2017-06-14 Application of Samadhiin Vipassana Meditation 65:00
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Illustrations - external and internal obstructions to concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-14 Q&A: All that Ends Is Suffering 1:12:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Where to put the focus in standing/walking meditation; what is meant by awareness/mindfulness/citta; conditioned/unconditioned, kamma and the choice; awakening and healing; goodwill and discernment/embodied goodwill
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Qigong Instructions: Noticing the Quality of Space Around You 56:09
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instructions for standing/neutral posture [ends 9:00]; loosening by shaking; torso twists with waist bend to each side; knee circles; the “clock” hip circles; string puppet; bow and arrow; cow gazing at the moon; ends with standing/neutral posture
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Morning Teaching: How Good Do You Have to Be 45:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Find the response to this question from that safe space in embodiment. Mixed in with places where one feels shut down, agitated and sleepy is a certain quality that feels comfortable. Sense it, enjoy it, then view the rest from that place of refuge. This is a movement of compassion. It’s not good, it’s not right, it’s just aware.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-14 Body-Feeling-Mind States (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:53
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
A guided meditation on the first three foundations of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-14 Dukkha - Meditation Instructions Day 5 53:40
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-14 03 Meditation - Awareness and this breathing body 21:21
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-14 Entry Into Emptiness: Honoring and Settling In. 55:31
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflection on honoring tradition and settling into meditation from one perspective on emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-14 Lightly Guided Meditation Day 5 44:43
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-14 Five Opportunities for Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 22:08
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-14 Brief and simple guided meditation for arriving into retreat. 41:43
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Emptiness: A Meditation & Study Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-06-13 Liberation through Non-Clinging 60:14
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-13 1st Foundation of Mindfulness 34:19
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Instruction sur l’exploration méditative de la réalité, Partie 2 51:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Two Kinds of Truth (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:49
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-13 Not Waiting For Happiness 31:42
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2017-06-13 Instruction sur l’exploration méditative de la réalité, Partie I 28:33
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-06-13 Goodwill – Giving Yourself Back to Yourself 67:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Goodwill isn’t about changing things, but bringing up the right atmosphere and steeping your awareness in that. The right atmosphere isn’t 100% approval or love or celebration, but a quality of granting permission. Non-resistance, non-aversion. Experiences of exclusion and being treated as an object cause the citta to close down over time, and we lose the ability to feel anything. Subjective presence will give yourself back to yourself.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 Trust 26:27
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Trust can support us in our practice. Trust in terms of inspiration, aspiration, what brings us here and keeps us here practicing. Trust isn’t something that comes easily for everyone because of our past disappointments. Yet trust grows stronger by going through difficulties disappointments and expectations that are not met by staying with things in the moment. Then things are always alright, always manageable.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 Early Morning Reflections: The Trained Mind, The Untrained Mind and The Choice 17:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Remember the gift of mind. It can seem such a tangle at times. The untrained mind is difficult and can be deadly. The trained mind is a beauty, it can be liberated – deathless. This is choice. Attending to what’s worthy of attention; attending to what gives rise to beautiful states that lift and brighten. Withdrawing attention from states that become burdensome, confusing, useless. The gift of attention, use it wisely.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-13 The Body Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:52
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Breath - Breath Energy - Four Elements
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-13 Impermanence - Meditation Instructions Day 4 45:32
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-13 02 Freeness and Relaxation 28:57
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-13 The Middle Way to Awakening - You can do it! (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17:16
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  The Middle Way Monastic Retreat

2017-06-12 Revolution of Awareness 46:41
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-12 Role of Concentration in Contemplation of Physical and Mental Objects 65:11
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Concentration - its definition, obstacles and development.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-06-12 The Five Hindrances 59:43
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
Chanting 6:30 Ajahn Metta begins with sharing how she has found her misery in the midst of the beautiful surroundings at Beatenberg. She addresses the five hindrances, mental conditions that not only confront us on retreat but in our day to day lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  IMS Dana Talks - PRIVATE

2017-06-12 Qigong Instructions: A Means for Release 42:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
knee circles, neutral position, string puppet, kwa squat, sensing the midline, raising the sky, medicine ball
Cittaviveka

