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Dharma Talks
2021-01-25 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 25 2021 21:15
Chas DiCapua
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-25 Reconciliation | Monday Night talk 53:22
Jack Kornfield
Conflict is natural—we can be attached to our needs, desires, ideas and visions. Our brains are wired with a negativity bias to look for things that are threatening. But some other part of us knows there is another way. We need to pause and reflect for a moment. What is it that matters most? This vision is needed more than ever in the midst of our difficulties.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-01-25 Meditation: Reconciliation | Monday Night 31:32
Jack Kornfield
This meditation is a deep-hearted reflection, a possibility, a yearning, a vision. Even if we cannot or should not speak to the other, we can find the courage to hold reconciliation and goodwill in our own heart.To recite the intention of reconciliation is to willingly plant a seed of reconnection and love in our heart. As we repeat each phrase, we turn our intention to the possibility of restoring harmony where suffering has set us apart. May our lives lead to wise, healthy, and courageous reconciliation. Further reading: “The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness, and Peace”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-01-25 Q and A: Reconciliation | Monday Night talk 29:56
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from 01-25-2021 Monday Night
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-01-25 Chariot Halfday - Part 4 - Dharma talk on The Dharma Life 34:42
Kim Allen
Final Dharma talk from the Halfday of teachings based on chariot imagery
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-01-25 Chariot Halfday - Part 3 - Dharma Chariot guided meditation 22:13
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-01-25 Chariot Halfday - Part 2 - Not self 41:40
Kim Allen
Three teachings from the Pali Canon based on chariot imagery
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-01-24 10 talk: frameworks for understanding - an overview of the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path 47:28
Jill Shepherd
An overview of some of the key teachings of the Buddha, as a framework for "finding the heart of wisdom"
Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp) Southern Insight Summer Retreat: Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2021-01-24 Post Retreat: Love and Reality 1:35:09
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2021-01-24 FIrst Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma. 49:47
Amita Schmidt
Dharma Talk on six steps in healing trauma with the dharma and through metta / lovingkindness.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2021-01-24 Introduction First Aid for the Soul and Healing Trauma 4:53
Amita Schmidt
The introduction to First Aid for the Soul, and dharma during times of change/annica. This introduction includes the trauma tool of "cat up the tree meditation."
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2021-01-24 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 3 - Meditation 38:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-01-24 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 3 - Talk 33:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-01-24 Chariot Halfday - Part 1 - Spontaneous speech 63:45
Kim Allen
Three teachings from the Pali Canon based on chariot imagery
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-01-23 Dharma Talk and Short Guided Meditation 50:27
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Gaia House Fundraising Event - with Christina Feldman

2021-01-23 Leben in Verbundenheit 54:41
Yuka Nakamura
In des Sichtweise des Selbst erleben wir uns als getrennt von der Welt, abgeschnitten und einsam. Durch die Einsicht in die Verbundenheit und Bedingtheit erkennen wir hingegen, wie wir eingewoben sind in ein Gewebe von Ursachen und Wirkungen. Und indem wir die karmischen Gesetzmässigkeiten sehen, erkennen wir, wie unsere Entscheidungen und Handlungen Wirkungen auf uns selbst und andere haben.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2021-01-22 Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View 52:01
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Deepening into the Four Noble Truths with Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Vance Pryor

2021-01-22 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 22 2021 22:46
Chas DiCapua
Different Worlds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-21 Freshen Up through Integrity and Resolution 47:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Being affected by hindrances is a natural hurdle in Dhamma practice. Meet them by cultivating and suffusing wholesome heart qualities through the body. Application of integrity and resolution as we practice encourages citta to grow up and learn from the difficulties.
Cittaviveka

2021-01-21 1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way 55:20
Brian Lesage
This offering consists of a Dharma talk followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Deepening into the Four Noble Truths with Brian Lesage, Dawn Scott, and Vance Pryor

2021-01-21 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 21 2021 19:55
Chas DiCapua
Different Worlds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-20 Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence 12:17
Tara Brach
Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-01-20 Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2 55:53
Tara Brach
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world– with courageous, wise hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-01-20 Exploring Kwan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion 47:58
Rebecca Bradshaw
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2021-01-20 32 Parts of the Body—Large Intestines, Small Intestines, Stomach, Feces, Brain 34:01
Bob Stahl
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace. This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-01-20 Practicing with Intentions 2: Developing Intentions and Vows to Guide Practice in One's Communities, Society, and World 65:32
Donald Rothberg
After a review of the January 6 session on practicing with intentions in individual formal and daily life practice, and on Inauguration Day, we explore practicing in more community, social, and collective settings. In this context, we point to the importance of combining i"inner" and "outer" practice, and to two possible inspirations: (1)the figure of the bodhisattva who combines awakening and helping others, and (2) the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a kind of bodhisattva. On this basis, there is a short period in which those present are asked to write their own intentions and/or vows to guide their responses to the current needs and crises of our world. Some share their writing!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Practicing with Intentions 2 by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2021-01-20 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 20 2021 21:44
Chas DiCapua
Different Worlds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-19 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 19 2021 23:09
Chas DiCapua
Compassion/Karuna
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-19 Speech from the Heart 36:18
Kim Allen
From where does speech originate? How does our speech feed back to affect our own heart (in addition to other people)? These are worthy investigations in Buddhist practice. Speech ties back to the three unwholesome roots of greed, hatred, and delusion, as well as the three wholesome roots of non-greed, non-hatred, and non-delusion. Our choices in this realm have a major impact.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2021-01-18 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 2 - Meditation 32:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Winter 2021

2021-01-18 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 2 - Talk 34:07
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Winter 2021

2021-01-18 Honoring Martin Luther King Day through Deeply Feeling 53:30
Brian Lesage
A Dharma talk followed by a 30 min. meditation
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2021-01-18 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 18 2021 23:50
Chas DiCapua
Compassion/Karuna
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-17 The Eightfold Noble Path: Right Concentration 1:38:11
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2021-01-17 מודיטה - שמחה מפרגנת: שיחה קצרה ותרגול 46:30
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Tovana Sitting group

2021-01-17 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 2: Understanding Wise Effort - Meditation 34:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-01-17 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 2: Understanding Wise Effort - Talk 38:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-01-17 Liberating Intimacy through Beginning Again 29:21
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community Beginning Again Weekend Retreat

2021-01-16 Equipoise in Challenging Times 68:55
Zohar Lavie
Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jan 2021

2021-01-16 Ācariya Puja – Aim Your Intentions High 60:08
Ajahn Sucitto
In Ajahn Chah, we commemorate and honor what’s possible in a human form. A seemingly ordinary person who applied all he had for noble purposes, training in what was difficult and cultivating pāramī. With this comes the severing of the outflows and the liberation of heart, a practice that many people can cultivate while engaging in life.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-01-16 Erstes Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Anatomische Teile, Elemente 35:00
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-01-16 Die Vier Übungsfelder der Achtsamkeit ~ ein Überblick 39:24
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-01-15 Reflexionen über Karma 53:39
Stefan Lang
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2021-01-15 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 15 2021 24:54
Chas DiCapua
Compassion/Karuna
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-14 IMS Daily Dharma, Jan 14 2021 23:01
Chas DiCapua
Compassion/Karuna
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-01-13 Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 1 44:04
Tara Brach
In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding – to ourselves, each other and our world – with courageous, wise hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-01-13 Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence 19:12
Tara Brach
Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norris, “Sharing Silence.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-01-13 Here Where One Stands 27:46
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2021-01-13 What is the Flavor of Freedom? - Meditation 34:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-01-13 What is the Flavor of Freedom? - Talk 35:24
Mark Nunberg
The community questions of the Q&A were not recorded but the responses are presented here.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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