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Dharma Talks
2020-10-26 08 instructions and guided walking meditation 10:55
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions and guided walking meditation, for the whole group walking in a circle together
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-26 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 7 - Meditation 30:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-10-26 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 7 - Talk 56:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-10-26 07 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 15:47
Jill Shepherd
Practising mindfulness of sounds, settling back and receiving the experience of hearing (includes occasional bell sounds)
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-26 06 talk: mindfulness recap and introduction to mindfulness of hearing 11:25
Jill Shepherd
A recap of mindfulness of the body, plus an introduction to practising different modes of mindfulness; exploring mindfulness of hearing as a way to cultivate relaxed receptivity
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-26 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 26 2020 22:00
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-25 Nibbida = 'Not Finding' 30:56
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-10-25 Facing Uncertainty 1:28:37
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-10-25 Coming out of detail 30:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Making the shift from the activities of daily life into something much quieter, we learn to recognize and encourage the qualities of citta – knowingness, sensitivity, resonance. Smooth out the wrinkles of details that catch our attention and sustain a wide, open focus that includes the range of circumstances and emotions that arise. This is a blessing and a refuge, our true home.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-25 Harmonizing with Reality - Meditation 34:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-25 Harmonizing with Reality - Talk 41:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-25 10 meditation: making space for equanimity to arise 15:15
Jill Shepherd
A short meditation orienting to the elements of earth and space, as support for equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messengers"

2020-10-25 Guided Meditation - Widening the Heart 26:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions for sustaining a wide, soft awareness that includes it all. Aware of the background, aware of the details, the stillness, the movement – let things be as they are. Let citta learn from its own fluidity.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-24 Walking Meditation – The Pleasant Fluidity of Walking 9:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Approach walking meditation like swimming, feeling the body moving through space. There’s a swing, a pleasant fluidity. Hold any concerns that arise in your embodiment, giving the heart a foundation to listen from. It will eventually speak for itself.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-24 Guided Meditation – Open Body, Open Heart 29:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance for moving from the anatomical body to sensing into the energy body. Switch off what isn’t needed, step attention back and listen. As one opens the body, one opens the heart. This is the basis for wisdom.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-24 Ankommen 19:28
Ayya Santacitta
Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-10-24 The Doing and Non-Doing of Meditation 20:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation has two aspects: the limiting of mental activity and the staying on track with the heart. Resolution and mindfulness of body act as supports. Use embodied energy to restrain ‘doingness’, and to clear and fortify the heart so that wisdom can arise.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-23 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 23 2020 21:40
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-22 talk: vedana or feeling-tone 29:03
Jill Shepherd
Feeling-tone as the building block of reactivity, and how learning to relate skilfully to feeling-tones reduces suffering
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-10-22 meditation: exploring feeling-tone 26:42
Jill Shepherd
Attuning to feeling-tones in relation to physical sensations in the body, and softening any reactivity to them
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-10-22 Introducing an Inquiry Practice to Close the Retreat. 13:53
Leela Sarti
How can we care for our own lives ?
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-22 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 22 2020 20:14
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-22 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:20
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-21 The Role of Insight Meditation in Building Resilience 22:01
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-10-21 Dharma Talk 54:10
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on what it might mean for us to embody a 'just' awakening.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-21 The Practice of Samadhi -- Session 3 : Samadhi and Insight 1:20:52
Kim Allen
Final session of a 3-part class
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-21 Guided Meditation 36:52
Leela Sarti
Breathing with kindness, sensing the original goodness of the heart.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-21 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 21 2020 20:29
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-21 Brief Guidance for Morning Meditation 40:30
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 Dharma Talk 46:16
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 Reflections and Guided Meditation 41:21
Yanai Postelnik
Asking for and offering forgiveness, for ways that we may have caused harm, or have been harmed by others.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 20 2020 20:25
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-20 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 41:49
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 Real Wealth 28:28
Kim Allen
What kinds of wealth are most sustainable in times of loss? The Buddha defined five kinds of wealth that are especially appropriate for lay practitioners to develop: confidence, ethical conduct, learning, generosity, and wisdom. The inclusion of “learning” is interesting and not often emphasized. We will explore these five qualities in the context of our current times, considering how they can serve both ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-10-19 05 instructions: relational practice exploring mindfulness of the body 8:49
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions for meditating together in pairs, naming out loud physical sensations in the body with bare awareness
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-19 04 meditation: mindfulness of the body 26:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with a body scan, tuning in to areas of the body that tend to habitually store tension and inviting it to relax, then bringing awareness to physical sensations throughout the whole body
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-19 Dharma Talk 46:30
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on how skillful contemplation can be part of our practice.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-19 03 short talk: mindfulness of the body 11:29
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to the benefits of working with the body as a foundation of mindfulness
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-19 Loving No Matter What 1:13:41
Dawn Scott
The turbulence of our times is asking us to discover for ourselves how to love. The word love has many associations. However, the love of compassion and equanimity is vigorous and peaceful, open to pain yet free of suffering, urgent with a vision of freedom yet patient. It reveals a vast and immense heart that can look on and immediately be in touch with beauty and horror and stay steady, loving no matter what. During our time together--respecting our reactivity, overwhelm, and other afflictive states--we'll explore the heart's wide and deep capacity for compassion and equanimity.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2020-10-19 IMS Daily Dharma, Oct 19 2020 20:15
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2020

2020-10-19 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 34:50
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 Dharma Talk - Confidence and Value 40:16
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 The Eightfold Noble Path: Right View/Right Understanding 1:31:55
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-10-18 The Dharma Life -- session 2 1:36:39
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-18 Guided Meditation 41:56
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 Kathina as the Occasion for Social Harmony 32:39
Ajahn Sucitto
This event of Kathina encapsulates the skillful qualities associated with social harmony and cohesion – qualities of generosity and sharing, precepts and virtue, gentle speech and service. Recollecting the goodness of such actions, the heart grows and is strengthened.
Cittaviveka

2020-10-18 Making Peace with Insecurity - Meditation 33:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-18 Making Peace with Insecurity - Talk 39:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-18 Instructions and Practice Guidance 42:25
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 09 talk: exploring vedana or feeling-tone and compassion in relation to illness 31:08
Jill Shepherd
How mindfulness of feeling-tones helps protect us from reactivity in relation to physical illness, and instead, can strengthen skilful responses of wisdom and compassion
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messengers"

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