2024-08-14 Desire and Addiction (Part 2): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 46:19
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-14 Talk - Heaps of Self Metta 40:03
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-14 We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen 54:38
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-14 Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta in All Directions 42:54
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-14 The Shared Heart of Spiritual Teachings and Practices 60:03
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama has said, “My religion is kindness," suggesting that the core of spirituality is both beyond any particular religion and does not require religion. We explore, in a similar way, how the basics of Buddhist teachings and practices-- related to ethics, kindness and compassion, wisdom, and touching nibbana--can be understood and expressed in ordinary, everyday language and at its heart is both shared by other spiritual traditions and potentially beyond any particular tradition. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-14 Guided Meditation Exploring Several Foundational Practices 35:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Related to the talk given after the guided meditation on the foundational practices and how we can talk very simply about them, we begin remembering our grounding in ethics, and then develop concentration, then mindfulness and wisdom, and later the kind and compassionate heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-14 Instructions - Sublime Attitude for Subtle Conditioning 52:29
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-13 Talk - Giving Our All to Kindness 43:24
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-13 Guided Meditation - Expanding Metta to the Challenging Through Appreciation & Compassion 44:42
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-12 Liberation from Attachment to Views and Opinions 40:05
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2024-08-12 Guided Meditation - Metta Radiant All Around 42:50
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-12 Instructions - Metta Expanded to the Unpleasant 58:30
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-12 Following the predominant object 60:57
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Instructions for "choice awareness" from the Mahasi perspective
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-12 Monday Night Meditation 1:43:43
Dawn Mauricio	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-11 Talk - Unhindered Goodwill 36:03
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-11 A Community Program on Palestine/Israel: Session 2: A Dialogue between Teachers and Friends (with Ronya Banks and Donald Rothberg) 1:31:09
Donald Rothberg, Ronya Banks	Download Listen
In session 2 of this series, Donald Rothberg and Ronya Banks will engage in dialogue around their Jewish and Palestinian identities, their family histories, and their own experiences of being Buddhist teachers navigating the complexities of the conflict in Palestine/Israel. During the course of the conversation, they will offer reflections on what has been most helpful to each of them in dealing with painful truths, strong emotions, and difficult conversations. In the last part of the session, participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and offer reflections.
Southern Dharma Retreat Center :  A Community Program on Palestine/Israel

2024-08-11 Instructions - Expanding into Goodwill 50:36
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-11 The Qualities That Bring Joy, Happiness and Awakening 58:19
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 10, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-08-11 Morning practice instruction: mindfulness of intention 65:30
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-10 Talk - Freeing Kindness 38:49
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-10 Relative and absolute 54:35
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
What are these two layers of reality and how do we relate to them in life and meditation?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-10 Four qualities inducive to stream entry 9:51
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
London Insight Meditation :  Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Guided meditation 37:43
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
London Insight Meditation :  Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Drawing upon our own wisdom 36:36
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
London Insight Meditation :  Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-10 Instructions - Receiving Experience in Kindness 53:38
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Empowering Kindness

2024-08-10 Morning instructions on practicing with vedana 65:30
Tara Mulay	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 How Metta supports Insight practice 60:24
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Walking the Path 50:19
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Using the teachings of the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eight-fold Path as a framework for understanding the unfolding of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-09 Joy 1:15:16
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2024-08-09 Morning Instructions – thinking 59:33
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Some suggestions for noting and noticing thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-08 short talk: the benefits of practising Mindfulness of the Body 12:33
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:59
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing and bodily sensations, then opening to the experience of hearing
Auckland Insight Meditation :  Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-08 Beginning lovingkindness practice 58:09
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Connecting with a sense of caring for oneself and a benefactor figure
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 Meditation: The Blessings of Yes 20:31
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When our hearts open to the life that is here, just as it is, we discover vast loving presence. This meditation engages the smile as we scan through and awaken to our body and senses. Then we practice meeting the changing flow of life with a full allowing, wakeful and open awareness. We close with a verse from e.e. cummings. “What happens when the heart says “Yes” to this moment? And what happens when that “Yes” goes even deeper?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Desire and Addiction (Part 1): Voices of Longing Calling You Home 49:41
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Desire is intrinsic to all living forms – the urge to exist and flourish. It turns to suffering when, due to unmet needs, it contracts, intensifies and separates us from our full aliveness and awareness. These two talks guide us in awakening from this trance, and discovering how within desire is the longing that can carry us to true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-08-07 Introduction to the Mahasi method 57:10
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Some history and key features of Mahasi style practice: working with primary objects, noting, momentary concentration, and balanced effort
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness and Insight Meditation: The Mahāsi Method

2024-08-07 As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love 53:07
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-07 A Noble Heart 28:24
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
We can't think our way to awakening. How then can we ennoble the heart? Practising right resort will purify the mind with present moment awareness. We give truth a voice, a prevailing knowing reinforced by mindfulness and wisdom. Instead of allowing delusion to rob us of our chance to awaken, we burn it away in its many guises of selfishness, hatred, despair and a host of dark states of mind. Patiently, faithfully, and gently, we navigate the way to true peace, unconditional love, and compassion.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-08-07 Tribute to Eric Kolvig 33:05
JD Doyle	Download Listen
Note: Some of the audio is glitchy at times. See slideshow here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1f0vqOKimeXtWjjyJggCluxnxDiUK17Ncb08eMADZq_E/edit#slide=id.p
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2024-08-06 Week 6, Part 2 - Guided Meditation, Short Teachings 63:04
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Mettā and insight.
Gaia House :  Mettā and Insight

2024-08-06 Natural Awareness: Listening to the Second Melody 34:19
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2024-08-05 Monday Night Meditation 1:42:15
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-04 Wisely Guarding the Sense Gates - Meditation 32:14
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2024-08-04 Wisely Guarding the Sense Gates - Talk 39:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2024-08-03 On intention 29:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-08-03 Cultivating the energy of breathing 17:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2024-08-03 The Me in Mettā Matters 1:16:18
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Exploring the contradistinctions between the not-self strategy and radiant goodwill to all beings. And how we can put more of our personal care into the practice. Based on an insight from Thānissaro Bhikku in Good Mind, Good Heart. This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions.
Gaia House :  Online Dharma Hall - August 2024

2024-08-03 Dharma Talk: Fullness of Renunciation 37:55
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-03 Sitting with Stillness 64:26
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2024-08-03 Dharmette: Trading Up to Happiness 7:43
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz