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Dharma Talks
2018-05-05 Reflections on Right Speech 25:45
Oren Jay Sofer
Brief reflections on right speech and the ethical guidelines offered by the Buddha.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-05 Lecture 15 1:14:58
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 15 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2018-05-05 01 Exploring the True Heart's Longing 37:42
Martin Aylward
Gaia House

2018-05-05 Guided Meditation: Arriving 28:14
Bart van Melik
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-05 Building the Raft - Day 1 - Question and Answer period 43:45
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-05-05 Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection/Talk) "A Foundation for Insight" 44:26
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-05-05 Guided Meditation: Embodied Kindness 36:34
Oren Jay Sofer
A loving-kindness meditation rooted in bodily awareness.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-05 Building the Raft - Day 1 - (Reflection Talk/Walking Instruction) - "Attuning to the Eightfold path" 32:57
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-05-05 Guided Meditation: Embodied Mindfulness 29:51
Oren Jay Sofer
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-04 Opening Talk, Refuges & Precepts 40:48
Oren Jay Sofer
Opening Reflections on Speech and Relational Dharma(with Bart van Melik), Refuges and Precepts
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-04 The Four Sublime Abodes 47:13
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-05-03 Maintaining Our Direction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:51
Mary Grace Orr
Four thoughts which support and inspire our continued practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-03 "A New Dawn for the Dharma" 63:46
James Baraz
James in a conversation with Dawn Mauricio, a fresh dharma presence based in Montreal. Dawn is in the current Spirit Rock Teacher Training and is also on the West Coast assisting some upcoming Spirit Rock retreats. James invited Dawn to share her perspective on how the Dharma might unfold in the coming years and her experience teaching as a young strong female voice and teacher of color.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-05-03 Disarming our Hearts: Letting go of Blame 63:29
Tara Brach
Anger, judgment and blame create separation—from our inner life and our world. Only by releasing chronic blame can we free our hearts to truly give and receive love. This talk looks at the difference between healthy anger and the trance of blame, and through a set of reflections, teachings and stories, guides us in healing and freeing our hearts. (from the Spring 2018 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat – previously unpublished)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-05-03 Meditation: The Silence That’s Listening 27:15
Tara Brach
Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. In this guided meditation, we begin by opening to sound and then listening to and feeling the whole changing flow of life – allowing whatever is here to be just as it is. In the foreground, we notice the dance of sensations, thoughts, emotions…rising up and falling away. And in the background, a wakeful, receptive presence – the silence that is listening. When we let go of all doing and relax back into this alert stillness, we sense our true nature…our home. In words from the Tibetan tradition: “Utterly awake, senses wide open. Utterly open, non-fixating, allowing awareness.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-05-03 Day 6: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A 36:38
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-03 Five Faculties 5 -- Conc into Wisdom 49:44
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-05-02 Swan Song (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:30
John Travis
John's stories--commentary on: Impermanence--Body--Views and Opinions--Not Self--Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-02 Insight and Equanimity 54:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The Buddha said that the peace of equanimity is the greatest happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Wisdom and Compassion: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-02 The Middle Way 43:54
Oren Jay Sofer
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-05-02 Wise Mindfulness 50:41
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-05-02 Consciousness is a Magic Show - Week 2 - Meditation 55:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-05-02 Consciousness is a Magic Show - Week 2 - Meditation 34:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-05-02 Things Are Not As They Appear 6: Duality and Non-Duality 63:45
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the previous sessions in this series, particularly the last one, we explore a fifth way that things are not as they appear, looking at the habitual tendency to separate oneself and everything else, to experience on the basis of a core duality of subject and object, knower and known, self and other, and the problematic nature of this habitual tendency.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-05-02 Day 5: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:03
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-01 Nurturing the Process 35:23
Kim Allen
Kim Allen gave the second talk in a speaker series titled "Goals in Meditation." Kim advised that instead of spending time wishing for attending some future goals, we can just do the practice. When we develop and nurture the process of the liberating path, it will naturally lead us to the goal of the path.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Goals in Meditation

