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Dharma Talks
2020-07-04 Heart Practices in the Time of Pandemic and Racism 55:33
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-04 התהוות מותנית ותחושת העצמי 1:20:04
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva קבוצת ישיבה אונליין בתובנה

2020-07-04 Heart Practices 59:08
Carol Cano
Morning Meditation Heart Practices, Brahmaviharas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-03 In This Very Life -- 2020-07-03 58:02
Kim Allen
Sutta Study -- Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta SN 22.59
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-07-03 Applying Early Buddhist Perspective to Contemporary Issues 55:09
James Baraz
Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo has just written an essay exploring how the early Buddhist perspective shows that diversity work can become an integral part of the Buddhist path of practice. We will explore some of Ven. Analayo's ideas and see how we can apply them in our own practice. We'll also touch a recent article by Bhikkhu Bodhi, another esteemed Buddhist scholar, entitled "From Tragedy to Hope: Reflections on the Killing of George Floyd".
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-07-03 89 Kosambi MN48 19:21
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The monks in the monastery are locked in an argument and the Buddha comes and gives advice as to how to create a harmonious community. Then explains the extraordinary knowledge of a Stream-enterer, the first Spiritual Attainment,
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-03 Where does it Hurt? 58:50
Noliwe Alexander
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-03 Emotions and Mind States 35:02
Carol Cano
Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-02 02 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 22:51
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to mindfulness of breathing, using the rhythm of the breath to steady awareness and then refining mindfulness to stay connected with the details of the breath, one half-breath at a time
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-07-02 01 talk intro to insight meditation 19:30
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to insight meditation, its purpose and the key techniques for developing mindfulness (sati) and stability of mind (samadhi)
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-07-02 88 At Samagama Discourse MN104 20:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Afraid of the breakup of the order when he dies as seems to have happened when the leader of the Jains died, the Buddha explains the Six Roots of Disputes, the Four Kids of Litigations and the Seven Settlements.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-02 Energy and Patience 59:55
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-02 Guided Meditation on the Hindrances 41:34
Pawan Bareja
Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-02 Muditā: An Introduction & Meditation 56:27
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Morning Meditation Heart Practices, Brahmaviharas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-01 Meditation: Calling on Our Inner Bodhisattva 21:11
Tara Brach
We each have within us the very source of wisdom and love. This meditation calls forward that essence, our awakening heart, so we can seek guidance and nurturing for the parts of us that need a healing attention.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-07-01 Shame, Healing and Transformation 48:43
Tara Brach
Being at war with ourselves blocks us from evolving our consciousness and living from our hearts. This talk distinguishes between toxic and healthy shame, as well as shame about our individual self and our group identity. We explore how, with self-compassion and courageous honesty, we can respond to negative, painful feelings about ourselves in a way that serves awakening and alignment with our deepest values.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-07-01 The Dharma Is a Bridge over Troubled Waters 44:00
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-07-01 87 The Wilderness of the Heart MN16 22:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Five Wildernesses, the Five Shackles, the Four Roads to Success and ... committed enthusiasm!
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-01 Guided Meditation -- Gathering the Mind 20:46
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-07-01 Transforming the Analytical Mind -- session 5 1:23:34
Kim Allen
Fifth of a six-part series
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-07-01 Mental States and Uncertainty 55:50
Carol Cano
Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-01 Beyond the Worldly Winds 57:45
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2020

2020-07-01 Vedanā (Feeling Tone) - Guided Meditation 39:05
Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-07-01 Karuna 59:13
Noliwe Alexander
Morning Meditation Heart Practices, Brahmaviharas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-06-30 Cultivating Patience 45:06
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine discusses the importance of patience in our practice. This talk explores benefits, opportunities, and challenges that we experience when cultivating this often under appreciated virtue of patience.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-06-30 86 The Root of All Things MN1 24:20
Bhante Bodhidhamma
MN1 continued and how all the relationships of self to self and self to other pan out.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-30 Body / Breath 33:06
Noliwe Alexander
Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-06-30 Metta as Revolutionary Practice 60:08
Pawan Bareja
Morning Meditation Heart Practices, Brahmaviharas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-06-29 4 Principles for Social Change: Change the Narrative 65:48
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-29 85 The Root of All Things MN1 21:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The way we come to understand through perception and then concepts.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-28 Five Elements & Awareness 33:09
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-28 'Bitter Medicine' 37:48
Ayya Santacitta
Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-28 13th: Reflections on 400 Years of Racism in USA 1:38:59
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Training in Mutuality-Based Speech Lessens Self-Centeredness 48:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Speech, whether internal or external, tends to reinforce and reify the sense of self. Self-awareness, rather than self-referencing, is recommended. Speech has the possibility of helping to prune, clarify, steady – it can help lead to the end of the person. Sutta references: AN4:183; M.58:12
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-28 84 To Vehkanassa 13:12
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The problems of sensual pleasure!
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-28 All Community Gathering 46:06
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz community gathering
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation - Settling into Shared Space 13:17
Ajahn Sucitto
The mind becomes crowded with our thoughts, impressions, plans and worries. But what’s the bit that’s not occupied by all of that? Stability and confidence are available in that space, to meet what is arising.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-27 Overview of 'The Work' 22:34
Ayya Santacitta
The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness & the 4 Vipallasa ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-27 Earth Element - Internally and Externally 49:27
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-27 Reflections on Dismantling Internal & External Oppression 28:48
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-27 Tranquil Body and Mind Meditation 30:05
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-06-27 83 Samanamandika Discourse MN78 17:22
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The carpenter Pancakanda finds out what it takes to become fully liberated.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-27 Inner and Outer Interact at the Point of Contact 32:25
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation on the 6 senses, contact, impermanence, ends with chant of the 5 subjects for frequent recollection and a traditional Theravada blessing in English, chanting together with Ayya Santacitta. Offered as part of an online weekend retreat with White Heron Sangha.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-06-26 82 To Magandiya 29:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Magandiya is hedonist, believing sensual pleasure is Nibbana. The Buddha explains the gratification, the danger and escape from this very wrong understanding.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-25 81 To Dignanaka 16:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-24 Meditation: Body and Spirit 19:21
Tara Brach
As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary Oliver.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-24 Spiritual Hope 52:53
Tara Brach
Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust in the openhearted awareness (bodhichitta) that is always and already within us. This talk explores how, as individuals and as a society, we can nourish spiritual hope, and create the grounds for healing and radical transformation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-24 Generating the Hope 16:27
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-06-24 4 Principles for Social Change: Proximity 68:03
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-24 80 Greater Discourse to Vaccagotta MN73 1:37:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Vachogotta questions the Buddha as to whether others have attained. Then the Buddha accepts him into the order and after four years gives him directions on how to attain the Higher Powers one of which is the deliverance from the taints and Vachagotta becomes an arahat
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

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