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Dharma Talks
2018-05-13 Living Kindness - Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World: Part 2, Talk 61:54
Kevin Griffin
Common Ground Meditation Center Living Kindness - Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World

2018-05-13 Friendliness, Guided Meditation 43:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates

2018-05-13 Living Kindness - Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World: Part 3, Meditation 21:20
Kevin Griffin
Common Ground Meditation Center Living Kindness - Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World

2018-05-13 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 6 - Lifetime Precept Ceremony n Conclusion talk - Bhante Gunaratana 55:53
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 6 - Lifetime Precept Ceremony n Conclusion talk - Bhante Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-13 05 guided dyad (pairs) practice exploring the impermanent and not-self nature of the body 17:17
Jill Shepherd
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: guided dyad (pairs) practice, exploring physical sensations in the body (three minutes each), then an example of a time when you became aware of the body's impermanent, unreliable and not-self nature
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-13 04 short talk: dukkha and an overview of the five aggregates 24:11
Jill Shepherd
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: Dukkha as the second of the three universal characteristics; its relationship to the five "clinging-aggregates" and ways that we commonly cling to or identify with the body
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-13 03 short guided meditation: mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 15:13
Jill Shepherd
Exploring Anatta: constructing and de-constructing the sense of self - a six-week study and practice course Week 2: A 15 minute guided meditation focus on mindfulness of the body and physical sensations
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2018-05-12 Awareness Naturally Strengthens A Beautiful Mind/Heart 57:38
Carol Wilson
How wise grows motivation grows naturally as our awareness grows and steadies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Awareness Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-12 Lecture 16 1:52:13
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 16 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2018-05-12 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Q & A - Bhante Jayasara 1:32:34
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Q & A - Bhante Jayasara
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-12 Grateful 10:43
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-12 James Baldwin Reading 4:11
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-12 Equanimity 59:21
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-12 Attention Effort Relaxation 12:10
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-12 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Jayasara 1:22:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Jayasara
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-12 Instructions & Guided Meditation, Guelph Retreat 41:20
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Heart That Resonates

2018-05-12 Guided Meditation Instructions - day 7 58:42
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Awareness Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-12 On Self Identification 4:36
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-12 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda 31:06
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 5 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-11 Maranasati: Grateful for Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:51
Eugene Cash
Maranasati leads to being real and being grateful for both life and death. As we mature and deal directly with the truth of death we value life and the preciousness of existence. This reality brings gratefulness of all that is given–– our bodies, hearts, minds, the earth, sky, universe and each moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-11 Relating Wisely To Views and Sensuality. 60:29
Mark Nunberg
The early Buddhist teachings emphasis not clinging to views and abandoning craving for sense experience. How does this look in our human life?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Awareness Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-11 Five topics for frequent recollection. 45:31
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-05-11 Shaping our world through the way of looking 61:57
Yuka Nakamura
The talk discusses the role of perception in creating and shaping our experience and the problems that arise due to our lack of awareness regarding the fabricated nature of awareness and the distortions of perception. It presents a way of practice that involves playing and experimenting with different skilful ways of looking. 1. Seeing in terms of the three characteristics, 2. Seeing through the lenses of goodwill and friendliness, 3. Imaginal, creative and symbolic ways of looking.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Four Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-11 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Q & A - Bhante Seelananda 1:31:53
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Q & A - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-11 Guided Meditation Heart Qualities 30:48
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 More Poem 18:21
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Poem 3:21
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 More Hindrances 1:07
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Working with rigorous honesty - Dharma and Recovery Program 55:58
Walt Opie
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-05-11 Hindrances 44:48
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Seelananda 62:04
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-11 Settling Instructions 40:57
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Refuge in the Precepts Chanting 45:42
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Majjhima Nikaya 1:08
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Movement Walking 4:12
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 Day 6 Morning Instructions: Aspirations for living from the perspective of our deathbed. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:02
Nikki Mirghafori
In this morning's guided meditation, first we settle in with the body, appreciating the intimacy and the impersonality of experience, holding both experiences equally valid. Then, we look at our lives from the vantage point of our deathbed (far in the future, only for the purpose of this thought exercise) and reflect on aspirations that arise for living our life in this precious human birth, however long we have left.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-11 Intro 44:21
DaRa Williams
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-11 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Jayasara 33:38
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 4 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Jayasara
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-10 Maranasati: "If My Life Is for Rent...Nothing I Have Is Truly Mine." 57:25
Nikki Mirghafori
Three fruits of maranasati practice are discussed: 1) Preparing for our moment of death with fearlessness and peace. Topics of Near Death Experiences (NDEs) and rebirth are presented with a don't know mind. 2) Living THIS limited, precious life fully, with gratitude, forgiveness, generosity and letting go. 3) Awakening, liberation, nibbana -- Maranasati is a practice towards liberation, arising insights into the three marks of existence (anicca, dukkha, anatta).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-10 "Clear Comprehension Part 2" 59:30
James Baraz
In the Satipatthana Sutta (MN#10), the Buddha's discourse on mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to contemplate mindfully, ardent and clearly comprehending each of the four foundations. "Clear comprehension" also translated as "clearly knowing" includes four areas of context for our mindfulness practice. In Part 1 we explored the first two elements of Clear Comprehension: "Clear Comprehension of Purpose" and "Clear Comprehension of Suitability of Action". In this talk we discuss the second two aspects: "Clear Comprehension in the Domain of Meditation" and "Clear Comprehension of Reality". With metta, James
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-05-10 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Q & A - Bhante Jayasara 1:29:32
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Q & A - Bhante Jayasara
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-10 Heart Path 38:00
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-05-10 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Jayasara DR000680 67:41
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Dhamma Talk - Bhante Jayasara DR000680
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-10 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda 31:01
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-10 Nurturing the Process 36:07
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-05-09 Story of Anathapindika: Death and Letting go (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:42
Eugene Cash
Anathapindika was one of the foremost householder followers of the Buddha. As he is dying Sariputta and Ananda go to comfort him. Seeing his imminent death they offer teachings never before given to householders. He receives the radical teachings of not clinging, letting go of all experience and waking up.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-09 Investigating How The Deluded Mind Works 58:30
Carol Wilson
Perception and feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Awareness Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-05-09 Meditation: Intimacy with Life 21:15
Tara Brach
This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We widen the attention to include sound and then sense and rest in the awareness that holds all experience. Our reminders are to wake up from trance by reopening to our senses, allowing for a true intimacy with the life that lives through us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-09 Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us 54:01
Tara Brach
Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For most of us the causes and conditions for compulsive overeating existed before we were born, during our early childhood, and in our surrounding society. We begin to release shame and self-aversion by realizing we are not alone in this suffering; and eating addiction is not “our fault.” The talk includes an exploration of how, through RAIN, we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to compulsive eating, giving us more choice in our behavior. Ultimately we discover that this deep prison of suffering can become a portal to realizing the freedom our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-09 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 2 - Q & A - Bhante Seelananda 1:22:14
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 2 - Q & A - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

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