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Dharma Talks
2025-04-09 Wednesday morning instructions 61:00
Jeanne Corrigal
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-08 Liberative Dependent Origination: Sukha and Samadhi 55:23
Jeanne Corrigal
The sukha of tranquility supports the mind in happiness and contentment, decreasing the mind's movement away from this moment, and thereby supporting the gathering of samadhi. The 5 jhanic factors also support the decrease in the hindrances and the deepening of samadhi. The pitfall of clinging to samadhi and also the role of samadhi in cultivating insight close the talk.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-08 Bodhicitta - For the welfare of all 53:22
Yuka Nakamura
Bodhicitta—the mind of awakening—is the aspiration to attain awakening for the benefit of all. Seeing our practice in this light can be a source of inspiration and counteract the tendency to self-centeredness. The talk discusses the historical development of the concept and explains what it means.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-08 Loving kindness to all beings 26:46
Tim Geil
Bring the vastness of the earth and spaciousness of air in offering metta to all aspects of ourselves and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-08 Metta and Hatred: Simile of the Saw 26:17
Tim Geil
Exploring how to not hold hatred in our hearts using this sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-04-07 Liberative Dependent Origination: Joy, Rapture, Calm 58:40
Kristina Bare
This talk explores the transformative links of joy, rapture, and calm, highlighting how these interconnected experiences support the mind’s natural progression toward freedom and ease.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Where the heart gets stuck - upādāna and the consequences 69:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Upādāna in different Buddhist Teachings: – Clinging as fuel for renewed becoming (punabbhava) – Clinging in the 5 aggregates (khandha) – Clinging in Dependent Arising (paṭiccasamuppadā) – Clinging as four specific forms: (i) kāmūpādāna – clinging to and identification with sensuality (“Seeking” experiences) (ii) diṭṭhūpādāna – clinging to and identification with views (“Being right, being competent“) (iii) sīlavaṭūpādāna – clinging to and identification with virtue, practices and ritual (“Having the right technique“) (iv) attavādūpādāna – clinging to and identification with doctrines of a self / Self (“Being someone”)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Monday afternoon metta 45:40
Jeanne Corrigal
A short talk and guided practice offer easy doorways to metta, along with guidance with the acronym CARE for the abiding and radiating practices.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Guided Meditation: Equanimity 44:42
Yuka Nakamura
Introduction and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Monday morning instructions 56:33
Jeanne Corrigal
Continuing with the first foundation of the body, and folding in faith - placing our heart on the practices of simplicity and calming. Also includes ways of meeting the hindrances through mindfulness and kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Morning reflections - challenges to contemplation of mind states 48:10
Akincano Marc Weber
Training and understanding the mind happens with the mind already affected by the very states it wishes to understand and transform
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Liberative Dependent Origination: Suffering and Faith 57:49
Jeanne Corrigal
This talk celebrates the conditions that support the move from the Dependent Origination wheel of suffering to Liberative Dependent Arising. Faith can develop naturally, especially as we meet the hindrances with wisdom and begin to see the three insight themes. In this way, we can begin to taste liberation, even at this early stage in the 12 links.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-06 Questions from the basket (three teachers take turns). 1:14:30
Akincano Marc Weber, Thimo Wittich, Yuka Nakamura
Thimo, Yuka and Akincano respond to practitioner's questions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Muditā Practice: Intro followed by Guided Practice to cultivate sympathetic joy. 41:39
Akincano Marc Weber
How wonderful you are in your being! I delight that you are here! I take joy in your good fortune! May your happiness continue and increase! (From a Sinhalese Ms of the 19th century. Monks' and nuns‘ practice upon receiving alms).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Overcoming Fear and Dread 13:18:17
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on April 5, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-04-06 Morning instructions: Mindfulness of mind states 56:20
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-05 Participatory intelligence 34:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-04-05 Unpacking Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:25
Cara Lai
The deepest kind of peace: what it is, what it isn't, how it relates to boundaries and action in the world, and how to find it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-05 Saddhā - Trust 61:17
Yuka Nakamura
Saddhā - trust or confidence - is a fundamental quality that we need on our path. Why can it be difficult to trust? What is actually trustworthy? How does it manifest in our mind and in our actions?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-05 Guided Meditation 18:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-04-05 Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness 38:05
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
Cittaviveka

2025-04-05 The Liberating View of Interconnection 1:24:18
Nathan Glyde
A meditation, reflection, and responses to questions on the power of conceiving of ourselves as interconnected. With examples from Palestine, the meditation cushion, and living with illness and loss. In all cases, perhaps this transformative idea is more potent than it is true. Some links from this session: Essential Surgery in Palestine: https://chuffed.org/project/123753-essential-surgery-for-palestinian-medical-student James Skeet, from Just Stop Oil, talking to Scroobius Pip on Distraction Pieces Podcast: https://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/dp-player/?fl=https://embed.acast.com/$/ad4e2f12-9862-4cf6-b6af-3ae392c45fad/612jso&dl= Sacred Places with SanghaSeva | Meditation in Action: https://www.sanghaseva.org/comingup.html#sacred
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - April 2025

2025-04-05 Morning reflections – Different tools and practices. Different reasons for sleepiness and lethargy. 50:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Relationship of different instructions to each other. Many spices, but we don't cook with all of them at once. Orientation: how to find out and recognize what's going in your mind. (Using the satipaṭṭhāna map) Relationship: a) getting reliably in touch with and b) learning to relate skillfully to the states. Shifting attention away from habits. Mindfulness does not mean 'no discernment' – it is quite capable on discerning what is wholesome and unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-04 The Liberating Power of Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:29
Jessica Morey
In this talk, we explore compassion as a liberating force—one that allows us to stay present with suffering so we can respond with wise action. Drawing on the myth of Avalokiteśvara, the science of empathy, and the felt experience of care, compassion becomes a courageous presence rooted in tenderness and connection. We also reflect on how a deep understanding of dukkha, paired with a direct knowing of freedom, strengthens our compassion and helps us see the wish for liberation as real and available—even in the most difficult places.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

2025-04-04 Instructions on Metta for the Difficult Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:51
Cara Lai
Sensing into a field of support and care hat can hold it all, even the enemy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Steadying the Heart: Refuge through the Four Sublime States

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