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Dharma Talks
2019-01-10 Opening Instructions - Mindfulness of the body. 64:45
Jaya Rudgard
Akincano speaks briefly at the end of silent meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2019-01-09 The Nature of Metta (Lovingkindness) Practice: An Overview (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:27
Donald Rothberg
We explore the core intention of metta practice, to bring kindness, warmth, and care to every moment and every being. We examine how metta practice develops further steadiness (samadhi), how it helps us to lead with the heart and work with what stands in the way of the open, kind heart. As we practice further, we open increasingly to the radiance of our hearts and our being. We keep training, and we bring our metta practice into the world, where it is deeply needed. We close with two stories of metta practice in the world in challenging situations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2019-01-09 What is Awakening? And, Are You Sure You Want It? 34:46
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-01-09 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be 16:57
Tara Brach
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Finding True Refuge: Pathways of Remembering 56:02
Tara Brach
This talk explores the three archetypal refuges of awareness (Buddha-nature), truth (Dharma) and love (Sangha) through stories, illustrations and reflections. We end with a Refuge ceremony that can be done by anyone who feels drawn. (To participate you will need a 20” red string.)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-01-09 Mindfulness - What is it and Why Practice it? 41:36
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2019-01-09 The Path of Virtue - Meditation 35:39
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-09 Wednesday Morning Meditation Group 1:53:56
Sylvia Boorstein
A sitting and practice-oriented discussion group, suitable for new and experienced practitioners.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-01-07 Joy and Service 46:04
Zohar Lavie
Service brings joy, and joy urges us towards care for others and the world. Service is joyful, and joy can be of service for what really matters.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-07 The 1st Noble Truth 28:35
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the 1st Noble Truth in light of our human predicament.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-01-07 Closing Talk for New Years Retreat. (Catherine, Yanai, Akincano) 64:06
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Creative, Curious, Caring 60:46
Nathan Glyde
There is always a way of looking and there is always something we can do. Exploring the poetry of fabricated life, and the creative juice we can bring to our practice. Wise action supports us to include what is arising; get intimate with it; feel the space around it all; transcend the petty towards the noble; and liberate love.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-06 Looking Back And Moving Forward - A Talk For The New Year 59:18
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on an engaged response to the climate emergency and social injustice issues as an expression of dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Mind is Nature - Meditation 33:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-06 Dana Talk (Akincano and Yanai) 34:33
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-06 Mind is Nature - Talk 61:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-01-05 Cultivating Liberation 69:06
Zohar Lavie
Cultivating the wholesome qualities of heart and mind.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-05 Loosening My Attachment to the Modern World View 53:49
Catherine McGee
Whether or not I see myself as an adherent of the modern world view, how might this view be acting, nonetheless, as a default and almost invisible dogma keeping me bound in certain kinds of suffering and acting to circumscribe and limit what kind of awakening might be possible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-05 Day seven instructions - Including thoughts 55:04
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Thoughts about Thoughts 62:19
Nathan Glyde
Thoughts are seen to be ephemeral and insubstantial when we turn towards them, yet they display a considerable influence over our lives when we don't give them due attention.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-04 Citta - The Knowing Heart 1:12:57
Akincano Marc Weber
Citta s the seat of experience. References to citta in the discourses. Upadana - four forms of grasping. The vision of atammayata "unconcoctability"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Patience 47:28
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-01-04 Forgiveness - Reflections and Guided Meditation 44:31
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Sensitive And Discriminating 51:09
Catherine McGee
Introduction to Citta s a topic for contemplative practice with moods, mindstates, and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-04 Closing Talk with Ven Dhammadipa and Ayya Anandabodhi 50:50
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-04 Diving Deeply into the Ocean of Wisdom 33:57
Dhammadīpā
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Vedana Heals the View 58:53
Zohar Lavie
Dukkhā's escalation can be eased, and even fully calmed, at times, by seeing the vedanā (the underlying preference for what seems good) and bringing in conscious wisdom.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-03 JoAnna and "The Dharmettes": Staying With It (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:22
JoAnna Hardy
JoAnna and the Dharmettes: Staying With It A collaborative Dharma talk lead by JoAnna Hardy with Eugene Cash, Jozen Gibson and Devon Hase.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-03 Comptplating Mortality. 63:49
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Wise Vision, Wise Intention 60:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-01-03 Guided Compassion Cultivation 46:06
Catherine McGee
With earth below and the sky above, our heart is the meeting place for inner and outer.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-03 Samma Samadhi - Preparation for Insight 27:56
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-03 Review Of Tools - Orientation 55:43
Akincano Marc Weber
Four satipathana paradigm as a map. Instruction on meditative skills resourcing - orienting - attuning - forming intentions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Ways that Hinder and Ways that Free 1:17:18
Nathan Glyde
Looking at the five hindrances as opportunities for exploration.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat

2019-01-02 Melting the Ice Cube (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:36
Pamela Weiss
A talk about awakening as melting our habitual sense of self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-02 Taken For A Ride 61:05
Catherine McGee
Practicing knowing Vedena can save us a lot of very obvious troubles and a lot of less obvious troubles.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-02 Morning Instructions - 51:12
Yanai Postelnik
Vedana - Feeling Tone
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Compassion: Mind and Heart Together (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:43
DaRa Williams
Exploring a way to engage this practice and these times that support well-being of self and others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-01-01 Reset Your Nervous System Meditation 10:07
Amita Schmidt
I learned this meditation in 2003 from Tibetan monk, Tsoknyi Rinpoche. He affectionately called it the “French Press” meditation because he wanted us to follow the exhale breath down into the belly in the same slow way the hand held coffee maker pushed the grinds to the bottom. Now somatic therapists and researchers know that a belly breath also connects with your vagal nerve, and you can reset your nervous system with just a few of these breaths. This meditation meditation combines breathing into the belly and grounding in stillness.
Yellow Springs Dharma Center

2019-01-01 Guided Movement Practice 45:54
Yanai Postelnik
Metta - Loving kindness practice for our body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Right Effort - Regardless of How Things Work Out or Don't 31:37
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-01-01 Beautiful Attention 53:17
Catherine McGee
Morning Instruction. The place of samatha. What is contemplative attention? The co-arising of attention and the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-01-01 Awareness - Marrying the Present Moment 38:37
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Impermanence and Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:20
Eugene Cash
Reality is not static. It changes, morphs and is impermanent. As we practice we see that we can’t hold on to anything. Letting go becomes the join of simply Being
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-31 Tender Heart Practice 57:20
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2018-12-31 How To Stand In Uncertainty 39:52
Molly Swan
Being and acting with uncertainty.
True North Insight New Year's Retreat - Guelph

2018-12-31 Equanimity and wisdom 52:03
Jill Shepherd
Equanimity is highly valued throughout the Buddha's teachings. It acts as a powerful support for insight, and insight in turn, strengthens this quality of ease, acceptance, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-31 Aligning with Right Livelihood 24:12
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-31 Meditation: Being the Ocean and Opening to the Waves 26:54
Tara Brach
We can’t truly open to the waves of life unless we recognize our Oceanness, the formless awareness that is our source. This meditation begins with awakening the senses and then invites us to discover the spacious presence in the background of all experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2018-12-31 Breathing in Joy, Breathing out Joy 22:41
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

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