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Dharma Talks
2018-07-20 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of mind 50:16
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 The Spirit of Play in Dharma: Enjoying Your Meditation Practice: 56:24
Oren Jay Sofer
As a Zen teacher of mine used to say,"Life... very serious joke." Things can get real heavy sometimes - in life, and in contemplative practice. This talk explores the importance of finding some levity and enjoyment in our formal spiritual practice through the lens of play. Enjoy!
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-07-19 Awakening joy part 2 61:04
James Baraz
dharma talk
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-19 Cultivating the Beautiful Heart Qualities (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:25
John Martin
The cultivation of the divine abodes of loving kindness, compassion, supportive joy and equanimity are a practice for the whole of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-19 Reflections On The Practice Of Anatta - Not Self 62:49
Chris Cullen
Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 16 Right Effort: How to Strive without Getting a Hernia 55:13
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha crossed the floods of ignorance, sensuality and becoming by not halting and not straining. The right effort of finding ground in the body is a means for balancing and moderating energy and effort.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-19 17 Walking Instructions: Staying in Flow 4:20
Ajahn Sucitto
As we walk, we’re moving through the aggregates, through the field of mind as it opens with its senses of urgency, discord, worry. Sustain mobile mindfulness, walking through your psychological and emotional ‘weather’.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-19 Metta to all 28:24
James Baraz
Metta for everybody
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-19 Guided Metta Meditation 44:10
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 Big Mind 55:07
James Baraz
Morning instructions
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-19 Morning Reflection 46:36
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-19 Cittanupassana - contemplation of mind states: Background and guidance 51:11
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease 16:46
Tara Brach
This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-18 What Is It Like Being You? 56:24
Tara Brach
Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. This talk helps us identify the blocks to compassion—our outmoded survival equipment—and using RAIN, offers practical guidance in mindfully attuning to others’ emotional experience and awakening our natural tenderness and care. This talk includes a short introduction to the meditation: The RAIN of Compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-18 Awakening Joy part 1 65:27
James Baraz
Dharma talk
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-18 Equanimity Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:57
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-18 Compassion 60:38
Yuka Nakamura
Compassion is a central mental factor that we want to cultivate on the path. It is both the sensitivity to suffering and the wholesome intention and action to alleviate suffering. Compassion frees the heart from unwholesome mindstates temporarily, is the foundation of moral conduct and supports the unfolding of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 13 Guided Meditation: Disengaged Awareness 39:52
Ajahn Sucitto
We’re not having an experience, we are an experience. An experience that’s changing, that’s affected. Allowing content to arise and manifest generates spaciousness and eases the sense of self.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 14 Allowing Innate Intelligence to Arise 55:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Two kinds of reflexes occur in the flow of experience: not knowing what to do and knowing what to do. Both are subject to suffering. Recognize that within experience there is an innate intelligence, clarity, refuge if we allow it to arise. Doing is guesswork; being is clearer.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 15 Q&A: I Don’t Answer Questions I Respond to People 68:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto reflects on questions posed about breathing, how to engage with the felt sense, heedfulness vs mindfulness, metta practice and cultivating an open heart
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 Sila Paramita 49:59
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-07-18 Q/A 49:11
Nikki Mirghafori
Both Sayadaw U Jagara and Nikki Mirghafori share answers and reflections on pre-written questions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-18 Guided Metta Meditation 47:05
Akincano Marc Weber
No Phrases - using images
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 Different Approaches to Taking in the Moment 50:44
James Baraz
Morning instructions
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-18 Morning Instructions: Investigating the supporting condition in the links of conditionality (Nissaya) 26:07
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-18 Joy as a Balancer of a Broken Heart 1:56:33
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-17 Responding with Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:51
Sally Armstrong
Many of us learn to be judge=mental and critical, especially towards ourselves. Metta is a powerful practice to diminish and even transform the tendency towards judging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-17 Flavors Of Not-Knowing 1:12:30
Akincano Marc Weber
Exploration of avija (not knowing) and moha (delusion). Phycological exploration of the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-17 11 You Don’t Stop Craving, You Stop Believing in It 68:20
Ajahn Sucitto
The mind is a dynamic process with a certain familiarity to it that seems to reiterate and get stuck in wanting and not wanting. Liberation from this begins with not getting involved with, tussling with or pandering to the habit of craving.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-17 12 Guided Meditation: The Felt Sense of the Body 21:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Awareness is a centering place. Not pushing away, not taking a position. It’s a reference point. Rest and remain present to the experiences and expressions of the heart.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-17 Guided Meditation - Looking Through Different Lenses 27:25
James Baraz
Panoramic and Refinement on Breath
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-17 Introduction To Metta And Guided Metta Practice 45:17
Chris Cullen
For group, self, and benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-17 Morning Instructions 55:30
James Baraz
Opening to Emotions and Thoughts
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-17 Morning Instructions 46:07
Nikki Mirghafori
Samadhi (concentration) and seeing things as they are
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-16 Questions and Responses 48:58
Caroline Jones
This recording also includes Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-16 Transforming Suffering Into Happiness 66:29
James Baraz
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-16 Developing Inner Sanctuary (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:35
Tempel Smith
Through difficult experiencing in practice and in times of easy, loving-kindness meditation purifies and heals the heart, opening us up to inner sanctuary. This ripening of loving kindness sanctuary is the taste of meditative samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 3 - Talk 55:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 3 - Meditation 34:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-16 07 Posture and Breath for Chanting 21:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting begins with opening the belly, chest and throat. Posture and relaxation help clear blocked areas so the heart tone of chanting can vibrate and deepen through the body. [9:50 – 21:30 breathing and voice exercises]
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 08 Guided Meditation: Soothing Nervous Energy Through Breathing and Body 24:17
Ajahn Sucitto
A comprehensive guided meditation to bring gentle, full awareness to all of the parts of the body, creating connections across them. In this connected state, body channels can open allowing for energy flow and discharge.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 09 Don’t Resist the Disorientation Experience 53:01
Ajahn Sucitto
On retreat there can be disorientation – new people, place, restrictions that weren’t there before. Disorientation is a tough medicine, but we use it to meet the boundary of the habitual self with its instinct to ‘make things go my way'. Stay with the discomfort, so that the mind changes direction: to the settled ground, through the body.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 10 Discerning Your Way Through Systems 13:33
Ajahn Sucitto
One of the fundamental obstacles for unawakened beings is the attachment to systems and customs. Rather than a habit of a system or technique in meditation, rely on organic human intelligence. Discern what is skillful and unskillful, necessary and unnecessary. Keep paring away what’s not needed and dwell in what remains. Something is waiting to meet you – a certain stillness and firmness of the spirit.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 Concentration/Unification of Mind (Samādhi) --> Knowledge and vision of things as they are (Yathā bhūta ñāna dassana) 60:26
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk discusses the sixth and seventh (Samādhi --> Yathā bhūta ñāna dassana) conditional links described in the Kimatthiya Sutta (“What Purpose?”) (Anguttara Nikaya 10.1), where the Buddha teaches Ananda that wholesome ethical behavior leads to non-regret, which leads to gladness, .... ultimately leading to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-16 Metta to Phenomena - Guided Meditation 43:04
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-16 Monday Night Dharma Talk 58:11
Konda Mason
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-16 Morning Teachings - Re-Cap of the Brahma Vihara Practices 36:34
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-16 Morning Instructions 37:55
James Baraz
Breath, Body Sensations, and Hearing
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-16 Posture: Introduction To Body Contemplation 49:10
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-15 Retreat Opening - Arriving and Settling In 51:00
Akincano Marc Weber
Setting up intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-15 Dharma Talk - Immeasurable Emptiness 56:35
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-15 Five Spiritual Faculties 66:46
James Baraz
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-15 Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock) 57:33
Anushka Fernandopulle
Perspective on retreat, metta in Buddhist path, clearing out unhelpful habit patterns of the heart/mind, training in love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-15 What is the Mind - Talk 56:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-15 What is the Mind - Meditation 30:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-15 02 Clearing Toxins of the Heart Through Body 60:26
Ajahn Sucitto
The heart and mind are susceptible to toxins that drive action and infect intention. In the body we find a trustworthy orientation – a reliable source for knowing how it is now.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-15 03 Standing Meditation: The Body Seeks Harmony 28:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance to help the body come into natural harmony. Notice the effects ground, space and breathing in the body. When the body feels safe, the skin boundary loosens and armor comes off.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-15 04 Walking Instructions: Can You Move without a “There”? 7:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Our walking is generally to get “there,” which carries with it a certain quality of distress. Instead, try walking without a “there”. Check the mental constructions of destination- including a ‘spiritual’ one - instead pay attention to how the body walks. It’s more peaceful that way!
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-15 05 Guided Meditation: Where Do I Find Meaning? 32:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Take a simple word or theme and bring it into the heart. Holding it, sensing it and asking what’s most meaningful? When you take the word into your heart, what happens?
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-15 06 Using Thought for Recollection 38:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma practice is generally marked by a tangle of thoughts. But thought can be used for recollection. Taking words into the heart, we consider what has meaning, what serves as refuge, setting distractions aside.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-15 Guided Metta Meditation 30:06
James Baraz
Metta for Self and Benefactor
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-15 Guided Equanimity Meditation 30:07
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-15 Morning Teachings - Equanimity 55:36
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-15 Opening Instructions 56:18
James Baraz
Working with the Wandering Mind and Initial Instructions with Breath
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-15 Demons in Love: 5-step Feeding your Demons 6:37:16
Tsultrim Allione
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Widsom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Empowered Feminine - Lama Tsultrim

2018-07-14 Dharma Talk - Appreciation 39:05
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-14 The 10 Paramis and feeding the good wolf all with the support of neuroscience. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:06
Bonnie Duran
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-14 01 Precepts: Something You Can Always Do 15:35
Ajahn Sucitto
You can’t always “do” pleasant mindstates or an easeful body. Precepts are always available to enact as a way of practice.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-14 Recharge and Reconnect: Inner Awareness, Resilience and Self-Care for Providers - Day 3 6:40:24
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-14 Guided Meditation - Mudita 40:08
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-14 Morning Teachings - Mudita 39:18
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-14 Morning Instructions 1:10:04
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-14 Morning Refelctions 42:49
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-13 Dharma Talk - Immeasurable Compassion 54:15
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-13 Metta, Near and Far Enemies (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:39
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-13 Learning to trust 59:16
Yuka Nakamura
Trust, faith or confidence is an important quality of mind on our path - enabling us to set out on the path, to engage with the teachings, to keep going even when facing challenges and to open up to the fullness of our experience. What prevents faith and trust and how can it be nurtured and developed?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-13 Object + Objective 39:32
Sayadaw U Jagara
What are your objectives in life? What are the situations, internal and external, that you find yourself involved in, from moment to moment, and how you can do something about it, to some extent. Small objectives finally come to be seen as not separate from the big picture, our Objective.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-13 Recharge and Reconnect: Inner Awareness, Resilience and Self-Care for Providers - Day 2 6:41:45
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-13 Guided Compassion Meditation 31:35
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-13 Morning Teachings - Compassion 61:06
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-13 Morning Instructions - Body Scan 44:26
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-13 Morning Instructions 45:39
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-12 "The Concept of the Spiritual Home and the Question of What That Really Means to Each of Us Individually." 40:54
Kate Munding
Is it something deep within, is it a feeling of familiarity and spiritual belonging, or is it a physical place or group of people?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-07-12 Dharma Talk - Metta 52:53
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-12 Kindness is What Matters (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:27
Sally Armstrong
The essence of Metta is kindness, to ourselves and to all experience. This talk explores how and why we develop loving-kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta

2018-07-12 A psychological take on bhāvanā: Four Dimensions of meditation practice. 67:01
Akincano Marc Weber
Sutta quote: Directed and Undirected Meditation (S 47.10 The Bhikkhuni’s quarter.) The four main aspects and their respective stuck places are described in psychological terms. A digression on the nature of dissociation, its uses and dangers and some of its telltale signs in meditators is offered.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-12 Recharge and Reconnect: Inner Awareness, Resilience and Self-Care for Providers - Day 1 6:25:02
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-12 Guided Metta Meditation 37:24
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-12 Morning Teachings - Metta 50:53
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-12 Morning Reflection 32:14
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-11 Joy 49:39
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-07-11 Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness 16:54
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and judgment. This meditation relaxes and opens the mind, first by a body scan and a “smile down,” and then by including all changing experience in a spacious awareness. As our attention shifts from mind objects like sensation and sound to the space of awareness itself, we discover the Beingness that is our formless home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-11 From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 2 50:15
Tara Brach
Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we can awaken from our non-stop doing, including the incessant inner narrative, and discover the mystery, love and freedom that arises in Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-11 Attention, Perception and the Immeasurables 58:12
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-11 Fabrication: Non-Fabrication 44:49
Christina Feldman
Reflects on the cognitive chains involved in building our world of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-11 Knowing Dhamma in the Present 32:39
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-07-11 Reflections on Seclusion - Talk 58:50
Shelly Graf
Additional Teacher: Gabe Keller-Flores
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-11 Reflections on Seclusion - Meditation 29:38
Shelly Graf
Additional Teacher: Gabe Keller-Flores
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-11 It Is Possible 52:35
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-07-11 Compassion - Educators Retreat 45:54
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Educators retreat

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