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Dharma Talks
2016-05-08 Puja: Devotion as a way of bringing citta into personhood 41:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Use of one’s voice and of giving it to the sacred. Through merging one’s voice and giving into the communal field, citta can rise out of the isolation of personhood.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Compassion Slogans 65:38
Norman Fischer
About how to practice with slogans and a few specific slogans to practice with.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-07 The Bodhisattva Leaves a Retreat 65:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Meditation – the gift of natural ease 47:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Find ground in the body as a gift, not worked for. This opens space around the body. Breathing is another given that flows through that, establishing rhythm = natural time.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 4) Instructions for Vipassana Meditation 59:17
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-07 Guided Meditation 24:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 The Nature of Citta 59:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is awareness, heart and mind. It experiences involuntary and voluntary modes. In the involuntary is release, but the path to that is through intention, disengagement, and discernment.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Day 8 Instructions 55:20
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Guided meditation instructions and questions and answers 44:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-07 Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness 12:17
Tara Brach
- from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 1:42:54
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-06 Joy 39:08
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2016-05-06 Heart Surgery 54:18
Mary Grace Orr
Opening the heart to forgiveness and compassion. A discussion of practices that support opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "What the Dharma Offers as We Get Older: with Anna Douglas

2016-05-06 Mindfulness and delusion: going beyond the four distortions 64:53
Mark Nunberg
Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-06 Three Refuges 58:58
Trudy Goodman
Trust the unfolding experience of reality in Dogen’s backward step. Trust yourself as a spiritual friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-06 Metta. 46:25
Caroline Jones
this talk explores the crucial role kindness plays in our meditation practice and in our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-06 Day 7 Metta 41:49
George Mumford
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-06 Guided metta lovingkindness 53:48
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Radiating kindness to groups of beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-06 Practice Here & There, Practice Everywhere 59:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-06 Evening Talk & Book Signing: Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto For Our Earth 68:28
Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. Copies of Thanissara's book, Time To Stand Up, An Engaged Buddhist Manifesto for Our Earth, will be available for purchase and can be signed by the author.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-05-06 Day 7 Instructions 64:01
Lila Kate Wheeler
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 The two truths 60:47
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How can we recognize in learned from relative and absolute reality?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-05 Empathy Hurts - Compassion Connects and Heals 60:21
Christiane Wolf
The difference between empathy and compassion, self compassion vs self-pity, negative mind slogans and "Transform bad circumstances into the path"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-05 The Power of Mindfulness 51:01
George Mumford
Five spiritual powers: a joyful journey of self-discovery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 Practice knowing and not knowing 52:58
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-05 3) Metta In Deed, Speech, and Thoughts 55:26
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-05 Reflections on the Journey 49:08
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-05 Day Six Metta for the Earth 36:57
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-05 Generosity 1:11:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-05 Guided Meditation: Choiceless Awareness 44:59
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-05 Day Six Instructions: Big Sky Big Mind 55:56
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 Absolute and Relative Compassion 59:33
Norman Fischer
Becoming intimate with your suffering, experiencing joy; developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-04 Fall into life: Simple Mindful Presence 62:38
Howard Cohn
Settling into our personal essence and noticing the different identity views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 RAIN of Forgiveness 1:14:37
Tara Brach
The capacity to release the armoring of hatred and blame is intrinsic to our evolving consciousness. This talk explores the process of authentic forgiveness, and how we can use the mindfulness-based tool of RAIN to heal and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-04 Q&A with Norman and Molly 1:16:06
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-04 Day Five Metta: Forgiveness 33:00
JoAnna Hardy
Short talk and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-04 The Simple Person 3:11
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-04 Date four - morning meditation instructions 62:02
Mark Nunberg
Keeping it simple, something being known.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-03 Scared-in-the-Woods to Liberated 46:03
Kim Allen
Kim Allen gave the fourth talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk explores how practice can be difficult, especially when it helps us become aware of the dark corners of our minds such as fear and dread. Fortunately, the Buddha taught us to train our minds so we won't give in to those tendencies, and instead live a skillful life with wholesome qualities such as generosity, virtue, and loving kindness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-03 The Four Thoughts That Change the Mind 51:50
Mary Grace Orr
Four reflections which can inspire the deepening of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-03 Metta and the path of awakening 58:40
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-03 Identity Crisis 48:54
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-03 Équanimité, cours du 3 mai 2016 1:25:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-03 Awareness of the body 36:45
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-03 2) Metta Is a Relational Practice 55:34
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-03 My Dharma Journey 60:55
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

2016-05-03 Reflections on Equanimity 4:34
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-03 Kamma 59:35
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2016 Spring Month Long Hermitage Retreat

2016-05-03 Instructions: Working with Distractions 22:24
Molly Swan
True North Insight Metta and Mindfulness: Beginnings and Endings

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