2017-09-09 Noble Eightfold Path, Right View Part 1 41:44
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
First of a series of 9 day-longs, offered by Eastbay Dhamma. This is the morning session on the theme of Right View.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2017-09-09 Guided meditation: refining mindfulness of breathing, using mental noting 39:16
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Beginning with the instruction to calm the bodily formations, then refining attention on the specific characteristics of each breath
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-09 Very short instructions for refining mindfulness of breathing 4:34
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Maintaining relaxed awareness while bringing more precision to mindfulness of breathing, using the tool of mental noting when helpful
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-09 Instructions On Feeling Tone (Vedana) 40:40
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Guided meditation and explanation of feeling tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-08 The five spiritual faculties: energy and mindfulness. 43:00
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  September 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-09-08 Friday Night Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:58:57
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Angulimala and Forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-08 Talk: the ten parami and patience 53:30
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An overview of the ten parami (perfections) with an emphasis on patience
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Loving The Body 25:37
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
A guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-08 Guided meditation: exploring difficult emotions 13:42
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short guided meditation offering some techniques for exploring difficult emotions, including self-compassion
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Instructions: exploring difficult emotions 17:14
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short talk exploring some approaches to working with difficult emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Dhamma Discussion 1:30:56
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  2017 Vassa

2017-09-08 Morning Instructions 57:47
Jean Esther	Download Listen
Working with thoughts as a sense door.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 "Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times" 52:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
The Buddha spoke of the power of non-harming as a support for inner peace and outward harmony. But how can we both commit to being peaceful while courageously and passionately standing up for what we feel is right and make a difference in the world? This talk includes some of the Buddha's words on peace and non-harming as well as two clips of Julia Butterfly Hill speaking about "Anger v. Love" and "Fierce Compassion".
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2017-09-07 Working With The Five Hindrances 50:20
Jean Esther	Download Listen
In meeting the hindrances and afflictive emotions in our lives with out resistance, we find greater and greater pathways to peace in our hearts and minds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 Talk: from Aversion to Compassion 41:49
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring the hindrance of aversion and how it can be transformed through compassion, with an emphasis on self-compassion
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 Guided Meditation On Four Wholesome States 32:02
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Metta (kindness), compassion, joy, equanimity, Brahma viharas. Explanation and guided practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 Standing meditation observing all four foundations of mindfulness 30:52
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Standing meditation exploring all four foundations of mindfulness and the mental factor of intention/volition Interval bells at five minutes with the invitation to sit at any time when the bell rings
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 Instructions: four foundations of mindfulness overview and standing meditation 9:26
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Four foundations of mindfulness overview, the mental factor of intention or volition, and standing meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 On Being - Part 2 39:32
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-06 The Causes for Happiness 1:25:56
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series
The Causes for Happiness - Meditation 29:48 Download Listen The Causes for Happiness - Talk 56:07 Download Listen

2017-09-06 Awareness of Being 26:48
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-09-06 Reflections on Driven Doing 56:12
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-09-06 On Being 47:45
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-06 Who Do You Think You Are? 45:36
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-09-06 The Four Noble Truths and the end of dukkha 52:37
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
The dukkha that leads to the end of dukkha, through the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-06 The Two Arrows 1 2:07:14
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the powerful teaching and how it might be understood and practiced, this week more in terms of individual inner practice, and next week, more in terms of interpersonal and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-06 Morning Meditation Instructions 46:04
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
First day instructions for sitting and walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-05 Open To Suffering 31:13
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2017-09-05 Feeling Tone (Vedana) and Reactivity 47:45
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-09-05 Talk: viriya, energy, effort and balance 37:48
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring how we commonly get off balance, and ways to come back to balance
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-04 The Bodhisattva, Integration, and Next Steps 28:09
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Near the end of the retreat, offering of some integrative reflections to help us each reflect on our next steps following our three-day retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-04 Forgiveness Practice 51:10
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
A short talk on the nature of forgiveness, followed by instructions for one type of forgiveness practice, and then guidance in this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-03 "Hatred Never Ceases by Hatred" (Retreat Version) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:46
James Baraz	Download Listen
With so much greed and hatred and cruelty in our world, it is easy to react with anger and ill will; but that only adds to the negativity. There is a better way to respond and bring more consciousness to this situation leading to effective action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-09-03 Talk: from greed to freedom 54:29
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of the three afflictive energies of greed, hatred and ignorance, and how they condition the five hindrances, focusing on greed and desire for sense pleasure. Exploring ways to work skilfully with this energy to move towards increasing freedom.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-03 Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts :) 43:41
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2017-09-03 Forms of Meditation Practice in Nonviolence Training; Metta (Lovingkindness) Practice 46:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
First, there is a short account of the various types of meditative practice that complement more outwardly-oriented nonviolence training and that could constitute more inwardly-oriented nonviolence training. Then there is a brief introduction to metta practice, along with guidance in this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-03 Dhamma Discussion 32:34
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  2017 Vassa

2017-09-03 Deconstructing Our Life: Instructional Sit 62:20
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Exploring feeling tone(vedana) and the mind as a sense door. What causes tension in the mind. Morning instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2017-09-02 You are Beautiful as You Are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:11
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
You are not measurable or comparable. You are a unique beautiful expression of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-09-02 Emotions, emotions, emotions :) 53:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2017-09-02 Day 3 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:29
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-09-02 Obstacle Course Of The Mind. 43:39
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Working with and through the top challenges to meditation. Approaching them with curiosity and enthusiasm.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2017-09-02 The Two Arrows and Nonviolence Training: Teaching and Guided Practice 28:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-02 Introductions & Overviews--Kazu Haga and Donald Rothberg 24:48
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-02 First Morning Instructions 52:24
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2017-09-01 Working With the Judging Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:18
James Baraz	Download Listen
We often get lost in our negative judgements about ourselves and how we compare with others. We can work with these mind habits and see them as a catalyst for true compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-09-01 The five spiritual faculties: Faith 50:16
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  September 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-09-01 Day 2 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 32:34
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-08-31 The Great Undoing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:07
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Why come on retreat? As we orient to the present moment and reconnect with ourselves, we can begin to know what no longer serves us and let go. We open to a bigger picture of the way things are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-08-30 Meditation: Present Heartspace 18:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation establishes an embodied presence with the gentleness of a smile-down scan, then opens us to the heartspace that includes the changing waves of experience. It ends with a short lovingkindness meditation that offers prayers for relief of the current great suffering from floods in Texas, India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks