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Dharma Talks
2026-08-09 Talk - Understanding Dukkha, Skilful Attending to Thinking 54:38
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-09 22 talk: Wisdom and Compassion 45:02
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-09 Une cueillette de données de très haute qualité 🦫 53:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Présence au cœur de l’été 🌞🌳

2026-08-09 On the Threshold to a New Relationship with Life 45:23
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection on the Four Vipalllasa & the Code of Modernity followed by a guided meditation
Sacred Mountain Sangha

2026-08-09 Guided Meditation - Mettā to Ourselves, a Loved One, and the Group 41:29
Mark Ovland
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-09 Thoughts on Thinking 42:09
Mei Elliott
Insight Santa Cruz

2026-08-09 Deux visions qui s’affrontent ou se complètent 🪢 56:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Présence au cœur de l’été 🌞🌳

2026-08-09 Inviting Space Within and Without 16:38
Ayya Anandabodhi
Parayana Vihara

2026-08-09 Intellect to Essence 39:16
Amita Schmidt
This talk looks at how to shift from our addiction to the ego/intellect channel, to true nature/essence. The talk includes reflections and practices for creating more aware presence, calm, and connection in your life. Essence is who we truly are, so let's live it together.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2026-08-09 The Field of Awareness Guided Meditation 11:47
Amita Schmidt
This meditation will help you feel more of the depth and breadth of your awareness. It is an exploration into your unlimited, open awareness, here now.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2026-08-09 Morning Instructions - Creative Space (Stretching and Brightening Attention) 57:00
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-09 21 meditation: Self-compassion 41:18
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-09 Question on Anger: "What to do about Anger?" 2:23
Amita Schmidt
This is a response to a question about "What to do about feeling anger/having anger" on this dharma path.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2026-08-09 Knowing the mood of the mind 30:40
Ajahn Viradhammo
Staying with the theme of "Humility", and I making/My making, "Ahankara/Mimankara", Ajahn Viradhammo urges us to train to notice when this I making and my making is occurring, and to use the "mood of the mind", as a guide to knowing this. When we notice that the mood of the mind, is an object, not the subject, the foreground, not the background awareness, we can then rest in the background, and see things "as they are". Resting in awareness, letting the moods pass, and not making a self of the mood.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery

2026-08-09 Monde matériel et monde intérieur 🌏💭 45:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Présence au cœur de l’été 🌞🌳

2026-08-08 20 talk: The Awakening Factor of Viriya, Unshakeable Energy 33:56
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-08 Talk - Tuning Into Well-being (Knowing Tiredness and Dullness) 65:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-08 The Dhammapada Verses 167-178: The World 1:54:44
Ayya Santussika
This talk was given in Berkely as part of KBV's Eastbay Dhamma community. It covers Dhammapada verses 167-178: The World. https://suttacentral.net/dhp167-178/en/buddharakkhita?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2026-08-08 I Will Not Abandon Myself 39:14
Devon Hase
What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores adhiṭṭhāna—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2026-08-08 I Will Not Abandon Myself 39:14
Devon Hase
What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores *adhiṭṭhāna*—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
Refuge of Belonging

2026-08-08 Guided Meditation - Establishing Mettā Practice - Easy Relationship and Oneself 42:59
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-08 Morning Instructions - Helping Ourselves to Settle (Kindness and Releasing Contraction) 56:50
Mark Ovland
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-08 All the Defilements: Desire, Being, Ignorance...and Ube Cupcakes 1:29:28
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on August 8, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 19:19 - DHAMMA TALK 01:10:29 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2026-08-08 19 meditation: Choiceless attention 39:52
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-08 No Need to Look for Insights 52:57
Diana Clark
Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-07 18 talk: The awakening factor of investigation and its connection to insight into impermanence 29:29
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-07 Retreat Overview - The Confidence to Shape Experience 12:15
Mark Ovland
Gaia House Refreshing Confidence; Resourcing the Journey

2026-08-07 Young Adulthood and Uncertainty (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:38
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Young Adult Retreat

