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2025-03-28 Equanimity Meditation 45:04
Kaira Jewel Lingo
This meditation explores upekkhā, or equanimity—the deep steadiness of heart that meets life’s joys and sorrows with wisdom and care. Through reflections, guided phrases, and a progression of categories (from self, to loved one, neutral person, difficult person and finally all beings), we cultivate balance and spaciousness in the face of life’s ever-changing conditions. Rooted in the Brahmavihārā tradition, this practice invites us to rest in the truth that all beings are moving through causes and conditions beyond our control.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-28 Opening Session for the Retreat 43:08
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-28 Introduction to Retreat Topic: Metta & Mudita retreat format, schedule, questions followed by Guided Sitting Meditation... Anapanasati concentration and Metta practice for oneself 60:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Dhamma Talk - Metta Closing comments Dedication and end of evening gathering 65:45
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Dharma Reflection: Dhamma Chanda 18:56
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to work with deep desire for deliverance and how to smooth out the energy body when things get intense in retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-27 Practicing Upekkha (Equanimity) 1:49:20
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-27 Spiritual Friendship (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:28
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-27 Light on Path - deconstruct, return to presence 40:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our 'Dhamma home'. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-27 Mindfulness of Thoughts 52:48
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk, we explore mindfulness of thoughts as part of the third foundation of mindfulness—learning to meet thoughts not as distractions or enemies, but as present-moment experiences to observe with curiosity and care. Through guided practice and teachings, we investigate the nature of thinking, including how to relate to repetitive or difficult thoughts with clarity and compassion. By developing this skill, we discover a deeper steadiness and freedom in the midst of the mind’s activity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-27 Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself 51:20
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-26 Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: Following the Buddha’s Recipe for Liberation 56:55
Will Kabat-Zinn
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-26 Light on knowing - empty, open, secure 43:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-26 Closing Session: Maintaining Joy in a Chaotic World 1:29:26
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Evening Session: Advice to Rahul (MN62) 1:44:41
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Light on concentration – a skilful gathering of factors and fruits 55:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi is generally translated as 'concentration' but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-25 Freude Teil 1 52:13
Renate Seifarth
Praxis ist ein Weg, der zu innerer Freude führt. Meist kennen wir Freude über schöne Dinge, Erfahrungen oder Begegnungen. In der Praxis empfinden wir Freude in Momenten echter Achtsamkeit, tiefen Mitgefühls und Dankbarkeit.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-25 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas and the Practice of Metta 58:28
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with a song and for the first half hour Kaira Jewel gives a brief overview the Four Brahmaviharas followed by an introduction to the practice of metta: what it is, how it can transform our lives, what some of the challenges are and then how to practice with the categories and the phrases. Then in the second half hour Kaira Jewel leads a guided metta meditation offering metta to ourselves, our benefactor and a dear friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-25 Instructions - What Am I Not Noticing ? 54:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-25 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Brahma Viharas 32:56
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 The Power and Freedom of Equanimity in Polarized Times 60:11
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk we explore the power of equanimity to help us remain steady and spacious in the face of life's ups and downs. Trusting, relaxing and letting go all help us to see we don't have to hold the challenges of life alone, we can open to the larger mystery holding us all. We also look at how to engage with the suffering and injustice of our world, to practice sacred criticism, and depolarizing ourselves and our communities. We take inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement and their practices of self-emptying and how we can give our whole hearts to the task and then let go of attachment to the outcome. Kaira Jewel ends by singing the poem Recommendation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Talk - More than Meets the Eye 23:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-24 Not self from a heart paradigm 55:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-24 The Importance of Emptiness, Hiri and Ottappa 55:51
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-24 Light on desire 52:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-24 Evening Session: Tetrad 4 + Equanimity 1:35:16
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 Mara's Teaching Us to Love More Deeply 36:23
Yong Oh
Talking about the paradox of perfection and improvement. Loving ourselves to wholeness. Love as the path. Mara as teacher rather than foe or antagonist. Teaching us to love ever more deeply.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Guided Meditation - Mudita (Appreciative Joy) 38:34
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-24 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrads 1, 2 + 3 40:04
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-23 The Lion’s Roar: Courage in These Times 37:14
Devin Berry
Rooted in the simile of the Lion Sutta (4.33), this talk explores how the power of the Lion’s roar—Buddha-Dharma—awakens the courage to face suffering with clarity, inner steadiness, and a heart aligned with truth and presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-23 Evening Session: Tetrad 3 + Compassion 1:48:34
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-23 Light on effort, an oar in the stream 40:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-23 Der Köder - MN25 44:14
Renate Seifarth
Hier geht es um die Art und Weise wie und wo wir praktizieren, um die negativen Geistesströmungen in uns zu überwinden.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-23 Guided Meditation - Compassion 37:27
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-23 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Tetrad 1 + 2 + Mudita 31:23
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-23 Instructions - Skilfully Attending to the Unpleasant 58:40
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-23 Morning Session: The Best Kinds of Joy 36:36
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Evening Session: Guided Meditation 35:42
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Talk - Dukkha, Reactivity & Skilful Response 45:14
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-22 Evening Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 2 + Metta 67:17
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Light on balance 35:57
Ajahn Sucitto
March 2025 retreat - talk 1
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-22 Afternoon Session: Guided Meditation: Tetrad 1 + Metta 29:46
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-22 Feel truth, avoid plastic 42:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-22 Morning Session: Anapanasati Tetrad 1 + Metta 1:24:37
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-21 Opening Session: Settling In 1:30:30
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-21 Aging, Illness, and Death 53:14
Devon Hase
The Four Heavenly Messengers and the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection, with a focus on practicing with aging, illness. and death.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-21 Dispassion as Pathway to the Peace of Letting Go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:51
Kristina Bare
Seeing impermanence leads to dispassion and letting go into deepening peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-21 Einsicht in Leerheit 32:55
Renate Seifarth
Ein Vertreter einer anderen spirituellen Gruppierung zweifelt an der Lehre von Anatta und versucht sie zu widerlegen. Im Disput zwischen ihm und dem Buddha wird er überzeugt, da er keine der 5 khandha Kontrolle ausüben kann. Genauso können wir in unserer Praxis vorgehen und das, was wir erleben, in Hinblick darauf untersuchen, ob wir eine Kontrolle darüber ausüben können und falls nicht, wieso wir davon ausgehen können, dass dies Ich oder Mein sein kann.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-20 Practicing Mudita (Sympathetic Joy) 1:47:58
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-20 The Five Aggregates: Sankhara & Consciousness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-20 Nur eigene Einsicht befreit 45:41
Renate Seifarth
Ausgehend von der Lehrrede in der Mittleren Sammlung 22 wird erläutert, dass nicht kognitives Wissen, sondern eigene direkte Einsicht befreit, die wir gewinnen können, wenn wir Buddhas Aussagen selbst überprüfen und durchdringen. Im weiteren geht es um das Wesensmerkmal der Vergänglichkeit und wie wir darüber unser Haften am Glauben eines Ichs durchdringen können.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

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