2025-11-07 Freedom and the Five Aggregates 50:53
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-07 Cultivating a wise relationship with thought 39:42
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-11-06 Suffering and It's Cause 65:49
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Understanding Suffering and abandoning the cause of suffering (craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and craving for non-existence) can lead to peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-06 Morning Reflection: Mindfulness of the body and the four sublime attitudes 24:51
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-11-06 Morning reflection: Releasing papanca / proliferation 51:26
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-05 Meeting our chaotic life with Mindfulness, Equanimity and Wisdom 44:14
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Life is sometimes like a roller coaster. You can choose to scream at the ups and downs or apply a balanced mind and enjoy the ride. How do we stay calm and balanced in the face of happiness and pain?
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-11-05 Mindfulness of the Body: Death 19:04
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-11-05 Guided Meditation: Releasing the Breath 31:19
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-11-05 Paradoxes of Practice 55:05
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Teachings on wise discernment and how to skillfully respond to what arises in retreat practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-04 Guided Meditation & Introduction: Radiating Loving Kindness and the Selfless Nature of Experience 69:23
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-04 Metta Instructions & Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:17
John Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-11-04 Reflections on Spiritual Bypassing and Long Retreat Practice 59:01
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Anicca: Impermanence 42:15
Devon Hase	Download Listen
The Buddha emphasized the importance of seeing impermanence in many of his teachings. Reflections on the three wisdoms and how they relate to insight into change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 First Morning Instructions: Breath & Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:25
John Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-11-03 Wholesome and Unwholesome States of Mind 1:26:00
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The Mindfulness practice helps us to prevent and overcome unskillful states of mind and develop and maintain wholesome states of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Interconnection: Our True Nature! 1:33:16
Pawan Bareja	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-11-02 An overview of the four Brahmavihāra 46:55
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring the interrelationships between mettā / kindness, compassion, muditā / gladness and equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-11-02 Dharmette: The Journey of Embodied Awareness 18:22
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention 53:24
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-02 An Ancient Body Scan 49:39
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Metta Meditation 35:39
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Orienting and settling into sensations 41:33
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz :  Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-01 Metta Practice toward a difficult person and all beings 61:51
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-01 Reflections on Cetana: Intentions 49:55
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Teachings and Guided Practice on working with Intention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-31 Contentment and Samadhi 50:05
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Transition From Settling to Seeing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:49:25
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
This talk explores the gentle transition from shamatha (calm abiding through concentration) to vipassanā (insight), inviting us to cultivate stillness not through effort but through nourishment, (as The Budha did) curiosity, and kindness. It reminds us that the mind’s obstacles—dullness and agitation—are gateways to balance and presence. From this grounded calm, clarity naturally arises, revealing the truth of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. In resting with things as they are, stillness ripens into seeing, and seeing reveals freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-30 Meeting the 5-Hindrances with mindfulness and wisdom 58:40
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The arising of the 5-hindrances is beyond our control. However mindfulness and wisdom applied to these hindrances can make a difference between being caught up in them and being free from them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Guided Meditation on Wholesome Emotion 68:57
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Use the acronym of M.A.I.N. (Mindfulness, Attitude, Insight and non-clinging) towards mindfulness of wholesome emotion can lead to development and maintain these beautiful states of mind such as generosity, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, happiness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Instructions from My Teachers 40:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations? What have you learned from them? I thought I'd share some ways that instructions from two of my teachers--Ram Dass and HWL Poonja (Papaji)-- have shaped how I see the world and how I practice. The talk includes a recording of a significant dialogue from 1990 with Poonjaji that reconnected me with my joy. Here is a link to the dialogue of the Poonjaji satsang where James asked the question https://docs.google.com/document/d/16TnL2Zev-6r_mZPrgdSxSTaYLoyzdLOg3CnJ2U3D6C8/edit?tab=t.0 Here is a link to the video on Youtube that is over an hour long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjspK5fHiQ. James is at 23:38
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-10-29 Equanimity and Compassion in a World on Fire 49:17
Devin Berry	Download Listen
A talk on training the heart in a time of heat: drawing from the Fire Sermon, the Sutta Nipata, and lived stories – showing how equanimity and compassion meets suffering without collapse, numbness, or bypass.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-29 Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:10
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-29 Mindfulness of the Body: Fear 29:16
Dawn Neal	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-10-29 Choosing to Listen to Aliveness 54:01
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-29 Karuna Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:25
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
A short talk first and Guided Meditation to cultivate the heartful yearning for all to be happy and the intention to do something to remedy our/their suffering
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-29 Mindfulness of Emotions 1:42:00
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Reflections on working with our "beautiful monsters" and guided meditation on RAINN
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-29 Meditation: "Mindfulness" 27:13
JD Doyle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-29 Talk: "Crossing the Floods" 33:19
JD Doyle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-28 The Three Ways of Seeing That Bring Liberating Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief general account of the three ways of liberating insight, we look at each of the three--insights into impermanence, dukkha, and not-self--with a longer treatment of insight into not-self. There is an emphasis especially on how we practice in order to come to these insights. We close with a passage from Ajahn Chah pointing to the unity of developing samadhi and cultivating insight. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-28 Talk: Right Effort part 1 38:50
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
NOTE: this talk was re-recorded due to a technical error with the original
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-28 Introduction & Guided Loving Kindness for Friend and Neutral Person 43:13
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-28 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:51
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
A guided meditation from Settling the Body, the breath and the mind in its natural state Shamatha to Vipassana , in this case observe the three ways that liberate us, emphasizing this morning on the inmeditae direct experience of impermanence through breath , body sensations, sounds, mental objects realizing how all are transient as our lives and selves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-28 Instructions: practising with thinking 25:09
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Awareness of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:15
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
Further more on this practice that requires concentration and relaxation, how to recognize the space where all experiences arise and dissolve. Mention of other (Tibetan) traditions on this topic. The nature of awareness, three simple stages of progression, more on some obstacles and remedies. How to recognize awarenes that has been and is already here
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 The Second Music 49:24
Devon Hase	Download Listen
Stories and Teachings on Wise Attitude and Devotion on the Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Metta: Cultivating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:57
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
Continuing practicing to bring up someone who inspires us genuine uninterested love, so we can move on to wish metta for ourselves for the benefit of transforming our hearts
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Practicing Shamatha, Developing concentration in Relaxation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:27
Tere Abdala-Romano	Download Listen
Guided meditation to Relax the Breath, The Body and the Mind to help them Settle so concentration is possible towards Samadhi in a relaxed and vivid way. Reminderof ethics and practices of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Instructions for Open Practices 13:08
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Developing Samadhi (Concentration): Its Importance, How Samadhi Deepens, and the Challenges of Practicing to Develop Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:41
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the nature of samadhi, how it is a natural quality that surfaces in many human experiences, and its importance in meditation (and the teachings of the Buddha). We briefly examine the five jhanic factors that point to how samadhi deepens. We also look at several of the main challenges that arise as we practice to develop samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-26 Talk - Our Place in Tme 52:23
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Buddhism and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:56
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Exploring the Normalcy of Death in Buddhism. Looking at the many ways Buddhism understands death: Death of the body; The life and death of each moment; Becoming harmonious with Death as part of Life; Death as a Doorway to the Deathless,
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life