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Dharma Talks
2021-07-06 Self and Non-Self (Week 3) at BCBS 1:27:10
Ayya Santussika
This session was offered on July 6, 2021 for the BCBS class "Self and Non-Self: Practices for Developing Virtue, Meditation, and Wisdom".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-05 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 2 - Meditation 27:50
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Mindfulness of the Mind

2021-07-05 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 2 - Talk 37:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Mindfulness of the Mind

2021-07-05 Week 4: Relaxing the Push and Pull of Experience 1:24:46
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

2021-07-04 Reflections on Universal Well-Being in English (Chant Along) 1:52
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-04 True Happiness - Independence and Interdependence 1:35:07
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-07-04 Practicing in Urban Life 59:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2021-07-04 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation (week 2) - Talk 34:10
Mark Nunberg
Below are the resources on renunciation Mark mentions in the opening of the talk: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JolUrzOX8ESARJcK1VpW9E70Ff0vZx9agawRowDtJnE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ohn3k_urMZaVwDQtaQ4ZArWtn8scVk2ONpT-7lPpONM/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JolUrzOX8ESARJcK1VpW9E70Ff0vZx9agawRowDtJnE/edit?usp=sharing
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-04 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation (week 2) - Meditation 37:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-07-04 06 meditation: mindfulness of the body and thinking 14:25
Jill Shepherd
Short meditation establishing mindfulness of the body, then noticing the effect of getting caught in thinking and returning the awareness to relaxing physical tension
Auckland Insight Meditation Right View – Wrong View – Self View – No View What is the point of view in Buddhism?

2021-07-03 Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection (Chant Along) 2:09
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-03 Following Our Likes and Dislikes 22:33
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-03 Guided Anapanasati Meditation With Reflection on Likes and Dislikes 31:38
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-03 Q&A - How do I work with deferring too much to others 4:33
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-07-03 Empowerment of Investigating 1:19:56
Nathan Glyde
4th exploration of the bases of success: prior ones are in the: Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021 'retreat album'. This final one explores vīmaṁsa the skilful analysis of experience to develop deeper well-being and freedom on the path of practice. Each exploration stands alone, as well as being part of a series.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jul 2021

2021-07-02 Die Fünf Indriya & Bewusstes Gewahrsein 38:54
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-07-02 Die Fünf Indriya & Bala ~ Fünf Stränge eines Seils 34:15
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-07-02 On the joy of meditating together, Dhamma talk on our values during quarantine, Q&A 1:29:38
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
Bhante Akāliko on the joy of meditating together; Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on reflecting on our values during quarantine (desires, needs, independence, freedom); Q + A on sense restraint, independence vs. interdependence, wholesome desires, and meaningful work.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-07-02 Guided Metta Practice and Discussion - Meditation 54:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2021-07-02 Guided Metta Practice and Discussion - Talk 34:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2021-07-02 Dhp 360 362 Restraint 21:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Restraint is a word that has gone out of usage. Why restrain when the culture says more is best?
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2021-07-01 talk: Wise Effort part 1 27:17
Jill Shepherd
Looking at Wise Effort generally, how it is supported by Wise View, and some of the common challenges of maintaining momentum in daily life practice
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-07-01 The Buddha's Pithiest Teaching: Bahiya Sutta 55:59
James Baraz
The Buddha's pithiest and shortest teaching, his teaching to Bahiya (Bahiya Sutta). Although only a few short sentences it was enough to result in complete Enlightenment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-07-01 Anxiety Responsive Care (ARC) 8:03
Dhammadīpā
A standing guided meditation for moments of high anxiety
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-30 The leaves will always fall 45:38
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2021-06-30 Trusting the Gold: A Conversation between Tara Brach and Jonathan Foust 45:12
Tara Brach
In this interview-style conversation, Jonathan asks Tara questions about key themes in her new book, Trusting the Gold. They include their own relationships and ways we work with our inner life and others, in cultivating the capacity to see basic goodness and realizing a mature and liberating quality of trust.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-30 Deepening Daily Life Practice 1 68:12
Donald Rothberg
In an important sense, daily life practice is central and vital; it is where we live! Yet at times in the non-monastic Insight Meditation approach as it's developed in the West, such practice has been somewhat marginalized, with retreat practice and formal meditation practice at the center. We explore first the challenging context of daily life practice for many Western practitioners, including not just such a lack of sustained emphasis on daily life practice, but also the challenges of living in what is often a very busy, "mental" culture and society. We then look at a number of ways to bring more awareness into daily life, inviting the listener to see what one or two ways of practicing might be emphasized in the next period of time. We give a more in-depth focus on one very central way of bringing more awareness into daily life--developing mindfulness of the body. We offer a number of different practices that support such mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-29 Self and Non-Self (Week 2) at BCBS 1:33:58
Ayya Santussika
This session was offered on June 29, 2021 for the BCBS class "Self and Non-Self: Practices for Developing Virtue, Meditation, and Wisdom".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-28 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 1 - Meditation 40:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Mindfulness of the Mind

2021-06-28 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 1 - Talk 43:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Mindfulness of the Mind

2021-06-28 Week 3, Part 2: Exploring Suffering - A Therapeutic Path 34:55
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

2021-06-28 The NIne Qualities of the Buddha 22:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma
May Full Moon is the day we celebrate the founder, exemplar and teacher of our religion. I thought to centre on the nine qualities that are chanted and which describe his qualities.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2021-06-28 Week 3, Part 1: Exploring Suffering - A Therapeutic Path 41:21
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

2021-06-27 Awakening the Three Centers - Body, Heart, Mind 1:28:05
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2021-06-27 Reflections on Sharing Blessings in Pali (Chant Along) 2:23
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Pali name: Uddissanadhitthana-Gathayo
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-27 The Four Noble Truths 18:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma
This the foundation of the Buddha's teaching. The crucial word here is dukkha - suffering, disatisfaction, pain etc.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2021-06-27 4 - Dharma talk – Doing and not doing 47:38
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-27 By Love Alone 29:37
Ayya Medhanandi
Patience, humility, and compassion serve as the mind’s compass to enlightened wisdom and unconditional love. Breath by breath, we triumph over hateful feelings until the pain of others becomes unbearable to us. It’s an exalted work of heroic proportions, accomplished through undaunted perseverance, forgiveness, and trust, revealing the jewel within our own heart.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) :  By Love Alone

2021-06-27 Purest Gold 31:38
Ayya Medhanandi
The sublime attitudes of loving kindness, compassion, joyous empathy and serene composure create for us a path, a moral training to guide us not to ransom our goodness or our intrinsic values for the fleeting joys of worldly gratification. As we purify the heart, we hasten our escape from the cyclic rounds of rebirth. So let us be heroic in the good. What we never thought was possible is truly within reach – purest gold, that higher knowledge, the jewel of the Dhamma within you.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) :  By Love Alone

2021-06-27 3 - Attune to the breath - guided meditation 47:01
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-27 2 - Guided meditation practice 44:23
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-27 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Meditation 41:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-27 Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Talk 27:55
Mark Nunberg
Paramis: The Joy of Renunciation - Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-27 1 - Welcome, meditation, and walking practice introduction 65:27
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Present, steady and awake – Practicing in the midst of life

2021-06-26 Forsake Harm 38:54
Ayya Medhanandi
How clarity and compassion will help us to live the teachings and engender blessings for ourselves and others.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2021-06-26 Kamma and Why It's Hard for Westerners to Understand 28:25
Ayya Santussika
NOTE: Unfortunately, the first sentence was cut off, which began: "So today I want to talk about kamma, and maybe get at a little about why it's so hard for Westerners to see kamma in the way that the Buddha talked about it…"
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-26 Guided Meditation With Loving-Kindness 31:17
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-26 Doing & Non-Doing 1:12:19
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-26 Q&A 43:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivating mental/emotional equilibrium – drowsiness, other people. Energies – how to sense subtle body, body sways in meditation, standing meditation, qigong, kundalini. Do we need goals in life; fear and anxiety; physical pain devoid of mental pain; advice about becoming a nun.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-26 Guided Meditation – Acknowledging Dukkha 14:41
Ajahn Sucitto
When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness. Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy. Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated. Use body and breathing to change the speed of the mind, steady it. Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to with dispassion, compassion, detachment.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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