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Dharma Talks
2022-02-19 Understanding What Supports and Hinders Mindful Awareness – Meditation 11:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-19 Understanding What Supports and Hinders Mindful Awareness – Talk 51:06
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-19 Investigation of Dhamma 1:17:20
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-02-19 33 meditation: practice review 49:42
Gil Fronsdal
Beginning with the body and breathing, opening to emotions and thoughts then awareness itself
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-19 Reflection on Patience 51:31
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-18 32 meditation: spaciousness 30:12
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with the body, then gradually opening up awareness to include the space beyond the body
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-18 Equanimity 61:28
James Baraz
Equanimity is always the last on every list, which shows its importance as the culmination of the mind that can be with all things. Cultivating a balance and centeredness in the midst of our joys and sorrows, we can know the peace that the Buddha encourages us to experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-18 Mettā meditation for small creatures, Dhamma talk on Ahirājasutta (The Snake King), Q+A 1:22:11
Bhante Sujato
Mettā for mosquitoes. Mettā meditation for small creatures led by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk on AN 4.67 Ahirājasutta (The Snake King). Q+A: The first nun.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-02-18 Die Khandhas und Nicht-Selbst 62:14
Yuka Nakamura
Obwohl wir normalerweise von der Existenz eines festen, unabhängigen Selbst ausgehen, lässt sich ein solches nicht finden. Diese Illusion entsteht durch das Anhaften an den fünf Khandhas (Daseinsgruppen), die Identifikation mit dem Körper, den Gefühlstönungen, der Wahrnehmung, den Willensregungen und dem Bewusstsein als 'ich', 'mein' oder 'mein Selbst'. Indem wir erkennen, wie das Selbst geschaffen wird, werden wir frei von einer fixierten Identität.
Seminarhaus Engl

2022-02-18 Dhamma Talk - Wise Concentration 1:23:55
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-18 31 talk: insight into not-self 46:08
Gil Fronsdal
Learning to see more clearly what takes us out of the stream of the present moment, and how preoccupation with self-referencing keeps us stuck
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-18 30 instructions: awareness of awareness p2 5:45
Gil Fronsdal
Simplicity of awareness highlights what is extra and not needed, for example ideas of me, my and mine
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-18 29 meditation: awareness of awareness 35:39
Gil Fronsdal
Cultivating simple, clear and spacious presence
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-18 Die sieben Erwachungsfaktoren ~ Vertiefen & Erweitern von Erfahrung 31:24
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-02-18 Das Dharma antwortet uns durch Lebensumstände ~ Rechte Bemühung & Rechte Achtsamkeit 35:00
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-02-18 28 instructions: awareness of awareness 12:19
Gil Fronsdal
Bringing awareness to awareness itself, and notice if we're adding anything extra to it
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-18 Reflection & Instructions 51:19
Kristina Bare
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-17 27 meditation: compassion 28:51
Jill Shepherd
Meeting dukkha with mindfulness and compassion
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-17 Einführung in die Leerheit 60:49
Yuka Nakamura
Einsicht in die Leerheit aller Phänomene zu entwickeln ist zentral in der Dharmapraxis. Sie bedeutet, die Täuschung einer festen, unabhängigen Selbstexistenz zu durchschauen. Im Vortrag werden Beispiele von Leerheit besprochen, die aufzeigen, dass damit die Abhängigkeit von Bedingungen, von Teilen oder vom wahrnehmenden Geist gemeint ist. Die Einsicht ermöglicht einen mittleren Weg zwischen Nihilismus und Eternalismus und eine freiere, spielerischere Haltung zum Leben.
Seminarhaus Engl

2022-02-17 Samatha and Vipassana in Harmony, Talk 3 of 3: How Samatha and Vipassana Can Work Together in Harmony, with Guided Meditation 1:19:34
Tina Rasmussen
Insight Meditation Tucson

2022-02-17 Dhamma Talk - Sila 44:40
Kristina Bare
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-17 26 talk: Suffering 43:46
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring our relationship to suffering and its causes
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-17 More Instructions on Concentration 43:49
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-17 25 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of thinking 60:20
Gil Fronsdal
Understanding how we're relating to our thinking, and learning how to not be bothered by our thoughts
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-17 Guided Sit - Concentration 67:30
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-16 24 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 36:32
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying awareness on the breath, then physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives 27:21
Tara Brach
This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-16 Cultivating Loving Kindness - Seeing the Goodness 56:46
Tara Brach
The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-02-16 Connecting and Sustaining: Experiencing the joy of being present 26:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-16 Connecting and Sustaining Present Moment Awareness – Meditation 29:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-02-16 23 instructions: different modes of mindfulness 8:39
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the quality of mindfulness itself, and the benefits of using different modes of mindfulness to keep the mind in balance
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 Samvega - Spiritual Urgency 1:13:48
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-16 22 talk: Inconstancy 48:30
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring insight into anicca or inconstancy
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 21 instructions p2: developing respect for emotions 8:08
Gil Fronsdal
Having respect for our emotions helps us be upright in the middle of it all, and that still, quiet attention gathers what's good in us
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 20 meditation: mindfulness of emotions 32:04
Gil Fronsdal
Practising recognising, allowing, feeling and teasing apart emotions (RAFT)
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 19 instructions: mindfulness of emotions 16:33
Gil Fronsdal
Bringing awareness to emotions and using the acronym RAFT to stay present with the experiences in the body and the mind
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-16 Early Morning Introductions and Metta Chant 33:32
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-16 Settling In Instructions 58:42
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2 Week ONLINE Samatha-Vipassana Retreat for Experienced Students

2022-02-16 When the World Doesn't Get You 32:59
Dhammadīpā
Dharma Seed

2022-02-15 18 reflection and standing meditation 43:19
Jill Shepherd
Reflecting on the day's themes and practices of mindfulness of the body and dharma confidence, exploring these through the practice of standing meditation
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-15 17 talk: Confidence 45:53
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring the third of the three conditions that support insight: confidence, or dharma confidence
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-15 Mudita Practice 48:27
James Baraz
Mudita for a friend who is having great happiness, self, benefactor, and neutral categories
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-15 La relation à ce qui se passe 51:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2022-02-15 16 instructions: mindfulness of the body 9:39
Gil Fronsdal
Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-15 15 meditation: mindfulness of the body 46:38
Gil Fronsdal
Progressing from mindfulness of breathing to mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to physical sensations
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

2022-02-15 Guided: Returning to 1st and 2nd Foundations of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:07
Tempel Smith
After receiving many dharma talks and and expanding mindfulness into the 3rd and 4th Foundations of mindfulness, it is important to intentionally return every now and then to 1st and 2nd foundations of mindfulness. This keeps us grounded in the body as a continual pillar of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-14 The Path of Awakening with the 7 Factors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:06
JD Doyle
The Buddhist teachings on the 7 factors of awakening guide us on the our path. The awakening factors of mindfulness, curiosity, energy, joy, tranquility, gathered mind, and equanimity are supports for the gradual training of the heartmind. Developing the sense of trust in the path and the support of discernment in meeting each moment with kindness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-14 Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 6 – Meditation 29:25
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity

2022-02-14 Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 6 – Talk 36:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity

2022-02-14 14 meditation: Well-being 15:39
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by orienting to appreciation as a support for settling the body, heart and mind into well-being (note: due to a technical glitch, the recording stopped after the first set of instructions and the ending instructions weren't included)
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivation and Insight

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