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Dharma Talks
2016-04-05 Day 9: Dhamma Discussion Group B 1:15:53
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-05 monthly sitting & inquiry - April 5th 2016 56:32
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-04-05 Day 9: Dhamma Discussion Group A 1:16:37
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-05 Day 9: Morning Guided 40:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-05 Working with distracting thoughts 25:06
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-04-04 Kāyānupassanā - Discerning the Elements 38:49
Akincano Marc Weber
Response to group questions - M62 - elements as qualities of sensory experience of form and materiality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-04-04 The Art of Samadhi 43:59
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the art of cultivating samadhi by offering an initial understanding of it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2016-04-04 Mindfulness and Metta 55:01
Sally Armstrong
Equanimity is central to the Buddha's teachings and practices, and so underlies and supports both mindfulness and metta (loving-kindness). For Samma Sati, Right Mindfulness, to develop, equanimity needs to function to keep us connected with experiences even when they are difficult or challenging, to deepen insight into the true nature of reality. In metta practice, equanimity keeps the heart open when conditions are not ideal for kindness - and they are often not ideal!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Equanimity: Seeing with Quiet Eyes

2016-04-04 Day 8: Dhamma Discussion Group D 1:10:41
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-04 Day 8: Dhamma Discussion Group C 1:25:27
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-04 Day 8: Morning Guided 42:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-04 Conditions for Practice 27:30
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-04-03 Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: An Overview of the Retreat 24:01
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2016-04-03 Day 7: Dhamma Discussion Group B 1:39:23
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-03 Day 7: Dhamma Discussion Group A 1:25:31
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-03 Day 7: Morning Guided 37:59
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-02 Opening talk - setting the tone 19:46
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Satipaṭṭhāna: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-04-02 Day 6: Dhamma Discussion Group D 58:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-02 Day 6: Dhamma Discussion Group C 1:28:30
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-02 Day 6: Morning Guided 43:45
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-01 The Path of Practice 59:46
Mark Coleman
This talk explains the Four Noble Truths and how we learn to meet difficult experience with wisdom, not reactivity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2016-04-01 Day 5: Dhamma Discussion Group B 1:11:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-01 Day 5: Dhamma Discussion Group A 1:25:48
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-04-01 Day 5: Morning Guided 37:35
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-31 Skillful Paths of Speech 50:55
Jenny Wilks
This is the second talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks talks about the importance of skillful speech in our practice of ethics, and about four kinds of skillful speech, which, according to the Buddha, involve avoiding false, divisive, harsh or meaningless speech. Jenny also discusses cultivating the opposites of these types of speech.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-31 "Sacred Activism Part. 3: Working with Anger and Frustration" often natural responses to news". 56:00
James Baraz
Hello Friends, I'll be continuing the series of Sacred Activism talks on how to bring our dharma practice to working skillfully with current events. We've explored compassionate action ("The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative") and humility ("We Don't Know What We Don't Know"). I hope you join us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-31 Day 4: Dhamma Discussion Group D 68:35
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-31 Day 4: Dhamma Discussion Group C 1:18:19
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-31 Day 4: Morning Guided 29:33
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-30 Interdependence: Meditation and the Ecology of the Heart 61:44
Myoshin Kelley
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-03-30 Embodied Awareness – Pain and Living Fully – Part 3 1:13:26
Tara Brach
The experiences we most value – feeling creative, loving, vital – require being awake in our bodies. Yet when faced with physical pain, our conditioning is to pull away from our bodies, and get lost in thoughts. This talk offers guidance in working mindfully with different levels of pain, as we cultivate our capacity to live from an embodied presence and open heart. After the talk, Tara offers a short period of question and response on embodiment.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-03-30 The Power of Loving-Kindness 37:16
Ayya Medhanandi
When universal love leading to liberation of the heart is ardently developed, unrelentingly resorted to, it becomes the foundation of our life. We travel in a divine vehicle, our inheritance from the Buddha, the sublime abiding of mettā, loving kindness. This is our shelter from unwholesome states, a true salve for impure and damaging mental afflictions. More and more as we purify the mind, it triumphs over hateful feelings and forgiveness and compassion are perfected. Indeed, by the power of loving kindness, we are crossing the stream to the farther shore, awakening to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat

2016-03-30 Studying the Self 49:20
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-03-30 Day 3: Dhamma Discussion Group B 1:13:23
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-30 Grieving the Loss of a Mother - A Tribute to Bernice Rothberg 67:25
Donald Rothberg
A remembrance of Donald's mother, Bernice, five weeks after her death (4 weeks were in retreat), identifying the main spiritual themes of her life (love and family, music and beauty, and social justice), and exploring the dynamics and sequence of Donald's grieving process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
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2016-03-30 Day 3: Dhamma Discussion Group A 1:14:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-30 Day 3: Morning Guided 24:59
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-29 Mindfulness Internally: Insight and Freedom 39:56
Jenny Wilks
This is the first talk of a two-part talk titled "Mindfulness, Insight, and Compassion." According to Jenny Wilkes, "mindfulness" is becoming such a commonly used term that its depth and liberating potential may be underestimated or misunderstood. The Buddha's teaching on establishing mindfulness (the Satipatthana Sutta) invites us to cultivate mindfulness both "internally" i.e., a deep awareness of our inner experience in order to cultivate liberating insight; and "externally" i.e., an open-hearted awareness of others in order to cultivate an ethical and compassionate response. The two-part talk explores how together these can support our mindfulness practice so that it becomes, as the Buddha described, a "direct path to awakening."
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-29 Liberation through Dana, Sila, Bhavana 46:34
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-03-29 Day 2: Morning Guided 41:25
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-29 Morning Instructions 15:44
Ayya Medhanandi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat

2016-03-29 Two Forms of Compassion 24:01
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-03-29 Guided Meditation 8:28
Kim Allen
Strong Back, Soft Front - from Joan Halifax
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-03-28 Collection of the Buddha's Suttas 43:23
Ayya Medhanandi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Finding Inner Peace: Monastic Retreat

2016-03-28 The End is Nigh 40:19
Brad Richecoeur
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2016-03-28 Day 1: Instructions 28:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  Retreat with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-03-28 Attachment, Commitment and Love 53:55
Jack Kornfield
Dharma Talk from Monday Night Meditation Class on March 28th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-28 Check in with the Sacred - Path to the Deathless 36:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-27 Paths to Liberation 49:59
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2016-03-27 Breaking the Cycle 21:31
Amma Thanasanti
Class 4
Shakti Vihara

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