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Dharma Talks
2022-02-13 Morning Instructions: Meeting our Emotions with Wisdom 39:33
Jean Esther
These guided instructions within formal meditation practice are also applicable in meeting our emotions in our everyday lives.
True North Insight Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart

2022-02-12 Gratitude as Doorway to Belonging; Gratitude as a Practice in Difficult Times 52:31
Susie Harrington, Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday afternoon dharma talk on gratitude as a doorway to belonging (Susie), and as a powerful practice in difficult times (Jeanne).
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Gratitude and Generosity: Realizing the Abundant Heart

2022-02-12 03 meditation: orienting to kindness and ease 14:56
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by establishing a kind relationship to technology, then people on the screen, then settling into the body and orienting to ease
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-12 Gratitude in the Pleasant and in Embodied Presence 45:29
Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday afternoon guided practice in gratitude for subtle pleasant experiences and in the importance of supporting our meditation through noticing these pleasant states. The sit ends with a guided meditation and walking instruction in experiencing the body through the senses. (Jeanne)
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Gratitude and Generosity: Realizing the Abundant Heart

2022-02-12 02 instructions: orientation to the retreat 15:33
Jill Shepherd
How to approach the online retreat format
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-12 01 meditation: arriving and settling in 14:39
Jill Shepherd
A short meditation to help people arrive for the start of the retreat, settling into the body sitting and breathing
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-12 Sur quoi poser l'attention - Retraite en Suisse 56:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2022-02-12 Gratitude as Reciprocal Relationship 55:32
Susie Harrington, Jeanne Corrigal
Saturday morning dharmette in gratitude and generosity as a reciprocal relationship, rather than a transactional relationship, followed by a guided meditation in the refuges as gratitude practices. (Susie) The sit ends with walking instructions and encouragement to sense the body as a support for the embodied gratitude of being present. (Jeanne)
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Gratitude and Generosity: Realizing the Abundant Heart

2022-02-12 Les 3 tonalités de l'expérience - Retraite en Suisse 47:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2022-02-12 Compassion: An Organic Response to Wise Understanding 60:53
Jean Esther
As we discover the 3 characteristics of life in our meditation practice, we begin to recognize their truth in all aspects of life beyond our mediation practice. Through this clear understanding, compassion for self and others emerges organically. The cultivation of compassion practice directed towards our own or others suffering can also strengthen this quality in our minds and hearts. This talk includes some guided practice.
True North Insight Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart

2022-02-12 Closing Meditation and Transitioning Talk 51:08
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-12 Right Speech: What to Say and When to Say It 1:20:51
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-02-12 Comment les choses sont conditionnées - Retraite en Suisse 57:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2022-02-12 Morning Instructions: Rooting in Embodiment: 61:02
Jean Esther
Guided instruction in bringing one’s attention to body, breath and sound as foundational for meditation practice.
True North Insight Meeting Our Emotional Life with a Dharma Heart

2022-02-11 Opening Our Hearts to Love—For Ourselves and For Others 51:11
Donald Rothberg, Fresh Lev White
Just before this Valentine’s Day, we’ll explore, in meditation and a talk and discussion, what helps us to open our hearts to our deep loving nature, and what gets in the way of such opening. We’ll focus on how central it is, and often how hard it is, to be able to develop and express self-love and self-compassion. Yet these qualities are necessary for bringing love into our relationships and into our world, which deeply needs love and heart connections. We’ll identify perspectives and practices which help us to open our hearts to love!
East Bay Meditation Center

2022-02-11 Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:14
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that one should cultivate and, when possible, maintain wholesome states. This talk explores teachings on cultivating states of well-being and how to deepen them in our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Dharma Talk - How an Empty Self Transforms the World 53:03
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Meditative states vs. process, Meditation on impermanence, Dhamma talk on Madhupiṇḍikasutta, Q+A 1:30:59
Bhante Sujato
Bhante Sujato on meditative states vs. meditative process. Meditation on impermanence guided by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk on a passage from the Madhupiṇḍikasutta (MN18): about the proliferation going on in the mind. Katukurunde Ñānananda: concept and reality. Q+A: choice without a chooser.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • MN 18 - The Honey Cake Sutta by suttacentral.net (Link)
  • Concept and Reality by Katukurunde Ñānananda (Link)

