2020-10-03 Let Nature Teach You 1:57:01
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Meditation, Dhamma talk and Q&A
Insight Meditation Center

2020-10-03 Joy and Rest As Supports for Viriya 60:29
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020

2020-10-03 "Patience and Persevering: Two Empowerments from the Paramis" 47:49
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-03 Méditation Metta (manque qques mn au début) 12:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-10-03 Méditation Assise 39:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Trois discours pour une retraite personnelle

2020-10-03 Guided Meditation: Settling into the Body 40:14
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-02 Practicing with Fear (with Syra Smith) 55:17
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature of fear and how to practice with fear. Syra speaks first; Donald speaks second, starting at 17:00. Discussion, including questions, starts at 34:43.
East Bay Meditation Center

2020-10-02 Conseils avant déjeuner 18:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-10-02 Méditation Debout 20:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Trois discours pour une retraite personnelle

2020-10-01 Holding a Positive Vision: Part 3 44:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
A third in a series of talks on holding a positive vision. We explore some of the principles on mindful engagement presented in Sharon Salzberg's book Real Change: Mindfulness for Ourselves and the World
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2020-10-01 Trois compréhensions nécessaires 39:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre :  Trois discours pour une retraite personnelle

2020-10-01 Work Unconditionally with Conditions that Arise 38:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Practice is a whole life path. The conditions that arise and our reactions to them can all act as reference points for purification and practice. Careful cultivation of the conditioned is an aspect of the unconditioned and leads to the unconditioned.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-30 Finding Peace in a Chaotic World 45:12
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-09-30 Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 8: The Foundations of Wise Speech 5: Becoming More Skillful with Difficult Speech Situations 3 1:11:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review eight important capacities that help us to be skillful in difficult and challenging situations involving speech and communication. We then continue to explore how we might combine more "inner" and more "outer" responses, here focusing especially on "inner work" with difficult emotions (we look at working with anger and fear), thoughts and narratives (we look particularly at those connected with the judgmental mind), and body states. A discussion follows the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-09-30 Relaxing Body, Releasing Push-Pull - Online Dharma Hall 62:13
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Guided meditation and reflection on easing tension, demand, and Dukkha
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - Sept 2020

2020-09-30 Maturing from Renunciation to Relinquishment 32:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta needs something to settle on, to feel comfortable in. Use mindfulness to form a frame around what’s helpful and skillful and absorb into that. Citta begins to understand the agitation that both pleasure and displeasure cause, and can see something more fulfilling in the bareness of mind.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-29 The Present Moment is Not the Goal 34:41
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
There’s a common understanding that the purpose of meditation is to fully arrive in the present moment. However, the Buddha taught people to focus on the present moment not as a goal, but as a place where work is to be done to go beyond the present. This talk, based on the essay, “The Karma of Now” will explore the Buddha’s understanding of the present moment, and the implications of that understanding, not only for the practice of meditation, but also for Buddhist practice as a whole.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-09-29 Release from Psychological Conditioning 38:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The aim of Dhamma cultivation is penetration and purification of saṇkhārā – the conditioning forces. Everything else is to support that. Mindfulness of body provides a steady and pleasant foundation, samādhi acts as a refuge from sensory input. Mind then has the power to resist, moderate and release from these conditioning forces.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-28 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 3 - Meditation 30:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-09-28 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 3 - Talk 59:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-09-28 Hebrew - Insight To Live By Closing Dharma Talk.mp3 33:44
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-28 Day 4 Instructions - Seeing Not-Self Anattā 66:34
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Meditation instructions exploring the strategy of not-self–how is it to apply the recipe of seeing this is not me, not mine, not my self? Before that a few words sustaining our meditation experience: 1. keeping the balloon of practice alive through all postures, and 2. the idea of taking a victory lap when the bell rings–rather than ending quickly.
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-28 Making the Right Choice 39:09
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness can be thought of as a boundary setter. It’s used to discern what to stay with and deepen into, and what to avoid and stay out of. Instructions are given for how to apply this to ānāpānasati, mindfulness of breathing.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-27 Finding a Way Out of No Way 1:35:13
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-09-27 Morning chanting and guided meditation 1:17:03
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
AM of Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart daylong
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2020-09-27 Dhamma talk and Q&A 2:21:06
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
PM of Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart daylong
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2020-09-27 The Ending of Dukkha 44:20
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
How mettā, samādhi, and insight support each other and support the ending of dukkha.
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-27 Hebrew - Mettā to Sensations 43:46
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-27 When No Season is Too Much 30:15
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Sidelined by COVID, we are compelled to look at ourselves, at each other, at the world caught in pandemic restrictions we never imagined were possible. Besieged by fear and vulnerability, beings lack insight into the truth of things find no safe refuge. The time is ripe for waking up to gain freedom from the eight worldly winds and abide in higher states of mind. With peace of heart, wisdom and compassion run deep such that no season will be too much.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2020-09-27 The exploration and practice of Samatha/Concentration/Calm Abiding through Anapanasati/Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation. 2:22:50
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The exploration and practice of Samatha/Concentration/Calm Abiding through Anapanasati/Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation.
Mountain Hermitage :  Sunday International Sangha Online Mini Retreat with Marcia Rose

2020-09-27 Guided Meditation from the Closing Session of retreat. 23:08
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Guided meditation on choosing the practice that serves us right now.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-27 Composure with Uncertainty - Meditation 35:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-09-27 Composure with Uncertainty - Talk 39:27
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-09-27 Mindfulness the Purifier 36:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The function of mindfulness is to purify. It means we have to understand what purity is – what qualities cause problems, stress and contamination, an which are bright, fortifying and calming. Right view and right attitude inform the careful attention that leads to purification.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-26 Hebrew - 3 Characteristics 48:54
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-26 Tuning into Mettā 43:35
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Guided Mettā Meditation - offering an easeful relationship, more neutral beings (the inbetweeners), and the image of oneself then expanding to all beings.
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-26 Afternoon Practice 40:16
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Practicing with intention, humility and lightness, and as a way of relating to life. Cultivating practices that soften the Citta (heart-mind) and that have a relational quality. Lessening the delusion of separation.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-26 Day 2 Instructions - Vedanā.mp3 57:10
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-26 Morning Meditation 41:45
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Aligning with our intention for the day, connecting to the part of us that may yearn to contribute to our own healing and the healing of the collective, sensing into our interdependence and relationality, choosing which practice we would like to play with e.g. relating to our body, or playing with the width of our awareness.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-26 Right domain - the indriya 41:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In Dhamma practice we aim to establish positive roots that can nourish our everyday actions and behaviors. We train in setting aside what is unskillful and causes stress, and lingering in and strengthening factors for awakening. The 5 indriya offer a beneficial domain for such cultivation.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-25 Evening Practice 56:03
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Dharma Talk: Dancing Between Self and Not Self. One of the discoveries that can open up to us is the discovery that there is not just one, true self, but the arising of many different selves at different times, depending on context, depending on mindstates. We understand the relational and dependent nature of self. This is the middle way between the views of eternalism and annihilationism.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-25 Vedanā - the Current in the Ocean of Life 49:58
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Dukkha is dependently originating with tanha (demands), demands are dependently originating with preference, preference is dependently originating with unquestioned belief in the subjective arising of vedana. But more and more peace is possible.
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-25 Hebrew - Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3 40:36
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-25 Afternoon Practice 35:43
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Guided Meditation: A meditative contemplation to support lessening the sense of self.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-25 Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant 50:38
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-25 Morning Practice 35:26
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Exploring the tools that can enable us to have a more poetic and creative relationship to self. Looking at how the sense of self can be held lightly and skilfully, or tightly and unskilfully, within different contexts in our lives.
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-24 "Contributing Effectively in Times of Crisis" Part 2 49:55
James Baraz	Download Listen
This week we will continue with Roger Walsh's essay: "Ten Principles to Know to Contribute Strategically". These principles provide a big-picture context for understanding our current dilemmas, unearthing their deepest roots, and revealing the deepest and most effective responses. This is part of a series of talks on the importance of holding a positive vision even through the storm.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2020-09-24 Evening Practice 65:30
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Dharma Talk: Looking at our existence and 'fabrication' of self through the teachings on the five aggregates (khandas).
Gaia House :  The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-24 Hebrew - Fabrication - Ways of Looking and The Shaping of Experience 47:27
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Hebrew Dharma Talk
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By

2020-09-24 Samādhi Surfing 45:34
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
1st guided meditation of the retreat, steadying into the present experience of body-heart-mind unification. Riding the wave of the present moment in intimate connection with breath & body sensations or sounds near and far.
SanghaSeva :  Insights to Live By