2017-04-06 "The Role of Motivation and Intention" 54:25
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Parts of this evening will be experiential as a means to get us directly in touch with our heart-based intentions that can help guide us through confusion and distraction and propel us in the direction of freedom in our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2017-04-06 Embodying Dharma 49:50
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-06 06 Inquiring into Self 38:53
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-06 A Review of the Practice - Silent Meditation instructions for a Work Retreat 46:18
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Applying our transferable skills from silent meditation practice to our daily life
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-05 Soul Recognition: The Practice of Namaste 52:19
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
In our daily trance we experience ourselves and others through a filter of wants, fears, stories and beliefs. Drawing on an engaging story from the legends of King Arthur, this talk explores how we can see past this conditioning by learning to see – in ourselves and others – vulnerability, goodness and awareness itself. Sometimes called “soul recognition,” this seeing is the essence of “Namaste” – realizing and honoring the sacredness that shines through all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-04-05 Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body 24:23
Tara Brach	Download Listen
When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-04-05 05 Who is experiencing 50:17
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-05 Not Clinging to Fixed Views: Social Activism as Spiritual Practice (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:00:33
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-04 Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion - Week 4 63:48
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion
The Practices of Lovingkindness of Compassion - Week 4 - Suffusion with the Divine Abodes Chant and Meditation 29:09 Download Listen The Practices of Lovingkindness of Compassion - Week 4 - Talk 34:38 Download Listen

2017-04-04 Seeing Emptiness and Acting from There Part 2 33:22
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
A guided exercise for pairs exploring who we are, how we frame that, and how the way we speak shapes how we perceive our changing idea of our self. Follows on from the Dharma Talk by the same name.
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-04 04 How do I meet experience 35:19
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-04 Seeing Emptiness and Acting from There Part 1 28:34
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
A talk about emptiness with examples from daily life as an exploration of self and "Who I am?"
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-04 Returning to Silent Meditation on a Work Retreat 16:13
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-03 Pawan Bareja (Monday Night Talk at Spirit Rock) 2:04:25
Pawan Bareja	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-03 Understanding doubt and aversion. 59:27
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
How to recognize and work with these mine states, in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  April 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-04-03 03 What is happening right now 55:08
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-02 Shaping Vessels 13:48
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-02 02 Point map of Inquiry 41:43
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-02 Guarding the Holy Fire 18:03
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-02 Guided Meditation - Becoming a Refuge unto Yourself 48:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We take refuge, but we also become a refuge. The degree to which we can cultivate value, precepts and restraint, we gain an increasing sense of authority to stand against the outward pull of thought and sense desire. This strength or determination can be felt in the body. Tap into the imaginal to sense its depth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-02 Requirements for Movement into the Immaterial Domain 1:15:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Movement into the immaterial/vertical domain occurs through restraint, renunciation and withdrawal, but all marked by pleasure. Most supportive is a cooperative social form where other people are doing the same thing. Monasteries model this social form. Refer to D33, considered ‘Vinaya for lay people.’
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Evening Chanting 3:51
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-01 Recollecting and Enacting the Sacred 46:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The cosmos is cosmos and not chaos because of a natural order. There is an internal order too in our embodiment where the energies of ideas, thoughts and psychologies are collected in the body. But we’ve lost our embodiment, and therefore access to the moral intelligence of the body. We can regain access through enacting, remembering and recollecting.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Q&A Pt II 32:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
1. How to practice last 3 of 8 precepts; recipient of one’s giving determines one’s merit – please explain; 2. how interpersonal aspect of energy affect/support one’s practice and meditation; 3. giving hand to hand vs. in disembodied ways (credit cards, etc.); 4. self consciousness around my giving’ the art of receiving has been neglected; 5. how to be with others who don’t know their own goodness
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 The Field of Good Kamma and the Relational Field 21:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
References to suttas about giving: A5:33-37 Benefits of giving, 5 timely gifts; A8:39 Streams of merit; A5 Good and bad gifts; A6:38 Factors of donors and recipients
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Beauty and the Buddha 1:32:44
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) 36:24
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Four 1:20:00
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Three 1:14:50
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Two 1:28:45
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part One 1:11:24
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 Q&A Part I 48:53
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Caring for aging parents; celestial realm as metaphor or actuality; those who are spontaneously reborn; sacrifice; when I know I’m not observing precepts perfectly; meditation practice feels flat; advice for caregivers in medical field; breaking through feeling bleak about the world; subjective nature of the sacred
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 01 The art of inquiry 7:51
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-01 Longing, Vulnerability, Anteros 26:39
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Generating a Meaningful World 63:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Presentation of the multi-layered, holistic, vertical cosmos of the suttas as compared to our flat world that only extends geographically. One can move up and down the cosmos through one’s own actions – giving, ethics, renunciation, clearing the mind of the hindrances and developing deep meditation. One learns to make things sacred; sacred meaning everything is valued, has its place and is treated with respect. A study of the Kutadanta Sutta (D5.29) as an example of how the Buddha taught engagement and movement along this vertical/immaterial domain
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Saturday Sutta/Pali Class with Bhante Gunaratana : Samyutta Nikaya : Nidana Samyutta # 1 : 12 Part Series on Dependent Origination 67:34
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
Bhante G begins a 12+ part series on Dependent Origination, speaking about Ignorance.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia

2017-04-01 Guided Meditation - If You Don’t Generate a World, Somebody Else’s Will Generate You 9:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation we practice bringing up what is pertinent, worthy of development, leading inwards. We bring things to mind that generate a locus of meaning, that generate our world. This is where we reclaim potency, value and meaning. Rather than be overwhelmed by a meaningless world we have the potential to generate a meaning world here now.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 Retreat Intro: The Gradual Path 19:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The gradual path is the essence of the Buddha’s presentation. It starts with qualities we already know – generosity, morality and renunciation. Rather than starting with meditation while sitting on the cushion, this is the movement that begins to be properly cultivated and groomed in meditation. Then our work is much more internal, to clear the mind of the 5 hindrances.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A) 38:17
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-31 Twoness Continued 17:26
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-31 Guided Meditation - Offering Ourselves Dhamma Dāna 13:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As we enter the field of practice, we have the opportunity to clear the desktop and deepen into our receptivity. We offer ourselves Dhamma dāna: the gift of time, space, permission and resources to deepen within this very embodied mind. We acknowledge what arises and lay aside what can be laid aside.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path 32:07
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-31 Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A 54:36
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Day 4 instructions morning practice period, plus questions and answers. Last full day of retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-30 Our Relationship to Time 43:59
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-30 Be Humanity 55:00
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Once we've looked within and seen the changeable and interconnected reality of our life, how can that support an active and engaged spirituality (with all the changeable and interconnected realities of all other beings)?
SanghaSeva :  Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-30 "The Problem With Being a Good Meditator" 53:57
James Baraz	Download Listen
At times our meditation practice is a powerful delicious experience. The factors of awakening like concentration, calm, joy or equanimity may be strong. As wonderful as that is, the mind can easily grasp as if that were the real goal of practice. But when we're attached or take ownership of those states they become a trap--sometimes referred to as the stink of enlightenment--and we miss the true freedom that practice can reveal.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2017-03-30 Visions of the Beyond 1:44:13
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House :  Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-03-30 May I take care of myself happily. 54:58
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-03-30 Some Different Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:01
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Different perspectives on dharma and retreat. Practice as an act of devotion, purification, lab experiment and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-30 Freedom from Injustice: A Tribute to Bryan Stephenson 48:14
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community