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Dharma Talks
2020-07-11 Where to put our effort 20:21
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-07-11 Breath Energy Guided Meditation 39:12
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-07-11 97 At Catuma MN67 16:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha as disciplinarian, dismisses noisy monks. When he allows them to return, he talks about the four kinds of fear of those who go near water.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-11 The Path Is Made by Walking 34:05
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-07-11 Open Road – Out of Pressure 38:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta doesn’t start out liberated. It has to come through ignorance, craving and grasping. We can learn from this, what is the wrong path and what is the right path. The right path gets obscured by feeling and perception. Steady the energies and stay out of the activities of mind – the right path is there, it’s an open road.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery

2020-07-10 95b The Incontrovertible Truth 12:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
A short addition to 95a. Discussion on Nibbana and mention of the Four Types of Persons
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-10 How Not to Be a Hot Mess 63:15
James Baraz, Craig Hase, Devon Hase, Eve Decker
Devon and Craig Hase join James in sharing about their new book How Not to Be a Hot Mess: A Survival Guide for Modern Life. The book offers a playful exploration of living a life of Integrity based on the teachings of the Buddha. Devon and Craig lead meditation retreats throughout North America and Europe. Devon teaches at the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock. Craig spent six years in a Zen monastery and teaches mindfulness meditation, and dharma full time.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-07-10 Closing Session 27:08
Jaya Rudgard
Closing of the online retreat
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-10 Closing Session 27:08
Chris Cullen
The closing session of the online retreat, featuring Jaya Rudgard and Mat Schencks
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-10 The Many Arms of Kuan Yin, and Equanimity's Near Enemy - Passivity 61:11
Chris Cullen
Recording from the online retreat. Mat Schencks contributes to this talk.
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-10 Refresh Energy through Breathing 29:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Refreshing and regenerating energy is a necessary part of our practice to counter tense, constricted and disconnected states. Mindfulness of breathing is a means for toning up. We can go to the energetic bases of these tendencies and clear them.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery

2020-07-10 In This Very Life -- 2020-07-10 57:22
Kim Allen
Finishing up the Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta and continuing with the Fire Sermon
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-07-09 03 guided meditation: standing then walking 14:07
Jill Shepherd
Instructions to continue mindfulness of the body while changing posture from sitting to standing, then walking together as a group, in a circle
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-07-09 02 guided meditaton: mindfulness of the breath then physical sensations 24:21
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to develop stability of mind, then opening to physical sensations throughout the whole body
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-07-09 Buddhist Practice and the Transformation of Racism 1: Training in Wisdom and Developing Wise Perspectives on Racism 1:14:35
Donald Rothberg
In this first talk in a three-part series, we work with the traditional model of a threefold training in wisdom, meditation, and ethics, beginning with identifying three perspectives that can guide our understanding and practice. The first is to remember the Buddha's rejection of the caste system and its core claims, and the welcoming of all, from any caste or from no caste, into his community. The second is to understand how greed, hatred, and delusion, the transformation of which is at the center of our practice, are not just individual but also institutional and systemic in nature. The third is to see how race, in terms of blackness and whiteness, is a social construction without biological reality, appearing in history at a certain point a little over three centuries ago (we look in some detail at how whiteness appeared in colonial Virginia at the end of the 17th century); it is a construction very clearly connected with divide-and-conquer strategies by the wealthy elite, which then has terrible consequences.
Insight Meditation Tucson :  Buddhist Practice and the Transformation of Racism

2020-07-09 01 talk: mindfulness of body 21:51
Jill Shepherd
Using the tool of mental noting to develop a strong foundation of mindfulness of the body, and how this helps cultivate a healthier relationship to the body
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-07-09 Joint Reflections on the Brahma Viharas 47:24
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-09 Joint Reflections on the Brahma Viharas 47:24
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-09 95a The Incontrovertible Truth 22:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Buddha's arguments against nihilism, that there are no consequences to actions and fate.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-07-09 Guided Meditation on appreciation, compassion and kindness 45:18
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-09 Thinking without a Thinker 34:04
Ajahn Sucitto
When full ground is not properly established, thinking creates the thinker. With proper ground, it’s possible to hover over the thought process and listen deeply to the underlying emotional stream. Establish ground using a simple meditation object that the mind can easily access and stabilize on.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery

2020-07-08 Meditation: The Space of Loving Awareness 18:21
Tara Brach
This meditation begins by guiding us through a scan: opening to inner space and aliveness, then to outer space, and then continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. We explore how every experience belongs to this infinite awake space of our Being, and can be held with tenderness and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-07-08 The Heart Crosses the Abyss - Three Inner Trainings 49:11
Tara Brach
In the moments when we either resist or get possessed by our strong emotions, we are in a trance, and cut off from openhearted awareness. This talk explores the truth that “it’s not what’s happening, it’s how we’re relating.” We look at three key trainings that help us relate to difficult emotions with a wise and compassionate presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-07-08 Willingness to be Uncomfortable 63:47
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-07-08 94 The Enquirer 13:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha asks his followers not to just accept he is fully liberated, but to look at his behaviour to see whether there is in any impurity.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

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