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2023-07-07 Closing/ Home practice talk 26:28
Mark Coleman, Robin Craig
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2023-07-07 Guided Compassion Practice and Discussion - Talk 43:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-07 Guided Compassion Practice and Discussion - Meditation 48:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Fall Residential Retreat

2023-07-07 Meeting the eco-crisis with wisdom 37:46
Mark Coleman
How does the earth wish to move through you? How to inquire deeply into wise responsiveness to the eco- reality.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2023-07-07 Morning Reflections #6: Similes, the nimitta, rama rupa 49:56
Sayadaw U Jagara
Similes for the experience of touch and contact (step 3): musician practicing an instrument; a person sawing a log; gatekeeper guarding arrivals and departures; an embroiderer threading a needle. Subdivisions of the emergence of the nimitta and nama rupa also presented as the "whole body".
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-06 Self, Not Self---explaining our inter-dependence in nature 49:46
Mark Coleman
Being mindful in nature helps reveal how inter-dependent we are wit all life and provides conditions to see through the constructed, separate self.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2023-07-06 Pride, Joy and Seeing Queerly 38:18
River Wolton
Explorations of connection, community, pride, courage, and clear seeing.
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-06 Practicing with Thinking 43:04
Bernat Font
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-06 Morning Reflections #5: The Whole Body of the Breath 46:31
Nikki Mirghafori
Reflections on experiencing the whole body of the breath, (step 3), the temporal and spatial dimension in the eight-part breath
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-06 Morning Instructions - Settling (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

2023-07-05 Emptiness 60:53
Leigh Brasington
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2023-07-05 Meditation: From Head to Full Being 18:56
Tara Brach
When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-07-05 Ask Me Anything with Tara and Jonathan (Part 2) 57:17
Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust
“Ask Me Anything” – Tara responds to your questions, with Jonathan Foust, her husband and known meditation teacher, as interviewer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-07-05 Rapprochement ~ Reorienting Ourselves to Planet Earth 51:57
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-07-05 Finding a Cosy Space 28:47
Bernat Font
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-05 How's the Weather With You ? 26:37
River Wolton
Exploring Hindrances; reflections, some guided practice, then silent practice.
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-05 Morning Reflections #4 38:09
Sayadaw U Jagara
Inspirations and aspirations as objects. The first tetrad: the location and duration of the breath, and relaxing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-04 Ah, the Pleasure ! 44:39
Bernat Font
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-04 Overview of Anapanasti: 16 Steps 50:30
Nikki Mirghafori
Discussion of the sixteen steps; the letting go of each tetrad, and how each one achieves the Four Establishments of Mindfulness. Focus on the first tetrad about the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-04 Multiverse of Mettā - Guided Practice 26:20
River Wolton
Guided practice, beginning with friendliness to another, spreading to oneself, and onwards, outwards towards boundlessness.
Gaia House Rainbow Dharma: A Retreat for the LGBTQI+ Community

2023-07-04 Morning Reflections #3: Introducing the Breath 41:03
Nikki Mirghafori
Having clear comprehension of the breath with ease and good-will
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-03 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Wise Effort - Week 4 - Meditation 31:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-03 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Wise Effort - Week 4 - Talk 37:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-03 Talk #3: Gradual Training Continued (part 2) 49:27
Sayadaw U Jagara
Continuation of Maha - Rahulovada Sutta: The Greater Exhortation to Rahula
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-03 The Fruits of Nature Meditation Practice 52:19
Mark Coleman
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2023-07-03 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:12:36
Noliwe Alexander, bruni dávila, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-07-03 Morning Reflections #2 33:52
Sayadaw U Jagara
How do we relate to life, internally and externally? Listening and observing as a correct approach, together with carng and respect, (metta).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-02 25th Anniversary Celebration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:22:22
Noliwe Alexander, bruni dávila, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-07-02 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 33:07
Kevin Griffin
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-07-02 Dharma Offering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 25:42
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-07-02 The Buddha's Teachings to Rahula 52:36
Sayadaw U Jagara
Anapana sati seen in frame of instuctions given bu the Bddha to his son Rahula (MN:61, 62). "Gradual Training" overview and principles (MN:51)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-02 The Healing and Liberating Power of Awareness - Secluding the Mind - Week 2 - Meditation 31:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-02 The Healing and Liberating Power of Awareness - Secluding the Mind - Week 2 - Talk 57:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-02 Morning Instructions: #1 Metta & the Body 44:48
Nikki Mirghafori
To arrive at every moment with metta in this body, imbuing the in and out breath with gentle care & good will.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-01 Meditation on Equanimity 41:42
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-07-01 Dharma Offering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:41
Gullu Singh, bruni dávila, Jonathan Relucio, Leslie Booker, Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-07-01 Anger: Training the Mind to Have Wholesome Mental States 67:39
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-07-01 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:19
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-30 Generosity and Compassion for Later Generations 32:06
Brian Lesage
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening the Natural Path to the Heart’s Liberation

