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Dharma Talks
2016-05-10 Refuge in Awareness 45:48
Ayya Anandabodhi
Morning reflection on developing awareness of changing states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-10 Path: Kamma and it’s ending – in body and mind 65:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta moves through Kamma, not through space-time. It is triggered by ‘old Kamma’ – perceptions, attitudes, personality programs. It keeps recreating these unless there is direct insight – the Kamma that ends Kamma.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Reflection on the Four Noble Truths 47:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Building up the strength to meet dukkha: moving out of habitual support systems, give oneself fully to citta and somatic presence.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Q & A 41:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Pain, drowsiness, ethical integrity (in a non-ethical world), nature as a model for humans.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 5) Sati - What Is Mindfulness 59:36
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-09 Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness 28:50
Tara Brach
Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversive hatred or blame. That you can care about someone and still create boundaries… Each of you has this wisdom, heart, being place that intuits that there really isn’t freedom in the moments that you’re carrying blame and judgment.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Anxiety and Tranquility 58:29
Matthew Brensilver
Audio recording of Monday Night Meditation class with Matthew Brensilver on May 9th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-09 Question and Response from Retreat 12:10
Tara Brach
Question and Response from Retreat ~ After morning meditation, Tara responds to questions on deepening our meditation practice, working with unpleasant and pleasant thoughts, and forgiveness from the IMCW 2016 Spring Residential Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Meditation: Mystery of Aliveness 27:40
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Rewilding the Wasteland ; the Arising of the Five Indriya 55:29
Ajahn Sucitto
From the “Wasteland” of samsara, (which is generated by ignorance and craving), a natural arising of spiritual strength can occur – if we ‘touch the ground’ of truth and empathy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Standing Meditation – Finding the Somatic Body 21:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Standing can put us in touch with somatic intelligence as: balance, as cohesion. Gradually the felt sense of body re-forms as a mid-line central stillness and as peripheral sensitivities and openness.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Puja: Participation not Observation 26:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Devotional practice works through including us in bodily, verbal, and heartful actions. Words and concepts are secondary to images and romances. Images of Buddha hands carry deep meaning.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Accessing ‘Ground’ – Unconditional Acceptance 13:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Awareness is often beset with thoughts, emotions, and narratives that cause a ‘jump’ into conceptual proliferation. With unconditional acceptance we hold awareness as a non-reactive ‘pool’ that receives and resonates with mind-stuff but doesn’t react.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 62:42
Tara Brach
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are too: don’t leave this companionship… The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full. - rumi
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-08 Citta and a person meet in the body. 61:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is occluded by not knowing its freedom. Citta enters the sensory condition, is ‘born’, develops a person to meet ‘the other’. Here is dukkha and personal responses to that don’t work, but dukkha can be released through citta in the body.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Standing Meditation: Finding Balance 19:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Balance is an important aspect of bodily/somatic intelligence. It is alert, free from pressure and sensitive. Attuning to this can bring these qualities into citta.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-08 Puja: Devotion as a way of bringing citta into personhood 41:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Use of one’s voice and of giving it to the sacred. Through merging one’s voice and giving into the communal field, citta can rise out of the isolation of personhood.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Compassion Slogans 65:38
Norman Fischer
About how to practice with slogans and a few specific slogans to practice with.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-07 The Bodhisattva Leaves a Retreat 65:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Meditation – the gift of natural ease 47:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Find ground in the body as a gift, not worked for. This opens space around the body. Breathing is another given that flows through that, establishing rhythm = natural time.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 4) Instructions for Vipassana Meditation 59:17
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-07 Guided Meditation 24:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 The Nature of Citta 59:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is awareness, heart and mind. It experiences involuntary and voluntary modes. In the involuntary is release, but the path to that is through intention, disengagement, and discernment.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Day 8 Instructions 55:20
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Guided meditation instructions and questions and answers 44:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-07 Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness 12:17
Tara Brach
- from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 1:42:54
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-06 Joy 39:08
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2016-05-06 Heart Surgery 54:18
Mary Grace Orr
Opening the heart to forgiveness and compassion. A discussion of practices that support opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "What the Dharma Offers as We Get Older: with Anna Douglas

2016-05-06 Mindfulness and delusion: going beyond the four distortions 64:53
Mark Nunberg
Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-06 Three Refuges 58:58
Trudy Goodman
Trust the unfolding experience of reality in Dogen’s backward step. Trust yourself as a spiritual friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-06 Metta. 46:25
Caroline Jones
this talk explores the crucial role kindness plays in our meditation practice and in our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-06 Day 7 Metta 41:49
George Mumford
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-06 Guided metta lovingkindness 53:48
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Radiating kindness to groups of beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-06 Practice Here & There, Practice Everywhere 59:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-06 Evening Talk & Book Signing: Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto For Our Earth 68:28
Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. Copies of Thanissara's book, Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-05-06 Day 7 Instructions 64:01
Lila Kate Wheeler
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 The two truths 60:47
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How can we recognize in learned from relative and absolute reality?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-05 Empathy Hurts - Compassion Connects and Heals 60:21
Christiane Wolf
The difference between empathy and compassion, self compassion vs self-pity, negative mind slogans and "Transform bad circumstances into the path"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-05 The Power of Mindfulness 51:01
George Mumford
Five spiritual powers: a joyful journey of self-discovery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 Practice knowing and not knowing 52:58
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-05 Reflections on the Journey 49:08
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-05 3) Metta In Deed, Speech, and Thoughts 55:26
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-05 Day Six Metta for the Earth 36:57
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 Generosity 1:11:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-05 Guided Meditation: Choiceless Awareness 44:59
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-05 Day Six Instructions: Big Sky Big Mind 55:56
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 Absolute and Relative Compassion 59:33
Norman Fischer
Becoming intimate with your suffering, experiencing joy; developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-04 RAIN of Forgiveness 1:14:37
Tara Brach
The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-04 Fall into life: Simple Mindful Presence 62:38
Howard Cohn
Settling into our personal essence and noticing the different identity views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 Q&A with Norman and Molly 1:16:06
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-04 Day Five Metta: Forgiveness 33:00
JoAnna Hardy
Short talk and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 The Simple Person 3:11
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-04 Date four - morning meditation instructions 62:02
Mark Nunberg
Keeping it simple, something being known.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-03 Scared-in-the-Woods to Liberated 46:03
Kim Allen
Kim Allen gave the fourth talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk explores how practice can be difficult, especially when it helps us become aware of the dark corners of our minds such as fear and dread. Fortunately, the Buddha taught us to train our minds so we won't give in to those tendencies, and instead live a skillful life with wholesome qualities such as generosity, virtue, and loving kindness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-03 The Four Thoughts That Change the Mind 51:50
Mary Grace Orr
Four reflections which can inspire the deepening of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-03 Metta and the path of awakening 58:40
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-03 Identity Crisis 48:54
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-03 Équanimité, cours du 3 mai 2016 1:25:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-03 Awareness of the body 36:45
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-03 My Dharma Journey 60:55
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-03 2) Metta Is a Relational Practice 55:34
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-03 Reflections on Equanimity 4:34
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-03 Kamma 59:35
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-03 Instructions: Working with Distractions 22:24
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-03 Day Four Instructions 60:27
Howard Cohn
Breath, body, state of heart, mind and thoughts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-03 Morning instructions and Q&A 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Establishing mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-02 Building a foundation for mindfulness 63:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How do we know when we are being mindful, and what will help us get there?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-02 L’équanimité, une des 4 qualités du coeur, cours du 2 mai 2016, avec instructions, méditations guidées et enseignements 1:26:17
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-02 Simile of the Cloth 49:25
Noah Levine
Buddha’s description of the process of liberation through abandoning the defilements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-02 Day Three Metta: Jellyroll Metta 1:10:31
Trudy Goodman
Metta for yourself as a child.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-02 Introduction and guided metta practice 59:33
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-02 Guided Body Scan 41:15
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-02 Closing Session 32:49
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes Jaya Rudgard.
Gaia House Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life

2016-05-02 Supportive Path Factors 27:26
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-05-01 Opening to Suffering 46:33
Lila Kate Wheeler
Finding beauty and peace through wisely practicing with the five hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-01 Buddha Day Address 37:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
What was the mindset of the Bodhisatta when he left his family and what made him carry on? date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2016-05-01 Dharma Talk 49:30
Catherine McGee
Dharma talk from Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life long weekend retreat.
Gaia House Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life

2016-05-01 Mindfulness of emotions 52:38
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-01 Getting intimate with reality 35:34
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-01 We Are All Refugees 45:21
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-01 Understanding Intimacy 48:49
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-01 1) Catching the Spirit of Metta 51:59
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-01 Day Two Metta: Body Metta 37:55
Howard Cohn
Caressing the body with loving attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-01 Conceit of Self 6:16
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-01 Equanimity 60:54
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-01 Guided Metta Meditation 42:41
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-01 Morning Instructions 43:18
Catherine McGee
Instructions from the second morning of Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your life long weekend retreat.
Gaia House Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life

2016-05-01 Morning Instruction Day 9 39:46
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Pauenhof Center :  Germany Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-01 Day Two Instructions: Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension 53:00
George Mumford
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-04-30 The Seat of Awakening, Jack 52:11
Jack Kornfield
How to use the great invitation of mindfulness and loving awareness to awaken amidst all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-04-30 Beginning with Metta and Mindfulness 42:36
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-04-30 Day One Metta: Lovingkindness 42:02
Lila Kate Wheeler
Receiving lovingkindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-04-30 Poems 5:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-04-30 Group Interview B3 1:30:23
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Pauenhof Center :  Germany Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-30 Morning Instructions 54:53
Catherine McGee
Instructions from the first morning of Freeing The Heart, Embracing Your Life long weekend retreat.
Gaia House Freeing the Heart, Embracing Your Life

2016-04-30 Morning Instruction Day 8 48:49
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Pauenhof Center :  Germany Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-30 Day One Instructions: Kind Awareness 55:20
Noah Levine
Entering the practice of kind awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

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