2026-08-07 From Judgment to Understanding: A Path to Freedom 54:08
Diana Clark
This talk explores how curiosity, discernment, and seeing conditions clearly can loosen judgment and support greater freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-07 17 meditation: Mindfulness of mental activity 25:14
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-07 16 instructions: Mindfulness of mind 18:42
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to different types of mental activity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-07 Morning Reflection: Learning From What is Here 45:01
Diana Clark
When we stop trying to create the "right" meditation, every experience can become something to learn from.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-06 15 talk: An Overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with a focus on Mindfulness 37:46
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-06 How to Be with the Unresolved (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:13
Cara Lai
How, and why, to do nothing when things are unfinished.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Young Adult Retreat

2026-08-06 Right livelihood and non-dispute 49:22
Ajahn Sucitto
This is the final talk of this one week series
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-06 14 meditation: Mindfulness of hearing 30:11
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-06 13 meditation: Mettā for oneself 33:55
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-06 Morning Reflection: Steady, Not Strained 51:18
Diana Clark
Right Effort asks for commitment, but not strain. This recording begins with a reflection and guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-05 Thoughts That Bind Us, Thoughts That Free Us 38:58
Andrea Castillo
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2026-08-05 12 talk: Dāna and Mettā as supportive conditions for the development of the awakening factors 33:59
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-05 The sea of goodness supports release 47:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-05 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 3 - Talk 58:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-05 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 3 - Meditation 30:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-05 An Emergent Knowing that the Intellect Can Serve, But Not Lead 55:36
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection including a poem by Matty Weingast & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
Aloka Earth Room

2026-08-05 11 meditation: Exploring cetana or intention, the about-to moment 28:27
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-05 10 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tones / vedanā 39:31
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-05 Continuity 53:08
Andrea Fella
A guided reflection, followed by silence, followed by further reflection
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-05 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness and Landing in the Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:34
Vinny Ferraro, Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Young Adult Retreat

2026-08-04 09 talk: The five hindrances part 2 - sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and sceptical doubt 40:15
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-04 Not taking a stand 44:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn reads from S.12: 38-40. It can be found here: https://thebuddhaswords.net/sn/sn12.html
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-04 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 2 - Meditation 31:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-04 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 2 - Talk 59:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-04 Infusing Awareness With Care 47:34
Matthew Hepburn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-08-04 08 meditation: Mostly silent, with suggestions at the start for choosing which practice to do 42:08
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-04 07 meditation: Mental noting of physical sensations 44:46
Jill Shepherd
Using the tool of mental noting or labelling to help stay present with elemental qualities in breathing and the whole body, including the experience of pain
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-03 06 talk: Supportive conditions 36:19
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-03 Balance obsession and the 'me program' 54:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-03 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body in relation to the four elemental qualities 33:15
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-03 04 meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in long and short 40:33
Jill Shepherd
Beginning to notice some of the details of breathing, still maintaining an open, spacious awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-03 Supports for continuity 47:13
Andrea Fella
This recording starts with a reflection/guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end of the silence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-03 Guided Meditation 0:11
Andrea Fella
A guided meditation followed by silence and further reflections at the end of the sitting
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-03 Meditationg With Thoughts 1:14:45
Chas DiCapua
How to practice with: -Noticing thoughts at the wake up moment -How to skillfully be with the absence of thought -Noticing what happens to thought once we become aware of it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-08-03 Forgiveness & Awakening 1:48:50
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2026-08-02 03 talk: Hindrances of Sense Desire and Aversion 40:30
Jill Shepherd
Some suggestions for developing a more skilful relationship to the hindrances of desire for sense pleasure and aversion or ill will
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-02 Guided Compassion 49:52
Matthew Hepburn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-08-02 Origin, passing and balance 45:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn reads from and talks about sutta SN47.42 available here: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn47/sn47.042.than.html
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-02 Making Skillful Effort 47:51
Shelly Graf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-08-02 02 instructions and meditation: Mindfulness of breathing 2 40:44
Jill Shepherd
Attuning to the different energetic effects of inhaling and exhaling
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-02 Guided Meditation - Mettā for All Beings 43:12
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-08-02 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 1 - Meditation 33:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-02 Subtle is Significant: Seeing Clearly the Way - Part 1 - Talk 42:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2026-08-02 Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 Session 7.2: Guided Meditation: Letting Go as Dynamic Balance 14:40
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Dedicated Practitioners' Program 2026 –Living Dharma 1: View and Virtue

2026-08-02 Instructions - Undirected Attention or 'Choiceless Awareness' 49:19
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-08-02 01 meditation: Establishing mindfulness of the body, breathing 47:53
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Two-week retreat

2026-08-02 Instructions for Receptive Awareness Practice 66:51
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-02 Recharge - Find Refuge 38:39
Ajahn Viradhammo
Ajahn Viradhammo, states the importance of finding time to get away from problem solving, and daily tasks. Places of silence like monasteries, afford one the possibility for this. When we get away from recursive thought, and the need to problem solve, we can finally, settle into a silence, that allows one to become aware of awareness. To make that awareness a refuge, rather than all the noise in the "foreground".
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery

2026-08-01 Dharma Talk - The Inner Strength of Wisdom 49:18
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-08-01 Retreat Opening: Establishing Mindfulness, Refugees, and Precepts 67:29
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-08-01 Prune consciousness, rest and regenerate 39:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-08-01 The 5 Hindrances 50:36
Chas DiCapua
How to view and practice with the Hindrances such that they become and aid to Liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-08-01 Guided Meditation - Mettā for the Difficult Person 39:34
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-08-01 Joy in our Lives, our Families, and in the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 69:31
Diana Winston
This talk from the Spirit Rock Family Retreat explores what joy is, what gets in the way of joy, and how to cultivate it: intend, savor, and recall. We also focus on how mudita or appreciative joy shows up and can be called upon to help us with tricky family situations such as comparison or disappointment. Joy is accessible to us all!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Family Retreat

2026-08-01 Guided Instructions: Enjoyment and Agility Amidst Discomfort 3:05:13
Matthew Hepburn
Practicing awareness, wisdom and flexibility in moments of ease and imperfection alike
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-07-31 Dharma Talk - The Inner Strength of Mindfulness & Concentration 64:59
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-31 Structures - social and Dhammic 39:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Rest and regenerate

2026-07-31 Simplicity and Agency Through Cultivating Awareness 45:12
Matthew Hepburn
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-07-31 Guided Meditation - Mettā for the Neutral Person 43:24
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-31 In Defense of Real Practice in Householder Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:10:08
Cara Lai
Choosing to be a householder and not a renunciate can be it's own deep path of practice. Chaos, emotional turmoil, lots to do, many to care for: these things don't have to be obstacles, but could actually be important benefits on a path to awakening. The path of the householder accelerates us towards patience, flexibility, compassion, and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Family Retreat

2026-07-31 Instructions - Intro to Vedana (Feeling Tone) 52:24
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-31 Day 1: Morning Instructions 67:27
Shelly Graf
Mindfulness of body and use of anchor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds – 26YA

2026-07-30 Dharma Talk - The Inner Strength of Energy or Effort (Viriya) 54:13
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-30 Questions and Responses 49:52
Mark Nunberg, Deborah Ratner Helzer
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2026 at IMS Forest Refuge

2026-07-30 Guided Meditation - Mettā for the Self 41:58
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-30 Instructions - Stabilising Attention 52:24
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-29 Dharma Talk - The Inner Strength of Faith 60:36
Tuere Sala
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-29 Four Super Powers Overview (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:10
Ayya Santussika
How the four Super Powers (Brahmaviharas or Divine Abidings) work together, are used separately, and where we find their basis.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Family Retreat

2026-07-29 Intro & Guided Meditation - Mettā for the Easy Person 41:24
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-29 The Power of Renunciation 20:38
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2026-07-29 Instructions - Phone Ceremony & Mantra; Mindfulness of Body - Guided Meditation 58:52
Tuere Sala, Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

2026-07-28 Opening Talk for the Retreat 49:03
Tuere Sala, Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Exploring Five Inner Strengths

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