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Dharma Talks
2018-07-26 Choosing and Working With An Anchor 63:26
Chas DiCapua
Description of meditating using the body and the breath as the main meditation object. Encouragement for relaxation and ease.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2018-07-25 The Practice of Inclusivity 54:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto describes how our external and internal worlds come to be built upon exclusion. He encourages us to give up the exhausting endeavor of excluding the uncomfortable and to meet the suffering of the 1st Noble Truth instead. Suffering is met and released through embodied presence with all that arises.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-07-25 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life 21:52
Tara Brach
We are conditioned to scan for “what’s wrong” and contract our body and mind in anticipation of danger. This meditation helps us undo these primal survival habits, and frees us to inhabit the full aliveness, creativity and love our natural being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-25 Saying “Yes” – Meeting Your Edge and Softening 56:37
Tara Brach
Our habitual ways of avoiding unpleasant experience keep us from intimacy with our inner life and with each other. This talk helps us recognize these often unconscious patterns that keep us identified with a separate, threatened self, and offers guidance in saying “yes” to the life we encounter. As we release resistance, we discover the creativity, wisdom and love that express our unbound, true, nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-25 The Three Characteristics 47:45
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-25 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - Part 3 - Talk 54:52
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-25 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - Part 3 - Meditation 33:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-25 The Simile of the Cloth (Majjhima Nikaya) and The Four Noble Truths in short 52:44
Sayadaw U Jagara
Based on that sutta, we see the role of perception (sañña) in how we relate to our experience of the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-25 Instructions - Questioning 0:00
Stephen Batchelor
(Recording not available) 
Gaia House

2018-07-25 Instructions - Questioning 32:35
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-25 Day 5: Guided Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:06
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-25 How to Change Your Mind-Incrementally 1:58:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-24 The Parable of the Arrow 51:36
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-24 Suffering and the End of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:24
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-24 Guided Meditation - Mindfulness of Feeling Tone (part 3 of 3) 40:45
Martine Batchelor
{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-24 Instructions - Mindfulness of Vedana (part 2 of 3) 24:26
Martine Batchelor
{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation}.
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-24 Day 4: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:43
Joseph Goldstein
Working with Thoughts and Emotions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-23 Vedana (part 1 of 3) 46:50
Martine Batchelor
{This talk is part of a set of three recordings from the retreat (Vedana; Instructions – Mindfulness of Vedana; Guided Meditation – Mindfulness of Feeling Tone). All three recordings focus on mindfulness of feeling tones with general explanations, practical instructions and guided meditation.}
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-23 The Infinity and Immeasurability of Impermanence (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:44
Kamala Masters
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-23 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 4 - Talk 30:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-23 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 4 - Meditation 36:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-23 23 Closing Exhortation: Being Is First, Doing Is Second 27:58
Ajahn Sucitto
As soon as something comes to mind, the impulse is to do something about it. This is just blind. The most important piece is be something first. It shouldn’t take that long, just 10 seconds. Even if being something is being aware of confusion, aware of dukkha, drop into the center of your reactivity. Then awakened intelligence has the possibility to arise in the pause.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-23 Listening to the Language of the Land 47:37
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to begin to listen to the natural world in a way that deepens our spiritual practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center The Natural Path of the Heart's Liberation

2018-07-23 Disenchantment and dispassion --> Knowledge and vision of liberation 61:09
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk discusses the last conditional links described in the Kimatthiya Sutta (“What Purpose?”) (Anguttara Nikaya 10.1), where the Buddha teaches Ananda that wholesome ethical behavior leads to non-regret, which leads to gladness, .... ultimately leading to liberation. The penultimate stage of the list is Nibbida virāgo, which are often translated as disenchantment and dispassion (thought "free of enchantment and free of fire of passion" is a more appropriate translation, as discussed in the talk). The list in the sutta, as well as the talk, end with a brief discussion of knowledge and vision of liberation (Vimutti ñāna dassana), which is synonymous with nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-23 Choosing Love: Monday Night Dharma Talk 65:33
Amma Thanasanti
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-23 Instructions - Letting Go of Reactivity 31:37
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-23 Day 3: Morning Sit with Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:10
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-22 Talk on Upekkha/Equanimity 48:07
Pat Coffey
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center :  Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2018-07-22 The Parable of the Raft 48:54
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2018-07-22 What Mindfulness is and What it Isn't 58:41
Joseph Goldstein
Exploring the nuances of mindfulness is a vehicle and methodology of liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-22 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - Part 2 - Talk 58:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-22 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - Part 2 - Meditation 33:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-22 22 The Comfort Place Is Here 57:24
Ajahn Sucitto
The end of retreat provides the occasion to experience endings and separation. Check the tendency to rush into the future, the desire to get out of the uncomfortable and move towards the comfort zone. These boundaries of entering something unknown are important places to pause and notice what’s happening. The comfort place is here, don’t leave it. Feel the disturbances, and meet them with mindful and loving acceptance.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-22 Mudita/Empathetic Joy Practice 32:11
Pat Coffey
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center :  Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2018-07-22 Final Words 57:14
Chris Cullen
Also speaking are Yuka Nakamura, and Akincano
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-22 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - The Five Subjects for Frequent Reflection Chant and Meditation 33:26
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-22 Understanding Conceit and the Hearts Release - Talk 42:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-22 Day Two: Guided Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:10
Kamala Masters
"There is a Body"; Connecting and Sustaining with Rising and Falling, or In and Out Breath. Acknowledging Thinking-not getting lost in them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-21 Taking Refuge: The Simplicity and Beauty of the Seeds of Faith 46:40
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-21 Re-imagining our world 62:59
Yuka Nakamura
Brief description: How can we hold and meet the challenges of our time? Rather than falling into helplessness and despair, we can metabolize our fears and worries into energy and courage, allowing ourselves to be stirred up and to feel a sense of urgency. One specific area of practice is to see through our ways of perceiving and conceiving the world and self. Understanding the dependent and fabricated nature of all experience we can consciously and creatively play with ways of looking that contribute to peace, happiness, and harmony.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-21 21 Q&A 61:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Working with sexual energy (0:08); social justice in line with Dhamma (15:20); mindfulness, thinking, speaking & listening (35:03)
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-21 19 Careful Thinking to Be Cultivated for Wisdom and Release 37:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Used wisely thinking supports liberation. Through wise reflection we begin to understand the views and attitudes that give rise to afflictive thinking. But through patiently resisting acting on these creations, it’s possible to gain authority over one’s mind, rather than be caught in worldly currents.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-21 20 Wisdom: Detox for the Heart 59:10
Ajahn Sucitto
One of the roles of wisdom is to continually check the toxic influences and open to what is here naturally. The unconditioned can be found through wise reflection and handling of the uncertain and unresolvable nature of conditioned experience. When we no longer resist it or feel agitated by it, the mind is released. The mind released shines in its own luminosity and that radiance gives the heart back its strength.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-21 Not Obscuring Not Knowing 40:15
Dhammadīpā
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-07-21 Concentration Meditation: Purification of Mind 6:37:49
Tina Rasmussen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-21 Samatha Meditation and Purification of Mind 49:07
Tina Rasmussen
Introductory talk from daylong on concentration practice (samatha), and its relationship to purification of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-21 Day One: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:23
Joseph Goldstein
"There is a Body"...................Walking Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center July Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-07-21 Morning Reflection - Meditation on the Four Elements 36:22
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-21 Morning Instructions On The Fourth Satipatthana 59:59
Chris Cullen
Contemplation of Dhammas (especially hinderances and awakening factor)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-21 Living Awareness: Opening the Heart; Freeing the Mind 5:54:46
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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