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Dharma Talks
2016-03-23 Discharging, Returning to the Rest State 48:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-23 Reflections on Chanting 55:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 Bright Guardians of the World 45:07
Anushka Fernandopulle
Hiri and Otappa are aspects of conscience that support our awakening. Reflections on the path, advice at the end of long retreat. The ethical fabric of the universe.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-22 The illusion of not good enough. 51:19
Chas DiCapua
How this the illusion of mine comes about and how to practice with it using mindfulness wisdom and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Discernment: Insight Meditation

2016-03-22 Differentiation - The Human Tragedy of Making Other 65:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 Thinking Mind - Relationship with Feeling 27:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 Standing Meditation 4:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 Light Touch versus Work Ethic 43:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 Early AM, Recollect the good, natural, process 33:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-22 The Two Streams 21:04
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-03-21 Opening Talk, Transformation, Indriyas, Precepts 60:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa :  The Deeper You Go, the Lighter it Gets

2016-03-21 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 11 - The Four Noble Truths 1:29:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities
Attached Files:
  • Buddhist Studies Page: The Four Noble Truths (Link)

2016-03-21 Proliferation 21:27
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-03-20 Deepening Trust 45:57
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-20 The Three Refuges 56:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-03-19 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 25:24
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-19 Dhamma Talk - Eight-fold Path and Loving Kindness 68:20
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-19 Loving the House that Ego Built 5:16:33
Howard Cohn
Explore the nature of ego and the enormous stress that comes with trying to be "someone."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-19 Afternoon Instructions - Open Awareness and Walking Instructions 36:48
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-19 Morning Instructions - Mind States 28:57
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-19 Four Noble Truths 64:05
Steve Armstrong
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2016-03-18 Dhamma Talk - Heart of the Dhamma 1:10:56
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-18 Day 20 Brahma Vihara Practice: Mudita for Difficult Relationships 38:12
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-18 Morning Instructions - Feeling Tones 30:23
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-17 Sacred Activism Part 1: The Line Between Politics & Moral Imperative 57:12
James Baraz
These days as the political rhetoric gets heated and a feeling of unpredictability and potential violence grows practitioners may ask: "What is the appropriate dharmic response?" Is there a time when political involvement becomes a dharmic activity? And, if so, how can we be engaged in a skillful way as an integral part of our practice?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-17 Skillful Paths of Bodily Action 49:33
Jenny Wilks
This is the first talk in a 3-part speaker series titled "Pathways of Skillful Action". Jenny Wilks provides an overview of what we mean by ethics, and how the Buddha's list of ten paths of skillful action expand on the traditional five precepts and encompass body, speech, and mind. This talk focuses on the body and the first 3 precepts.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-03-17 To Care and Not to Care: Penetrating Equanimity 57:07
Phillip Moffitt
Equanimity is the culmination of the seven factors of awakening. Its sublime and subtle aspects can greatly strengthen practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-17 Dhamma Talk - Hindrances and Factors of Awakening 1:18:50
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-17 Morning Instructions - Mindfulness of the Breathing and the Body 35:19
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-17 Planting a Wisdom Seed 18:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Being embodied Function of wisdom: pruning away what is not necessary Awareness as central Planting a wisdom seed from wise awareness
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Lovingkindness - Week 1 55:31
Mark Nunberg
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-03-16 Opening Night Dhamma Talk - Heavenly Messengers 67:06
Bob Stahl
West Lake Resortopia :  Insight Meditation Retreat: How the Dhamma Informs All Mindfulness-Based Approaches - 五日正念專修營

2016-03-16 The Climate is in Trouble 42:00
Ajahn Sucitto
Systems change Power of collaborative community Being with nature Decaying city; Alive forest Humans: Doing our bit Despair is pointless
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Lying Down Meditation & Being in Nature Meditation 12:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Love and Live the Questions Themselves 52:14
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk explores the second factor of awakening, investigation (dhamma vicaya). What is investigation? How does it relate to the other awakening factors? How and when is it applied in practice? The last part of the talk discusses the third factor of energy (viriya) briefly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-16 The 'Looking Down' Abstractor 54:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Nama-rupa Tathagata dwells "such" Sankhara - programs of self Modes of attention Viveka - Stepping back Two great abstractors: Self & Money Self and money are everywhere and nowhere Abandonment, surrender The ending of designations
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-16 Morning Reflections on Inclusive Awareness 11:40
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-16 Working on Motivation for Practice 69:05
Winnie Nazarko
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-03-16 Healing the Crack Between the Experiencer and Experience 36:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The Sankhara of Being Socialized Chasing the image - the "it" How can "I' watch "my" mind? Am I the watcher or the watched? Coming out of relationship to self as "it" Contact, feeling, perception, papanca Abandoning the struggle Pragmatic love
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Developing Perception that Frees 48:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
3 Characteristics (anicca, anatta, dukkha). 5 aggregates, perception as impermanent, unsubstantial and unreliable. Seeing through illusions of time and space.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-15 Book Launch and Interconnectedness 36:51
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-03-15 Les enseignements retirer de ma retraite de yoga 62:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-03-15 The Inner and Outer Practice of Dharma - Meeting Experiences Generously 36:33
Martin Aylward
Dana is the practice of generosity as a foundation for happiness or the art of living freely and openly. This talk explores how we can transform the heart in generously meeting ourselves, others and the world around us. We see how qualities of Dana - Generosity, offering, supporting, nourishing, sustaining - are qualities with which to meet and respond skilfully to both outer' situations and inner experience.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-15 Untangling the Afflicted Mind 39:58
Ajahn Sucitto
The Brahma Viharas Intentionality Refreshing mind and body Not being fixated on suffering Attention amplifies Energetic shift out of patterning Opening to pain is already goodwill Harmlessness
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Spheres of Awareness 55:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Softening boundaries Unskillful and skillful abstraction Objectification Friendship with the lovely Supports for entering the stream Buddha, & archetypal mother and father Recollection of death Not being good enough
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 To Others As to Myself 33:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Calm (samatha) & View (vipassana) Healing of body, heart, mind fields (kaya, citta, vaci) Cracks between self and other Moving out of abstraction To not be broken by unpleasant feeling To others as to myself
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-15 Morning Reflections on Awareness and the Tone of Experience 17:47
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 The Mindfulness Factor of Awakening 52:24
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-14 Life is Your Teacher 47:32
Martin Aylward
Martin asks us first to consider what we really mean by my life, and points beneath the roles, beliefs and activities by which we usually define our lives, to the basic elements of our experience - sensory input, feelings, perceptions, concepts and consciousness. The talk opens up these elements, seeing how our attention to them can teach us, and exploring how we can track, explore and understand our experience as it presents itself, allowing us to respond more fully and freely to the mysterious unfolding display of what we call my life.
Gaia House Your Life is Your Teacher

2016-03-14 Breath Meditation 27:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Calming body and mind formations Buoyancy, ease, uplift, steadiness Spacious knowing Insight, dispassion Contemplation of conditionality Latent tendencies
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

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