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

2018-10-11 "Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times" 62:10
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-10-11 Un pied-de-nez à nos habitudes, Cours complet avec instructions et méditations guidées 59:50
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-11 Instructions et méditation guidée 27:26
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-11 Début de la retraite, Rimouski 38:50
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-11 Dharma Talk - With Tara & Ruth: Awakening to Racism through the Heart of Compassion 68:24
Ruth King	Download Listen
We each have the capacity for true compassion—including all beings in our heart. This requires facing the ways we create separation, holding our inner life with great kindness, and learning to recognize the vulnerability in others. This talk includes a reflection allowing us to bring these teachings to a situation in our own life where we would like to live from our full potential for love and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-11 Mettre la hache dans nos fausses perceptions 51:39
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-11 07 Day 2 Evening Puja: Don’t Follow the Bounce 63:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cultivating Dhamma involves viveka, a certain kind of disengagement primarily from thought and emotional reactivity. As these reactions are running, check their ‘bounce’ – that tendency to deflect or suppress unpleasant feeling. Emotion by itself cannot discharge, but access the emotional state in the body – the body can discharge the emotion.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 Whole Life Practice 28:48
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Gregory Kramer's 5 tenets of making the Dharma a whole life practice.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-10-11 06 Day 2 Pausing before “the Next” 8:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Transitions points are an opportunity to train one’s reflexes to return to the base – the ground as fundamental orientation. At the moment of reflexive response, pause. The reflex isn’t good or bad, just pause and check it as a habit of training. It can be helpful to rise into a bodily response rather than habit reactive responses. Whatever our intention or purpose can be more measured.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 Heart Meditation - Mudita (Joy) 34:35
Sebene Selassie	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-11 Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana 52:15
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Exploration of feeling tone and our habitual reactivity. Guided practice and explanation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-11 05 Day 2 Morning Instructions: Bear in Mind – You’re a Threesome 61:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The verbal, heart and body fields are mutually affected. Of the three, body doesn’t lie and is the one that can discharge stress. Refer to how experiences of the heart and mind arise in the body with disengaged awareness. Learn to release stress when it arises, and acknowledge the patterns of behavior that generate it. [52:00 Begin Walking Instructions] Notice the Parts that Don’t Seem to Be Doing: The whole body is walking. Some parts are doing, some are receiving – they’re part of the field of awareness and sensitivity. The parts that don’t seem to be doing are helping to discharge stress.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 04 Standing Meditation: Standing to Promote Energy Movement 17:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Use the standing form to establish alignment in an upright posture that allows energy to move through stuck places. [10:27 transition to sitting posture]
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 03 Day 2 Pāli Pronunciation 15:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ajahn Sucitto provides an overview of Pāli pronunciation to aid with chanting. [5:00 Begin Morning Chanting]
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-11 02 Day 2 Morning Puja: Recollection and Chanting 48:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We can use pūjā and chanting as a means for connecting with the heart in a meaningful way, to recollect values in a slowed down process of mind: What am I rising up to? Inclining towards? What’s important for me? The Buddhist convention is to recollect the Triple Gem – drop below personhood to something more fundamental and universal.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-10 The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:43
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
A description of each noble truth, their relationship to each other, especially the first two, and their relationship to freedom from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-10 01 Day 1 Opening: An Attitude of Practice Rather than a System 47:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Rather than rely on a system, cultivate an attitude towards practice. Systems have uses, but can eventually curtail what we’re trying to drop into. Part of the theme of this retreat is about recognizing some of the stressful systems that get built into our minds around speed and progress – and awakening out of them. [24:06 Begin Guided Meditation] Establishing Ground and Space through Breathing: We can use the body as a channel to settle the mind. Use the out-breath to ground, use the in-breath to lift. These two together give you a form with a distinct foundation and uprightness to it.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2018-10-10 Interdependence Always Arising 40:50
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-10 The Stars in Our Scars: Opening to Mystery on the Path 58:48
Sebene Selassie	Download Listen
The Buddhdharma invites us not to believe anything but to come see for ourselves: the practice transforms our lives and through practice we come to understand the power of this path firsthand. But knowing that the practice works is not the same as knowing how it works. This talk explores the truth of mystery in our practice and in our lives. It invites us to open to the mysteries of the universe as a portal to a deep faith and wisdom on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-10 Meeting it All - Contact, Curiosity, Care 43:07
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin looks at these Curiosity qualities as both inherent qualities of awareness, and qualities we can support and cultivate in each moment, whether in meditation or daily activity, in silence or in communication.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-10 Thoughts are not the enemy of meditation (Exploring the field of the mind) (Retreat at Spirit Rock 36:10
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Practicing awareness of thoughts. Explanation of the relationship we can have to mind objects. Befriending the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-10 Morning Reflection: 4th Domain of Mindfulness – Mindfulness of Dharmas/Truths 12:14
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring how we can ground our practice in mindfulness of the truth of the way of things…the truth of the natural laws.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-10 How to Be Sick - Guest speaker Toni Bernhard 2:00:26
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-10-10 Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:19
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Learning about what is true about our loves. Practicing on retreat and what we can learn.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-09 Une pratique non-imposable, Instructions et méditation guidée 26:39
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-09 L’ainsité, c’est ainsi 62:33
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-09 Liberation Through Understanding The Three Marks Of Existence 59:37
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
A full understanding of the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self can lead to wisdom and liberating the mind from mental defilements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-09 La telléité ou les choses telle qu’elle sont 60:18
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-09 Inhabiting the Fields of Experience 42:14
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk looks at expanding fields of presence, exploring the composites of experience (khanda) through inhabiting the 'body-field', the 'citta-field' and a whole, or all-inclusive field of experience.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-09 3rd Domain of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Mind 1:19:07
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring mindfulness of the mind from the perspective of our experience of the transformation and relinquishment of affective states of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-09 Transforming Reactivity in Everyday Life 54:05
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look at "reactivity" as a non-literal "translation" and clarification of the nature of dukkha, and examine, through a talk and discussion, a number of ways to practice when reactivity or dukkha arises. We remember the Buddha's teaching: "I have taught one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the cessation of dukkha.”
Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

2018-10-09 Attention to the Body 27:52
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Anchoring attention in the field of the body. Retreat day 1 instructions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness and Heartfulness for Insight and Liberation

2018-10-09 The Exertion That Brings Confidence 42:29
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-08 Not Self and Selfing 62:12
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
We can start to understand the teaching on not-self (anatta) by getting familiar with the experience of the sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-08 4e cours d’introduction à la méditation, mardi midi 1:20:43
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-08 Karma - Week 4 - Talk 27:56
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
This recording begins 10 minutes into the talk due to a microphone issue.
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-08 Karma - Week 4 - Chant and Meditation 30:02
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-08 Practice in Painful Times - Monday Night Dharma Talk 60:48
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-08 Morning Reflection: 2nd Domain of Mindfulness – Mindfulness of Feelings/Vedana 11:36
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring the freedom that is available with a clear and present mindful awareness of the ‘feelings’ of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-07 The Dance Of Faith And Wisdom 53:38
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2018-10-07 Worrier Pose – Finding Freedom from the Body of Fear 59:35
Tara Brach	Download Listen
While fear is a natural part of our make up, many of us suffering when the “on” button gets jammed. This talk looks at how our fears generate habitual patterns of physical tension, anxious thinking, emotions and behaviors; and how this constellation prevents us from inhabiting our full wisdom and love. We then explore two interrelated pathways of healing—unconditional presence, and resourcing, or cultivating access to safety and belonging (from the 2018 IMCW Fall Retreat).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 Vipassana or Insight Meditation and Instruction: A Path of Practice from Retreat 31:15
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2018 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-10-07 The Dharma and the Drama 43:18
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin explores the meaning of dharma as Nature. What would it be like to meet all our experience as natural? To let in all that arises so as to meet and explore the whole of experience. And what of the drama that we generate? Maybe, the more we can make room for our inner dramas, the less hold they might have over us.
Gaia House :  Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2018-10-07 Earth Care 2018 40:06
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-10-07 Wholesome and Unwholesome Intention - Talk 57:51
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Wholesome and Unwholesome Intention - Meditation 30:33
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-07 Soften with Compassion Guided Meditation 21:50
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-07 Cultivating a Mind Fit for Action 62:55
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni	Download Listen
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-10-07 Humility and Authenticity of the Present Moment - Talk 40:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series