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Dharma Talks
2025-02-07 3 aspects de notre expérience présente méritant notre attention 46:58
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Retraite au centre Mudita en Suisse

2025-02-06 Right Intention 59:12
Yuka Nakamura
Our actions are often driven by unconscious or conflicting intentions. How can we align with wholesome intentions and cultivate wholesome mindstates? Based on the Dvedhāvitakkasutta the talk discusses the importance of renunciation, metta and compassion for the path and the transformation of the heart.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2025-02-06 La pleine conscience permet la sagesse 55:15
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Retraite au centre Mudita en Suisse

2025-02-06 Metta for Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:26
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to practice metta for ourselves, including poetry by Jane Hirshfield and a story by Father Gregory Boyle. Guided practice in receiving care and sending love to our younger self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-06 Une autre façon d’aborder la réalité 52:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Retraite au centre Mudita en Suisse

2025-02-06 Morning Reflections - Seven Awakening Factors: Sati/Mindfulness 14:52
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-05 Awakening in a Time of Turmoil 67:08
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the nature of awakening. In the first 2/3 of the talk, we examine the traditional notion of awakening, as going beyond the habitual constructions of experience in all the parts of our lives. These constructions are rooted in reactivity (grasping and pushing away aspects of our experience), and a sense of self along with a world of objects known conceptually (through "signs"). We look also at the more positive sense of awakening to the "signless, boundless, and all luminous," to what the Thai Forest teacher Ajahn Mun calls the "primal mind." Then we ask about whether there are other dimensions to awakening needed for contemporary awakening, and examine in particular what awakening means in a time of turmoil. We take Thich Nhat Hanh as an exemplar--a practitioner dedicated to awakening practicing and teaching amidst the turmoil of war and exile. We outline a number of suggestions and guidelines for those practicing and awakening amidst the current turmoil.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-05 Guided Meditation: Exploring Some Further Ways We Construct Experience 35:51
Donald Rothberg
We start with basic instructions in developing (1) concentration and stability, and (2) mindfulness, and then practice developing these two qualities. With mindfulness practice, we notice the main patterns of thoughts, emotions, and bodily experience. In the second half of the session, we work with being aware of the feeling-tone (linked with the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), noticing moderate (or somewhat greater) pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, and what occurs after we notice them. We also attend for a short period of two minutes to the moment-to-moment feeling tones of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, and then go back to basic mindfulness practice for the last part of the session.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-05 Instructions on Noting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:18
Devon Hase
A brief overview of noting practice as done using sounds, body, or breath as our primary anchor. Description of how to use perception (sañña) as the proximate cause for a moment of mindfulness to arise, followed by a silent 30 min meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-04 Not yet titled 51:33
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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