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Dharma Talks
2022-02-08 Guided Meditation 19:17
Zohar Lavie
The middle way of balancing & gathering.
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-08 Vedana and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:59
Mei Elliott
The 12 links of dependent origination describe how we get caught in suffering. Through exploring 4 key links of dependent origination, we can come to learn how to be free and at ease regardless of how difficult or unpleasant aspects of life may be. By studying the vedana (feeling tone) of our experience we can learn how to break the cycle of suffering without reactivity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-08 Dharma Talk - The Middle Way of Balancing & Gathering 20:51
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Easing into the Middle Way

2022-02-08 Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta 35:14
Brian Lesage
Here is the program that I referred to in the Dharma talk: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/course/developing-the-foundations-of-practice-3-cohorts-2/
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-02-08 Cultivation Of Compassion 44:42
Bart van Melik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-08 Keep calmly knowing change 67:14
Bart van Melik
Meditation on impermanence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-07 Dependent Origination - Name & Form (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:22
Tuere Sala
Name and Form - Neutral Factors. The framing in which the Buddha saw the lists - his own enlightenment. Discernment of the 7 factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-07 Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 5 – Meditation 30:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity

2022-02-07 Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 5 – Talk 58:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity

2022-02-07 Befriending difficult emotions 48:27
Bart van Melik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-07 Gentle reminder to be consistent 21:22
Ajahn Achalo
An informal talk at Anandagiri 21 02 07
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2022-02-07 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Embracing Paradox 49:11
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-02-07 Compassion 46:08
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
How can I help? Quan Yin energy with meditation phrases
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-07 Metta for Easy Beings, Difficult Beings, and All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:54
JD Doyle
Guided Metta meditation that begins with an overview of working with difficult or challenging people. Meditation explores the cultivation of Metta, starting with easy beings, moving to difficult beings and ending with all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-07 Closing Session 57:59
Ayya Santacitta
This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-06 Reflections on Second and Third Vipallasa 49:37
Ayya Santacitta
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-06 Practice of Sincerity 1:32:34
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-02-06 Creative with kindness 46:31
Bart van Melik
Instructions to connect with kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-06 Third Vipallasa 1:13:45
Ayya Santacitta
Seeing what is without a self (anatta) as a self (atta). This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-06 Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 4 – Meditation 33:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-06 Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 4 – Talk 39:45
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-06 Second Vipallasa 66:42
Ayya Santacitta
Seeing what is painful (dukkha) as pleasant (sukha). This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-06 Guided Meditation on Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:09
JD Doyle
This meditation starts with a short introduction to practicing with Vedana (or feeling tone) and then continues with a guided meditation that invites you to bring your awareness to different parts of the body and different senses to recognize Vedana as it arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-05 A Wise and Kind Way of Seeing All Things as Unsatisfactory 1:26:10
Nathan Glyde
All changing and unreliable phenomena are neither satisfactory nor dissatisfactory. They neither contain the ingredients for contentment nor for distress. It is in the way of relating to them that the tangle of dukkha (distress) arises, or the openness of freedom, well-being, and happiness come to be. How much freedom might come from reminding ourselves that all things are both non-dissatisfactory and unsatisfactory? Guided meditation and Dharma Reflection, followed by a Q&A.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Feb 2022

2022-02-05 Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:07
James Baraz
Being in the present requires us to open to all experience, the beautiful moments and the challenging ones. This talk explores essential qualities that help us not only accept the moment, but embrace and even love it as our true refuge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-05 Reflections on First and Fourth Vipallasa 54:13
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-05 Wisdom of the body 33:48
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Mindfulness of the body as Refuge
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-05 First Vipallasa 57:54
Ayya Santacitta
Seeing what is impermanent (anicca) as permanent (nicca).
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-02-05 Fourth Vipallasa 1:12:31
Laura Bridgman
Seeing what is not beautiful (asubha) as beautiful (subha).
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-05 Kamma 57:10
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-02-04 Opening Session (Part 2) 28:27
Laura Bridgman
This recording also includes Ayya Santacitta
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-04 Opening Session 35:04
Ayya Santacitta
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-02-04 Opening Talk 1:10:37
Devin Berry, Bart van Melik, Nakawe Cuebas Berrios
Finding the way home to natural awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Way Home to Natural Awareness

2022-02-04 The trapped monkey, Guided meditation, Dhamma talk on mantras as a skillful means, Q+A 1:25:11
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
from Mantra Hotel. Introduction by Bhante Akāliko: the trapped monkey. Meditation guided by Bhante Akāliko. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on the Buddha's idea of mantras as a skillful means, a tool to work with the mind, without intrinsic power. Snp 4.14: craving drives thinking. Q+A: resistance to meditation. Fear. Simile of the cat and the elephant.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • Little Dust Buddhist Community by littledust.org (Link)

2022-02-04 Dhp 152 153 The Inner Critic 24:57
Bhante Bodhidhamma
These two verses point to the hypocrite an d also suggest the Inner Critic and that we should attend to it.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2022-02-04 Guided Bramavihara Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:23
James Baraz
In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided meditation invites us to practice forgiving ourselves– our body, our mind, and our heart – and then extending it towards others as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-04 Guided Meditation on the Four Elements 52:31
JD Doyle
The first foundation of the body is explored with a guided body scan for each of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-03 Exploring the Three Refuges as Paths of Practice 55:32
JD Doyle
An exploration of how the three refuges can be used during retreat to support practice. Recognizing the lineage and Buddha nature, the Dharma of our bodies, and the Sangha as a network as support systems that undergird our practice. Includes working with perceptions and using the natural world as part of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-03 talk: finding (moments of) ease in the midst of it all 41:35
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how we get caught in busyness, stress and overwhelm, with suggestions for helping to find moments of ease and equanimity in the midst of it all
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley

2022-02-03 meditation: orienting to ease 28:05
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by establishing awareness of the body, then connecting with breathing and opening to spaciousness and ease
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley

2022-02-03 Dharma Talk - Transitioning and Sustaining Welll-being 35:30
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Lingering in Happiness

2022-02-03 Mindfulness of the Body for Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:29
Tempel Smith
At some point we can fully let go of all our concerns to give our full attention to the breath and body. As we build faith and devotion to this simple fullness of attention we can feel the mind healing from its habits of being scattered and exhausted. This practice develops into full absorption and becomes the basis for liberating wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-02 Week 4 - Guided Meditation 47:14
Kirsten Kratz
Aspects of Mudita
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-02-02 Week4 - Exploring Appreciative Joy - Mudita 1:35:41
Kirsten Kratz
Instructions and Meditation
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-02-02 Mindfulness of the Body 61:17
Tempel Smith
The Buddha stated we are often lost in craving and aversion when we are not mindful of our bodies. In a discourse named the Six Animals (SN 35.247) the Buddha strongly encouraged developing the concentration of body mindfulness as a pillar to collect and calm oneself, and learn to have a conscious relationship to the six sense. From developing calm and collectedness mindfulness of the body continues to liberate us from our confusions towards having a body. As both a refuge of samadhi and a place for deepening wisdom, mindfulness of the body is considered the central foundation to the buddha's path to freedom here and now, and ultimate liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-02 Meditation: Breathing Through 17:08
Tara Brach
Drawn from a classic Tibetan Buddhist compassion practice, this guided meditation invites us to open to the sufferings of the world, and let it move through our hearts and out again. The blessing of this offering of presence is that our hearts become a transformer of sorrow.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-02 The Earth is Crying in Our Hearts 43:58
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

2022-02-02 Freeing the Heart – Meditation 33:26
Rebecca Bradshaw
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-02 Freeing the Heart – Talk 49:38
Rebecca Bradshaw
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-02 Dharma Talk - Lingering in Happiness Beyond Retreat Conditions 43:48
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Lingering in Happiness

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