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Dharma Talks
2017-02-23 21 guided meditation: metta for benefactor 27:37
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with connection to one's own well-being, then metta for the benefactor using the reciting phrases method of practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 20 instructions: metta practice 11:45
Jill Shepherd
An overview of metta practice, with instructions for working with the category of benefactor
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 18 instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 16:15
Jill Shepherd
Introduction to the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, Mindfulness of the Mind, and skilful ways of relating to thoughts
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 Twelvefold chain of Interdependent Co-Arising. Meditation Included. Over 1.5 hrs. - EBMC POC Sangha 1:33:04
Mushim Ikeda
East Bay Meditation Center

2017-02-22 Listening to the Song – Part I 49:01
Tara Brach
Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the life that is here. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that cultivate this essential domain of human potential. Our focus is both on the transformational power of listening in our personal lives, and also the necessity for deep listening if we are to bring healing to our wider society. "Listening is the forerunner. If we don’t listen to the pain within and around us, we can’t respond."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-02-22 Karma and the End of Karma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:23
Guy Armstrong
Describes the Buddha's basic teaching on Karma as action with volition. By choosing carefully which volitions to follow, we can guide our practice to great levels of happiness. Also describes the results of action, the relation to the concept of not-self, and explores what leads to the end of karma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-22 Equanimity: Balance & equipoise in the mind/heart….living with the heart of greatness even in times of stress, uncertainty & turbulence. 55:40
Marcia Rose
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-02-22 17 talk: Vedana, Right Thought, Metta and Compassion 41:09
Jill Shepherd
Exploring vedana or feeling-tone as the building block of reactivity, and metta or good will and compassion or harmlessness as aspects of Right Thought
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 Self Acceptance and Equanimity 1:31:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-02-22 17) Metta Chants 30:23
Ariya B. Baumann
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 3rd Annual Metta Retreat: 2nd Session

2017-02-22 Day 25: Brahma Vihara Instructions 58:04
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-22 16 instructions: concentration and feeling-tone (vedana) part 2 16:35
Jill Shepherd
Brief introduction of Right Concentration and the potential for pleasant feeling-tone (vedana) to support ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 A Life of Integrity 2 65:14
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the nature of integrity in a life of practice, identifying challenges to integrity and engaging in dyadic inquiry to illuminate one's own relationship to integrity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 14 instructions: different qualities of mindfulness 14:21
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of different qualities of mindfulness, including the technique of mental noting and more open forms of awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-22 The intersection of Wisdom and Compassion 46:09
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC winter 2017

2017-02-21 Reflections on Not-Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:13
Andrea Fella
These reflections begin with a guided meditation on expanding awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-21 13 talk: Right View and Right Thought 43:31
Jill Shepherd
An overview of Right View and Right Thought (or Right Intention), focusing on renunciation as a way to happiness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 14) Talk by Ariya Baumann 57:10
Ariya B. Baumann
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 3rd Annual Metta Retreat: 2nd Session

2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Jill Shepherd
Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 11 instructions: Second Foundation of Mindfulness - vedana or feeling-tone 10:17
Jill Shepherd
A short exploration of the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, vedana or feeling-tone, as the basic recognition of any sense contact as pleasant, unpleasant, or neither pleasant nor unpleasant
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 10 guided meditation: five hindrances 26:34
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation, mostly silent with occasional questions to notice the presence or absence of the five hindrances
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 09 instructions: five hindrances 19:34
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of the five hindrances, mental states that obscure clear seeing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:58
James Baraz
With so many different meditation instructions and approaches to practice how do we know which is the right one for us? This talk includes the Buddha's different methods for dealing with distracting thoughts as well as learning how to listen and trust your own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-20 08 talk: developing wisdom, the Four Noble Truths and an overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 50:56
Jill Shepherd
How wisdom can be cultivated as an understanding of the Four Noble Truths, with an overview of the Noble Eightfold Path
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 7 - Concentration (Samadhi) - Talk 60:11
Mark Nunberg
6th Factor of Awakening : Samadhi (Concentration)
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening (2017)

2017-02-20 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 2) 1:41:55
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed 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. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-20 07 instructions: vedana or feeling-tone 10:35
Jill Shepherd
Refining the First Foundation of Mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, in terms of physical sensations
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 06 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 25:23
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 05 instructions: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 16:51
Jill Shepherd
An overview and various definitions of mindfulness, then instructions for practising mindfulness of breathing in two different styles: for calm and insight
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 Working with the self critical mind 52:14
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC winter 2017

2017-02-19 03 instructions: mindfulness of breathing 9:09
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for mindfulness of breathing practice, emphasising tranquility
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 15:35
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation practising mindfulness of breathing, with an emphasis on calm and ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 02 talk: Refuges and Precepts 28:41
Jill Shepherd
introduction of the Refuges and Precepts, noble silence, metta, and supports for the retreat "container"
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 01 talk: retreat opening and introduction of Noble Eightfold Path 9:40
Jill Shepherd
Retreat opening talk and introduction of Noble Eightfold Path theme
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 Investigation Dosa with Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:44
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-19 Discovering ease on a path of awareness. 51:31
Michael Grady
Mindfulness, attitude, effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center A Path of Awakening: Mindfulness, Lovingkindness and Discernment

2017-02-19 Fear 49:01
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-02-19 From Mindfulness to Divinity: Towards the Tracing of a Phenomenology of Soul (Part 1) 1:51:30
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed 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. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

2017-02-19 Cultivating Wise Speech: Becoming More Skillful in Your Speech Practice (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 51:21
Donald Rothberg
Integrating Inner and Outer Awareness During Speaking -- Talk, Exercise, and Discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-19 Cultivating Wise Speech: Becoming More Skillful in Your Speech Practice (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 1:42:46
Donald Rothberg
Overview of Wise Speech Practice and the Buddha's Wise Speech Ethical Guidelines -- Talk, Exercise, and Discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-19 Noble Eightfold Path 13: guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring Right Concentration 7:53
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for exploring Right Concentration in dyad practice, 3 minutes each separate speaker and listener then 12 minutes free-flow dialogue
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-19 Noble Eightfold Path 12: Right Mindfulness Right Concentration 32:23
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration, including an overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-19 Living-Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World, Morning Session (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 2:34:53
Kevin Griffin
Morning Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-19 Living-Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World, Afternoon Session (Daylong at Spirit Rock) 2:52:48
Kevin Griffin
Afternoon Session
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-18 Progression of Practice 43:42
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-02-18 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 58:58
Sally Armstrong
The Fourth Foundation in the Satipatthana Sutta provides a profound map for our vipassana practice, pointing again and again to how to relate wisely to all experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-18 The Eightfold Path 49:42
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Young Person's Retreat

2017-02-18 Opening The Dharma of Desire (Part 2) 1:19:13
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: This series of talks is intended for experienced practitioners who have already developed 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. In particular, it is strongly recommended that before approaching this set you study and work with the material from the following talks and series: The Theatre of Selves (Parts 1 - 3); Approaching the Dharma, Part 1 (Unbinding the World), and Part 2 (Liberating Ways of Looking); the three-part series Questioning Awakening, Buddhism Beyond Modernism, In Praise of Restlessness; Image, Mythos, Dharma (Parts 1 - 3); An Ecology of Love (Parts 1 - 4); The Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course); and Re-enchanting the Cosmos: The Poetry of Perception. Integrating that previous material and also taking the talks in this new set in their intended order will, for most, support a better and fuller understanding of the teachings from this course.
Gaia House Eros Unfettered - Opening the Dharma of Desire

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