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Dharma Talks
2016-01-05 Orientation 51:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Orientation to chanting; suggestions for sitting; importance of posture; using pause moments

2016-01-04 Layers Of Wisdom 58:48
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-04 Seeing Anew 61:39
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Meditation Class Dharma Talk from January 4th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-04 Practicing With Mindstates 50:21
Catherine McGee
Recognizing a mind state within a continuity of awareness, rather than a construct of self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 Translations, Numbers, and the Anguttara Nikaya -- Shaila Catherine Interviews Pali Scholar John Kelly About His Work on the English Translation of the Numerical Discourses 48:24
Shaila Catherine, John Kelly
This is a recorded dialog between Shaila Catherine and John Kelly. Shaila is a Dharma Teacher in San Jose, California who leads local and online sutta study courses; John Kelly is a Pali Scholar in Australia. John assisted Bhikkhu Bodhi on the production of the English translation of the Numerical Discourses. Shaila and John share their impressions and insights regarding of this ancient text, highlighting the practical relevance of these teachings for contemporary lay people.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-01-03 The End Of Seperation 60:45
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on how we see through the appearance of separation and, experientially correct, with the non separate nature of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 The Principle Behind Our Practice 58:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-01-03 Guided Space Equanimity and Compassion Meditation 45:28
Catherine McGee
Includes chanting, recognizing space can be balancing and intimately tender.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness - Afternoon Session 2:35:37
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well Being and Happiness - Morning Session 3:17:10
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to well- being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-03 Morning Meditation Instructions - Receptivity 56:20
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 The Four Or Five Elements 1:10:11
Catherine McGee
Attending to experience through the lense of the elements, fire, water, earth, air and space. Expanding the range of ways of knowing and seeing experience returns us to the sacred.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 Metta Practice 41:36
Pascal Auclair
Instructions and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal - Afternoon Session 2:09:23
Kevin Griffin
This daylong retreat focuses on beginning the year with a clear vision of our path, whether we are just establishing our recovery, renewing our commitment or maintaining our program and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-02 Keep Coming Back: Dharma, Recovery and Renewal - Morning Session 2:18:52
Kevin Griffin
This daylong retreat focuses on beginning the year with a clear vision of our path, whether we are just establishing our recovery, renewing our commitment or maintaining our program and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-02 Being Awareness - Guided Meditation 15:29
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-01-02 Morning Instructions - Hinderances 53:10
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 It’s Like This Now 58:51
Ajahn Sucitto
This one slogan can be a reminder of how to sustain mindfulness as we leave the retreat. What we’ll notice is that most of the time, right now there is dukkha caused by the underlying ‘me’ sense. Meditation is an essential part of our spiritual training, but not the only part. Working in community is an invaluable aspect of spiritual training – it provided a context where we can get past the ‘me’ sense and get to the ‘we’ sense.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2016-01-02 Swapping Out Clinging for Sati 29:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping occurs when the citta is not comfortable. It gets overwhelmed by feeling and experience. The difference between sati and clinging – they both apprehend things – is sati is very patient. It simply bears things in mind with no particular goal. Sati can spread and expand to include the grasping, clinging reflex when it arises in the experience of embodiment. This is the place for realization.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2016-01-01 Letting Go 39:49
Amma Thanasanti
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-01-01 Q&A: Tortuous Suffering of Sexual Desire 49:29
Ajahn Sucitto
How to work with sexual desire/energy; self-guilt; what does ‘body in the body’ mean; mindfulness while sleeping; stepping back is a precursor to meditation; is inner chatter harmful; doing without tanha; what to do when mind becomes quiet; balancing doubt and faith
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2016-01-01 True Wisdom of the Eagle and Condor 48:00
Spring Washam
The merging of wisdom and compassion. How to unite the heart and the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-01 How Letting Go Happens 49:18
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-01 What is vedana and where does it fit in? 40:14
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2016-01-01 Four Noble Truths 53:55
Jake Dartington
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2016-01-01 Metta 52:35
Caroline Jones
This talk explores some of the many facets of this beautiful and liberating quality of heart and also offers some different ways of approaching metta as a meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-01-01 Guided Forgiveness Meditation 46:19
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-01 Kindness, Friendliness, Acceptance - Guided Meditation 31:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-01-01 The Ongoing Practice of Withdrawal 51:02
Ajahn Sucitto
The retreat setting is structured to support our practice of restraint and withdrawal. As we re-enter our daily lives, we can consider what structures and practices to put into place to keep these going. Our ability to withdraw allows for the unification and strength needed for discernment, to know how to counteract the hindrances.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2016-01-01 Retreat for New Year's Day - Afternoon Session 1:54:15
Sylvia Boorstein
In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-01 Retreat for New Year's Day - Morning Session 2:32:40
Sylvia Boorstein
In the spirit of beginning again and with a renewed zeal for the promised goal of a mind liberated from suffering and a heart available for impartial compassionate response, this day is spent practicing Mindfulness and Metta Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-01 Going Home 1:32:42
Matthew Brensilver
Along with Marv talking about Resources, Dawn about Sangha groups and "T" about precepts/closing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2016-01-01 The Good, The True, The Beautiful 45:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation can be thought of as a process of rewilding. The unnatural, toxic ‘me’ sense is removed so that what is natural – good, true and beautiful – can arise. Sometimes conventional life isn’t so beautiful, but we can find conventions and systems that help us practice – sila and recollection of death for example. Take the convention and feel it in the heart. Enjoy it, steady it, extend it.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2016-01-01 Cultivating A Visceral Attention 56:56
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-01 Early Morning Chanting 12:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-31 New Years Eve Forgiveness Reflection 64:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2015-12-31 Putting It Down 30:53
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-31 Q&A 36:45
Matthew Brensilver
Matthew, Marv and Joanna answer questions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-31 Look Near, Look Far 60:04
Ajahn Sucitto
[Begins 3:25] On this eve of New Year’s Day, Ajahn Sucitto recommends a Buddhist resolution: Look near, look far. We can use this to work with the hindrances. Look near: look right into your heart, into how the body and breathing are affected. Look far: consider the consequences, where contentment and happiness actually come from. The hindrances can help us adjust our lives, they tell us where we’re off track. [Ends58:45]
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-31 Liberating Paradox 62:53
Eugene Cash
The surprise of discovering the many domains of reality leads to understanding and freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-31 New Years Reflections, Refuges and Wise effort 50:16
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-12-31 "The Power of Intention for the New Year" 47:42
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-12-31 Widening the Circles of Compassion 68:44
Tara Brach
The archetypal figure of the Bodhisattva (“awakening being”) reflects our potential to realize our connectedness with all beings, and care for this living world with an open tender heart. This talk explores the four types of patterning that keep us stuck in the pain of separation and the key heart practices that evolve us on the bodhisattva path. "Compassion arises when you see the truth behind the veils."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-31 Seeing Sacredness and Making Sacred 60:37
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2015-12-31 Evening Chanting 14:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-31 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Guided Meditation 45:37
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-31 Q&A: A Brief Pocket-Map to Jhana 43:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Wandering mind; sleepiness; unpleasant body sensations; steps to first jhana; where to place attention when walking meditation; taking on practice in wilderness as a lay woman; chanting
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-31 The Things That It's Hard to Let Go Of 24:42
Ayya Anandabodhi
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-31 The Buddha’s Discourse on Emptiness 51:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Introducing the Buddha’s lesser discourse on emptiness, Ajahn Sucitto refers to his own experience on sabbatical for a year. He describes ‘uninventing’ himself, tuning into the signless – anicca and anata. Whatever we think, conceive, generate has been generated by mind and is subject to change. How to cultivate recognition of what’s not there, emptiness.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-31 Picking Up a Sign and Making Much of It 18:54
Ajahn Sucitto
When starting meditation, begin with balancing and calming the body and breathing, but just getting it good enough. This is something that is gained through direct practice over time. Bring certain signs (nimita) to mind to aid in calming. The mind’s tendency is to focus on negative things. Practice bringing the beautiful to mind and make much of it.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

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