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Dharma Talks
2023-10-06 Lovingkindness - Meditation 33:08
Mark Nunberg
This practice group is for people interested in developing the heart by training in the four beautiful emotions of lovingkindness (metta), compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Each session includes instruction, a guided meditation, a short dharma talk, and time for questions and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome, no registration necessary. This practice group is led by Stacy McClendon and Mark Nunberg. Generally, the teachers lead on alternating months.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-06 Lovingkindness - Talk 55:53
Mark Nunberg
This practice group is for people interested in developing the heart by training in the four beautiful emotions of lovingkindness (metta), compassion, empathetic joy, and equanimity. Each session includes instruction, a guided meditation, a short dharma talk, and time for questions and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome, no registration necessary. This practice group is led by Stacy McClendon and Mark Nunberg. Generally, the teachers lead on alternating months.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-06 Die Entwicklung zu Bodhicitta im Mahayana 13:24
Renate Seifarth
Es geht um die Verbindung der Brahmavihara mit der Vision von Bodhicitta im Mahayana. Dort nimmt die Intention Erleuchtung, um alle Wesen von Leid zu befreien - Bodhicitta, eine zentrale Stellung ein, Mitgefühl wird zu den Paramita gezählt und bekommt mehr Gewicht in der Praxis. Ein wesentlicher Vertreter dieser Richtung ist Shantideva. Wie geht es uns, wenn wir mit dieser Intention praktizieren? Was verändert das in unserer Praxis?
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta Retreat

2023-10-06 Opening Instructions - Four Foundations of Mindfulness 37:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of these four areas: body, sensitivity, heart and emotional and psychological phenomena prevent us from being deluded.
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-05 Dependent co-arising 62:31
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2023-10-05 Die drei Brahmavihara karuna, mudita und upekkha 44:52
Renate Seifarth
Es werden die weiteren Brahmavihara Qualitäten vorgestellt, die ähnlich wie Metta entwickelt werden. Es geht um den Zusammenhang mit Metta, ihre Bedeutung in unserem Leben und die Rolle von upekkha, Gleichmut.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta Retreat

2023-10-05 The Buddha's Teaching on Not getting Caught in Negative Tendencies 50:17
James Baraz
The Sabbāsava Sutta "All the Taints" (Majjhima Nikaya #2). The Buddha teaches seven methods for restraining and abandoning the "taints", the fundamental defilements that keep us in suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-10-04 Week 1 - Guided Meditation - Practicing w the Hindrances 35:18
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-04 Living, Dying & Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:29
Eugene Cash
Buddhist teachings on Death & Letting Go – Highlighting the sutta: Advice to Anathapindika. Appreciating his dying gift to us across time and space.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life

2023-10-04 The Delight of Giving 47:18
Bart van Melik
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-10-04 Meditation: Letting Thought Clouds Come and Go 21:56
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us through a body scan and into a relaxed, open presence. When we realize we are lost in a thought cloud, our practice is to relax open, listening to and feeling the life of the present moment. We are training to become increasingly aware of the gap between thoughts, the space where the light of awareness shines through. “It’s in that gap between thoughts that the light shines through – this mystery, this living mystery of what’s right here… opening to and relaxing into the life that’s right here.” ~ Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-10-04 Longing for Freedom: A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lama Rod Owens 62:23
Tara Brach
In his recent book, The New Saints, Lama Rod Owens offers teachings and practices that awaken our longing for freedom, and help us realize the truth of who we are. This week, I sat down with Lama Rod to talk about how an authentic path of liberation must include the often unexamined layers of our personal and societal existence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-10-04 The Healing Attitude of Lovingkindness - Meditation 34:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-04 The Healing Attitude of Lovingkindness - Talk 57:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-04 Grundlegendes zu Sammatta Praxis 47:49
Renate Seifarth
Metta gehört zu den Objekten für Sammatta-Meditation. Neben der grenzenlosen Güte soll die Fähigkeit der geistigen Sammlung gestärkt werden. Es wird betrachtet, was unter sammatta verstanden wird, welche Bedingungen förderlich sind und welche Resultate entstehen können.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta Retreat

2023-10-04 Week 1 - Teachings - Working w the Hindrances 34:42
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-04 Week 1 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 23:42
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series)

2023-10-04 My Humanity Is Not in the Way ~ It's the Way! 49:29
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-10-04 Taking Your Mind to the Laundry: How Wisdom Accumulates 1:35:31
Sylvia Boorstein
Includes meditation, dharma talk & some discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-10-04 Practicing with Modernity and the Myth of Progress 31:22
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2023-10-03 The 5 Recollections, Samvega and Karma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:18
Gullu Singh
In this talk, Gullu reflects on the ancient practice from the Buddha of the 5 subjects for frequent recollection which invites us to contemplate that we are of the nature to age, get sick, to die and be separated from all the dear to us (one way or another) and yet, we have agency to develop qualities of mind and heart that allow us to move through these innate difficulties of life with more grace. Awareness of death can bring a sense of spiritual urgency (samvega) which is useful in cultivation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life

2023-10-03 Refuge and the recollection of the triple gem. 49:19
Jaya Rudgard
How refuge means a safe place to rest and from which to grow. Reflecting on the qualities of Buddha, dharma, sangha to support your our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2023

2023-10-03 Grundlegendes zu Metta 47:09
Renate Seifarth
Grundlegendes über die Metta Qualität und Metta-Praxis.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Metta Retreat

2023-10-03 Instructions on the Arising and Passing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:45
Pamela Weiss
“Whatever comes let it come. Whatever goes let it go. And see what remains.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life

2023-10-02 You Are All Going to Die (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:15
Pamela Weiss
A talk on the truth of impermanence and mortality, arising and passing, and making the unwanted wanted.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Mindful of Death, Awakening to Life

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