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2016-05-24 Embracing it all: taking the practice home with gratitude 58:53
Nikki Mirghafori
What is the role of metta meditation in relationship to the Vipassana practice? How do we take the practice home? On the cushion? Daily he practice? What's the role of gratitude in embracing all of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-24 Q&A: Human Needs; Conditionality; Mutuality; Kamma; Play; Energy 61:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-24 Meditation Instructions 30:14
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-24 D 2 Group Interviews 1:50:50
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-24 The Factors of Samadhi- to be trained in and enjoyed 61:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Use pointing (vitakka) and “tasting/feeling” (vicara). Energy comes with enthusiasm. Use the imaginative faculty to generate useful perceptions and images. Firm up mindfulness to supervise and protect the heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 Les joies 67:47
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-23 Considering forgiveness 68:16
Winnie Nazarko
What forgiveness means, Why it's valuable, And how to go about considering it. At end of talk discussion racism and reconciliation on the collective level
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-23 Guided Meditation: Cultivating Samadhi 59:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Key points- ground, safety; resonate with body as textures until breathing becomes apparent. Sample the feelings of breathing and enjoy it. Absorb the ‘sigh’, the felt impression
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 Q&A 56:13
Joseph Goldstein
Wide ranging discussion of questions from meditators
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-23 Four Noble Truths 46:15
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-23 12) The Defilements & the Three Trainings, Part I 62:39
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-23 Questions & Answers 60:12
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 Guided instructions - Metta for the person with whom we have difficulty. Q/A 56:55
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-23 Monday Night Meditation class with Jack Kornfield and Mark Coleman 1:10:29
Jack Kornfield
Jack and Mark reflect on over two decades of teachings and events in the Community Meditation Hall as the old hall closes and Spirit Rock prepares to open the doors to its new Community Meditation Center.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-23 Meditation Instructions 32:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 Cultivating Enlightenment- beyond the person 56:52
Ajahn Sucitto
The 7 factors of enlightenment present a trajectory that begins in the personal domain but moves beyond self. This is because it is based on disengagement (viveka) ripened beyond self.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 C 2 Group Interview 2:10:57
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 B 2 Group Interview 1:57:28
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Reflections on the Day's Practice 6:40
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Meditation Instructions 28:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 D 1 Group Interview 2:02:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Morning instructions: metta for the neutral person and Q/A 55:20
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-22 Returning to the Nature of awareness (citta) 62:26
Ajahn Sucitto
The constant factor that accompanies all mental states and activities is awareness- the ground of citta. Citta gets conditioned by sankhara of intention, attention and contact. Widening past these we return to awareness.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-22 Guided Meditation: Being with Dying 39:56
Ajahn Sucitto
An imaginative recollection of the process of mind/citta when in the presence of a dying friend.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-21 Reflections on the Day's Practice 11:24
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 Heart Practices for Awakening Joy 63:12
James Baraz
Opening our hearts to ourselves to others with loving-kindness and compassion are central to awakening the joy that's right inside us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 The heavenly abodes compassion 60:51
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk introduces the four heavenly abodes (Brahma Viharas), their relationship to one another, they're near and far enemies and a range of motivations for practice. The second half of the talk is dedicated to the practice of compassion, the second of the four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-21 11) Vesak Talk 54:52
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-21 Meditation Instructions 26:08
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 Day 4 Sitting/Instructions 58:40
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 C 1 Group Interview 2:05:56
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 B 1 Group Interview 1:56:33
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Reflections on the Day's Practice 7:43
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Recollection: touching the sacred 64:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Conscious recollection (eg of Buddha and of death) uses the doing thinking mind to touch and enter the citta as heart. This shifts us out of our personal mindset into the mind-tone of the sacred.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-20 The Joy of Awakening 65:34
Howard Cohn
Following the Buddha's journey through sense pleasures to concentration, to equanimity, to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 Hindrances in metta practice 52:18
Winnie Nazarko
On retreat you don't control what you experience, But you can develop skill in working with what would otherwise derail your practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-20 Strange Happiness. 47:36
Caroline Jones
This talk describes some of the different kinds of happiness available to us through Dhamma practice. All of them are strange in that they do not involve having, getting or getting rid of anything.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-20 Kinds of meditation practices and how they fit in together 51:30
Richard Shankman
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-20 Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness 1:11:48
James Baraz
In order to cultivate true well-being we need to learn to open to all the suffering in our lives. Living with integrity and learning how to forgive ourselves and others are essential supports in this process as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 What is Meditation 1:11:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Day 3 Sitting/Instructions 61:39
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 The Centrality of Feeling 67:30
Ajahn Sucitto
As all dharmas converge on feeling, mindful handling of feeling is crucial for happiness and liberation. Revealing mental feeling through inquiry and handling it skillfully is a thorough practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Late Evening Sitting 13:30
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Introduction into Method and Format of Sayadaw U Tejaniya's Retreat 52:15
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-19 Letting Go Into Joy and Love 50:28
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor
How a friend's death reminds us of the freedom and joy possible as we let go. Specific suggestions that keep us open and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Guided Meditation 36:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Skillful inquiry reveals the factor of feeling in all experience. By resonating empathetically within as it is there is clarity, inspiration and release.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Love and Buddhism (Valentine's day talk) 39:24
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-19 Impermanence and youth 57:18
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-19 10) Diligence-Apamada 58:30
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-19 Guided meditation– First day and Q/A 44:23
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-19 Opening to Nature- around and within 66:48
Ajahn Sucitto
The world of Nature touches us & teaches us how to relate to ourselves as humans rather than socialized citizens. Integrating this can take us beyond our relations and stuck states to hold our lives in the light of Truth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Day 2 Sitting/Instructions 58:36
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Ariyan Practice: Refuge in Vulnerability 34:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Ariyan realization is of moving beyond the personal identity. This is a step into vulnerability. Through meditation training we learn to ‘touch the ground’ -purity of intention- where the person can’t go.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01
Tara Brach
These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-18 Handling the Neurotic: The 5 khandha 66:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation reveals latent tendencies that can spring to life in 'neurotic' ways. To handle these skillfully we use calming, metta and inquiry. Through this these patterns cease.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Opening Night Talk 63:44
James Baraz, Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-17 Reprendre le pouvoir 54:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:17
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Balancing the Heart and Mind 29:13
Spring Washam
Mission Dharma

2016-05-17 Q&A on Faith, on Citta, on Viveka 53:39
Ajahn Sucitto
-The nature of faith in the Triple Gem to replace personality-view. -The nature of citta (pronounced 'chitta')-heart, mind awareness. -The difference between disengagement and unfeeling disconnection.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 9) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part II 54:37
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-17 Meeting dukkha with primary empathy 48:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Resolving dukkha comes through revealing its pain, while having the means to do so. These means are samadhi and primary empathy-these take us beyond the trap of conceiving ourselves.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Five Recollections: Aging, Sickness, Death, Separation and Kamma 23:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Recollecting that these are the planes we get hit by and stuck in. We see the need to resolve old mamma. Meet it with metta-karuna, welcome the dissonances 'home'.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-16 Dharma and Recovery 57:05
Kevin Griffin
Common Ground Meditation Center

2016-05-16 Guided Meditation 27:39
Kevin Griffin
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-16 Getting out of the box=rewilding the mind 60:05
Ajahn Sucitto
'Boxes' are our compartmentalized lives& their drives. Drives activated by tanha(craving). In meeting the edges of our boxes as they arise, meeting with metta-karuna etc. these edges can dissolve.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Goodwill- receiving and forming in the domain of metta 48:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 This Is What Should Be Done - Elements of Lovingkindness 57:18
Kevin Griffin
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-15 8) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part I 60:51
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-15 Respect for the Triple Gem 22:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Offering myself to bring forth citta – awareness. This prepared the ground for skillfulness and the willingness to meet hindrances.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Cultivating the Measureless leads to release 55:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The ‘measureless’ domains of goodwill are based on disengagement from ill will, fear and desire. Defense against harm changes to protecting the beautiful heart from confused reactions.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-14 How to Cultivate Wisdom 31:55
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-14 Stroking the Dog 41:27
Ayya Anandabodhi
Learning to train the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 Mutual Individuality 20:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Becoming a ‘true individual’ occurs when goodwill and sharing take the lead over ‘personal obsession’ and programs based on fear and desire. ‘Sharing blessings’ is a skillful meditation.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-13 Compassion. 53:29
Caroline Jones
This talk points to the power of compassion to heal what is hurt in our hearts and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-13 7 ) Walking Meditation - Why Should We Do It 64:27
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-13 Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now 39:24
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe 39:53
James Baraz, Ayya Yeshe
Ayya Yeshe has developed the Bodhicitta Foundation to support the empowerment of women and children from the previously ‘untouchable’ caste in Central India. The talk started with this YouTube video at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOpZ3kpIJU ) of her work. To learn more about her work, go to the Bodhicitta Foundation at ( http://bodhicitta-vihara.com/ ) Bodhicitta Foundation is a socially engaged charity that helps ex-untouchable Indians – a community that was previously enslaved and forced to do the most demeaning kinds of work for little pay. They also help slum people, offer a women’s job training center, sewing, English computer classes and have a children’s study center. In addition they offer counseling for domestic violence, have a malnourished children’s program and offer basic medical and housing assistance.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 18:04
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-12 Ecology of the Heart 29:20
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma Reflection
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice 37:59
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 66:25
Tara Brach
Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-11 6) Thoughts 57:50
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-11 Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Vihara 52:13
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Morning Question and Response 16:45
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Being with the Syrian Refugees in Greece -- A Presentation by John Namkung 1:14:15
Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg
Sylvia and Donald introduce John Namkung, a practitioner of the Wednesday community at Spirit Rock. John reflects on why he decided to help the refugees. He presents photos and videos of his experiences in the accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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2016-05-11 Meditation: Space of Awareness 35:22
Tara Brach
Awake awareness includes both the foreground of bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds, and the background of open, still presence. In this meditation we explore discovering interior space and aliveness, and the continuous space that all existence arises and passes in. Resting as a boundless sea of awareness, we are fully open to the changing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are. 41:03
Ayya Santacitta
Morning Instructions Day Two
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 The Process and Development of Spiritual Authorities [ Indriya ] 57:27
Ajahn Sucitto
The 5 indriya arise from the grounded citta – they lead the meditation process. Without these we unnecessarily re-activate samsaric processes: perfectionism, projection, self-criticism. Get on the right track!
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 Reflection on Citta as Responsive Sentiency 20:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Our awareness touches and responds. To set it in line with Dhamma, we use the occasion to bring forth, to offer heart – so that it can open. This is Dhamma practice, Sangha is the human individual quality of our subsequent endeavor.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Guided Meditation on Breathing 20:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Get the body grounded, set the spine, sense the balance. Trace the rhythm of breathing, apply some tuning, let its energy spread through the body. Enjoy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Applying the Practice 44:26
Ayya Anandabodhi
Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2016-05-10 Becoming Freedom 48:31
Andrea Fella
Andrea Fella gave the fifth talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk discusses early teachings by the Buddha contained in the Sutta Nipata, wherein the Buddha addressed suffering and its causes, such as clinging to sense pleasures and views.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-10 Tuning the Instrument of the Body 58:58
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation Day 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

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