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Dharma Talks
2025-06-07 A simple short refuge mantra is offered 3:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi Dhammaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi Sanghaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāami {To the Buddha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana To the Dhamma I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana To the Sangha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana}
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-06-07 Krankheit 1:56:05
Ariya B. Baumann
Körper und Geist können von den verschiedensten Krankheiten befallen werden. Wie gehen wir damit um und was hilft uns dabei? Können wir das Leiden des zweiten Pfeils vermeiden?
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-07 Liberating the Sense of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:44
Emily Horn
In this talk, Emily explores the Buddha’s teachings on the Liberating Insights and the Three Characteristics. She explains how suffering and impermanence shape our experience of self—sometimes making it feel solid and fixed, other times more open and fluid. By working skillfully with the hindrances, we can loosen our grip on a rigid sense of self and allow it to move with greater freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-07 Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 42:27
Ayya Santussika
After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Instructions 22:17
Gavin Milne
Reflections around inquiry practice - including the 'view' of parts as a compassionate response for our times.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-07 Guided Meditation - RAIN as Support for Attuned Awareness 43:21
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-07 Exploring Ideas & Themes for Practice 53:28
Juha Penttilä
This recording also includes walking meditation instructions from Monica Antunes.
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-07 Water for Arahant Soup 32:44
Ayya Santussika
"A mendicant develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors depending on and grounded on ethics, acquiring great and abundant good qualities." This reflection points out several ways that virtue supports us in our practice, as the "water for arahant soup".
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Morning Instructions: Grounding in the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:44
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-06 Vital Conditions for Developing the Awakening Factors 18:42
Ayya Santussika
Beginning this two week retreat with the encouraging words of the Buddha from two discourses: SN 46.1 The Himalaya and AN 9.1 Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-06 Altern 1:24:28
Ariya B. Baumann
Mit der Geburt beginnt das Altern, nicht erst ab 50, 60 oder 70 Jahren. Die Zeichen des Alterns zeigen sich allmählich: Runzeln, graue Haare oder ein gebeugter Rücken. Gibt es ein fröhliches Altern? Welche Vorteile bringt das Altern?
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-06 Guided meditation: Affectionate breathing 41:30
Christiane Wolf
Options for “warming up” mindfulness of breath practice with somatic practices and inclining to kindness
Big Bear Retreat Center Deep Belonging

2025-06-06 Four layers of home 56:48
Christiane Wolf
We can feel belonging in many different ways. Here we explore different aspects of home and belonging
Big Bear Retreat Center Deep Belonging

2025-06-06 Reflections on Being on Retreat & Practicing with the Brahma Viharas. 48:30
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-06 Short Reflections - Ways of Connecting to Mettā 12:57
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-06 Morning Instructions - Settling the Body, Cultivating Sensitivity & Mettā 53:48
Juha Penttilä
This recording also includes Walking Meditation Instructions with Monica Antunes.
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-06 Mindfulness of Thinking 40:57
Christiane Wolf
Big Bear Retreat Center Deep Belonging

2025-06-06 Regulating inner with outer 56:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Through consciousness, boundaries form between subject and object; thus, me and the world. Through the stress of that, the me closes into a bag. Defense and acquisition strategies. Heart (citta) is not consciousness and can turn away from creating the same me bag. This is through regulating inner-outer sensitivities to a harmonious whole.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-05 08 talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech 17:50
Jill Shepherd
Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-06-05 Grief and the Loss of Identity 45:19
Amana Brembry Johnson
When we can face and mourn our grief, it becomes a portal into transformation and insight.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Serenity in Surrender: Discovering the Power of Letting Go

2025-06-05 Meeting the Unknown 43:24
Ajahn Jutindharo
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-05 The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava 46:00
James Baraz
This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of Samsara." Bhava comes right after Craving and Grasping and is usually translated as "Becoming." Bhava or Becoming is something that that most of us find ourselves caught in. However, bringing kind awareness to this tendency can be a major support for living our lives fully in the present moment.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-06-05 Einführung: Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod 30:20
Ariya B. Baumann
Altern, Krankheit und Tod sind Tatsachen, denen wir als Menschen nicht entfliehen können. Darum ist es hilfreich, dass wir uns mit diesen Tatsachen auseinandersetzen und uns entsprechend vorbereiten.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-04 Undertaking the Training to Refrain from Causing Harm - Talk 54:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-06-04 Undertaking the Training to Refrain from Causing Harm - Meditation 32:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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