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Dharma Talks
2017-05-27 Wisdom: Right Thought: Intention & Attitude of Mind 38:24
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-27 Day 5: Metta Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:06
Brian Lesage
Compassion Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Perception as Conditioned and as Conditionee (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:52
Sayadaw U Jagara
Sanna (pere arise together with feeling (vedana) and is a "marker" of sign and a "recognition" of the mark (sign). It can be used to protect/develop and understand mind's dynamic. What is needed for a beginner = mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-27 Compassion & Equanimity in Difficult Times, Daylong Retreat: Afternoon 66:35
Joseph Goldstein
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-27 Love and Emptiness 1:28:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
This is the afternoon guided meditation and talk by Ayya Anandabhodi from the monastic daylong program Entering the Heart of Practice with Ayya Santacitta and Isabelita Papa (Qigong)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Afternoon guided standing meditation 25:27
Amma Thanasanti
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Afternoon guided standing meditation 25:23
Amma Thanasanti
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Afternoon short guided seated meditation 16:44
Amma Thanasanti
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Compassion and Equanimity in Difficult Times, Daylong Retreat: Morning 2:10:13
Joseph Goldstein
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Morning Talk 57:25
Amma Thanasanti
The Buddha taught that that key to peace, joy and happiness is release: a state of mind and heart not driven by a relentless insistence that life, in this moment, be other than as it is. This capacity for freedom is available every moment yet is often obscured by our agitated minds and wounded hearts. When we shift away from self-sourcing and turn towards any one of the many facets of awakening, and start divine sourcing we let go, and experience what is timeless, luminous and boundless. This day-long retreat will combine the steady focus and insight of Vipassana meditation, with the relational practice of inquiry to find our own access to awakening.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Morning standing exercise 11:26
Amma Thanasanti
The Buddha taught that that key to peace, joy and happiness is release: a state of mind and heart not driven by a relentless insistence that life, in this moment, be other than as it is. This capacity for freedom is available every moment yet is often obscured by our agitated minds and wounded hearts. When we shift away from self-sourcing and turn towards any one of the many facets of awakening, and start divine sourcing we let go, and experience what is timeless, luminous and boundless. This day-long retreat will combine the steady focus and insight of Vipassana meditation, with the relational practice of inquiry to find our own access to awakening.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Access to Awakening: Divine Sourcing vs. Self-Sourcing Morning sitting and standing meditation 43:28
Amma Thanasanti
The Buddha taught that that key to peace, joy and happiness is release: a state of mind and heart not driven by a relentless insistence that life, in this moment, be other than as it is. This capacity for freedom is available every moment yet is often obscured by our agitated minds and wounded hearts. When we shift away from self-sourcing and turn towards any one of the many facets of awakening, and start divine sourcing we let go, and experience what is timeless, luminous and boundless. This day-long retreat will combine the steady focus and insight of Vipassana meditation, with the relational practice of inquiry to find our own access to awakening.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Responding Versus Reacting 42:09
Ayya Santacitta
This is the morning talk by Ayya Santacitta, from the monastic daylong program, Entering the Heart of Practice with Ayya Anandabhodi and Isabelita Papa (Qigong).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-27 Day 5: Instructions and Sitting 38:02
Matthew Brensilver
Mostly a quiet sit.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-27 Day 5 Instructions: Mental Factors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:05
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-26 Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 7:41
Sayadaw U Jagara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-26 Refuges Part 4: Sangha 11:23
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-26 Refuges Part 3: Dhamma 11:26
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-26 Refuges Part 2: Buddha 9:18
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-26 Refuges Part 1: Introduction 16:37
Steve Armstrong
Bethlehem Center :  Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-05-26 Compassion and Equanimity in Difficult Times, Evening Talk 1:53:02
Joseph Goldstein
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-26 Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:47
Matthew Brensilver
Reflections and INstructions: comparing mind, envy and Mudita.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-26 Investigating the Body Leading to Investigating the Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:16
Nikki Mirghafori
In this talk, the path of gradual cultivation is discussed, starting with establishing a container of Metta/Loving-kindness. Then, we calm and unify the mind, followed by investigating the body (through four elements meditation) which leads to investigating the mind and mental factors. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 7:01
Brian Lesage
Becoming unfamiliar with our experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions: : "Love God, no Needs" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:34
Sayadaw U Jagara
4 Elements and eating meditation instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:54
Brian Lesage
This talk offers a perspective on the Four Noble Truths that interweaves with our meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Day 3 Guided Metta: Metta for Self, Receiving Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:39
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 "Appreciating our Benefactors" 47:38
James Baraz
It’s important to recognize and appreciate all the support we receive in our spiritual practice as well as in our lives. If practice sometimes seems like a solitary experience we’re not realizing all the ways that life has been supporting us. This can be an on-going rich source of inspiration in our spiritual development and growth. We’ll explore various practices and reflections to make this come alive.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-25 From "Let Go" to "Let's Go": Provided we know where we are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Inquiry has to start with acknowledging where we are now, then further discernment will tell us a bit more about the why. Based on the morning instructions on the 4 Elements we come to know more about the dynamics of our life, i.e. the body and mind and the whole universe.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:13
Brian Lesage
Forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Day 3 Instructions: Four Elements Meditation 50:29
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 Day 3 Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:54
Matthew Brensilver
Feeling and Internal Dialogue
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Intentions for Practice and the Jewel of Curiosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Day 2: Metta sit with Guidance: Related to Examining Reality (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:55
Sayadaw U Jagara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-24 The Mind - Lost and Found 45:58
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-24 Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness 17:22
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. “This river of sensation ceaselessly vibrating… tingling… flowing… let it live through you.” “Completely relax with this ever changing dance of sound and sensation.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World 53:02
Tara Brach
“What is it that allows us to open our hearts to every moment of our life? It’s the remembrance that it’s passing and it’s precious.” Our true refuge is reality – only by opening to “things as they are” do we find true peace and freedom. This talk explores impermanence – a key feature of reality. We look at our habits of resisting change – including loss and death, the practices that awaken and open us, and the gifts of letting go into the ever-changing river of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence 18:50
Tara Brach
We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 Pleasure & Displeasure 55:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-24 Instructions & Guided Meditation 36:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-24 Internal And External Mindfulness 55:44
Pamela Weiss

2017-05-24 Examining Reality: Preparing Ourselves by Grounding in Ethical Integrity 53:59
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk was given on the second day of a week-long retreat entitled, "Examining Reality". Four ways of practicing with sila (virtue) from the Visuddhimagga are discussed. The talk ends with an invitation to examine our assumptions about our physical experience of reality. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-24 The Last Meal Blessing 1:31
Ayya Medhanandi
Pāli chanting for all the retreat yogis with a brief Dhamma reflection and blessings for the good kamma and happiness of all beings.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-24 I Would Have Wanted More, But I Never Wanted Other (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:04:21
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-24 Standing for the Dhamma 7:56
Ayya Medhanandi
Standing up in pure presence is one of the four great postures. In this simple act of being present, know one mind-moment at a time, repeatedly. Grateful for one breath, one posture, one point, we gain balance and poise. We allow our suffering to dissolve in the suffering of all the world. This is how we stand for the Dhamma in a practical way – with the body; and in a practice way – with compassion and understanding of the Dhamma.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-24 Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 16:45
Brian Lesage
Opening to the Pleasant and Noting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Day 2: Instructions and Sitting: Approaches to Our Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:15
Sayadaw U Jagara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-23 Instructions et méditation guidée 30:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-23 Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 50:55
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-23 Day 1 Guided Metta: Meeting Everything That Arises with Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:15
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

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