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2021-06-19 Where the Flame of Truth Burns Bright 25:58
Ayya Medhanandi
Dhamma is like mother, father, guardian, the Truth that we can rest in. So rest in the purity of one moment. Offering to listen, what is the message we receive? In the silence of the mind, what do we hear? If there is no silence we listen more intently and dive more deeply. Where there is no past, no future, nothing to run away from, nothing to run towards, we stop to truly listen. And we see. This is pure presence - the gift of our attention. With the compass of the mind, open to the Dhamma. No where do we find any solid essence to call a self, a me, a mine. This is the most sacred knowing.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2021-06-19 Guided Meditation – Emotional and Bodily Bases 16:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha said that amongst all the bodies, best is the breathing body. Most important is to give emotional support to let the breathing do the work – allowing, wishing, encouraging. This a useful foundation for contemplating the various currents, energies, obsessions that citta has to release.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-19 The Four Protective Meditations 20:32
Ayya Santacitta
An Introduction & Overview | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-19 Wisdom is Experience Understood 31:06
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-18 Breath meditation, Dhamma talk on history, facts, and stories 1:34:06
Bhante Sujato
At Harris Park with Bhante Sujato – Breath meditation. Dhamma talk on history, facts, and stories: how Buddhism evolved into different schools as a response to the needs and challenges of the respective times and places.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-06-18 Maranasati ~ Achtsamkeit der Sterblichkeit / des Todes 39:27
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-18 Die vier Iddhipada ~ Wege zum Erfolg 32:52
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-18 Gregory Kramer – A Wonderful and Workable Whole-life Path 1:18:13
Gregory Kramer
London Insight Meditation A Wonderful and Workable Whole-life Path

2021-06-18 A Guided Session on Opening to Natural Awareness 62:35
Diana Winston
For those interested in natural awareness, this session includes several short meditations called Glimpse Practices to help us access our expansive, luminous nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 talk: Wise Livelihood 24:50
Jill Shepherd
A beginning exploration of how "livelihood" includes every aspect of how we live our lives, grounded in the orientation to non-harming
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-06-17 Restraining the Outflows 58:11
Ajahn Sucitto
All the world rests on very simple human emotions – fear, anxiety, loneliness, gratification. We run out because of them, or build walls to protect ourselves from them. Practice with restraint, keep coming back to here, now, knowing, it’s like this. Don’t run out, just return, and the outflows fade on their own.
Cittaviveka

2021-06-17 Buddhist Psychology and the Enneagram Part 1 51:54
Tina Rasmussen
This talk explores Bikkhu Bodhi's advice to "take stock of ourselves," by exploring our relationship to the three "Personality Patterns" of Buddhism (also known as the Defilements.) Tina then relates these three patterns to the Inner Triangle of the Enneagram, and provides and overview of how to use the Enneagram as it was intended--as a spiritual tool, rather than just another way to be identified with the personality.
Insight Meditation Tucson

2021-06-17 Heart Centered Wisdom 47:45
Carol Cano
Mindfulness is not just about training the mind, it is also about training the heart. Cultivating a practice of listening and being with what arises moment to moment opens us to every changing nature of who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 The Lake of Lovingkindness 34:55
Diana Winston
Using guided imagery, we practice loving kindness expansively. We start with ourselves and ultimately include the whole world. The lake is a metaphor, image, and guide.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-17 How we Hold the Practice: Guided Meditation and Instructions 38:49
Oren Jay Sofer
Morning instructions and guided meditation on how to hold and relate to the primary object/anchor.
Insight Meditation Retreats Awareness and Love: Insight Meditation Retreat

2021-06-16 Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome 18:51
Tara Brach
This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here with unconditional presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-16 Fierce Self-Compassion – A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff 61:52
Tara Brach
Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion – tenderness and fierceness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-16 Preliminary Experiential Tastes of Emptiness 46:12
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Being Somebody and Being Nobody 45:20
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Loving Well is the Best Response 67:56
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-16 Fluidity of Mind: Reflections on Awareness 53:53
Alex Haley
This talk details the importance of embodied awareness, especially as known through felt-sense experience, and how this awareness can be temporarily obscured. Investigative awareness is discussed as a practice method for working with these temporary hindrances and how the sense of fluidity that we cultivate through investigative awareness supports a deeper knowing of natural awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-16 Appreciative Joy 37:28
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on Appreciative Joy followed by a guided meditation
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-16 Self-Directed Loving Kindness 45:25
Diana Winston
We practice loving kindness with an emphasis on how to send it to ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-15 The Spectrum of Awareness Practices 51:07
Diana Winston
This talk details the Spectrum of Awareness Practice-- a map for exploring how many types of awareness meditations fit together. We explore how to move from narrow, focused awareness, through an investigative awareness, to open awareness, and to natural awareness-- an open, spacious, awareness of awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: Practicing Across the Spectrum of Awareness

2021-06-15 Freeing Our Hearts through Forgiveness 37:56
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the practice of forgiveness as well as a guided meditation on Forgiveness.
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-14 Equanimity 38:55
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-14 Week 1: Cultivating Mindful Awareness 1:17:33
Juha Penttilä
Teachings and Guided Meditation
Gaia House Foundations of Meditation

2021-06-14 Summer Solstice | Monday Night Talk 55:50
Jack Kornfield
Here we are in the change of seasons—the great turning. The sun is something for us to pay attention to, something we often take for granted. Notice the way the gift of sunlight streams behind everything—it feeds the plants we eat. We can be grateful for sunlight and trees, for people we love, for moments of goodness, and for the breath within our breast. And as our gratitude grows, we may discover a happiness without cause.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-14 Q and A: Summer Solstice | Monday Night talk 21:30
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from Monday Night Dharma Talk, Summer Solstice 06-14-2021
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-14 Meditation: Summer Solstice | Monday Night 26:41
Jack Kornfield
May you be at ease. May you be well. May you be healed. May you be happy. As you offer this lovingkindness to yourself, image you can fill yourself with the light of your loving awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-06-13 The Five Elements & Metta 46:13
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Seattle Theravada Buddhist Community
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-13 Stop Running and Your Real Home Appears 56:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The tendency to keep running out into concepts eventually results in overload, insecurity, anxiety, collapse. We’re desperately looking for sanity. The steadiness and fulfillment we seek is already here, in the non-conceptual intelligence of body and heart. Rather than going out, return to where body, mind and heart energy come together. In this presence our real home appears.
Cittaviveka

2021-06-13 Impermanence 45:21
Kamala Masters
a talk on impermanence
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

2021-06-13 Gratitude, Generosity and Giving 1:31:45
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-06-13 Guided Standing Meditation 2 30:03
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-13 Dhp 256 157 Judgmental v Judicious 17:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma
These two verses are about the process of judging. It is something we are doing all the time whether of people, political parties, other countries and so on. So it is as well to remnd ourselves how we come to a just and correct judgements especially with all the fake news about. I made a mistake at the end quoting the Pali Dhammassa gutto which means Protector of the Dhamma/Law. I ought to have quoted Dhammattho, Standing in the Dhamma - Righteous.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

2021-06-13 Death 32:11
Anushka Fernandopulle
True North Insight Body as Nature, Nature in the Body: Dharma and Our Connection to the Earth

2021-06-13 Sensitivity and Restraint 31:52
Ajahn Sucitto
One of the most fundamental requirements in meditation is restraining the mind. Rather than running out, energy can settle and calm. Then one’s effort is neither straining towards some goal, nor enmeshed in agitation. There’s space for sensitivity, receptivity, listening. When the outflows are restrained goodwill, compassion, clarity and wisdom come forth on their own.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-13 Guided Meditation - Bodily Ease 14:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Use the three intelligences of heart, mind and body to create a sense of calm and happiness. Body helps restrain mind; heart generates an atmosphere of gentleness and goodwill. Know what’s worth giving attention to for liberation.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-12 There in the Middleness ~ Cultivating Equanimity & Perserverance 45:14
Ayya Santacitta
Olympia LGTBQ+ Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-12 The Elements are Empty of a Self 40:13
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Olympia LGTBQ+ Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-12 Being Here & Supported by the Three Refuges 18:56
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | Qlympia LGBTQ+ Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-06-12 Guided Metta for oneself, benefactor, and dear friend 44:51
Kamala Masters
Guided Metta Meditation for oneself, benefactor, and good friend
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective

2021-06-12 Five Spiritual Faculties 66:01
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-12 Guided Metta for oneself, benefactor , Deasr friend, Neutral person, and difficult person 45:03
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-12 Guided Standing Meditation 1 29:19
Steve Armstrong
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-12 Showing Up (Vīrya) 69:38
Nathan Glyde
Vīrya appears second in the list known as the Four Bases of Success. Some translate it as perseverance: the willingness to keep showing up. So essential in our practice, in our lives, and in our times. A practice and dharma talk on this theme, offered in Gaia Houses Online Dharma Hall.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021

2021-06-12 Receiving Kindness 33:02
Brian Lesage
This talk offers a description of the practice of receiving kindness as well as giving a brief introduction to the Brahma Viharas. It ends with a guided meditation on receiving kindness.
Mountain Hermitage Finding Freedom through Insight Meditation

2021-06-11 Mettā meditation, Q&A 1:23:36
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
At Harris Park – Mettā meditation guided by Bhante Akāliko; Q + A session: eg. Bhante Sujato on stream-entry in lay life, Bhante Akāliko on being joyful
Lokanta Vihara

2021-06-11 Dharma and Recovery 33:44
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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