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Dharma Talks
2022-03-04 Meditation Instructions 63:00
Zohar Lavie
Metta to easy person, and to self.
Gaia House The Boundless Heart of Metta

2022-03-04 Samadhi als Erwachungsfaktor & Metta/Karuna 34:22
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-03-04 Samadhi eröffnet Einsicht ~ Rechte Sammlung 21:18
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-03-04 Morning instructions – anchors 42:37
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-03 Sad Heart, Breaking Heart: Working with the Invasion of Ukraine 58:10
James Baraz
The news of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is particularly sad and disturbing Although there are conflicts like this happening around the world, an unprovoked invasion from one of the strongest military countries in the world into a European country that could feasibly escalate into another world war is deeply unsettling. We explore as a community how our practice can help us hold all the feelings that may be arising. Includes a 7 minute clip of Joanna Macy explaining her Spiral from her "Work that Reconnects."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-03-03 talk: Taking Refuge in Sangha p2 - the support of dāna / generosity 26:26
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how generosity is the life-blood of sangha, and how taking refuge in sangha can help strengthen generosity and provide an antidote to some of the toxic effects of capitalism
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-03-03 Mindfulness as a path of happiness 43:40
Erin Treat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-03 Mindfulness of Difficult Mental States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:12
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-03 Guided Metta practice 39:44
Matthew Brensilver
The alternatives to love, hate or apathy, are not visible
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Opening to Wisdom and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-03-02 Faith: An honorable starting place 53:19
Shelly Graf
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-03-02 Meditation: Being a Kind Witness 18:46
Tara Brach
Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-02 Equanimity: The Gifts of Non-Reactive Mindful Presence 41:58
Tara Brach
If we want to bring our intelligence, creativity and love into our relationships and world, we need to be able to access an inner refuge of presence. This talk explores how, when we’re reacting from anger, clinging or fear, to pause, reconnect to the immediate experience of “just this” and remember the love and awareness that has room for the changing waves of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-03-02 Mindfulness Directed to the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:56
Greg Scharf
An exploration of the second establishment of mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-02 32 Parts of the Body Meditation: Discovering Freedom within the Body—Week 8 Closing of Class 32:56
Bob Stahl
Please join us for this 8-week “32 Parts of the Body” meditation class that has rarely been taught in the West. This practice will cultivate deeper insight into the true nature of the body and most importantly to help see through the identifications, conditionings, beliefs, and narratives – the erroneous view of self. It has also been used for healing illness. Various methods will be taught to strengthen mindfulness of the body and to explore the mind/body connection. Each class will consist of silent and guided meditation, chanting of the body parts and small and large group discussion. These teachings and practices will help develop greater clarity, wisdom, and compassion; and foster the depth of practice.
Insight Santa Cruz

