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Dharma Talks
2018-03-29 Dalits Buddhist in India (formerly Untouchable Caste) 54:51
James Baraz
Joining James to discuss his work is Gautham Prabu, co-founder of FSHM an NGO for social transformation whose work has primarily supported Dalits (formerly India's "Untouchable" caste) many of whom have become become Buddhist practitioners and the Tamil Buddhist Society based in Tamil Nadu, India. He is a member of International Network of En
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-03-29 Livestreaming Through Awareness 42:42
Martin Aylward
Buddhas teachings use the image of a stream in two different senses: Going against the stream of our habits and reactivity, and entering the stream of awakened practice and understanding. Martin uses this talk to explore and connect the two, and to point to the way life streams through awareness.
Gaia House The Art of Living Freely

2018-03-29 The four faces of compassion: Mary, Tara, Kwan Yin, and Tinker Bell 55:04
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-28 Things Are Not What They Appear 4: The Emptiness of Self 59:18
Donald Rothberg
After a review of our first three sessions, exploring three ways that “things are not as they appear,” we explore how there is typically a sense that we are given a world of solid, separate individual beings and objects . We focus here on the counter-understanding related to selves and beings, that the nature of the self is “empty,” as developed in the teaching of anattā or not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-28 Revealing Awareness Here and Now - Guided Meditation 38:15
Nathan Glyde
Noticing what it means to be here and now, and how we can open awareness to this, and then expand into a vaster yet more intimate perspective.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-28 Meditation: Continuous Space Suffused with Awareness 18:41
Tara Brach
By learning to inhabit the body, we discover the space and aliveness that fills the universe. In this meditation we are guided through the body, filling different domains with presence. We then open into the continuous awake space that is both within and surrounds the body. When we notice the mind drifts, we relax back to be that awake space, aware of the changing flow of sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds. We close with a simple prayer: May we come home to the light, love and aliveness that’s our deep nature. May we live our lives from loving presence. May that loving presence ripple out in a way that brings peace and healing to our world. Namaste
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-28 Namaste: Seeing the Truth of Who We Are 59:32
Tara Brach
A gift of evolving consciousness is the capacity to recognize and honor the sacred awareness that lives through our own and all beings. This capacity is blocked by our identification with our “mask” or ego self, and not seeing past other people’s masks. In this talk we reflect together on some key filters of superior/inferior and good/bad that shape the trance of a narrowed identity, and then explore how mindfulness and kindness free us to inhabit the vastness of our natural awareness. We close with tasting the possibility of bringing the spirit of Namaste to ourselves, others and all beings. Rumi writes: ““Are you searching for your true self? Then come out of your own prison. Leave the little creek and join the mighty river that flows into the ocean. Like an ox, don’t pull the wheel of this world on your back. Take off the burden. Whirl and circle, and rise above the wheel of the world. There is another view.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-28 Wise Action Engaging With The Precepts 52:06
Pamela Weiss

2018-03-28 Guided Meditation on Impermanence and a Sense of Self 41:42
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-27 Presence, Space and Attending to Contraction - Guided Meditation 40:04
Nathan Glyde
Dukkha is revealed by, and has the nature of, contraction. What happens when we're present to that, and open around it.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

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