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Dharma Talks
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 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 Metta for Myanmar and Ukraine 46:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

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

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

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