2019-05-18 Commitment Is Necessary 57:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On the occasion of Vesak we are encouraged to make a commitment to training the heart. Then to steer the world of space and time we live in around that commitment. This is how actions (kamma) can build up helpful results and lead to the end of kamma.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-17 Lecture 28 1:12:34
Bhikkhu Analayo	View Download Listen
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files: Nibbana - Lecture 28 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-05-17 A Peaceful Abiding Is Possible 59:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We put energy into territory that can’t be under our sway, seeking security in systems and customs. What we do have sway over is this embodied mind. It can be trained to orient around wholesome qualities, and to realize that it’s most secure when clinging is released.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-17 Standing Meditation: Balance Is Conducive to Release 17:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The balance required in standing supports an uncontracted body. Lengthening, widening and deepening the somatic field, discordant energies, which may manifest as troubled moods, thoughts or impressions, can be ventilated and released.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-16 Patience 49:56
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Patience in the Buddhist tradition is seen as a quality that becomes polished as we awaken our minds and hearts. The cultivation of patience becomes an art form; fluidly brought into the moment, imbued with flexibility, mindfulness, and Metta (loving-kindness). We need this quality to help us meet our selves, our neighbors, and the world with openness. Patience can help us be more grounded and present when we face that which makes us angry, fearful, or confused.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-05-16 Feeding What Feeds Us 56:26
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha says that clarity about what is "wholesome" and what is unwholesome" is important. We are encouraged to cultivate qualities like Metta (loving kindness) for our own benefit and that of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2019-05-16 Guided Meditation on Patience 41:12
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-05-16 Karma 50:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mahasi Retreat

2019-05-16 The Person Doesn’t Stop Clinging 59:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Clinging can’t be dealt with by the person. Meet it instead in the body where it manifests as stuck or numb places. Appropriate attention and the rhythm of breathing encourage constricted places to release, smoothing out the entire bodily field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-16 Liberation through Non-Clinging 23:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our reality is assembled from selected material that comes through the sense bases. As a result of craving and clinging, consciousness lands on particularly poignant material and continues the cycle of becoming and rebirth. Citta can be trained to handle material with dispassion rather than craving, awareness rather than clinging. The release of consciousness can be known.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-15 Grateful for This Moment of Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:28
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Gratitude arises as the 5th Brahma Vihara. It is a quality of heart ripened by our coming into harmony with the reality of life and death. As we waken to the truth that this is the only moment there is, we discover the magic, mystery and beauty of simply Being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-15 Decompose: The Suffering of Self and the Relief of Non-Becoming 47:08
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-05-15 Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet 21:34
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day for food, the horrors of the animal-food industry, and the impact it has on climate change (second only to fossil fuels.) In this short talk Tara shares her personal story of transitioning to a vegan diet, and invites listeners to investigate, without judgment, their own choices in this domain.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-05-15 The Five Aggregates 41:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mahasi Retreat

2019-05-15 Finding Refuge 52:36
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-05-15 Relating to Money and Sense Experience with Wisdom - Version 1 - Talk 56:51
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-05-15 Going Home 54:23
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-15 Relating to Money and Sense Experience with Wisdom - Version 1 - Meditation 34:56
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2019-05-15 Day 5 Morning Sitting with Instructions: Reconciliation and Loving-kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:01
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Reconciliation and Loving-kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-14 The Benefits of Practicing Mindfulness of Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:48
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-14 Choice to Choiceless: guided meditatioin 39:28
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-14 The Wisdom of Walking and of Sheepdogs 50:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There are 3 kinds of wisdom: discernment, skillful means and realization. Walking meditation and appropriate mindfulness are skillful means for cultivation. Together they bring around a stewarding akin to that of the sheepdog that moves within the flock, not outside it. This results in the deep harmony of samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-13 Letting Go into Living and Dying (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:47
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
What it means to let go as we live and as we die. How can we begin relax with the fact that in actuality we can’t really hold on to anything? This truth helps us to come into alignment with the way things are! Reality is not static, it is ecstatic, always changing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-13 Conceit/Comparing Mind 29:02
