2015-10-10 Magnificent Consent with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander Part Two of Three 16:03
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-10 Magnificent Consent with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander. Part One of Three 15:09
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-10 Walking Meditation Instructions (includes a sitting "walking" practice) 8:44
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 10:05
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Day Four - Morning Instructions 45:10
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
The nature of experience. The open field of experience and the open embrace of Awareness. Meditation with no body, no mind, no world.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Meditation 30:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Reflection On Bowing - Excerpts from "Arctic Dreams" by Barry Lopez 5:37
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Why do we bow? What or who are we bowing to? Author and naturalist Barry Lopez writes about these questions in a very essential way - directly from his own experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-10 10-Minute Basic Guided Meditation 10:30
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Compassion and the Law 1:27:20
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Effective Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective Retreat

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-09 The Four Great Elements - the Four Great essentials 58:43
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-09 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 2) 46:46
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
In this follow-up, Martin continues to look at the purificatory nature of dharma practice, opening up a space to meet and transform the impact of past habit energy. The teaching deconstructs the notion of karma, and maps the purification of mind-states.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-09 Morning Instructions 51:15
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Recognizing states. Skilful response to how the mind is. Body and mind as a unified field of experience.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Perception and Papanca 53:51
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-08 "The Truth of Suffering and the Way That Leads to the End of Suffering" 59:39
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-08 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 1) 48:14
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This teaching examines our problematic associations with ideas of Purity, and explores ways that the practice of sitting meditation can be purificatory - both in terms of developing wholesome qualities, and in healing and releasing stored tension patterns.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Day Two - Morning Instructions 47:15
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
No wrong experience. Allowing the passage of all that arises. Exploring the pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in meditation.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:20
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 1:12:33
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence. "Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 20:03 Download Listen Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 52:29 Download Listen

2015-10-07 Guided Metta 45:18
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Oneself, benefactor, dear friend and neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus 45:40
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin points out the 3 different kinds of stimulation (vedana) and explores skilful ways of exploring and responding to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience. Emphasis is given to somatic practice, recognizing the physical contractions that form around the 3 types.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-07 The Urgency of Now - Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation 66:23
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
As we face multiple crises, yet also open to new transformations - inner and outer- a new type of spiritual practitioner is needed, who is able to connect inner and outer transformation. Echoing the Buddhist bodhisattvas, Jewish prophets, Jesus, many indigenous leaders, Gandhi, King, and Dorothy Day, among others, the "new bodhisattva" follows a new kind of training which is outlined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-07 Day One - Morning Instructions 39:08
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Grounding meditation in bodily experience. Activating qualities of awareness through the posture: Grounded - steady, upright - bright, open - receptive, relaxed - gentle.
Gaia House :  Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-06 Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole 35:32
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-10-06 A Thousand Thoughts 40:16
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Thoughts are part of our existence as human beings. With the practice of meditation, the nature of the thought processes in particular and the nature of the mind can be understood by closely observing these thoughts whenever they arise.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-06 Continua of Practice: Shadow to Light 59:54
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
The more defined and clear our individuation, the more isolated we feel. We gain our selfhood from creating physical and psychological boundaries upon our surround. Our self-definition is created by our physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual definitions. Freedom is coming out of these shadowy images created by our imposed boundaries and accepting the clear light of our humanity.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society :  Continua of Practice Series
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2015-10-05 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone 57:36
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at all of these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-05 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 1:27:05
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling
Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 - Meditation 28:01 Download Listen Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 - Talk 59:03 Download Listen

2015-10-05 Awakening the Heart - Practicing the "Divine Abodes" 43:40
Donald Rothberg, Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The Divine Abodes of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity are the places of the awakened heart. Practicing to cultivate these four abodes helps us to access these wonderful and transformative qualities of the open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-05 Waking Up in Indra's Net: Acting for the Sake of Life on Earth 58:06
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-04 The Buddha's Teaching On Loving Kindness 56:41
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-04 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Renunciation - Week 3 57:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2015-10-04 Closing the Day 14:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
Naomi Newman and James Baraz close the day with a Kabbalist creation story, and guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-04 How to be an Earthling 30:09
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Stories celebrating our experience as Earthlings. Earth days (and Earth Care days) are not just a call to “do something” to heal our damaged eco-systems, but more of a spiritual exercise, a time to celebrate all life, regardless of kingdom, phyla, or species: regardless of color of skin, feathers, fur, flowers, leaves or bark. This is a time to reflect on our connection to this planet, and to embrace our basic identity as "earthlings.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-04 From Separation to Seamless Reality 31:37
Thanissara	Download Listen
At the core of our climate crisis, is the dualistic mind that continually generates an ‘other’ that is ‘out there,’ distorting the reality of deep inter-being. From economic systems founded in colonialism, slavery, and servitude, the mindset of ‘less important lives’ fuels a process of abuse that is now killing our living planet. How can our practice inform us as we stop the madness, and enter the journey of reclamation, healing, resistance and activism.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-04 Sustained by Sangha 24:24
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
It is through taking action together that we wield power and experience relief, especially as we expand our notion of sangha beyond the usual boundaries, to all faiths, to all people taking action in accordance with our shared values of compassion, justice and peace. And we bring our own quintessential flavor, our Buddhist practice, our confidence in the Dharma and our commitment to face the way things actually are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-04 Softly Close the Gates 30:00
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
There is so much for us to understand. Preparing yourselves for that unfolding of wisdom, take your rightful seat in a balanced way and follow the path inward. Softly close off all the gates and give your full attention and energy to the mind's interior exploration – of itself. We are on a wondrous journey!
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2015-10-04 Sustained by the Gladness of the Wholesome 28:28
James Baraz	Download Listen
Wise effort includes developing and maintaining and increasing wholesome states. When anger and outrage are the source of our action we’re headed towards burnout and despair. When we come from caring and love, our actions are not only energizing for us but magnetizing for others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-04 Introduction to A Day of Connectoin 18:43
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-10-03 Revealing the Expressions of Ignorance as White Privilege 35:28
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
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2015-10-02 The Five Aggregates Are Not Self 61:56
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
When we understand our experience in terms of the five aggregates, we see without the unnecessary overlay of self. This way of understanding is liberating.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-02 An Urgency For Practice 59:58
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
What are the "seeds" that bring you to spiritual practice? Samvega is the urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken. It's the movement of the heart towards finding a solution to our human predicament.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-02 Guided Meditation - Expanding Awareness 44:35
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-01 Investigation 58:55
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-01 "Loving the Earth" 50:44
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk given during the 3rd Annual Earth Care Week is about doing our part to contribute to the healing of our planet from love not fear. It includes opening up to the reality of the dukkha while seeing the possibility of being part of growing consciousness that's increasingly gaining momentum.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2015-09-30 The Sacred Pause 1:10:09
Tara Brach	Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks
When we are lost in the trance of doing, our lives are on automatic, and contracted by sense that something’s wrong or missing. This talk explores the challenges of learning to pause, and the blessings that arise when step out of our incessant mental and physical activity and reconnect with the being-qualities of presence, wisdom and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
Meditation: Opening to the Mystery 17:35 Download Listen The Sacred Pause 52:34 Download Listen

2015-09-30 The Forgiveness Practice 37:54
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-30 Practicing with Anger 64:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After looking at the multiple sources of confusion about anger for western Buddhist practitioners, we examine a number of perspectives and ways of practicing with anger.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-09-29 The Infinity Of Impermanence 56:45
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The infinite multi-eon range view and moment to moment view of impermanence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 1