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

2016-01-01 The Ongoing Practice of Withdrawal 51:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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2016-01-01 Early Morning Chanting 12:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

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

2015-12-31 Q&A 36:45
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
[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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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2015-12-31 Widening the Circles of Compassion 68:44
Tara Brach	Download Listen
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 "The Power of Intention for the New Year" 47:42
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

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

2015-12-31 Evening Chanting 14:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-31 The Buddha’s Discourse on Emptiness 51:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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	Download Listen
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)

2015-12-30 The Intensity of Being a Teenager 44:39
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Reflections on the first noble truth, love and relationship.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-30 Q&A: Losing the Taste for Teddy Bears 36:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
How to contemplate on death and sickness; “Russial doll”contemplation of body; how to practice for insight; mindfulness as a refuge in busy city life
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-30 Ice Cubes, Generosity, and Revelation 51:58
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the power of moment by moment awareness to reveal true happiness and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-30 Reflections On Awakening And Attention 51:42
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
What images of the goal of the path inspire us or limit our engagement with the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-12-30 At Peace with Diversity 46:45
Paul Burrows	Download Listen
Gaia House :  New Year Retreat

2015-12-30 Nature of Awareness 54:22
Ruth King	Download Listen
In this talk we explore two aspects of mind, wise views, what we forget and what we must remember, and strategies that support presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-30 Heart Meditation on Forgiveness: Asking Forgiveness, Forgiving Others, and Forgiving Ourselves 47:12
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-30 Q&A: As Citta Adjusts Itself, Interior Domains Open Up 35:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
How to reach jhana; how to know if I’m meditating; feeling warm during meditation; elaborate on channeling breath out of solar plexus; meditation on death; emotions and feeling that arise in meditation – why and what to do with them; doubt; meditation practice vs. study of suttas
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-30 Abhängiges Entstehen und Leerheit 41:18
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Das leere Netz des bedingten Entstehens
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2015-12-30 Coming Alive With the New Year 52:25
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore through reflection and a ritual, the process of renewal - stopping, opening to both the difficult and the beautiful, letting go and setting intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-30 Knowing the Mind 23:02
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-30 Day 3, Morning Instructions 38:38
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-30 Meditation Instructions for sitting and walking 67:48
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-12-30 Don’t Concentrate - Absorb 42:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Liberation requires clearing citta of its contracted state. We can learn to care for our citta, to know what lifts and steadies it to bring it out of contraction. In meditation we try to concentrate and feel even more constricted. Opening up the body and accessing the vitality that comes from mindfulness of breathing can have a calming effect.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-30 Not a Technique – Direct Experience 27:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation is not a set of techniques; it is authentic, direct access to your inner heart/felt subjective experiences. Many times what’s found there is dukkha. Much of it can be resolved just by developing the inner body and clearing the hindrances.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 What Is Dukkha? 45:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-29 What Can I Control, What Can't I Control? 48:06
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
A teen relevant 4 Noble Truths talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-29 Opening Talk 1:11:12
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-12-29 Mental Feeling Always Surpasses Physical Feeling 56:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Bear this in mind when meditating. With unpleasant or painful mental feeling, the tendency is to contract. Try opening up instead. It stops the cycle of agitation and resistance that keeps the pain there. Use the body to do this, as a source of strength and energy to stop the mind spinning out into story. In order to withdraw and stand back, we must have a place to stand back into. That’s what the body is for.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Heart Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion 35:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-29 Three Kinds of Feeling - Guided Meditation 19:24
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-29 Recollection – A Skillful Use of Thought 50:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The practice of recollection involves picking up a particular line of thought that triggers a particular mood or realization. Just saying ‘stop thinking’ or ‘don’t worry’ won’t work to calm and steady the mind. Those are commands. Through recollection the mind can find a degree of stability and comfort, providing refuge under unpleasant and uncomfortable conditions.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Das Offensichtliche begreifen 53:52
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Mit Vergänglichkeit und Tod umgehen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2015-12-29 Chanting 19:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Beautiful, Gentle Quality of Awareness 26:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Viveka, stepping back, is about adjusting attention and energizing in a different way. Morning chanting, for example, is a beautiful way to bring up energy. It’s not about doing or making something happen. Rather, it’s very much towards stillness. Most cittas will benefit from the inner stability of the body, where the nervous system is awake but not firing, stirring, agitated.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-28 Developing Awareness 48:15
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-28 It's all Part of the Process: Inspiration, Aspiration, and Orientation 47:20
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
A first night of retreat talk, providing an orientation and overview of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat