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Dharma Talks
2025-11-05 Talk on Contemplation of Corpse in Decay from the Satipatthana Sutta 39:20
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-05 Paradoxes of Practice 55:05
Devon Hase
Teachings on wise discernment and how to skillfully respond to what arises in retreat practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-04 Reflections and Meditation on Forgiveness 45:00
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-04 Guided Meditation & Introduction: Radiating Loving Kindness and the Selfless Nature of Experience 69:23
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-04 Metta Instructions & Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:17
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-11-04 Teaching from the Maranasati Sutta & Last Breath Meditation 1:13:37
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-04 Reflections on Spiritual Bypassing and Long Retreat Practice 59:01
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Anicca: Impermanence 42:15
Devon Hase
The Buddha emphasized the importance of seeing impermanence in many of his teachings. Reflections on the three wisdoms and how they relate to insight into change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Der Dhammaweg, Teil III – Sammlung und Achtsamkeit 42:47
Renate Seifarth
Rechte Sammlung und rechte Achtsamkeit bilden den Abschluss des achtfachen Pfades. Es werden die unterschiedlichen Formen von Sammlung erklärt und wozu sie dient. Achtsamkeit ist nicht gleich Achtsamkeit. Es müssen bestimmte Faktoren anwesend sein, dass wir von Achtsamkeit im Sinne der buddhistischen Lehre sprechen können. Das wird anhand des Konzeptes von R.A.I.N. erklärt.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Vipassana und Karuna Retreat

2025-11-03 Benefits of Mindfulness of Death 38:41
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-03 The Hindrances & Papanca 48:45
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2025-11-03 9 Contemplations of Atisha Meditation 23:16
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-03 Meditation on Embodiment and Awareness 37:23
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-03 First Morning Instructions: Breath & Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:25
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-11-03 Wholesome and Unwholesome States of Mind 1:26:00
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The Mindfulness practice helps us to prevent and overcome unskillful states of mind and develop and maintain wholesome states of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Interconnection: Our True Nature! 1:33:16
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-11-02 An overview of the four Brahmavihāra 46:55
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the interrelationships between mettā / kindness, compassion, muditā / gladness and equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-11-02 Dharmette: The Journey of Embodied Awareness 18:22
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Der Dhammaweg, Teil II 47:50
Renate Seifarth
Im weiteren geht es um die nächsten Bereiche des achtfachen Pfades, nämlich rechte Absicht, wofür ein Erkennen unserer Absicht hinter unseren Handlungen gehört. Wissensklarheit ist ein wichtiges Instrument dafür, das wir in der Vipassanapraxis entwickeln. Unsere Absichten führen zu entsprechenden Handeln, als erstes auf der gedanklichen Ebene, dann wie wir handeln und sprechen, ob privat oder beruflich. Für Buddha sind das wesentliche Aspekte unseres Dhammaweges.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Vipassana und Karuna Retreat

2025-11-02 Retreat Opening 1:18:31
Nikki Mirghafori
Big Bear Retreat Center Befriending Mortality

2025-11-02 The Time of Transition 27:57
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House November Solitary Retreat

2025-11-02 Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention 53:24
Jill Shepherd
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-02 An Ancient Body Scan 49:39
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Metta Meditation 35:39
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Orienting and settling into sensations 41:33
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-01 Metta Practice toward a difficult person and all beings 61:51
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-01 Cinq images parlantes 🫧 61:39
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-11-01 Reflections on Cetana: Intentions 49:55
Devon Hase
Teachings and Guided Practice on working with Intention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-31 Quatre erreurs de perception qui créent toute la souffrance du monde 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-31 Méditation guidée sur le thème de l’équanimité 31:48
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-31 Contentment and Samadhi 50:05
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-31 Der Dhammaweg, Teil I 48:04
Renate Seifarth
Zunächst werden die vier Wahrheiten dargestellt, die uns vier Aufgaben präsentieren. Hierbei geht es vor allem um dukkha, einer komplexen vielschichtigen Gegebenheit in unserem Leben, die für den Buddha der Mittelpunkt seiner Lehre bildet. Es gilt dukkha zu überwinden. Buddha beschreibt dazu einen achtfachen Pfad, den wir Schritt für Schritt gehen können. Der erste Bereich ist rechte Sichtweise. Dazu gehören all unsere Konzepte, Vorstellungen, Ansichten, Meinungen über die Welt und über einen Weg zu Glück.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Vipassana und Karuna Retreat

2025-10-31 Instructions du 4e matin de la retraite 61:19
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-30 Transition From Settling to Seeing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:49:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
This talk explores the gentle transition from shamatha (calm abiding through concentration) to vipassanā (insight), inviting us to cultivate stillness not through effort but through nourishment, (as The Budha did) curiosity, and kindness. It reminds us that the mind’s obstacles—dullness and agitation—are gateways to balance and presence. From this grounded calm, clarity naturally arises, revealing the truth of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. In resting with things as they are, stillness ripens into seeing, and seeing reveals freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-30 Meeting the 5-Hindrances with mindfulness and wisdom 58:40
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The arising of the 5-hindrances is beyond our control. However mindfulness and wisdom applied to these hindrances can make a difference between being caught up in them and being free from them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Intelligence émotionnelle et entraînement cognitif 65:33
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-30 Guided Meditation on Wholesome Emotion 68:57
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Use the acronym of M.A.I.N. (Mindfulness, Attitude, Insight and non-clinging) towards mindfulness of wholesome emotion can lead to development and maintain these beautiful states of mind such as generosity, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, happiness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Instructions from My Teachers 40:12
James Baraz
We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations? What have you learned from them? I thought I'd share some ways that instructions from two of my teachers--Ram Dass and HWL Poonja (Papaji)-- have shaped how I see the world and how I practice. The talk includes a recording of a significant dialogue from 1990 with Poonjaji that reconnected me with my joy. Here is a link to the dialogue of the Poonjaji satsang where James asked the question https://docs.google.com/document/d/16TnL2Zev-6r_mZPrgdSxSTaYLoyzdLOg3CnJ2U3D6C8/edit?tab=t.0 Here is a link to the video on Youtube that is over an hour long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjspK5fHiQ. James is at 23:38
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-10-29 Equanimity and Compassion in a World on Fire 49:17
Devin Berry
A talk on training the heart in a time of heat: drawing from the Fire Sermon, the Sutta Nipata, and lived stories – showing how equanimity and compassion meets suffering without collapse, numbness, or bypass.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-29 Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:10
Eugene Cash
The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-29 Mindfulness of the Body: Fear 29:16
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-10-29 Choosing to Listen to Aliveness 54:01
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-29 Karuna Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
A short talk first and Guided Meditation to cultivate the heartful yearning for all to be happy and the intention to do something to remedy our/their suffering
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-29 Mindfulness of Emotions 1:42:00
Devon Hase
Reflections on working with our "beautiful monsters" and guided meditation on RAINN
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-29 Meditation: "Mindfulness" 27:13
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-29 Talk: "Crossing the Floods" 33:19
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-10-28 Qu’est-ce que l’attention? 43:25
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-28 The Three Ways of Seeing That Bring Liberating Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:37
Donald Rothberg
After a brief general account of the three ways of liberating insight, we look at each of the three--insights into impermanence, dukkha, and not-self--with a longer treatment of insight into not-self. There is an emphasis especially on how we practice in order to come to these insights. We close with a passage from Ajahn Chah pointing to the unity of developing samadhi and cultivating insight. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-28 Talk: Right Effort part 1 38:50
Jill Shepherd
NOTE: this talk was re-recorded due to a technical error with the original
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-28 Introduction & Guided Loving Kindness for Friend and Neutral Person 43:13
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-28 Realizing the Unconditioned: A Compassionate Response to Suffering - Part 2 - Meditation 32:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-28 Realizing the Unconditioned: A Compassionate Response to Suffering - Part 2 - Talk 58:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-28 Instructions du 1e matin 59:34
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-28 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:51
Tere Abdala-Romano
A guided meditation from Settling the Body, the breath and the mind in its natural state Shamatha to Vipassana , in this case observe the three ways that liberate us, emphasizing this morning on the inmeditae direct experience of impermanence through breath , body sensations, sounds, mental objects realizing how all are transient as our lives and selves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-28 Instructions: practising with thinking 25:09
Jill Shepherd
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Awareness of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:15
Tere Abdala-Romano
Further more on this practice that requires concentration and relaxation, how to recognize the space where all experiences arise and dissolve. Mention of other (Tibetan) traditions on this topic. The nature of awareness, three simple stages of progression, more on some obstacles and remedies. How to recognize awarenes that has been and is already here
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 The Second Music 49:24
Devon Hase
Stories and Teachings on Wise Attitude and Devotion on the Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-27 Metta: Cultivating Loving-Kindness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:57
Tere Abdala-Romano
Continuing practicing to bring up someone who inspires us genuine uninterested love, so we can move on to wish metta for ourselves for the benefit of transforming our hearts
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Practicing Shamatha, Developing concentration in Relaxation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:27
Tere Abdala-Romano
Guided meditation to Relax the Breath, The Body and the Mind to help them Settle so concentration is possible towards Samadhi in a relaxed and vivid way. Reminderof ethics and practices of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-27 Instructions for Open Practices 13:08
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Developing Samadhi (Concentration): Its Importance, How Samadhi Deepens, and the Challenges of Practicing to Develop Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:41
Donald Rothberg
We review the nature of samadhi, how it is a natural quality that surfaces in many human experiences, and its importance in meditation (and the teachings of the Buddha). We briefly examine the five jhanic factors that point to how samadhi deepens. We also look at several of the main challenges that arise as we practice to develop samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-26 Talk - Our Place in Tme 52:23
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Buddhism and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:56
Eugene Cash
Exploring the Normalcy of Death in Buddhism. Looking at the many ways Buddhism understands death: Death of the body; The life and death of each moment; Becoming harmonious with Death as part of Life; Death as a Doorway to the Deathless,
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

