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Dharma Talks
2025-12-04 Morning Reflection: The Brahma Viharas as Four Friends 17:30
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-12-04 For Goodness Sake: Consciously Cultivating the Wholesome 46:21
James Baraz
The capacity to be touched by and love goodness is, in some sense, the heart of spiritual practice. Something in us loves the truth and is drawn to goodness around us. It makes us yearn to activate the good inside. It requires commitment to choosing wholesome qualities as our default instead of being drawn to the forces of attachment, aversion and ignorance within us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-12-03 Exploring How We Hold On, & Finding Space to Let Go (talk and guided meditation on steadiness & spaciousness). 30:41
River Wolton
Gaia House Meditation & Creativity (online series)

2025-12-03 Reframing Perception I 54:44
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room

2025-12-03 Wisdom of the Body: Benefits (part 1) 24:19
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-12-02 Being comfortable with what’s skillful 50:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Nira Nara Retreat Centre :  Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2025-12-02 Contemplating the beauty of admirable qualities 7:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Nira Nara Retreat Centre :  Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2025-12-01 Q&A 50:15
Ajahn Sucitto
00:00 Q1 After a few years of meditation and keeping precepts the mind starts to dwell in beautiful states. The mind still struggles taking mind states as me. Can you provide some guidance? 09:00 Q2 Is pitti only felt in the body. I don't often get the sensations in the body however I do get a light mind and a smile. 12:28 Q3 The thinking mind is the builder isn't it? The house builder talked about in the suttas? 24:29 Q4 Where is citta? 25:48 Q5 If we can be aware of the body, mind and citta, what is it that watches them? Is it awareness or consciousness that is apart from them? 36:51 Q6 In the Sanyutta Nikaya, the collected sayings 46:54 says the cultivation of the heart's release through metta is beauty. How do you understand this? 42:56 Q7 I've noticed some people seem to have absolutely no empathy or sense of shame or concern for consequences. But I understand the sense of shame etc called hiri and otappa are supposed to be innate in all of us. Why are they absent in some people? 45:11 Q8 What is it referred to in the homage to the sangha, the four pairs, the 8 kinds of noble beings?
Nira Nara Retreat Centre :  Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2025-12-01 The Whole of the Holy Life: Spiritual Friendship and Relational Dharma 45:52
Devon Hase
This talk explores how spiritual friendship encompasses the entirety of Buddhist practice, examining how we become intimate with ourselves, others, and the world through connection and accompaniment. Drawing on suttas, poetry, and personal stories, it reveals how talking about the dharma, offering presence to one another, and cultivating tenderness through difficulty are essential paths to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-12-01 Aligning with the Truth of Our Experience 48:34
Mark Nunberg
The Buddha's teachings on the three characteristics.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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