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Dharma Talks
2017-03-30 Day 6 - Ways of Looking - Anatta, not self 59:17
Zohar Lavie
Instructions in the hall - bringing awareness to the interconnected nature of all phenomena and their lack of inherent self existence
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-30 Commitment to Awakening 34:42
Sayadaw U Jagara
What are you committed to? Where is your path leading? This talk uses the Simile of the Heartwood to reflect upon various attainments and corruptions of insight that can occur through the practice. Minor attainments can support our path, but they may also become attachments if we become enchanted with them, allow them to stall our progress, or if we become negligent. We can nurture a deep aspiration without falling into traps of self-doubt, conceit, envy, or discouragement. We can aim for the ultimate goal, the liberating potential, of this path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-30 Morning Instructions-Vedana (feeling tone) 32:31
Will Kabat-Zinn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-29 Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts 52:38
Tara Brach
This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixated on substitute gratifications. We then explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-29 Emptiness, Self and Dependent Arising 50:30
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-29 Mindfulness and the Relational Field 57:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-03-29 Meditation: Loving Presence – (with a smile body scan) 20:10
Tara Brach
This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a body scan, and then open to the spacious presence that includes the changing moment to moment flow of experience. The meditation closes with a few minutes of offering loving blessings to our inner life, dear ones in need and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-29 Wanting What You Want, and Senses as Portals of Soulmaking 57:25
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-29 Q&A 1:18:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-29 Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A) 40:24
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

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