2020-01-12 Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm 45:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Contact with the world causes citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme. We practice to carefully meet contact impression, training intention and attention to be for one’s welfare.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-12 Instructions on mindfulness of vedana 54:06
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 The Four Ennobling Truths 61:30
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
The teaching on the four ennobling truths speaks to our lived experience. It addresses the existential fact of facing suffering, pain, stress, and conflict in our lives and offers a way to understand the causes and conditions that lead to suffering and to the end of suffering. The four ennobling truths can guide us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Anattā Is the Way Out (Evening Public Talk) 52:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body. 45:34
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Saṇkhāra – the Constructor of All 46:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We are encouraged to understand saṇkhāra, the programs that take hold of us and result in unskillful states. It is possible to not act on these programs, release some of their pressure, and turn the citta towards skillful states.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Morning instructions on body 56:50
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Review of first day instructions, suggestions about deepening and sustaining connection with anchors and practicing with discomfort and pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Practicing with the elements. 59:46
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Instructions on practicing with the hinderances. 44:35
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Direct Practice – Feeling, Perception and Saṇkhāra 40:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is only touched by feeling and perception. Through not seeing this, not feeling and directly handling it, the whole realm of dukkha gets fabricated. Meet experience directly, with mindfulness and wisdom, and suffering eases up.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-10 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:59:27
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-10 Presence, ease, and possibility. 44:27
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body - bring mind and body together, establishing an anchor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 Opening Talk 59:06
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Welcome and introduction to the retreat. Ethical container, simplifying, and silence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 In the Experience, Let there be Just the Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:38
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores working with Bahiya Sutta in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Winter Insight

2020-01-09 Morning Instructions 9:00
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Meditation requires sensitivity and intelligence from the heart. The seven bojjhangas in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-08 Spiritual Practice in Daily Life 37:38
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 17:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 55:44
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional refuge ritual, we engage together in bringing alive these pathways to healing and peace. (Note: Includes Refuges string tying ceremony and chanting the Refuges at end) St. Teresa of Avila says, “Only at the shrine where all are welcome will God sing loud enough to be heard.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 64:24
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Going Forwards 49:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on "object" relation. e.g. insight or serenity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-08 Finding Reference in Ground, Space and Rhythm 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta only experiences perception and feeling. We can cultivate skillful perceptions of ground, space and rhythm that result in comfort and ease.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-08 Being a Friend to Everything 2:05:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-07 Letting Go 38:31
Leslie Booker	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2020-01-07 The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 1:42:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-07 Citta and the Khandhā 37:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The paradigm of practice is discerning skillful from unskillful heart states. We begin to turn away from the states that entangle the heart, and learn to linger in wholesome qualities. Skillful states always carry the mark of freedom.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-07 Closing Talk 53:36
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Closing reflections for a nine day New Year retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-07 Morning Instructions 15:21
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Adaptation of Thich Nat Hann's Metta instructions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-07 Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths 2:46:38	Listen to tracks Show 4 Tracks
with Carla Brennan, Lisa Dale Miller, Shaila Catherine, Toni Bernhard
No one wants to suffer, and yet stress is everywhere in our lives. After the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree, the first thing he talked about was how to find true happiness. He described four wise ways you can work with your mind in the midst of ordinary and meditative experiences, popularly known as the Four Noble Truths. You can (1) comprehend your suffering; (2) abandon its causes; (3) realize that it is possible to end suffering; and (4) follow the path that leads to its end. Practicing this path, you will become free—not by avoiding what is unwanted, but by developing a wise relationship to your mind and all the myriad conditions by which it manufactures stress.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
Suffering and Its End 46:32 Shaila Catherine Download Listen

2020-01-06 Ceremony For Aspirations 1:17:46
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
20 minute refelections on New Years aspirations plus ceremony
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-06 The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) 69:47
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-06 How Turtles Find Their Way Back Home 47:40
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Turtles and magnetic fields. Planes of existence and rebirth. Rahula's and Buddha's instructions on four elements and Brahma Vihara, before practicing breath meditation (ānāpāna)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-06 Monday Night Dharma Talk 63:04
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-06 Last Morning Instruction: Review and the 4th Foundation Of Mindfulness 53:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Mindfulness of dharma qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Climate Emergency Dharma 2020 67:28
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on the climate and ecological crisiss we face, and my involvement in non-violent civil disobedance with Extintion Rebellion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Meditation 30:03
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Talk 57:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) 1:26:23
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-05 Guided Meditation On Equinimity 42:09
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
How to bring the mind to more balance and ease in the face of challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Meditation 32:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Talk 45:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Morning Instructions - Attention, Awareness and Presence. 53:09
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 The Simile of the Mountain or Good Compost for Evolution 32:29
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Freeing Ourselves From Anxiety About Non-Perfection 54:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We can easily believe that perfection truly exists and if we can work hard enough we may reach it, until we see the pain in our striving and let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) 1:19:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-04 Guided Metta Meditation With Metta Mudra 44:21
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 Meditation Instructions 52:45
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
3rd foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 This Precious Life 28:28
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma Talk on the precious opportunity we have for practice - reflecting on the Five Indriya as a support for the Path.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Breathing into the Heart Space 7:32
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Guided metta meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 What is Panna (Wisdom)? 23:09
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)