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2022-04-26 Unwavering Mind 20:53
Ayya Medhanandi
To directly know Truth, we enter the depths of the vast ocean of the mind. We refine our attention and focus it like a laser beam. In the knowing of knowing itself, impermanence is revealed together with the inherent suffering of the conditioned world and the intrinsic emptiness of everything everywhere. In the starkness of this Reality, unwavering awareness sees all that we cling to as nothing while ego capitulates to liberating insight.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2022-04-26 Stillness and Movement, Awareness and Mind Moments (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:40
Phillip Moffitt
Discovering the Stillness of the Mind that illuminates the ever changing individualized moments of consciousness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-26 The heart of Buddhism 57:55
Ayya Santacitta
Nothing whatsoever should be clung to
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-25 Not willfully changing anything, but seeing with increasing clarity. 1:19:28
Ayya Santacitta
The three characteristics and letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-25 Opening the Heart Meditation | Monday Night 26:56
Jack Kornfield
Let yourself settle here on the Earth. Feel how the Earth can completely support you. You can let go. Let the heart be soft to receive whatever arises with compassion. Invite presence. Acknowledge the waves of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-04-25 Tending the Garden of the World, Tending the Garden of the Heart 55:26
Jack Kornfield
What kind of seeds are you planting and tending with your words and your deeds? Every seed watered can become something that changes the world. If you want to practice, take a walk and look at the buds on the trees in the spring. Each bud is an answer to despair or apathy. You start to sense you are part of something so much bigger. Feel the survival of thousands of years of ancestors in your bones supporting you. “Though I do not believe a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”—Thoreau
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-04-25 The body is fragile. Give it back to nature 43:40
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation on body parts and emptiness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-25 Poems and stories of the enlightened nuns. 58:45
Ayya Anandabodhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-24 Mahapajapati Gotami 41:46
Ayya Anandabodhi
Sharing the enlightenment poem and story of Mahapajapati, the aunt and adopted mother of the Buddha, and neither of the Bhikkhuni order
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-24 Guided Meditation for Experiencing Boundless Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:53
Phillip Moffitt
A step by step practice for directly experiencing boundless space
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-24 Gliding through Life Transitions 56:47
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-04-24 The One Unchanging Thing 46:28
Amita Schmidt
In times of difficulty and change, it is important to orient to what doesn't change, what is deathless. This talk gives you some tools/reminders on how to access the one unchanging thing. The talk also offers ways to unhook from your story and the mind's constant narrative.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2022-04-24 Radiant Metta meditation. 44:42
Ayya Anandabodhi
Introducing the radiant practice of Metta, a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-24 The sense of identity as a place to contemplate 39:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Contemplating the internal experience of “me” and the way “me” reacts with external phenomena reveals how our identity is constantly manufactured by our reactions. Widening and relaxing supports a heart that is modest, clear and open, without stress and without identity; a heart that can comfortably meet and deal with what arises.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-24 Tonglen Meditation 19:32
Amita Schmidt
Tonglen is a guided meditation of Tibetan origin that is a reparative response to pain. It is a meditation that actually helps create connection in the midst of suffering. Tenzin Choedrak, during his time of torture, made a daily dedication, "May some human greatness be accomplished through this suffering."
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2022-04-24 Change, Impermanence, and Gliding Through Life's Transitions 30:03
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-04-24 A path to the deathless 54:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Who or what you think you are is not your fundamental home. Learning to contemplate the citta/ mind/ heart and the five aggregates (form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations) reveals a way to dismantle the driven ego and liberate the citta from aging, sickness and death.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-24 Mountains Are Only Heavy if You Try to Lift Them: Understanding the Buddha's Wisdom – Talk 35:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-24 Mountains Are Only Heavy if You Try to Lift Them: Understanding the Buddha's Wisdom – Meditation 35:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-04-24 A Boundless Passion 1:28:15
Nathan Glyde
A guided meditation sending mettā and compassion to phenomena (rather than beings). Then a reflection and discussion about what insights, wisdom, and well-being, we feel from this kind of practice. Plus, where further can this practice take us. For more, see my upcoming course at Gaia House: https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/wisdom-of-compassion/
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2022

2022-04-24 Harmony practice 30:27
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided chanting / sound exercise to generate internal harmony and harmony with others.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-24 Recognition and probing 58:17
Ayya Santacitta
The five hindrances are fuel for developing the seven factors of awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-23 Hindrances and Wise Attention 61:15
Dawn Scott
This talk explores how the use of attention nourishes the five hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-23 What does identity have to do with practice? 56:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Identity is actually a process of making a self through clinging to what mind creates through contact with our environment and other people. This process comes down to the interplay of form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations – the aggregates (khandha) But am I really any part of this? Investigation allows us to unclog the heart and release the inherent suffering. Ajahn recommends walking as a way of experiencing flow and fluidity. No identity is needed!
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-23 Fine-tuning and strengthening the mind 42:10
Ayya Santacitta
Connected, yet spacious and balanced. Guided meditation on the seven factors of awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

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