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Dharma Talks
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 Guided Meditation: Where Is Attention 43:02
Kim Allen
Uncontrived

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

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

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

2022-03-06 Dharma Talk - Active Hope and Joy 52:14
Jake Dartington
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-06 Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth 41:03
Matthew Brensilver
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-06 Guided Meditation 40:48
Zohar Lavie
Metta to sensations.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-06 Meditation Instructions 60:30
Zohar Lavie
Metta to the challenging person.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-06 Morning Instructions & Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:13
Greg Scharf
Guided standing meditation and instruction on mindfulness of feeling tone (Vedana)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-06 Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana 54:34
DaRa Williams
Pain a body and emotions is a part of opening. Understanding the importance and usefulness of including Vedana in practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-05 Dharma Talk 53:49
Zohar Lavie
Boundless Metta
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-05 Wise Acceptance and Wise Non-acceptance 1:27:19
Nathan Glyde
Getting to know our experience is so essential, and that is greatly deepened by accepting what has already arisen. But the Dharma is also about cultivation of beautiful, skilful, and wholesome qualities. And that also means abandoning unhelpful habitual ways of being and acting: wise non-acceptance is a part of wise and timely acceptance. This recording contains a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and questions.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2022

2022-03-05 Guided compassion meditation 44:02
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-05 Guided Metta Meditation 28:06
Zohar Lavie
Metta to self, neutral person, and all.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-05 What do we awake to? 39:51
Martin Aylward
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are

2022-03-05 Awake where you are meditation 28:01
Martin Aylward
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are

2022-03-05 What it means to be awake where you are 19:38
Martin Aylward
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward - Awake Where You Are

2022-03-05 Meditation Instructions 60:01
Jake Dartington
Metta to the neutral person, and the benefits of Metta practice.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-05 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:00
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-05 Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk 57:29
Matthew Brensilver
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-04 Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present 47:18
Matthew Brensilver
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-04 Dharma Talk - Metta and R.A.I.N 39:11
Jake Dartington
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-04 Contentment 46:09
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2022

2022-03-04 The revival of the Bhikkhunis, Mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on the psychology of peace, Q+A 1:29:25
Bhante Sujato, Ayyā Suvirā
From Mantra Hotel. Ayyā Suvīrā presenting her new book. Mettā meditation, introduced and guided by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato: the psychology of peace. Samatha and Vipassanā: not two kinds of meditation, but aspects of mental development: letting go of desire and ignorance. "Māra is always one step ahead!" Q+A: Being afraid of peace.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • Walking in the Sunshine of the Bhikkhunis by Ayyā Suvirā (Link)

2022-03-04 DHP 314-317 From the Chapter on Hell 26:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Verses describe the sort of wrong understanding that leads to the lower realms and those that lead to happy realms. The Six Realms of Existance can also be takes as human states of mind that each of experinces at one time on another in our lives. But if there is moral justice, thre must be some way that our karma works out towards Nibbana.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2022-03-04 Loving-kindness instruction – day two 42:27
DaRa Williams
Circle of benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-04 Mindful Movement and Guided Metta Meditation 46:53
Jake Dartington
Metta to easy person, self and to all.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-04 Guided Metta Practice: Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:13
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

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