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Dharma Talks
2022-05-21 Reflections on Energy / Viriya 17:51
Laura Bridgman
Understanding and engaging with energies we bring into a retreat can help us to be aware of and shed reactions to them. This transition is an important learning opportunity.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-21 Q&A 35:19
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
(Questions are précised and read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity) 00:12 Q1 One-pointedness; 08:22 Q2 Can you comment on the widely taught practice of one pointed concentration; 16:31 Q3 I struggle with narratives filled with self-limiting beliefs I create in meditation and daily life. Can you help with this please?; 30:31 Q4 When do we choose open curiosity versus directed compassion or loving kindness? What is the relationship between them and their utility?
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-21 Body Work 27:56
Laura Bridgman
A combination of massage and tapping techniques to relax the body.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-21 Guided Meditation on "descending into the heart" 23:42
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-21 Descending into the heart 35:20
Rodney Smith
To complete its transformation, awareness must enter the body/mine form and transform the spiritual heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-21 Reflections 46:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Words like “central axis” and “periphery” help create a template for awareness of all the senses in a field rather than seizing on points or a particular sensory experience. This is citta / mind/ heart, an awareness of a psychosomatic field.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-21 Reflections on Loneliness 60:57
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-05-21 Morning instructions – Metta and dear friend 49:56
Devin Berry
Instructions for working with a dear friend. Guided practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2022-05-21 Standing Meditation 41:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Becoming aware of the spinal axis and the space around it. This can be used in any position.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-20 Guided death contemplation, Dhamma talk on Carrion sutta – Amaganda 1:40:22
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
From Harris Park. Death contemplation guided by Bhante Akāliko. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato: Carrion sutta (Snp 2.2) Amaganda: literally "raw stench". A (presumably) hard-core vegan ascetic challenges the Buddha about his eating a cooked meal with meat. The Buddha's response: a conduct of practicing the four Brahma Viharas is what a monastic / ascetic lifestyle is about.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • Carrion sutta (Snp 2.2) by suttacentral.net (Link)

2022-05-20 The skilful use of precepts 11:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Refuges and precepts provide a field of conscience and concern that wards off carelessness, imbalance, distractedness and negativity – and helps in moving towards a true norm that won’t let us down.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-20 Guided meditation: relaxing the grasping 26:47
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-20 Relaxing the grasping 42:18
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-20 Guided Meditation 19:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Gathering ourselves into a field of collective awareness, we tune into a sense of shared belonging and support with other human beings.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-20 Metta instructions in guided meditation 58:14
Oren Jay Sofer
Overview of Metta practice with instructions for working with the benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2022-05-19 talk: connecting with the more than human world 16:48
Jill Shepherd
Investigating how our sense of community can be expanded to include the more than human world, closing with some relational practice in pairs, exploring our kinship with all beings
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-05-19 Love as the Default Position of the Mind 50:36
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-19 The Problem with Resisting Reality: The Possibility of Real Freedom 52:21
James Baraz
As much as we would like things to be a certain way, we have limited control over the way things are. Even though that may be apparent to all Dharma students who have some practice under their belt, the mind still gets caught in the habit of attachment to things being a certain way. This week we will explore what gets in the way, how we can open to the way things really are and the radical shift that can occur within us when we see through this self-created prison.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-05-19 The Precepts--Outer, Inner, and Secret 53:32
Tina Rasmussen
Insight Meditation Tucson

2022-05-19 Guided meditation on "the evolution of awareness" 20:51
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-19 The evolution of awareness. 42:07
Rodney Smith
Opening awareness beyond the mine involves three phrases. Phase 1 is self-controlled awareness, phase 2 is self-examining awareness, and phase 3 is freeing awareness from self
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-19 Opening to Emotions 34:22
Cara Lai
How the middle way of the Buddha can teach us to skillfully navigate emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-05-18 Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:27 min.) 18:26
Tara Brach
This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-18 Self-Forgiveness with RAIN 57:57
Tara Brach
Our inability to forgive ourselves blocks healing and freedom. As we explore in this talk, the habit of judging and blaming ourselves traps us in fears, prevents intimacy with our world, and veils over the goodness and mystery of who we are. This talk includes several reflections that can support us as we cultivate a wise and forgiving heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-05-18 Guided Meditation - Grief and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:49
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

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