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Dharma Talks
2021-05-29 Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration 1:19:55
Nathan Glyde
An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-29 Q&A 36:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Please explain why you got the COVID vaccine as I am hesitant; can meditation help with IBS; can’t exhale completely because in breath rushes in; does it matter if formal practice/meditation is less; is manas an impediment to citta or can it be used beneficially; how to get over the pain of divorce; how to ask someone to leave a community due to ethical reasons; when desire is abandoned how is avijja eliminated; elaborate on terms samādhi, atammayatā, nibānna.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-29 Guided Meditation - Fountain of Feeling 17:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The cycle of saṃsara develops from feeling. Perceptions then form that stimulate particular actions that can be stirring, disturbing, exciting. Investigate these from the stillness and stability of presence. What’s needed?
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-28 Meditation on impermanence, Dhamma talk on Life of the Buddha - Part 4 1:20:37
Bhante Sujato
At Harris Park – Meditation on impermanence led by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato, last part of the series on the life of the Buddha: Mahāparinibbāna sutta
Lokanta Vihara

2021-05-27 talk: Wise Action 16:32
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to Right or Wise Action
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-05-27 Not Seeing Dukkha is Dukkha 51:30
James Baraz
This talk is based on a teaching from Joseph Goldstein: "Not seeing dukkha is dukkha." It's humbling to realize that we are creating much of our suffering. But it's through clearly seeing this that we also create the possibility of truly waking up. We can change our whole relationship to seeing how we get caught by old habits and thought patterns from self-judgment to compassion and liberation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2021-05-27 meditation: compassion 27:21
Jill Shepherd
Mostly silent sitting with a few minutes orientation to compassion at the beginning
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-05-27 Feeling the Ouch with Dignity and Integrity 54:36
Dana DePalma
Contemplation Reflections → Sitting Meditation → Walking/Movement
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dancing with Life: The Twelve Insight Practices of the Four Noble Truths

2021-05-26 Meditation: Embodied Spirit 16:55
Tara Brach
Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-26 Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1 46:56
Tara Brach
All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-26 Week 4: The Power of Relationship on a Noble, Whole-Life, Eightfold Path 49:32
Gregory Kramer
Gaia House The Power of Relationship on a Noble, Whole-Life, Eightfold Path

2021-05-26 Going Forth to the Place of Realization 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-25 A Tribute to Yvonne Ginsburg 1:32:23
Howard Cohn
Recorded Zoom Session
Mission Dharma

2021-05-25 Upekkha (Equanimity) 1:30:15
Tuere Sala
Module 5: The Four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Way of the Buddha: Core Teachings of the Dharma Path

2021-05-24 The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night Dharma Talk 54:38
Jack Kornfield
With mindfulness we can open to the mystery of our human incarnation—to gaze with an open heart at the unbearable beauty and the ocean of tears that make up life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-24 Meditation: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night 28:43
Jack Kornfield
Picture someone you care about, someone you love. Feel the natural well-wishing of love. Surround them with care: "May you be held in compassion. May your struggles and sorrows be eased. May your heart be at peace." Now imagine that this person wishes the same for you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-24 Q and A: The Compassionate Heart | Monday Night talk 14:48
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from 05-24-2021 Monday Night
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-23 Exploring the Dharma: Surprise, Discovery, Mystery 1:30:44
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-05-23 I Shall Not Hate 63:17
Nathan Glyde
A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape good effluences (outward-flows).
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - May 2021

2021-05-22 Self, Non-Self, and Metta 16:26
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 Guided Metta Meditation 31:35
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 Lovingkindness Practice 41:39
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage

2021-05-22 May All Obstacles Be Removed 1:37
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-22 The Power of Presence 38:16
Ajahn Sucitto
We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-22 Dhp No4 Hatred is not pacified by hatred 16:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma
This is probably the most famous of the verses in the Dhammapada proclaiming non-violence.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Dhammapada

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