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Dharma Talks
2025-10-06 Imaginal Practice 2b 8:39
Victor von der Heyde
Ways of relating to images; using or not using the list of characteristics; characteristics of eros and distinguishing it from clinging, energy body as a guide, theatre-like quality and the risk if this isn’t acknowledged, meaningfulness, two-ness, autonomy.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-06 Elements Meditation-Where Are We So separate? 59:04
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Morning Reflections: Just this... The Dharma can be seen in this 8:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-06 Settling & Noticing Awareness 52:05
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Embodying Kindness & Returning This Body to Nature 38:31
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-05 Imaginal Practice 2 27:54
Victor von der Heyde
Unlimited possibilities for images with a range of examples, including God and gods, wild images, images based on people, the sense of being called, image with no figure, embodying an image, felt sense and image of spirit of place; putting aside questions about the reality status of images; Eucharistic imagination; fully and partially imaginal images; Iain McGilchrist on left brain right brain, and the world not being given before it’s experienced; Rob Burbea’s list of elements or characteristics and the characteristics: two-ness, unfathomable quality, participation, loving and being loved; different orientations of imaginal and insight practices.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-05 Wk 2 Pt 1 - I Overthink, Therefore I Am 41:43
Bernat Font
Reading a short text by Franz Kafka ('Before the Law') – what can we learn from that gatekeeper? 3 ways to counter the feeding power of aversion or hostility to thoughts: gentle questioning, turning towards, making space. Stickiness: thinking & identity.
Gaia House Oh No - Not This Thought Again ! (Online Series)

2025-10-05 Letting Karma be our Teacher - Meditation 30:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-05 Letting Karma be our Teacher - Talk 38:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-10-05 Goodwill is food for the heart 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

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