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Dharma Talks
2022-03-18 Early Morning Guided Meditation 41:36
Alan Lewis
Settling with Bodily Experience
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-17 Sharing the Happiness of Others (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:31
Winnie Nazarko
We can train the mind to recognize and rejoice in the happiness of others, experiencing happiness ourselves. But to be able to do this, we need to confront human tendencies to compare ourselves to others, and sometimes strong resistance. This talk discusses the beautiful quality of Mudita (Empathetic Joy), and how we can develop it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-17 Calming the Anxious Mind: Skillful Practices for Anxiety 52:02
James Baraz
Many people are experiencing stress and anxiety these days. Heartbreaking scenes of victims of the Ukraine invasion and other conflicts, potential escalation of war, political divisiveness or personal challenges all create an atmosphere of tension that is in the air. How can we use our practice to calm the mind and create space to hold it all without getting overwhelmed?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-03-17 Welcome, Lightly Guided Meditation, Introductory Teachings 1:14:11
Alan Lewis
This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Gaia House Settling with What Is

2022-03-17 The Prelude to Compassion is the Willingness to See 67:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-03-16 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:54
Tara Brach
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-16 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 47:18
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 (re-mastered talk from 2021).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-16 Parami of Resolve 51:41
Jeanne Corrigal
Resolve, the 8th parami, is the moment to moment willingness to return to our wholesome intentions. Like the migrating geese, this consistent course correction supports the journey. This week is an invitation to explore resolve together.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2022-03-16 Forgiveness for self and metta the difficult person 42:59
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2022-03-16 Cultivating a Loving Heart in a Hostile World 55:27
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2022-03-15 Bahiya Sutta 50:18
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2022-03-15 Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma 30:25
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-03-15 When meditation and life are not going as planned 47:38
Ayya Santussika
Meditation isn't always peaceful, happy and blissful. This talk addresses how to work with difficult feelings, memories, and experiences on and off the cushion as part of the path to awakening.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-03-14 Dependent Co-Arising: Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:23
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-14 Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 1 – Meditation 27:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-03-14 Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 1 – Talk 58:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-03-14 Week 2 - Dharma Talk and Guided Meditation 56:11
Laura Bridgman
Dukkha as the first Noble Truth and the second characteristic Guided Meditation on the Four Tasks This recording also includes Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-03-14 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Metta and Heartbreak 38:38
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-03-13 Path, acceptance, descent, and return: Story of Inanna 47:09
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation

2022-03-13 Freedom to Practice - Part-2 - Talk 59:07
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-13 Reflections on the Heavenly Messengers (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:21
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-13 War and Peace 1:36:02
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-03-13 Transformational Attitudes 1:11:16
Zohar Lavie
Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2022

2022-03-13 Transformational Attitudes 1:11:16
Zohar Lavie
Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2022

2022-03-13 Freedom to Practice-Part 1 - Guided Meditation 37:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-13 Freedom to Practice - Part 1 - Talk 35:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-03-12 Discerning Wise Effortccccc (Retreat At Spirit Rock) 67:44
Winnie Nazarko
The path to liberation can be walked only with sustained effort. However, effort applied to meditation needs to be skillful in order to bear fruit. This talk discusses the role of Wise Effort (Viriya) in Buddhist practice, and how to recognize common misapplications of energy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-12 Connecting Into Interconnection 1:24:06
Nathan Glyde
Can we live in a sense of interconnection: where meaningfulness has meaning; and sensitivity takes priority? And can we be willing to live from there? Where the necessary renunciations call us into deeper, nourishing connection. Includes a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and responses to questions.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2022

2022-03-11 Working with disturbing emotions and mind states. 55:14
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2022

2022-03-11 Mettā, Brāhmā vihārā, Guided mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on mettā meditation method 1:31:10
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Bhante Sujato: Mettā as an experience vs. a philosophical idea; found inside rather than outside, independent rather than grasping. Brāhmā vihārā. Guided mettā meditation. Dhamma talk: background on the mettā meditation method as taught by Ajahn Mahā Chatchai. Patience as a warm-up. Grounding the experience of mettā firmly in the body. Explanantion of "nimittā".
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • A Flower Called Mettā by Ajahn Chatchai (Link)

2022-03-11 Dharma and Recovery 1:13:19
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-03-11 Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta to All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:52
Greg Scharf
Radiating Metta to All Beings
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-11 Choiceless Attention 56:47
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-10 The Dharma of Good Leadership 57:27
James Baraz
When a leader has the welfare of the people as a priority the country prospers. When a leader cares only for themselves the country declines. This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on the qualities that make a good leader, the influence a leader has on the people and the story of an actual leader who underwent a transformation from a feared merciless ruler to one of great wisdom and compassion. We discuss how these teachings apply to our contemporary world.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-03-10 talk: sangha as support for facing the challenges of our time 26:28
Jill Shepherd
Exploring sangha as an expression of interconnectedness and how this can be an antidote to mainstream values of individualism; includes perspectives from indigenous climate activists from around the world (Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Bayo Akomolafe, India Logan-Riley)
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-03-10 meditation: breathing and resilience 28:35
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions for orienting to the body then breathing, and how returning to the breath can support more resilience
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-03-10 Guided Meditation: Metta Practice -- All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:06
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-09 Meditation: Compassion Practice – Tonglen 23:39
Tara Brach
Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, a compassion practice or tonglen, is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence (re-mastered from the 2013 IMCW fall 7-day silent retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-09 Engaged Spirituality during Times of Upheaval 45:21
Tara Brach
Engaged spirituality means responding to our world’s suffering with wisdom and deep care. This talk looks at three blocks to aligning our actions with our heart – “bad othering,” dissociation and overwhelm. We explore how we can awaken from each reaction to suffering by drawing on our practices of presence and remembering our larger belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-09 Parami of Truthfulness 56:17
Jeanne Corrigal
This week we explore what the three Insights of Insight Meditation are, and how they support the liberating parami of truthfulness, in aligning our hearts with seeing clearly the big picture of how things are.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2022-03-08 Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:08
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-08 Finding Love, Balance and Courage in a Time of War 13:27
Betsy Rose
As we witness and are deeply impacted by the eruption of a war of aggression in the Ukraine, we will reflect tonight on how these three paramis -- compassion, courageous energy and equanimity -- are visible both on the world stage and in our own lives and hearts.
Assaya Sangha

2022-03-08 Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma 33:40
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-03-08 Guided Meditation: Where Is Attention 43:02
Kim Allen
Uncontrived

2022-03-08 Nutriment, Part 1 44:38
Kim Allen
Uncontrived

2022-03-07 Love and its relation with wisdom. 47:42
Matthew Brensilver
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-07 Week 1 - Overview and Guided Meditation 52:43
Jenny Wilks
The four Truths / Tasks, and the three levels of wisdom. Guided Meditation - Introduction to reflection and guided practice This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-03-07 Patience and Anger 32:34
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-03-07 Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:31
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-06 Compassion and the three kinds of suffering. 45:08
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

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