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Dharma Talks
2022-05-27 Enoughness: guided meditation 26:27
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-27 Enoughness 42:57
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 The Buddha and War. 23:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha was involved in disputes and war in various ways. He gave the principles by which we shojld behave, but would not make decisions for us.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2022-05-26 Guided meditation on resolving distance 24:47
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 Resolving distance 37:26
Rodney Smith
We take distance as a factor of reality when in fact it is a mental concept.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-26 Orientation Towards Completion and Ease 60:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Developing facility with the indriya – faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness and discernment – supports awareness of skilful states flowing and fulfilling themselves within a mindful embodiment.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-26 Guided Standing Meditation 42:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Self massage helps body awareness arise. With mental intention, alternately directing and releasing activation energy around the body, we increase connectivity and provide a broad basis for mindfulness.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Q&A 23:45
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 Please say more about sankara and their physiological / psychosomatic body links; 18:06 Q2 I have a question about tears borne from love and grieving. How does this fit with equanimity?
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.) 21:25
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-25 Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear 46:46
Tara Brach
We are living with the threat of increasing, dramatic suffering around the globe. This talk looks at the direct ways our meditation practices, supported by findings of neuroscience, can help us find resilience and an open heart in the face of an uncertain and frightening future. It includes a number of short reflections and meditations.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-25 Exploring the Nature of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:08
Mark Coleman
How nature reveals the ephemeral, impermanent, interconnected nature of who we are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

2022-05-25 Sati with other faculties 25:27
Laura Bridgman
The mind is a delicate and responsive instrument. Balancing faith and effort, sati uses gentleness and patience and we learn what is peaceful and natural.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-25 Value 47:42
Leela Sarti
From external, objectified value to the implicit value of our beingness
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-25 Practicing with Fear 3 66:03
Donald Rothberg
We start by acknowledging the mass shooting in Texas that occurred yesterday, in the context of our practicing with fear, following up an earlier guided meditation and sharing (not recorded) related to the shooting. We then look generally at the three core ways of practicing with fear, going into some depth on each: (1) cultivating mindfulness and clear seeing (wisdom), (2) working with the heart practices, and (3) acting skillfully. We then focus on how the process of awakening typically involves at each new stage an opening to fear, and also mention some of the dynamics of the "Dark Night of the Soul." Lastly, we look at how to explore and work with fear related to our social world, in terms of the three ways of practicing with fear. There follows a period of discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-05-25 Sati-sampajañña - Clearing Hindrances 60:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances can be cleared through ‘mindful direct awareness’ – sati sampajañña. Such working through what blocks the potential of citta, demands humility, since it is not one’s personal self doing the work. Body is a key and potent resource.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Equanimity 67:43
Winnie Nazarko
This talk addresses the quality of equanimity – what it is and is not – and how to cultivate it
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2022-05-24 The Experience of Dukkha 48:11
Jaya Rudgard
How dukkha is a natural feature of life. When we learn to decondition reactivity, it becomes a gateway to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature

2022-05-24 Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will 24:33
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2022-05-24 Q&A 38:32
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Your explanation of sati as putting a ring around proliferation makes sense to me. How best to do the ring-fencing? 12:46 Q2 Does the Buddha say what the purpose of human life is? 17:39 Q3 What happens when you die? 22:37 Q4 Could you speak more about citta resting in itself. 27:24 Q5 Am I trying to do too much when holding a sense of ground and releasing boundaries for myself? 30:20 Q6 Boundaries in relationships when caring for elderly parents.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Composure and Equanimity 46:54
Laura Bridgman
Composure is an inner experience of what's arising, not dependent on our normal preferences and reactions. Sometimes called vipassana we’re aware subtle or strong currents, noticing and not reacting.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 The heart of presence 38:24
Leela Sarti
Exploring the nature of the heart and why we have to turn to our grief to be truly human
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-24 Guided Meditation on "vulnerability as a threshold into awareness" 23:10
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-24 Vulnerability as a threshold into awareness. 42:36
Rodney Smith
Living within vulnerability provides ongoing access to formless awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-24 Currents in the Citta - Sati 54:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Considering the structures of the day we can release those that are not useful and direct them to discover citta and an inner balance, not just 'the next thing'.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-24 Guided Standing Meditation 50:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Standing form is a powerful way to bring one into the realities of embodiment which can be taken then to sitting or walking.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

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