2018-10-14 Aging Sickness and Death and the Five Daily Reflections. 58:26
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-14 Empty Mirror: Awake, Forgiving, Free 45:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Forgiveness is the greatest generosity we can give ourselves. We come to it by wisely seeing that the harm in the world, whether it originates within ourselves or others, comes from ignorance. So there is nothing to fear and nothing to forgive. We can surrender to the challenges of life which seem to overwhelm us by staying in the present moment awake and aware. And in this way we polish our hearts until they can reflect the Truth.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2018-10-14 Thinking and the Illusion of Thought - Part 2 - Talk 54:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-14 20 Day 5 Evening Puja: Wilderness Training 25:00
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We struggle for certainty and clarity, but the true orientation of Dhamma is disorientation from old maps, thereby allowing forms to arise and change with disengaged attention. Then we’re much more alert and agile. This is wilderness training.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-14 Day 2, Part 5: Guided Visualization: Practicing with Pain 26:29
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Visualization can be a supportive indirect practice. Why its helpful with pain and how to practice with it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-14 Day 2, Part 4: Guided Practice on Resistance to Pain 48:25
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-14 Day 2, Part 3: Resistance in Relationship to Pain 28:43
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Resistance to pain is natural. When pain is chronic, resistance makes the pain worse. The many forms and levels of resistance, and how to work with it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-14 Day 2, Part 2: Guided Practice: Review of Day 1 Tools 18:17
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-14 Nothing But the Truth 28:05
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Instead of holding onto what burns and pains us, uphold the truth of present moment awareness and know that freedom is in our hands. We free ourselves from unwholesome qualities. In the midst of fear, we bring up fearlessness; in the midst of resentment, we discover gratitude. We vanquish ignorance and we see wisely. Forgiveness arises in the face of what feels unbearable. This is the miracle of the practice.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2018-10-14 Thinking and the Illusion of Thought - Part 1 - Talk 43:53
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-14 Thinking and the Illusion of Thought - Meditation 27:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-14 L’art de la méditation, Rimouski 51:05
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-14 19 Day 5 Morning Instructions: Maps that Dispel Differentiation 53:22
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The Buddha expounded Dhamma using various maps. The map of the khandhā and dependent origination provide means for understanding and responding to experience without the sense of a fixed self. Meeting and relating to phenomena in the body, free from aversion and resistance, you don’t have to like it, just accept it. This is the way out of suffering.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-14 18 Day 5 Guided Meditation Intention – a Softer Effort 46:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Using intention in practice means there is a wish, a prayer, an aspiration – subtle movements of energy rather than the push of effort. If we use intention too forcefully we block receptivity. It’s up to us to determine what’s skillful at this time. Perhaps it’s the intention to relax, set aside, widen, soften. Wisdom is our guide, and effort is just to use wisdom to arrive at deeper wisdom. [8:15 Begin Standing Meditation Instructions] Translating Anatomical Descriptions into Felt Sense: We all use anatomical descriptions of the body as a sketch, but the encouragement in this meditation is to translate them into energetic or felt experiences. Beginning with physical experience, guidance is provided to sense into subtler energies and felt tones and meanings.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-14 17 Day 5 Morning Puja: Lingering 54:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Beginning our day, we make the intention to enter the Dhamma field before entering the hallucinatory field constructed of time and space. Refrain from what’s not needed, linger in what’s needed. What you linger with increases. If you linger in the world of suppositions - ‘got to do, should do’- that increases. Find out what’s truly needed and linger there.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 6: Indirect Practices for Resiliency with Pain 55:03
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Experiencing basic needs of satisfaction, meaning and connection for resiliency when living with chronic pain. Guided indirect practice for balancing nervous system with breath and hand movement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Équanimité, compassion et gratitude, Méditation guidée, Rimouski 26:36
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-13 Take the One Seat 40:52
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Have the courage, like the Buddha, to take your one seat in the world. Discover what is your truth, your stillness, and your wisdom. Be willing to embody this completely and authentically in the world.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 4: Compassion Guided Meditation 18:52
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Delusion is Not the Way Out 32:50
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for following precepts and thereby developing enough inner quiet to investigate ill-will. We begin to clearly see and understand our mind-states. This full presence enables compassion that is tireless and unconditional.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2018-10-13 16 Day 4 Evening Puja: Q&A 67:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Different ways of presenting Dhamma in Theravada Buddhism (single-pointed, ‘dry insight’; Thai forest). Are there certain thought patterns that are related to nervous energy in the body? How do you do discharge? Metta practice as cultivating non-aversive, non-contractive state rather than a doing/sending out. Clarifying the term ‘fields’. Qi Gong questions (is it normal to get so hot while practicing Qi Gong? Is it good to use wu qi for standing meditation?); Responding to sexual awareness in the presence of others. Skillfully handling trauma that are still alive. Distinction between perception and consciousness. How feelings and emotions are experienced in Samadhi. Reclining meditation
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 5: Directly Facing Pain with Compassion 32:20
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Compassion as a way to meet pain and transform suffering into agency and freedom. How compassion works, what it is and is not, and how to develop self-compassion with chronic pain
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Day 1, Part 3: Direct and Indirect Practices for Pain: Choice is Key 64:50
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
When working with pain, balance is key. Choosing where to place your attention when experiencing chronic pain helps establish equanimity. How to work with indirect practices and skillful distractions. Guided indirect practices and group reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Bringing Ease to Pain: Meditation for Pain Management

