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Dharma Talks
2017-10-02 Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges - Week 4 1:10:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges

2017-10-01 Second foundation of mindfulness 59:51
Sally Armstrong
Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each sense contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-01 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 3 - Meditation 30:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-10-01 The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness - Part 3 - Talk 38:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha's Teachings on Emptiness

2017-09-30 Seven Factors Of Awakening 49:31
John Martin
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-30 Zugänge zur Praxis und Dankbarkeit 62:56
Stefan Lang
Über verschiedene Zugänge zur Dharmapraxis und zur Praxis von Dankbarkeit
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2017-09-29 Perception, Papañca, and Sakkaya Ditthi. 57:51
Carol Wilson
The process of perception feeding proliferation of thought can create the magic show of personality show.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-29 Guided Metta Meditation 34:55
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Radiating Metta toward your friend can help to build a stronger connection between oneself and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-29 22 Guided meditation: equanimity for difficult person 20:55
Jill Shepherd
Equanimity in relation to a difficult person, using phrases
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-29 21 Instructions: equanimity for "difficult" person 9:09
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-29 20 Instructions: Reflections on the Satipatthana Sutta refrain 18:04
Greg Scharf
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-28 First and Second Noble Truths 60:17
Guy Armstrong
The First Noble Truth of suffering is to be fully understood. The Second Noble Truth says that the origin of suffering is craving, which is to be abandoned.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-28 Self to Not Self 64:20
John Peacock
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations

2017-09-28 Sobhana: Beautiful Qualities of Awareness 65:45
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation

2017-09-28 Finding Sujata: Faith in the Feminine (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:27
Spring Washam
This dharma talk is about faith. It includes the story of Sujata. Stories about trusting ourselves and the innate wisdom of the feminine.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Embodied, Empowered, and Awake: A Women's Meditation Retreat

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

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

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

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

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

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

2017-09-25 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

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