticing the flow and change of experience.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-18 Morning Pt 2 - Working with the Churning Mind 43:22
Alan Lewis
This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-18 Morning Pt 1 – Guided Meditation 26:55
Laura Bridgman
Opening to and allowing experience, noticing how thinking feels.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

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