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Dharma Talks
2017-03-26 Guided Meditation on the Body 68:17
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-26 Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our Changing World (Non-residential Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:09
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt
Today’s world is filled with challenging issues that often push us to our emotional boundaries. With complex issues that include environmental challenges like climate change, social injustices, racism, terrorism and other forms of moral distress, life can often feel overwhelming. Yet there’s hope as well as a proven path to help us cope with and face life’s challenges with renewed vigor and determination. Afternoon Session final day
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-26 Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our Changing World (Non-residential Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:41:53
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt
Today’s world is filled with challenging issues that often push us to our emotional boundaries. With complex issues that include environmental challenges like climate change, social injustices, racism, terrorism and other forms of moral distress, life can often feel overwhelming. Yet there’s hope as well as a proven path to help us cope with and face life’s challenges with renewed vigor and determination. 3rd Day, morning session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-25 Samadhi & Hindrances 53:56
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-25 Breath Energy Guided Meditation 44:22
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-25 Offering and Receiving: Training in the Relational Domain 31:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto reflects on how ways of relating at the monastery provide training for accessing the true place of citta. In the monastery we are encouraged to get beyond self-views of “have to”, “is it good enough” and “am I worthy” so the deeper qualities of citta - warmth, generosity, gratitude - can manifest.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-25 Day 1 - Long and Deep Breath Awareness 54:05
Nathan Glyde
The first day's meditation instructions in the hall
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-25 Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our Changing World (Non-residential Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:41:23
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt
Today’s world is filled with challenging issues that often push us to our emotional boundaries. With complex issues that include environmental challenges like climate change, social injustices, racism, terrorism and other forms of moral distress, life can often feel overwhelming. Yet there’s hope as well as a proven path to help us cope with and face life’s challenges with renewed vigor and determination. Second day, morning
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-24 Closing Talk for the March Monthlong 53:00
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-24 If You Grow Good Fruit, Eat It! 13:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto responds to a question about dana parami, describing the gift of safety that can be provided by keeping precepts and sustaining open awareness. He reminds us that in the field of dana we are also in a position to receive generosity, partaking of the good fruit we have grown.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-24 Faith: The Grounds for Your Personal Monastery 33:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Addressing the universal need to find meaning, Ajahn Sucitto describes how faith and wisdom work together in this search to set us free. He encourages the group, upon leaving the supports of the monastery structures and routines, to sustain forms of practice and personal protocols for wholesome actions as a way to keep one rooted in what has true meaning.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-24 Mind Shapes Experience 50:57
Nathan Glyde
How our mind state affects our perception of experience
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-24 Inspired by Changes: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our Changing World (Non-residential Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:24:49
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt
Today’s world is filled with challenging issues that often push us to our emotional boundaries. With complex issues that include environmental challenges like climate change, social injustices, racism, terrorism and other forms of moral distress, life can often feel overwhelming. Yet there’s hope as well as a proven path to help us cope with and face life’s challenges with renewed vigor and determination. Friday afternoon, first day
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-24 Inspired by Change: How to Cultivate a Resilient Heart while Caring about Our Changing World (Non-residential Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:29:26
James Baraz, Bob Doppelt
Today’s world is filled with challenging issues that often push us to our emotional boundaries. With complex issues that include environmental challenges like climate change, social injustices, racism, terrorism and other forms of moral distress, life can often feel overwhelming. Yet there’s hope as well as a proven path to help us cope with and face life’s challenges with renewed vigor and determination. Friday Morning, first session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-23 Personal, Perfect, and Permanent 47:48
Kim Allen
Using Ruth King's nomenclature for the Three Characteristics, this talk explores the ways in which we misperceive in our daily life.
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-23 Transpersonal: The Place of Don't Have To 27:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto describes how our efforts to be good and “get it right” tend to come from a constricting place. Such efforts are accompanied by self-consciousness, criticism and stress which block access to the innate good qualities of our own heart. This talk outlines a way to move from the strategies of the head to the opening of the heart by coming into the body.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-22 Taking the “Exquisite Risk”: An Undefended Heart 50:36
Tara Brach
Poet Mark Nepo uses the phrase “exquisite risk” to describe our willingness to be fully alive, open, available, living true to our heart. This talk explores the challenges and blessings of taking the exquisite risk, both in becoming more intimate with our inner life, and in engaging with others from full authenticity.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-22 How Patience and Resolve Cultivate Equanimity 58:37
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-22 Meditation - Relaxing Back into Full Presence 23:36
Tara Brach
This guided practice begins with a conscious breath that relaxes the body and mind, and then a body scan to awaken to the aliveness of the present moment. We then open into the natural awareness that includes the changing flow of sounds, feelings and sensations, and practice “relaxing back” when the mind gets lost in thought.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-22 Five Ways to Transform your Meditation Practice 54:00
Oren Jay Sofer
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-03-22 Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions 29:15
Adrianne Ross
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-22 Relying on Your Gut Intelligence 24:08
Ajahn Sucitto
In this morning talk, Ajahn Sucitto points to a gut intelligence we all have that can be relied on to save us from the thinking mind. The thinking mind creates suffering. Our embodied (gut) intelligence is a savior, a source of safety; it always tells the truth.
Tisarana Buddhist Monastery :  Morning Meeting Offerings

