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Dharma Talks
2019-07-22 Two Wings of the Dharma: Compassion and Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:32
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-22 Evening Dharma Talk - Tonality (Vedana) 48:17
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-22 Uppekha | Guided Meditation 24:22
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-22 Cooking Good Dhammas 36:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhammas are things that directly affect citta. They can be awakening factors or hindrances. We train to skillfully handle them, like taming a wild animal. The thinking mind acts as the trainer. Based on citta’s responses, appropriate themes to settle and calm the mind are presented. Citta rewards such sensitivity and responsiveness with pleasure, ease and wisdom.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-21 Enlightenment or Bust (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:40
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-21 Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana for Everyone 53:10
Stephen Batchelor
Inspired by Bhikkhu Buddhadasa’s eponymous essay, reflections on the experience of nirvana here and now.
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-21 Guided Meditation - Receptivity of Mind 47:51
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we bring energy to receptivity of the mind. Generally, mind is in active mode. But through listening, sensitizing, and not moving onto the next thing, heart awareness opens more fully.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-21 Morning Instructions 26:07
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-21 Day 2 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:55
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-21 Citta and Non-Grasping 38:30
Ajahn Sucitto
When the mind is not steady and has gone into activation, clinging is inevitable. The clung-to experience creates the person. But there’s a choice. Our responsibility is to manage the flood of the aggregates through mindfulness.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-20 Mudita (Appreciative Joy) | Dharma Talk 60:55
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-20 Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:27
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-20 Touching The Earth 58:27
Akincano Marc Weber
The story of the Buddha's going forth in two versions - yoniso manasikāra - as ways of touching one's earth
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-20 Karuna | Guided Meditation 25:45
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-20 16 guided meditation: dyads, exploring fearlessness 25:00
Jill Shepherd
Working together in pairs, taking turns to describe a time of feeling ease, calm, confidence, courage, and noticing the effect this has on the body, heart, and mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-20 15 talk: wisdom and the three universal characteristics 29:54
Jill Shepherd
How seeing the three universal characteristics of anicca-dukkha-anatta (impermanent, imperfect, impersonal) can support the releasing of anxiety and fear
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-20 14 guided meditation: relaxing the body, stilling the mind 14:56
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation beginning with a brief body scan to relax tension, then using the breath to help steady and calm the mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-20 Morning Instructions - Meditation as Dwelling on This Earth 26:08
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-20 Day 1 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:01
Joseph Goldstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight

2019-07-20 Mindfulness and Non-Grasping 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The trained mind is fluid and flexible – natural. The untrained mind is fixed and grasping – loses its agility. Training comes through mindfulness of the 4 bases and 3 aspects of mind. Body gives mind something to anchor itself on so the habits of grasping that create a fixed self can be released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-19 You Are Not Doing This Alone. 47:00
Jaya Rudgard
Reflections on sangha and belonging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-19 The Brahma Viharas 41:48
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-19 Developing Mindfulness Of Thoughts and Thinking 54:39
Chris Cullen
Morning instructions on ways of practicing with thoughts so as to develop a more spacious relationship with thinking and understand more fully the shaping power of perception and papañca (projection, proliferation, objectification.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-18 Not Self 48:54
Kate Munding
I will continue talking about the three truths of existence, aka The Three Characteristics. Last week we explored the truth of impermanence and what it would be like to fully live from the understanding that all of nature, including us, in constant flux. This week I'll be talking about the second truth, not-self. This is a concept in Buddhism that is often miss-understood as no-self giving an impression of nihilism. We unpack the truth of not-self, how it fits with this spiritual path, and how it can inspire us in our day-to-day.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-07-18 Metta (Loving Friendliness) | Dharma Talk 47:29
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-18 Day 8: Metta and the Many Beautiful Qualities of Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:25
Tempel Smith
When we develop the Brahma Viharas, we also develop many beautiful qualities of heart named the Paramis, such as Generosity, Harmlessness and Renunciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2019-07-18 Practicing Insight: Unfrabricationg Saṅkhāras 52:02
Chris Cullen
An exploration of ways of practicing and deepening personal and universal insights so as to gradually unbind body and heart (citta) from fabrications that constrict and compress.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-18 Instruction meditation as an attitude 15:35
Charles Genoud
Instruction, how not to aim at experiences but to cultivate a proper attitude
Pauenhof Center

2019-07-18 Body Trains Mind 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Body provides a steady reference for mind. Mind by itself runs off and gets lost it thoughts and emotions. Body gives a place from which to review mental phenomena. Simply by paying attention to what’s happening directly in the body, the mode of attention shifts. We can use body to empty mental proliferation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-18 Renunciation in Lay Life 1 51:40
Kim Allen
A three-week series on what Renunciation means for laypeople, whose "field of practice" differs from that of monastics.
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-07-18 Whole Body Handles Feeling 40:36
Ajahn Sucitto
This energy field that carries sensation doesn’t just carry sensations from the physical world, but psychologically-induced experiences as well. This is where the experience of feeling starts to move between the bodily and mental base. If we practice with the feeling base of body, we have a guide for working with mental feeling.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-17 The Five Khandhas - Undoing Cling 61:50
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-17 The Territory of Insight 37:31
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-07-17 The Practice of Integrity - Talk 55:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-07-17 The Practice of Integrity - Meditation 35:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-07-17 Instruction, how to integrate emotions 15:06
Charles Genoud
How to integrate emotions and mental states in the practice of meditation.
Pauenhof Center

2019-07-17 Playing with the dependent arising and dependent fading of vedanā. 58:01
Chris Cullen
Morning instructions on ways of practicing with vedanā (feeling tone)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2019-07-17 To know the truth only by not clinging to fixed views 1:56:15
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-07-16 La force tranquille de la présence attentive 36:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-07-16 Day 6: Reflections on Metta and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:52
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Metta Retreat

2019-07-16 The Aggregate of Sañña: Perception 53:27
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-16 Instructions et méditation guidée 23:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-07-16 Emotions 56:06
Charles Genoud
This talk explore how to integrate emotions into ourself, not rejecting them, not juging them, but experiencing them as aspect of our mind.
Pauenhof Center

2019-07-16 Meditation in Hard Times 3:42:31
with Diana Clark, Misha Merrill, Nikki Mirghafori, Shaila Catherine, Tony Bernhard
An IMSB series dealing with stress, life transitions, traumas, and tragedies.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2019-07-16 Taking the Problem out of Pain 47:45
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages practitioners to view illness and pain as opportunities to practice equanimity, patience, and mindfulness of the body. When we are sick or in pain, we can still practice being attentive to present conditions, and reflect that all beings are all also subject to illness and death. Illness is not wrong; it is inevitable. The more we resist this fact, the more mental suffering we add to our physical difficulties. When we learn to be present with both pleasant and unpleasant feelings, we will know an experience of profound peace.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Meditation in Hard Times

2019-07-16 Awakening Through Insights in Nature 62:49
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the profound insights that arise in nature meditation practice, including insight into impermanence, selflessness, interdependence.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2019-07-16 Asalha Puja – Middle Path 68:28
Ajahn Sucitto
We can get sidetracked with a focus on mindfulness or stress reduction or meditation techniques. We don’t understand what leads up to them, the Noble 8-Fold Path. This Path begins with right view - knowing the heart and how it’s affected - and right effort - bringing up skillful mindstates.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-15 Understanding Impermanence - Week 4 - Talk 38:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

2019-07-15 La puissance calme 38:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-07-15 Understanding Impermanence - Week 4 - Meditation 29:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

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