2024-09-04 Coming H.O.M.E. to Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:07
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
This talk is structured around the acronym H.O.M.E. which stands for: Honoring our true nature, Opening to embodied awareness, Mindfully letting go, and Engaging with wholesome habits, all of which guide us to come home to ourselves in a way that benefits both our own lives and those of others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Coming Home to Ourselves

2024-09-04 Mindfulness of Mind: The Core of Practice is How We Relate to Experience 34:56
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-09-04 Guided Meditation: Welcoming Yourself Here 33:33
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-09-04 Compassion for self, others and Loving Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:49
Tanya Wiser	Download Listen
Bringing a tone of kindness to our inner world and the world around us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Coming Home to Ourselves

2024-09-04 Starting from scratch 47:16
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
How remarkable it is that mindfulness helps us investigate reality and how we relate to it starting from the Building Blocks of our experience
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2024-09-04 Practicing with Mystery 2 64:53
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this second talk on practicing with mystery, we begin by talking more generally about the nature of mystery. We then review seven ways of practicing with mystery explored last week, while bringing in further examples of these ways of practicing, and add an additional two further ways of practicing. Reading of poems and excerpts from poems support this sense of multiple ways of practicing with mystery. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-09-04 Guided Meditation on Practicing with Mystery 34:13
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
This is a fairly lightly guided meditation on ways to practice with a sense of mystery, linked with the talk on this theme. After grounding in posture and intentions, basic instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then in mindfulness, are given, with later periodic suggestions on ways to practice with a sense of mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-09-03 The Five Hindrances During Concentration Practice 59:09
Mei Elliott	Download Listen
Many practitioners are familiar with the standard vipassana approach to working with the hindrances. Yet, not many realize that there is a specific technique for working with the hindrances while doing concentration practice. This talk covers the concentration approach to practicing with the hindrances, along with a variety of other methods.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  September 2024

2024-09-03 The Invisible Work of Dharma Practice 18:09
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2024-09-03 Why Are We Here - Aspiration and Refuge - Meditation 32:11
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2024-09-03 Why Are We Here - Aspiration and Refuge - Talk 61:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2024-09-03 Loving Kindness for Oneself and for All (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:05
Tanya Wiser	Download Listen
Introduction to Loving Kindness practice with emphasis upon cultivating a warm internal tone and gaze.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Coming Home to Ourselves

2024-09-03 Dharmette 43:44
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-09-03 Guided Meditation 43:44
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-09-03 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Placing Thoughts into the Womb of Awareness 56:46
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practices of the Heart

2024-09-03 Instructions: Energetic impact of breathing 50:18
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  September 2024

2024-09-02 Opening Night - Coming Home to Ourselves (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:22:47
Nikki Mirghafori, Andrea Castillo, Diana Clark, Tanya Wiser	Download Listen
Coming Home to Ourselves is about orienting towards our experience and then meeting our experience with an warm heart. To be "at home," means to be here, at ease, in the present moment. Often we're "not at home" because we are experiencing difficulties and feel like we have to go outside of ourselves to figure it out or perhaps we have patterns of avoiding or distracting ourselves. The journey of coming home and connecting with ourselves in a friendly way might be a radical one because it requires letting of the idea that what the heart is yearning for can be found outside of ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Coming Home to Ourselves

2024-09-02 Talk - Knowing & Unknowing - The Wisdom of Uncertainty 49:04
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practices of the Heart

2024-09-02 Monday night Dharma Talk: Love - craving versus the boundless heart. 46:27
Kate Munding	Download Listen
The word love, as it's used in the English language, is complicated in that it represents not only our capacity for unlimited, unconditional love but also unhealthy attachment and craving. The Buddha was clear about the pitfalls of craving, but he also pointed to the boundless heart, one free from unhealthy attachment, as part of the path of awakening
Assaya Sangha

2024-09-02 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Remembering Our Resources 51:46
Sumedha	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practices of the Heart

2024-09-02 A Labor of Love 1:36:33
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-09-01 Talk - Reflecting on Refuge & an Alive Practice 39:33
Sumedha	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practices of the Heart

2024-09-01 What is Dhamma? 17:21
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Dhamma, the Buddha's teaching, guides us to a moral awakening, a realization of ultimate truth. We have forever searched for eternal peace in the world of fleeting promises where happiness never lasts. And now we turn to pure conscious awareness, stopping as witness in the silence of the heart. Seeing all as empty, fleeting, free from wanting, free from suffering, we rest in knowing the timeless, boundless, transcendent presence that runs through all things. This is the reality of what we are – unconditional love
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-09-01 Four objects worthy of your attention 63:50
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
A short talk, a guided meditation and a Q&A
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2024-09-01 Feeling tone and reactivity 44:30
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Recognizing "vedana" or feeling tone - of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral and habitual reactions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend