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Dharma Talks
2019-11-17 Dharma Talk - Effortlessness 55:53
Leela Sarti
In this recording Leela Sarti is in conversation with her Guest Teacher on the retreat.
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-17 Guided Meditation 27:47
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-17 Mark Sunday AM Mindfulness Breathing 30:21
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Sunday AM guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-17 Mark Sunday AM Mindfulness Breathing Q and A 33:06
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Sunday Morning Q & A only
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-17 Second Morning, Instructions 48:07
Gavin Milne
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 The Upside of Desire 48:19
Cara Lai
How to recognize craving (tanha) and wholesome desire (chanda) and how all of it points to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-16 Dharma Talk - Dukkha and Lightheartedness 49:55
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 First Morning, Instructions 27:58
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-16 Who are we? Exploring Our 'Selves' and Identities 5:46:00
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-16 We Are Here To Forgive 42:16
Ayya Medhanandi
Digging deep through life's trials and pains with unfaltering compassion, discover the way beyond harming, the way beyond anger. At last, can we forgive all the monsters of the mind, letting them go, setting them free? Living harmlessly, fearless in the good and devoted to this radical healing, the face of enlightenment appears in the trenches of our own suffering.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto :  SIMT Fall Monastic Retreat

2019-11-15 Sankhara Dukkha 58:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Suffering due to conditional foundations - being contingent - vulnerability.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Wisdom and the Body - Part Two 49:22
Jill Shepherd
Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the body, using three practices from the Satipatthana Sutta as support for developing a wiser relationship to the body: contemplating the body in terms of its anatomical parts; its elemental qualities; and as a corpse in decay
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-15 Compassion For The Neutral Person 54:37
Beth Sternlieb
When we practice with the people we do not know we broaden our awareness and open our hearts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Morning Q&A 14:12
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-15 Day 3: Selfing & Freedom from Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock): Afternoon Session 55:40
Susie Harrington
The activity of selfing is dukkha. Freedom from selfing is onward leading towards liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Day 2 Emptiness and Dependent Origination (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:45
Brian Lesage
This talk connects the teachings on dependent origination and emptiness. It then connects them to our lives and our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Neither Tarring Nor Hurrying 51:03
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-14 Day 2 Afternoon Session 62:07
Gil Fronsdal
Repeated Question Experience on Inconstancy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center APP2 Retreat #2: Emptiness

2019-11-14 Morning Reflection 11:28
Jaya Rudgard
Wanting and not wanting on retreat - taking a break from the written word.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-13 Doors To The Deathless 43:52
Jaya Rudgard
The door of non-clinging is always open. Readings from verses on the Faith Mind and Tilopa's "Song Of The Maharudra"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-13 Ecodharma 57:47
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-11-13 Meditation - The Silence that is Listening 21:05
Tara Brach
Listening to sound is opens up to the space of pure being. In this guided practice we begin by awakening through the body, and then explore listening to sounds and silence, and to inhabiting the receptive presence that is listening, awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-11-13 Listening to the Song - Part 1 52:39
Tara Brach
Listening is our gateway to intimacy with our inner life, each other, our earth and spirit. These two talks look at the ways that listening gets blocked and the teachings and practices that help us cultivate the gift of a deep and healing listening presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-11-13 The Five Aggregates - Meditation 33:16
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-13 The Five Aggregates - Talk 50:33
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-13 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 57:53
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation III
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-12 Sila 44:40
Winnie Nazarko
The 8 fold path emphasis moral restraint. This talk discusses the hows and whys of this set of practices.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-12 Patience 44:59
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-12 The Flickering Nature of Things and Self, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 60:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-12 Meeting the Agreeable & the Disagreeable, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 52:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Meditation 10:22
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates

2019-11-11 Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 1 - Talk 54:22
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates

2019-11-11 S.E.S-November-Fire Element-Dharma Talk 24:40
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 S.E.S-November-Fire Element-guided meditation 16:35
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 S.E.S. November - Fire Element - Reflections 23:01
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-11 What is an Insight?, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 65:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:54:28
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-11-11 Changing the View, , LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 65:23
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-11 Morning Reflections On Not-Self 17:14
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-11 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 53:12
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation II
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-10 Reflections On The Four Noble Truths/ Eightfold path 47:11
Beth Sternlieb
Training the mind. Causes for happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2019-11-10 Freeing Self and Others from Judgments, A guided Meditation, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 29:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Steps to Calming the Mind - Meditation 38:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-10 Steps to Calming the Mind - Talk 47:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-11-10 The Creation of the World We Inhabit, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 57:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Nothing There: Beyond the Prison of 'Self' 29:14
Ayya Medhanandi
The Fourth Insight known as udayabbaya ñāņa arises bestowing six qualities of upekkha as well as intimate knowledge of anicca through seeing the arising and disappearance of all conditioned things - most importantly, the emptiness of 'self'.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2019-11-10 What is a Thought?, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 32:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Meeting Uncertainty & Uncontrolability, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 13:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Emotions & Mind States, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 41:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 The Doorway Of The Present Moment. 12:57
Jaya Rudgard
Morning reflection on awareness as the escape from the attention traps of past and future.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

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