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Dharma Talks
2020-05-21 48 Vachagotta on the Threefold True Knowledge 17:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-21 5 Spiritual Faculties: How the Practice Enfolds (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:11
James Baraz
Meditation and Dharma practice can be understood as a natural process of developing five qualities starting with Faith/Trust and culminating in Wisdom. This talk describes how that process unfolds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-21 Thursday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:42
Anam Thubten, Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-21 Morning Teachings and Meditation 48:11
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House The Courage to Belong

2020-05-20 Refreshing the Heart, Living with Wisdom 45:10
Anushka Fernandopulle
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-05-20 Meditation: The Art of Letting Go 19:15
Tara Brach
Letting go means releasing the resistance we have to experiencing the present moment. This meditation guides us to let go of the thoughts that block our immediate sensory experience, the tension in the body that reduces aliveness and the armoring around the heart that dulls our sensitivity and tenderness toward life itself.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-20 Embracing Uncertainty: Sheltering in Love - Part 9 44:57
Tara Brach
How we tolerate uncertainty - during current times and throughout our lives - has a powerful effect on our capacity for presence, aliveness and love. This talk explores the conditioned ways of reacting to insecurity that contract us, and pathways of letting go of resistance, opening to Beginner's mind and discovering a timeless, wise and loving presence in the midst of inevitable change.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-20 47 To Vachagotta on Fire MN72 16:25
Bhante Bodhidhamma
More questions about the Tathagata and the metaphor of Fire finally clarifies doubt.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-19 46 To Vachagotta on Fire MN72 15:44
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Ten Undetermined Views. The difficulty of describing Nibbana
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-19 45 The Relay of Chariots MN24 30:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Explanation of the Seven Chariots
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-19 Morning Teachings and Meditation 35:53
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House The Courage to Belong

2020-05-18 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 3 - Meditation 32:23
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-18 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 3 - Talk 57:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-18 Evening Reflections and Meditation 46:48
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House The Courage to Belong

2020-05-18 Reflections on Awakening 22:57
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2020-05-18 44 The Relay of Chariots MN24 23:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Seven Stages of Progress
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-17 Why Practice? 51:43
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-17 Playing with Perception in Ways that Free 34:05
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Cultivating a Wise and Responsive Heart

2020-05-17 43 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 27:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Four Noble Truths and Final Encouragement
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-17 Your Face: The Gaze, Self-view, Intimacy and Letting Go (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:11
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-17 Samma Sankappa ~ Right Intention 32:59
Ayya Santacitta
Online Talk for San Francisco Dharma Collective
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-05-17 Dimanche 17 mai 2020 1:31:05
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara s’est inspiré des paroles de la chanson Tu trouveras la paix, par Renée Claude, pour aborder le thème de l’amour bienveillant (metta). Il a aussi discuté de l’importance de la qualité de l’esprit dans toutes les actions et situations.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-17 What Does It Mean to Be a Student of the Path - Meditation 34:38
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-17 What Does It Mean to Be a Student of the Path Talk 44:00
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Practice Group Talk led by Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-17 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Make Your Mind Like Gold 37:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work. *Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-16 Heart of Possibilities - Talk 44:28
Nathan Glyde
Awakening the heart from limitation also opens us to a sense of boundlessness. What is it to see the Dharma as an exploration of release through lessening our built up and heavily fabricated experiences? How would it be to see this path as a way to fabricate less and less dukkha–distress and self-centredness, and to liberate all appearances?
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2020

2020-05-16 Heart of Possibilities - Guided Meditation 19:46
Nathan Glyde
Part 1 of 2: A guided meditation exploring how the way we relate to what is arising affects what arises.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2020

2020-05-16 Dealing with fear and uncertainty 23:06
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-05-16 שיחת דהרמה: תשומת לב, תפישה ואפשרויות לחופש 29:13
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew Dharma Talk - Attention, Perception, Possibility
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-16 Mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meditation 29:19
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-05-16 42 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 22:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Section on Dhamma: Five Hindrances, Five Aggregates, Six Sense Spheres, Seven Factors of Awakening
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-16 מדיטציה מונחית 2 37:33
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew - 2nd Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-16 41 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 21:29
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Sections on Feeling and Mental States.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-16 שיחת פתיחה ומדיטציה מונחית 1 49:57
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew - Opening Talk and Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-15 In This Very Life -- 2020-05-15 55:37
Kim Allen
Sutta Study AN 5.47
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-14 40 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 19:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Elements and the Charnel Ground Meditations
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-14 Vulnerability, Porousness, Equanimity & Love (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:22
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-13 Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence 22:32
Tara Brach
This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a Hereness that feels like home. The meditation ends with a beautiful poem by David Wagoner called, “Lost.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-13 Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure 45:56
Tara Brach
Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to stay with the feelings, failure can become a portal to the realization of who we are beyond the imperfect separate self. This talk calls on Samuel Beckett’s wonderful quote (referenced by Pema Chödron), “Fail, Fail again, Fail better,” and offers guidance on finding freedom as we move through some of our most difficult moments.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-13 Finding Center 66:20
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-13 Standing and Sitting Guided Meditation Weds am 2:11:21
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-13 Unfurling the Leaves of Our Spiritual Life (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Brian Lesage
This talk offer reflections on the skill of opening to the wholesome and onward-leading aspects of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-13 39 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 21:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Four Postures, Mindfulness in Daily Life and the 'Foulness'of the Body
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-13 From the Ordinary Mind to the Buddha Mind 18: Transforming Reactivity 2 69:47
Donald Rothberg
We first review the main themes from last time: (1) the nature of reactivity, and dukkha as reactivity in the Buddha's teachings, (2) the nature of awakening and freedom as liberation from reactivity, and (3) four main ways to practice with reactivity. We then look more deeply, noticing that very commonly reactivity is mixed with insight, discernment, intelligence, or something important or valuable, as when I become reactive when someone doesn't keep an agreement, or at social injustice. We explore how to transform reactivity by separating out what is valuable from the reactivity, in a number of ways, so that we can keep the insight or intelligence, and use it as the basis for wise, compassionate action. We close the talk with Eve Decker singing, "Simple Truth," about skillful ways to work with reactive self-judgment, and then have a period of discussion, including questions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-05-12 38 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 22:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
These talks are only introductory. There are now many good books listed on the website. Looking at the opening stanzas and the breath meditation.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-12 Dialectics of Practice - Opening and Protection (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:41
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-12 31b The Body 22:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Unfortunately the laptop stopped! Luckily, I was coming to an end. Death contemplation is taught by the Buddha, see my Talk 03,04,45. I would simply have said that body as subjective experience is to be investigated and is a path itself to liberation from suffering.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-11 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 2 - Meditation 28:32
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-11 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 2 - Talk 33:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-11 Moving from Judgment to Curiosity 60:08
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

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