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2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 6 -- Dharma Talk and QA - Building Inner Strength 41:01
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 5 -- Guided meditation - Resting in awareness 18:22
Kim Allen
Learning to discern "that which knows" as a way to release obsession
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 4 -- Guided meditation - Open awareness and papanca 35:57
Kim Allen
Noticing the roots of papanca in meditation, and resting with the flow of experience
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 3 -- Teaching on papanca 5:37
Kim Allen
Papanca is rooted in craving, conceit, and views.
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 2 -- Guided Meditation - Samatha 36:21
Kim Allen
Tranquility meditation using the breath
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-11 The Inner Strength of Non-Obsession 1 -- Introduction 13:29
Kim Allen
A half-day of samatha and vipassana practice on letting go of obsessive thinking and views
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-04-10 The Four Dependently Originating Truths 1:16:21
Nathan Glyde
An exploration of the Dharma teachings of the four ennobling truths as inviting questions into a deep exploration of dependent origination for profound and immediate freedom. Mediation and Dharma Talk
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2021

2021-04-10 Care, love and development 16:39
Sayadaw U Jagara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-10 The Fetters That Fall Away at Stream Entry 25:26
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-04-10 The Inner Tyrant Q&A 19:48
Ajahn Sucitto
How to take the teachings seriously but not make them into causes for suffering; strategies for non-compulsiveness when writing; how to skillfully relate to regret and remorse over our past actions; advice for living with the constant conditioning of the world that does not support a harmonious way of living; role of being a teacher seems to make the inner tyrant virus worse – any advice?
Dharma Realm Buddhist University :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2021-04-10 Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Service 30:41
Nikki Mirghafori
When we step out of our habitual ways of seeing the self and the world, clinging to constant self-interest lessens/drops away, and love and service become natural responses.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-10 Being a Person 27:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Although Dhamma practice is often geared to dissolving the sense of being a person, ‘the person’ is a required entity in the everyday world. The firm center and open awareness developed in Dhamma practice work together to support this person. They provide stability and allow duties, purpose and engagement to arise straight from the heart rather than from mental habits, or from the idea of a person. Then the beauties, steadiness and generosity of Dhamma practice and Dhamma fruitions arise in our everyday lives.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-04-10 The Inner Tyrant 31:37
Ajahn Sucitto
We are engaging in a world that is innately unsatisfactory. Yet, within that it’s important to find an accurate sense of purpose, ethical orientation and belonging. These are areas where the self-critical ‘inner tyrant’ quality will inevitably be activated. The Tyrant’s ‘I’m not good enough’ message can be recognized as a program rather than a meaningful description of ‘who I am’. Through the practices of disengagement, embodiment and goodwill, the program can be dismantled.
Dharma Realm Buddhist University :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2021-04-10 Morning Instructions 52:42
Martine Batchelor
Calm and Brightness: the roots of radical questioning.
Gaia House Radical Questioning - Son Retreat

2021-04-10 Guided Meditation: Freedom from the Clinging of Self (and Buddha's Instructions to Bahiya) 57:36
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-10 Guided Meditation – Dissolving and Consolidating 18:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions begin with dissolving: guidance for disengaging from contact, soothing and steadying the mind. Instructions end with consolidating: determining what I want to move forward with in the future, and what’s been learned or left behind.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-04-10 Guided Meditation – Disengaging from Sense Consciousness 14:51
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we’re stepping back from sense consciousness, dipping beneath it to find something deeper, balanced and bearing value. This is where the wealth of our life lies, and it naturally comes forth when we disengage from sense data.
Dharma Realm Buddhist University :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2021-04-09 Evening Reflections: Appreciation as a Way to See Our Day 13:11
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-09 Meditation and Dhamma talk on the three characteristics 1:23:07
Bhante Sujato
Meditation on anicca, dukkha, anatta guided by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on these three characteristics, good method, translation of sankhārā and dhammā, perception and conceptualization in relation to training the mind
Lokanta Vihara

2021-04-09 Noticing Absence, Letting Go of Self-Reference 49:18
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore voidness/emptiness through the absence of observed phenomena. Our habitual self-referential frame of reference is also invited to be seen and examined, and momentarily let go of to notice the freedom of the way of seeing free of self-ing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-09 The way we start anything will determine its outcome 59:10
Sayadaw U Jagara
This principle is applied to meditation: The in-coming bread, the out-going bread.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 05 talk: Wise Intention p2 - metta, kindness 22:24
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the second aspect of Wise Intention, metta or kindness, as a support for understanding anatta, not-self
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-04-08 Death and Dying 57:42
Sylvia Boorstein, James Baraz
Sylvia and James will have a conversation about death and dying something they have both been recently practicing with in their personal lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-04-08 Guided Meditation: Life as A Dream 44:34
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore emptiness as a way of seeing the dreamlike nature of what we assume to be our fixed reality. "Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 04 meditation: simple mindfulness of the body and breathing, with an orientation to metta 30:08
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with chanting the Karaniyametta Sutta in English as an invitation to orient towards kindness while settling into mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

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