2018-11-13 The River, the Cage & the Horse, Netherlands Retreat 55:37
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-12 The 7 Factors of Awakening. 62:35
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk describes how one can develop certain "mental factors" which lead to awakening. Mindfulness initiates a beneficial cycle which does so.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-12 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:16:43
Ruth King	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-12 12 Nourishing the Citta 47:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Creating a feedback loop to keep citta refreshed and nourished strengthens our ability to meet the uncomfortable. This can’t be done through the virtual realm of the intellect; take time every day to touch into bodily presence without adjusting anything or turning away. That steady presence becomes the place of regeneration and refreshment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 1 53:23
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of the first establishment of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention part 2 35:20
Kim Allen	Download Listen
The intention of Renunciation or Letting Go. Questions and responses.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention Part 1 66:01
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Introduction to practicing with Intention. The intentions of non-ill-will and non-cruelty.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 11 Q&As 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Q1: ways of strengthening the citta; Q2 31:37 How can one best work with the citta? Q3 34:01 What is the relationship of intuitive awareness to the citta? Q4 36:56 Could you say something more about the sacred? Q5 40:10 greed and aversion – are they two sides of the same coin? Can one exist without the other? Q6 46:46 What is animita (signless) samādhi as opposed to nimitta samādhi or jhāna?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 10 Weaning the Citta from Clinging 63:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The habit of clinging stems from a search for safety and security, yet we cling to that which can never provide security. It’s not easy to give up clinging, so an inner strengthening is required – energetically, psychologically and emotionally.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 09 Guided Meditation: Feeling Grounded and Safe in the Space 40:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Before reviewing the themes that present themselves to us in meditation, we need the support of safety and ground. Guidance is provided to establish center, ground and safety in this embodiment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 08 Resourcing the Faculty of Heart, Our Responsive Capacity 58:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Phenomena that are mutable, not solid, and dependently arisen become experienced as fixed and solid by unconscious grasping and holding on. The relationship is then one of fixation. A more mature relationship is not based on eliminating displeasure but on responsiveness and flexibility. With practice one can feel comfortable with things that are uncomfortable.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 2 of 2 6:59:52
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-10 Being Somebody and Being Nobody 51:57
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-10 To Dare the Impossible 57:24
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-10 07 Intention - a Property of Citta 31:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-10 06 Walking Instructions: Human Bodies Walk Like This 12:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: A Moving Balance

2018-11-10 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 1 of 2 6:48:07
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-09 Life Of The Buddha - The Heavenly Messengers 56:50
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-09 Anapanasati Sutta 57:40
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma II, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 55:12
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Q&A, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 16:13
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Investigating Human Nature, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 42:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Freeing Metta, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 29:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma I, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 61:07
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Morning Instructions, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 44:20
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Changing Values, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 10:10
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 05 The Wisdom Faculty 52:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The search for happiness, security and steadiness binds us in a tangle of stressful and unsatisfactory experiences – because we’re looking in the wrong place. Wisdom/discernment helps us detangle and discern what to set aside and what is worth bearing in mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-09 Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 2 1:19:55
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Second of a 3-session class looking at situations where people ask the Buddha a question.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 Tenderness Practice 52:39
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 Meditation sit with some spaces in between before the Dharma talk. 50:00
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 The Six Realms 40:48
Kim Allen	Download Listen
A way to understand and practice with difficult (reactive) emotions
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 04 Calm and Discernment Work in Tandem 20:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Discernment helps filter from the amalgam of experience what’s skillful now. Having picked up what is skillful one lingers in it, dwells in it, sustains it. This is calming. So skim off stressful habits of “trying to make it work”, “getting on to the next”. Use the body to learn what the mind is happy to linger in.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-08 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence 37:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha--Individual and Collective 1:24:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the core teaching of the Buddha; he says, "I teach one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the end of dukkha." We examine how we can understand and practice this teaching in terms both of individual and collective dukkha, especially understanding dukkha as reactivity.
Asheville Insight Meditation

2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 19:52
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Part 2 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion 54:58
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for others. They look at the blocks to compassion and accessible powerful practices that awaken the full wisdom and tenderness of our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Contemplating Conventions and The Four Noble Truths 40:04
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-11-07 02 Going for Refuge - Reorientation of Citta 58:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
What is it that we need to take Refuge from? The poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that mask themselves and corrupt our hearts and minds. This requires reorienting from worldly ways and orienting around what has value and meaning, that which you can trust: virtue, embodiment, nature and other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 01 Setting up the Relational Context of Dhamma 22:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Four compass points to orient around while on retreat: how you relate to the earth, to other people, to your body and to the sacred; an explanation of pūjā – recollections and making offerings, as with the offering of food.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Courage as the Buddhist Equivalent of Hope 2:06:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-11-06 The Bridge of Sangha, Taking the Sacred Home With You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:50
Noliwe Alexander	Download Listen
It's one thing to cultivate awakening, it;s another thing to stay woke, fierce tenderness, we are the ones we have been waiting for, practicing for 7 generations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-06 The Miracle Of Awakening 32:04
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-11-06 Stinkin Thinkin 50:18
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-06 Day 6: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:22
Thanissara	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-05 Mixing Things In 54:45
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha describes Wise Effort in specific ways. But we have our own particular ideas of what we want to accomplish. How to practice"when worlds collide?"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 Contemplating Citta - Mind States 43:15
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  November Solitary

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Chant and Meditation 29:22
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Talk 39:55
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Guided Standing Meditation 22:18
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 The Deepest Holding is the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:41
Erin Treat	Download Listen
Waking up together, personal and collective awakening, eve of election day, the dispassion that can hold the fullness of what and who we are, divesting from grasping.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation