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Dharma Talks
2018-03-15 Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 46:59
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-15 The Gap Between Attention and Distraction 58:52
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-15 Guided Meditation 30:31
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center

2018-03-15 Radiation Practice - Brahma Viharas 45:25
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-14 Timelessness in Rocks & Human Experiences, Montreal 62:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 Nothing is Hidden 1:13:46
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 24:11
Tara Brach
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 51:00
Tara Brach
Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Radical and Gradual 43:08
Nathan Glyde
How the path unfolds; radical shifts supporting our gradual development.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-14 Wise Action: Do No Harm 47:38
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-03-14 Freeing Life from Our Expectations, Montreal 29:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 On Retreating - Talk 51:23
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-14 Balancing effort and enjoyment 33:12
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the balance between effort and enjoyment, bringing awareness to some common biases in the practice and some ways to increase enjoyment (A talk given on-line to the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society, Washington)

2018-03-14 Things Are Not As They Appear 2: Examining the Personal and Collective Lenses of Perception 64:01
Donald Rothberg
We review some of the main themes covered in the first session on this theme, in the context of a series of talks on five ways that “things are not as they appear.” We first examine in more depth some ways that we see through the lens of the personal self. We then explore how we also see through the lens of our social conditioning, particularly focusing, on this morning when students are walking out of their schools and universities to point to the need to respond to gun violence, on ways that we don’t see, for various reasons, many of the roots of gun violence clearly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Bring Daily Life Into Practice 59:33
Thanissara
Pathways to success. A metaphor for our times.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-13 La pierre, le temps et soi, Montréal 58:44
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Ne rien faire, un acte révolutionnaire, Montréal 28:18
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:13
Andrea Fella
Exploring how delusion co-opts the process of perception
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-13 Equanimity 44:51
Oren Jay Sofer
The series on the Seven Awakening factors concludes with Oren J. Sofer’s talk on the quality of equanimity. Sofer tells us that this quality develops slowly among the other factors and is considered one of the highest attainments in Buddhist practice. The fore-taste of evenness and balance can be considered a glimpse into the mind of an awakened being.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-03-13 A Training in Awakening 52:24
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-13 Day 17 Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:05
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-13 Working on Your Inside Game 38:07
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-03-13 Une vison de soi plus large, Montréal 63:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Morning Instructions with Review 40:19
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:11:19
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-12 Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:16
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-12 Equanimity, Balance and Ease 63:34
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 The noble eightfold path: wise mindfulness 59:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the four foundations of mindfulness and their application to our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Talk 50:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Introduction 12:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 1 - Meditation 27:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-12 All Living Beings Are Our Family 38:28
Kittisaro
Relationships of wisdom and compassion. Stories of Mr. Mandela. Welcoming and letting go, gateways to unitive consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-12 8FP - Wise Effort part 2 38:41
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-12 8FP - Wise Effort part 1 63:33
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-11 As Silence Is To Sound 57:56
Kittisaro
Turn the mind to the deathless. The story of Anuruddha. No footprints in the sky. reflection on papanca, conceptual proliferation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-11 The Four Noble Truths 56:07
Jake Dartington
This talk also includes Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Young Person's Retreat

2018-03-11 Mindfulness: The Flood Stopper. 26:30
Thanissara
Contemplation of dukkha - non-dukkha. Right effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-10 Liberation Through Wisdom 57:22
Thanissara
Use the mind to know the mind to go beyond the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-10 Sexual Energy and Intimacy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:26
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-10 Discovering the Buddha Within 6:38:18
James Baraz, Carley Hauck
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-10 Morning Instructions - day 4 36:27
DaRa Williams
retreat highlights and hinderances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-09 Four Noble Truths: Keep It Simple 60:38
DaRa Williams
Reflections on foundational aspects of the Four Nobel Truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-09 Buddha's Life Part 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:33
Susie Harrington
Continuing the story of the Buddha's life through his awakening and his setting the wheel of the Dhamma in motion. (Note: it is largely understood to have been a Brahma God, Sahampati, who asked the Buddha to teach--not a Brahmin as mentioned in the talk.)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-09 Renunciation 42:26
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-09 Guided Meditation: Radiating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:07
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-09 The Bathman: Simile For For The First Jhana 31:19
Kittisaro
Reflections on viveka, the jhana factors, the alchemy of awareness, unification, cultivating agility when responding to the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 "Might There Be Another Way": The Turning Point In The Buddha's Life. 58:55
Kittisaro
The Buddha's childhood memory that led him to reject self-mortification, accept nourishment, and find the middle way. Samadhi, a true holiday. The story of Sona, and turning one's efforts in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 The Cycle of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:45
Andrea Fella
A teaching on Dependent Origination
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-08 The Two Wings to Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion 36:02
Jill Shepherd
An overview of insight and brahmavihara practices, and how they work together to support each other
Auckland Insight Meditation

2018-03-08 "The Buddha’s Words on How to Skillfully Give Feedback." 67:31
James Baraz
Do you ever find yourself needing to communicate something that will be hard for someone else to receive?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

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