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Dharma Talks
2023-10-18 Week 3 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 30:13
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-18 Inner Activism & Response-Ability 49:40
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-10-18 L’incertain et l’irrésolu 55:05
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Faire la paix avec le monde

2023-10-18 Pleine conscience du paysage intérieur 57:29
Pascal Auclair
Enseignements et méditation guidée sur l’attention aux états mentaux et questions et réponses
Moulin de Chaves Faire la paix avec le monde

2023-10-18 Practicing with Conflict: Foundations 1 66:41
Donald Rothberg
We begin by identifying the importance of developing skillful practice with differences and conflicts, whether inner conflicts or interpersonal conflicts or group or organizational conflicts or social or international conflicts. The claim is that the general principles and practices are fundamentally the same, even as the practices take different forms when there are more complexities. We first give a definition of "conflict" as a difference of values, goals, or strategies, and as not necessarily involving hostility or aggression. This definition may help to go against the prevalence of negative conditioning about conflicts; we look at a number of reasons why bringing our practice to conflicts is commonly difficult. For the rest of the talk, we examine four more "inner" foundations of skillful practice with conflict: examining our own conditioning; working with the core relevant teachings of the Buddha, particularly about the nature of reactivity (as in the teaching of the Two Arrows); practicing with difficult emotions, body states, and thoughts; and bringing in the heart practices. After the talk, there is a discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-17 Ce qu’est et ce que révèle la pleine conscience 60:47
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Faire la paix avec le monde

2023-10-17 Leerheit - eine Annäherung (Schweizerdeutsch) 59:07
Yuka Nakamura
Leerheit ist einer der wichtigsten, aber auch tiefgründigsten Begriffe im Buddhismus, denn die Einsicht in die Leerheit aller Phänomene befreit den Geist von Anhaftung und Ablehnung. Einfach zu sehen ist die Leerheit sozialer Konventionen. Traditionell wird Leerheit im Sinne der Abhängigkeit von Teilen und der Abhängigkeit von Bedingungen kontempliert.Die Einsicht in die Leerheit zeigt uns einen Mittelweg zwischen den Extremen von Nihilismus und Ewigkeitsglaube auf.
Karunahaus

2023-10-17 Opening to Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor 35:29
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-10-17 Thoughts and thinking. 52:10
Jaya Rudgard
Cultivating a wise relationship to thoughts and thinking in meditation and in daily life
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2023

2023-10-17 Guided Meditation and Dharmette: Levels of Anicca 60:06
Dawn Neal
45 minute lightly guided meditation followed by a short teaching on impermenance.
Insight Santa Cruz

2023-10-16 The Power of Attention 1:37:29
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Meditation 36:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Talk 31:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-16 Mudita - Die wertschätzende Freude (Schweizerdeutsch) 58:12
Yuka Nakamura
Mudita - das dritte der vier Brahmaviharas - wird als Mitfreude, wertschätzende oder selbstlose Freude bezeichnet. Sie ist die Herzensqualität, die das Gute, das Schöne, das Glück wertschätzt - in unserem eigenen Leben und bei anderen. Unser Leben ist reich an Anlässen für Mudita - seien es unsere Lebensumstände, die Schönheit der Natur, ethische, heilsame Handlungen und die Tatsache, dass wir dem Dharma begegnet sind und ihn praktizieren.
Karunahaus

2023-10-15 Die vier edlen Wahrheiten (Schweizerdeutsch) 57:55
Yuka Nakamura
Die vier edlen Wahrheiten sind die grundlegendste Lehre des Buddhas. Die Wahrheit von dukkha, das Entstehen von dukkha, das Ende von dukkha und der Weg, der zum Ende von dukkha führt. Sie zeigen uns unsere existentielle Situation und unser Potential.
Karunahaus

2023-10-15 Duality, Merging, Not-Self and Differentiation in the Interpersonal World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:27
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-15 In this world... 34:34
Pamela Weiss
In this world hatred never ceases from hatred. By love alone is hatred ceased. This is the law, ancient and inexhaustible. —Buddha
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-10-15 What Is The Solution? 25:48
Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha said it simply. The awakened mind is the best solution. The mind-heart needs happiness to be well and to extend that well-being to others. So we tune inward, listen, meditate and resolve the dis-ease. We teach ourselves to be resilient, joyful and discerning rather than feeding on delusion and misery. When the loss is too great or madness reigns everywhere, we pour benevolent ingredients into awareness itself, patiently practising this way. Then we radiate true compassion, true forgiveness and true peace in all directions.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2023-10-15 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Mediation 27:44
Mark Nunberg
The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Mediation
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-10-15 The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Talk 41:20
Mark Nunberg
The Liberating Potential of Wisdom and Awareness - Week 1 of 3: Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-10-15 No Hiding From the World | Sunday Sound of Dhamma 41:55
Dhammadīpā
Brief meditation followed by a dhamma talk.
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-10-15 Morning sit with instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:27
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-14 Citta und der Umgang mit Emotionen 60:13
Yuka Nakamura
Unser Herzgeist - Citta - und seine Zustände sind der Bereich des dritten Satipatthana. Wir üben uns darin, achtsam auf die ganze Welt der Emotionen, Stimmungen, Impulse, Gedanken zu sein. Wie gelingt dies, ohne sich in Emotionen zu verlieren und ohne sie zu verdrängen? Durch diese Praxis gelangen wir zur Einsicht, dass alle diese psychischen Zustände vergänglich und unpersönlich sind.
Karunahaus

2023-10-14 Awakening & Letting Go 56:05
Eugene Cash
What is to Awake? What is it to Awaken? Different forms and levels of awakening. How awakening begins in each moment. The relationship of love & awareness to awakening in Buddhist teachings and suttas.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-14 Upekkha: Abiding in Equanimity 36:56
Devon Hase
Teaching and guided meditation on the practice of equanimity. From Ruth King: ”Equanimity can feel internally like a great mountain, with the mind solid and stable, undisturbed by the changing seasons. Or it can be like the ocean, with the mind vast, deep, and immeasurable, undisturbed by whatever swims, floats, or is housed in its waters. Equanimity can be like a strong fire — roaring, engulfing, and transmuting, undisturbed by whatever is thrown into it. Or like immense space — open, allowing, and receiving, undisturbed by the objects that arise and pass away”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

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