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Dharma Talks
2023-05-23 What is Insight? 34:50
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-05-24 Wise Effort (Sammaviriya) 61:16
Winnie Nazarko
What "wise effort" is, how it fits into the eightfold path, and what characterizes it. The road, Sati (mindfulness) plays in supporting wholesome states, and undercutting the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding the Present Moment

2023-05-24 Reflections on Non-Clinging 30:02
Walt Opie
Walt begins this talk with his experience of the Golden Buddha, and goes on to explore non-clinging as a way of unveiling our own inner treasure. He offers concrete examples of impermanence in daily life which support letting go.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community

2023-05-24 Wise Nourishment 42:38
Chas DiCapua
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-05-24 Meditation: Open-Hearted Presence 22:58
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes a kind attention by bringing the imagery and felt sense of a smile into the body scan and then, with the breath as a home base, opens the attention to changing experience. We end with a brief loving kindness reflection.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-24 Facing Fear (Part 1) – Awakening Your Fearless Heart 52:36
Tara Brach
Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-05-25 Morning reflection: mindfulness of the six sense bases. 24:27
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2023

2023-05-25 Understanding the Hindrances to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:14
Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santussika
A Dhamma talk on the 5 Hindrances followed by a guided meditation on settling with the breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Metta and Karuna: Unlimited Kindness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:19
Ayya Santussika
Developing a felt sense of loving-kindness and compassion as based on the meditation instructions the Buddha taught
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet - A Retreat with Buddhist Nuns (252R23) - On Land with Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta and Emily Carpenter

2023-05-25 Compassion - Why and How 50:37
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

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