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2024-03-06 Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation 55:51
Tara Brach
Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness that is our home heals the very roots of depression.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-03-06 Separation is Getting More & More Difficult to Sustain as a Cultural Myth 47:18
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-03-07 Groundlessness: A Doorway to Liberation 60:09
James Baraz
Pema Chödrön writes: "It's not impermanence per se, or even knowing we're going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it's our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into its dynamic quality, that's called enlightenment, or awakening to our true nature, to our fundamental goodness." Let's investigate the underlying feeling of insecurity to see how it can be used as a path to real freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2024-03-07 Morning Instructions 63:52
Carol Wilson
Wise attitude
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-03-07 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:43
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2024-03-07 Using the Enneagram as a Tool on the Path 53:58
Tina Rasmussen
Luminous Mind Sangha

2024-03-07 Live Wire of Authenticity 50:16
Devon Hase
A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024

2024-03-08 More Reflections on Beauty 12:02
Devon Hase
Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024

2024-03-08 Karaniya Metta Sutta 11:51
Devon Hase
Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2024

2024-03-08 Guided Meditation on the Three Refuges and the Path. 25:24
Ayya Santacitta
Gaia House The Dharma Was Made For These Times - The Four Protective Meditations (online)

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