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Dharma Talks
2023-07-13 Guided Meditation: Images and the Energy Body 24:23
Victor von der Heyde
This meditation uses any personal images people might have from considering what might constitute a beautiful life for them, and considering Naikan questions (in this case what one has received from the world, what one has given, what problems or difficulties one thinks one has caused), and tuning in to the impact these images have on the energy body. The later part of the meditation focusses on putting images aside. It’s partly a practice to develop appreciation, to see the felt impact of one’s actions, and partly - towards the end - an exercise in letting go of images.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-13 Morning Reflections #11: Mental Formations (Step 7) 38:26
Nikki Mirghafori
Guided reflections to experience mental formations and knowing the inconstancy of perceptions (sahna or recognition) and feeling tones (vedana)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-13 Morning Instructions - Silent Sit and Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:54
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

2023-07-13 Body and breath: tools of the trade 45:35
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation

2023-07-13 Guided Standing Meditation 17:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-13 Finding stability through the aggregates 61:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Understanding the aggregates allows us to see our world is a tangled web of conditions that needs untangling not tearing.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-13 Guided Meditation 18:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-12 The clinging khandas 35:55
Laura Bridgman
Arriving and adjusting to the retreat provides an example of the fixities and rigidities challenging us from settling. These are actually the khandas.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-12 Meditation: Present Heart 14:15
Tara Brach
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with an offering of blessings to our inner life and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-07-12 Being with Love, Death and Grief: Tara Brach and Frank Ostaseski 1:33:22
Tara Brach, Frank Ostaseski
Grief is our natural way of expressing loss for what we love, and learning to open to grief serves the deepening and widening of our loving. This event, given at the Upaya Zen Center on June 25, 2023, includes short meditations and talks by Frank and Tara, and powerful sessions of questions and responses.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

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