2018-05-01 Un aspect touchant de notre humanité, Montréal 41:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-05-01 To Be Here (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:42
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-01 Instructions et méditation guidée, Montréal 19:59
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-05-01 Equanimity 60:47
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-05-01 Refuge As Practice 45:47
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Going for refuge mirrors the process of waking up. We settle enough to know what we are experiencing (Buddha); we learn to let things be the way are (Dhamma); and we experience directly the happiness and release that comes from skillful behavior (Sangha).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-05-01 Ethics, Not-self and Liberation 66:15
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2018-05-01 Forgiveness and Compassion 37:08
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-05-01 Rencontrer Dukkha, Montréal 51:11
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-05-01 Meditation – Spring Morning on Retreat 33:46
Tara Brach
In this guided meditation, we include an overview of different components of mindfulness practice. The reflection includes a body scan, establishing a home base for attention, and care in how to arrive in full presence after being lost in thought. We then explore opening mindfully to different experiences and the simple and liberating practice of “being here,” letting life be just as it is.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-05-01 Day 4: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:10
Heather Sundberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-05-01 Dharma Winds 12:50
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-04-30 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 1:11:06
Donald Rothberg
An overview of the nature of the judgmental mind, how it is distinguished from non-reactive discernment, and ways of transforming the judgmental mind. With Q&A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-04-30 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Meditation 28:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-04-30 Wisdom-Awareness Map (MahaSati) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:01
Heather Sundberg
An introduction to a wisdom-awareness map from the Thai Forest tradition: Mindfulness - Great Mindfulness - Mindfulness-Wisdom - Wisdom which leads to Release. Includes metaphors & descriptions of maturing awareness which is able to release reactivity & access the 3 Lenses of Wisdom (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, not self). Concludes with a fun somatic exercise on holding on & letting go, based on a teaching from Ajahn Chah. For more information about these teachings, visit Heather's website & look up Talks & Retreat Schedule.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-04-30 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Talk 45:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-04-30 Mindfulness of Breathing 26:14
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on bringing in the practice of mindfulness of breathing, even into our daily activities.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-04-30 Closing Comments 11:36
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s natural for us to step out of our daily scenarios from time to time and take a break from suffering. Ask: “What’s most important now?” Find the hidden grooves that move towards destinations that don’t exist – permanence, sustained agreeable feeling, being in control – and establish ground in embodied awareness instead.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality

2018-04-30 Short Talk & Meditation: Forgiving and Freeing Our Hearts 36:52
Tara Brach
Forgiveness for others becomes possible when we’ve held our own being with great compassion. This short talk and guided meditation brings forth our most awake and tender presence as we ask for forgiveness, offer care to the woundedness within us, and then extend forgiveness to another who has hurt us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2018 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2018-04-30 A suggested exercise 4:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Watching a tree or a bush for 30 minutes notice how the object forming tendencies start to wear out and the experience is of something …. unnamed.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality

2018-04-30 Refining One’s Ability to Notice 35:02
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s possible for citta to review the 5 aggregates, not be stuck in them. Practice with sustaining a quality of awareness that’s open and receptive to shifting and changing. This awareness can be applied to your world.
London Insight Meditation Moving Out of Old Patterns; Undermining a False Reality

2018-04-30 Day 3: Instructions -- Sit - Q&A (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 35:17
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-04-30 The Divine Net of Views 31:35
Kim Allen
The Buddha offers practice as an alternative to getting caught in a view.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-04-29 The Body, Fear and Transforming Difficulties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:59
John Travis
A pilgrimage to Mustang, working with fear in the body and exploring the 5 hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness Through Insight Meditation

2018-04-29 Causes And Conditions 48:44
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Recognizing and relating to our conditioning in a skillful way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Wisdom and Compassion: Insight Meditation Retreat

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