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Dharma Talks
2021-12-26 Equanimity: A Radiant Balance of Mind - Meditation 33:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-12-26 Equanimity: A Radiant Balance of Mind - Talk 39:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-12-23 Winter Solstice and Holidays: A Time to Keep the Heart Open 53:11
James Baraz
When the days are shortest and darkness is all around, we have holidays to help us remember the light. In this talk we reflect on the heart practices of gratitude, forgiveness and love that help us stay connected to the light inside and around us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-12-23 Simple Guided Breath Meditation 27:39
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2021-12-23 Reflections on metta and mindfulness. 66:45
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2021

2021-12-22 Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence (22:23 min.) 0:00
Tara Brach
(Recording not available) 
Loving presence is an innate capacity, and it can be cultivated. This meditation begins with a scan arousing a relaxed tender presence in the body, then brings loving attention to our inner life, and in widening circles, to our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-12-22 Loving Ourselves into Healing – Part 2 52:40
Tara Brach
We are often at war with our difficult emotions—judging and hating ourselves for our fear, anger, clinging or shame. And as a society, we turn on others as lesser or bad, as the enemy. These talks explore how, in both domains, our continued evolution, healing and freedom depends on learning how to embrace what we have pushed away.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-12-22 One Wild, Precious Life 36:39
Betsy Rose
This season is full of holidays! There is Solstice, celebrating the rebirth of the sun after the longest darkest night. There is Hanukah, celebrating the mystery of enduring, impossible light protecting the sacred. And there is Christmas, honoring the birth of the prophet and teacher Jesus (often called “The Light of the World”). Betsy reflects on the miracle of being born at all, against impossible odds, and how we are shaped by the causes and conditions we are born into. Darkness and Light, Joyful Existence and Dukkha- we’ll celebrate the whole mess!
Assaya Sangha

2021-12-22 Peace On Earth and Good Will Toward Men 1:31:01
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-12-22 Guided Meditation - All Things Converge upon Feeling 49:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Establish mindfulness with the experience of a feeling body, the most fundamental source of feeling. Use a wide form of attention that covers the whole body. As phenomena are changing the mind is still with receptivity and deep listening. The nature of sati doesn’t react to feeling. The feeling can be felt, without blaming, criticizing or getting involved. When feeling isn’t given any more food, it becomes more equanimous.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-12-22 The World Is Burning: Transforming Reactivity into Presence 53:42
Heather Sundberg
This talk explores the Fire Sermon taught by the Buddha and offers reflections and 5 somatic practices which help us transform reactivity into freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light" with Heather Sundberg, Oren Jay Sofer, SEP and Dawn Scott

2021-12-22 Guided Meditation with Instructions for Working with Emotions 57:33
Heather Sundberg
Instructions and Guided Meditation describe 4 ways of practicing with Emotions: 1. Label it 2. Feel the Emotion in the Body 3. Space as a Support 4. Noticing the emotion changes
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light" with Heather Sundberg, Oren Jay Sofer, SEP and Dawn Scott

2021-12-22 Morning Reflection: Balancing Sensitivity and Safety 59:05
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2021

2021-12-21 Appreciating Equanimity 50:59
Mark Nunberg
Equanimity can develop into a radiant and powerful balance of heart and mind that provides both a taste of freedom and clarifies the path of practice. Equanimity arises both by learning to recognize and abide with any wholesome experience of wellbeing, and by the deepening insight into the transitory, ephemeral nature of all things leading onward to dispassion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2021

2021-12-21 Winter Solstice: Beginning Again with Meditation 64:23
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on honoring the Winter Solstice through beginning our path again with preliminary instructions on Insight meditation. The talk is followed by a 30 minute guided meditation.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2021-12-21 Mindfulness of thoughts 45:10
Dawn Scott
Guided meditation on relating wisely to thoughts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light" with Heather Sundberg, Oren Jay Sofer, SEP and Dawn Scott

2021-12-20 Setting An Intention Of The Heart Dharma Talk | Monday Night Talk 50:13
Jack Kornfield
When we sit quietly and face the stillness, we start the feel the grief that we carry—and the immense beauty of life. When we get quiet we can see in a new way. Make of yourself a light. It’s never too late to start over and set an intention of the heart. It could be as simple as “I vow to be kind.” By aligning our dedication with our highest intention, we chart the course of our whole being. Then no matter how hard the voyage and how big the setbacks, we know where we are headed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-12-20 Gratitude Generosity and Renunciation 12:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
There are Ten Perfection. I have centred on two: Generosiy and Renunciation. How with Gratitude they form a virtuous circle which can lead to liberation.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2021-12-20 Nourish And Connect Meditation | Monday Night 27:23
Jack Kornfield
Release whatever wants to be let go of in this moment. Let yourself become loving awareness itself. Feel yourself relax with each breath. You can nourish, connect, and come to rest. As you feel the breath come and go, there will likely be a stream of thoughts. Bow to your thoughts and say to yourself, “I love it when they come, and I love it when they go.” You can rest here and now in the reality of the present.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-12-20 Facets of a Love 14:30
Bhante Bodhidhamma
LOve is a big subjects. I've taken a few qualities to look at
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2021-12-20 Guided Meditation & Instructions 62:06
Oren Jay Sofer
Building on Samatha practice, we begin to include physical sensations and sound in our practice. This meditation also offers pointers on working with unpleasant sensations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light" with Heather Sundberg, Oren Jay Sofer, SEP and Dawn Scott

2021-12-20 Morning Reflection: Working with Mental Storms 18:59
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2021

2021-12-19 Dharma Talk - This Is The Way It Is 42:57
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House The Courageous Heart

2021-12-19 Enjoying Presence 40:53
Ajahn Sucitto
We become entangled in the creations and reactions that arise based on ignorance. Mindfulness immersed in the body is where we can experience release from the powerful reflexes and currents. Translate the complexities of thoughts into the simplicity of emotional drives, and feel them in the body. Tune into what’s given – awareness, presence, stability – this is comfortable, this is pleasure, this is our basic ground.
Cittaviveka

2021-12-19 Retreat and Dukkha and Sukha 1:32:43
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

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