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Dharma Talks
2016-12-10 Meeting Suffering -- Ignorance or Trust? 40:34
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-12-10 The Novice With An Empty Bowl 24:50
Ayya Medhanandi
A humble novice with his bowl empty exemplifies where true riches lie in this world. Meditating deep in the unchartered borders within, gain those riches by giving up worldly pursuits. See the value of what is true and what reveals the truth to us. Beyond confusion, beyond wanting, beyond harmful ways of being, purify the mind and seek that jewel of the heart's true peace, clear and free.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2016-12-10 Guided Meditation on Spacious Compassionate Awareness 44:25
Zohar Lavie
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-12-10 Spirit Rock, The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness 6:50:32
Howard Cohn
The Buddha was called 'the Happy One'. His teachings and path provide a clear and inspiring vision of our capacity to use our life to fulfill our goal of happiness. This talk of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of mindfulness, concentration and love, illustrating how each of us, through a gradual process of applying loving awareness to our moment-to-moment experience, can move from clinging and attachment to letting go and freedom, from confusion to clarity, and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-10 Teja Bell- Spirit Rock Day 5: Morning Sit with Instructions 37:19
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Teja Bell - Spirit Rock:Metta and Qigong: Opening Compassion 58:59
Teja Bell
Teja brings the core transmissions of Metta and Qigong both practically and into the broader view, interlacing the Dharma, where compassion and wisdom meet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Day 10 - Closing 29:43
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English, Myanmar and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-09 Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions 37:14
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Precepts and Forgiveness 17:11
Ajahn Sucitto
(refuges and precepts, final reflections and goodbye, metta chant)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-09 Every moment is a Dhamma door 19:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-09 Morning Chanting in Pali 12:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-08 Spring Washam - Spirit Rock: Dharma Talk: Compassion 58:36
Spring Washam
Meeting the Grief Chief of Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-08 "The Power of Equanimity" 56:49
James Baraz
Equanimity not only helps us stay balanced in difficult times. It is a foundation for strong, effective response, especially in response to the forces of greed, hatred and power.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-08 Establishing ‘the Temple’ through Puja & reflection 26:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja, reflections and evening chanting in English
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-08 Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 3: Metta Practice 37:18
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-08 Day 9b - Interviews 1:57:28
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-08 Day 9a - Interviews 1:52:45
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-08 Mark Coleman - Spirit Rock: Day 3: Morning Sit with Instructions 36:33
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-07 Metta: Sanctuary and Service 58:26
Tempel Smith
By welcoming beautiful qualities of heart, and becoming mindful of difficult qualities, our hearts become a sanctuary for ourselves. This sanctuary is a gift to the world and is also the place our love comes to serve the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-07 Spiritual Reparenting 1:12:21
Tara Brach
When we are not sufficiently nurtured in childhood, we are inclined toward anxiety, depression, addiction and other forms of suffering. In a deep way, we do not feel at home with others, and are disconnected from our own body, heart and spirit. This talk explores how meditation offers "spiritual reparenting” as we learn to bring interest, understanding and love to our own inner vulnerability. This process of healing extends to our relationships with others and our larger society - by reaching out to widening circles with interest and care, we bring increasing harmony and peace to our world. "How do we love ourselves into healing?" From a place of caring, ask, "Where does it hurt?"
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-12-07 How We Abandon Life 54:15
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-07 How curious presence leads to care 38:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-07 Mark Coleman - Spirit Rock: Day 2 Metta Practice 43:01
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-07 Day 8b - Interviews 1:42:34
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-07 Day 8a - Interviews 1:51:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-07 The Calling of the Bodhisattva in Our Times 65:26
Donald Rothberg
We explore the contemporary need for a new kind of Bodhisattva, one dedicated both to awakening and to helping others. We examine the Bodhisattva's resonance with the indigenous shaman and the Jewish and Christian prophets, and identify some of the qualities and capacities in which the contemporary Bodhisattva trains.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-07 Four basis of clinging 60:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Clinging is a mechanism that generates a sense of self. It is conditioned by craving and can be noticed and released in terms of: sense pleasure, becoming, systems and customs, and notions of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-06 Five Principles of Inner Safety 15:00
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-12-06 Freedom from the Inner Critic 53:51
Mark Coleman
What is the inner critic and how does it impact our mind, heart and practice. This talk describes how the critic manifests and the many strategies we can use to find freedom in relation to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-06 Don't Know Mind 36:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-12-06 Découvrir ce que c’est que d’être 52:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-06 Day 7b - Interviews 2:04:33
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-06 Day 7a - Interviews 1:56:05
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-06 Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions 33:37
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-06 Relationships & Differentiation 63:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Experience manifests in terms of ‘fields’. Opening and holding a field (such as the bodily field) with mindfulness brings harmony. Conflicts can be relaxed, self-positions abandoned. This is also a model for relationships with other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-05 Q & A 67:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Dependant origination; bramavihara; strengthening citta; how to deal with a quiet mind; how to deal with obsessive thinking; right speech.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-05 Spirit Rock, Richard Shankman. Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:09:10
Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-12-05 Day 6b - Interviews 1:19:53
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-05 Day 6a - Interviews 1:49:47
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-05 La conscience vivante, dynamique 1:16:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-05 Reflective meditation on gladdening and steadying the heart 52:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided series of themes based to bring to mind and dwell upon, to support a skillful mental basis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 A Path of Wisdom and Love 47:58
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House A Path of Wisdom and Love

2016-12-04 Meeting the Problem 40:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Rather than immediately thinking, or trying to think of a solution, it’s more skillful to refer to embodiment and establish dispassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 Recognizing our Knowing Mind 63:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-12-04 Day 5b - Interviews 36:20
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yin Breathing with Manuela Mischke-Reeds 64:53
Heather Sundberg
Recording #4, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yen Breathing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Day 5a - Interviews 1:46:19
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 10 Point Body Scan Lying Down Practice: taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds. 60:58
Heather Sundberg
Session #3, Awakening through the Body taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Embodied Awakening in Difficult Times: Opening Story & Teaching 28:13
Heather Sundberg
Session #1 of daylong Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Teaching & Guided Practice: 1st Foundation of Mindfulness & Mindfulness of the Nervous System 16:57
Heather Sundberg
Session #2, Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 L’intégration de la pratique 1:15:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Connecting Mind and Heart: Awakening Joy 1:15:13
James Baraz
The Dalai Lama says: "The purpose of life is to be happy." This practice leads to true happiness. It starts with the mind intending to awaken the heart and all the goodness within us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-03 Chanting Fire Sermon 12:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-03 Ce qui soutient l’équanimité 58:47
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Guided Unbounded Metta Meditation 41:20
Heather Martin
Contacting our tenderness, through some sweet little stories, and then allowing that heart quality to expand everywhere, in all directions excluding nothing and no being at all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-03 Guided Practice: Resting in the Field of Awareness 45:40
Susie Harrington
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-12-03 Pensées et perceptions 26:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Samadhi – absorbing the sweet spot 49:52
Ajahn Sucitto
In mindfulness, body teaches us what mindfulness is. When we steadily incline towards sensitive simplicity and getting comfortable – and absorb that, the result is samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-02 The Journey of Practice, and the Art of Staying 67:02
Heather Martin
Some of the beacons in the unfolding of Heather's practice journey, and the deep trust that grows when we are able to stay with our direct experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-02 Day 3b - Interviews 1:45:47
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-02 Être calme et engagé 57:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-02 Forgiveness Practice 0:00
James Baraz
(Recording not available) 
Forgiveness towards self (body, mind, heart). Asking and extending forgiveness with another.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-02 Day 3a - Interviews 1:46:29
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-02 Instructions 2e matin 59:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-01 The story of Angulimala 59:33
Andrea Castillo
A story of a mass murder in the time of the Buddha, offers us lessons in how ethical conduct can help support us and countering the forces of ignorance and cravings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-12-01 From Samadhi (Concentration) and Insight Practice to Awakened Awareness 66:08
Donald Rothberg
We first explore further the "three ways of seeing that free" (examining the "three characteristics" of phenomena), with particular emphasis on a practically-based overview of anatta (not-self). We then see how samadhi practice and insight practice develop, as they progress, toward a third mode of practice--opening to "awakened awareness" or "radiant mind." We look at the nature of awakened awareness, and point to several practical methods of accessing awakened awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-12-01 "Metta, Hatred and Forgiveness" 60:12
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-01 Love, Serve, Remember = Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion 65:13
James Baraz
The three sources of true happiness are the same no matter what the spiritual tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-01 Ce que révèle la présence attentive 52:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-01 Day 2b - Interviews 2:05:03
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-01 A Guided Meditation on Passive Friendliness 24:36
Heather Martin
A guided session. We can forget that there's a whole range of qualities of friendliness that are non-doing or passive. Listening, caring, empathizing, respecting, allowing, appreciating, honoring and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-01 Day 2a - Interviews 1:38:28
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-01 Waves and Fields - no self 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhammas are wave-like qualia rather than things. They are conditionally arisen. With dispassionate mindfulness they can subside. They need not define or belong to anyone.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-01 Faith: sustained wonder 16:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Open to the field of experience; avoid conclusions sustain presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-30 Radiating Metta 25:56
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 The Four Boundless Qualities 3:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Pali chanting
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-30 Concentration and Insight 59:15
Erin Selover
This talk gives a general overview of practice, follow up thoughts from the previous night's talk on samadhi, and an introduction to the process of orienting perception towards change and dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 Mind-Mind and Heart-Mind 62:53
Heather Martin
Their respective functions and how integrating them brings real well being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-30 Q & A 1:12:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Intention; attention; potencies; self-criticism; metta; consciousness; faith in what?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-30 Day 1 - Opening 1:13:45
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English, Myanmar and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-11-30 Samadhi: Practice Instructions 3: Working with Intentions, Working with Challenges in Practice 41:01
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 Equanimity Does Not Mean Indifference 2:11:22
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-29 Making Friends with Ourselves: Working with Judging Mind 67:58
James Baraz
Judging ourselves or comparing ourselves with others is a central issue for many. How we get caught and how to skillfully work with these habits is the topic of the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-29 The Art of Samadhi Practice 64:52
Donald Rothberg
We explore the nature and importance of samadhi (or concentration) practice in the context of the sequence of the three core practices of the retreat—samadhi practice, insight practice, and opening to “radiant mind.” We also examine a number of ways to engage skillfully in samadhi practice, including in the context of several core challenges to such practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-29 Our Capacity to Awaken 34:32
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-11-29 Chanting Vipassana-Bhumi-Patho 5:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-29 La sagesse me montre que je ne suis rien, l’amour, que je suis tout. 54:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-29 Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor 44:51
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-29 Relational Fields and Satipatthana 52:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of mind is the ability to hold the range of mind states in the field of mind so that dispassionate presence is realized. This ‘holding’ is not grasping any phenomenon as a real thing, more relating to it as a potential citta characteristic.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-29 Entering Sangha: a reflection 8:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-28 Javana Hamsa - the swift swan. 52:10
Greg Scharf
A teaching on impermanence and non-clinging. Begins with a Jataka based story.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-28 Being in a Living Prayer 58:06
Catherine McGee
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-28 Cours du lundi 28 nov 2016 52:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-28 Sally Armstrong at Spirit Rock - Living in an Imperfect World 62:41
Sally Armstrong
Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock on Monday, November 28th 2016.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-28 Morning Reflection 54:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-27 Question & Answer Session 56:53
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-27 Enriching embodied space: Guided Meditation 44:41
Ajahn Sucitto
A series of themes to support a rich, blessed state of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-27 Understanding the Empathetic Heart 56:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-27 Right Effort 61:30
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-11-27 Consciousness, latent tendencies and true response. 65:35
Ajahn Sucitto
To respond to what arises is important – how to avoid blind reactions? Citta, core presence, can be accessed through mindfulness. When it is stable, a true response arises.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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