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Dharma Talks
2020-05-17 Why Practice? 51:43
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-17 Playing with Perception in Ways that Free 34:05
Zohar Lavie
London Insight Meditation Cultivating a Wise and Responsive Heart

2020-05-17 43 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 27:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Four Noble Truths and Final Encouragement
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-17 Your Face: The Gaze, Self-view, Intimacy and Letting Go (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:11
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-17 Samma Sankappa ~ Right Intention 32:59
Ayya Santacitta
Online Talk for San Francisco Dharma Collective
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-05-17 Dimanche 17 mai 2020 1:31:05
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara s’est inspiré des paroles de la chanson Tu trouveras la paix, par Renée Claude, pour aborder le thème de l’amour bienveillant (metta). Il a aussi discuté de l’importance de la qualité de l’esprit dans toutes les actions et situations.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-17 What Does It Mean to Be a Student of the Path - Meditation 34:38
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-17 What Does It Mean to Be a Student of the Path Talk 44:00
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Practice Group Talk led by Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-17 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Make Your Mind Like Gold 37:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work. *Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-16 Heart of Possibilities - Talk 44:28
Nathan Glyde
Awakening the heart from limitation also opens us to a sense of boundlessness. What is it to see the Dharma as an exploration of release through lessening our built up and heavily fabricated experiences? How would it be to see this path as a way to fabricate less and less dukkha–distress and self-centredness, and to liberate all appearances?
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2020

2020-05-16 Heart of Possibilities - Guided Meditation 19:46
Nathan Glyde
Part 1 of 2: A guided meditation exploring how the way we relate to what is arising affects what arises.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2020

2020-05-16 Dealing with fear and uncertainty 23:06
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-05-16 שיחת דהרמה: תשומת לב, תפישה ואפשרויות לחופש 29:13
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew Dharma Talk - Attention, Perception, Possibility
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-16 Mindfulness of in-and-out breathing meditation 29:19
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-05-16 42 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 22:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Section on Dhamma: Five Hindrances, Five Aggregates, Six Sense Spheres, Seven Factors of Awakening
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-16 מדיטציה מונחית 2 37:33
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew - 2nd Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-16 41 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 21:29
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Sections on Feeling and Mental States.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-16 שיחת פתיחה ומדיטציה מונחית 1 49:57
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew - Opening Talk and Guided Meditation
SanghaSeva חצי יום תרגול מטא וריקות

2020-05-15 In This Very Life -- 2020-05-15 55:37
Kim Allen
Sutta Study AN 5.47
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-14 40 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 19:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Elements and the Charnel Ground Meditations
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-14 Vulnerability, Porousness, Equanimity & Love (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:22
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-13 Meditation: Living, Embodied Presence 22:32
Tara Brach
This practice begins with a full body scan and then guides us to return again and again to our senses. What we find is a dynamic presence, a Hereness that feels like home. The meditation ends with a beautiful poem by David Wagoner called, “Lost.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-13 Sheltering in Love – Part 8: Finding Freedom in the Midst of Failure 45:56
Tara Brach
Everyone faces personal failure, and it’s an extremely raw and painful feeling. If we have the courage to stay with the feelings, failure can become a portal to the realization of who we are beyond the imperfect separate self. This talk calls on Samuel Beckett’s wonderful quote (referenced by Pema Chödron), “Fail, Fail again, Fail better,” and offers guidance on finding freedom as we move through some of our most difficult moments.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-05-13 Finding Center 66:20
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-13 Standing and Sitting Guided Meditation Weds am 2:11:21
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-13 Unfurling the Leaves of Our Spiritual Life (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Brian Lesage
This talk offer reflections on the skill of opening to the wholesome and onward-leading aspects of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-13 39 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 21:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Four Postures, Mindfulness in Daily Life and the 'Foulness'of the Body
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-13 From the Ordinary Mind to the Buddha Mind 18: Transforming Reactivity 2 69:47
Donald Rothberg
We first review the main themes from last time: (1) the nature of reactivity, and dukkha as reactivity in the Buddha's teachings, (2) the nature of awakening and freedom as liberation from reactivity, and (3) four main ways to practice with reactivity. We then look more deeply, noticing that very commonly reactivity is mixed with insight, discernment, intelligence, or something important or valuable, as when I become reactive when someone doesn't keep an agreement, or at social injustice. We explore how to transform reactivity by separating out what is valuable from the reactivity, in a number of ways, so that we can keep the insight or intelligence, and use it as the basis for wise, compassionate action. We close the talk with Eve Decker singing, "Simple Truth," about skillful ways to work with reactive self-judgment, and then have a period of discussion, including questions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-05-12 38 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 22:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
These talks are only introductory. There are now many good books listed on the website. Looking at the opening stanzas and the breath meditation.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-12 Dialectics of Practice - Opening and Protection (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:41
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight: Dharma, Care and Community in Uncertain Times - Online

