2019-07-25 Historical Aspects Of The Four Noble Truths 45:47
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-25 Day 6 Guided Meditation/Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:27
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
Difficult Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-25 Morning Instructions on Appreciative Joy - Mudita 32:46
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-25 Day 6 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:34
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-24 The Path of Spiritual Surrender: Part 2 48:32
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Cultivating a surrendering presence allows us to release the identity of a small, separate self, and open to the truth and fullness of who we are. These two talks explore misunderstandings about surrender (such as the fear that we will become passive or condone injustice) and the practices that create the grounds for surrender, emotional healing, transformational activism and spiritual freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-07-24 Meditation: Letting Go 20:22
Tara Brach	Download Listen
One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This meditation guides us in letting go, first through the body, and then practicing letting go of thoughts and relaxing and resting in the changing flow of experience. The blessing of letting go is a homecoming into the truth and wholeness of what we are, a realization of reality, and freedom. NOTE: Listen to the rain, too…
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-07-24 Faith Born out of the Wisdom of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:43
Ruth King	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-24 Relaxing Out of Hope & Fear 46:25
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-07-24 Morning Instructions - What is This ? 25:59
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-23 Understanding What is in The Way of Calm and Ease (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:23
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-23 Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana, McMindfulness and Ethics 52:54
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on mindfulness and ethics, including a critique of the nationalist ethics of Burmese monks and the reduction of mindfulness to “McMindfulness.”
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-23 The Aggregate of Sankhara: Volitional Formations 55:18
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-23 Day 4, Guided Meditation/Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:46
Jeanne Corrigal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-23 Morning Instructions - Contemplating Vedana 23:20
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-23 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:30
Ruth King	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-23 Illness as a Doorway to Freedom 43:24
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Nikki Mirghafori shows us that illness and hardship are not just to be endured, they can actually be our teachers on the path.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley :  Saturday Talks
In collection: Meditation in Hard Times

2019-07-23 Relevant Mindfulness 40:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness is the ability to bear things in mind with a steady intention. Like the sides of the hand, there is a hard side with its ability to bar and repel corrupting influences, and a soft side that lingers and takes in the qualities. Select an object of meditation based on what’s needed, and give attention to the careful holding.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

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

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

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

2019-07-22 Cooking Good Dhammas 36:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-21 Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana for Everyone 53:10
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

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

2019-07-21 Citta and Non-Grasping 38:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-20 Touching The Earth 58:27
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

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

2019-07-20 Mindfulness and Non-Grasping 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-19 Developing Mindfulness Of Thoughts and Thinking 54:39
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
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 Metta (Loving Friendliness) | Dharma Talk 47:29
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-18 Not Self 48:54
Kate Munding	Download Listen
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 Day 8: Metta and the Many Beautiful Qualities of Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:25
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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 Body Trains Mind 48:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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 Instruction meditation as an attitude 15:35
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Instruction, how not to aim at experiences but to cultivate a proper attitude
Pauenhof Center

2019-07-18 Renunciation in Lay Life 1 51:40
Kim Allen	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery