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2025-06-05 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech 17:50
Jill Shepherd
Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-05 The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava 46:00
James Baraz
This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of Samsara." Bhava comes right after Craving and Grasping and is usually translated as "Becoming." Bhava or Becoming is something that that most of us find ourselves caught in. However, bringing kind awareness to this tendency can be a major support for living our lives fully in the present moment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-06-05 Einführung: Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod 30:20
Ariya B. Baumann
Altern, Krankheit und Tod sind Tatsachen, denen wir als Menschen nicht entfliehen können. Darum ist es hilfreich, dass wir uns mit diesen Tatsachen auseinandersetzen und uns entsprechend vorbereiten.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-04 Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States 56:42
Amana Brembry Johnson
In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-04 Closing Guided Meditation and Dhamma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:30:43
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation relating to the planet and our place on it, followed by a Dhamma Talk on the instructions given to Ven. Mahapajapati by the Buddha as encouragement for continuing practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 Tending What Is Dense & Dark (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:02
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-03 It Was Like This 25:30
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-03 Being at Home in the Body 47:43
Amana Brembry Johnson
A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher 41:23
Carol Cano
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-02 Mindfulness of Breathing: Body, Feelings, Mind and Dhamma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:26
Ayya Santussika
A gentle guide through all the steps with a focus on Dhamma reflection.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-02 Allowing Endings to Be What They Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:36
Ayya Santacitta
Reflections on Impermanence & Cessation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-01 Metta mish mosh, choose your practice 29:39
JoAnna Hardy
Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-06-01 Making the Spaciousness of the Mind Accessible (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:54
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection on the Four Brahmavihara followed by a guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-06-01 Closing Reflections, Forgiveness, Sangha 17:19
Ayya Anopama, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-06-01 Trust Impermanence 47:00
Bart van Melik
How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-31 Untangling the Innter Tangle: Relationship with Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:18
Ayya Santussika
Based on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, this talk explores our relationship with the body, feelings, mind and Dhamma - to untangle the tangle of suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-05-31 Emergency Metta 44:29
Bart van Melik
How kindness and the breath can be used when feeling fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-31 Vistas We Have Never Seen Before (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:34
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-05-31 Mettā and Compassion 13:14
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-31 Ecoliteracy: Learning a New Language (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:33
Ayya Santacitta
Short reflection followed by a guided meditation on the Six Elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Disentangling the Tangle: Finding Freedom in Relationship with Ourselves, Others, and the World

2025-05-30 Embodied awareness and the 'me bag'. 60:30
Ajahn Sucitto
A talk given at the Insight Meditation Center of Western Mass with QnA. Questions are précised: Q1 33:26 You were talking about the inner and outer skin. It seems this inner skin creates suffering. How do we start to be able to deal with this?Q2 37:34 Those words: Open, allow, let go are such a release. But something can happen that scares me, fear of annihilation. How do you practice with the insecurity of monastic life without being scared? Q3 42:03 In moving from control, do you go through indifference? Q4 43:50 Would you mind speaking about qualities of willfulness, striving, urgency, rigidity around meditation and holding attention in the body and that urgency. Q5 52:10 I feel very uplifted being so close to a monastic. Could you say something about the challenges and the fruits of being in robes for so long?
Insight Retreat Center

2025-05-30 What's in the Way, is the Way 46:16
Bart van Melik
Exploring how the 5 hindrances can become opportunities for growth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-30 Guided Meditation 29:06
Ajahn Sucitto
GM at Insight Meditation Community of Western Mass
Insight Meditation Center

2025-05-30 Camino Reflections 31:55
Ayya Anopama
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-30 The Hindrances of Sense Desire, Aversion & Worry - Whirlpools & Eddies 41:04
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-30 Morning Instructions, hindrances, sense doors 41:53
JoAnna Hardy
Touching in to normalize the hindrances, then guidance on sense doors, internal/external awareness and curiosity of sensations and experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-29 Metta Introduction and Instructions 42:12
JoAnna Hardy
An brief over view of the Bramaviharas, focusing on Metta for easy being, neutral being and self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening the Heart: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity - 25DB

2025-05-29 Currents in the River of the Mind 36:32
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-29 Pausing, Connecting & Meeting Ourselves Afresh 57:54
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Truth Here and Now

2025-05-29 Awareness and Wisdom Doing their Jobs 41:37
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-05-28 Illuminating the Present Through the Past and the Noble Eightfold Path 36:01
Andrea Castillo
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-05-28 Sampajanna: The Wisdom That Knows What To Do (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:33
Devon Hase
Reflections on awareness + wisdom and how to bring the practice home.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2025-05-28 Help Nature to Do Its Thing! 55:42
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an icaro by Manari Ushigua @ www.dreamworldprogram.com | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-05-28 Morning Reflection 40:27
Carol Wilson
Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-05-27 Transferring Habits of Greed, Aversion, and Delusion 61:26
Carol Wilson
Advice from the Buddha on some ways of cultivating wise attention to feed/support wholesome qualities of mind, and starve the unwholesome habits
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-05-27 Mundane and Supermundane Right View 49:25
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-05-27 Techniques for Accessing Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:28
Devon Hase
Summary of ways to recognize awareness and guidance on resting practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2025-05-26 Memorial Day Metta - Dharma Talk 1:16:21
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-05-26 The Gift of Fearlessness 27:04
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-05-26 Memorial Day Metta 34:29
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-05-25 What would kindness do? 45:03
Bart van Melik
Reflections on how kindness manifests as generosity, friendship and a willingness to learn.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Coming Home to Kind Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25BVM

2025-05-24 Q & A 1:11:38
Joseph Goldstein
A variety of interesting dharma topics
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Coming Home to Kind Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25BVM

2025-05-24 Quatre vérités découvertes par le Bouddha 67:10
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Moulin de Chaves, mai 2025

2025-05-24 Présence naturelle et moments de conscience 56:03
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Moulin de Chaves, mai 2025

2025-05-23 Transcendent Dependent Arising 61:34
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-05-23 La conscience comme portail vers la sagesse 63:58
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Moulin de Chaves, mai 2025

2025-05-23 Emergency Metta 51:20
Bart van Melik
Using the power of kindness and relaxation when feeling afraid
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Coming Home to Kind Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25BVM

2025-05-23 Conscience des pensées 50:32
Pascal Auclair
Instructions, méditation guidée et q&a
Moulin de Chaves Moulin de Chaves, mai 2025

2025-05-23 Wisdom and Trust 40:59
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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