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Dharma Talks
2020-05-31 Dharma talk 46:45
Michele McDonald
Closing dharma talk, given during an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Pandemic of Racism: For George Floyd 68:54
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-31 58 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 22:13
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Continuing Dependent Origination. For further reading: PDF download - Ven.P.A.Payutto : Dependent Origination - The Buddhist Law of Conditionality. For a deeper understanding: Bhikkhu Bodhi - The Great Discourse on Causation DN15
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-31 Sit with Instructions 50:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions, given on the final day of an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Dimanche 31 mai 2020 1:39:13
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara a discuté de notre capacité de développer une intimité avec le moment présent, avec toutes les relations qui composent notre monde et notre environnement. En comprenant les relations entre les phénomènes et entre les êtres, nous pouvons mieux agir et interagir.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd - guided meditation 25:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd Talk 40:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Traditional Pāli Dhamma Talk Request Chant 0:40
Ayya Medhanandi
The deity Brahma Sahampati appeared before the Blessed One and urged the Buddha to teach to those who had little dust in their eyes so that they could learn the Dhamma and practice for their own awakening.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2020-05-31 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Healing Potential of the Heart 47:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Training involves the pause – connect to what’s happening, and use careful attention to deepen into citta. There’s more than just discomfort there – there’s healing potential if one can touch into the healthy spots. *Sutta reference Udāna 4:1
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-30 Dharma talk: Our World is on Fire 50:45
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk on the Fire Sermon discourse, given during online self-retreat during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-30 57 The Many Kinds of Elements MN115 20:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The basic law of conditionality - This-that Law Idhapaccayata. Dependent Origination - the First Six Links : ignorance, habits, consciousness, body and mind, and the six sense bases and contact
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-30 Sit with Instructions 53:00
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation with instructions, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Dharma talk: Finding Peace, Ending the War 45:00
Michele McDonald
Dharma talk on annica, dukkha, anatta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort 51:16
Ajahn Sucitto
There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-29 56 The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka 1:21:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-29 Sit with Instructions 51:02
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Saṅkhāra Dharma Going Forward 30:54
Nathan Glyde
Continuation, Crossing the Threshold, or more commonly called Closing Talk of our retreat. Gathering our insights, transferring our practice, and going forth.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice) 14:08
Zohar Lavie
Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Mettā to the Sensate World 28:20
Zohar Lavie
Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 In This Very Life -- 2020-05-29 55:14
Kim Allen
Sutta contemplation: AN 5.193 and MN 4
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-28 Dharma talk 52:25
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk given on the second day of online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Metta for a Sangha of All Beings 42:04
Nathan Glyde
Opening our sense of community to expand to include more and more of the world.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 55 The Greater Discourse to Rahula 1:20:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha skilfully guides his son, around 18 years of age, to navigate the desire to return to the household life.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-28 Awakening the Heart 48:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 Sit with Instructions 46:30
Michele McDonald
Instructions on setting the intention for sitting followed by guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Meditation 24:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Talk 67:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Open Palm Attention 51:56
Nathan Glyde
Expanding the world through skilful wholesome modes of relating. When there is an object in attention there is always some degree of push or pull happening. The contraction is what holds attention there. It is not something we’re doing wrong, it is the nature of experience. What happens when we invite an opening in the contraction, either in the body sense, or the sense of awareness, or by bringing in a bit more metta in the atmosphere of attending?
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Metta Chanting and Sit 39:48
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Evening metta chanting instructions for online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by chanting and sit
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Dharma talk 46:08
Michele McDonald
Opening talk of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, on self-retreat at home, meditation, and loving-kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Compassion and Tenderness 42:18
Zohar Lavie
Guided meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Compassion 61:59
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-27 54 Ambalathika Rahula Sutta MN61 1:20:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha talks to his son, Rahula about lying and how to reflect.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-27 Metta Undefined 42:58
Nathan Glyde
Letting metta be expansive, unconstrained, vaster than vast, beyond boundaries, so that it can fabricate more and more well-being. Metta is an expression and experience of non-dukkha, it is a skilful delightful way of relating that brings wellbeing, it is a compass for practice, and it is so much more too.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Sit with Instructions 53:47
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Introduction to the first day of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by guided meditation instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 19: Transforming Reactivity 3 65:50
Donald Rothberg
After a review of our last two sessions exploring the nature of dukkha as reactivity and how to practice to transform reactivity, in the context of the Buddha's teachings of Dependent Origination and the Two Arrows, we explore a third aspect of practice. Some of our experiences of reactivity, particularly those in which there are repetitive and habitual patterns, sometimes open up to reveal old and relatively unconscious material, part of our "ignorance," giving us the chance to access and transform such material. This can occur, for example, when there is trauma, or when there are limiting beliefs originating from childhood (or sometimes later) related to psychological and/or social conditioning. A general model is given of four steps in the transformation of such material.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-05-27 Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Vedanā as a way of looking 29:25
Zohar Lavie
Practicing opening contraction by staying at contact with vedana.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Metta to Self or Other (with chanting) 43:44
Nathan Glyde
Starts with a 'Zoom video call' based metta practice, then some Pali metta chanting (around 13 mins in), then a guided metta practice towards oneself or another. Pali: Sabbe sattā sukhitā hontu. Sabbe sattā averā hontu. Sabbe sattā abyāpajjhā hontu. Sabbe sattā anighā hontu. Sabbe sattā sukhi attānaa pariharantu.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Talk: Coming Home to the Heart - Strengthening Our Natural Resilience to Meet Life’s Challenges 34:21
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how Buddhist practices such as the four Brahmavihara meditations of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity can be used to strengthen our natural resilience, so that we can navigate life’s challenges with more ease
Sydney Insight Meditators

2020-05-26 53 Advice to Channa MN144 15:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Concerning suicide.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-26 Dukkha, Construction, and Release 46:16
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Consciousness and Awareness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:04
Anam Thubten
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-26 All Community Sit 14:00
Bob Stahl
Group meditation in the Insight Buddhist tradition, includes a Sit, short Dhamma talk, and discussion & connection
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-26 Day 1 - Meditation Instructions - Easing Bodily Fabrication 50:38
Nathan Glyde
The importance of setting intention, bodily fabrication, seeing things as anicca–changing, and making incremental changes…to changeable experience.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Tuesday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:36
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-25 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 4 - Meditation 30:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-25 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 4 - Talk 30:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-25 Opening and Steadying 44:20
Zohar Lavie
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-25 Metta 34:06
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-25 52 Good Friendship 22:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Passages from Social and Communal Harmony by Bhikkhu Bodhi. AN7.36 DN31 Sn45.2
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

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