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Dharma Talks
2016-03-17 Sacred Activism Part 1: The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative 57:12
James Baraz
These days as the political rhetoric gets heated and a feeling of unpredictability and potential violence grows practitioners may ask: "What is the appropriate dharmic response?" Is there a time when political involvement becomes a dharmic activity? And, if so, how can we be engaged in a skillful way as an integral part of our practice?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-17 Skillful Paths of Bodily Action 49:33
Jenny Wilks
This is the first talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks provides an overview of what we mean by ethics, and how the Buddha's list of ten paths of skillful action expand on the traditional five precepts and encompass body, speech, and mind. This talk focuses on the body and the first 3 precepts.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-17 To Care and Not to Care: Penetrating Equanimity 57:07
Phillip Moffitt
Equanimity is the culmination of the seven factors of awakening. Its sublime and subtle aspects can greatly strengthen practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-17 Dhamma Talk - Hindrances and Factors of Awakening 1:18:50
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-17 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Breathing and the Body 35:19
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-17 Planting a Wisdom Seed 18:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Being embodied Function of wisdom: pruning away what is not necessary Awareness as central Planting a wisdom seed from wise awareness
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Lovingkindness - Week 1 55:31
Mark Nunberg
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-03-16 Opening Night Dhamma Talk - Heavenly Messengers 67:06
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-16 The Climate is in Trouble 42:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Systems change Power of collaborative community Being with nature Decaying city; Alive forest Humans: Doing our bit Despair is pointless
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Lying Down Meditation & Being in Nature Meditation 12:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Love and Live the Questions Themselves 52:14
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk explores the second factor of awakening, investigation (dhamma vicaya). What is investigation? How does it relate to the other awakening factors? How and when is it applied in practice? The last part of the talk discusses the third factor of energy (viriya) briefly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-16 The 'Looking Down' Abstractor 54:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Nama-rupa Tathagata dwells "such" Sankhara - programs of self Modes of attention Viveka - Stepping back Two great abstractors: Self & Money Self and money are everywhere and nowhere Abandonment, surrender The ending of designations
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Morning Reflections on Inclusive Awareness 11:40
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-16 Working on Motivation for Practice 69:05
Winnie Nazarko
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-03-16 Healing the Crack Between the Experiencer and Experience 36:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The Sankhara of Being Socialized Chasing the image - the "it" How can "I' watch "my" mind? Am I the watcher or the watched? Coming out of relationship to self as "it" Contact, feeling, perception, papanca Abandoning the struggle Pragmatic love
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Developing Perception that Frees 48:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
3 Characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha). 5 aggregates, perception as impermanent, unsubstantial and unreliable. Seeing through illusions of time and space.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-15 Book Launch and Interconnectedness 36:51
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-03-15 Les enseignements retirer de ma retraite de yoga 62:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-03-15 The Inner and Outer Practice of Dharma - Meeting Experiences Generously 36:33
Martin Aylward
Dana is the practice of generosity as a foundation for happiness or the art of living freely and openly. This talk explores how we can transform the heart in generously meeting ourselves, others and the world around us. We see how qualities of Dana - Generosity, offering, supporting, nourishing, sustaining - are qualities with which to meet and respond skilfully to both outer' situations and inner experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-15 Untangling the Afflicted Mind 39:58
Ajahn Sucitto
The Brahma Viharas Intentionality Refreshing mind and body Not being fixated on suffering Attention amplifies Energetic shift out of patterning Opening to pain is already goodwill Harmlessness
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Spheres of Awareness 55:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Softening boundaries Unskillful and skillful abstraction Objectification Friendship with the lovely Supports for entering the stream Buddha, & archetypal mother and father Recollection of death Not being good enough
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 To Others As to Myself 33:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Calm (samatha) & View (vipassana) Healing of body, heart, mind fields (kaya, citta, vaci) Cracks between self and other Moving out of abstraction To not be broken by unpleasant feeling To others as to myself
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Morning Reflections on Awareness and the Tone of Experience 17:47
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 The Mindfulness Factor of Awakening 52:24
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-14 Life is Your Teacher 47:32
Martin Aylward
Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 Breath Meditation 27:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Calming body and mind formations Buoyancy, ease, uplift, steadiness Spacious knowing Insight, dispassion Contemplation of conditionality Latent tendencies
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 10 - The Five Aggregates and the Six Sense Spheres 60:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

