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2020-10-11 Q&A 35:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Advice for young people experiencing panic attacks, lack of motivation, depression; how to locate tension and contraction in the body; feeling restless about others’ difficulties and wanting to share Dhamma; working with disconnects in society; working with external sounds in meditation; how to get more steadiness in meditation when body is so uncomfortable.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Mettā Samādhi or Samādhi Mettā 55:38
Nathan Glyde
Exploring what happens when we offer mettā phrases that resonate with and radiate the felt sense of samādhi. Apologies: there are a lot of environmental noises from the sonic-cityscape I sat in to offer this online session. Hopefully the inimitable delight of Dharma overcomes the occasional annoyance of a horn, alarm, or call of a city dwellers.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020

2020-10-11 Recollecting Faith 15:02
Ajahn Sucitto
We use embodiment as a holding frame to bring heart and mind together. Energy is the meeting point. Recollect your faith – why you do this practice – to uplift and fortify energy. This provides some ballast from being knocked around by the world.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Walking Meditation – Soothing Tension 12:45
Ajahn Sucitto
The mobility of walking helps soothe feelings of tension and aggression. The loose and the strong aspects as you walk create a feedback loop to circulate energy. A comfortable collectedness of energy can result.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 06 talk: Heavenly Messengers 2 - Ageing 23:05
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to the heavenly messenger of ageing, as an invitation to explore our attitudes to our own ageing
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messengers"

2020-10-11 Q&A 36:28
Ajahn Sucitto
How does release come about; working with regret/results of unskillful actions; how to sense into spine and other internal body parts; how to hold good heartedness towards seemingly evil behaviors; wanting to meet aggression with aggression; working with drowsiness; waning interest in events around me.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Monday moring meditation: body, heart and mind coming together 43:08
Jill Shepherd
Steadying and stilling the body as a support for steadying and stilling the heart-mind
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-10-11 Guided Meditation - Letting Go of Mental Complexities 35:14
Ajahn Sucitto
After setting up the posture, allow the breathing. Let it educate your mindfulness. Step out of the anatomy of body and into the energy body. Steadily wiping out the visual impression, just feel what you feel.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 The Gold Star of Heart Tones – Equanimity 40:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Liberation is expressed as both liberation of citta and liberation of wisdom. As the heart is soothed and relaxed, the roots of behavior can be penetrated, distractions and defilements discarded. The result is a heart tone which is serene and comfortable with all that arises.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Day Two - LGBTQ Online Retreat: Heart Practices 56:56
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Freedom & Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for our LGBTQAI+ Community

2020-10-10 Concluding Remarks – Continuity of Practice 3:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Where things fall apart is where the connections break, when we spin off into our distracted thinking and proliferating thoughts. Spend time lingering in the heart sense, staying connected and present with that. Stay with the body in daily activities, taking regular pause moments.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Suffusing Goodwill 23:12
Ajahn Sucitto
One transformative insight that arises from practice is the way you develop and store up goodness is by sharing it. The untrained mind thinks it’s by storing it up. Guidance is provided generate qualities of heart and extend them across a wide span.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Méditation Guidée: Debout et Assise 60:46
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre Weekend Retraite pour Terre d'Éveil Octobre 2020

2020-10-10 Q&A 26:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Working with past traumas; relationship between meditation and right livelihood; clarification around embodied presence; please elaborate on contracted and anxious modes; sequence of the 4 elements – earth, air, fire, water; recollecting teachers and use of Buddho in meditation; clarify the meaning of purification or cleaning of citta.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Breathing and Body 30:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance for establishing a suitable posture and attitude for meditation. Sustain attention on breathing – a moving sign is easier to stay with than a static sign. Use it along with supportive heart energy to help blocked places to unfreeze and dissolve.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Redesigning Our Energy 29:39
Ajahn Sucitto
The energy we use to think about things and get things done is conditioned – it can put us in conflict when we want to be comfortable and kind but keep getting caught up in irritation and defeat. This energy can be purified. Change the mental approach and repel distractions. Beautiful qualities arise on their own.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Standing Meditation – Body as a Unity 21:11
Ajahn Sucitto
After establishing a firm and comfortable posture, expand awareness across each dimension of the body. The details become less, the whole body becomes a unity in harmony. In this state hindrances and discomforts have much less possibility to occur.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Hebrew - Spacious Awareness 56:12
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew Guided Meditation and Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva

2020-10-10 Day Two - LGBTQ Online Retreat: Instructions 27:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Freedom & Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for our LGBTQAI+ Community