2023-06-30 Dharma Offering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:41
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-30 Questions and Responses 1:23:13
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Stream Entry and best practices discussed.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-30 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:48
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-29 Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:03
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-29 Different Aspects of this Path 1:13:37
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Benefits of developing understanding. Various qualities that charachterize wisdom and mindfulness in daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-29 Reflections on Ill Will (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:17
Gullu Singh
In this talk Gullu shares reflections on the hindrances of ill will and in particular the Buddha's instructions for cultivation of a mind free from ill will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-28 Meditation: Loving What Is 18:51
Tara Brach
While we might not directly love what is, there is a pathway to this inner freedom. As we explore in this meditation, we begin with allowing the changing sensations and emotions to move through us, just as they are. As this allowing presence deepens, it becomes suffused with the tenderness of love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-06-28 Three Core Reminders for Spiritual Practice 57:05
Tara Brach
This talk explores three powerful ways you can direct your attention when you find yourself emotionally stuck: Wake up from thoughts; feel your feelings and remember love. We explore both the habits blocking these basic movements toward freedom, and what nourishes them. Together they can serve to open your mind, awaken aliveness and heal your heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-06-28 Sensing into Our Roots and Opening the Mind to Metta 32:16
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-28 The Highest Blessings Chant 26:11
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Santacitta
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-28 Forested Land as Dharma Teacher 37:57
Brian Lesage
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening the Natural Path to the Heart’s Liberation

2023-06-28 Supra-mundane Wisdom Aspects 66:57
Sayadaw Vivekananda
A review of the cognitive series leading to wisdom. Benefits of attaining noble Path of Stream Entry, Fruition knowledge explanations.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-28 Dharma Discussion about the Experience of Seclusion - Meditation 34:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-06-28 Dharma Discussion about the Experience of Seclusion - Talk 56:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-06-28 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:40
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-28 The old narrative is simply too small 46:39
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation on Earth Element and Compassion
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-27 Moving with Life 52:04
Helen Stephenson
Dharma Talk
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2023-06-27 Broken and Unbroken 33:03
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening the Natural Path to the Heart’s Liberation

2023-06-27 Freedom from Restlessness and Worry (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:32
Noliwe Alexander
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-27 DN 26 | Discourse on the World Ruler 50:34
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Santacitta
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-27 Morning Instructions Part 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 17:35
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-27 Morning Sit with Instructions Part 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:57
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-27 SN 36:21 | Sivaka 10:30
Ayya Santussika
Conditions in addition to kamma
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-26 Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:38:37
Noliwe Alexander, bruni dávila, emiko yoshikami, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Fire Within: Detangling the Obstacles Towards Freedom

2023-06-26 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Faith Supporting Wise Effort 28:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-06-26 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Faith Supporting Wise Effort 62:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-06-26 Contemplation of Death & Metta 43:20
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-26 Mundane Wisdom and Supramundane Wisdom 1:20:53
Sayadaw Vivekananda
Consciousness functions leadign to wisdom maturing into Path Conciousness and Fruit.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2023