2018-10-13 Des 5 empêchements aux 7 facteurs de l’Éveil, Rimouski 61:08
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-13 15 Day 4 Qi Gong 9:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ajahn Sucitto responds to a question about how he got started with Qi Gong.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 Se libérer de l’identification, Rimouski 62:31
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-13 Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement - Part 2 1:38:29
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-13 Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement - Part 3 54:55
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-13 14 Day 4 Guided Meditation: Goodwill 23:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is moved by images that can be sparked by thought, visual, auditory or somatic/felt experience. This guided meditation accesses these portals to generate receptivity and resonances of goodwill within yourself, then spread them out.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 13 Day 4 Morning Instructions: Heart Yoga 48:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Relationship is always necessary, always there, whether with other people or with ourselves. To absorb into comfortable relationship, and clear this area from greed, hatred and fear, there has to be a lot of negotiation, the back and forth movement of disengaging, then returning again. This is true yoga of the heart. To keep the heart flexible and responsive, brahmavihārā ‘asanas’ are suggested.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-13 12 Day 4 Morning Puja: Think Short, Listen Long 22:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instruction on disengaging attention from mental contact. Disengagement allows for longer listening time. The quality of listening has a different tone – softer, more open, the ability to be with but not in. That non-engaged space allows for signs of comfort, contentment and gladness to arise. It’s not in the object but in the relationship. Keep re-establishing relationship to the chosen object.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-12 Metta, Libérer l’autre de ses jugements, Rimouski 28:22
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-12 Celebrating earth care week. 50:09
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-12 When the Trees Wither and the Leaves Fall 30:11
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Sometimes we feel torn apart by life and unable to cope. Healing may be slow to come but our meditation practice can enhance that process. If we contemplate the fearsome winds of life in such a way that we deeply understand their impermanent nature, we will also understand that they are unsatisfactory and empty of any 'self'. That will be the dawning of the heart's true peace.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2018-10-12 Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement - Part 1 1:58:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Mindful Movement Workshop: Embodiment and Freedom Through Movement with Wynn Fricke, Steve Compton, Mark Nunberg and Sarah Wilson In this two day workshop we will integrate the Buddha’s teachings on mindfulness of body with several movement practices that support mind-body integration and the deep healing and releasing of the heart. We will spend about three-quarters of our time together doing guided movement practices and one quarter discussing how to skillfully relate to body and movement.
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-12 11 Day 3 Evening Puja: Learning to Prefer Dispassion 63:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In citta’s maturing process, it goes from seeking stability and comfort in things that can never satisfy, to finding a place of dispassion. It learns that disengagement is preferable to getting fired up, disappointed, humiliated. In this letting go it finally finds the stability and happiness it has been seeking.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-12 Explorer les phénomènes humains, Rimouski 53:34
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-12 Forgiveness and Reconciliation - Friday Night Dharma and Recovery Series 2:00:51
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 Perturbations émotionnelles pendant la méditation, Rimouski 5:26
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-12 Instructions 1e matin, Rimouski 60:33
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-12 10 Day 3 Standing Meditation: Turning in Space 33:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
After settling and grounding in the standing position, Ajahn Sucitto introduces a slight movement to the posture. Gently turning in space, noticing the effects of the body moving in its energy field, making note of the mental tone – how’s that?
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-12 Oren Jay Sofer and Evan Wong - Supporting those in Pain: Mindfulness Tools for all Caregivers - Part 5 26:44
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 09 Day 3 Morning instructions: The Dhamma Field – Our True Home 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We take things personally, but the person is the result of the fields that it encounters. We get shaped by the worldly fields of the business model, of material progress, of ‘faster’ and ‘more’. When we take the Dhamma field as our true origin rather than the worldly or personal field, we access the arising of the search for truth and meaning, and of the capacities to bear with and be accepting, to experience gratitude and generosity. This is our home, and in this we are deeply resourced to meet what comes up.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-12 Oren Jay Sofer and Evan Wong - Supporting those in Pain: Mindfulness Tools for all Caregivers - Part 4 26:38
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 08 Day 3 Morning Puja: Immersion in the Dhamma Field 25:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Being immersed in worldly and personal fields is not a choice, but we can choose to immerse ourselves in the Dhamma field. In it we can meet the problematic painful field of sense contact without collapsing or blocking, but with big heart. Pūjā is an occasion for entering into that field, gaining resources, strength and happiness for the journey.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-12 Oren Jay Sofer and Evan Wong - Supporting those in Pain: Mindfulness Tools for all Caregivers - Part 3 21:56
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 Oren Jay Sofer and Evan Wong - Supporting those in Pain: Mindfulness Tools for all Caregivers - Part 2 8:54
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 Oren Jay Sofer and Evan Wong - Supporting those in Pain: Mindfulness Tools for all Caregivers - Part 1 15:24
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-12 Three Characteristics of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:25
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Exploring the three characteristics or marks of existence - anatta, anicca, dukkha. How learning to perceive these can help free us from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-11 Supports for Steadying the mind: The Jhana Factors 59:55
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
There are five factors that are supported for deepening concentration, known as the jhana factors. These factors are developed in any kind of intensive meditation practice but are particularly supportive of the development of samadhi. They also serve to counterbalance the hindrances. When the hindrances are not active, the mind and heart can be
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1