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Dharma Talks
2017-01-14 Review and Perspectives 54:07
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-13 Metta for the Difficult (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:48
Heather Sundberg
This Talk examines the roots of the journey transformation from struggle & separation to connection & love. Mindfulness of the nervous system, wisdom perspectives, forgiveness, compassion & patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-13 "The Brahma Viharas– The best home for the heart" 67:03
Chris Cullen
Exploration of the Brahma Viharas, with some reference to their value within mindfulness teaching and psychotherapy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-13 Control and the Lack of Control in Practice 1:47:15
Kevin Griffin
Monthly drop in class, 2nd Friday of each month: Friday Night Dharma & Recovery 7:15-9:15 p.m.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-12 Joy 1 -- Mudita 41:29
Kim Allen
Part 1 of a series of talks about different aspects of Joy
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-01-12 Integrity of Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:11
Larry Yang
Metta and Ethics.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-12 The mind, the pain and the promise of mindfulness 1:10:37
Akincano Marc Weber
The nature of the citta – the experience of dukkha & tanhā – dimensions of ignorance – clarifications on sati and the transformation of dukkha through mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-12 Metta meditation. 34:01
Chris Cullen
Guided meditation. Metta is embodied practice– Categories of community, self, benefactor and good friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-12 Reflexions on the practice of contemplating mind states (cittānupassanā). Exercises with 3 questions. 53:12
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-11 The Spirit of Metta Practice and the Challenges to Practicing Metta 55:03
Donald Rothberg
Metta practice offers a radical approach: To bring the wise, kind, and embodied heart to every moment and to every situation, even when things are difficult. Yet there are a number of challenges to such practice. These challenges are identified, and suggestions are given on how to work with these challenges.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-11 Dissolving Trance with RAIN 1:12:46
Tara Brach
One of the pervasive expressions of trance is identifying with a limited and separate sense of self. This talk contrasts the self-trance to our intrinsically open, awake and loving awareness. We then explore how the mindfulness and self-compassion in the RAIN practice can directly dissolve trance and reconnect us to our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-11 Language, Lies and Truth 51:46
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-01-11 Full Meditation Instructions for a Work Retreat: Guided in Anandwan 41:39
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-11 Reflexions on the role of hedonic tone and attention (vedanā) 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-11 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Buddhist Practice, and the Needs of Our Times 1: Bringing Wisdom and Love to All Parts of Our Lives 61:11
Donald Rothberg
We explore the shared heart of the approaches of Buddhist practice and of the life and work of Dr. King (playing a recording of Dr. King reading "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"), pointing to how their integration is crucial to respond to the needs of our times.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-10 The Wisdom Guided Heart: The Safest Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:10
Sylvia Boorstein
Overview of meditation techniques and how they contribute to the development of wisdom and its expression as kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-10 "Cultivating Samadhi" 58:11
Chris Cullen
Practices for cultivating appreciative fullness and collectiveness using the Jhana factors. Hindrances are also briefly explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-10 Faith and Hope in a Changing World 13:43
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-01-10 Contemplating Body – take two (kāyānupassanā) 42:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Involuntary and voluntary attention – attention vs. mindfulness – the notion of embodiment – pleasure and discomfort and the training of a deliberate attentional relationship. Followed by experiential exercise: Three dimensions of bodily awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-09 Spirit Rock, Taking Refuge, Monday Night Dharma Talk 62:55
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-09 S’approcher des sens, abandonner les fabulations 39:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-09 Re-contextualising Mindfulness 54:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Sati in Buddhist Psychology, sati in Mind-development, Images of sati. Establishing the Fourfold Mindfulness: (satipaṭṭhāna) as map and as four channels of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 1 (2017) 1:28:08
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these seven wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress. Here are three study resources to use as you wish, including the passage that I read from last night:
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening (2017)
Attached Files:
  • Passage on the Scope of the Practice from Wings to Awakening, p. 161 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
  • The Buddha's Teachings on Mindfulness by Gil Fronsdal (Link)
  • The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening by Santikaro Bhikkhu (Link)

2017-01-09 Guided meditation on body & body-awareness 43:21
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-08 How I became a Buddhist, then and monk and then a Dhamma Teacher 1:23:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Autobio on Bhante's 70th Birthday
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2017-01-08 Letting Go 52:47
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

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

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