2018-07-20 Talk on Karuna/Compassion 56:27
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center :  Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2018-07-20 Citta - The Knowing Mind 67:07
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Functions and qualities of the citta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-20 18 Appropriate Attention: Comfortably Held rather than Witnessed 57:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The way we direct and hold attention either regenerates afflictive self-forming tendencies or decreases them. By relaxing attention and taking in qualities that give rise to ease and gladness, the body is more comfortable and the mind is happy.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-20 Metta/Loving-kindness Practice 29:58
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Sevenoaks Pathwork Center :  Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2018-07-20 Introduction to metta practice for the "neutral" and "difficult" catagories 46:29
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-20 Morning Reflection 2:17:57
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-20 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of mind 50:16
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 The Spirit of Play in Dharma: Enjoying Your Meditation Practice: 56:24
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
As a Zen teacher of mine used to say,"Life... very serious joke." Things can get real heavy sometimes - in life, and in contemplative practice. This talk explores the importance of finding some levity and enjoyment in our formal spiritual practice through the lens of play. Enjoy!
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2018-07-19 Awakening joy part 2 61:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
dharma talk
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-19 Cultivating the Beautiful Heart Qualities (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:25
John Martin	Download Listen
The cultivation of the divine abodes of loving kindness, compassion, supportive joy and equanimity are a practice for the whole of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta

2018-07-19 Reflections On The Practice Of Anatta - Not Self 62:49
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Some exploration of dimensions of "I-Making and My-Making", investigating dependent arising of selfing, ways of cultivating the perception "not self" the emptiness of all phenomena, and the im[portace of honoring the "relative self" and personal dimensions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 16 Right Effort: How to Strive without Getting a Hernia 55:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The Buddha crossed the floods of ignorance, sensuality and becoming by not halting and not straining. The right effort of finding ground in the body is a means for balancing and moderating energy and effort.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-19 17 Walking Instructions: Staying in Flow 4:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As we walk, we’re moving through the aggregates, through the field of mind as it opens with its senses of urgency, discord, worry. Sustain mobile mindfulness, walking through your psychological and emotional ‘weather’.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-19 Metta to all 28:24
James Baraz	Download Listen
Metta for everybody
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta

2018-07-19 Guided Metta Meditation 44:10
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-19 Big Mind 55:07
James Baraz	Download Listen
Morning instructions
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-19 Morning Reflection 46:36
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-19 Cittanupassana - contemplation of mind states: Background and guidance 51:11
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 Meditation: Breath by Breath – Inviting Relaxation and Ease 16:46
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation invites relaxation and ease. We begin with a long deep breathing that helps calm the body and mind. Then we release tensions that might be held in the body, and settle our attention in a receptive way with the breath. The intention is to discover the relaxed wakefulness that expresses our natural being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-18 What Is It Like Being You? 56:24
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
Compassion is hard wired in our organism, and can be cultivated. This talk helps us identify the blocks to compassion—our outmoded survival equipment—and using RAIN, offers practical guidance in mindfully attuning to others’ emotional experience and awakening our natural tenderness and care. This talk includes a short introduction to the meditation: The RAIN of Compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-18 Awakening Joy part 1 65:27
James Baraz	Download Listen
Dharma talk
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-18 Equanimity Dharma Talk 53:31
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta

2018-07-18 Compassion 60:38
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Compassion is a central mental factor that we want to cultivate on the path. It is both the sensitivity to suffering and the wholesome intention and action to alleviate suffering. Compassion frees the heart from unwholesome mindstates temporarily, is the foundation of moral conduct and supports the unfolding of wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 13 Guided Meditation: Disengaged Awareness 39:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We’re not having an experience, we are an experience. An experience that’s changing, that’s affected. Allowing content to arise and manifest generates spaciousness and eases the sense of self.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 14 Allowing Innate Intelligence to Arise 55:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Two kinds of reflexes occur in the flow of experience: not knowing what to do and knowing what to do. Both are subject to suffering. Recognize that within experience there is an innate intelligence, clarity, refuge if we allow it to arise. Doing is guesswork; being is clearer.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 15 Q&A: I Don’t Answer Questions I Respond to People 68:00
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ajahn Sucitto reflects on questions posed about breathing, how to engage with the felt sense, heedfulness vs mindfulness, metta practice and cultivating an open heart
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-18 Sila Paramita 49:59
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-07-18 Q/A 49:11
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Both Sayadaw U Jagara and Nikki Mirghafori share answers and reflections on pre-written questions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-18 Guided Metta Meditation 47:05
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
No Phrases - using images
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-18 Different Approaches to Taking in the Moment 50:44
James Baraz	Download Listen
Morning instructions
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-18 Morning Instructions: Investigating the supporting condition in the links of conditionality (Nissaya) 26:07
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-18 Joy as a Balancer of a Broken Heart 1:56:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-17 Responding with Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:51
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us learn to be judge=mental and critical, especially towards ourselves. Metta is a powerful practice to diminish and even transform the tendency towards judging.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta

2018-07-17 Flavors Of Not-Knowing 1:12:30
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Exploration of avija (not knowing) and moha (delusion). Phycological exploration of the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-17 11 You Don’t Stop Craving, You Stop Believing in It 68:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The mind is a dynamic process with a certain familiarity to it that seems to reiterate and get stuck in wanting and not wanting. Liberation from this begins with not getting involved with, tussling with or pandering to the habit of craving.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-17 12 Guided Meditation: The Felt Sense of the Body 21:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness is a centering place. Not pushing away, not taking a position. It’s a reference point. Rest and remain present to the experiences and expressions of the heart.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-17 Guided Meditation - Looking Through Different Lenses 27:25
James Baraz	Download Listen
Panoramic and Refinement on Breath
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-17 Introduction To Metta And Guided Metta Practice 45:17
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
For group, self, and benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-17 Morning Instructions 55:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
Opening to Emotions and Thoughts
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-17 Morning Instructions 46:07
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Samadhi (concentration) and seeing things as they are
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-16 Questions and Responses 48:58
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This recording also includes Zohar Lavie
Gaia House :  The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-16 Transforming Suffering Into Happiness 66:29
James Baraz	Download Listen
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland :  Silent retreat with James and Jane Baraz

2018-07-16 Developing Inner Sanctuary (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:35
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Through difficult experiencing in practice and in times of easy, loving-kindness meditation purifies and heals the heart, opening us up to inner sanctuary. This ripening of loving kindness sanctuary is the taste of meditative samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  July Metta

2018-07-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 3 - Talk 55:42
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 3 - Meditation 34:41
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-16 07 Posture and Breath for Chanting 21:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Chanting begins with opening the belly, chest and throat. Posture and relaxation help clear blocked areas so the heart tone of chanting can vibrate and deepen through the body. [9:50 – 21:30 breathing and voice exercises]
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 08 Guided Meditation: Soothing Nervous Energy Through Breathing and Body 24:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A comprehensive guided meditation to bring gentle, full awareness to all of the parts of the body, creating connections across them. In this connected state, body channels can open allowing for energy flow and discharge.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 09 Don’t Resist the Disorientation Experience 53:01
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On retreat there can be disorientation – new people, place, restrictions that weren’t there before. Disorientation is a tough medicine, but we use it to meet the boundary of the habitual self with its instinct to ‘make things go my way'. Stay with the discomfort, so that the mind changes direction: to the settled ground, through the body.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 10 Discerning Your Way Through Systems 13:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
One of the fundamental obstacles for unawakened beings is the attachment to systems and customs. Rather than a habit of a system or technique in meditation, rely on organic human intelligence. Discern what is skillful and unskillful, necessary and unnecessary. Keep paring away what’s not needed and dwell in what remains. Something is waiting to meet you – a certain stillness and firmness of the spirit.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-07-16 Concentration/Unification of Mind (Samādhi) --> Knowledge and vision of things as they are (Yathā bhūta ñāna dassana) 60:26
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
This talk discusses the sixth and seventh (Samādhi --> Yathā bhūta ñāna dassana) 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.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge