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2017-06-14 Q&A: All that Ends Is Suffering 1:12:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Where to put the focus in standing/walking meditation; what is meant by awareness/mindfulness/citta; conditioned/unconditioned, kamma and the choice; awakening and healing; goodwill and discernment/embodied goodwill
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Qigong Instructions: Noticing the Quality of Space Around You 56:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions for standing/neutral posture [ends 9:00]; loosening by shaking; torso twists with waist bend to each side; knee circles; the “clock” hip circles; string puppet; bow and arrow; cow gazing at the moon; ends with standing/neutral posture
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Morning Teaching: How Good Do You Have to Be 45:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Find the response to this question from that safe space in embodiment. Mixed in with places where one feels shut down, agitated and sleepy is a certain quality that feels comfortable. Sense it, enjoy it, then view the rest from that place of refuge. This is a movement of compassion. It’s not good, it’s not right, it’s just aware.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:53
Ayya Santacitta
A guided meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-14 Dukkha - Meditation Instructions Day 5 53:40
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-14 03 Meditation - Awareness and this breathing body 21:21
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-14 Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In. 55:31
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflection on honoring tradition and settling into meditation from one perspective on emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-14 Lightly Guided Meditation Day 5 44:43
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-14 Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 22:08
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-14 Brief and simple guided meditation for arriving into retreat. 41:43
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-13 Liberation through Non-Clinging 60:14
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-13 1st Foundation of Mindfulness 34:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Instruction sur l’exploration méditative de la réalité, Partie 2 51:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:49
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-13 Not Waiting For Happiness 31:42
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-06-13 Instruction sur l’exploration méditative de la réalité, Partie I 28:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Goodwill – Giving Yourself Back to Yourself 67:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Goodwill isn’t about changing things, but bringing up the right atmosphere and steeping your awareness in that. The right atmosphere isn’t 100% approval or love or celebration, but a quality of granting permission. Non-resistance, non-aversion. Experiences of exclusion and being treated as an object cause the citta to close down over time, and we lose the ability to feel anything. Subjective presence will give yourself back to yourself.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 Trust 26:27
Ajahn Metta
Trust can support us in our practice. Trust in terms of inspiration, aspiration, what brings us here and keeps us here practicing. Trust isn’t something that comes easily for everyone because of our past disappointments. Yet trust grows stronger by going through difficulties disappointments and expectations that are not met by staying with things in the moment. Then things are always alright, always manageable.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 Early Morning Reflections: The Trained Mind, The Untrained Mind and The Choice 17:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Remember the gift of mind. It can seem such a tangle at times. The untrained mind is difficult and can be deadly. The trained mind is a beauty, it can be liberated – deathless. This is choice. Attending to what’s worthy of attention; attending to what gives rise to beautiful states that lift and brighten. Withdrawing attention from states that become burdensome, confusing, useless. The gift of attention, use it wisely.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 The Body Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:52
Ayya Santussika
Breath - Breath Energy - Four Elements
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-13 Impermanence - Meditation Instructions Day 4 45:32
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-13 02 Freeness and Relaxation 28:57
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-13 The Middle Way to Awakening - You can do it! (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17:16
Ayya Santussika
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-12 Revolution of Awareness 46:41
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-12 Role of Concentration in Contemplation of Physical and Mental Objects 65:11
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Concentration - its definition, obstacles and development.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-12 The Five Hindrances 59:43
Ajahn Metta
Chanting 6:30 Ajahn Metta begins with sharing how she has found her misery in the midst of the beautiful surroundings at Beatenberg. She addresses the five hindrances, mental conditions that not only confront us on retreat but in our day to day lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Dana Talks - PRIVATE

2017-06-12 Qigong Instructions: A Means for Release 42:47
Ajahn Sucitto
knee circles, neutral position, string puppet, kwa squat, sensing the midline, raising the sky, medicine ball
Cittaviveka

2017-06-12 Standing Instructions: Free from Obstruction, Free from Intrusion, Free from Harm 23:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Three references for standing: anatomy, sensations and energies. Setting aside what isn’t needed and firming up what is useful, allowing the body to complete itself and come into balance. Free from obstruction, free from intrusion, free from harm.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 Morning Teaching: You Don’t Get to the End of the Story by Following It 40:32
Ajahn Sucitto
We tend to get the situations that will work on us. Our approach, if we get wise, is to meet dissatisfaction in the body. There is a possibility to unhook from the tides of affliction that cause us to form up in these challenging situations. We can pause, unhook, and bear open, steady presence. Shifts occur by themselves.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 Early Morning Instructions: Coming to Terms with Dukkha – It Just Doesn’t Have to Be That Good 20:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Rather than following the mental movements of the mind, there’s the possibility to just open to the manifest with no particular engagement. The particular point is meeting dukkha – where we chafe, want, resist – and recognizing it as it is. At the moment the engagement changes, the mind releases. Then the world doesn’t have to be that good.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 01 Meditation - essential principles 25:36
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-12 Vedana - Meditation Instructions Day 3 55:14
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Fabrication, Ways of Looking and the Hindrances 63:22
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Five Spiritual Faculties 1:28:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-06-11 Being with 'what is' on a silent retreat (aging, dying and awakening) 51:27
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-06-11 Spiritual Friendship 41:25
Ajahn Metta
What we are doing by coming together, practicing with the overall framework of the Dhamma, is developing spiritual friendship. Over the short period of a retreat period as we meet and connect in the silence, our energies come together and we become unified as a group and find support.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Walking and Reclining Instructions 11:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Walking from your center, finding fluidity of movement, sensing with the torso rather than the eyes. [Ends 10:10] For reclining, laying flat on one’s back, allowing front of body to completely open up, extending awareness from the feet to the head and the space around.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Afternoon Instructions: How to Approach Mindfulness of Body 21:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of body is not just in reference to the outer form, but to energetic sensitivity. Data from the body is direct, not filtered through the mind. If we track it and tune into it, it can release blocked areas, clear psychological effects and bring clarity. Approach with goodwill and softness of attitude.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Morning Teaching: The Body As a Sense Organ 24:59
Ajahn Sucitto
As we enter retreat, we may feel a certain amount of jangle and disorientation. Our embodiment can provide a source of strong, inner orientation. This inner form has its own language, rhythms and moods that can ground and settle us into the real here and now.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Early morning instructions: Guided Meditation ‘Awakened Repose’ 60:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions for sitting and standing meditation are offered. In both, sensing ground, balancing of outer and inner forms, rhythmic flow of in and out breathing, allowing the beauty and intelligence of subtle forms to come forth.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Whole Body Breathing - - Guided Meditation Day 2 38:36
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Full Body Awareness - Meditation Instructions Day 2 65:47
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-10 Training for Peace 35:59
Ayya Santussika
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-06-10 Understanding freedom as related wisdom. 63:22
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A shared talk with Jesse and Michelle McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2017-06-10 Introduction to Retreat: The Most Important Thing 54:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance to keep putting things aside, and keep establishing ‘here,’ a bodily feeling that serves as a guide to what’s always here. In the space of open awareness, we can ask ourselves every day: What is the most important thing? And the answer may change each time. For the retreat time, we consider silence and goodwill as the most important things.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-10 Relating to Ourselves and Others with Love and Wisdom 53:52
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Dharma of Relationships

2017-06-10 Breathing through the Energetic Body - Guided Meditation Day 1 41:16
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-10 Awareness Speaks of Kindness 62:48
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Opening to Awareness

2017-06-09 Maranasati: Dying and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Eugene Cash
Exploring what we think death is and it’s role and function as part of Buddhist meditation and realization. We examine the role of death in our conventional lives with the arising and passing of roles, worlds we’re involved with & times and stages of our life that pass. What happens as we normalize the dying process as part of the great letting go. How does letting go reveal the awakened heart?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-09 Lecture 7 1:24:56
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 7 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-06-08 The Wisdom of Nature Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:46
Mark Coleman
Nature is a perennial teacher. This talk explores the natural wisdom and insight that arises when we spend time outdoors with mindful awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation

2017-06-08 The Role Of Effort In The Contemplation Of Phenomena 68:20
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Definitions of ardent effort. Wholesomeness and unwholesomeness. Ardent effort - Its application and development.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-07 The 4th Foundation of Mindfulness, Going from a Contracted Mind State to an Expansive One 1:30:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-07 In Such hard Times 62:35
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
An exploration of the challenges and possibilities we encounter as modern lay yogis trying to make progress and have impact outside of intensive retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-07 The Possibility of Freedom 34:33
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-06-07 Meditation: Home to Awake Awareness 16:58
Tara Brach
This guided practice establishes a kind, friendly attention with the image and felt sense of a smile, and evokes an embodied presence. We open to the awake awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing sounds and sensations; and then the awake awareness that experiences our own heart. We end with a lovingkindness prayer for ourself and the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-07 Happiness Is Possible: De-conditioning the Negativity Bias – Part 2 49:45
Tara Brach
There is an inner freedom that expresses as happiness and peace, and it is accessible when we arrive in openhearted presence. As the Buddha said, “If it were not possible to find liberation, I would not teach about it.” In this two part talk, we will look at the conditioning that blocks happiness and two primary pathways of practice that evolve our consciousness and free our hearts. “We rarely pause when we see something that’s delicious or beautiful or that brings up wonder. We barely pause and just take it in. We really don’t pause much, which is really the essence of savoring…”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-06-07 Developing Observational Skills 64:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda
This talk teaches what to pay attention to.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-07 Compassion for Oneself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:06
Kamala Masters
Contemplations on opening to the 1st Noble Truth
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-07 Committed Action, Non-Attachment to Outcome 2 (Drop-in Program at Spirit Rock) 67:39
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-06 Contracté ou décontracté 56:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Trois niveaux de compréhension 31:09
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Being Present: The Fundamentals (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:49
Grove Burnett
A practical discussion of the basics of the practice of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Liberation

2017-06-06 Honouring Life 39:51
Helen Stephenson
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Instead of measuring our progress we engage in the practice with our entire being. This opens us up to the "light" that is in us and around us and we can experience a joy and connection with life that is beyond measure.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-06 Six Sense Door Equanimity Practice 45:44
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-06 Un esprit pré-conceptuel 61:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-06 Wisdom of Aging (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:49
Eugene Cash
What is it to age and how do we apply, learn and discover the dharma at this phase of life? We recognize the difficulties and joys of aging. Having lived a long life can bring a mature equanimity as the basis of our practice and life. Dharma points us to the simplicity of life and practice highlighted in Buddha’s instructions to Bahiya.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying and Awakening

2017-06-05 Understanding the Four Foundations of Mindfulness from an Early Buddhist Perspective 51:42
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Dharma talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-05 Le coeur contracté décontracté 1:20:56
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-05 A Different Understanding Of Self 62:10
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses investigation of self and not self in our moment to moment experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-05 Change and Impermanence 59:26
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-05 Guided meditation on the insight dimension of Satipatthana - 4 Foundations of Mindfulness (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 38:28
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-06-05 Knowing how to observe objects. 64:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Mindfulness and its different qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-04 The deep reassurance of the seven factors of awakening 60:42
Michele McDonald
Cultivating spiritual AIR investigation, courageous energy, joyful interest, and equanimity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-04 Here I Am, What a Mess! 47:03
Helen Stephenson
The way we think, feel and experience on retreat is not different from the ways we approach our experience in daily life. Whatever shows up is met with kindness - nothing is excluded. Our difficulties then become the manure for our transformation.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-04 This is Being Known 1:27:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 5 -- Peace 15:07
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 4 -- Fearlessness 27:16
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 3 -- Why Challenging 19:15
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 2 -- Responses to Change 45:28
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Meeting Change Daylong 1 -- Intro and Guided Med 66:19
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-06-03 Goodness, Presence & Wisdom - the Foundations of Happiness 52:57
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2017-06-03 The 3 Common Features of All Phenomena, Art & Science of Meditation retreat 64:16
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-03 Metta, Karuna, and Mudita in all directions 42:28
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-03 Three Qualities of the Heart that Awaken Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock 63:55
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 8: Equanimity with the Outcome 54:00
Oren Jay Sofer
Closing talk: Developing wisdom to find equanimity with the outcome/results of our decisions; includes guided equanimity practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 2: Opening Talk 34:30
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Wise Decisions 1: Opening Reflection 17:14
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Dharma of Decisions, Daylong program at Spirit Rock with Oren J. Sofer

2017-06-03 Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:14
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-02 Equanimity & Compassion, Guided meditation, Art & Science of Meditation retreat 32:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 The Present Moment: Come for the peace, stay for the war. 59:37
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
How to fulfill our practice when it feels like a war.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 Lecture 6 1:31:37
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 6 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-06-02 Taking The First Few Steps 1:18:59
Sayadaw Vivekananda
This talks focusses on: balanced practice, restraint of senses, slowing down, intensity of practice, obstacles and attitudes
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-02 Contraction & Expansion, Art & Science of Meditation Retreat 66:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Guided Appreciative Joy - Mudita. 43:55
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation on how to practice appreciative joy/gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2017-06-02 Second Morning Instructions, The Art and Science of Meditation retreat 57:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight The Art and Science of Meditation

2017-06-02 Detailed Meditation Instructions 53:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-02 Integrity and Letting Go as Supports for Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:23
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

2017-06-02 Finding Refuge and the Wise Heart in Challenging Times (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 6:39:51
Mark Coleman
In every era of human history, people have encountered social upheaval and struggles. From the perspective of the Dharma, what is our response? Buddhist teachings provide a sense of refuge amidst any circumstance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-06-02 Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:17
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy

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