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2019-12-16 Q&A 1 60:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Samatha and vipassanā; dullness and hindrances; samādhi for lay people; witnessing cruelty; awareness and mindfulness
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-16 Loving the World | Monday Night talk 45:03
Jack Kornfield
Winter Solstice and finding inner light in times of darkness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-16 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Self 17:22
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-16 Morning Instructions - What If There Were Only Four Ways 57:16
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-16 Meditation: Loving the World | Monday Night 23:16
Jack Kornfield
Loving Kindness Meditation for the World
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-16 Refreshing the Art of Sitting 39:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding the right posture when sitting can open up the belly and the chest. Safety is sensed in the belly, receptivity in the chest. When the body is relaxed the mind is happy in its own presence – this is samādhi.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Guided Meditation On Compassion 29:35
Jeff Haozous
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing, Part 2 - Meditation 32:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing, Part 2 - Talk 55:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Sañña and Saṇkhāra Lead to Saṃsāra 67:35
Ajahn Sucitto
A description of the cycle of saṃsāra, from contact, to feeling, to perception (sañña), to habit reaction (saṇkhāra). We remain stuck in this cycle of rebirth. The way out is direct experience at the point of feeling. Unpleasant feeling is discharged through the body.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 What We Attend To And How 58:57
Pascal Auclair
... to find freedom from suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-15 Orientation and Instructions 63:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Opening instructions to start the retreat: set aside destructive influences, put forth an attitude of kindness and sensitivity, give attention to direct experience.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Suggestions on Positions and Comfort 5:29
Ajahn Sucitto
We have to support the limitations of this body. Don’t add the unnecessary stress of expecting to keep completely still during meditation. Move the body, sense the whole body, take deep breaths, relax.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Using the Food Offering Skillfully 12:53
Ajahn Sucitto
The meal offering provides an opportunity for practice. We practice to generate skillful qualities, to restrain the sense faculties, and to find balance in our actions.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 How to Cultivate Samādhi in Walking Meditation 17:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Walking meditation supports the mind to come to a very balanced state. Let unskillful states and attitudes steam off as you walk. What’s left is something bright, warm and comfortable. Let the mind rest in that.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing - Meditation 36:26
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Summarizing the Buddha's Instructions for Mindfulness and Breathing - Talk 39:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-15 Mindfulness Of The Body 51:03
Bonnie Duran
Skin, flesh, and bones body scan.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Metta: Guided Meditation 29:41
Rachel Lewis
Defination of Metta; practicing with receiving Metta from benefactors and offering it to self and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Just Sweep it all Out 46:51
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2019-12-14 How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering 55:40
Bonnie Duran
How Mindfulness Transforms Suffering with what we view, how we view it and in what view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Opening into Allness 4:47:56
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-13 Retreat Opening Session - With Pascal Auclair, Jeff Houzous, and Rachel Lewis 69:18
Bonnie Duran
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-13 Authentic Love 39:59
JoAnna Hardy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-13 The Brahma Viharas. 44:02
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-13 Holy Days 41:10
Pamela Weiss

2019-12-13 Sīla – A Vehicle for Happiness 33:39
Ajahn Sucitto
When we make the intention to keep the precepts, we give ourselves the possibility to steer our own lives rather than being swept up in it. The basic principle is not fear and law but sensitivity and concern. We have the intention to live in an atmosphere of goodwill and respect for all sentient beings.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-13 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 2:02:43
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-12 Letting Go Of Busyness 54:01
Kate Munding
An appropriate topic for this time of year. Many subthemes fall under this theme, such as how to be mindful of abundance and scarcity, feeling connected with others, and the nourishment of renunciation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-12-12 I Return My Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:13
Cara Lai
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-12 Patient and Loving Acceptance 68:31
Ajahn Sucitto
The body is much more than an idea, it’s something that’s here for us. With patient and loving acceptance we can clear disturbances from the body and experience a pleasant and steady abiding here and now.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-12 Day 3 Afternoon Session: Metta Practice- Instructions for Forgiveness Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:58
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-12 Fourth Morning Instructions 52:43
Nathan Glyde
All sense contact met with kindness.