2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Staving off Hindrances 15:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is about penetrating the roots of mental behavior. The primary doing is to settle and clear distracting influences so the mind becomes unified in purpose. A happy, firm mind leaves less traction for hindrances to take hold.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Meet Dukkha from a Collected Center 21:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Dukkha is a natural part of our experience. When internalized it manifests as constricting and disjointed somatic states. When met from a clear and settled center, our responses can be guided by harmony and wisdom.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Welcome, advice on online retreats, guided meditation 20:05
Ajahn Sucitto
With a heartful attitude, set aside what is not necessary and make a continued deliberate practice around your Dhamma aspirations. Tuning into embodiment with interest and sensitivity, we can locate the missing piece, where harmonization of the mental and somatic domains occurs.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-09 Hebrew - Perception, Mettā, Freedom 50:57
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew
SanghaSeva

2020-10-09 Day One - LGBTQ Online Retreat: Talk 1:21:36
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Freedom & Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for our LGBTQAI+ Community

2020-10-08 "Choosing Earth" with Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin 64:28
James Baraz
James' special guests are wisdom teacher Duane Elgin (author of the classic Voluntary Simplicity) and his partner, Coleen LeDrew Elgin, share his realistic but hopeful vision of where we could be heading the next fifty years. His new book Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transformation to a Mature Planetary Civilization discusses the possibilities that lie ahead and the vision for how we can use this time to wake up as a species.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2020-10-08 06 talk: an overview of the five clinging-aggregates 36:08
Jill Shepherd
Continuing the exploration of insight into the three universal characteristics, focusing on anatta or not-self and how the aggregates are aspects of experience that we commonly identify with
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-10-08 Cultivating Equanimity 41:15
Donald Rothberg
We examine both the nature of equanimity and how to develop more equanimity, both in formal meditation and in the flow of our lives, including in the context of multiple contemporary crises. Equanimity has qualities of balance, evenness, unshakability, understanding and wisdom, faith, joy, and responsiveness. It can be cultivated in our basic mindfulness practice, as we develop more balance, particularly by learning from tends to unbalance us, including difficult emotions, thoughts, and body-states. We can also particularly focus on the teaching of the "Eight Worldly Winds" (or Conditions): pleasure and pain, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame.
Insight Meditation Tucson

2020-10-08 05 meditation: opening to the spaciousness of the body 26:40
Jill Shepherd
Settling into the body, quieting the mind, and experiencing the body as sensations in space
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-10-08 Tuere Sala and Matthew Brensilver in dialogue about wisdom 54:53
Tuere Sala, Matthew Brensilver
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-08 Guided Reflection & Meditation: Grief & Compassion 30:54
Matthew Brensilver
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-08 "The Three Groupings Meditation for Deeper Understanding of the Paramis” 51:04
Phillip Moffitt
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-07 The Practice of Samadhi - Session 1: Creating the Conditions 1:21:27
Kim Allen
Three-part series on samadhi
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-07 32 Parts of the Body—Head hair, Body hair, Nails, Teeth, Skin 62:41
Bob Stahl
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace. This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-07 A New Method for Working with the Paramis in Your Practice 54:04
Phillip Moffitt
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-07 Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 9--Wise Speech 6--Practicing with Difficult Speech Situations 4 49:00
Donald Rothberg
We focus, in the context of difficult or challenging communication, on the integration of individual, inner practice and skillful speaking. After a review of eight general guidelines for skillful speech and how we do inner practice related to, but separate from, such challenging communication, we look at ways to bring inner practice in speaking and relating. We also focus on several more "outer" skillful ways of speaking to bring about mutual understanding, including using relatively neutral observations free of interpretations, and cultivating the practice of empathy. We then look at how to integrate more inner and more outer dimensions of practice in the context of several challenging situations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-10-06 Letting Go 15:20
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-06 Metta Practice 39:39
Tuere Sala
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-06 Guided Meditation: Feelings and their elaborations 54:09
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-05 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 4 - Meditation 28:11
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

2020-10-05 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 4 - Talk 36:51
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

2020-10-05 The Parami of Truthfulness 47:33
Matthew Brensilver
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-05 Morning Instructions - Embrace the moment with stillness and listen 49:11
Tuere Sala
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-04 The Eightfold Noble Path 1:28:43
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-10-04 The Interplay of Generosity and Energy 42:02
Tuere Sala
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-04 The Dharma Life - session 1 1:19:10
Kim Allen
A course in integration for experienced students with Kim Allen and Diana Clark. Learning to live the Dharma.
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-10-04 Relating Wisely with our Activated Hearts - Meditation 34:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-04 Relating Wisely with our Activated Hearts - Talk 40:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-04 "The Arriving Meditation” for establishing mindfulness and presence 57:46
Phillip Moffitt
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-04 Dhamma Stream Q&A 1:28:46
Ajahn Sucitto
How does citta relate to consciousness; is citta involved with rebirth; how to practice with non-attachment; the role of cetana (intention), sankappa (attitude) and chanda (motivation) in citta cultivation; how much jhāna is needed for stream entry; where does motivation for practice/career/relationship come from; what does attachment to rights and rituals, sīlabbata-parāmāsa, mean; clarify body energies and energy flows; question about prayer; advice about life termination.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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