2019-08-09 Dharma and Recovery 1:54:55
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-08-08 Dharmas Without Blame 40:52
James Baraz	Download Listen
With such disorienting events such as mass shootings in the news, how can we find our balance and hold things with equanimity, compassion and a wise dharma perspective. That is the theme for this talk.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-08-08 "Here Comes the Judge. Here Comes the Judge" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:11
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
The Dharma of the Judging and Comparing Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adult Retreat

2019-08-08 27 guided meditation: compassion for a good friend, and self-compassion 20:46
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Practising with compassion for a good friend who is currently experiencing some challenges, then offering compassion to oneself
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2019-08-08 26 instructions: compassion and working with painful emotions 19:43
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Some suggestions for working with painful emotions, and using compassion and self-compassion as antidotes to afflictive mind-states
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2019-08-07 Part 1 – The Answer is Love: Evolving out of “Bad Other” 51:08
Tara Brach	Download Listen
These two talks address the inquiry: How do we awaken from the contempt and hatred that causes so much suffering in our world? The first talk looks at how we can use the practices of mindfulness and compassion to decondition our habits of self-blame and self-hatred, as well as the importance of helping each other defuse the trance of unworthiness. The second talk extends the use of these practices to situations where we’ve locked into external “bad othering.” These times need our deepened dedication to love: By intentionally arousing compassion for ourselves and others, we directly contribute to the evolution of consciousness in our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-08-07 Meditation: Cultivating a Kind Attention 18:48
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Using the image and felt sense of a smile, we scan through the body, and awaken a sense of aliveness, presence and tenderness. The practice then extends to mindfully include all sounds, sensations, and feelings; and when difficult experience arises, to intentionally offer care. We close with an offering of loving kindness to our own being, to others who are suffering and to all life everywhere.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-08-06 Cutting Through Our Stories (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:15
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Keeping your attention directly at the sense doors lets us cut through our habit of being lost in thought. As mindfulness increases, we can eventually by mindful of thought as it arises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Young Adult Retreat

2019-08-05 Understanding Impermanence - Week 7 - Meditation 31:55
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

2019-08-05 Understanding Impermanence - Week 7- Talk 25:24
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

2019-08-05 Monday Night Dharma Talk 60:17
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-08-04 The shock of the Now 47:43
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-08-02 Love as Radical Inclusion - Talk 53:18
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-08-02 Love as Radical Inclusion - Meditation 30:59
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-08-01 Renunciation in Lay Life 3 48:04
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Third of three in a series on what it means to let go as a layperson. Emphasis on letting go of self or identity.
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-07-31 Sylvia and Friends - Wednesday 1:58:25
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-07-31 Contemplating Impermanence is Liberating 62:55
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-07-31 Clearing World from the Mind 49:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We look for certainty in things that can ever be certain. Constantly pulled out by the world, we leave the only thing that can ever be certain – citta. Rather than attempt to get away from unpleasant feeling, we can review it, soothe and release some of its tangles. We might find it’s possible to be with discomfort, yet free and deeply secure.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-30 The Aggregate of Viññana: Consciousness 48:28
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-07-30 Renunciation 28:16
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-07-29 Understanding Impermanence - Week 6 - Talk 60:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

2019-07-29 Understanding Impermanence - Week 6 - Meditation 31:32
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Impermanence

2019-07-29 Transmission of Dhamma to Cittaviveka 43:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Reflecting on the beginnings of Cittaviveka, there’s something to recognize beyond just the history. There’s the transmission, what’s happened in mind, heart and spirit. It can be tracked all the way to the Buddha and the first Noble Truth – a sign of inadequacy, suffering, stress and the wish to realize something further than that. A certain nobility of intention came out of that, and is the same thread of continuity that runs through the monastery today.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Vassa 2019, Opening Group Practice Retreat

2019-07-29 Relationships 58:22
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How can we be in a healthy relationship with other human beings, and all of life?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-29 Morning Instructions - Choiceless Awareness 59:50
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-28 Receiving Metta for oneself and sharing it with an easy person 42:33
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-28 The Island of Refuge 1:13:24
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios	Download Listen
with Angela Dews
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2019-07-27 If Only! The Joy of Renunciation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:41
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-27 Developing The Steady, Graceful and Confident Heart 59:16
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How to stop arguing with reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-27 17 talk: fear of freedom 36:07
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Acknowledging that change itself can cause anxiety; exploring some different definitions of Nibbana; and a few suggestions for navigating fear if/when it arises in meditation practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-27 Sanity and How to Let Go of Distortions 26:51
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Sacramento Insight Meditation

2019-07-27 Shelly's Talk 20:14
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Daylong Retreat for Millenials with Shelly Graf and Gabe Keller-Flores

2019-07-27 Shelly's Guided Meditation 26:09
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Daylong Retreat for Millenials with Shelly Graf and Gabe Keller-Flores

2019-07-27 Day 8 Morning Sit: Sky Like Nature of MInd (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:18
Ruth King	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-27 Morning Instructions - Working With Internal and External Sensations 57:43
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-26 Two Guardians of the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:18
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Respecting oneself, respecting others
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-26 Metta: No great expectation 46:52
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
When being kind and caring towards the self has great POW moments but can lead us to lack peace of heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2019-07-26 Renunciation in Lay Life 2 49:56
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Second of three in a series on lay renunciation: Letting go of mental patterns
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-07-25 Insight Meditation in 2019 57:48
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-07-25 Samatha - Vipassana Guided Meditation 46:52
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-07-25 Dukkha and Non-Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Insight

2019-07-25 Evening Dharma Talk - Nirvana, Imagination and Creativity 52:20
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on how the non-reactive space of nirvana is the source both of an ethical and aesthetic imagination.
Gaia House :  Secular Buddhist Retreat

2019-07-25 Loving Kindness Practice 46:40
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
Using a very loving being as an entry point into the heart and loving-kindness practice,
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

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