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2023-10-19 Metta Meditation on Loving-Kindness for Strangers 20:00
Devon Hase
Loving-kindness, or metta meditation, is a classical Buddhist technique for cultivating the warm qualities of the heart-mind. Please enjoy this twenty-minute guided meditation using phrases, images, and felt sense in wishing kindness for strangers.
Various

2023-10-18 Four Spiritual Inquiries: Finding Heart Wisdom in Painful Times 51:34
Tara Brach
When we get stuck in difficult emotions like hatred, anger and fear, we are in a trance of separation – disconnected from the whole of our inner experience, each other and the web of life. This talk explores four inquiries that help us reconnect with presence and heart. Rather than reacting with aggression or blame, these inquiries allow us to respond to our struggling world with our naturally wise and caring heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-24 Showing Up as a Joyful Responsibility 43:12
James Baraz
This moment in time is calling us to contribute what we can to bring more consciousness into the world. But rather than acting from anger or despair I believe the key is to come from love and even joy. One of my teachers calls this our "joyful responsibility."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-08-04 Sweetness, danger, escape in terms of the khandha 52:03
Ajahn Sucitto
The relative harmony of the diverse forms and energies that arise on retreat give one a sense of personal wholeness and support shared benefits.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-08-01 Moving Beyond Us and Them: Beholding Strangers as Kin 26:36
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-07-01 Anger: Training the Mind to Have Wholesome Mental States 67:39
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-06-06 Changing those Deep Patterns 26:19
Ayya Santussika
We may think that our anger, anxiety, regret, jealousy, longing, sorrow, etc. are just a part of our character, or our karma, or that they assail us and we have no control over them or the power to abandon them. In this talk, we look at how to challenge this perception and stop feeding our mental and emotional patterns.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-05-19 A Bow To Silence 33:28
Ayya Medhanandi
The spiritual path may be exceedingly long and demands nothing less than the most supreme culminating effort. But our patience and faith are radical. In every moment of pure attention, insight into impermanence and awareness of Truth shatter our delusion. Though monstrous dangers and fears assail us, we sever the shackles of worldly views and attachments with the sword of wisdom – courageous to the last frontier of illumination, Nibbana itself.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2023-01-14 Day 4 Morning Sit with Instructions: Mettā for the Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:47
Gullu Singh
Some reflections about working with the neutral person, also refetred to as the stranger or the friendly stranger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2022-12-31 Shave Your Heart 13:57
Ayya Medhanandi
Can we resolutely walk the moral high road and discover Dhamma treasures in the fertile ground of the heart? Good-will or heroic metta, will serve as our anti-inflammatory, quelling the fires of greed, anger, fear, and blame along with every other uncharitable mind state. ‘Shaving’ the heart with kindness and compassion, we ascend the mountain until there is no more mountain and no ‘one’ to climb it.
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

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