2017-06-12 Standing Instructions: Free from Obstruction, Free from Intrusion, Free from Harm 23:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Three references for standing: anatomy, sensations and energies. Setting aside what isn’t needed and firming up what is useful, allowing the body to complete itself and come into balance. Free from obstruction, free from intrusion, free from harm.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 Morning Teaching: You Don’t Get to the End of the Story by Following It 40:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We tend to get the situations that will work on us. Our approach, if we get wise, is to meet dissatisfaction in the body. There is a possibility to unhook from the tides of affliction that cause us to form up in these challenging situations. We can pause, unhook, and bear open, steady presence. Shifts occur by themselves.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 Early Morning Instructions: Coming to Terms with Dukkha – It Just Doesn’t Have to Be That Good 20:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Rather than following the mental movements of the mind, there’s the possibility to just open to the manifest with no particular engagement. The particular point is meeting dukkha – where we chafe, want, resist – and recognizing it as it is. At the moment the engagement changes, the mind releases. Then the world doesn’t have to be that good.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-12 01 Meditation - essential principles 25:36
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves :  The Art of Living Freely

2017-06-12 Vedana - Meditation Instructions Day 3 55:14
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Fabrication, Ways of Looking and the Hindrances 63:22
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Five Spiritual Faculties 1:28:28
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series
Five Spiritual Faculties - Meditation 30:23 Download Listen Five Spiritual Faculties - Talk 58:05 Download Listen

2017-06-11 Being with 'what is' on a silent retreat (aging, dying and awakening) 51:27
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-06-11 Spiritual Friendship 41:25
Ajahn Metta	Download Listen
What we are doing by coming together, practicing with the overall framework of the Dhamma, is developing spiritual friendship. Over the short period of a retreat period as we meet and connect in the silence, our energies come together and we become unified as a group and find support.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Walking and Reclining Instructions 11:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Walking from your center, finding fluidity of movement, sensing with the torso rather than the eyes. [Ends 10:10] For reclining, laying flat on one’s back, allowing front of body to completely open up, extending awareness from the feet to the head and the space around.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Afternoon Instructions: How to Approach Mindfulness of Body 21:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness of body is not just in reference to the outer form, but to energetic sensitivity. Data from the body is direct, not filtered through the mind. If we track it and tune into it, it can release blocked areas, clear psychological effects and bring clarity. Approach with goodwill and softness of attitude.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Morning Teaching: The Body As a Sense Organ 24:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As we enter retreat, we may feel a certain amount of jangle and disorientation. Our embodiment can provide a source of strong, inner orientation. This inner form has its own language, rhythms and moods that can ground and settle us into the real here and now.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Early morning instructions: Guided Meditation ‘Awakened Repose’ 60:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Instructions for sitting and standing meditation are offered. In both, sensing ground, balancing of outer and inner forms, rhythmic flow of in and out breathing, allowing the beauty and intelligence of subtle forms to come forth.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-11 Whole Body Breathing - - Guided Meditation Day 2 38:36
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-11 Full Body Awareness - Meditation Instructions Day 2 65:47
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-10 Training for Peace 35:59
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-06-10 Understanding freedom as related wisdom. 63:22
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
A shared talk with Jesse and Michelle McDonald
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Liberation of Heart and Mind: Lovingkindness and Insight Weekend

2017-06-10 Introduction to Retreat: The Most Important Thing 54:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Guidance to keep putting things aside, and keep establishing ‘here,’ a bodily feeling that serves as a guide to what’s always here. In the space of open awareness, we can ask ourselves every day: What is the most important thing? And the answer may change each time. For the retreat time, we consider silence and goodwill as the most important things.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg :  The Wisdom of Embodiment

2017-06-10 Relating to Ourselves and Others with Love and Wisdom 53:52
Jean Esther	Download Listen
True North Insight :  The Dharma of Relationships

2017-06-10 Breathing through the Energetic Body - Guided Meditation Day 1 41:16
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-10 Awareness Speaks of Kindness 62:48
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva :  Opening to Awareness

2017-06-09 Maranasati: Dying and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Exploring what we think death is and it’s role and function as part of Buddhist meditation and realization. We examine the role of death in our conventional lives with the arising and passing of roles, worlds we’re involved with & times and stages of our life that pass. What happens as we normalize the dying process as part of the great letting go. How does letting go reveal the awakened heart?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Aging, Dying and Awakening