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Dharma Talks
2016-06-02 Contemplations of the body postures 55:31
Bhante Khippapanno
32 kinds of eyes– Flesh eyes and wisdom eyes. How to go beyond the forms to observe the four material elements, especially the air or wind element in the body
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-02 Introduction to the conditioned world 60:20
Bhante Khippapanno
The conditions for this seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, to take place. The four nutriments for the body and mind: material nutriments, contact, and intention consciousness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-01 Real but Not True: Freeing Ourselves from Harmful Beliefs 1:11:30
Tara Brach
Thoughts and beliefs are navigational maps that are not inherently true. Rather, some serve us and others cause feelings of separation, self-aversion and/or blame of others. We can free ourselves from harmful beliefs by investigating them with a dedicated, mindful and courage presence. This talk guides us in mindful investigation through an illustrative story, an outline of steps, and a guided meditation that addresses limiting beliefs surrounding interpersonal conflict.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-06-01 Refuge and Refugees 53:17
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-06-01 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Equanimity: Week 1 58:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-06-01 Reflections and a Ritual for a Spirit Rock Transition: Impermanence, Letting Go, Appreciations, and Intentions. 64:43
Donald Rothberg
On the occasion of the last gathering and teaching in Spirit Rock's Community Meditation Hall-- a talk, reflections by those present, and a ritual.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-01 Open to all-pervasive awareness 29:44
Amma Thanasanti
Beginning with body awareness. Allowing body to be like a mountain, releasing breath to the wind and opening mind to the vastness of the sky. Using desert metaphors to let go into all-pervasive awareness
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-31 Two big problems 60:35
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
A talk exploring our relationship to body and mind in the path of insight
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-31 Meditation Is Enlightenment Itself 36:25
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-05-31 Introduction to compassion and a guided meditation 41:38
Greg Scharf
A short introduction to the second Brahma Vihara - karma/compassion, followed by a guided meditation– Receiving compassion from benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-31 Morning instructions 14:31
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Morning Vipassana instructions - introducing awareness of mental phenomena
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-31 You're not screwed 14:55
Amma Thanasanti
Mindfulness is the way to break the cycle of suffering. We get caught when we aren't mindful. Even in seemingly impossible situations, bringing mindfulness to each step of the process can help us find a way out.
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-30 The four Satipatthanas and mindfulness of the body 52:59
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-30 Right speech 55:40
Joseph Goldstein
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-30 Directional Metta instructions 45:07
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided loving kindness meditation instructions developing a field of care around us in all directions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-30 Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock with Mark Coleman 52:06
Mark Coleman
The Forgiving Heart
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-30 Morning instructions and guided meditation 57:16
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-30 The Web of Craving 50:10
Amma Thanasanti
Overview of craving, desire for sensuality, desire for becoming and desire for non becoming and how to practice with them. Also looking at attachment issues and the hunger to belong and how support in this domain gives us the capacity to practice letting go.
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-30 Sitting Instruction 11:55
Amma Thanasanti
Finding the sweet spot of balance and alignment to support relaxation in the sitting posture
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-29 Weaving Retreat Practice Into Our Lives 48:11
Brian Lesage
This talk explores how to bring our spiritual practice out beyond the retreat container.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-05-29 Resolution 25:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Protecting the citta from unskillful habits
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-29 15) Sila & Metta, Two Approaches - One Goal 48:23
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-29 Final Meditation Instructions 28:32
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-29 Metta Chants 25:31
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-29 Daily life-entering the field of kamma 33:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Kamma is both inherited & new. We meet the familiar kammic patterns and programs in the heart, get to their essence in the body, release them in awareness. Guidance on new, fresh kamma then arises with heedfulness and spiritual potency.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-29 A Hero's Journey 1:16:36
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion

2016-05-29 Relax 14:41
Amma Thanasanti
Deep relaxation into floor
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-28 Reflections on the Day's Practice 13:52
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-28 Pursuing Wholesome Happiness 36:35
Ajahn (Ven.) Canda Bhikkhuni
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2016-05-28 Cultivating a relationship of wisdom and kindness with whatever is happening 53:16
Michele McDonald
Vipassana is not a state oriented practice as experience isn't reliable
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-28 Meditation Instructions 24:59
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-28 D 4 Group Interview 2:16:29
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-28 Non-clinging Part 1 1:15:13
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-28 A Ruby is Buried Here 55:34
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz Cultivating Wisdom and Compassion

2016-05-28 Overview of Dependent Origination 45:48
Amma Thanasanti
Transition into retreat, importance of mindfulness in Dependent Origination
Shakti Vihara Breaking the Cycle of Suffering

2016-05-27 Reflections on the Day's Practice 8:42
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-27 Q&A 54:35
Ajahn Sucitto
On reclining; social/environmental action;enlightenment;rapture; death
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-27 Celebrating the brahma viharas. 51:48
Caroline Jones
This talk and guided reflection invites us to recognize and incline towards our good heartedness for the welfare and happiness of all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-27 14) Freedom 45:35
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-27 B 4 Group Interview 1:46:11
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-27 Meditation Instructions 30:10
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-27 Keep Calm and Carry On-leaving the retreat 51:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta takes a personal form in this lifetime. Rather than let it be formed through social forces of craving and slinging, ongoing practice is about bringing Dhamma into our lives-pausing, releasing pressure, acting with integrity.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-27 C 4 Group Interview 2:55:25
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-26 Reflections on the Day's Practice 8:42
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-26 Equanimity, Our Greatest Friend 39:23
Shaila Catherine
Shaila Catherine gave the seventh talk in a eight-week series titled "Seven Factors of Awakening." This talk explores how the stability and the balance provided by equanimity can make our mind our friend, something that we can trust. When equanimity is strong, if there is pain we won't tend to react with aversion; if there is pleasure, we won't tend to react with grasping and clinging. The mind will be balanced, present, and aware of experience as it unfolds.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Seven Factors of Awakening

2016-05-26 Practicing with Vedana - Feeling Tone 51:52
Brian Lesage
This talk explores practicing with vedana (feeling tone) which consists of noticing the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral aspects of experince.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2016-05-26 "Who Are You Anyway - Attachment to Identity" 55:34
James Baraz
It's hard not to view ourselves through our accomplishments, possessions or attributes, even when circumstances change. How can we see through those temporary conditions to realize our true nature?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-26 Meeting & transforming deep-rooted tendencies 19:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Rather than fight anxiety, frustration/rage & sadness, we can transmute them through the embodied mind into alertness, strength and tender-hearted concern.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-26 Questions & Answers 59:53
Steve Armstrong
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-26 Meditation Instructions 16:30
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Sayadaw U Tejaniya

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