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-12 Skillful Means in the Cultivation of Wisdom 61:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Wisdom is a natural feature of the mind. With its cultivation comes the ability to discern skillful from unskillful. But just knowing things are unskillful doesn’t stop the mind from doing it, we have to develop skillful means. We use mindfulness to be able to see through ignorance and stand back from the unskillful pulls of mind.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Emotional Stability 64:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-11 Day 2 Dharma Talk: Metta, Restlessness, Fear, Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:29
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-11 Gratitude for Earth, Water, Fire and Air 53:08
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-12-11 Part 2 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World into Healing 53:08
Tara Brach
Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-11 Dharma Talk - The Meeting of Wellbeing 47:06
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-11 Instructions and Guided Meditation 27:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-11 Meditation as Re-education 66:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Modern modes of attention, information and meaning-making cut us off from our natural intelligence. Mindfulness of body and breathing puts us back in touch with the tonality, naturalness and rhythm of embodied intelligence. We use this way of meditation to re-educate us.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Q&A 58:59
Ajahn Sucitto
1) What is citta? 2) Regrets, how to forgive oneself 3) How to practice appamano states in everyday life (mudita, equanimity) 4) How to work with obstructive mind-states (judgmental, not good enough, lonely, regretful, hopelessness) 5) How to practice reclining meditation 6) Headaches in certain mind-states
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 Morning Instructions: Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:56
JoAnna Hardy
Settling in the first foundation of mindfulness using breath, body and sound
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: A Metta and QiGong Retreat

2019-12-11 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Desire 22:37
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-11 The Gentle and Harmonious Tonality of Puja 16:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning the day with puja, a certain tonality is established. Not the abrasive, pushy, congested one of modern day, but something beautiful, timeless, gentle and steady. As we enact puja, we establish the Triple Gem as a heart quality that we can sit within. This is our refuge place.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-11 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 11: Time 2 63:00
Donald Rothberg
Following last week’s initial inquiry into our experience of time, and, for many, a week of practice related to time, we explore (1) further aspects of the nature of the ordinary conditioning related to the experience of time, bringing some of our own findings as well as material from philosophy, physics, and psychology; (2) some further material on how the Buddha and other awakened beings teach about time and the timeless; and (3) several main practices that help us to explore and transform our conditioning related to time, including developing mindfulness in the moment, opening to “flow” states, and exploring impermanence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-11 Title: Guided Meditation Exploring Our Experience of Time 39:06
Donald Rothberg
Guidance generally on mindfulness practice, followed by guidance on several ways to explore time, including being in the present moment, noticing patterns to time, and opening in different ways to the impermanence of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-10 Power Of Balance 35:19
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine suggests that everyone is responsible for their own state of balance. She explores several practical areas for cultivating a balanced approach to practice including: aligning the body posture with the force of gravity, recognizing how mindfulness brings a balanced relationship to sensory experiences, and cultivating a non-reactive attitude toward both pleasant and unpleasant feelings. We learn to quickly restore our emotional balance whenever we find ourselves entangled in stories or personal dramas. We refine our ability to apply balanced effort in the way that we engage with meditation. And we continuously refine the powerful balance in the meditating mind by perceiving how the five spiritual faculties and the seven awakening factors are affecting our attention and understanding.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-10 L’équilibre mental 52:29
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-10 Guided Meditation: Heartful Sympathy for All Beings 42:01
Ajahn Sucitto
This guided meditation touches into a fundamental quality that arose with the Buddha’s final realization – anukamapa, heartfelt sensitivity and sympathy for the welfare of sentient beings. We practice by generating perceptions and relating directly to the resulting experience.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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