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Dharma Talks
2023-07-22 Guided practice - Bodily intention 43:21
John Peacock
London Insight Meditation John Peacock – Buddhist Ethics in the Contemporary World

2023-07-22 Saturday's Questions and Responses 26:28
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-22 Guided practice – Awareness of the patterns of our life 29:57
John Peacock
London Insight Meditation John Peacock – Buddhist Ethics in the Contemporary World

2023-07-22 Ethics versus Meditation 40:23
John Peacock
London Insight Meditation John Peacock – Buddhist Ethics in the Contemporary World

2023-07-22 Happiness 1:23:18
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-07-22 Morning Reflections #19: Meditation Subjects for Rahula 30:07
Sayadaw U Jagara
After a fifteen minute period of silent practice, the reflections on developing a mind like air and like space were presented.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-21 Friday's Evening Chanting Session 43:13
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-21 Empowering Faith Nourishing Resolve 43:22
Ajahn Achalo
In this talk, delivered at a retreat at Wat Marp Jan, Ajahn discusses the subject of cultivating, deepening Faith, and then applying the good energy that comes from this in useful ways. Learning how to apply a more consistent and diligent effort as a consequence of having deep conviction and confidence in both the goal and one's ability to realize it. A Thai version is here: https://youtu.be/0AxHwFX1yK4
Wat Marp Jan

2023-07-21 Friday's Guided Metta Meditation with Questions & Responses 1:16:02
Kamala Masters
Focus: Metta for Benefactor, Self; Friends
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-21 Friday's Short Sitting & Dharma Talk 1:12:54
Roxanne Dault
Focus: Mindfulness & Wise Effort
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-21 Friday's Sitting Meditation with Instructions & Questions/ Responses 1:13:08
Joseph Goldstein
Focus: Breath & Introduction to Walking Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-21 Morning Reflections #18: Liberating the Mind (Step 12) 35:58
Sayadaw U Jagara
Three ways offered to practice this step; (1) Receiving the Dhamma as the most priceless gift, illustrated in the story of King Bimbisara to Pukkusati. (2) Seeing the six sense bases as they really are without clinging. (3) Time - the present without me, myself and mine.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-21 Friday's Early Morning Meditation 46:00
Roxanne Dault
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-07-20 The 4 Spiritual Centers and the 4 Instinctual Drives--The Moh Transpersonal Center and the Enlightenment Drive 1:25:12
Tina Rasmussen
Insight Meditation Tucson

2023-07-20 Closing comments - value of the five precepts 13:21
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
We are always in the centre of our lives, always present, always here.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-20 Morning Reflections #17: Concentrating the Mind 44:45
Nikki Mirghafori
A guided practice to center, calm and collect the mind by abiding with clear comprehension and mindfulness, without desire and grief for the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-20 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 50:11
Kevin Griffin
Kevin uses suttas from the Pali Canon to bring out the practical aspects of this teaching.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-07-20 Noticing the mobile and animate signal of the body 25:22
Ajahn Sucitto
We use our attention as if it’s a bird finding a place to land and find stable ground.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-19 Q&A 41:31
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised; one live question (Q3) was précised and read into the file: 00:08 Q1 Could you say a few words about dealing with traumatic memories or body memories. 13:47 Q2 I fear that I am not able to connect with non-self. Can you say more about non-self. 20:27 Q3 When I was sitting my timer went off and there was a vague voice that was encouraging and reassuring me that whatever issues I face can be resolved. I find this very exciting. What do you think is happening here?28:34 Q4 If a part of our being nature gets accessed by a higher paced energy, can sati and a slower mode of being lead to loosing access to sides of our being?
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-19 Liberation Through Non-clinging 46:28
Greg Scharf
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-07-19 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:34
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-07-19 Intimacy with Life (Part 1) 54:23
Tara Brach
Zen master Dōgen teaches that enlightenment is intimacy with all things. These two talks explore teachings and practices that cultivate intimacy – a liberating experience of relatedness and oneness with our living world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-07-19 Extending the potency of the retreat experience 50:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Take responsibility for your life. What is it about? What's needed? Remember to enter the presence of your entire body, and wait for things to be revealed.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-19 Allow Your State of Wonder to Stay Open, Without Always Trapping It into Meaning 46:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-07-19 Talk #8: Anapanasati & Satipatthana Comparisons (Steps 11 & 12) 46:38
Sayadaw U Jagara
Critical text analysis of how Anapanasati practice fulfills the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Discussion of the samadhi (step 11) and liberating the mind (step 12) from hindrances and self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

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