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Dharma Talks
2016-12-21 From the Garbage Dump to the Empty Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:04
John Travis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2016-12-21 Reflections on Chronos and Kairos 47:25
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-12-21 Words on the qualities of the heart and a guided reflection 44:46
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-21 Practicing Loving the Stranger 1:53:09
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-20 Embracing The Black 33:25
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-12-20 Metta: unstoppable friendliness 35:35
Anushka Fernandopulle
Explanation and guided meditation of metta-. Goodwill, lovingkindness, benevolence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-20 How practice developed in this queer body. 44:10
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-19 Practicing with Darkness and Light at the Winter Solstice 60:17
Donald Rothberg
This time of greatest darkness is a time, when we may, like the earth, stop much of our outward activity, going inward for the sake of renewal and return. As we settle our minds, bodies, and hearts, we open to the generative and fertile darkness and stillness of the unknown and the difficult, and to the gifts, insights, and light that manifest through such opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2016-12-19 Instructions on working with emotions, moods and mind states 47:11
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-19 Spirit Rock, Spring Washam, Warrior Heart - Path of the Bodhisattva 61:55
Spring Washam
A heartfelt talk on the life of Shantideva. Core teachings on meeting obstacles and using difficulties as the noble path forward. Teachings on the archetype and journey of the bodhisattva.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-12-19 Q&A 42:57
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-19 Morning instructions– day one 51:06
Anushka Fernandopulle
Sitting and walking instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2016-12-18 What do we Trust as Refuge 56:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-12-18 Endings and Beginnings 58:53
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-12-17 Knowing Presence, Discovering Freedom 41:36
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House Knowing Presence - Discovering Freedom

2016-12-17 Oren J. Sofer and Miki Kashtan - Spirit Rock - Leadership on the Bodhisattva Path Integrating Power and Love - morning session 2:02:58
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-17 Oren J Sofer and Miki Kashtan - Spirit Rock- Leadership on the Bodhisattva Path Integrating Power and Love - afternoon session 1:43:05
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-15 Q&A 60:00
Rodney Smith
Covering a variety of subjects.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2016-12-15 “Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic.” 57:52
Mark Coleman
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-15 Inviting the precepts to tea. 49:33
Caroline Jones
Some thoughts on how to make friends with the five ethical training guidelines.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-14 Sailing in Unfavorable Winds 19:17
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-12-14 The Revolution of Tenderness - Part 1 1:15:33
Tara Brach
These two talks explore our capacity to be tender - sensitive and responsive to ourselves and others. This capacity marks a radical evolutionary shift from a self-centered existence shaped by fear, to a life lived from the realization of our collective belonging and the preciousness of all life. The talks examine the conditioning that inclines us toward dissociation and emotional reactivity, and the practices of presence that evolve our heart and awareness. from Tara’s talk: Pope Francis invites us to “live the revolution of tenderness,” which is expressed through closeness, compassion and service...
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-12-14 Complete class with instructions, guided meditation and talk 61:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-14 Finding the Middle Way 46:00
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-12-14 The Calling of the Bodhisattva 2 - Vow and Ritual 68:13
Donald Rothberg
After a talk continuing to explore the need for contemporary versions of the Bodhisattva, we engage in reflection and ritual, developing personal vows for ourselves as Bodhisattvas in training, and expressing them before the group (the latter is not in the recording).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-13 Birthing the quiet mind 43:44
Rodney Smith
We often miss direct and simple portal of silence, into the sacred.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2016-12-13 Sitting In The Middle Of It 30:29
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-12-13 Cours complet 64:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-12 Cours complet 1:21:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-12 The Fearless Heart 57:52
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving-Kindness and Compassion

2016-12-12 Spirituality and Politics (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) Part 2 of 2 2:16:14
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-12-11 Perspectives on pain. 47:54
Rodney Smith
There is the pain of our narrative. The pain of desire, The pain of separation, The pain of the time – all are terminated through our willingness to meet the here and now
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2016-12-11 Cultivating LovingKindness 53:25
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Loving-Kindness and Compassion

2016-12-11 Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration 51:08
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-12-11 The Four Elements: Body Awareness as a Support for Tranquility and Insight 55:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-12-11 8FP Wise Speech part 2 7:52
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-12-11 8FP Wise Speech part 1 44:26
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-12-11 More Suggestions for Practicing Tonglen 40:22
Zohar Lavie
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-12-11 Spirit Rock - Equanimity: Finding Balance in Our Practice with James Baraz 5:31:45
James Baraz
Equanimity is a highly valued quality in Buddhist teachings. It is one of the Four Divine Abodes, one of the Seven Factors of Enlightenment, and one of the Ten Paramitas or Perfections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-10 Meeting Suffering -- Ignorance or Trust? 40:34
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-12-10 The Novice With An Empty Bowl 24:50
Ayya Medhanandi
A humble novice with his bowl empty exemplifies where true riches lie in this world. Meditating deep in the unchartered borders within, gain those riches by giving up worldly pursuits. See the value of what is true and what reveals the truth to us. Beyond confusion, beyond wanting, beyond harmful ways of being, purify the mind and seek that jewel of the heart's true peace, clear and free.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2016-12-10 Guided Meditation on Spacious Compassionate Awareness 44:25
Zohar Lavie
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-12-10 Spirit Rock, The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness 6:50:32
Howard Cohn
The Buddha was called 'the Happy One'. His teachings and path provide a clear and inspiring vision of our capacity to use our life to fulfill our goal of happiness. This talk of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of mindfulness, concentration and love, illustrating how each of us, through a gradual process of applying loving awareness to our moment-to-moment experience, can move from clinging and attachment to letting go and freedom, from confusion to clarity, and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-10 Teja Bell- Spirit Rock Day 5: Morning Sit with Instructions 37:19
Teja Bell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Teja Bell - Spirit Rock:Metta and Qigong: Opening Compassion 58:59
Teja Bell
Teja brings the core transmissions of Metta and Qigong both practically and into the broader view, interlacing the Dharma, where compassion and wisdom meet.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Day 10 - Closing 29:43
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English, Myanmar and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-09 Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 4: Morning Sit with Instructions 37:14
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-09 Precepts and Forgiveness 17:11
Ajahn Sucitto
(refuges and precepts, final reflections and goodbye, metta chant)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-09 Every moment is a Dhamma door 19:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-09 Morning Chanting in Pali 12:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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