2025-10-26 Closing metta practice 7:33
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 Four suttas containing all the Brahma Viharas 23:11
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 A deeper look at Upekkha 35:54
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 A deeper look at Mudita 7:43
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 A deeper look at Karuna 14:55
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 Realizing the Unconditioned: A Compassionate Response to Suffering - Part 1 - Meditation 30:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-26 Realizing the Unconditioned: A Compassionate Response to Suffering - Part 1 - Talk 42:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-26 The simile of the cloth and The kamala sutta 15:46
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-26 Insatructions - Mindfulness of Thinking & Being (this recording also includes Leela Sarti) 46:45
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-26 Refuge – evoking and resonating safety 47:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings

2025-10-26 Using Sound As Anchor 51:13
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of hearing is one of five practices of mindfulness of Six Sense base. This practice can ground us by anchoring our attention apart from preventing unskillful states of mind from arising.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-25 Talk - Our Place in Nature 55:11
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-25 Acceptance 1:27:32
Ayya Santussika
This guided meditation, dhamma talk, questions and responses was offered on October 25, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - Guided Meditation 16:44 - DHAMMA TALK 28:20 - Q&R
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-10-25 Instructions - Loving Kindness to Self, Across the Whole Lifespan 19:42
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-25 A short Metta practice 6:16
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-25 How to practice the Brahma Viharas 30:42
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-25 A deeper look at Metta 30:22
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-25 Parami - Opening out of the 'me' bag 53:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings

2025-10-25 Introduction to the four Brahma Viharas 24:08
Leigh Brasington
London Insight Meditation Leigh Brasington – What the suttas actually say about the Brahma Viharas

2025-10-25 Instructions to Deepen Practice (this recording also includes Yanai Postelnik) 52:51
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-25 Instructions and guided meditation: Body as anchor 52:33
Jill Shepherd
Establishing a felt sense of the body as anchor; orienting to ease and calm in knowing the body sitting, breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-24 Talk - Not Knowing 46:38
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-24 Theory and Practice of 3 Refuges and 5 precepts 61:37
Bhante Buddharakkhita
By reflecting qualities of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha along with the reflection on our ethical conduct, we experience peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-24 Guided standing meditation 35:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings

2025-10-24 Lovingkindness Meditation 38:22
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-24 Instructions - Sitting & Walking Practice 51:31
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-24 Ritual - forms that empty 51:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings

2025-10-24 Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:54:32
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-10-24 Mindfulness of Breathing 56:41
Devon Hase
Instructions and Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-23 Living Alongside Questions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:43
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-10-23 Talk - That Which Is Hard to Bear 47:06
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-23 Guided Equanimity Practice 35:49
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience Of Love & Wisdom In Meeting Our Lives

2025-10-23 Establishing a Relationship with the Impermanence of Thought 24:59
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience Of Love & Wisdom In Meeting Our Lives

2025-10-23 The Reliable Compass of the EightfoldPath in Living Our Lives Path 50:57
Jean Esther
True North Insight The Resilience Of Love & Wisdom In Meeting Our Lives

2025-10-23 Loving Kindness Practice 43:06
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-23 Sitting & Walking Meditation (this recording also includes Yanai Postelnik) 52:36
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2025-10-23 Finding the heart's voice 42:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves The Mind Writes, the Heart Sings

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