2018-08-08 27 guided meditation: metta using the radiating energy method 19:49
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided metta meditation using the radiating energy method, without reciting phrases or in relation to categories of people
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 26 short instructions: radiating energy method of metta practice 6:55
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Very short instructions for practising metta using the radiating energy method
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Day 5 Morning Instructions and Q&A 57:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-08 25 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor 27:30
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation practising metta for the benefactor, using the reciting phrases method
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 24 instructions: metta 16:21
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
How physical and mental seclusion supports samadhi, stability of mind or concentration, and how the reciting phrases method of metta practice also helps strengthen samadhi
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-08 Practicing with Difficulties and Challenges 2: The Eight Worldly Winds 63:20
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of the six ways of practicing with difficulties and challenges presented last week, we explore the important teaching of the “Eight Worldly Winds” that keep us caught in reactivity—pleasure and pain, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, and praise and blame. Working with this teaching gives us another very helpful lens for working with difficulties and also with our tendencies to grasp—onto pleasure, gain, fame, and praise. We suggest several ways of practicing with this teaching, as a further way to deepen and energize our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-07 Expanding The Circle Of Sensitivity 28:00
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2018-08-07 23 talk: the hindrance of aversion and the brahmavihara practices as antidotes 53:43
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Ways of working with the hindrance of ill will or aversion, including an overview of the four brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity as antidotes to ill will
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 20 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 26:08
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, then including physical sensations, sounds, thoughts and emotions, knowing their impermanent nature, then opening up to choiceless awareness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 19 instructions: mindfulness of the mind 28:46
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Ways to practice mindfulness of thoughts, emotions, moods and mind-states
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-07 Right Concentration and Steadiness: Support on the Way to Liberation 50:39
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2018-08-06 The Two Darts 52:31
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Some thoughts on the awareness of empirical reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-06 Metta in Deed, Speech, and Thought 53:25
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Metta is not only a sublime state of heart & mind, but it must be manifested in all our actions throughout the day.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-06 Binary Thinking and the Limits of Language 28:14
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on going beyond the limits of language.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2018-08-06 17 guided dyad meditation: feeling-tone 17:16
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 16 instructions: feeling tone or vedana 27:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the Second Establishment of Mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:14:48
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-06 15 guided meditation: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 14:25
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short guided meditation exploring the qualities of earth, water, fire and air or wind within the body, and also externally
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-06 14 instructions: contemplating the body in terms of four elements or qualities 11:45
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An introduction to mindfulness of the body in terms of the four qualities of earth, water, fire, and air or wind, as a way of gaining insight into the body's impermanence and interconnectedness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 Learning to be a Friend and an Ally 50:08
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
When we slow down and look at our own mind things aren't always so pretty. We often find self-judgment, criticism, harshness. One way to understand this path is that we are learning to be a good friend to ourselves, and to others.
Springboard Meditation Sangha (St. Francis Renewal Center) :  The Way of Insight

2018-08-05 13 talk: sukha, happiness 42:00
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring the role of sukha, happiness, in the Buddha's teachings, and how the silence, solitude, simplicity, slowing down and stillness of being on retreat support the development of that happiness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 Metta as a Brahmavihara 51:05
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Metta and the other Brahmaviharas are skilful and wholesome responses to whatever happens in our life.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-05 Guided Metta Meditation 60:34
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Introduction to the practice, working with self and benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-05 12 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body in terms of its anatomical parts 29:03
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation beginning with a reading from the Satipatthana Sutta on the anatomical parts of the body, followed by reciting of the 32 parts then body scans knowing the body in terms of its skin, flesh, and bones
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 11 instructions: mindfulness of the body as a collection of anatomical parts 8:35
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for exploring the body in terms of its anatomical parts
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 10 instructions: walking rotating through senses 7:59
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short instructions for a variation of walking meditation, tuning in to physical sensations, then seeing, then hearing
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 09 guided meditation: mindfulness of the breath, physical sensations, and sounds 28:39
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Using the breath as home base, then gradually opening up the field of awareness to include physical sensations throughout the body, then sounds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 08 instructions: different approaches to mindfulness 15:38
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of mindfulness as a way of relating to experience, and understanding when and how to apply different approaches to help keep the mind balanced
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 Day Two Meditation Instructions and Q&A 61:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-04 Recalling the Buddha's Great Compassion 43:15
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-08-04 Three Aspects Of Mindfulness 58:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Developing skill and confidence in kind relaxation, interest and wise view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2018-08-04 Cultivating and Liberating Citta 52:02
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Journeying the Landscape of Body, Heart and Mind

2018-08-04 07 talk: Four Noble Truths 41:53
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of dukkha and an overview of the Four Noble Truths
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-04 Catching the Spirit of Metta 53:10
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
If we are practising metta meditation, it is good to know what metta is and what not.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-04 Metta Meditation Instructions 33:25
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Instructions for the practice of metta meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-04 06 guided dyad meditation: mindfulness of body 34:19
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad (pairs) meditation practising vipassana out loud, naming physical sensations in the body
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-04 05 short instructions: continuity of mindfulness and walking meditation 10:27
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for maintaining continuity of mindfulness throughout the day, followed by walking meditation instructions
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-04 04 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 30:01
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation stabilising awareness on the breath, emphasising ease and calm
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-04 03 instructions: introduction of mindfulness and the practice of mindfulness of breathing 15:45
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of what is meant by mindfulness, its purpose, and beginning instructions for mindfulness of breathing
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-03 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 33:20
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short body scan to help release tension, then mindfulness of breathing emphasising calm
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-03 01 talk: retreat opening 19:54
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Retreat opening talk, with an overview of the practice and supports for our inner journey, including commitment to non-harming through taking the five ethical precepts
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-03 How to Train an Elephant - The Hindrances in Meditation 64:50
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Journeying the Landscape of Body, Heart and Mind

2018-08-03 The Present is a Gift 49:48
Ofosu Jones-Quartey	Download Listen
A talk about the grace of the present moment and the possibility of becoming new; also touching on the trans formative power of love and forgiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat at Spirit Rock

2018-08-02 Nature Stories and the Four Floods 36:39
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-08-02 Playing with Perceptions of the Body 60:05
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Journeying the Landscape of Body, Heart and Mind

2018-08-02 Parenting: Self, other, and Beyond 32:35
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Family Retreat at Spirit Rock

2018-08-01 Is there Love in Anger? 43:03
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
With French Translation. Recorded in a tent in the rain. Exploring anger, and fear, in an attempt to find the love and benefit within them, and within us.
SanghaSeva :  Dharma Yatra 2018

2018-08-01 Meditation: Refuge in Living Presence 22:55
Tara Brach	Download Listen
We spend great swaths of time in a trance that removes us from awareness of our body and senses. This meditation reconnects us by scanning through the body, including sounds and then resting in the field of awareness and aliveness. We practice relaxing and gently arriving again when thoughts carry us away; learning the pathway home to living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-01 Healing Depression with Meditation – Part 1 55:37
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-01 Engagement with Life Without Attachment to Desire 59:15
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds