2021-05-31 Know One’s Range 52:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Realization can’t be taught, but it can be induced. Stable in one’s presence – open, listening, attentive – one comes to know one’s own range, the place where your potentials can properly unfold without getting tangled and without overreaching. Absorb into this steady place to begin clearing the floods.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-31 Guided Meditation - Recollection 27:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
With recollection, we drop meanings into the heart and listen. It’s how we come to know experience directly. Recollections of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha help frame up our meditation and cultivation – how to act, what to put aside, what to say no to, what to say yes to, and how to do that in a measured way.
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2021-05-31 Puja – The Path to Here and Now 11:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In this practice we are gently peeling back the layers of time and identity to come into something much more sensitive. The act of puja is a sign for citta. Praising and recollecting in both meaning and enactment mark the path of the here and now.
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2021-05-30 Chanting - Suffusion with the Divine Abidings (Pāli) 4:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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2021-05-30 Sharing Heart 10:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Once an open stability has been established, we can work from this basis, engaging decisively from the place of giving. Bringing the quality of a giving heart to mind, allow yourself to be touched and feel moved. Continue practicing with the resonances of the brahmaviharā.
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2021-05-30 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 1:30:52
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2021-05-30 Stillness in the Midst of the Winds 61:30
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  BIPOC Voices - Series

2021-05-30 05 talk: spiritual friendship 8:59
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short intro exploring the challenges and rewards of spiritual friendship as the foundation of sangha or community
Auckland Insight Meditation :  one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Returning to the Web of Life 49:18
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Talk & guided meditation on the Six Elements
Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group

2021-05-30 03 talk: Heavenly Messengers 16:14
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Looking at the legend of the Four Heavenly Messengers, and finding parallels in the context of our own lives
Auckland Insight Meditation :  one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Paramis: Valuing Non-harming - Meditation 41:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-30 Paramis: Valuing Non-harming - Talk 33:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-30 02 talk: short introduction to celebrating Vesak 11:02
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring ways of celebrating Vesak and the Auckland Insight community
Auckland Insight Meditation :  one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice 15:25
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
orienting to appreciation and gratitude as a foundation for this day of celebration
Auckland Insight Meditation :  one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Open Stability 23:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Refuge Mantra Chanting 1:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Rhythm and Energy of Breathing 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Deal with the compulsions of becoming by tackling energy in the body. Thoughtful breathing becomes comfortable and soothing. Its rhythm moderates the floods, diffusing stressful energies and psychologies. Heart and body draw close in the enjoyment. From this place of samādhi you can stand back from the most fundamental flood of becoming.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Day 1 Q&A 44:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Can we chant just in the heart, without sound; Buddhism’s view on healing with energy; how to work with various energy blocks and imbalances; feeling disoriented when letting go of a topic and giving attention to body energies; what importance to give to thought; how does one cultivate absorption, to be with intense emotions; when only eating before noon does hunger become an object of meditation.
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2021-05-30 Guided Meditation – Body Energy Fields 23:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In standing, sitting and free movement postures, exercise an attitude of goodwill, sympathy and encouragement to invite body channels to open. Energies know what to do – body wants to wants to arrive at wholeness.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Establishing Firm Ground 42:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
To stand against the tide of the floods we need firm ground. Established first in the body, mental/heart energies pick up the same theme of stability and core presence. This is the process of samatha – calming, stabilizing, giving one firm ground.
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2021-05-30 Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods 47:21
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Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Chanting - Recollection of the Triple Gem 5:26
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2021-05-30 Puja and Chanting 48:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Puja means honor or praise. It’s an important gesture to cultivate – the sense of rising up to something beautiful, something worthy. Making offerings, bowing, chanting and meditating are steadying and calming acts that massage the energies of body, heart and mind.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-29 Attitude, Non-Self, and the Story of Venerable Channa 22:09
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-29 Lightly Guided Meditation 30:49
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-29 Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration 1:19:55
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
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2021-05-29 Guided Meditation - Fountain of Feeling 17:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The cycle of saṃsara develops from feeling. Perceptions then form that stimulate particular actions that can be stirring, disturbing, exciting. Investigate these from the stillness and stability of presence. What’s needed?
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2021-05-28 Meditation on impermanence, Dhamma talk on Life of the Buddha - Part 4 1:20:37
Bhante Sujato	Download Listen
At Harris Park – Meditation on impermanence led by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato, last part of the series on the life of the Buddha: Mahāparinibbāna sutta
Lokanta Vihara

2021-05-27 talk: Wise Action 16:32
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short introduction to Right or Wise Action
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-05-27 Not Seeing Dukkha is Dukkha 51:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk is based on a teaching from Joseph Goldstein: "Not seeing dukkha is dukkha." It's humbling to realize that we are creating much of our suffering. But it's through clearly seeing this that we also create the possibility of truly waking up. We can change our whole relationship to seeing how we get caught by old habits and thought patterns from self-judgment to compassion and liberation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-05-27 meditation: compassion 27:21
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Mostly silent sitting with a few minutes orientation to compassion at the beginning
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-05-27 Feeling the Ouch with Dignity and Integrity 54:36
Dana DePalma	Download Listen
Contemplation Reflections → Sitting Meditation → Walking/Movement
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dancing with Life: The Twelve Insight Practices of the Four Noble Truths

2021-05-26 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:55
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-26 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 46:56
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-26 Week 4: The Power of Relationship on a Noble, Whole-Life, Eightfold Path 49:32
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Power of Relationship on a Noble, Whole-Life, Eightfold Path

2021-05-26 Going Forth to the Place of Realization 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.
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2021-05-25 A Tribute to Yvonne Ginsburg 1:32:23
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Recorded Zoom Session
Mission Dharma

2021-05-25 Upekkha (Equanimity) 1:30:15
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Module 5: The Four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Way of the Buddha: Core Teachings of the Dharma Path

2021-05-24 The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night Dharma Talk 54:38
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
With mindfulness we can open to the mystery of our human incarnation—to gaze with an open heart at the unbearable beauty and the ocean of tears that make up life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-24 Meditation: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night 28:43
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Picture someone you care about, someone you love. Feel the natural well-wishing of love. Surround them with care: "May you be held in compassion. May your struggles and sorrows be eased. May your heart be at peace." Now imagine that this person wishes the same for you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-24 Q and A: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night talk 14:48
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Q and A from 05-24-2021 Monday Night
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-23 Exploring the Dharma: Surprise, Discovery, Mystery 1:30:44
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2021-05-23 I Shall Not Hate 63:17
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape good effluences (outward-flows).
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-22 Self, Non-Self, and Metta 16:26
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 Guided Metta Meditation 31:35
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 Lovingkindness Practice 41:39
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage

2021-05-22 May All Obstacles Be Removed 1:37
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 The Power of Presence 38:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.
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2021-05-22 Dhp No4 Hatred is not pacified by hatred 16:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
This is probably the most famous of the verses in the Dhammapada proclaiming non-violence.
Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Dhammapada