2022-03-02 Balancing the Mind in the Middle of Sorrow 1:28:18
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-03-02 Closing Talk 58:33
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-03-01 The Frame Around Insight Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:52
Winnie Nazarko
This talk was offered at a month long insight meditation retreat, where most of the day is devoted to sitting and walking practice. The discussion acknowledges and explicitly points out the larger framework within which these meditations are done. It briefly reviews the 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path, especially focusing on Mundane Wise View and Wise Intention. These place in context, and inform, why and how these practices support the heart/mind in finding release.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-03-01 Dhamma Talk - Through the Looking Glass - Anicca, Dukkha, Annata 1:17:43
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-03-01 Reading from The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast 55:43
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-28 Compassion in a Time of War Meditation | Monday Night 25:27
Jack Kornfield
May your struggles and sorrows be eased. May you hold yourself in great compassion. May you be safe and protected. May your heart be at peace. May your life be at peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-02-28 A Peaceful Heart In A Time Of War And The Legacy Of Thich Nhat Hanh | Monday Night Talk 54:40
Jack Kornfield
Tonight I had planned to talk about Thich Nhat Hanh, the great and wise Zen master and teacher who died recently at age 95. But it seems critical to also acknowledge the grief of the war in Ukraine. As it says in the Buddhist teachings (and in other wisdom teachings), in this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. There has to be a better game than war for human beings. We have to look at the war within ourselves as well. Thich Nhat Hanh’s instruction was to stop—stop making enemies. Make prayers. Make blessings. This is our moral task.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-02-28 Dhamma Talk - Equanimity 1:18:50
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-28 Introduction to Metta and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:33
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-28 Morning Instructions: Intimacy with Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 69:17
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-28 meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome 44:16
Jill Shepherd
Monday morning "start your week well" meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome to whatever our experience is right now
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-02-28 Guided Meditation 53:16
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-27 Dhamma Talk - The Heart's Release 1:23:46
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-27 Ein Geschenk 19:26
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 6/6 ~ Abschluss
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-27 Wie beziehe ich mich zu meiner Erfahrung? 21:39
Ayya Santacitta
Vier Vipallasa 5/6 ~ Zusammenfassung
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-27 Guided Metta Part 3 45:25
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-27 Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 6: Non-Distraction – Meditation 32:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-27 Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 6: Non-Distraction – Talk 31:59
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-27 First Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:00
Winnie Nazarko
This is the initial sitting meditation instruction for a month long retreat. It supports people in settling in, finding the body and its sensations, and identifying a primary object/anchor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-26 Dhamma Talk - Mindfulness of Mind 1:20:53
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-26 Die Dinge existieren nicht aus sich selbst heraus, sie sind bedingt entstanden 51:40
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 4/6 ~ Anatta
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-26 Guided Metta Part 2 44:58
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-26 Wir können Samsara nicht endgültig reparieren, aber wir können etwas tun 54:21
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 3/6 ~ Dukkha
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-26 Anapanasati Practice 56:32
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-25 The Three Trainings to be in the Stream of Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:45
Tempel Smith
Sariputta equated the stream of liberation to being the very same 8 fold path of the Buddha's main teachings. The 8 fold path can be summed up as the three higher trainings: training in Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña. To stay in the stream which only flow in one direction - liberation - we only need to embrace Sīla (ethical attunement), Samādhi (cultivating beautiful aspects of heart), and Pañña (living with wise perspective). Whether you wear robes on the outside of your body or if you are a lay person, we want to ordain our hearts to wear the inner robes of Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-25 Mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on the Russian invasion of Ukraine 1:43:18
Bhante Sujato
Mettā meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on the Russian invasion of Ukraine: how to find truth in a sea of disinformation (five guidelines). Thoughts on the concept of "Just War": its ancient philosophical origins and the Buddhist perspective. Black / white / black and white / neither black nor white kamma.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-02-25 Dhamma Talk - Four Elements Talk & Practice 1:14:29
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-25 Genauer hinschauen & hinterfragen 53:47
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 2/6 ~ Anicca
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-25 Guided Metta Part 1 44:37
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-25 Nicht in Kontrolle & trotzdem bereichert 60:58
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 1/6 ~ Asubha
Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs

2022-02-25 Reflection & Instructions on Vedana 54:53
Kristina Bare
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-24 Your Practice is Not Just for You 60:30
James Baraz
Your practice affects everyone around you. When you see your practice in this wider context, it evokes a whole dimension of inspiration and “joyful responsibility“ to cultivate wisdom and compassion within us. In this world with so much suffering—including the climate crisis and injustice in the world—more than ever we need to keep this in mind and see ourselves as “bodhisattvas in training“.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-24 Dhamma Talk - Mindfulness of Vedana (Feeling Tone) 50:45
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-24 Reflection - Reading "Stopping the War" chapter 27 from Steven Levine's book "Healing Into Life and Death" 56:32
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-23 The Relationship Between the Hindrances and the Five Faculties 37:55
Tuere Sala
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-02-23 Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care 15:52
Tara Brach
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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