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Dharma Talks
2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 5 of 9 48:00
Tempel Smith
5 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 4 of 9 31:33
Tempel Smith
4 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 3 of 9 48:22
Tempel Smith
3 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 2 of 9 14:22
Tempel Smith
2 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 1 of 9 19:52
Tempel Smith
Part 1 of 9
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Evening - Finding rhythms and structures you need and taking them home with you - 3 characteristics 55:51
Ajahn Sucitto
What can you take with you from the retreat? Using the occasion of retreat to develop wisdom of understanding - the 4 satipatannas / foundations of mindfulness; the transient nature of satisfaction; the rich man and the Porche; things are never finished; this is “mine”; seeing how conditions give rise to certain kinds of thinking; the release of the citta from clinging generally happens a little bit at a time; training the wisdom element.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Have you found a Place? 25:43
Ajahn Sucitto
A place to stay, a place to sit, a place to feel more comfortable in yourself; taking time and practicing with all four positions; the spider and the web of impressions, memories, sensations and feelings; what is it that compounds it and sticks it altogether? Seeing/ listening to the citta moving and the stirring up of thoughts; releasing the citta from being a someone; using samatha to calm and separate the citta from its endless spinning
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Preparing and encouraging a place for the Chitta - Settling into Samatha - Emptying - Forgiving 52:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding a place to rest; preparing a nest to allow the citta to settle with the body; breathing through the body; releasing the past, cleaning the house; mindfulness of death; forgiveness of oneself and others
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Taking Refuge - Guided Meditation through the Body 24:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Bring yourself into Sangha - the community who practice; staying present; the body as a symbol of the upright mind
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Rick and Wes: Brama Vihara Exercises 58:25
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-13 Awakening, Inner Peace and Freedom 58:48
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-13 Instructions and Guided Meditation 59:31
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-13 Questions and Answers 58:35
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-13 Pay attention, soften and widen, include it all 1:11:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Three things to bear in mind: Pay attention, soften and widen, include it all
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Remembering Four Kinds of Mutually Supporting Effort 20:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Bringing to mind, to recollect, to bring into your body what is good and upright every time; remembering things in the body; to sustain or protect attention with the breathing; keep pushing away whatever is unskillful or unhelpful; taking care of the baby;
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Saturday Morning Guided Sit 60:05
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-13 Buddha-Dhamma is the direct way - subject and object 45:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Bring our understanding into line with the Dhamma; direct experience rather than what we think we experience; getting a feel for the citta; the experience of something happening to citta; how perceptions are seen as real and the clinging that results; sankhara/ the activities/ the reactions
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Cultivating Samadhi - 26:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Open and Include ; Relaxing the Chitta
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Evening Puja -Coming to the Robe - The Citta - Finding and Cleaning the River 46:29
Ajahn Sucitto
A reference point for the day; coming back to the same place - Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha; acknowledging the citta
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Cultivating Sati 31:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is like a hand to hold things; how and why and want to hold? The need for correct application, correct object, correct way of holding. The breath and its vitality.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation (Walking) 11:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Moving from sitting to standing; feeling the whole body; walk so you feel the whole body walking; not just the legs - hips, body, shoulders, feet. Feeling the lift, feeling the weight transfer, the fluidity.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation 34:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Using sensation or impressions of the body; watching the energy begin to reveal itself; 30 minute meditation with bell
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Friday Morning Guided Big Sky Meditation 55:11
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-12 Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta 57:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Morning Reflection - How to practice 53:04
Ajahn Sucitto
The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evolving Together 57:22
Wes Nisker
Evolutionary origin of aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-11 Understanding States Of Mind 45:38
Rodney Smith
Using boredom as an example, this talk looks at the formation of states of mind and how to quiet their impact.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-11 Wise (or Right) Speech 63:45
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-12-11 Evening - Guided meditation 21:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Review of posture; mixture of alertness in the back and relaxation in the front
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evening - Introductory Explanations 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto
How to see and use the retreat; Significance of bowing; refuges and precepts; need to realize the opportunity for practice and its urgency
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand :  Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Thursday Morning Guided 52:16
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Dissatisfaction: The Great Doorway to the Heart 58:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-10 They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds 45:52
Anushka Fernandopulle
Dharma as nature, why we practice, seeing what is unseen; opening to dukkha and the truth; retreat and social/political activism. Title is from Mexican saying from liberation movement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Gratitude 48:23
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-12-10 Intimacy with Life: Part 1 1:17:47
Tara Brach
This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-10 Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1 69:15
Donald Rothberg
We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-09 Enseignement et méditation guidée, 2e partie 52:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-09 Cultivation and the End of Craving 54:35
Rick Hanson
Craving causes suffering-but what causes craving? This talk explores how craving is caused by an underlying sense of deficit or disturbance-and how repeatedly internalizing experiences of core needs being met helps "de-fuel" the fires of craving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-09 The Counter Intuitive Ground Of Spiritual Practice 45:34
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-09 Instructions et méditation guidée, 1e partie 28:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-09 Perception: Remembering the Past 49:07
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
What goes on in the mind when we remember things we have sensed, felt or thought in the past. It is through this activity of perception, and our attachment to it, that we have a very real sense of the past.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-09 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion) 68:09
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley (Casa Pallotti) Casa Pallotti Melbourne Retreat

2014-12-09 Reflections On Race And Diversity 35:31
Joseph Goldstein
During the closing transition days of IMS's Three-Month Retreat, there were some group discussions about IMS's diversity initiatives. Bonnie Duran led a group for people of color (POC) meditators, and Joseph Goldstein spoke to and led a discussion with the non-POC group. His intention was to provide an introduction to the work IMS is undertaking in undoing racism and other diversity issues, and to describe his own personal exploration in this area.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 2

2014-12-08 Equanimity 62:05
Will Kabat-Zinn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-08 Enseignement et méditation guidée 36:15
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-08 Trusting in Your Buddha-Knowing 1:11:07
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley (Casa Pallotti) Casa Pallotti Melbourne Retreat

2014-12-07 Chanting and close of evening 29:57
James Baraz
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley (Casa Pallotti) Casa Pallotti Melbourne Retreat

2014-12-07 Image, Mythos, Dharma (Part Three) 60:02
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Path of the Imaginal (Day Retreat)

2014-12-07 Dharma Series - The Four Noble Truths 9:17:31
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-12-07 4th Foundation of Mindfulness Part 1 of 3 1:35:00
Sally Armstrong
Talk from the 4th daylong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Four Foundations of Mindfulness

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