2016-03-14 A Heart as Wide as the World: Cultivating the Heart of Love 5:26:14
Mark Coleman
Audio recording of the daylong program
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-14 Healing the Cracks 56:46
Ajahn Sucitto
The defended mind A broken world Gestures of empathy Karmic field of intentionality Trapping people in divisive abstractions Mental conception: A dart, wound & plague The seen, seer, and seeing Mano Vinnana Honey Ball Sutta Generating & stopping the world
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Practice and Talk on Metta 1:32:06
Mark Coleman
Guided Meditation and Dharma Talk on Metta from our Monday Night Meditation Class with Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-14 Accepting Impermanence 22:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Healing splits Citta and conceived world Breath meditation Dispassion Relinquishment Natural empathetic quality of the citta Freedom from the known, imagined, and conceived
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-14 Morning Reflections on Sustaining & Returning to Presence 52:24
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-13 Inclining Towards Freedom - Clarity, Skilfulness and Love 52:25
Martin Aylward
Martin looks at qualities of mind that open up our Freedom of Being.He explores how Clarity dissolves our wrong views, how Skilfulness transforms our habits of mind, and how Love can hold all types of experience gently and wisely. The talk keeps references our common experiences, offering practical ways to integrate the teachings.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-13 Functions of Mind in Service of Liberation 49:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Vitakka - Vicara - Viveka - Jhana nexus Bring the mind here - explore, ponder, contemplate - absorbtion
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Brief Tips on Working with Thought 12:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Vaci sankhara Tracking a train of thought to underlying mood and feeling Vipalasa - distorted and delusional seeing Expecting the impermanent to be permanent, etc
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Mula Sutta - Liberation from Separation 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
"All dhammas converge on feeling" Dhammas: moments of direct experience Origin of thought Being hit by a thought can shatter Abstraction and Ideologue's The seduction of clarity Abstracted mind can't be liberated vitakka, vicara, viveka
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-13 Morning Reflections on Awareness of Body Breathing 26:37
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-12 Contact and Feeling 17:34
Amma Thanasanti
Class 2
Shakti Vihara

2016-03-12 Dharma Talk - Exhortation 21:14
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

2016-03-12 Entering the Field of Dhamma 30:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Wide & deep field of lineage Subjects for frequent recollection Being possessed by possessions Separation from the loved Buddha, here and gone; the field continues Feeling..
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-12 Boundless compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity 61:42
Gregory Kramer
Receiving with compassion what is difficult / receiving joy / experiencing mutual equanimity. Guided meditation on the boundless with Open for the first 14:15 minutes. " there is an aspect of Open that is establishing the field of awareness that is the atmosophere in which Metta arises." Four part contemplation, first two separate speaker, last one the entire group 1. "Observe the opening of awareness to every cell of the vody, naming what it is like. This awareness is inclusive and spacious." Contemplate something in your life that is difficult, feeling your heart vibrating with the pain". " Be present to the pain waith compassion for this being, the compassionate response". "Listener, how was it like to receive this?" 2. Now the gift of our practice is to touch joy, something positive, wholesome, uplifting. Let it infuse you, vibrate within you." Listener, touch the experience of hearing about joy. 3." Whatever experience that might be present of mutual or sympathetic equanimity,where the heart balances together." 4. "What is manifesting now? Resting perhaps in the shared human experience of the whole of it; the hurt, the joy the boundless."
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Three kinds of Dukkha 21:44
Gregory Kramer
Dyad with separate speakers for the first two contemplations 1. straight-forward suffering. The pain can be proliferated and held up and at this micro-level flips into Dukka-dukka 2.the dukka of impermanence, that comes with the instability of things and our responses " Give attention to the quality of receiving." " What is it like to be speaking of this pain of impermanence....; to be hearing it?" 3.the suffering associated waith constructions and the constructing mind "Those images that come and haunt the mind." "That ongoing tumult of the body-mind responding to its own fabrications." "Can we get off the bus?"
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Attending to dukkHa with Relax, Receive 12:59
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Food for the Heart 28:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Impermanence of sense contact Shift to a more reliable refuge Embracing the cascade of self with goodwill Things have to arise before they can pass away Non-self as base to see self The only way out is kindness & mutuality
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-12 Exploring 'contact' with other human beings 20:36
Gregory Kramer
This contemplation was for a group of four.
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Pause to touch and be touched by the world 21:29
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Body Meditation 31:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Being embodied, sitting and standing meditation
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-12 Generosity is Enlightenment 57:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Giving from the Heart Generosity expects no results Being made into an "it" Mutuality - from "you" to "we" Differentiated consciousness - and beyond Softening and mercy
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-11 Compassion: The only thing that makes sense. 54:21
Nikki Mirghafori
The talk discusses what compassion is, what it is not, its relationship to the other brahma viharas and finally, why practice compassion. Some research studies are also discussed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-11 Guided Meditation 59:45
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

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