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Dharma Talks
2020-02-27 Wise Inner and Outer Speech 51:25
Beth Sternlieb
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-26 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 15: Working with Our Psychological Conditioning 2 52:45
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore the role of working with transforming psychological conditioning and unresolved material (incomplete developmental tasks, developmental wounds, trauma, limiting beliefs, etc.) in a contemporary path of awakening. Using the concepts of unconscious material and of the “shadow” (individual and collective), we point to how the Buddha faced his own shadow (the four heavenly messengers that he found outside of his conditioning in the palace). We then explore some tools and ways to open to and work with unconscious or shadow aspects of ourselves, both in and out of formal meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-02-26 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 21:41
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a body scan, and then we practice opening to and relaxing with our changing experience. The sitting closes with a beautiful poem by Danna Faulds, “Just for Now.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-02-26 Exploring the Four Noble Truths: The Art of Inner Happiness 51:13
Matthew Daniell
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-02-26 Facing Fear (Part 2) - Awakening Your Fearless Heart 52:13
Tara Brach
Fear is a natural and universal part of our incarnation, and, when it goes on overdrive, we get imprisoned in the suffering of separation. These two talks explore how the RAIN meditation can help us face fear, and discover the boundless loving awareness that includes but is not contracted by currents of fear.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-02-26 The Breadth of our Dharma Path - Meditation 33:36
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-02-26 The Breadth of our Dharma Path - Talk 54:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-02-26 The Appropriate Response of Wisdom 50:24
Gullu Singh
The highest of all teachings is "an appropriate response" that response that leads to the lessening of suffering for ones self and others. Less of a "thing" but more of an ongoing process of inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-26 Renewal Means Refrain from Going Back 24:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Being comes before doing. Openness needs the protection of Refuge, not the defensiveness of ill-will. Renewal is not a case of planning or trying something new, but of stopping the re-creating of the old self. Citta then renews by itself.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-26 Aligning to Direct Experience 11:25
Ajahn Sucitto
As phenomena arise, align understanding to direct experience. Clear away inferences such as time and the notion of the body. All phenomena arise within awareness. Extend awareness through breathing. Pervade the body with tonalities of goodwill rather than of ill-will or no will.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-25 Wise Intention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:49
John Martin
This talk emphasizes Wise Intention in the context of a long retreat: Wise Intention includes the three aspects of renunciation (letting go of the sense desire), loving kindness and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-25 Satipatthāna - The Discourse of Establishing Mindfulness 31:41
Yuka Nakamura
The Satipatthāna Sutta is one of the most famous discourses in the Pali Canon that has informed the practice of Vipassana meditation and mindfulness meditation. The talks give an overview of the whole sutta.
Bodhi College Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness

2020-02-25 Day 24 Afternoon Instructions: Upekkha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:23
Susie Harrington
Guided meditation for embodying equanimity: neutral, friend and self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-25 Day Four - Meditation Instructions 54:01
Alexis Santos
Objects just support awareness. Allowing the awareness to know more.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Developing the Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-02-25 The Open Way 42:36
Ajahn Sucitto
This Path often leads into unknowns, disorientation, places where things don’t fit our normal ways. Meeting these places with strategies doesn’t work, but good qualities of heart leads into a quiet, joyful openness. This supports faith.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-24 The journey To A Daily Life Practice 36:40
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Developing the Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-02-24 Engaged Receptivity 51:29
Ajahn Sucitto
The essence of meditation is engaged receptivity. This is the skill of pausing for a minute and witnessing the flow of dhammas. It becomes fully established by strong mindfulness, so that ‘full knowing’ (sampajañña) gives the view of the causal web: that dhammas arise from causes and are not self.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-24 Afternoon Instructions: Mudita 40:28
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-24 Form and Spirit: Meditating Outside of the Box 57:47
Oren Jay Sofer
Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-02-24 Aimless wandering’ Meditation 3:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Take advantage of being in this natural realm. Move around very slowly and relate to everything from the heart. Notice the felt sense that is evoked, how nature touches and speaks to you. Nature reflects back aspects of your own heart.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-24 The Arising of Heart 55:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Clearance and renewal is a heart process. It entails meeting emotional material where it begins, with an energetic resonance. Body receives and moderates the energy, clearing the way for fundamental heart qualities to meet phenomena.
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-23 Wise Speech Part 2 1:30:46
Mark Nunberg
Weekly Dharma Talk led by Mark Nunberg opening with a guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-02-23 You Are Loving Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:27
James Baraz
Mindful awareness creates spaciousness for love to naturally shine through -- your true nature. The talk includes reminisces of Ram Dass, major benefactor of the insight meditation community, who passed away Dec. 2019 and whose practice was "I am loving awareness."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-23 Q&A 55:48
Ajahn Sucitto
What is mindfulness; What is investigation; Unusual images arising in meditation; Death and afterlife; How to deal with vulnerability of heart?
Emoyeni Retreat Centre :  Clearing and Renewal

2020-02-23 Closing Comments and Short Guided Meditation 37:35
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodied Freedom

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