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2022-08-17 Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 3: A Mirror 56:39
Tara Brach
This 3- part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature. The three qualities often described as the essence of awareness: wakeful, open, tender.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-17 Guided Meditation: Connect & Continue (Vitakka & Vicara) As Our Two Best Friends in Concentration Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:55
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore connecting with our intention, relaxing the body, and then devote ourselves to the first two jhanic factors: vitakka and vicara, initial application and sustained application, or connect and continue. The guidance ends with planting the seeds for gladness and joy by noticing the absence of the hindrances, as taught in the satipatthana sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-08-16 Samadhi, the Five Jhanic Factors, and the Five Hindrances 64:58
Nikki Mirghafori
What is samatha Practice (concentration)? Why practice samatha? What is the different between samatha (a practice), samadhi (the state), and vipassana (insight practice)? What are the five jhanic factors? And how do we work with the five hindrances, or rather, "coverings," in samatha practice as opposed to insight practice?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-08-16 Power and Emptiness of Thoughts 45:10
Fred Von Allmen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-08-16 Metta As Support For Concentration Practice 58:44
Amana Brembry Johnson
To follow the thread of kindness and friendliness along the middle path, you will see that Metta is the road map that leads to internal freedom. It is a guiding light that weaves itself through every aspect, every step, along this path of liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-08-16 Instructions - the Hindrances 54:14
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Liberating Awareness

2022-08-15 An Overview to Concentration Practice 62:59
Phillip Moffitt
A Guide for Understanding the how and why of Concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-08-15 Sila: Moral Integrity, Non-Harming, and the Bliss of Blamelessness - Week 8 - Meditation 32:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Hybrid Summer Course: Sila: Moral Integrity, Non-Harming, and the Bliss of Blamelessness

2022-08-15 Sila: Moral Integrity, Non-Harming, and the Bliss of Blamelessness - Week 8 - Talk 33:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Hybrid Summer Course: Sila: Moral Integrity, Non-Harming, and the Bliss of Blamelessness

2022-08-15 Dharma Talk - Human Predicament, Human Possibility. 56:27
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Liberating Awareness

2022-08-15 For the Welfare of the Whole World 49:37
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-08-14 The Eight Worldly Winds and Equanimity 45:39
Fred Von Allmen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2022-08-14 Wisdom and Ignorance: Alex Jones, Donald Trump & Angulimala 1:30:29
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-08-14 Dedication of metta and happiness 1:36
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – Dependent Origination and Emptiness

2022-08-14 Dependent origination and emptiness 21:52
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – Dependent Origination and Emptiness

2022-08-14 General principle of dependent origination 28:53
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – Dependent Origination and Emptiness

2022-08-14 Understanding the Path - the Pleasure of Seclusion - Meditation 35:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-14 Understanding the Path - the Pleasure of Seclusion - Talk 40:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-14 Introduction to dependent origination 42:16
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – Dependent Origination and Emptiness

2022-08-13 Taking The Practice Home 49:00
Deborah Ratner Helzer, Tara Mulay
Responding to questions from retreatants
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation

2022-08-12 The moderation of the middle way 38:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Developing an awareness of mind states and their bodily feelings brings an understanding of the mental and energy bodies, a freedom from the prison of the self and a transformed “doing” energy.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-08-12 Two guardians of the world - Hiri and Ottappa 64:42
Kamala Masters
Understanding the importance of sila – living in Harmony, respecting oneself, respecting others
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight (Vipassana) Meditation Leading to Liberation

2022-08-12 Guided meditation on the five khandas, Dhamma talk on the five khandas 1:32:48
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation on the five khandas (constituents / groups). Dhamma talk on the five khandas: rupa (body / appearance), vedana (feeling / experience), saññā (perception), saṅkhāra (choices), citta (consciousness). Discussion of how in the EBTs, the 5 khandas were often what people already identified with, and their impermanence was what the Buddha emphasized. Discussion of how other disciplines and near-death-experiences implicitly invoke the five khandas.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-08-12 GM - The gift of ground 15:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Receiving the gift of ground to access the body and the breath
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-08-12 Dharma and Recovery 1:25:35
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

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