2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 55:44
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional refuge ritual, we engage together in bringing alive these pathways to healing and peace. (Note: Includes Refuges string tying ceremony and chanting the Refuges at end) St. Teresa of Avila says, “Only at the shrine where all are welcome will God sing loud enough to be heard.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 64:24
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Going Forwards 49:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on "object" relation. e.g. insight or serenity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-08 Finding Reference in Ground, Space and Rhythm 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta only experiences perception and feeling. We can cultivate skillful perceptions of ground, space and rhythm that result in comfort and ease.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-08 Being a Friend to Everything 2:05:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-07 Letting Go 38:31
Leslie Booker	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2020-01-07 The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 1:42:55
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-07 Citta and the Khandhā 37:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The paradigm of practice is discerning skillful from unskillful heart states. We begin to turn away from the states that entangle the heart, and learn to linger in wholesome qualities. Skillful states always carry the mark of freedom.
Cittaviveka :  Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-07 Closing Talk 53:36
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Closing reflections for a nine day New Year retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-07 Morning Instructions 15:21
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Adaptation of Thich Nat Hann's Metta instructions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-07 Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths 2:46:38	Listen to tracks Show 4 Tracks
with Carla Brennan, Lisa Dale Miller, Shaila Catherine, Toni Bernhard
No one wants to suffer, and yet stress is everywhere in our lives. After the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree, the first thing he talked about was how to find true happiness. He described four wise ways you can work with your mind in the midst of ordinary and meditative experiences, popularly known as the Four Noble Truths. You can (1) comprehend your suffering; (2) abandon its causes; (3) realize that it is possible to end suffering; and (4) follow the path that leads to its end. Practicing this path, you will become free—not by avoiding what is unwanted, but by developing a wise relationship to your mind and all the myriad conditions by which it manufactures stress.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
Suffering and Its End 46:32 Shaila Catherine Download Listen

2020-01-06 Ceremony For Aspirations 1:17:46
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
20 minute refelections on New Years aspirations plus ceremony
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-06 The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) 69:47
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-06 How Turtles Find Their Way Back Home 47:40
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Turtles and magnetic fields. Planes of existence and rebirth. Rahula's and Buddha's instructions on four elements and Brahma Vihara, before practicing breath meditation (ānāpāna)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2020

2020-01-06 Monday Night Dharma Talk 63:04
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-06 Last Morning Instruction: Review and the 4th Foundation Of Mindfulness 53:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Mindfulness of dharma qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Climate Emergency Dharma 2020 67:28
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on the climate and ecological crisiss we face, and my involvement in non-violent civil disobedance with Extintion Rebellion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Meditation 30:03
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Talk 57:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) 1:26:23
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-05 Guided Meditation On Equinimity 42:09
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
How to bring the mind to more balance and ease in the face of challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Meditation 32:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Talk 45:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Morning Instructions - Attention, Awareness and Presence. 53:09
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 The Simile of the Mountain or Good Compost for Evolution 32:29
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Freeing Ourselves From Anxiety About Non-Perfection 54:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We can easily believe that perfection truly exists and if we can work hard enough we may reach it, until we see the pain in our striving and let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) 1:19:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-04 Guided Metta Meditation With Metta Mudra 44:21
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 Meditation Instructions 52:45
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
3rd foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 This Precious Life 28:28
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma Talk on the precious opportunity we have for practice - reflecting on the Five Indriya as a support for the Path.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Breathing into the Heart Space 7:32
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Guided metta meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 What is Panna (Wisdom)? 23:09
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-03 Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching on Intention 57:50
James Baraz	Download Listen
As we start the New Year we explore Wise Intention, the basis of all karma and the second link of the 8-Fold Path. Clarifying your Intention is different from making a New Year's Resolution or going for a goal. It's what gives energy and power to our vision for practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2020-01-03 Gratitude & the Flowering of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-03 Living In Rental Accomdation: Contemplating Impermance 61:57
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-03 Like Any Other Day Edited 38:33
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
This talk has been edited for clarity.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-01-03 The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) 1:34:18
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-03 18 Movements Qi Gong (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 35:07
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Full sequence of shibashi 18 movements Qi Gong. You can access the sequence online at commongroundmeditation.org/qi-gong-movements/
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-03 Guided Compassion and Forgiveness Meditation 46:00
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-03 Day 5 Morning Instructions 55:11
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Bare attention and disengaging from story-making.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2020-01-03 Put the Fearful Mind in the Cradle of Loving Kindness 34:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-02 A Merciful Attention 58:53
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
We could all use a little mercy now!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-02 Jhanas and Insight 1:36:13
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-02 4th Day Morning Reflections and Instructions 55:52
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Working with vedana - "hedonic tone"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-02 Every Meditation is an Act of Faith 45:51
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma reflection on Going Forth into the practice.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-01 The Determination of Caterpillars 54:02
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Finding Freedom and its Natural Unfolding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-01 Developing The Five Spiritual Powers 56:15
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Once we strengthen the qualities of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom, this empowers us on the path to greater awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-01 Q&A Emotions: Awareness/Delusion:Insight : Masculine/Feminine : Sense-of-Self : Porridge-itself-has-no-taste 48:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-01-01 Heart Practice -- Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:05
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat