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Dharma Talks
2023-01-06 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:01
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-01-06 Different dimensions of contemplative practice and a footnote on self 52:40
Akincano Marc Weber
A canonical take and non-canonical take
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-05 Sati and a Deeper Way of Living (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:31
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-01-05 Mudita Practice - reflections and a guided exercise 41:45
Akincano Marc Weber
Mudita as resonance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-05 Day 6 morning, reflections, and instructions 53:59
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-04 Realizing Your Deepest Intention 50:37
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that this whole life – including our thoughts, feelings and actions – arise from the tip of intention. While our intentions are usually marbled with wanting and fear, when intention comes into the light of consciousness, it unfolds into its most pure essence. This talk explores ways that when we are stuck in reactivity, we can become aware of intention, and find our way to the aspiration that expresses our most awake and loving heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-01-04 The Beneficial Effects of Sutta Yoga on Meditation 39:28
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-01-04 Meditation: Letting Go and Letting Be 16:44
Tara Brach
We leave presence by contracting into thoughts and resisting the changing flow of life. This meditation guides us in gently releasing thoughts and opening to this mysterious life, just as it is.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-01-04 Nothing but Kindness 1:44:44
Sylvia Boorstein
A mixture of meditation, a dharma talk, and group discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-01-04 Experiencing Oneself 12:55
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2023-01-04 Day 6: meditation Instructions – knowing thought as thought 53:06
Catherine McGee
Nothing whatsoever should be taken as I me or mine But thougts can feel so much like I me and mine
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-03 Cessation 46:04
Kim Allen
Graduated Discourse 8
Uncontrived In This Very Life Sutta Study Class – SN 12

2023-01-03 Final Day Reflections 21:33
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023

2023-01-03 Light touch meditation 42:30
Catherine McGee
As a support for metta practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-03 Working with Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:38
Devon Hase
Short talk and guided meditation on recognizing, allowing, investigating, and not identifying with strong emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-01-03 Upekkha ~ a blessing 43:56
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023

2023-01-02 The Five Spiritual Powers 9:19
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-01-02 Questions and Answers about Home Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:28
Devon Hase, Tuere Sala
Tuere and Devon answered questions about going home and practicing in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-01-02 Passion and dispassion 57:50
Catherine McGee
Craving is not the same as a passion for practice. Dispassion is a way of attending to experience to unbind self, the tangle of self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-02 Guided Metta Forgiveness Practice 43:34
Akincano Marc Weber
Metta Exercise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-02 The nature of feeling tone (vedanā) 54:48
Akincano Marc Weber
Feeling tone – Hedonic tone: how it manifests, what it is, what it isn't, and how we are affected by it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-02 Make the dark night shine 31:43
Ayya Santacitta
Reflections on anatta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023

2023-01-01 Even the most sublime state of mind comes to an end 37:03
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2022 - 2023

2023-01-01 In praise of stillness 1:12:35
Akincano Marc Weber
Demystifying samadhi. What it means and what it doesn't. What are its conditions? What is its function in mind training?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2023-01-01 The Power of Intention 1:23:41
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

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