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Dharma Talks
2023-04-27 SANGHA! In Person and Online, Our First Hybrid Gathering! 50:43
James Baraz
James and Eve are delighted to host the first in person meeting at the Berkeley Buddhist monastery since Covid changed our lives. In addition to a Dharma talk and exploration about Sangha, Eve brings her guitar and shares some music.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-04-27 Body - internal and external 34:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn describes the framework of factors that the human body and mind have that receive experience. Walking instruction at 32:29
The Buddhist Academy Berlin Brandenburg :  The Touch of Release

2023-04-27 Morning Instructions - Thoughts/Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:34
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-27 Morning reflection: equanimity. 52:19
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2023

2023-04-26 Evening Chanting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 21:03
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-26 Seven Factors of Compassion: Samādhi 55:19
Tuere Sala
Exploring the intersection between compassion and samadhi/concentration (the 6th Factor of Awakening).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-26 A Deeper Look at Practice Instructions 41:29
Matthew Hepburn
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-04-26 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:54
Tara Brach
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-26 Cultivating Loving Kindness – Seeing the Goodness 56:51
Tara Brach
The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-26 Consciously Turning Towards the Evolutionary Challenge 51:44
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-04-26 What is the Key to Open the Heart 1:53:48
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-04-25 Evening Chanting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 15:23
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-25 The four noble truths 48:19
Tara Mulay
Following the noble eightfold path is caring enough to truly live. This talk also touches on the three kinds of dukkha, and the three kinds of craving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-25 To Be in Time and to Be Free of Time 26:28
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-04-24 Everyday is Earth Day 1:27:23
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-04-24 Trust and confidence in the practice. 33:46
Devin Berry
Reflections on faith, through personal stories of the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-24 The Map of Wisdom: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein on the Core Buddhist Teachings 1:32:03
Joseph Goldstein
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies The Map of Wisdom: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein on the Core Buddhist Teachings

2023-04-24 Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:20
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-24 Body Anchor 43:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 7 Factors of Compassion - Investigation/Energy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:11
Tuere Sala
In this retreat, we will be looking at compassion through the lens of the 7 Factors of Awakening. We are calling it the 7 Factors of Compassion and we'll be exploring how a compassionate response to each of the factors supports awakening. Tonight I am exploring the intersection of compassion and mindfulness, investigation, and energy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-04-23 The two darts 55:27
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Recognizing Natural Awareness

2023-04-23 Gradual Transformation of the Heart 16:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2023-04-23 Earth Day 25:09
Dawn Neal
Deepening our Understanding of Anicca, Dukkha & Anattā in Nature
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-04-23 Closing Teachings 43:05
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Resting in Yourself - Timeless Freedom in Midst of Everyday Life

2023-04-23 Posture Clinic 30:31
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat

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