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Dharma Talks
2019-05-04 Standing Meditation for Energy and Vitality 22:33
Ajahn Sucitto
When standing we don’t stand stiff, but fluid. Balanced posture and alignment allow muscles to release so energy can move through the form in a supportive way. Over time we become supported by the body’s energy rather than its muscles.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-04 Do What Will Undo 49:51
Ajahn Sucitto
How to peel off the layers of saṅkhāra? Do with an intent to undo. Although we unconsciously give energy to our hindrances and programs, if we withdraw energy and interest, they wither. This is right effort. When citta is cleared of hindrances and is no longer pulled out into the abstract, it gains its own strength and you can trust it.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-03 Four Noble Truths 56:10
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-03 Opening Retreat Talks - 63:19
Tara Brach
Introductions, Orientation, Instructions Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, La Sarmiento, Kate Johnson
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-03 Dana/Sila Transforms The Habits Of The Mind 61:23
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-05-03 The Fulfillment of Remembrance: Unconditional Acceptance 58:37
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-03 Lecture 26 1:27:14
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 26 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-05-03 Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group - Talk 34:17
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-05-03 Breathing Forms the Body 14:34
Ajahn Sucitto
What is the body? Not the picture of it but the direct experience of it. Referring to instructions given in the Ānāpānasati Sutta, guidance is given to directly experience the body in its diverse manifestations of energy, feeling and sensation. Breathing in, breathing out, allow the process to occur at its own rate and stay with what’s unfolding for you.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-03 Cette vie qui nous échappe 59:24
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-03 Self Metta 50:03
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-03 Instructions du matin, Sutton 54:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-03 Our Place of Practice Is Direct Knowing 39:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma practice is the channel for direct experience: that which is entered through the door of feeling. This is not the ‘mental’ knowing: the somatic sense responds to feeling. Your place of practice is this direct ‘feeling-knowing’ – pājānati – through mindfulness of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-03 Standing Meditation: Grounded and Firm, Yet Supple and Fluid 26:20
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation to fully feel the body, filling out the length, width and thickness of the entire bodily form. This upright yet relaxed posture is firm and allows energy to freely flow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-03 Discharging Dukkha 56:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Residues of the heart empty into the body and its vitality gets clogged. We tend to recycle the damage, returning to the scene of the crime, trawling the residues that haven’t discharged as resentment, unworthy, the need to be something else. To discharge this dukkha, we use the somatic field, which gives an energetic release. A mind of goodwill – patient and loving acceptance – will ease the process.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-02 Introduction and Access Concentration 43:46
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-02 Internally & Externally - Holding It All 61:49
James Baraz
On the recent retreat James sat with Ven. Analayo, the monastic started out the last day's teaching saying: “This morning I want to talk about climate change. Though some say this is not an appropriate topic for the Dharma Hall, in my view and in light of the crisis we are facing, there is no more appropriate or necessary topic.” We explore how Dharma principles can help each of us individually hold this unsettling situation as well as why they are the key to us waking up as a species.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-05-02 Honoring the Compost 65:19
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-02 Deux fondements de l’attention 62:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-02 Instructions du matin II, Sutton 41:29
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-02 Instructions du matin I, Sutton 9:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-02 Morning Instructions and Q&A 62:52
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-05-02 Using Body to Train the Mind 20:43
Ajahn Sucitto
The primary sense of settling doesn’t come from the mind but from embodiment. So, calm and soothe the somatic energies of the body by resonating the meanings of ‘safe’ and ‘welcome’. This is how one uses the body to train the mind, and aspiration to settle the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-01 The Dance Of Love And Wisdom 59:06
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-05-01 Meditation: Being Here 22:40
Tara Brach
This practice sets the atmosphere of loving presence with a smile-down and waking up all the senses. We relax into open awareness, receptive to the breath or whatever waves of experience are calling for attention. The invitation is to rest in Hereness, fully awake in presence. The meditation ends with a short offering of blessings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-05-01 Forgiveness: Releasing Ourselves and Others from Aversive Blame – Part 2 54:51
Tara Brach
Rumi invites us to find the barriers we’ve erected against love, and a universal one is blame. These three talks are an invitation to relax those barriers, and to open our hearts to our inner life and to all beings. Part I focuses on chronic self-judgment; Part 2 on the places of deep self-condemnation, and Part 3 on where we have locked into anger, blame or hatred of others. Each includes guided reflections that can support us in directly awakening beyond the confining thoughts and feelings of blame.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-05-01 Vipassana with a Brahma Vihara Flavor: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joyful Interest 56:43
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-01 Buddha Day Address 2019 : How the Buddha came to to teach ethics and transcendence 44:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2019-05-01 Love, Selflessness, and Life, with Co-Teacher: Ayo Yetunde 55:18
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-05-01 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 4: Practicing with the Body 2 66:25
Donald Rothberg
We contextualize our conditioning in relationship to the different “parts” of our experience—related to our thinking, emotions, and body—by examining some the social and cultural history of the last few hundred years, in which thinking has been increasingly differentiated from emotions and the body. We then examine further the nature of our ordinary, habitual experience of the body. The main focus is on a number of “body practices,” including mindfulness of the body in both formal meditation and daily life, ways to self-regulate when there is high activation, using the body in investigation of experience, and the body as a key to presence in speech and interaction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-04-30 Perception Of Impermanence Stabilizes Understanding - Antta 55:57
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-30 Mudita. Cultivating Joy and Connecting with the Goodness Inside 61:09
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-04-30 Progress and Happiness 14:54
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-04-29 Exploring Faith And Right View 50:02
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-29 Chants and Reflections; Brahma Viharas; How Our Happiness Depends on Our Inward and Outward Actions 66:29
Jaya Rudgard
In this recording Jaya Rudgard and Yanai Postelnik both offer their own reflections. JAYA RUDGARD (00:00 - 30:18) Chant: "May I abide in wellbeing" (call and response and unison). Reflections on sustaining practice and intention after leaving retreat, chanting practice, Brahma Viharas and personal responsibility. YANAI POSTELNIK (30:50 - 66:36) Reflections on how our deeper happiness depends on our relationship to action, and on how consciously we are able to engage inwardly and outwardly in thought and deed in the world.
Gaia House Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart

2019-04-29 Right Effort, Resistance, Trust and Gratitude 54:48
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-04-29 Spiritual Friendship 28:56
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the importance of spiritual friendship on the path.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-04-29 The Power of Story - Stories that open the mind, mend the heart and lead to joy - Monday Night Dharma Talk 65:38
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-04-29 Day 3 Morning Meditation Instructions 59:23
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-28 Understanding The Nature Of Wholesomeness and Unwholesomeness. 57:19
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-28 Self Compassion 58:56
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart

2019-04-28 Compassion. Friendliness, Serenity, and Brokenness 59:19
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-04-28 Lecture 25 1:23:02
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 25 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-04-27 Awareness and Wisdom 49:49
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-04-27 Exploring What's Possible - Not Turning From Discomfort 60:30
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart

2019-04-27 Love and Wisdom 55:29
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-04-27 Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation, Identification, Four Foundations of Mindfulness 2:04:03
Michael Grady
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies The Dharma and Difficult Emotions

2019-04-27 Morning Reflection: Simple Person 2:30
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2019 Spring Hermitage Retreat

2019-04-27 Morning Reflection - Simple Person 2:30
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2019 Spring Hermitage Retreat

2019-04-26 Dharma Talk: Practice Here, Practice There, Practice Everywhere 61:03
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2019 Spring Hermitage Retreat

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