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Dharma Talks
2023-06-19 Guided Meditation 20:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-03 Earth Meditation 24:27
Ayya Santussika
Guided meditation on the earth element, internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-05-17 Guided Meditation 26:08
Alan Lewis
Working with awareness and change.
Gaia House Exploring What Is

2023-05-16 Taking Responsibility for Well Being - Guided Meditation 14:56
Mark Nunberg
Taking Responsibility for Well Being - Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2023-05-14 Realization & Actualization Are Intertwined | Reflection & Guided Meditation 25:34
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2023-05-07 Guided Meditation 21:32
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils (online retreat)

2023-05-07 Recognizing the Good - Guided Meditation 23:56
Mark Nunberg
Recognizing the Good - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-05-06 Shifting Attention From Thought to Feeling Tone 21:25
Laura Bridgman
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils (online retreat)

2023-05-03 Meditation: Embodying Acceptance and Care 15:53
Tara Brach
This guided meditation helps us cultivate a friendly relationship with our experience. Using the image of a smile, we bring a gentle presence alive in our bodies, and then open to the heartspace that includes all facets of life. The meditation closes with a verse from poet, Dorothy Hunt, “Peace is this Moment Without Judgment.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-03 Guided Meditation 21:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Sage Institute

2023-05-03 Guided Meditation 20:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-04-23 Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation 29:53
Mark Nunberg
Introduction to the Three Characteristics - Week 10: Emptiness as a Skillful Support for Letting Go of Attachments - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-04-19 Guided Meditation - Sitting 17:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Palilai Buddhist Temple :  Deepen Your Practice

2023-04-16 Guided Meditation - Managing the not doing of things 19:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-04-12 Meditation: Shining a Light on Limiting Beliefs with RAIN (12:18 min.) 19:45
Tara Brach
The Buddha taught that if your mind is captured by the fear and misunderstanding of limiting beliefs, “trouble will follow you as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.” In this brief guided meditation, we’ll use the RAIN practice (recognize-allow-investigate-nurture) to bring the light of awareness on the beliefs that may be blocking us from an open and free heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-09 Getting Ready to Take It On 28:09
Ayya Santacitta
Afternoon Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2023-04-08 Guided meditation - Awareness and attention 13:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Vimutti Buddhist Monestary :  Vimutti Retreat

2023-04-08 Settling into Metta 29:32
Ayya Anandabodhi
Morning Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Embracing Change, Mastering Letting Go

2023-04-05 Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence (19:57 min.) 19:56
Tara Brach
The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of sensations, feelings, thoughts and sounds, and discover the boundless awareness that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-04-01 Afternoon Guided Meditation 28:06
River Wolton
Mettā for another and oneself, expanding to all phenomena.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion

2023-03-30 Afternoon Guided Meditation 28:29
River Wolton
Opening to a field of friendliness; vagus nerve soothing practice; warmth towards another being and oneself.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Compassion

2023-03-19 Guided Loving-Kindness Meditation 24:59
Ajahn (Ven.) Canda Bhikkhuni
London Insight Meditation Venerable Canda – “Preparing the Mind for the Natural Breath”

2023-03-19 Introduction to the 3 Characteristics -- Week 6: How Does Tranquility Support Insight 29:56
Mark Nunberg
Introduction to the 3 Characteristics -- Week 6: How Does Tranquility Support Insight - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-03-04 Guided meditation 21:07
Jake Dartington
London Insight Meditation Jake Dartington – The Spiritual Faculties (Indriyas)

2023-02-25 The Taste of Freeness Guided Meditation 25:12
Martin Aylward
London Insight Meditation Martin Aylward – A Free Life in a Constrained World

2023-02-12 Guided Meditation 18:03
Ajahn Sucitto
From New Zealand
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams

2023-02-06 Embodied Presence Meditation | Monday Night 22:40
Jack Kornfield
Jack offers a flowing guided meditation helping us skillfully move past the thoughts, emotions, and images of the mind, and into a state of stillness, spacious loving awareness, and relaxed embodied presence. "The invitation of meditation is to come into the present, to quiet the mind, to open the heart, to find an embodied presence and loving awareness." – Jack Kornfield This meditation was originally live-streamed by Spirit Rock for the Monday Night Dharma Talk on 2/6/2023.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-01-29 Below the Waves Meditation 8:26
Amita Schmidt
A unique vertical, guided meditation for dropping below your thinking, to the body breathing, and then to awareness itself. This meditation is unique in that it doesn't try to stop thinking, but includes it as part of a vertical awareness of your whole being, here now.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2023-01-15 Guided Meditation - Aspects of Puja 23:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka 2023 Online Dhamma Streams

2023-01-15 Awareness, Clear Comprehension, and Wisdom 27:38
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2022-12-09 Guided Meditation - Death Contemplation (Ajahn Jivako) 26:59
Ajahn Amaro
Led by Ajahn Jivako
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-09 Q&A with Ajahn Jivako 22:19
Ajahn Amaro
00:34 Q1 Can you give some examples of non-formal practice through the day. 06:23 Q2 What is helpful in practicing walking meditation? 11:40 Q3 Why do we practice walking when we have sitting meditation? 12:46 Q4 Why is it that the object of meditation has to be something of the body? Could it be a rock for example? 13:37 Q5 When I meditate I hear a loud inner sound, the breathing, heat beat and blood pumping and body movements. It’s difficult to concentrate on any one thing. 16:03 Q6 Is stream entry a deeper flow state or something completely different? 16:23 Q7 How can we differentiate between skilful and unskilful doubt. 19:00 Q8 In the guided meditation you led us inside where we were resting somewhere. Are there any creative techniques to access that? 20:21 Q9 When you asked us to look for the person /that who is aware. Commonly this is supposed to be usually in the head right? Can it be outside the body and are there ways to access that? 21:36 Q10 You mentioned you were from New Hampshire. Is that attached to Ajahn Amaro?
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-09 Guided Meditation with Ajahn Jivako 26:59
Ajahn Amaro
Led by Ajahn Jiviko
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-08 Guided Meditation 29:46
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-07 Guided Meditation - Sound of Silence 26:25
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-12-05 Guided Meditation Instructions 26:18
Ajahn Amaro
Deer Park Institute :  Sakkāydițțhi — ‘Self-View’, the First Obstacle to Enlightenment

2022-11-23 Meditation: Touching Peace 21:56
Tara Brach
This guided meditation offers a pathway to quieting our mind and calming anxiety. We begin with long deep breathing, and with the breath, engage the image of a smile and relax through the body. Then we practice resting in relaxed awareness, allowing waves of thoughts, feelings and sensations to come and go.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-22 Advice to the Dying: Don’t Cling to Anything 22:04
Shaila Catherine
This guided meditation offers a comprehensive training in non-attachment and letting go. The instructions list various objects and perceptions that one might be attached to, and recommend that we train ourselves to not cling to each item. Shaila Catherine shares the advice that Venerable Sariputta offered to the lay disciple Anathapindika on his deathbed. It is essentially a reading of the discourse of Advice to Anathapindika (Middle Length Discourses 143) with some comments.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2022-11-19 Guided meditation developing the Jhana qualities 21:56
Christina Feldman
London Insight Meditation Christina Feldman – Cultivating a Well Trained Heart: the Path of Samadhi

2022-11-16 Meditation: Calling on Your Awakened Heart 23:33
Tara Brach
In the midst of difficulty we need access to our deepest wisdom and love. This guided meditation calls forth this loving presence by opening to the heart and spirit of whatever being in our life we most experience as calm, wise and compassionate. How do we find that inner place of calm in the midst of the storm?
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-11-13 Self Forgiveness Meditation 9:14
Amita Schmidt
This is a short, guided meditation exercise in extending forgiveness to a part of yourself. The meditation is designed for healing, and you can practice it as many times as needed, for different ages/parts of yourself.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2022-11-08 Introduction and Guided Meditation 23:05
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House The Five Daily Reflections (online)

2022-10-30 Guided Meditation on the Selfless Nature of Experience 25:25
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-29 Guided Meditation on Opening from Contraction 26:32
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-29 Guided Meditation 14:45
Sari Markkanen
Gaia House Exploring Emotions and Mindstates

2022-10-27 Guided Meditation 19:43
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication

2022-10-24 Guided meditation 7:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-15 Guided meditation on elements 13:13
Willa Thaniya Reid
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center ‘There is nothing you need hold on to, there is nothing you need push away’: A path to the peace of letting go

2022-10-12 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 18:42
Tara Brach
This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence. When there is tightening, holding or confinement in thoughts, we recognize and re-open, letting go into the presence that is always here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-10-08 Vedanā: Teaching and Guided Meditation 28:58
Devon Hase
A short teaching and explanation of vedana from the satipatthana sutta, followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-29 Sensing the Breath 24:01
Dhammadīpā
guided meditation observing all of the parts of the breath
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2022-09-26 Buddhist Studies - The Hindrances of Ill Will Meditation 26:26
Mark Nunberg
Guided Meditation by Mark Number
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Relating Wisely with the Hindrances

2022-09-15 Lake of Lovingkindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 23:25
Diana Winston
This playful guided meditation invites us to jump into a lake of kindness and bring our friends, acquaintances, and difficult people along.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone: The Basics and Beyond

2022-09-03 Lightly Guided Meditation - Touching the Earth, Opening Around Hindrances 29:28
Sumedha
Gaia House Encountering the Practice of the Heart

2022-09-02 GM 22:26
Ajahn Sucitto
A combined talk, examining how chanting contributes to external and internal practice, and guided meditation (at 12:15) addressing the framing of the body.
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-08-28 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 7:33
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-28 The Six Elements & Emergent Response 29:55
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-08-27 Short Guided Metta Meditation 6:57
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-26 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 7:56
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-23 Short Guided Mettā Meditation. 8:54
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-22 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 2:50
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-21 Guided Mettā Meditation 9:36
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-05 Guided Meditation 22:26
Ayya Anopama
Setting Down the Paddle
Gaia House Persuing the Pleasure That Will Set You Free

2022-08-03 Meditation: Living Presence 19:54
Tara Brach
The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order to calm and collect the mind. Then continuing with the conscious breathing, we are guided through the body – bringing attention to sensations and space. This attention becomes a very vibrant living presence, and we end by experiencing that living presence as a natural openheartedness that includes all of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-07-27 Guided Mindfulness Meditation 10:58
Diana Winston
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Family Retreat

2022-07-25 Guided Lovingkindness Meditation | Monday Night 28:09
Jack Kornfield
There’s no wrong way to do metta or lovingkindness. Sometimes the practice of cultivating lovingkindness is simply to radiate love without words. Sometimes it’s to begin by holding yourself with kindness. Lovingkindness can be an antidote to anxiety and fear. We become more gracious with the difficulties of life as we open the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-07-17 Lightly Guided Meditation 18:43
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-15 Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions) 26:16
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-14 Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions) 27:38
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-13 Mudita: reflections and guided meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 27:04
Kristina Bare
Inviting the heart into experiencing of abundance
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Lovingkindness Retreat

2022-07-13 Short Guided Meditation 14:21
Nathan Glyde
"Don't scratch the itch!"
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-13 Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions) 25:07
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-12 Guided Meditation 20:12
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-12 Guided Meditation (based on morning instructions) 19:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-11 Guided Meditation - Presence with Body, Breath / Sound 17:16
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Freedom of an Awakened Heart

2022-07-04 Rejoicing in Community 24:26
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-06-26 Week 6 - Guided Meditation (1) 22:05
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-06-19 Week 5 - Guided Meditation (1) 21:49
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-06-13 Week 4 - Guided Meditation (1) 23:42
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-06-08 Week 3 - Guided Meditation (1) 21:00
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-28 Guided meditation on "the now of all time " 24:26
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-27 Enoughness: guided meditation 26:27
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 Guided meditation on resolving distance 24:47
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-25 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.) 21:25
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-24 Guided Meditation on "vulnerability as a threshold into awareness" 23:10
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-22 Week 2 - Guided Meditation (1) 21:01
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-21 Guided Meditation on "descending into the heart" 23:42
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-20 Guided meditation: relaxing the grasping 26:47
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-20 Guided Meditation 19:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Gathering ourselves into a field of collective awareness, we tune into a sense of shared belonging and support with other human beings.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-19 Guided meditation on "the evolution of awareness" 20:51
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-18 Guided meditation: regret and repentance 23:47
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-16 Guided meditation: compassion 27:33
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-15 Week 1 - Guided Meditation (1) 14:53
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Exploring Vedana (Online Series)

2022-05-14 Guided meditation: merging the heart sutra with the four foundations - part two 25:36
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-12 Guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness 26:19
Rodney Smith
How something becomes nothing with the release of knowledge and remembrance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-11 Guided meditation: meditative questions 26:08
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-10 Guided Meditation on "Form to Formless" 29:04
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-06 Guided meditation: the five recollections 29:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-06 Guided Meditation 15:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka 2022 Online Teaching

2022-04-24 Tonglen Meditation 19:32
Amita Schmidt
Tonglen is a guided meditation of Tibetan origin that is a reparative response to pain. It is a meditation that actually helps create connection in the midst of suffering. Tenzin Choedrak, during his time of torture, made a daily dedication, "May some human greatness be accomplished through this suffering."
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

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