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Dharma Talks
2014-09-10 Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh 49:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-10 Reflection on the Practice of Meditation 40:35
Greg Scharf
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-09-09 Joy 37:25
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-09-09 Equanimity 50:21
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-09-08 Some Fruits of the Practice 57:45
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-08 Integrative path 47:11
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Portal to Pure Presence Retreat

2014-09-07 Shelter from the storm 55:40
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Portal to Pure Presence Retreat

2014-09-06 Labor Day Retreat - Day 8 1:12:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-06 Meditation Instructions- Day 4 - Thoughts and Preception 63:57
Anushka Fernandopulle
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-05 Labor Day Retreat - Day 7 62:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-05 Vision and Focus 33:40
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Portal to Pure Presence Retreat

2014-09-05 Introduction On Bring Awareness To Mind States and Guided Meditation 54:03
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-04 The Practice of Concentration Meditation 56:50
Kate Munding
In her talk on concentration meditation, Kate Janke explores different techniques, why it is an essential part of the path to awakening, and what gets in the way of a concentrated mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-09-04 In This Fathom Long Body With Its Mind and Perceptions 46:45
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-04 Labor Day Retreat - Day 6 58:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-03 Labor Day Retreat - Day 5 62:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-03 Concentration 56:06
Alex Haley
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2014-09-03 First talk of the retreat 60:12
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Portal to Pure Presence Retreat

2014-09-03 Morning Instructions 57:14
Anushka Fernandopulle
Posture, meditation instrutions for sitting and walking
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-09-03 Concentration and Liberation 63:35
Winnie Nazarko
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-09-02 To See Through the Self 32:02
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-09-02 Finding True Refuge 44:42
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-09-02 Labor Day Retreat - Day 4 19:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-01 Intro Talk to Bodycare 51:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2014-09-01 Dharma and Climate Change 27:16
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2014-09-01 Labor Day Retreat - Day 3 14:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-09-01 Brahma Vihara 47:08
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2014-08-31 Metta (Loving Kindness) Practice 41:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
Cultivating the heart - metta in different directions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-31 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:59
James Baraz
How your practice can unfold as yhou leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-31 Labor Day Retreat - Day 2 49:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-31 Q&A 33:07
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-31 The Alchemy of Turning Towards What's Difficult 34:27
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-31 Never Turn Away 27:40
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-31 Guided Meditation on Arriving 44:46
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-31 Wisely Attending To Your Nose and Other Things 49:35
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-31 12 Guided Meditation: Everything Happens within Awareness 4:58
Ajahn Sucitto
First inclination is towards that which is for one’s well-being. Attention settles on the body and breathing. Then make a practice of disconnecting and unplugging, not getting interested in other stuff that comes through. Keep asking, what’s appropriate and helpful now?
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 11 Aimless Wandering 8:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Aimless wandering unplugs compulsion. So move around a moment at a time, aimlessly, following the gentle zig zag of the movement and inclination. Pause when feeling compulsive or hurried. Keep coming back into exploring this amazing here and now.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 10 Standing Meditation: There Are No Tyrannies in Space 11:07
Ajahn Sucitto
One feature of programs is they cause contraction. When standing, then, it’s helpful to acknowledge space as an experience. In front of you, behind and above you, let the body experience the lack of intrusion and obstruction – space is open and free. There are no tyrannies in space.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 09 An Exercise in Awareness 4:27
Ajahn Sucitto
On attention and awareness. Attention locates an object, and what we give attention to gets energized. Awareness, when exercised brings opening and cooling. Unhook from attention and let awareness widen and soften. Take in the feel and energy of the subtler qualities of what arises. Not excluding anything, just not hooking onto anything.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 Big Mind Meditation 42:19
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-31 08 Guided Meditation: Internal Happiness 30:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation offers the opportunity to encourage the body to open into a more steady state of pleasure than is normally attainable through sense contact. This internal happiness has to do with the body’s subtle energy. Guidance is given to sense the subtle body and experience this internal happiness.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 The Judging Mind 37:16
Jason Murphy
Insight Santa Cruz

2014-08-30 Flowing with Life as it Is 50:12
Sharda Rogell
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-30 Metta - Friendliness 43:00
Pascal Auclair
A few words on this quality of mind, a poem and a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 07 Steep Yourself in the Good 49:12
Ajahn Sucitto
When we experience hostility and ill will, rather than simply acknowledging it, we stick it into ourselves, and begin to assume we’re unwelcome or unworthy. We can use meditation to change the flavor of the heart, steeping it in the qualities of the brahmavihara (goodwill, compassion, gladness, equanimity).
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 Labor Day Retreat - Day 1 56:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center 2014 Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-30 Three Characteristics and Keeping Your Seat 48:24
Anushka Fernandopulle
Orientation to the mind and sense doors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 06 Empathy Unseats the Tyrant Programs 42:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Seeking comfort, both physical and psychological, we’ve developed programs to avoid and deflect the experience of irritation. But these are tyrant programs. They can be cleared through the willingness to open and feel without compulsive actions and reactions.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 05 Walking Meditation: Coming Out of Stuck States 38:53
Ajahn Sucitto
In walking meditation, mental patterns are bound to well up. If you don’t go into decisive action around them, they will fade. Give attention instead to the fluidity of the body while walking. Let things work themselves out; it’s not up to us to claim or reject. Come back to the here of breathing and body; realizations occur in that process.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 04 Freeing Ourselves Up to Feel 46:54
Ajahn Sucitto
We fall for the tyranny of institutionalized systems and fixed structures because they promise stability and certainty. But there is no empathy in such tyranny. Embodied presence enables empathy. Our own bodies provide the stability we need to be with our mental stuff without reacting. Thus our capacity to be human increases.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

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