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Dharma Talks
2023-06-12 Cultivation is about intention 34:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Description pending - a talk to Little Bangkok Sangha
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-06-12 GM - with Little Bangkok Sangha 14:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-06-12 A Further Exploration of Wisdom 57:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda
After recapping the previous day's discussion of factors which promote wisdom, Sayadaw illuminted the way that wisdom knows, by comparing it with perception and conciousness, which also have the quality of understanding, and how wisdom unfolds in the early days of one's practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties (week 1 of 8) - Talk & Meditation 1:24:50
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-06-12 Afternoon Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:31
Tuere Sala
Physical and vital bodies
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Nine Bodies Insight Retreat: Exploring Capacities of Consciousness

2023-06-12 Equanimity Meditation 39:32
Ayya Santussika
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-12 Changing 17:12
Ayya Santussika
Six steps to help change unskillful patterns in the mind and in our actions.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-12 Morning Instructions: seeing impermanence, and impersonality in the body 56:30
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-12 Application of the Vinaya in the Contemporary World part 2 Sanghadisesa 64:20
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2023-06-12 Application of the Vinaya in the Contemporary World part 1 Parajika 35:39
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2023-06-11 Intentions in the fields 35:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Description pending
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-06-11 GM 15:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-06-11 The three marks of existence and the four elements practice. 60:17
Nikki Mirghafori
The three characteristics of anicca (impermanence), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness,) and anatta (not self) are discussed
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-11 Retraining perception 36:02
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Distortion, Perception and Proliferation

2023-06-11 The perceptual knots that entangle us 21:18
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Distortion, Perception and Proliferation

2023-06-11 Distortion (vipallasa) 12:05
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Distortion, Perception and Proliferation

2023-06-11 Proliferation (papancha) 20:37
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Distortion, Perception and Proliferation

2023-06-11 What Do Buddhists Mean by the Mind - Meditation 38:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-06-11 What Do Buddhists Mean by the Mind - Talk 37:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-06-11 Initial reflections on distortion, perception and proliferation 24:17
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Distortion, Perception and Proliferation

2023-06-10 Life Conditions Supporting Samadhi 31:49
Ayya Santussika
AN 3.95 "Assemblies" and AN 5.26 "Opportunities for Freedom" provide some examples of supportive conditions for entering samadhi.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-10 Appreciative Joy Guided Meditation 39:26
Ayya Santussika
Mudita - Appreciative Joy
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-10 Morning Instructions: flowing and cohesion characteristics. 55:10
Nikki Mirghafori
The last two characteristics of flowing and cohesion of the water element complete the instructions on the 12 characteristics of the four elements meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

2023-06-09 Developing Immersion Further 43:25
Ayya Santussika
AN 4.41 Developing Immersion Further
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-09 Modern science and the four elements practice. 59:50
Nikki Mirghafori
At first glance, the four elements meditation practice may appear as an archaic understanding of the world. However, they reveal how we construct and perceive our world from a phenomenological perspective that connects to the Copenhagen interpretation of the quantum theory.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Energy Body, Receptacle of Mind and Matter

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