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Dharma Talks
2017-09-28 19 Talk: The development of equanimity 52:32
Greg Scharf
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-28 Questions & Answers re Awareness off Retreat 54:17
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-28 18 Meditation: compassion for good friend and oneself 23:39
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-28 17 Instructions: compassion for good friend and oneself 11:44
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-28 Morning Instructions, Day 3, Opening to Life: Guided Rain Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:55
Erin Selover
This talk offers guided instructions on opening to your direct experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Embodied, Empowered, and Awake: A Women's Meditation Retreat

2017-09-28 16 Instructions and guided meditation: difficult emotions 23:14
Greg Scharf
Instructions on working with difficult emotions, using an expanded version of the RAIN acronym (recognise, accept, investigate, non-identification)
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-28 Day 6 Instructions: Letting Go 39:44
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-28 Morning Instructions 45:35
Carol Wilson
End of the second week set of instructions - a general invitation to mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-27 Opening to Life: Pain as Doorway to Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:29
Erin Selover
This talk explores how opening to difficulty can be a doorway to insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Embodied, Empowered, and Awake: A Women's Meditation Retreat

2017-09-27 Renunciation Abandons Craving 58:47
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-27 Towards Embodiment 50:01
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations

2017-09-27 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 2 - Meditation 30:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-09-27 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 2 - Talk 58:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-09-27 Atonement 54:59
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-09-27 15 Talk: Effort or Energy 52:53
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-27 You Cannot Emphasize Impermanence Too Much 1:57:29
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-27 14 Guided meditation: standing, exploring four foundations of mindfulness 33:13
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with guided standing meditation exploring all four foundations of mindfulness, then 15 minutes silent sitting
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-27 13 Instructions: overview of four foundations, and mental factor of intention 10:42
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and instructions for bringing awareness to the factor of intention
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-27 Day 5 Instructions: Relax, Right View, Trust 40:56
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-27 Morning Instructions: Choiceless Attention 47:32
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-26 The Dharma As A Path Of Happiness 62:26
James Baraz
With so much focus on suffering and the end of suffering, it's sometimes easy to forget this is a path of happiness. The Buddha was called the happy one. This talk presents the teachings held in that perspective.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-26 5th of 5 Faculties: "Wisdom, 4 Noble Truths" 59:45
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-26 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course - Week 3 1:34:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course (2017)

2017-09-26 12 Talk: Walking the Path 50:18
Greg Scharf
This talk uses the Noble Eightfold Path as a framework for understanding how practice unfolds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-26 Afternoon Questions and Answers 66:11
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-26 11 Guided meditation: radiating energy metta 22:59
Jill Shepherd
Radiating energy method of metta practice
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-26 10 Instructions: radiating energy method of metta practice 9:43
Jill Shepherd
Brief instructions for metta practice using the "radiating energy" method
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-26 09 Instructions and guided meditation: vedana or feeling-tone 23:37
Greg Scharf
Introduction of vedana or feeling-tone
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-26 Day 4 Instructions: Continuity, Seclusion, Samadhi 40:04
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-25 4th of 5 Faculties: "Samadhi Stabilizing Mind" 56:33
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-25 Wisdom - Some Reflections 55:32
Jaya Rudgard
Thoughts on the relationship of mindfulness and wisdom, and how wisdom is nurtured and developed.
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations

2017-09-25 Four modes of progress and working with difficult emotions. 62:10
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2017-09-25 Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges - Week 3 1:31:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges

2017-09-25 08 Talk: Dana - generosity as the foundation of the path to freedom 45:11
Jill Shepherd
Dana as a spiritual practice; its relationship to gratitude, and ways to overcome some of the conditioning that gets in the way of cultivating an open heart-mind
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-25 07 Instructions and guided metta meditation 45:16
Greg Scharf
Instructions and guided metta meditation for an "easy being"
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-25 06 Guided meditation: mindfulness of the body, breathing, sounds etc 29:47
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to the body, physical sensations, the breath, sounds and thoughts, ending with three questions
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-25 05 Instructions: different qualities of mindfulness 10:46
Jill Shepherd
Bringing mindfulness to mindfulness itself, noticing different qualities of awareness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-25 Day 3 Instructions 41:58
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-25 Guided Meditation On Sleepiness and Dullness 50:01
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of sloth and torpor can help us in turning the hinderance into opportunities for alertness and awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-24 Continuation of the First Foundation Of Mindfulness 57:10
Sally Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-24 3rd of 5 Faculties: "Remembering & Observing" 60:53
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-24 Dukkha and Vulnerability 54:28
Christina Feldman
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations

2017-09-24 04 Talk: the suffering that leads to the end of suffering 45:56
Greg Scharf
An overview of the Four Noble Truths, and developing a wise relationship to suffering
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-24 03 Guided meditation: working in pairs exploring physical sensations in the body 26:51
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation in dyads (pairs) naming physical sensations out loud, with increasing attention to detail
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-24 02 Instructions: practising bare awareness of physical sensations 16:31
Jill Shepherd
Using mental noting to help cultivate bare attention or bare awareness of physical sensations
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-24 Meditation as Medicine: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - Part 2 2:58:48
Bob Stahl
Part 2 - Teachers: Bob Stahl and Steve Flowers
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-24 What It Takes to Help the World 1:14:12
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Dharma talk at Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center Beginning song by Maureen Hall. http://www.heartwoodrefuge.org/
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2017-09-24 Meditation as Medicine: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) - Part 1 3:02:42
Bob Stahl
Part 1 - Teachers: Bob Stahl and Steve Flowers
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-24 01 Instructions: beginning with mindfulness of the body and the breath, then opening to sounds 22:01
Greg Scharf
Beginning meditation instructions: mindfulness of the body, breathing, and sounds
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-24 Day 2 Instructions: Attitude of Mind 40:05
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

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