2025-04-07 Monday afternoon metta 45:40
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
A short talk and guided practice offer easy doorways to metta, along with guidance with the acronym CARE for the abiding and radiating practices.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Guided Meditation: Equanimity 44:42
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Introduction and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Monday morning instructions 56:33
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
Continuing with the first foundation of the body, and folding in faith - placing our heart on the practices of simplicity and calming. Also includes ways of meeting the hindrances through mindfulness and kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Morning reflections - challenges to contemplation of mind states 48:10
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Training and understanding the mind happens with the mind already affected by the very states it wishes to understand and transform
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Liberative Dependent Origination: Suffering and Faith 57:49
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
This talk celebrates the conditions that support the move from the Dependent Origination wheel of suffering to Liberative Dependent Arising. Faith can develop naturally, especially as we meet the hindrances with wisdom and begin to see the three insight themes. In this way, we can begin to taste liberation, even at this early stage in the 12 links.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-06 Questions from the basket (three teachers take turns). 1:14:30
Akincano Marc Weber, Thimo Wittich, Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Thimo, Yuka and Akincano respond to practitioner's questions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Muditā Practice: Intro followed by Guided Practice to cultivate sympathetic joy. 41:39
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
How wonderful you are in your being! I delight that you are here! I take joy in your good fortune! May your happiness continue and increase! (From a Sinhalese Ms of the 19th century. Monks' and nuns‘ practice upon receiving alms).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Overcoming Fear and Dread 13:18:17
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on April 5, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-04-06 Morning instructions: Mindfulness of mind states 56:20
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-05 Participatory intelligence 34:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-04-05 Unpacking Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:25
Cara Lai	Download Listen
The deepest kind of peace: what it is, what it isn't, how it relates to boundaries and action in the world, and how to find it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-05 Saddhā - Trust 61:17
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Saddhā - trust or confidence - is a fundamental quality that we need on our path. Why can it be difficult to trust? What is actually trustworthy? How does it manifest in our mind and in our actions?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-05 Guided Meditation 18:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-04-05 Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness 38:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
Cittaviveka

2025-04-05 The Liberating View of Interconnection 1:24:18
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
A meditation, reflection, and responses to questions on the power of conceiving of ourselves as interconnected. With examples from Palestine, the meditation cushion, and living with illness and loss. In all cases, perhaps this transformative idea is more potent than it is true. Some links from this session: Essential Surgery in Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/123753-essential-surgery-for-palestinian-medical-student James Skeet, from Just Stop Oil, talking to Scroobius Pip on Distraction Pieces Podcast: https://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/dp-player/?fl=https://embed.acast.com/$/ad4e2f12-9862-4cf6-b6af-3ae392c45fad/612jso&dl= Sacred Places with SanghaSeva | Meditation in Action: https://www.sanghaseva.org/comingup.html#sacred
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - April 2025

2025-04-05 Morning reflections – Different tools and practices. Different reasons for sleepiness and lethargy. 50:20
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Relationship of different instructions to each other. Many spices, but we don't cook with all of them at once. Orientation: how to find out and recognize what's going in your mind. (Using the satipaṭṭhāna map) Relationship: a) getting reliably in touch with and b) learning to relate skillfully to the states. Shifting attention away from habits. Mindfulness does not mean 'no discernment' – it is quite capable on discerning what is wholesome and unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 The Liberating Power of Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:29
Jessica Morey	Download Listen
In this talk, we explore compassion as a liberating force—one that allows us to stay present with suffering so we can respond with wise action. Drawing on the myth of Avalokiteśvara, the science of empathy, and the felt experience of care, compassion becomes a courageous presence rooted in tenderness and connection. We also reflect on how a deep understanding of dukkha, paired with a direct knowing of freedom, strengthens our compassion and helps us see the wish for liberation as real and available—even in the most difficult places.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-04 Instructions on Metta for the Difficult Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:51
Cara Lai	Download Listen
Sensing into a field of support and care hat can hold it all, even the enemy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-04 Introduction and guided meditation on compassion 45:58
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 Metta: The Intention of Turning Toward 23:27
Tim Geil	Download Listen
Metta can be seen as turning toward with friendliness. This talk explores how to turn toward charged experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-03 talk: Sīla part 2 - the ethical training of refraining from taking what is not given 26:17
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
How the practice of dāna, generosity, supports a sense of abundance rather than lack, then looking at the wider societal and environmental benefits of bringing more awareness to not taking what's not freely offered
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-04-03 Three Friends: Appamada – Sati – Sampajañña 55:48
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
The interplay of three functions of the mind in helping the contemplative practice. Appamada – an attitude of care Sati - a relationship: mindfulness as creating presence Sampajañña – a value context
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-03 Receiving Care Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:39
Jessica Morey	Download Listen
This guided meditation is inspired by John Makransky's Field of Care meditation where we practice first receiving kindness and care from a benefactor or kind moment and then include others into that field of care.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-03 A Gentle Introduction to Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:16
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
In this guided meditation with instructions, we begin with connecting with the felt sense of metta, then explore offering phrases for a benefactor, mentor, or good friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-03 Morning instructions: Mindful awareness and meeting physical pain in meditation. 41:59
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 The Courage to Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:24
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
In this talk from the first night of a weeklong silent retreat, Oren Jay Sofer explores mettā (lovingkindness) as both refuge and strength. Framing the Buddhist path as a practice of wise relationship, he offers several ways to cultivate mettā, inviting us to consider what it means to relate to life with warmth, steadiness, and care—even in a world of change and uncertainty.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-02 Awake mind, wise mind. 62:05
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
To bring attention to the right things in the right way is crucial for our path. Through the mindful contemplation of our experience we can gain insight and develop liberating wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Gentle Mindfulness Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:14
Cara Lai	Download Listen
When we hear the words "be mindful," it often makes us think we have to intensify and be vigilant. But quite the opposite is true. This guided meditation is meant to help us find a softer, more receptive and sustainable way of being present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-02 Brahmavihāra – Introduction to the four immeasurables. Guided Mettā Exercise. 40:46
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
The Four Immeasurables. Brahmavihāra are not mere emotions but constitute different tones of relational empathetic resonance. They constitute nothing less but our humanity. Brahmavihāras are cultivations not just 'states'. They are more than empathy but intentntional attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-02 Reflections on Three Themes from a Four-Week Retreat: Listening Deeply, Developing Samadhi (Concentration) through Practicing the Jhanas, and Integrating Retreat Practice with Daily Life 65:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the talk, Donald reflects on having just completed, four days before the talk, four weeks of practice at Spirit Rock. He particularly focuses on three themes from the retreat, exploring each theme in terms of both its retreat context and its daily life context. The first is the theme of listening deeply to one's own "intuition" and what "calls." The second is the theme of developing samadhi (usually translated as "concentration"--the unified mind and heart and body) and in particular practicing the eight jhanas as taught by the Buddha. The third is the theme of bringing the retreat learning and explorations into daily life, and how in particular to cultivate the first two themes in the daily life context. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-04-02 Opening Talk on Brahma Viharas 1:18:47
Tim Geil, Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Opening talk on Brahma Viharas at the start of a monthlong
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-02 Guided Meditation: Developing Samadhi (Concentration) 41:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We begin with a brief account of the nature of samadhi (usually translated as "concentration"), and then give instructions for developing samadhi in formal meditation. (We'll come back to discuss samadhi in more depth in the talk.) There are several reminders during the meditation to return to the focus on cultivating samadhi. In the last part of the meditation, we connect the greater stability that's developed in the practice of cultivating samadhi with cultivating mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-04-02 Morning reflection: Cultivating voluntary attention: Relating to one's patterns, voices, habits. 44:21
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
The workings of not-knowing – the workings of attentional habits. Involuntary attentional patterns seem to govern much of our experience. Yet training is possible, training is needed. Such training entails acknowledgement, attentional tasks and specificity. Negotiating pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-01 In Praise of Unification 58:33
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
About the value of samatha – the practice of stillness – and samādhi – the state of unification brought about by samatha practice. Terminology: Why concentration is a bad word for either samatha or samādhi. What the diffence of attention and mindfulness is. The intrinsic value of unification, its relationship to vipassanā. Four reasons why Buddhist traditions value the practice of stilling the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-01 Morning Instructions: First Day 40:59
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Calming and collecting the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-03-30 Closing Session - The End and the Start - Accessing Supports for Entering the Stream 35:15
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight at Home

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation Concentration Mudita Practice for All Beings Everywhere 15:51
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation - Concentration Mudita Practice for Family Member, Mudita Practice for Difficult Person 44:39
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation Introduction to Mudita Practice & phrases for Mudita practice, concentration - Mudita Practice for Benefactor, Mudita Practice for Dear Friend 59:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Instructions - Kind, Relaxed Continuity of Awareness 64:21
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight at Home

2025-03-30 Morning Welcome, Introduction to Gratitude Practice, Guided meditation - Anapanasati practice 24:42
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Dhamma Talk - Introduction to Gratitude followed by Gratitude Practice, Dedication and closing 51:28
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions Concentration - Metta Neutral Person & Self, Metta All Beings Everywhere & Self 44:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions - Concentration - Difficult Person & Self 43:38
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Talk - Establishing the Ground of Wise & Compassionate Awareness 1:16:24
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions Concentration - Family Member & Self 44:28
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Instructions - The Practice of Jumping in and Swimming 21:41
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Metta Sit instructions, Concentration - Metta dear friend & self 44:25
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Insight Meditation & Crossing to the Other Shore 61:31
Gavin Milne	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Morning Welcome, Guided Sit - Anapanasati Concentration, Metta Practice for Self & Benefactor 43:26
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage :  The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)