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Dharma Talks
2022-10-27 Morning reflections. Impermanence. 17:00
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-27 Instruction – anchoring 44:57
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-26 Compass of the heart 51:05
Winnie Nazarko
This talk discusses wise intention, the second step on the eightfold path, and why it is essential to liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-26 The Importance of Cultivating Stillness 45:29
Tuere Sala
Stillness is an ever present phenomenon and yet it seems so elusive in urban (also referred to as householder or lay) practice. Within the context of contemporary society, cultivating stillness can seem self-indulgent. Our demanding can sometimes make it harder to recognize it, but stillness is part of the unconditional and thus, a necessary aspect of awakening. This talk will explore how urban practitioners can learn to cultivate stillness in the midst of movement and chaos.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2022-10-26 Meditation: At Home in the Moment 20:33
Tara Brach
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to whatever arises with a clear and inclusive attention, saying “Yes” to the life that is here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-26 Cultivating Inner Strength – A Conversation with Tara Brach and Lori Deschene 59:43
Tara Brach
What gives us the inner strength to meet life’s challenges with resilience, heart and wisdom? Drawing on themes in Lori’s new book, “The Tiny Buddha’s Inner Strength Journal,” Tara and Lori explore the mindset that is conducive to growth, working with negative beliefs, ways of transforming fear, and what it means to have inner strength in facing loss and death. We also talk about what can most empower and energize us in responding to a world struggling with multiple crises. NOTE: Find Lori Deschene’s “The Tiny Buddha’s Inner Strength Journal” here: tinybuddha.com/strong. Lori also created several free companion resources, available at tinybuddha.com/strength-tools.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-26 Dharma Talk - Sacred Emptiness 55:07
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Emptiness

2022-10-26 Helping is Happening in the World 1:50:21
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-10-26 Morning Reflection: Keeping the Attitude of Metta in Mind 12:08
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-25 Dharma Talk - Experiencing Emptiness as No Time 45:26
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Heart of Emptiness

2022-10-25 Refuges, precepts, and right view. 59:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The cultivation of right view of understanding can pave the way to ultimate happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2022-10-25 The Happiness of Release 56:12
Mark Nunberg
From the beginning of our practice on, the Buddha teaches that this path has the one taste of freedom. How can we train the heart to become more and more attuned to this flavor of release or letting go? It is the recognition of this trustworthy, onward-leading pleasure that guides the heart along the spiritual path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-25 Returning home - final dialogue 33:07
Willa Thaniya Reid, Carole Melkonian, Elizabeth Day
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-25 Picking the world up 21:16
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-24 Guided meditation 7:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-24 Reflections On The Heavenly Messengers 56:44
Greg Scharf, Dawn Scott
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-24 Dharma Talk - Emptying Emptiness 56:48
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Emptiness

2022-10-24 Q&A 15:15
Dawn Scott
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2022-10-24 Morning Reflection: Embodied Calm 15:29
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2022

2022-10-23 Dharma Talk - Reflections on Embodiment and Emptiness 50:50
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Heart of Emptiness

2022-10-23 Quieting the Mind - Meditation 35:59
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-10-23 Quieting the Mind - Talk 34:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-10-23 Healing presence of the Path factors 21:50
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-22 Our Dhamma Compass 23:09
Ayya Medhanandi
Strong in restraint, courageous in wisdom, we use the compass of right view to steer us on the Noble Eightfold Path, while right intention sustains the healing actions of mind that let go unwholesome thoughts and endless fabrications. We learn to live and respond to life compassionately, responsibly, mindfully, with integrity and noble presence of mind. Healing from above and below, from the outside and internally, we listen to the unspoken silence of the heart that resounds in the galaxies. Keenly aware, supremely blessed, we rejoice in the totality of unbounded compassion.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2022-10-22 Dharma Talk - Orienting Towards Freedom 49:13
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Emptiness

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