2020-05-12 31b The Body 22:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Unfortunately the laptop stopped! Luckily, I was coming to an end. Death contemplation is taught by the Buddha, see my Talk 03,04,45. I would simply have said that body as subjective experience is to be investigated and is a path itself to liberation from suffering.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-11 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 2 - Meditation 28:32
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-11 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 2 - Talk 33:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-11 Moving from Judgment to Curiosity 60:08
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-11 Gaia Standing and Sitting Guided Meditation 60:21
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-11 37 Shorter Discourse on Gosinga 19:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma
How to live peacefully with others.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-10 Living and Practicing with Unknowing 1:32:37
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-10 36 Canki Sutta cont. 19:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-10 Dimanche 10 mai 2020 1:31:01
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara a abordé les façons neuves de regarder la réalité et les perspectives qui invitent à cultiver un amour naturel et créatif.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-10 Caring for the Heart and Mind, Week 8 - Meditation 34:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-10 Caring for the Heart and Mind, Week 8 - Talk 40:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-10 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Spiritual Friendship As the Basis for Awakening 35:45
Ajahn Sucitto
We may feel more isolated than ever, but the truth is that we’re always captive in our sensory prisons. The aim is to liberate and open the heart so that qualities beyond sense consciousness can be realized. Key among the factors needed for liberation is kalyāṇamitta – spiritual friendship. *Sutta reference AN9:3
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-09 Loss, Grief and Death: Impermanence in Pandemic Times 56:25
James Baraz
The Buddha said to reflect each day on the facts of old age, sickness and death. He also said to to come to terms with the fact that everything and everyone near and dear to us will be separated from us. In these Covid-19 days our practice becomes letting go of what was and adjust to a new way of being. This practice of impermanence includes opening to loss, grief and death which is explored in this talk.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-05-09 35 Canki Sutta MN95 18:53
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-09 34 Kalama Discourse cont. 21:29
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-09 Four Brahma Viharas Practice in Daily Life, Part 2 (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 25:14
Tempel Smith
To bring forward the highest heart quality of Equanimity we need to understand all four brahma viharas (heavenly dwellings: friendliness, compassion, celebration, and balance) and how the work together in beautiful harmony.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Equanimity Retreat - Online

2020-05-08 Seeing All Things With Kindness (with Chanting at the Beginning) 43:55
Zohar Lavie
A kindness meditation towards all appearance: seeing how experience is fabricated by seeing all phenomena as deserving of kindness and care. Starts with 7 minutes of a Guanyin chant (using the lovely words and tune offered by Caroline Jones).
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat

2020-05-08 Supporting Equanimity Through the Four Noble Truths 38:25
bruni dávila
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Equanimity Retreat - Online

2020-05-08 All Fabricated Things are Anicca 35:45
Nathan Glyde
How do we fabricate our experience by habitually seeing in terms of permanence and constancy? What happens in terms of 'dukkha' when we allow our sense of self and phenomena to become more ephemeral? How does our sense of time change, and how does changing that change experience?
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat

2020-05-08 Instructions Day 3 - Anicca as a Way of Looking 47:20
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat

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