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Dharma Talks
2021-06-11 Equanimity - Seeing the world with Quiet eyes 60:44
Kamala Masters
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC summer 2021 retreat

2021-06-11 A Gift of Blessings from the Arahant Bhikkhunis 17:49
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-11 Awakening Joy: Last Seven Wholesome States to Cultivate Joy 1:13:21
James Baraz
Understanding the trajectory of developing wholesome states to awaken joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-11 Everything is held in Awareness 46:10
James Baraz
Guided "Big Mind" Meditation to perceive Awareness as the space in which all experience arises and passes away.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-10 Temporary Liberation of the Mind 40:31
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation Earth element, Metta, Knowing, Impermanence
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-10 Evening Chanting in English (Chant Along) 9:17
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-10 Closing Homage in Pali (Chant Along) 0:42
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-10 Closing Homage in English (Chant Along) 0:38
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-10 Good Or Bad Does Not Apply on the Path 22:49
Ayya Santacitta
Am i aware of what is happening in meditation & daily life and how do i relate to experience?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-10 The Joy of Loving Our Self and Letting Go 47:29
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-10 The Joy of Recognizing the Hindrances 46:30
Leslie Booker
When we can turn towards this perceived obstacle...we can see that hindrances are not in the way at all, but rather an opportunity to practice joy in the recognition of them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-09 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-09 Trusting the Gold – A Celebration of Tara’s New Book 1:26:22
Tara Brach
The essence of the spiritual path is realizing, trusting and living from our natural awareness and love. This talk explores the two key pathways that help us awaken from the trance of identifying as a limited, separate self. It includes several guided meditations and a period of questions and response.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-06-09 Buddhist Awareness Practice: How the Path Unfolds? 58:50
Mark Nunberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2021-06-09 Where There Is This There Is That - Meditation 38:25
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-09 Where There Is This There Is That - Talk 48:37
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-06-09 Body Deconstruction (Asubha) Guided Meditation 29:25
Ayya Santussika
This guided meditation was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 9, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-09 Impermanence (talk only) 42:34
Kate Munding
Impermanence: a cornerstone of dharma teachings and a place to live from and come back to no matter where we are in our practice. Impermanence can bring us into contraction or expansiveness. It ultimately points to our own impermanence, and what we need to wake up to before we die.
Assaya Sangha Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

2021-06-09 Impermanence (guided meditation and talk) 1:11:07
Kate Munding
Impermanence is a cornerstone of Dharma teachings and a place to live from and come back to no matter where we are in our practice. Impermanence can bring us into contraction or expansiveness. It ultimately points to our own impermanence, and what we need to wake up to before we die.
Assaya Sangha Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

2021-06-09 Tear Down the Walls of the Mind 28:30
Ayya Santacitta
The sincerity of the Heart-Wish opens us up to see things differently.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-09 Seeing What is Not Beautiful as Beautiful 30:54
Ayya Santussika
This talk on asubha was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 9, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-09 There Is No Time but the Present: Reflections on Impermanence 1:50:55
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-09 The Joy of Collective Liberation 50:22
Leslie Booker
Knowing joy through faith, gratitude, and courage.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-09 Sharing the Benefits 6:12
Zohar Lavie
The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-09 Path Making: A Transition and Continuation 37:40
Nathan Glyde
A review of the practices, and ways we can keep them going, and developing onwards in new creative ways.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-09 Including sensations, sounds and other objects in the field of awareness 46:29
James Baraz
Working with the wandering mind and moving from one meditation object to another in meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-09 Allowing Life to Speak for Itself 51:15
Ayya Santacitta
Anatta & Meditation on the Elements
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-08 The Elements & Being the Knowing 40:51
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-08 Salutation to the Triple Gem in English (Chant Along) 4:30
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-08 The All of the All is Fabricated 54:57
Nathan Glyde
Maintaining a deep practice across the whole of our life is supported by wisdom and clear intention, and those are rooted well in an understanding of the dependent origination of dukkha and release.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-08 Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 28:53
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2021-06-08 Lovingkindness to Self and Benefactor 46:24
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Metta Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-08 Kindness and Discrimination 21:58
Ayya Santussika
This talk was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 8, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-08 Guided Equanimity Practice with Intro 42:33
Nathan Glyde
The fourth of the brahmavihārās, Upekkhā, is a well rooted flexibility; a deeply steady openness; a kindly unshaken intimacy with all things.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-08 Three Wholesome States for Cultivating Joy 60:55
James Baraz
Intention, Mindfulness and Gratitude are the three wholesome states that are the foundational practices to awaken joy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-08 Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness 54:49
Zohar Lavie
Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-08 Mindfulness of the Body 39:00
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy: Opening to Your Natural State of Well-Being

2021-06-07 Anicca Brings Possibilities 40:35
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-07 Doing, Not-Doing, and The Doing That Comes from Not-Doing: In Meditation and in Daily Life 64:49
Donald Rothberg
We inquire into doing and not-doing in five ways: (1) identifying the importance of a number of different kinds of "doing" and skillful effort in meditation; (2) pointing also to the centrality of a kind of not-doing (or letting go of doing) and receptivity in meditation; (3) the importance of investigating the "doer" and one's identity as a doer, in a number of different ways, in meditation and daily life; (4) the vision of a doing that comes out of being, that comes out of a deep not-doing, a vision that we find in different spiritual traditions--here we mention ways that this vision is found in Jewish, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist traditions; and (5) how we explore and cultivate this doing coming out of a deep not-doing in daily life, in "flow experiences," in activities in which we are deeply grounded, and in such areas as sports, music, art, and dance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-06-07 Morning Chanting in English (Chant Along) 4:46
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-07 Guided Brahmaviharas Meditation 41:27
Ayya Santussika
This guided meditation was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 7, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-07 Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro 42:31
Zohar Lavie
Muditā meditation
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-07 Day 3 - Instructions: This is not Peaceful (A Dukkha Insight Way of Looking) 59:23
Nathan Glyde
Noticing the unsatisfactory nature of all phenomena might sound bleak. But instead of ruminating on whether it is true or not, consider whether it is useful: notice if this lens of attention brings release and an ever deeper sense of freedom.
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-06 The Arrows of Dissatisfaction 46:09
Nathan Glyde
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Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-06-06 The Distortion of Dukkha and Sukha 39:04
Ayya Santussika
This talk was offered at Cloud Mountain on June 6, 2021 for the retreat "Dispelling Our Delusions: Exploring the Vipallasa and Drawing Inspiration from the Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns".
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-06 Disenchantment & Reaching Out a Gentle Hand to My Own Mind 17:32
Ayya Santacitta
Nibbida = Not Finding
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-06-06 Morning Chanting in Pali (Chant Along) 6:11
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-06-06 Not Quite So: Co-Dependent Arising 28:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Our apparent reality arises from moods and interpretations that generate the world of time and space, self and other. It’s possible to meet the moods and mental states directly without creating stories or identities until the signs dissolve and only clarity remains. Meditation and engagement are skillful means to understand the dependent arising of our world, of suffering, and of skillful dhammas.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-06-06 Wisdom of Aging: Awakening to Life 1:29:41
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-06-06 Guided Compassion Practice with Intro 43:29
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

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