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Dharma Talks
2022-05-25 Sati with other faculties 25:27
Laura Bridgman
The mind is a delicate and responsive instrument. Balancing faith and effort, sati uses gentleness and patience and we learn what is peaceful and natural.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Value 47:42
Leela Sarti
From external, objectified value to the implicit value of our beingness
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-25 Practicing with Fear 3 66:03
Donald Rothberg
We start by acknowledging the mass shooting in Texas that occurred yesterday, in the context of our practicing with fear, following up an earlier guided meditation and sharing (not recorded) related to the shooting. We then look generally at the three core ways of practicing with fear, going into some depth on each: (1) cultivating mindfulness and clear seeing (wisdom), (2) working with the heart practices, and (3) acting skillfully. We then focus on how the process of awakening typically involves at each new stage an opening to fear, and also mention some of the dynamics of the "Dark Night of the Soul." Lastly, we look at how to explore and work with fear related to our social world, in terms of the three ways of practicing with fear. There follows a period of discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-05-25 Sati-sampajañña - Clearing Hindrances 60:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances can be cleared through ‘mindful direct awareness’ – sati sampajañña. Such working through what blocks the potential of citta, demands humility, since it is not one’s personal self doing the work. Body is a key and potent resource.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Equanimity 67:43
Winnie Nazarko
This talk addresses the quality of equanimity – what it is and is not – and how to cultivate it
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2022-05-24 The Experience of Dukkha 48:11
Jaya Rudgard
How dukkha is a natural feature of life. When we learn to decondition reactivity, it becomes a gateway to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

2022-05-24 Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will 24:33
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-05-24 Q&A 38:32
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Your explanation of sati as putting a ring around proliferation makes sense to me. How best to do the ring-fencing? 12:46 Q2 Does the Buddha say what the purpose of human life is? 17:39 Q3 What happens when you die? 22:37 Q4 Could you speak more about citta resting in itself. 27:24 Q5 Am I trying to do too much when holding a sense of ground and releasing boundaries for myself? 30:20 Q6 Boundaries in relationships when caring for elderly parents.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Composure and Equanimity 46:54
Laura Bridgman
Composure is an inner experience of what's arising, not dependent on our normal preferences and reactions. Sometimes called vipassana we’re aware subtle or strong currents, noticing and not reacting.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 The heart of presence 38:24
Leela Sarti
Exploring the nature of the heart and why we have to turn to our grief to be truly human
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-24 Guided Meditation on "vulnerability as a threshold into awareness" 23:10
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-24 Vulnerability as a threshold into awareness. 42:36
Rodney Smith
Living within vulnerability provides ongoing access to formless awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-24 Currents in the Citta - Sati 54:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Considering the structures of the day we can release those that are not useful and direct them to discover citta and an inner balance, not just 'the next thing'.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Guided Standing Meditation 50:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Standing form is a powerful way to bring one into the realities of embodiment which can be taken then to sitting or walking.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-23 Dancing with the Way Things Are: Impermanence 53:45
Susie Harrington
Impermanence is the nature of things, in our practice we have the opportunity to see it and learn to dance with this fundamental aspect of our experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

2022-05-23 Monday Night Dharma Talk 43:34
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2022-05-23 Sati - The Third Indriya 56:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Sati-mindfulness, or bearing in mind – is the third indriya. It is a powerful ally for liberation. With this we come out of old habits and find freshness, meaning, potency. You feel where your strength arises.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-23 The mind wants to lead - being listens 42:08
Leela Sarti
Exploring how to live and practice from another vantage point than the mind as the forerunner
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-23 Joy 43:29
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-23 Guided Standing Meditation 40:06
Ajahn Sucitto
With standing it's difficult to drift off. Feeling connection to and the strength of the ground and using the bones for support rather than muscle.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-22 Week 2 - Guided Meditation (2) 36:13
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-22 Q&A 36:14
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-22 Week 2 - Dharma Talk 27:56
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-22 Week 2 - Guided Meditation (1) 21:01
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-22 05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss 15:27
Jill Shepherd
Following a reading on the passing of the Buddha, reflecting on the truth of impermanence and how none of us are immune to it; moving into a ritual to acknowledge recent losses, and strengthen inner qualities to be able to navigate change with more ease
Auckland Insight Meditation 2022 Vesak celebration for Auckland Insight

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