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Dharma Talks
2017-01-08 Appreciative Joy (Mudita) - Week 1 - Talk 53:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-01-08 16 Instructions: Integrating Practice Into Daily Life 14:45
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating equanimity and ways to continuing deepening the practice at home
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 Dharma Duet: The Essential Teachings of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Howard Cohn and Heather Martin 56:30
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-07 15 Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening, and Energy 45:31
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joy, Tranquillity, Concentration and Equanimity, then exploring the Factor of Energy in more detail
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 14 Meditation: Metta for Benefactor 27:06
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 13 Instructions: Metta meditation 9:29
Jill Shepherd
An overview of how metta works with insight practice, and how to practice it for the category known as the benefactor
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 Closing Talk 68:15
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-07 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:33
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-07 12 Meditation: Mindfulness of Mind 28:13
Jill Shepherd
Starting with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 11 Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 13:34
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to mental activity, and ways of reducing identification with thoughts
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 You Are What You Are Looking For (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:02
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-06 10 Talk: The Five Hindrances part 2 43:03
Jill Shepherd
The Five Hindrances and some techniques for working with difficult emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 Acting from the courageous heart. 62:55
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on inner and outer activism: responding to greed, hatred, and delusion in the world from a place of courageous compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-06 Bodhichitta 49:53
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 09 Instructions: Mindfulness of Feeling-tone (Vedana) 9:41
Jill Shepherd
Learning how to recognise pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tone at the six sense doors, and guidance for exploring this in pairs, naming pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone out loud
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 5 Elements - Guided 42:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 Day 6 Meditation Instructions - Anatta Way of Looking (Not-Self) 57:22
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 End of Retreat Reflection 15:40
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-06 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:36
Heather Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-06 08 Meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:18
Jill Shepherd
Opening to sound as a meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 07 Instructions: Mental Noting and Mindfulness of Hearing 12:45
Jill Shepherd
Different approaches to mindfulness, including the use of mental noting and using sound as the meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 Morning Reflection: 47:07
Akincano Marc Weber
4 Dimensions of Mind-Cultivation (bhavanā) | Attention and Mindfulness: Stages
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 What Channel Are You Tuned To? 50:52
James Baraz
(Note: This talk has some occasional sound distortion but it's worth it.) As the Buddha said, "We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world." Our minds can go to the the greatest places of fear, anxiety and ill will or understanding, compassion and peace. When we're lost in confusion we have in us the capacity to remember the goodness and wisdom that our hearts long to connect with. This talk is about remembering that possibility and cultivating access to that Buddha right inside, especially when the outside world is giving us very different messages.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-01-05 Hatred Never Ceases Through Hatred 33:18
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-05 Desperate Consumerism (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:26
Heather Martin
There are two minds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-05 06 Talk: Three Universal Characteristics and the Five Hindrances 52:00
Jill Shepherd
The purpose of insight as seeing clearly into the three universal characteristics of anicca - impermanence, dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, and anatta - not-self, and how the five hindrances of sensual desire, ill will or aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and sceptical doubt get in the way of clear seeing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Creativity of perception 61:18
Catherine McGee
We are an open system, nothing we do is inconsequential - including the ways we consciously or unconsciously conceive of, and perceive experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Empty of Inherent Existence 57:01
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Practicing Metta with Sensations 42:17
Zohar Lavie
Extending the practice of good will which is usually offered to all living beings to all phenomena of living experience
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Guided Metta meditation. 45:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 05 Instructions: Refining mindfulness of the body 8:22
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for paying closer attention to physical sensations in the body, and guidance on meditating in pairs, naming physical sensations out loud
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Day 5 Meditation Instructions - Dukkha Way of Looking (Unsatisfactoriness) 55:46
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Resting the Monkeymind 23:43
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-05 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:46
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-05 04 Meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in two ways 28:33
Jill Shepherd
Two ways of working with mindfulness of the breath: to settle the mind and/or refine awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 03 Instructions: Mindfulness of breathing 13:59
Jill Shepherd
Some definitions of mindfulness, and two ways of working with mindfulness of breathing: for calm and concentration, or to refine mindfulness and clarity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Morning Reflection 49:14
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Staying Present 43:48
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 02 Instructions: Brief overview of insight practice 3:58
Jill Shepherd
A very brief introduction to the practice and purpose of insight meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Opening Night Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:54
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-04 01 Talk: Retreat opening - refuges and precepts, metta 28:32
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating supports for the retreat container: taking the refuges and precepts, and developing an attitude of kind curiosity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Returning to Simplicity 38:48
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith 32:49
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness 1:12:05
Tara Brach
The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at our habitual pursuit of substitutes to feel happy, and reflects on how we awaken through each true refuge. The talk ends with a living ritual anyone can participate in that helps us remember these refuges as we move through our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-04 Grasping and Identification (upādāna) 69:59
Akincano Marc Weber
Where the heart gets stuck. From the metaphor to its 4 specific applications.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 New Year's Resolutions: Progress not Perfection 1:23:14
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-01-04 Being Appropriate & Setting Intention 42:23
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Acceptance 51:12
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 The Limits of Concepts -the complete class 1:27:39
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation On Foregivness 40:14
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Anicca Way of Looking ( Impermanence ) 51:20
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Does Real Change of Mind Happen? How? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:04:01
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Limits of Mind and the Limitless 28:54
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Morning instructions and reflections. 51:49
Catherine McGee
Deepening and opening to investigate Citta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation: Energy and Embodiment 35:37
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation on energy, breath and embodiment
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 Q&A: Zigzagging along the Trails of Experience 58:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Metta/ divine abidings; verbal phrasing vs. felt sense; skilful humour; contact and the resulting chain; creative activity of the mind
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 The Completeness of Maps 55:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-03 Reflections and Guided Meditation 38:36
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections on the four universal forms of empathy (brahmavihāra) and a brief guided mediation on muditā
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-03 The Wound that Seeks the Arrow 57:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto explores the unskilful tendency to create an "I am" with reference to mental programs (sankharas), despite the unwholesome effect that this identification creates. We can learn to release the process between perception and activation so these programs no longer have a place to stand
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 Morning Instructions 51:06
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-03 Resting as Awareness 41:22
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-02 Embracing our aliveness. 65:22
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation 1:52:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-02 Practicing for the New Year 2017 47:40
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Given the conflicts, wars, and divisiveness over the past year, many people ask, “How do we practice with all of this?” Taraniya offers reflections on opening to difficulty, making practical adjustments in our lives to support inner balance, and increasing our capacity to manage mindstates through understanding and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-01-02 Guided Stretched Awareness of Body Breath Energy 42:31
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Q&A: Taking Responsibility for our Practice 59:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on sexual energy and fantasies; resistance to pain; feelings, memory and perception; planning and mental rehearsing / fantasizing
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-02 Ways of Looking 51:14
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Short and Subtle Breath 50:40
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Guided metta meditation 45:58
Catherine McGee
Abiding and pervading with attention to abiding "in" and "as" the bigger body of earth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 A Head with No Body 57:43
Ajahn Sucitto
How to loosen the grip of the hindrances; realizing that we have a natural energetic body, and how seeing the body as an energy system can support our understanding of the Dhamma
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-02 On the role of hedonic tone (vedanā) in meditation. 47:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections and an exercise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 Guided Meditation on Compassion 43:21
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening 39:26
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 The Dharma is What Holds This Teapot Together 60:51
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-01-01 Preamble: A look at the causes for sleepiness. Main Theme: Saddhā – trust in the context of the 5 Cardinal virtues (pañcindriyāni) 59:04
Akincano Marc Weber
Identifying intellectual, volitional, emotional and social dimensions of trust. Balancing the virtues.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 The Beauty of Connection 53:17
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2017-01-01 A Heart that Has Breadth & Depth 51:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2017-01-01 Stopping the Spider on Amphetamines 64:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Releasing ourselves from our habitual tendencies of compulsion, of having to do, and creating a resting place for the mind to pause
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-01 Getting Skilful with Thinking 55:18
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-01 Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body 41:23
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 Reflection on Three Kinds of Thirst and Meditation on Three Kinds of Feeling 26:14
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Long and Deep Breath 50:13
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-01 Learning How to Operate at 5 Decibels 54:25
Ajahn Sucitto
An explanation of hindrances and how they are conditioned by sense contact but amplified to fantastic proportions by shared social contact, “from 5 to 50 decibels”
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-01 Awareness of Thoughts, Instructions and Guided Meditation 1:35:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2017-01-01 New Year's Day Morning Reflection 9:11
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Morning Instructions 53:26
Catherine McGee
Mindfulness Of Body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 Guided Meditation: Letting Go of the Meditator 47:57
Ajahn Sucitto
How to maintain the meditation; in Ajahn Sucitto’s words, “meditation is easy – it’s the meditator that complicates everything”. File has been edited for audio quality.
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 Greetings to the Natural World ~ Words Before All Else 10:49
Ayya Santacitta
Words of Giving Thanks from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Nation of Upstate New York and Canada
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-31 New Year's Eve Talk 46:03
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-31 Letting Go - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:18
Eugene Cash
The primary dynamic that leads to freedom is letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-12-31 Abiding as and in and through body 60:41
Catherine McGee
What supports us to have the courage to abide more thoroughly and for our body to plump out with affectionate attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-31 Opening Our Hearts in Challenging Times 65:32
Hugh Byrne
As we bring loving awareness to our all that is arising in our bodies, hearts, and minds, there is a natural falling away of the illusion of separation - of ‘us’ and ‘them’ - and the cultivation of a wise and compassionate heart. With our hearts open to the suffering of the world, the Bodhisattva path of commitment to healing suffering, division and separation provides us with a vision of engaged action in the world in these difficult times.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Die große Stille 47:10
Renate Seifarth
Nibbana, Befreiung ist das Ziel der Praxis. Was ist Nibbana? Buddha beschrieb das Ziel des Weges als das Aufgeben von Anhaften. Wenn Haften und Reaktivität erlöschen, wir innerlich loslassen und eintauchen in ein offenes Dasein, können wir eine tiefe Stille erleben. Oft übersehen wir die Stille, weil wir auf etwas anderes warten, einen Bigbang, etwas Außergewöhnliches. Nibbana können wir aber hier und jetzt erfahren, in den Momenten, in denen unsere Reaktivität erlischt und eine lebenige, offene Stille sich in uns ausbreitet, in der alles sein darf wie es ist.
West Germany :  Neujahreskurs 2016/17

2016-12-31 The Five Recollections 52:50
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2016-12-31 Mistaken Identity 54:05
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-31 Meditation in 4 Postures 41:59
Nathan Glyde
Exploring Meditation in all 4 Postures in the first meditation of the Somnath retreat.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2016-12-31 Q&A: A Pearl of Hatred and the Phantom of Perception 56:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on anger and revenge for past hurts; wholesome grieving; resistance to letting go of unskilful behaviours
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 The Mind Knowing the Mind 12:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-31 Metta - Breathing - Abiding 39:38
Akincano Marc Weber
Experiential guided metta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-31 Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 35:33
Tara Brach
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile to bring a relaxed receptivity to the body. We then engage with our future self (our Being when our heart is fully awake) and explore what it means to embody the fullness of that wisdom and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

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