2018-08-11 39 guided meditation: equanimity for a difficult person 25:10
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation cultivating equanimity for a so-called "difficult" person, then oneself, using the reciting phrases method of brahmavihara practice
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-11 38 instructions: equanimity generally, and as a brahmavihara practice 18:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Bringing equanimity to the ending of the retreat and the inevitable ups and downs, then instructions for the brahmavihara practice of equanimity for a difficult person
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-10 Walking The Eightfold Path 57:06
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-10 Healing Attention 49:16
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Your Body, Buddha's Body

2018-08-10 The Courage to Be: Liberating Our Innate Goodness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:11
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
When we truly love and accept all of who we are, we create the possibility for others to do the same. We become more real, honest and courageous with life's unfolding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight for Young Adults

2018-08-10 Anicca. 45:10
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
The first in a series of talks on the three characteristics of experience: impermanent, unsatisfying and not me or mine.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  August 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-08-10 37 talk: anatta or not-self and the five clinging-aggregates 43:34
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An introduction to anatta or not-self and an exploration of the suffering that comes from clinging to the five aggregates
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-10 Metta – The Beauty of Selfless Caring 50:00
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
When we dwell in metta, the heart’s response is one of selfless caring for others and ourselves.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-10 Day Four, Guided Kindness Meditation-Forgiveness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:48
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
With the practice of Forgiveness Meditation, we release our hearts from the pain of resentment without losing a healthy sense of boundaries or accountability.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight for Young Adults

2018-08-10 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation - Universal Radiance 45:30
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-10 Entering the Door of Vulnerability 45:00
Jean Esther	Download Listen
True North Insight :  Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha

2018-08-10 How the Practice Works - Dharma and Recovery series 2:01:28
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-10 Day Four, Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:39
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Thoughts and Emotions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight for Young Adults

2018-08-10 35 guided meditation: exploring the Seven Factors of Awakening 28:28
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Mostly silent meditation practising choiceless awareness, with occasional instructions to check for the presence or absence of each of the seven factors of awakening: mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy, tranquillity, concentration, and equanimity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-10 Masters of Great Compassion: Asanga, Shantideva, Atisha 56:04
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2018-08-10 34 instructions: Seven Factors of Awakening 16:50
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, their relationship to the five hindrances, and their role in supporting insight
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-10 The Joy of Ethics 1 49:38
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-08-09 "How to Practice When Life is Difficult." 53:17
Kate Munding	Download Listen
This is a practice that brings in ease to the mind and body, offering relief from our dukkha while also supporting more mental clarity to see through some of our confusion and aversion. It can be used for stress, grief, and being overwhelmed. It can also be used to prepare for more concentration and steady mindfulness when the mind or body is a bit stirred up.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-08-09 Your Body, Buddha's Body 57:32
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Orienting to our retreat practice and around awareness of the body.
Gaia House :  Your Body, Buddha's Body

2018-08-09 Beginning Insights of Vipassana Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:06
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
After even a few days of insight meditation, we can begin to see clearly that thoughts are only concepts in the present. We can also see the impermanent and ever changing conditional nature of all of our experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight for Young Adults

2018-08-09 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 48:26
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Self, benefactor, friend, neutral and difficult person plus a Metta "family portrait"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-09 32 guided meditation: practising mudita or appreciative joy for a good friend 21:19
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Starting with metta practice, then turning it towards what's going well in a good friend's life, and offering them mudita or appreciative joy using the reciting phrases method of practice
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-09 31 instructions: mudita or appreciative joy practice 14:53
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of mudita, appreciative joy, as one of the four brahmavihara practices, and how to practice it for a good friend
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-09 30 guided meditation: compassion for a good friend 28:58
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided compassion meditation for a good friend, using the reciting phrases method of practice
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-09 29 instructions: compassion 12:36
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for practising compassion for a good friend who is currently experiencing challenges
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Appreciating Dukkha (suffering) As Our Teacher 61:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-08 Meditation: Letting Go of Doing 21:50
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then including the play of sound. Then we let go of any doing, and simply notice and allow the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is. In this pure allowing presence we become aware of the background silence that is listening. The invitation is to relax and be the awareness that is conscious of all that is unfolding.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-08 Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 2 52:19
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-08 You Have the Paper Clip (Wise Effort) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:32
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
The 4 wise efforts for Young Adult Retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight for Young Adults

2018-08-08 28 talk: an overview of the brahmaviharas with a focus on compassion 42:17
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring how all four brahmavihara practices strengthen and support each other, then focusing on compassion and self-compassion as antidotes to afflictive mental states
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Metta – An Inner Path to Peace 49:05
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
If we want this world to be a peaceful place, we must first develop peace within.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-08 27 guided meditation: metta using the radiating energy method 19:49
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided metta meditation using the radiating energy method, without reciting phrases or in relation to categories of people
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 26 short instructions: radiating energy method of metta practice 6:55
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Very short instructions for practising metta using the radiating energy method
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Day 5 Morning Instructions and Q&A 57:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-08 25 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor 27:30
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation practising metta for the benefactor, using the reciting phrases method
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 24 instructions: metta 16:21
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
How physical and mental seclusion supports samadhi, stability of mind or concentration, and how the reciting phrases method of metta practice also helps strengthen samadhi
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Practicing with Difficulties and Challenges 2: The Eight Worldly Winds 63:20
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of the six ways of practicing with difficulties and challenges presented last week, we explore the important teaching of the “Eight Worldly Winds” that keep us caught in reactivity—pleasure and pain, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, and praise and blame. Working with this teaching gives us another very helpful lens for working with difficulties and also with our tendencies to grasp—onto pleasure, gain, fame, and praise. We suggest several ways of practicing with this teaching, as a further way to deepen and energize our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-07 Expanding The Circle Of Sensitivity 28:00
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-08-07 23 talk: the hindrance of aversion and the brahmavihara practices as antidotes 53:43
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Ways of working with the hindrance of ill will or aversion, including an overview of the four brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity as antidotes to ill will
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 20 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 26:08
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, then including physical sensations, sounds, thoughts and emotions, knowing their impermanent nature, then opening up to choiceless awareness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 19 instructions: mindfulness of the mind 28:46
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Ways to practice mindfulness of thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 Right Concentration and Steadiness: Support on the Way to Liberation 50:39
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2018-08-06 The Two Darts 52:31
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Some thoughts on the awareness of empirical reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-06 Metta in Deed, Speech, and Thought 53:25
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Metta is not only a sublime state of heart & mind, but it must be manifested in all our actions throughout the day.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-06 Binary Thinking and the Limits of Language 28:14
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on going beyond the limits of language.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-08-06 17 guided dyad meditation: feeling-tone 17:16
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 16 instructions: feeling tone or vedana 27:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the Second Establishment of Mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:14:48
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-06 15 guided meditation: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 14:25
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short guided meditation exploring the qualities of earth, water, fire and air or wind within the body, and also externally
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 14 instructions: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 11:45
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An introduction to mindfulness of the body in terms of the four qualities of earth, water, fire, and air or wind, as a way of gaining insight into the body's impermanence and interconnectedness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion