2018-12-25 From suffering to ease 48:13
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
As the arc of practice develops from releasing suffering, dukkha, towards greater happiness, sukha, we often encounter conditioning that gets in the way of opening to deeper ease and freedom. The brahmavihara practice of mudita, appreciative joy, can be a support for releasing that conditioning.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-25 Let This Mind Be in You, a Christmas Message 49:32
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center, Hendersonville, NC. https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/ https://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/retre... Embracing Simplicity Hermitage http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/esm/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-12-24 Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Permanent 22:11
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on impermanence. This is the third part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-12-23 Taking Refuge in Skillful Action - Talk 43:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Dharma Leadership Training

2018-12-23 Taking Refuge in Skillful Action - Meditation 34:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-21 Guided metta mediation with a brief introduction. 41:19
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-20 Closing Meditation And Guidance 39:10
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Suggestions for coming out of retreat and taking the practice home.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-20 Effort, Heart, and Anti-Fragility 36:26
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-12-19 Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence 18:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-19 Three Core Capacities in Loving Fully 36:58
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
This talk looks at three ways of awakening our hearts—seeing goodness, feeling appreciation as a bodily experience, and expressing our care. We are then guided in developing each of these capacities by focusing our attention on someone we care about, with whom we’d like to experience our full potential for loving.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-19 End of Year Reflection 21:06
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-12-18 Introduction To Insight 49:21
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Including an overview of the three universal characteristics.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-18 Suffering and self-compassion 52:18
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of the first noble truth, and how self-compassion supports our capacity to turn towards life's difficulties with kindness and courage.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-18 Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light 64:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We use six metaphors for darkness to suggest ways to orient our practice, both in general and here at the time of the Winter Solstice. We look at darkness as stopping (like the earth), as being with the difficult and painful, as not knowing (and being with the mysterious), as opening to the shadow, as generative and fertile (like the earth), and as luminous.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight Meditation Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the dark and inviting the light

2018-12-17 L’équanimité 1:24:22
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-17 Insights to Live By 44:50
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-17 Different Ways of Seeing Our Experience: Not Personal 25:06
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on how experience is not personal. This is the second part of a three part series on the three characteristics or three ways of seeing our experience.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-12-17 Guided Metta to All Things 41:37
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-17 The Marvelous Bodhisattva Vimalakirti: A story of entering all the realms with an awakened heart. - Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:16:22
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-17 Instructions - Anatta, Non-Identification 49:11
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Anatta - Beyond Fixed Views 47:27
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Guided Meditation - Mudita 42:53
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Awareness of Feeling Tone - Talk 40:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-16 Awareness of Feeling Tone - Chant and Meditation 33:59
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-16 Instructions - Vedana 54:21
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Beginning Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:19
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Posture, Anchor, General Awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-15 Faith: The Seed of Enlightenment 1:12:19
Spring Washam	Download Listen
An inspiring talk on the power of faith. How to carry a lamp in the darkness. (includes Teja on guitar and chanting)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-15 Everything is a Teaching 65:41
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Guided Metta to Neutral and Challenging Relationships 42:53
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Instructions - Meeting the Breath as Energy 1:12:25
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-15 Radiating Metta for All Beings 43:57
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
A metta practice that uses visualization and an energetic felt sense of metta, rather than phrases.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-14 A Path of Metta and Insight 44:48
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-14 Dukkha and disturbance. 49:52
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  December 5 - 31, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-14 Guided Metta to an Easy Relationship, and Oneself 42:45
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva

2018-12-14 Guided Metta to an Easy Relationship, and Oneself 42:45
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-14 Dharma and Recovery 2:01:21
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-14 Instructions - A Full Embodied Breath 62:30
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-13 Questions From The Retreat 68:34
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-12-13 Family, Celebrating, Connections and Friends 59:23
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-12-13 Reflections on Karma and Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:02
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
Reflections on Karma and Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-13 Metta for the Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:05
Erin Selover	Download Listen
Day 3 Instructional Sit
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-12 Meditation: Aware and Alive 19:59
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that includes, and gives rise to this entire creation. Opening in this way allows for homecoming to wholeness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-12 Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 51:25
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives - includes working with sleep issues.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-12 Instructions and Guided Meditation 28:55
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-12 Joy 57:53
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-12 The Liberating Aspect of the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:26
Vinny Ferraro	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love-A Metta and Qigong Retreat

2018-12-12 Nothing Whatsoever is Worth Clinging To 50:14
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-12-12 How Suffering Happens 51:35
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2018-12-12 Practicing with the Darkness of Our Time 2 65:13
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue exploring a number of ways to “practice with darkness.” We first review of some of the themes explored last week, including understanding practicing with the darkness in terms of (1) stopping, (2) being with the difficult or painful, (3) not knowing, and (4) how the darkness is generative and fertile. We then examine the themes of the “shadow” (both individual and collective”) and how darkness can be luminous, with reference to the experience of the “Dark Night” first spoken of by St. John of the Cross.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-12-12 Grounding Our Practice 38:38
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students