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Dharma Talks
2025-07-22 Week 3 - Meditation, Teachings 1:26:54
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Unshakeable Tenderness (online series)

2025-07-22 Metta and Vedana (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:14
Francisco Morillo Gable
The deep sensitivity of wholesome feelings in the service of loving kindness and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-22 Listening as Mindfulness Practice 12:36
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-07-22 Morning Instructions: Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:51
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-21 What Must Be Known 41:50
Shaila Catherine
In this talk, Shaila Catherine encourages meditative investigation and curiosity to know the mind well. The teaching is based on AN 6.131, that instructs meditators to know 6 things (sensual desire, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma/action, suffering) in 6 ways (the phenomena as it appears, causes/origins, diversity, outcome/effects, cessation, and way leading to cessation).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge - Shaila's talks

2025-07-21 Back from Space 11:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-21 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation – Emotions and Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:05
Rebecca Bradshaw
Connecting with the emotions and mind states with warm hearted mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-21 What Really Matters? 1:40:19
Cara Lai
The beautiful adventure of curiosity and how if we follow it, we find that everything in our experience is always calling us home to love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-20 Mindfulness of the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:04
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-20 The Parami of Patience 33:26
Eugene Cash
"Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience, constancy is a kind of dedication to what you love and what you care about, and with that dedication comes a trust that by planting beautiful seeds, eventually in their own time they will bear fruit."
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2025-07-20 Cultivating a Tone of Kindness 49:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Bringing a quality of metta or goodwill to your Insight Meditation or mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-20 Morning Session - Inner 'Parts' and the Factors of Awakening in Daily Life 1:13:40
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Liberating our Patterns of Self: ‘parts’ understanding as a support for awakening in daily life (online retreat)

2025-07-20 The Four Elements (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:26
Francisco Morillo Gable
The elements for the growth of mindfulness and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-19 What is Insight? 43:44
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners - 25EBL

2025-07-19 Mindfulness as Intimacy with All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:50
Rebecca Bradshaw
Mindfulness teaches us that we can soften into this world, touching and being touched by life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-07-19 Radically Wise Acceptance 1:19:02
Nathan Glyde
A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of bringing intentions to life. Feeling what brings more meaningfulness, checking in with how we are right now, and cultivating the release we aspire for.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2025

2025-07-19 Morning Session- Inner 'Parts' and Samadhi in Daily Life 1:27:07
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Liberating our Patterns of Self: ‘parts’ understanding as a support for awakening in daily life (online retreat)

2025-07-19 What You Know and What You Believe 68:43
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 19, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - 34:16 DHAMMA TALK 34:16 - 108:44 Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-07-19 Start with a nice day 17:08
Sayadaw U Jagara
Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-18 Clearing kamma with insightful metta 47:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-18 Elephant's Training 52:50
Sayadaw U Jagara
How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-18 Morning Instructions 28:29
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Calm and Clarity - a Seon Meditation Retreat

2025-07-17 Talk - The Seon Path in Pictures 41:47
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Calm and Clarity - a Seon Meditation Retreat

2025-07-17 The roots of good practice is 'good people' 42:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-17 Brahmaviharas in the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:04
Francisco Morillo Gable
To trust the practice of Brahmaviharas in the world to love everything unconditionally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-17 Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:21
Anushka Fernandopulle
Wishing well for all beings through using categories of beings
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-17 Morning Instructions for Arriving into Retreat 30:50
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Deepening into the Dharma: A Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners - 25EBL

2025-07-17 The Wisdom of Fire 37:33
Amana Brembry Johnson
Fire as a living being that is capable of creating wholesome transformation or devastating destruction both internally and externally
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Being Nature

2025-07-16 The Body As Earth 44:54
Amana Brembry Johnson
During these disorienting and unstable times, awareness of the Earth Element in the body offers both a refuge and a responsibility to be present for what has arisen and what is arising in our world today.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Being Nature

