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2020-10-01 Holding a Positive Vision: Part 3 44:48
James Baraz
A third in a series of talks on holding a positive vision. We explore some of the principles on mindful engagement presented in Sharon Salzberg's book Real Change: Mindfulness for Ourselves and the World
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2020-10-01 Trois compréhensions nécessaires 39:49
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre Trois discours pour une retraite personnelle

2020-10-01 Work Unconditionally with Conditions that Arise 38:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice is a whole life path. The conditions that arise and our reactions to them can all act as reference points for purification and practice. Careful cultivation of the conditioned is an aspect of the unconditioned and leads to the unconditioned.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-30 Finding Peace in a Chaotic World 45:12
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-09-30 Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 8: The Foundations of Wise Speech 5: Becoming More Skillful with Difficult Speech Situations 3 1:11:01
Donald Rothberg
We review eight important capacities that help us to be skillful in difficult and challenging situations involving speech and communication. We then continue to explore how we might combine more "inner" and more "outer" responses, here focusing especially on "inner work" with difficult emotions (we look at working with anger and fear), thoughts and narratives (we look particularly at those connected with the judgmental mind), and body states. A discussion follows the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-09-30 Relaxing Body, Releasing Push-Pull - Online Dharma Hall 62:13
Nathan Glyde
Guided meditation and reflection on easing tension, demand, and Dukkha
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sept 2020

2020-09-30 Maturing from Renunciation to Relinquishment 32:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta needs something to settle on, to feel comfortable in. Use mindfulness to form a frame around what’s helpful and skillful and absorb into that. Citta begins to understand the agitation that both pleasure and displeasure cause, and can see something more fulfilling in the bareness of mind.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-29 The Present Moment is Not the Goal 34:41
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
There’s a common understanding that the purpose of meditation is to fully arrive in the present moment. However, the Buddha taught people to focus on the present moment not as a goal, but as a place where work is to be done to go beyond the present. This talk, based on the essay, “The Karma of Now” will explore the Buddha’s understanding of the present moment, and the implications of that understanding, not only for the practice of meditation, but also for Buddhist practice as a whole.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-09-29 Release from Psychological Conditioning 38:23
Ajahn Sucitto
The aim of Dhamma cultivation is penetration and purification of saṇkhārā – the conditioning forces. Everything else is to support that. Mindfulness of body provides a steady and pleasant foundation, samādhi acts as a refuge from sensory input. Mind then has the power to resist, moderate and release from these conditioning forces.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-28 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 3 - Meditation 30:45
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-09-28 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 3 - Talk 59:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-09-28 Hebrew - Insight To Live By Closing Dharma Talk.mp3 33:44
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-28 Day 4 Instructions - Seeing Not-Self Anattā 66:34
Nathan Glyde
Meditation instructions exploring the strategy of not-self–how is it to apply the recipe of seeing this is not me, not mine, not my self? Before that a few words sustaining our meditation experience: 1. keeping the balloon of practice alive through all postures, and 2. the idea of taking a victory lap when the bell rings–rather than ending quickly.
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-28 Making the Right Choice 39:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness can be thought of as a boundary setter. It’s used to discern what to stay with and deepen into, and what to avoid and stay out of. Instructions are given for how to apply this to ānāpānasati, mindfulness of breathing.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

2020-09-27 Finding a Way Out of No Way 1:35:13
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-09-27 Morning chanting and guided meditation 1:17:03
Ayya Santussika
AM of Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart daylong
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2020-09-27 Dhamma talk and Q&A 2:21:06
Ayya Santussika
PM of Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart daylong
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2020-09-27 The Ending of Dukkha 44:20
Nathan Glyde
How mettā, samādhi, and insight support each other and support the ending of dukkha.
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-27 Hebrew - Mettā to Sensations 43:46
Zohar Lavie
Metta in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-27 When No Season is Too Much 30:15
Ayya Medhanandi
Sidelined by COVID, we are compelled to look at ourselves, at each other, at the world caught in pandemic restrictions we never imagined were possible. Besieged by fear and vulnerability, beings lack insight into the truth of things find no safe refuge. The time is ripe for waking up to gain freedom from the eight worldly winds and abide in higher states of mind. With peace of heart, wisdom and compassion run deep such that no season will be too much.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2020-09-27 The exploration and practice of Samatha/Concentration/Calm Abiding through Anapanasati/Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation. 2:22:50
Marcia Rose
The exploration and practice of Samatha/Concentration/Calm Abiding through Anapanasati/Mindfulness of Breathing Meditation.
Mountain Hermitage Sunday International Sangha Online Mini Retreat with Marcia Rose

2020-09-27 Guided Meditation from the Closing Session of retreat. 23:08
Kirsten Kratz
Guided meditation on choosing the practice that serves us right now.
Gaia House The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-27 Composure with Uncertainty - Meditation 35:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-09-27 Composure with Uncertainty - Talk 39:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-09-27 Mindfulness the Purifier 36:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The function of mindfulness is to purify. It means we have to understand what purity is – what qualities cause problems, stress and contamination, an which are bright, fortifying and calming. Right view and right attitude inform the careful attention that leads to purification.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Monastery 2020 Vassa Closing Group Practice Retreat

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