2023-06-26 Four Suttas on What Can and What Can Not be Done 50:56
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-26 Chanting the Fire Sermon 12:43
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika
Chanting
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-26 Attuning Our Lives with the Truth 1:44:02
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-06-25 Teachings; Mettā Meditation 61:06
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2023-06-25 Teachings; Mettā Meditation 61:06
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2023-06-25 Teachings, Mettā Meditation 61:06
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2023-06-25 Six Elements Meditation 38:07
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-25 Falling in Love with Life Again 55:58
Helen Stephenson
Dharma Talk
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2023-06-25 Living by Vow 42:12
Pamela Weiss
This talk will explore what it means to walk a spiritual path and live from our deepest intentions and aspirations.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-06-25 08: Questions and Reflections 28:30
Willa Thaniya Reid, Elizabeth Day, Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 07 meditation: opening to pleasant feeling-tones 30:16
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 SN 35:28 | Burning ~ the Fire Sermon 45:04
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-25 Discovering and cultivating a tenacity of purpose 37:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Forms and our responses to them are always arising and passing away, including the form called "retreat". The learning that comes from using these forms is independent of these changes. It requires our tenacity.
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-25 05 meditation: feeling tone and responses 30:18
Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 04 meditation: exploring feeling-tone in relation to sounds 31:30
Jill Shepherd
Exploring feeling-tone in relation to hearing: noticing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones and releasing any tendency to move into reactivity
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 Q&A 48:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Questions are précised - 00:15 Q1 What’s the difference between QiGong and standing meditation? 02:34 Q2 Is there a specific QiGong for meditation? 03:00 Q3 What is the proper balance between sitting, standing and walking? 04:49 Q4 Can you speak more about the forms of knowing described in the satipatanna sutta? 20:38 Q5 What’s a helpful sequence of steps to take in a meditation?28:16 Q6 I find a lot of energy goes into the head when I meditate. What do you suggest? 30:20 Q7 Normally I find in my meditation there is a subtle feeling of pushing or trying. If that is acknowledged there is more of a sense of flowing and playfulness. How can I cultivate this more consistently? 33:36 Q8 I had a very nice walking meditation experience with gratitude and opening. Then there were feelings of fragility and vulnerability. What can you advise? 36:01 Q9 I find myself getting very frozen or locked when I go into my job responsibilities. What’s happening here? 39:19 Q10 We talk about safety and feeling secure. I think this attachment is not the same as the attachment we talks about in Buddhism. What do you think?
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-25 02 meditation: feeling-tone in relation to embodied experience 30:36
Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring feeling-tone 32:06
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Auckland Insight Meditation Online meditation day: Exploring vedanā or feeling-tone

2023-06-25 Walking Meditation 5:59
Ajahn Sucitto
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-25 Challenging the 'me' of experience 45:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Centring ourselves in the middle way, between extremes of indulgence or denial allows us to observe and moderate our responses to sense phenomena, especially thought.
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-24 Teachings, Mettā Meditation 67:08
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2023-06-24 Guided Loving Kindness & Other Practices Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:00
Alex Haley
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-24 Buddhanusati & the Four Protective Meditations 32:55
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-24 Afternoon Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:32
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-24 SN 56:11 | Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dhamma 46:25
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-24 Talk on Meditation + Instructions part 2 14:33
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Ven. Dhammananda Bhikkhuni at Songdhammakalyani Monastery
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2023-06-24 Talk on Meditation + Instructions part 1 11:56
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Ven. Dhammananda Bhikkhuni at Songdhammakalyani Monastery
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2023-06-24 Q&A 47:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Questions précised – 00:09 Q1 What is energy? 23:02 Q2 I get involuntary shaking sometimes in meditation. If I focus on the skin it helps to dissolve this. What is this please? 28:31 Q3 Tuning into my body I find tension from unreleased aggression and images that are not always pleasant. What do you suggest? 32:44 Q 4 Sometimes I experience dropping out of identification into an open clear spacious presence. It mostly lasts only half a second and then I get pulled back into self-identification. How can I make it longer or more permanent? 34:58 Q5 Don’t meditation and attentive awareness stimulate and arouse? Don’t they sometimes arouse supportive activation of the heart and spirit? I find sometimes this is a bit of a strain or tiring because I feel in the grip of it. 36:55 Q6 What nourishes the daily practice on your own? Regarding daily offerings, what are some examples of that? 43:07 Q7 Can you speak about the value of renunciation? 44:47 Q8 What should one do with one’s talents? Excelling involves competition for leader ship roles and in that the moral compass gets bent.
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-24 Morning Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:21
Carol Cano
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness For Everyone

2023-06-24 Opening to the liberating view 55:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Becoming familiar with direct experience, we can put aside the need for reaction and immediate action, allowing us to cultivate the liberating view.
Moulin de Chaves Regaining the Centre

2023-06-24 Chanting the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta 16:59
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika
Chanting
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Skillful Living in a World on Fire: Grounded in the Noble Eightfold Path

2023-06-23 Teachings, Mettā Meditation 46:00
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2023-06-23 Suffusing Loving Kindness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:39
Diana Winston
In this meditation, we review other ways of practicing loving kindness to get access to a feeling of kindness and then practice sending kindness out in all directions. We connect with the radiant, vast, boundless aspects of loving kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness For Everyone

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