2019-12-10 Mind’s Nature Is to Be Happy 62:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We live in the sense world, but we don’t have to run out into it. We can see, hear and touch, but keep the heart collected inwardly. This gives a sense of balance and peace, an inner happiness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-10 Second Morning Instructions 45:59
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Calming bodily fabrications
Gaia House :  To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-10 Make the First Effort of the Day with Wisdom and Persistence 16:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Take the opportunity when you begin your day to turn away from unskillful states and start putting down the seeds for skillful states. Committing to precepts and recollecting Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha bring mental firmness. Breathing and chanting bring physical vitality and brightness. This builds up the reserves of wisdom and vitality to sustain you through the day.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 The Practice of Forgiveness 27:44
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-12-09 Care for the Mind – It’s Your Home 56:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Whatever we incline our minds toward will affect us. Where do I want to give my attention? Where do I want to commit my time? These are helpful reflections. The mind is our home. Practicing with themes of restraint, mindfulness and careful attention, we have a chance to brighten and purify it.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 How to Stand Back from the Stream of Mind 63:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
It can be humbling to recognize that we’re not getting the results we’re going for in practice. We cultivate 4 Dhamma factors – motivation, energy, relinquishment & investigation – to understand the stream of mind we keep getting caught in, and to develop the capacity to stand back from it.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 Guided Body Meditation 45:55
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Guided body meditation on the felt sense of presence.
Gaia House :  To Be In The World, To Be Touched By Life

2019-12-09 Monday Night Dharma Talk 60:18
Susie Harrington	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-09 The Key to Standing Meditation: Balance 23:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
If the back is not yet strong enough to sustain the sitting posture, standing offers relief. The feet, legs and ground sustain the upright posture so shoulders and upper body can relax. The key reference is balance.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-09 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of View 15:48
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
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

2019-12-09 Skillful Placement of the Mind 38:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Beginning our day, we realize the potential of the mind for confusion or clarity. We need to be quick to steer the mind towards the skillful. In puja we raise up skillful qualities of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha as images and perceptions. This establishes a tone of brightness, persistence and open-heartedness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Helpful Attitudes For Practice 49:21
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Our attitude toward practice is key.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release, Part 2 - Meditation 38:38
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release, Part 2 - Talk 51:05
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 How to Settle and Calm 43:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
When the heart can’t access its own centeredness and stability, the experience of insecurity and discomfort results. We can intentionally introduce skillful thoughts and perceptions to settle and calm the heart.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Vulnerability & Transmission 39:50
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-08 The Path to Liberation Is through Direct Experience 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There are two modes of experience, conceived and direct. Conceived experience keeps us stuck in the endless cycle of saṃsara. The way out is through direct experience. Practice with sensing the direct experience of body.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release - Meditation 37:36
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Understanding and Supporting the Heart's Release - Talk 36:05
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-08 Puja: A Purification Process 1:16:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Puja is more than just thinking and recollecting. It’s very much an embodied, vocalized, participatory practice. You don’t really think about puja, you do it. In the doing of it there’s a particular energy, a collective harmony and a collective action that has purification effects.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Preparing the Heart and Mind for Practice 63:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
An explanation of the opening rituals: what offering respect to the Triple Gem means; what the shrine offerings represent; how the precepts support our intention to train. Closes with the exhortation to make an effort with friendliness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Honoring All Life: Exploring the First Precept of Non-Harming 2:35:16
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Bob Stahl, Richard Shankman, James Baraz, Thanissara, Bob Isaacson, Patti Breitman, WIll Tuttle, Jina Shah, Tara Brach, Konda Mason, Dawn Mauricio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-06 Working with disturbance. 43:15
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-06 Lovingkindness Guided Meditation 42:57
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-12-06 Freedom from the Inner Critic 6:10:26
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-05 Just Another Ego Trip 46:16
James Baraz	Download Listen
Sometimes our shyness or concern about what others think keeps us from expressing our gifts and making as meaningful a contribution as we can. In seeing through the constructed sense of self—the understanding of Anatta—those thoughts lose their power and don’t get in the way of expressing our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention 18:55
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Part 1 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World Into Healing 55:04
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
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. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara’s new book, including pre-order links.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence 19:50
Tara Brach	Download Listen
In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Meditation 32:33
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Talk 43:18
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Worthy of Waking Up 47:13
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
a talk given to the Sierra Insight Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-04 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 10: Time 68:36
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this initial inquiry into our experience of time, we explore (1) the nature of the ordinary conditioning related to the experience of time, including how we relate to past, present, and future, how we take time to be objectively “real,” and how we learn as children to use the construction of time; (2) how the Buddha and other sages seem to experience and teach about time, including about the “timeless”; and (3) how to practice to explore and transform our conditioning related to time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Virtue 17:38
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
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

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments 1:46:26
Shaila Catherine	Listen to tracks Show 6 Tracks
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 Samyutta Nikaya (SN 45:49-90): good friends, virtue, desire, completeness of mind, view, diligence, and careful attention. This speaker series introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how developing each one can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Virtue 17:38 Download Listen Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of View 15:48 Download Listen Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Desire 22:37 Download Listen Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Self 17:22 Download Listen Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Diligence 15:42 Download Listen Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment in Careful Attention 17:16 Download Listen

2019-12-03 Quand « je » disparaît pour un moment 64:08
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-03 How Meditation Supports the Path of Awakening 34:33
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Scientists have documented some significant and measurable changes that occur as a result of meditation. But Buddhist practice is not limited to calm, pleasant, relaxing states of meditation. The liberating path includes a broad range of practices that produce a wide variety of benefits. We learn how we encounter the world of the senses; we unravel distortions of perception. We weaken defilements. We learn to let go. In this talk, Shaila Catherine points to the liberating potential of the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-03 Cultivating Compassion : Q&A and Dharma Talk 41:10
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2019-12-02 Trois portes inattendues vers le bonheur, cours 3 de 3 1:24:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-02 Monday Night Dharma Talk 64:30
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-01 Dharma Talk - Finding Peace and Stillness in Movement 52:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Path of Insight Meditation

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 2 - Meditation 34:12
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 2 - Talk 59:01
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 1 - Meditation 39:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 1 - Talk 40:42
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 La sabiduría de reconocer el sufrimiento 40:06
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
La sabiduría de reconocer el sufrimiento, una plática en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México como parte de un retiro sobre el tema de los 7 factores de la iluminación
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-01 Intimidad con la respiración 16:55
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
Intimidad con la respiración, una meditación guiada en español, ofrecido a la comunidad de Montaña Despierta en Xalapa, Veracruz, México como parte de un retiro sobre los 7 factores de la iluminación
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-01 2019 Thanksgiving Retreat : Final Day Concluding Talk : Bhante Gunaratana 1:15:40
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
Bhavana Society of West Virginia :  2019 Thanksgiving Retreat

2019-11-30 Mettapraxis im Alltag 54:43
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Unser Alltagsleben ist nicht nur Ausdruck von Metta, welches wir in der Meditation kultiviert haben, sondern auch ein grosses Praxisfeld. Metta kann im Alltag kultiviert werden in Form von Grosszügigkeit, ethischem Verhalten, freundlicher Kommunikation, aber auch durch die Art, wie wir uns selbst und die Welt betrachten - nämlich mit einem Blick für das, was gut ist und mit der Einsicht in unsere Verbundenheit mit allen Wesen.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2019-11-30 Questions and Answers 67:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2