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Dharma Talks
2017-03-09 An overview of the four brahmavihara practices: kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity 36:58
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to the brahmavihara meditation practices and their relationship to insight practice
Auckland Insight Meditation

2017-03-09 "This Fleeting World" 62:59
James Baraz
In the Diamond Sutra, we are encouraged to see our lives in the context of impermanence this way: "Thus shall you think of this fleeting world: a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream; A flash of lightning in a summer cloud; A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream." This talk explores practicing when someone we know dies unexpectedly as happened to James this week.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-03-09 Day 9 Closing 20:13
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-09 Day 12: Brahma Vihara Instructions 37:41
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-09 Afternoon Teachings: Time, Space, and Becoming 53:20
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the flexible nature of perception, and how deepening meditative skill can uncover, deconstruct and understand how we create the familiar reference points of experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2017-03-09 Day 9 Discussion Group D 1:45:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-09 Day 9 Discussion Group B 1:15:48
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-09 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 51:33
Martin Aylward
Complete and Continuous attention.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2017-03-09 Day 12: Morning Sit with Instructions 56:30
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-08 Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places 53:05
Tara Brach
Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffering that arise from trauma and how meditation practices can support a path to full spiritual healing. We focus on practices that help us access a sense of love and safety, and then increase our capacity to bring presence to the unprocessed, unlived life in the body. (Note: For many who suffer from PTSD, therapy is invaluable and these practices are not considered as a substitute.)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-08 Liberative Dependent Arising: Gladness & Rapture (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:06
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-08 Meditation: Getting Lost and Coming Back Here 19:45
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes a sense of presence, of being Here, through a body scan and awakening the senses. We then notice when we’re lost and relax back into the wakeful stillness – the Hereness – that is our true home. Our practice concludes with the beautiful poem “Lost” by David Wagoner.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-08 Refuge, Respect, Return, Remember 53:39
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-03-08 Day 11: Brahma Vihara Instructions 25:25
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-08 Afternoon Teachings: No Wrong Experience 59:04
Martin Aylward
This talk explores how embodied attention can feels into and find out about all our experience. We explore how inquiry works, not as intellectual curiosity but as a body-cantered investigation that allows everything to be met and explored.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2017-03-08 Jour 5, Enseignements, Institut pleine conscience, Belgique 58:15
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-03-08 Day 8 Discussion Group C 1:57:11
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-08 Day 8 Discussion Group A 69:37
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-08 Sylvia's Wednesday Class with Drummer Barbara Borden (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 1:56:00
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-08 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 38:39
Martin Aylward
Embodied attention (Yoniso Manisikara)
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2017-03-08 Meditation Overview 14:29
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-08 Day 11: Morning Sit with Instructions 54:12
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-07 Money 41:24
Kim Allen
Kim Allen gave the third talk in a speaker series titled "Everyday Dhamma." She discussed how money is an important part of our life, as well as a potent realm for practice. Much of what the Buddha said about wealth and money was about our relationship to money, because this is where our suffering and freedom lies. More specifically, we can easily have an unwholesome relationship to our wealth. For example, we can become miserly and crave even more wealth. Or we can establish a wholesome relationship with our wealth, such as supporting our family, our friends, and the Dhamma. In this way, we can relate to money with wisdom and generosity, instead of grasping and fear.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Everyday Dhamma

2017-03-07 Guided Metta Meditation Toward Groups 30:25
Shaila Catherine
In this 30-minute guided mettā meditation, Shaila Catherine recommends directing mettā initially toward ourselves, then toward a virtuous person, and finally towards groups of beings. Such groups comprise 1) males and females; 2) enlightened and unenlightened beings; and 3) the realms of existence. Such realms include hell beings, animals, humans, celestial beings and gods. The aim is to gradually expand the field of mettā until it is unbounded, immeasurable, and without boarders, barriers, or exceptions. Meditators may use these traditional groupings or creatively adapt them to support their mettā practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2017-03-07 Liberative Dependent Arising: Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
Ruth King
This talk shares a personal journey from suffering to faith and explores how faith is cultivated by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-07 Peace In The Awareness 36:50
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-03-07 Independent in This World - Introductory Talk 27:25
Martin Aylward
In this opening talk, Martin points to 3 kinds of liberation that form the ground of the retreat practice - freedom from views, freedom from compulsions, and freedom from self-concern.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2017-03-07 Day 10: Brahma Vihara Instructions 30:25
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-07 Why is the Path a Multi-lane Highway? 50:15
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
Attached Files:
  • 2017-03-07 Why is the Path a Multi-lane Highway? (PDF)

2017-03-07 Jour 4, Enseignements, Institut pleine conscience, Belgique 65:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-03-07 Day 7 Discussion Group D 2:15:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-07 Day 7 Discussion Group B 1:35:15
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-07 Retreat closing. Guided metta meditation and refuge and precepts. 21:00
Marcia Rose
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-07 Day 10: Morning Sit with Instructions 50:03
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-06 Liberative Dependent Arising: Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:48
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-06 The arc of practice. 60:59
Winnie Nazarko
How meditation practice transforms the minds relationship to its experience. Explains how we can tell whether we have "good practice"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-06 Day 9: Brahma Vihara Instructions 30:30
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-06 Jour 3, Enseignements, Institut pleine conscience, Belgique 59:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-03-06 Day 6 Discussion Group C 1:18:38
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-06 Day 6 Discussion Group A 1:14:59
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-06 Day 9: Morning Sit with Instructions 45:34
Adrianne Ross
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-05 5 Aggregates of the Grasping Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:25
Adrianne Ross
5 ways of seeing that lead to freedom from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-05 A pure and beautiful mind. 65:40
Marcia Rose
Exploring the wholesome states of mind/heart associated with the development and fruits of concentration, insight and metta practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-05 Mediation Q and A 1:30:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-03-05 Jour 2, Enseignements, Institut pleine conscience, Belgique 62:09
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-03-05 Day 5 Discussion Group B 1:17:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-05 Day 5 Discussion Group D 1:47:07
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat

2017-03-05 Possibilities for Practicing Metta 22:00
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
Attached Files:
  • 2017-03-05 Possibilities for Practicing Metta (PDF)

2017-03-05 Anapana Sati Instructions 47:23
Marcia Rose
Continuity of practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-05 Day 8: Morning Sit with Instructions 50:03
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

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