2022-02-11 Dharma and Recovery 1:20:13
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-02-11 La présence attentive - Retraite en Suisse 48:07
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2022-02-11 Guided Meditation 43:48
Zohar Lavie
Metta to phenomena.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Guided Compassion Meditation for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:10
JD Doyle
Sharing the Buddha's aspiration to teach out of compassion for the world, you are invited to bring that inspiration into your compassion practice. This guided meditation starts with an overview of compassion and then the guided meditation focuses on an easy being and then opens to all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Questions and Responses 38:03
Zohar Lavie
This recording also includes Nathan Glyde.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Meditation Instructions 56:04
Zohar Lavie
Welcoming all vedanas.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-11 Guided Mindfulness of Intentions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:00
Tempel Smith
In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-11 Guided Mindfulness of Intentions 26:15
Tempel Smith
In daily live many of our actions are habitual and unconscious. The Buddha asked us to be increasingly aware of our motivation and intention behind each action so we can better sort out what is wholesome and helpful, and which actions are connected with greed, harm and ignorance. On a silent retreat we have a chance to see the habits we have and how they drive our behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-10 talk: Sangha as refuge 22:35
Jill Shepherd
Weaving together themes of dāna or generosity, mettā or kindness, and kalyanamitta or dharma friendship as supports for creating and maintaining a healthy sangha or community
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-02-10 Dharma Talk - the Construction of Dukkha and Release 55:50
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 meditation: metta infusion 25:23
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by attuning to the body, then listening to the heart, and inviting a sense of warmth and kindness that can be suffused through the whole being
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-02-10 Guided Meditation 45:44
Nathan Glyde
Metta with a dash of Anicca.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 Guided Karuna/Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:48
Tempel Smith
Every being experiences loss, pain and fear, and often feels the additional suffering of isolation. Our process of waking up gives us increasing awareness of our own vulnerability and that of others. Practicing compassion strengthens our hearts to stay conscious and even move lovingly towards ourselves and others when we are in pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-10 Questions and Responses 29:45
Nathan Glyde, Zohar Lavie
This recording also includes Zohar Lavie.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-10 Meditation Instructions 59:47
Nathan Glyde
Inconstancy
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Curiosity and Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:29
JD Doyle
Exploring Anatta, with an invitation to curiosity and intimacy with the not knowing, beyond the conceptual mind of the constructs of the self. As we investigate the constructions of self, we begin to untangle the sense of self that we are familiar with and open to the possibility of the fullness of Anatta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-09 One Auspicious Day: The Bhaddekaratta Sutta 50:22
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-02-09 Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness 22:41
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, clear awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-09 Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing 53:57
Tara Brach
The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroying our larger body, Earth. We then look at the pathways of awakening to the truth of “interbeing” and responding to our precious world with love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-09 Dharma Talk - Inconstancy 51:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Sudden awakening, gradual cultivation 48:27
Bart van Melik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-09 Stories and Songs Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh 16:40
Betsy Rose
I met Thay in 1987 and assisted him in many retreats and public talks, singing the songs I wrote inspired by his teachings and poetry. In this talk, I share some stories and songs from these early days that focus on his unorthodox, creative, intuitive, and courageous embodiment of dharma.
Assaya Sangha

2022-02-09 Week 5 - Exploring Equanimity 1:15:34
Kirsten Kratz
Dharma Talk, Guided Meditation, Closing of the Retreat
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-02-09 Peace of Truthfulness 58:23
Jeanne Corrigal
The 10 Parami are powers that we can lean into and trust. This week we considered the seventh parami of truthfulness and how this quality can support peace in the heart and mind.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Wednesday Night Talks: The Parami (2021-2022)

2022-02-09 32 Parts of the Body Meditation: Discovering Freedom within the Body—Week 5 Large Intestines, Small Intestines, Stomach, Feces, Brain 52:24
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

2022-02-09 Guided Meditation 45:53
Zohar Lavie
Relaxed and kind.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Questions and Responses 22:09
Zohar Lavie
This recording also includes Nathan Glyde.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Donald Rothberg and Yassir Chadly in Dialogue on Buddhist and Sufi Perspectives and Practices: A Gathering of Wisdom, Love, and Respect 66:34
Donald Rothberg
Yassir Chadly, a long-time friend of Donald's who is a Sufi teacher, musician, and former Olympic swimmer, originally from Morocco, is in dialogue with Donald, and then, during the last part of the session, with the whole group. We explore Yassir's background, the three main levels of practice in Sufism, practicing in Sufism with what arises in the heart, parallels between Sufi and Buddhist practice, how to make sense of how and why some act negatively in the name of a religion (we discuss Islam and Buddhism), the unity of traditions in their deep mystical expressions, and the need to work together across traditions in our current world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:

2022-02-09 Meditation Instructions 58:30
Zohar Lavie
Subtlety of attention; breath as energy.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-09 Metta & Agape sind das Resultat eines alchemischen Prozesses 57:35
Ayya Santacitta
Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Die Vier Schutz-Meditationen 2/2
ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien

2022-02-09 The Brahmavihara of Compassion 32:25
Dawn Scott
In this guided meditation, we explore the nature of thoughts, opening to their ephemeral, changing, and sensory-influenced nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-09 Right Speech in These Times 31:37
Dhammadīpā
Dharma Seed

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