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Dharma Talks
2022-04-24 Change, Impermanence, and Gliding Through Life's Transitions 30:03
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2022-04-24 A path to the deathless 54:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Who or what you think you are is not your fundamental home. Learning to contemplate the citta/ mind/ heart and the five aggregates (form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations) reveals a way to dismantle the driven ego and liberate the citta from aging, sickness and death.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-24 Mountains Are Only Heavy if You Try to Lift Them: Understanding the Buddha's Wisdom – Talk 35:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-24 Mountains Are Only Heavy if You Try to Lift Them: Understanding the Buddha's Wisdom – Meditation 35:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-04-24 A Boundless Passion 1:28:15
Nathan Glyde
A guided meditation sending mettā and compassion to phenomena (rather than beings). Then a reflection and discussion about what insights, wisdom, and well-being, we feel from this kind of practice. Plus, where further can this practice take us. For more, see my upcoming course at Gaia House: https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/wisdom-of-compassion/
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2022

2022-04-24 Harmony practice 30:27
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided chanting / sound exercise to generate internal harmony and harmony with others.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-24 Recognition and probing 58:17
Ayya Santacitta
The five hindrances are fuel for developing the seven factors of awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-23 Hindrances and Wise Attention 61:15
Dawn Scott
This talk explores how the use of attention nourishes the five hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2022-04-23 What does identity have to do with practice? 56:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Identity is actually a process of making a self through clinging to what mind creates through contact with our environment and other people. This process comes down to the interplay of form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations – the aggregates (khandha) But am I really any part of this? Investigation allows us to unclog the heart and release the inherent suffering. Ajahn recommends walking as a way of experiencing flow and fluidity. No identity is needed!
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-23 Fine-tuning and strengthening the mind 42:10
Ayya Santacitta
Connected, yet spacious and balanced. Guided meditation on the seven factors of awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-23 What is our identity? 50:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Investigation reveals this to be a mix of causes and conditions (inherited karma) along with actions and attitudes established through compulsive reactions. Using the Buddha's core teaching of the dukkha/ suffering that comes with clinging, we learn to use the feelings in the body as a guide to allow us to move out of this programmed self.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-23 Guided Meditation 43:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Guided sitting and standing
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-23 Progressive Instruction MN 56 1:14:18
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2022-04-23 Introduction and theme 12:35
Ajahn Sucitto
In understanding and relaxing the boundaries of self we step back and listen internally with goodwill, discovering what has to be set aside or investigated. Thus we begin to release the self from the habitual trap of cause and effect.
London Insight Meditation Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields

2022-04-23 Guided meditation: samādhi 45:44
Jill Shepherd
Inviting the knowing of pleasant bodily sensations to uplift the heart-mind into appreciation or even joy, which might settle into tranquility then samādhi
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-23 Dhammadinna - foremost in teaching Dhamma 32:57
Ayya Anandabodhi
Sharing the story of Dhammadinna and reflecting on skillful effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-22 Hidden in plain sight. 1:21:33
Ayya Santacitta
Strengthening and sensitizing the mind through cultivating the seven factors of awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-22 Seven Factors of Awakening p4: Tranquility and Samādhi 54:27
Jill Shepherd
Looking at how tranquility can support a less effortful settling into samādhi, mental absorption
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-22 Meditation on mindfulness of the breath, Dhamma talk about Mahasi techniques 1:19:57
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Meditation on mindfulness of the breath. Dhamma talk about Mahasi techniques e.g. noting, where to watch the breath, influence of Japan in early twentieth century Buddhism, Satipattana Sutta parts, Mahasi and the evolution of the stages of insight.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-04-22 The elements are empty of a self. 34:15
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation on the six elements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-22 Patacara's 30 disciples. 52:46
Ayya Anandabodhi
Allowing the practice to break us out of the old conditioning of me and mine.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-21 Gratitude for Our Home: Celebrating Earth Day 51:34
James Baraz
This Earth Day week we share an evening of gratitude and celebration for our natural world. When we get in touch with our love for something we are more motivated to care for it. Rather than going into the dire situation that most of us are all too familiar with, we can get connected with the beauty of the world that is our home We share a clip on the natural world and the experience of gratitude, which starts with an adorable little girl talking about the wonder of exploring nature instead of watching a screen followed by Brother David Steindl-Rast on gratitude. Although it is audio only you can still here the magic in the words. To see the video here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkEvBtyL7M
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-04-21 Patacara - going beyond grief. 1:19:23
Ayya Anandabodhi
Sharing the story of Patacara who lost her whole family, within a few hours, then lost her mind. Meeting the Buddha, she regains her senses and breaks through to stream entry, and later - Nibbana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-21 The Refuges--Outer, Inner and Secret 33:56
Tina Rasmussen
Insight Meditation Tucson

2022-04-21 Collapsing Into the Now 1:40:18
Amita Schmidt
A podcast interview by Todd McLeod where we talk about Adyashanti, the root guru, pure zen, collapsing into the now, THIS IS IT, everything is one thing, dropping the illusion of the individual self, the survival instinct and evolution, you are the infinite, impermanence, and realizing exponential love.
Heart Mind Way

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