2025-07-16 Insights Into Perception and Equanimity 56:57
Walt Opie
In the Honeyball Sutta (MN 18), it says, "What one perceives, that one thinks about. What one thinks about, that one mentally proliferates (or complicates)." And this mental proliferation often leads to "evil unwholesome states" which can cause harm and suffering. When we bring mindfulness to the subtle realm of perception, we start to see more clearly without adding anything extra. This is where equanimity comes in, allowing us to meet life with fewer preferences and with greater mental balance.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-07-16 Discernment with regard to hindrances 44:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-16 Mettā practice and Wise Speech 63:47
Tempel Smith
The blessings of a strong mettā practice developed on retreat include how we can cultivate wise actions and wise speech when we leave retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-16 Appreciative Joy Introduction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:02
Rebecca Bradshaw
Intro to mudita and short guided intro to meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-16 Morning Instructions 29:03
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Calm and Clarity - a Seon Meditation Retreat

2025-07-16 Wisdom, Panna as the strongest tree 20:35
Sayadaw U Jagara
Climb a tree and use the perspective you get when on top. The street here is also compared with the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-16 Metta For All Beings, Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:58
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-15 Talk - The Essentials of Seon 41:18
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Calm and Clarity - a Seon Meditation Retreat

2025-07-15 Week 2 - Meditation, Teachings 68:30
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Unshakeable Tenderness (online series)

2025-07-15 Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:25
Francisco Morillo Gable
The heart full tone of equanimity in the context of a loving kindness retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-15 Don't Postpone the Good 13:16
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-07-15 Anapanasati, changing habits, clearing kamma 43:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-14 Recollections to embody joy 45:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-14 Guided Forgiveness Practice 56:14
Tempel Smith
From a base of loving kindness and compassion we can consciously aim our heart's attention into a practice of Forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-14 Body-directed mindfulness 13:21
Sayadaw U Jagara
The first of the Satipatthana practices for establishing mindfulness is the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-14 Resiliency: Grief, Equanimity, and Joy 1:50:04
Devon Hase
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-13 Sensitizing and differentiating feeling 46:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-13 Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 2—Developing Mettā To An Easy Relationship 46:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-13 Compassion Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:39
Anushka Fernandopulle
Bringing a tone of compassion to one's metta practice when encountering suffering in oneself or others
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-13 Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk 2—How We Meet Matters 41:02
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-13 Dharmette and Q&A: Investigating Thinking 30:21
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Dharmette and Q&A:Investigating Thinking by Kim Allen (PDF)

2025-07-13 Lightly Guided meditation: What Knows Thought 43:29
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat

2025-07-13 Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 2—Meeting With Appreciation 50:21
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-13 Intro and Guided Meditation: Discerning Thought 44:13
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Half-day Retreat

2025-07-13 Love in a World on Fire: The Practice of Metta in Troubled Times 1:14:24
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-07-13 Metta for Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:29
Francisco Morillo Gable
Instructions for opening the heart to neutral beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-12 Embodying spiritual faculties 46:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-12 Practicing with Challenges in Formal Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:48
Rebecca Bradshaw
The classic “five hindrances” as applied to formal metta practice. Includes the “near miss” of attached love, and “far neighbor” of aversion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-12 Living With Illness and Loss: Intro to Reflective Exercise 5:48
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-12 Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 1—Meeting Experience With Kindness and Care 44:12
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-12 Equanimity Practice Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:33
John Martin
Inviting a tone of equanimity to the practice of metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-12 Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk 1—Opening To The Whole of Life 30:44
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-12 Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 1-2—Kind Attention (guided practice) 26:09
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-12 Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 1-1—Kind Attention (intro) 30:16
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2025-07-12 Practice in the Worst of Times : Lessons from Maha Gosananda 56:55
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-07-12 Be an Island for yourself 13:08
Sayadaw U Jagara
Buddha's advice to Ananda after Sariputta's and Maha Moggallana's deaths. (SN.)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-12 Morning Instructions - Mettā (Loving Kindness) including Dear Friends 50:54
Tempel Smith
Extending loving kindness meditation from the primary practice of ourselves and a chosen easiest being, we can open at times to include any dear friend whom also easily come to mind. At this stage of practice we are inclining out mettā practice to rest where mettā is easiest. This would be any beings for whom it is easy to see the good in them, and we easily feel warmth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-11 Body Metta Awareness 67:12
Devon Hase
Reflections and Guided Meditation on Metta for the Body moving into boundless loving awareness.
Various

2025-07-11 Impermanence 17:16
Devon Hase
Brief reflections on three levels of Impermanence.
Various

2025-07-11 Deepening Samadhi 56:35
Kristina Bare
An exploration of Samadhi and its role on the overall path of Liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

2025-07-11 Energy and Patience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:46
Francisco Morillo Gable
Energy and patience for metta cultivation. From initiating effort to effortless effort with patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-11 Morning Instructions: Goodwill for Someone Easy and Yourself 50:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
Beginning the practice of metta with establishing well-wishing for yourself and someone easy to send goodwill towards.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-11 Dharma & Recovery: Step Seven: Humbly Let Go 1:17:19
Walt Opie
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2025-07-10 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra and introduction to mettā practice 27:37
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-07-10 meditation: Mettā for someone we care about 27:50
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-07-10 Turn from the senses, manage the khanda 54:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-07-10 1st Night - Why Come on a Loving Kindness retreat? 63:07
Tempel Smith
What is special about a 9-day Loving Kindness retreat? The form of Buddhist practice helps cultivate positive qualities of friendliness and kindness, it helps purify old habits of defensiveness and hostility, and it help cultivate samadhi (concentration).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-10 Morning Instructions: Metta for the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:23
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Lovingkindness Retreat

2025-07-09 Nourishing a Courageous and Steady Heart 61:03
bruni dávila
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-07-09 Evening Talk - The One and the Many 54:07
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-09 Wise Effort 56:00
Winnie Nazarko
A description of the Wise Effort step of the 8 Fold Path, how it fits into the Buddha's teachings, and examples of how to specifically apply it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

2025-07-09 Releasing Heaps & Burdens 20:18
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-07-09 Guided Yoga Session 2:00:24
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-09 Morning Instructions 39:13
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-09 Guarding the mind 21:26
Sayadaw U Jagara
Simile of the six animals, wanting to tame and understand their nature
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-08 Harmonizing With The Hindrances 59:51
Kristina Bare
How to skillfully work with the 5 Hindrances in concentration practice. Threee Strategies are discussed: Ignoring, anti-dotes, mindfulness/inquiry
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

2025-07-08 Evening Talk - Opening Our Heart 50:58
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-08 Week 1 - Introduction, Meditation, Teachings 1:38:14
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Unshakeable Tenderness (online series)

2025-07-08 Becoming the River 28:14
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-07-08 Putting Your House in Order 10:11
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-07-08 Morning Instructions 41:27
Yanai Postelnik
Includes walking meditation instructions
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-07 Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path 66:51
Donald Rothberg
For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in much of Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further. In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It’s outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-07 Evening Talk - The Eternal Smile 53:31
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-07 Guided Meditation on the Two Main Forms of Buddhist Practice, Developing Concentration and Insight (Directed by the Core Wisdom Teaching) 39:28
Donald Rothberg
We begin with brief instructions for developing samadhi (“placing together” or “concentration”), followed by basic mindfulness instructions and then guidance for working with the feeling-tone of pleasant or unpleasant, when it appears in the moderate range. We are mindful of pleasant or unpleasant and look for grasping or pushing away in some form, guided by core wisdom teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-07 Morning Instructions 38:54
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-07 GPS Meditation 13:04
Sayadaw U Jagara
Guided Perspective Suggestions - Location/Direction within ourselves
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-07-06 Love and Nature 57:44
Devon Hase
Reflections on the Brahma Viharas and Wilderness Practice.
Various

2025-07-06 The Buddha's Path 42:48
Winnie Nazarko
This talk explores various points of the Buddha's schema as they relate to a practice at a concentration retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

2025-07-06 Attending to the way of release 26:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-07-06 Evening Talk - Wakefulness, Refuge, Aspiration 51:07
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2025-07-06 Guided meditation - Attention as an exercise 20:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

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