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Dharma Talks
2022-12-14 Reflections of the Theme of Dharma, Service and Awakening 38:35
Zohar Lavie, Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Dharma, Service and Awakening (online)

2022-12-14 Where Does It Hurt? Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:58
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Earth, Awareness, and Being

2022-12-14 Talk: Practicing with Views and Beliefs 1 67:26
Donald Rothberg
Practicing with views, beliefs, opinions, and narratives is a central part of our practice (in relationship to ourselves, to others, and in the larger society and world) and was strongly emphasized in the teachings of the Buddha. In this talk, we explore how the Buddha taught on views, emphasizing four core teachings. We then inquire into what is particularly problematic in our relationship to views is the way that we potentially are reactive in relation to views--habitually grasping and pushing away with our views. We then suggest three foundational practices for working with views and beliefs. There is finally about a twenty-minute discussion period.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • The Buddha on “Views: Four Texts by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2022-12-14 Lightly Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views and Beliefs 35:59
Donald Rothberg
After some foundational mindfulness instructions, there's an invitation to track for views and beliefs when they appear, whether just for a few moments or in a more sustained way, linked perhaps with reviewing an interaction with someone or something that happened. Near the end, there's guidance to bring to mind a situation in the last few days in which there was a strong sense of a view taken and then explore the experience of holding a strong view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-12-14 The Heart's Wisdom 45:29
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Earth, Awareness, and Being

2022-12-14 Closing Comments 3:19
Ajahn Sucitto
We can practice by remembering that we participate in a global communion that has been going on for thousands of years, for our welfare and that of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana

2022-12-13 Dhamma of sharing and aspiration 31:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Through practice we form the occasion of goodness, and this occasion forms us, strengthening composure and wisdom. This is the circularity of dhamma, of the process that transcends the specific occasion of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana

2022-12-13 Craving 44:40
Kim Allen
Graduated Discourse 7
Uncontrived In This Very Life Sutta Study Class – SN 12

2022-12-13 The Four Divine Abidings (Retreat At Spirit Rock) 58:16
Ayya Anandabodhi
Opening, healing and transforming the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Earth, Awareness, and Being

2022-12-13 Mindfulness of the uncertain – everyday Bardo 50:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Remembering mindfulness is challenged when moving from retreat to an interactive domain. Attune your mindfulness to the uncertainty of life in the most basic experience of body, feeling, citta and “stuff that comes up”.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-12 Q&A 65:06
Ajahn Sucitto
00:25 Regarding rebirth or further birth, Therevadans and Tibetans seems to have very different things to say about this. Is it useless speculation to consider what happens after death? 13:17 Can you please distinguish between kilesa, asava and anutsara? 17:41 Why is consciousness likened to an illusion? 31:22 Could you please speak about the external and internal aspect of the sense fields mentioned in the satipatthanna? 36:03 I get very stirred up when I received kindness from others. What do you suggest? 41:35 You mentioned a tendency to look for open space as related to an experience as an infant of being confined in a cradle. How did that memory and understanding come up for you? 46:09 Can you remind us about mano sancetana – what it is and how it works? 53:57 Is nibanna a description of a mind in which the defilements are uprooted or is it that which does the uprooting? 55:21 Can you speak about the significance of noticing neutral sensations? Why is this useful? 56:51 Vicara and dhamma vijaya both explore an object. How are they different or similar? 1:00:18 I’d appreciate some more specific instructions about the movements and placements of hands during the bowing ritual.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-12 Dharma Talk - All Kinds of Kindness 21:22
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-12 Radiating Metta Practice 37:30
Ayya Anandabodhi
Beginning the practice of radiating metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Earth, Awareness, and Being

2022-12-12 Guided Metta Meditation 32:05
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-12 Lightly Guided Meditation, and Dharma Talk - Relating Well 38:32
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-12 Opening Talk, and Guided Practice 66:41
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Meditation Day - All Kinds of Kindness

2022-12-12 Three questions that mindfulness answers 59:31
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-12-12 Puja and recollection to enter dhamma 23:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Using ritual to wrap around the day provides a stable frame to hold the circumstantial world. Its images and resonances create a place marker (nimmita) for contemplation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-11 GM - Cultivation of Brahmaviihara 28:08
Ajahn Sucitto
These “treasures of the contemplatives” are important in the culture of gladdening the citta. In the citta’s own bounty we find what our life needs.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-11 The Mystery of Love 48:53
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2022-12-11 Mindfulness is highly relational 66:20
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-12-11 Practice for Average People 68:06
Cara Lai
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-12-11 Settling Into Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:13:43
Ayya Anandabodhi, Carol Cano, Kimber Simpkins-Nuccio, Noliwe Alexander, Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Opening instruction for "Earth, Awareness and Being" retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Earth, Awareness, and Being

2022-12-11 Puja sets the right relationship 17:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja provides a steady frame for meditation and helps to ward off dullness and stale familiarity in daily practice. Its fresh vitality undermines ingrained behaviours and attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-10 Guided equanimity. 31:22
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

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