2017-03-22 The Point of All Our Practice (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:11:49
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-22 Practicing metta in daily life 1:17:07
Jill Shepherd
Suggestions for continuing the Brahma Vihara practices at home
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-22 No Title 5:13
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-21 Shadows 8:40
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-21 Introduction to Sutta Study 2017 - part 2 1:26:57
Kim Allen
Second of three
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-21 Equanimity/Upekkha 55:59
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-21 Dharma talk: Mudita/appreciative joy and equanimity 56:14
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the four Brahma Viharas, focusing on mudita/appreciative joy, and equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-21 One's Approach To Practice 17:07
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-03-21 The Tenderness of Being Alive 40:31
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2017-03-21 Instructions, méditation guidée et enseignement 1:26:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-03-21 Day#24: Brahma Vihara Instructions 27:22
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-21 Rahulovada Sutta and the Simile of the Ocean 51:27
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-21 Metta for the "difficult" person 58:26
Jill Shepherd
Instructions and guided meditation exploring metta for the "difficult" person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-20 Surprising Delights of Renunciation (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 66:50
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night talk with Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-03-20 Mudita 59:25
Adrianne Ross
"Metta is betta than Dukkha, come on everybody Anicca." Mudita--the mind-deliverance of goodness joy as a path to liberation .
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-20 Compassion, Willingness and Courage 53:40
Oren Jay Sofer
We are deeply connected to one another and all of life. When we are willing to meet pain and suffering with awareness, to feel what is present in our hearts, the door to compassion and awakening can open.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-20 Getting Out of the Way 47:16
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2017-03-20 Brahmaviharas: Metta 56:29
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-03-20 The Brahmaviharas 51:31
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-03-20 Day 23: Brahma Vihara Instructions 32:53
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-20 Metta instructions and guided meditation using the "radiating energy" method 48:02
Jill Shepherd
Practising with the "radiating energy" method of extending metta in the four directions, above, below, and all around
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-20 Listening to the Mind 6:37
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-19 Liberative Dependent Arising: Liberation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:17
Gil Fronsdal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-19 Metta and the obstacles to cultivating kindness 50:18
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the five hindrances, and some tools for working with difficult emotions and mind-states that get in the way of cultivating metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

2017-03-19 Awake and Alive 38:58
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2017-03-19 Caring for Oneself, Caring for the World 60:02
Myoshin Kelley
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-03-19 Brahma Vihara Instructions 28:38
Kate Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong Retreat

2017-03-19 Instructions: compassion practice 58:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Compassion is the ability to meet pain with caring tenderness. Formal practices strengthen and heals the heart. (Includes question and answers)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart, Cultivating Kindness: Metta Retreat

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