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on the dynamic of conceit, namely feeling better than, or less than, or equal to others. The talk explores both the individual and systemic forms of conceit.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-05-13 Perception 32:59
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-13 Guided Meditation: Sensitizing to the Direct Experience of the Body 55:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A guided meditation through the Ānāpānasati sutta. Establishing a comfortable, upright posture, incline awareness toward direct experience of the body. Sustain appropriate mindfulness and citta will sensitize to the qualities we call 'body’. This exercise resets the mind, which is then gladdened, steadied and cleared so that insight can develop.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-13 Samādhi – A Step Outside the Personal Footprint 57:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Samādhi is entered into dependent on the ripening of other factors. It gives us a place to stand outside of the personal perspective. The process of stepping out requires meeting the painful and unresolved in the body, then calming and soothing the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 8FP Program -- Wise Concentration part 2 49:16
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-05-12 8FP program -- Wise Concentration part 1 63:25
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-05-12 Working Wisely with Challenges of Practice and Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:33
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
How to work wisely with the 5 hindrances as well as working wisely in meeting life and death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-12 A Tribute to Buddha's Mom 48:02
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-05-12 Making Use of the Power of Mindfulness 54:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness is an empowered awareness that exerts authority over dukkha. Mindfulness doesn’t contract or become agitated by it. Holding steady and curtailing proliferation, it provides the proper laboratory within which wisdom can arise.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 End Of Retreat Dana Talk 67:38
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The historical and wise view of dana (giving) and its application in our practice in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-12 Puja – A Daily Going Forth 11:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Puja provides an occasion to step out of our personal lives. The gesture of offering and dedicating trains citta to open rather than grasp. The unfolding of citta reveals awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 Standing Meditation: Relieving Pressure with Ground and Space 21:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
An important theme in mind cultivation is to relieve pressure – mental, emotional, physical. This is done through moderating the quality of ground and space. When these are sensed through the body, citta picks up their signs and relaxes its own pressure.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-11 Abiding in Emptiness 49:42
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-11 Do Not Waste Your Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:21
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Exploring Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death/Awakening to Life. This talk highlights the normalcy of Death. We survey how death is related to in various Buddhist traditions as well as discussing personal experience of death as part of contemplative practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-11 Seven Factors 47:35
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-11 6 Sense Bases & & Factors of Awakening 36:50
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-11 Viriya – The Cultivation of Energy 54:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Energy has to be cultivated as a resource for practice. This process has three stages: gathering, specific application, and the strength that can release obstacles. The thinking mind uses energy but cannot generate it; energy is generated in the heart (citta) and in the body. Apply energy to empty out the negative and unskillful – the good and bright will arise on its own.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Emptiness 60:00
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-10 Faith 62:58
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-10 Living with Upheaveal, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World 49:47
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-10 Lecture 27 1:15:03
Bhikkhu Analayo	View Download Listen
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files: Nibbana - Lecture 27 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-05-10 Training in Direct Knowing 22:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Sati – mindfulness – is only mentioned once in the Ānāpānasati sutta. ‘Directly feeling and knowing’ – pajānati – is the mode of practice. When we’ve attuned to this, we move to ‘training’. This phase of ānāpānasati begins with training in deeper sensitivity of the entire body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Mind States, Hindrances & 5 Aggregates 45:40
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-10 Standing Meditation: Contemplate Inner and Outer Space 23:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Sensing the space beyond the skin boundary, and the space felt ‘within’ the body. The two can blend. In this way, they facilitate our experience of breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Wisdom as Know-How 55:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Wisdom is the know-how faculty that discerns suffering and its end. It knows how the 3 intelligences (verbal, emotional, bodily) can work together to bring about the stilling of saṇkhāras. From it noble knowledge – realization – arises.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-09 An Evening with Stephen Fulder, Founder of the Israeli Dharma Community 61:54
James Baraz, Stephen Fulder	Download Listen
James welcome Stephen Fulder who explores themes from his new book What’s Beyond Mindfulness? and shares about the Israeli sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2019-05-09 Dependent Origination 38:05
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  Jhanas and Insight Retreat