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2018-12-19 Meditation: Arriving in Open Presence 18:00
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a receptive opening to body sensations and sounds, and the invitation to rest in wakeful presence. We are reminded that each time we awaken from thoughts and arrive again in presence, we are deepening the pathway home. The sitting closes with a brief lovingkindness prayer.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-16 Guided Meditation - Mudita 42:53
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Awakening Wisdom, Joy and Peace

2018-12-16 Awareness of Feeling Tone - Chant and Meditation 33:59
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-16 Beginning Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:19
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Posture, Anchor, General Awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-12 Meditation: Aware and Alive 19:59
Tara Brach
Just as a cup is full with water, this body is filled with awareness. As we sense the awareness inside the body, and the awareness that listens to sounds beyond the body, we discover the continuous space of awareness that includes, and gives rise to this entire creation. Opening in this way allows for homecoming to wholeness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-12 Part 2 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 51:25
Tara Brach
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives - includes working with sleep issues.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-12 Instructions and Guided Meditation 28:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-10 Perception and Recognition With Guided Meditation. 45:43
Rodney Smith
How concepts encase reality
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Awakening : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-12-09 The Yolk of Attachment - Meditation 27:07
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-06 "Sitting Meditation Before the Dharma Talk" 50:10
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-12-05 Three Attitudes that Nourish a Liberating Practice 52:41
Tara Brach
A key spiritual inquiry is, “In this moment, what most serves awakening?” Rather than a particular style of meditation practice, it is our way of relating to our experience – our attitude – that frees our hearts. This talk explores the attitudes that are an expression of our innately open, wakeful and loving awareness, and that carry us to realization. (a favorite from the archives)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-05 Wednesday Morning Meditation 2:02:25
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-12-04 Vedanā - Meditation Instruction 48:10
Nathan Glyde
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Everything Leans–Interconnection and Emptiness on the Path of Freedom

2018-12-03 41 Brahmavihāra Follow Up 21:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Following up from the brahmavihāra guided meditation, the powerful potential of the practice is described. Taken in depth, these qualities offer a means for feeling steady and comfortable, a home base from which to clear fear mistrust and loss of heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-03 40 Guided Meditation: Brahmavihāras 56:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivation of the brahmavihāras is based upon generating perceptions and felt senses through various bases. This guided meditation refers to the bodily and mental bases, in addition to primary sympathy – anukampa – as the underlying basis, to bring these boundless qualities into fullness. They then can serve as soothing orientations within the tribulations of this human realm.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-12-02 Serenity in Sensitivity - Meditation 33:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-02 Living Skillfully with the Thinking Mind - Meditation 35:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-12-01 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 5 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:20
Mark Coleman
All Four foundations of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-30 Giving Oneself to Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:04
Eugene Cash
The function of 'samadhi'-concentration, unification, absorption, jhana, in the service of awakening. How samadhi is cultivated, sustained and practiced traditionally as well as personally. What arouses and sustains ones investigative awareness in formal meditation and life? The joy of samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-30 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:26
Mark Coleman
This guided meditation explains the first 3 foundations of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-29 "IMCB Meditation Sit Before the Dharma Talk" 54:20
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-29 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:33
Mark Coleman
Vedana-Feeling tone + Four Elements
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-28 Stabilizing our caring capacities, Instructions and Guided Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
True North Insight

2018-11-28 Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space 18:36
Tara Brach
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-28 Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 54:38
Tara Brach
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 14 - Charnal ground contemplation 57:27
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 13 - Death of friends, loved ones and teachers meditation 45:53
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 12 - Dying peacefully from old age as a layperson 41:53
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:56
Mark Coleman
Mindfulness of Four Elements of the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-27 Investigation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:46
Eugene Cash
The function of 'dhamma vicaya'-Investigation in the service of awakening. How investigation is understood traditionally as well as conventionally. What arouses and sustains ones investigative awareness in formal meditation and life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-27 Guided Meditation 11 - Devanussati Appreciating Heavenly Beings - Meditation 1:21:55
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-27 Guided Meditation 10 - Holding the Entire World in the Heart of Loving Kindness Meditation 36:57
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-27 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:06
Mark Coleman
Mindfulness of the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 09 - Gently pulling back from thoughts, feelings, emotions 46:09
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 08 - Lotus Visualisation Metta Loving Kindness 1:42:00
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 07 - Heart Focused Metta Loving Kindness 1:29:01
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-25 Understanding the Power of Distraction - Chant & Meditation 35:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-23 Guided Meditation 06 - Meeting Mahapajapati Bhikkhuni Metta Visualisation - Loving Kindness 63:01
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-23 Guided Meditation 05 - Meeting Lord Buddha Metta Visualisation - Loving Kindness 61:05
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-22 Mudita or appreciative joy guided meditation 41:30
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of mudita, appreciative joy, followed by a guided meditation offering mudita to a good friend who is experiencing success and happiness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-22 25 What Sustains a Steady Heart Energy? 49:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Compulsive problematic activations can be replaced with conscious deliberate ones aimed at liberation. Whether in daily activities or in the action of meditation, we can steady and calm energy by orienting around skillful signs – generosity, service, clarity – until the mind is comforted and no longer flowing down old tracks.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-21 Meditation: Yes to Life 19:52
Tara Brach
After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this?” By learning to bring an unconditional presence and an accepting Yes to our lives, we begin to touch openheartedness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-21 Guided Meditation 04 - Breath meditation using Counting 55:39
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-20 Guided Meditation 03 - Breath meditation noting Rising and Falling 50:35
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-18 21 Standing Meditation: Where There Is No Activation in the Body 40:13
Ajahn Sucitto
The theme of this meditation is to move attention from more activated areas to parts that have no activation at all. Beginning with the sense of balance and cohesion, guidance is provided to sense through the entire body, sustaining a soft attitude with no time frame, a quality of very little effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-18 Relating Wisely to the Thinking Mind - Chant and Meditation 34:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-17 Guided Meditation 02 - Cool Loving Acceptance, Warm Loving Kindness 41:00
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-17 Guided Meditation 01 - Simple breath meditation with wise reflections 19:31
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-17 Dhamma Talks 03 - What to hold onto, what to let go of in meditation 35:26
Ajahn Achalo
Sam Poh Temple

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 02 - The Importance of Daily Meditation Practice 34:12
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 01 - Breath meditation for Peace and Insight 32:36
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-15 Is Meditation About Ending Thinking? 38:29
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-15 IMCB Meditation Sit before the Dharma Talk 49:15
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-14 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 53:26
Tara Brach
We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores how meditation and conscious relating with each other can restore the connections so vital to healing and spiritual freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 Purification - Meditation 30:28
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-11 09 Guided Meditation: Feeling Grounded and Safe in the Space 40:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Before reviewing the themes that present themselves to us in meditation, we need the support of safety and ground. Guidance is provided to establish center, ground and safety in this embodiment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-10 07 Intention - a Property of Citta 31:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-10 06 Walking Instructions: Human Bodies Walk Like This 12:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: A Moving Balance

2018-11-08 Meditation sit with some spaces in between before the Dharma talk. 50:00
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence 37:28
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 19:52
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Chant and Meditation 29:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Guided Standing Meditation 22:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-04 Working With Distracting Thoughts - Meditation 31:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-04 Instruction and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:35
Kittisaro
Gradual entry into release and peace as the ground of resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-03 Guided Meditation on Thoughts 28:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-02 Morning Instructions: Using the Tool of Mental Noting. 59:51
Brian Lesage
This talk offers a guided meditation and instructions for using mental noting in meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-01 "Meditation Sit Before the Talk" 52:04
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-10-31 A few words on practice & a guided meditation 29:52
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-31 The Dharma of #MeToo: A Conversation on Ethical Misconduct, Boundaries and the Teacher-Student Relationship - Insight OUT 66:07
Lama Rod Owens
A note on the recording: Approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens talk, he begun a guided meditation practice. This approx. 36 minutes guided practice was extracted from this recording and was made a stand alone track which you can freely access. Once Lama Rod announces start of guided practice, a bell is heard, which marks the End of extracted guided practice. Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October. Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome. We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-31 The Dharma of #MeToo - guided meditation - INSIDE OUT 35:59
Lama Rod Owens
A note on the recording: This guided meditation recording took place during Lama Rod talk for Insight OUT sangha. It was extracted from the main reocrindg of this talk to be a stand alone recording. It begun approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens' talk. Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October. Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome. We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-31 Morning Guided Meditation and Reflection. 56:19
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-30 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-30 The Dharma of Consent, Finding a Common Language 1:24:38
Lama Rod Owens
This is the main track of lama rod dharma talk. During this talk, after thirty two minutes, an approx. 25 minutes guided meditation practice took place. the guided practice was extracted and was made a standalone track which you can access as well. A short small bell sound was inserted to mark the point in which the talk was paused. It then continues seamlessly. However, after the guided meditation, a five minute break in which sangha members were offered to submit written questions, and it is that which lama rod refers to after the short bell sound.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-30 The Dharma of Consent - guided meditation 24:38
Lama Rod Owens
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-29 The Rest Of The Retreat 57:12
Winnie Nazarko
Our schedule alternates walking and sitting meditation practices periods which take up many hours. But there are still many other times in the day to practice mindfulness in activities.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-29 Faire confiance à la pratique, Instructions et méditation guidée 20:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-29 Karma - Week 7 - Chant and Meditation 29:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-29 Meditations Instuctions - Day 7 50:16
DaRa Williams
Working with emotions and review of instructions thus far.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-28 Determining the Skillfulness and Unskillfulness of Thoughts - Meditation 32:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-27 Morning Instructions: Guided Meditation Highlighting Sensations 43:19
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-26 Guided meditation on upekkha/equanimity. 49:34
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-25 Introduction To Metta Meditation. 50:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Includes a guided metta (loving-kindness) practice for oneself and an easy person.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-24 Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness 18:52
Tara Brach
This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this changing life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-10-23 Practicing The Whole Path. 32:23
Winnie Nazarko
The schedule on retreat emphasizes walking and sitting meditation. But we also practice all the other parts of the 8 fold path. The talk describes how.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-23 Wise Concentration the 6 the Factor of Enlightenment 1:11:27
Marcia Rose
Exploring the importance, the process and the fruits with developing concentration which is an essential aspect of our mindfulness-based meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-23 1e partie, Instructions et méditation guidée 26:48
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-22 Instruction et méditation guidée: La symphonie du réel 20:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-22 Karma - Week 6 - Chant and Meditation 32:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-21 Relating Wisely to the Thinking Mind - Meditation 30:31
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-19 Guided meditation on Mudita/gladness. 47:27
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-19 The Fragrance of Freedom - Meditation 30:06
Anam Thubten
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2018-10-19 Open Awareness Meditation 31:30
Mark Coleman
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild, Fall Retreat

2018-10-18 The Power of Sangha + Moving Letter from Australia 54:38
James Baraz, Kate Munding
James and Kate Munding, co-guiding teacher of Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley co-led this evening exploring the power and importance of like-minded friendship and community especially in these times. At the beginning of the talk James reads a moving letter written to the community by a 31-year old woman from Australia named Stephanie whose story of sexual assault James shared in his talk from two weeks before entitled: "The Third Precept: Trauma, Respect and Cultural Wake Up". See: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/52436/
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-10-17 Meditation: Relaxing Back into the Mystery 18:26
Tara Brach
All true meditation guides us back to presence, and the mystery that is our source. In this guided meditation we awaken the senses, collect with the breath, and when lost in thought, practice relaxing back into the aliveness and awareness that is always here. We close with a beautiful poem from poet Danna Faulds.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-10-17 Radical Presence, Instructions & Guided Meditation 28:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-16 Progressif et immédiat, instructions et méditation guidée 26:06
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-16 La paix maintenant, instructions et méditation guidée 20:39
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-15 The Joy of Nature Meditation Practice 37:59
Mark Coleman
Explore some of the fruits and rewards of this ancient meditation practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild, Fall Retreat

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