2020-01-15 From hindrances to awakening factors. 53:23
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Long term and immediate practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-15 Brahmavihara Practice 46:28
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Instructions for "radiating metta" and guided practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2020-01-15 Sweeping the Body 44:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Something in us – citta – searches for release from suffering. It struggles to rise out of old patterns, which means one has to enter them. Sweeping meditation is a skillful means. It’s not just a physical exercise but an opportunity to clear kamma.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-15 Instructions of choiceless attention and awareness of awareness 53:53
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-15 The Buddha under the Tree Story is True 1:55:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-14 The Transformative Power of Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Guided by a recent translation of a poem about metta practice by an early Buddhist nun, from The First Free Women, we contemplate the simple yet radical and profound spirit of metta practice. The author tells us: "I have followed this Path of friendship to its end. And I can say with absolute certainty—it will lead you home.” We look at how metta cuts through fear, how it deepens concentration, how we work with the challenges of metta practice, how we navigate the “purification process” linked with metta practice, and how we integrate the kind heart, mindfulness, wisdom, and skillful action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta Retreat

2020-01-14 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Week 1 1:29:31
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Course introduction, two guided meditations, and dharma talk
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Jan-Feb 2020

2020-01-14 Right Intention 55:54
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Our actions are often driven by unconscious or conflicting intentions. How can we align with wholesome intentions and cultivate wholesome mindstates?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-14 Reflections on Metta for difficult people: guided Metta meditation. 45:32
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-14 Completing the Inner Conversation 40:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We come to Dhamma practice hoping for calm and quiet, but that may be down the track a while. Begin instead with dialogue, listening to the inner chatter with patience and steadiness. As agitated and troubling states are lovingly met, the passion around them fades. We can experience the nibbāna element here and now.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-14 Morning Reflections 21:49
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Seven bojjhangas starting with Sati. Bring balance. Seeing the body as physical elements and identifying some causes for its manifestation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-14 Morning Instructions On Thoughts 51:06
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Exploringintentions in working with thoughts - how to develop mindfulness of thoughts and a deepening understanding of their shaping influence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-13 Buddhist Studies - Anatta: The Impersonal Nature of Experience - Week 1 1:34:42
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Anatta: The Impersonal Nature of Experience
Buddhist Studies - Anatta: The Impersonal Nature of Experience - Week 1 - Meditation 37:15 Download Listen Buddhist Studies - Anatta: The Impersonal Nature of Experience - Week 1 - Talk 57:26 Download Listen

2020-01-13 Self, Non-self, and the importance of flexibility of view. 62:57
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on anatta (not-self), and the importance also of honoring personhood and cultivating flexibility of view so as to respond appropriately to circumstances. The emptiness of all phenomena is also briefly explained and explored.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-13 S.E.S. January - Intimacy & Imagination - Wise View - Dharma talk 34:36
Sebene Selassie	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Sacred Earth Sangha

2020-01-13 S.E.S. January - Intimacy & Imagination -Wise View - guided meditation 13:13
Sebene Selassie	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Sacred Earth Sangha

2020-01-13 S.E.S. January - Intimacy & Imagination - Reflections 27:13
Sebene Selassie	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Sacred Earth Sangha

2020-01-13 "What Is Meditation" 56:15
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Meditation is described as "sensitivity, intelligence, and adjustment". Parallels are done with "Sati, Panna, and Viriya" - a trilogy principle seen in MN:117, Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-13 Guided Metta meditation for self and benefactor 43:30
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-13 What Shape Is Your Mind 46:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Unskillful saṇkhāras can be undone in the same way they are formed – through perception. Choose particular tones like friendliness and welcome. Introduce them into the body and ask how it feels. Skillful use of perception and attention can sooth and steady the body’s energy.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-13 Climate Change / Ram Dass | Monday Night talk 62:14
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Jack talks about climate change, remembering the bigger picture of life, and the uncertainty of tomorrow. He also shares some memories and honors Ram Dass.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-13 Instructions and guided meditation: mindfulness of mindstates. 51:12
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-12 The Sensitive Heart - Meditation 33:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-12 The Sensitive Heart - Talk 44:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-12 Guided Metta Meditation 45:56
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Brief introduction followed by a guided metta meditation for group, self, and benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-12 Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm 45:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Contact with the world causes citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme. We practice to carefully meet contact impression, training intention and attention to be for one’s welfare.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-12 Instructions on mindfulness of vedana 54:06
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 The Four Ennobling Truths 61:30
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
The teaching on the four ennobling truths speaks to our lived experience. It addresses the existential fact of facing suffering, pain, stress, and conflict in our lives and offers a way to understand the causes and conditions that lead to suffering and to the end of suffering. The four ennobling truths can guide us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Anattā Is the Way Out (Evening Public Talk) 52:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body. 45:34
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Saṇkhāra – the Constructor of All 46:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We are encouraged to understand saṇkhāra, the programs that take hold of us and result in unskillful states. It is possible to not act on these programs, release some of their pressure, and turn the citta towards skillful states.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Morning instructions on body 56:50
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Review of first day instructions, suggestions about deepening and sustaining connection with anchors and practicing with discomfort and pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Practicing with the elements. 59:46
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Instructions on practicing with the hinderances. 44:35
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Direct Practice – Feeling, Perception and Saṇkhāra 40:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is only touched by feeling and perception. Through not seeing this, not feeling and directly handling it, the whole realm of dukkha gets fabricated. Meet experience directly, with mindfulness and wisdom, and suffering eases up.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-10 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:59:27
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-10 Presence, ease, and possibility. 44:27
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body - bring mind and body together, establishing an anchor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 Opening Talk 59:06
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Welcome and introduction to the retreat. Ethical container, simplifying, and silence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 In the Experience, Let there be Just the Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:38
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores working with Bahiya Sutta in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Winter Insight

2020-01-09 Morning Instructions 9:00
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Meditation requires sensitivity and intelligence from the heart. The seven bojjhangas in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-08 Spiritual Practice in Daily Life 37:38
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 17:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 55:44
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional refuge ritual, we engage together in bringing alive these pathways to healing and peace. (Note: Includes Refuges string tying ceremony and chanting the Refuges at end) St. Teresa of Avila says, “Only at the shrine where all are welcome will God sing loud enough to be heard.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 64:24
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Going Forwards 49:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on "object" relation. e.g. insight or serenity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-08 Finding Reference in Ground, Space and Rhythm 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta only experiences perception and feeling. We can cultivate skillful perceptions of ground, space and rhythm that result in comfort and ease.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-08 Being a Friend to Everything 2:05:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-07 Letting Go 38:31
Leslie Booker	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2020-01-07 The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 1:42:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas