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Dharma Talks
2023-05-28 Wisdom from Stories of the Buddha 26:59
Dawn Neal
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-05-28 Happiness is Your Revolution 68:56
Ofosu Jones-Quartey
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-05-28 Afternoon Session (Guidance, Chanting) 25:37
Gavin Milne, Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Family Retreat

2023-05-28 Morning Instructions and Meditation 52:02
Gavin Milne
Wise Attitude and Oneness.
Gaia House Family Retreat

2023-05-28 Selfless Drive to Nibbana 19:46
Ayya Medhanandi
We are travelling a spiritual highway. Our precepts are like safety belts – upholding the core of our humanity with moral restraints that serve as both compass and anchor. They also act like brakes on our Dhamma vehicle, safeguarding us through the wilderness of the world while grounding the mind in an integrity of presence. With pure awareness, we have a stethoscope of the mind, steering and balancing us joyfully on the path so that we can wake up out of the darkness. We carry the Buddha in our hearts like an imperishable lamp, a supremely compassionate parent, our wise and formidable shepherd to help us overcome every hardship. Yes, we’re in self-drive – selfless – crossing to the far shore, Nibbana.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  Uncompromising Nobility

2023-05-28 A Greater Perspective (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:02
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflections on upekkha (equanimity) and a guided meditation on birth, aging and death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-28 Early Morning Meditation, with the Teens Group 28:39
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Family Retreat

2023-05-28 Upekkha - equanimity 59:42
Winnie Nazarko
This talk discusses what equanimity is, and the role it plays in liberating the mind through wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Present Moment

2023-05-27 Investigate into the Cracks (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:44
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection on Emptiness & Anatta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-27 Leaving it all Behind as you are stepping into the next moment. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:01
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the six elements and the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-27 Seven Kinds of Wealth 1:11:46
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-05-27 Morning reflection: the four brahma viharas. 49:52
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2023

2023-05-26 The No Self Strategy of the Buddha 46:20
Amita Schmidt
The no self strategy of the Buddha is a tool for awakening. This talk includes a reflection on the 5 aggregates (5 characteristics that create the illusion of a self), as well as some daily micro practices/reflections to decrease the attachment to a separate self.
Insight San Diego

2023-05-26 Guided Body Sweeping: Vedanā 36:03
Ayya Anandabodhi
Developing the skill of being with sensations as they are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-26 Just Be Here (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:59
Ayya Anandabodhi
Morning Reflection and Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Session 2: Attuning to Well-being and Exploring Modes of Attention 30:58
Zohar Lavie
Part 2: Guided Meditation
Gaia House Gathering in Wellbeing (online series)

2023-05-25 Compassion and Boundaries (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:41
Ayya Santussika
What the Buddha said about boundaries, saying "no", when to leave, who to spend time with, when and how to tell someone off, while being compassionate and kind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Compassion - Why and How 50:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-05-25 Metta and Karuna: Unlimited Kindness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:19
Ayya Santussika
Developing a felt sense of loving-kindness and compassion as based on the meditation instructions the Buddha taught
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Understanding the Hindrances to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:14
Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santussika
A Dhamma talk on the 5 Hindrances followed by a guided meditation on settling with the breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Morning reflection: mindfulness of the six sense bases. 24:27
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2023

2023-05-24 Wise Nourishment 42:38
Chas DiCapua
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-05-24 Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence 22:58
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We end with a brief loving kindness reflection.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-24 Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart 52:36
Tara Brach
Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-24 Reflections on Non-Clinging 30:02
Walt Opie
Walt begins this talk with his experience of the Golden Buddha, and goes on to explore non-clinging as a way of unveiling our own inner treasure. He offers concrete examples of impermanence in daily life which support letting go.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community

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