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2020-12-20 The Five Hindrances 59:42
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Solstice Insight Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2020-12-13 Untangle the Entangled 48:05
Nathan Glyde
Exploring meeting the hindrances in skilful ways. Firstly seeing them as wonderful opportunities for growth and development of heart. Secondly not taking them personally, not fully believing what they say (shape) about the world. And thirdly finding skilful means through mettā, insight, and samādhi practices to find well-being in the midst of the entanglement of dukkha.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-10 Q&A 1 22:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Equanimity as a brahmavihara and equanimity as a factor of awakening; latent tendencies (anusaya); uprooting hindrances; role of the formless realms in developing insight and freedom;; when is the mind is ready to go to the formless realm; where does vedanā fit in with manas/ mano; quality of self-respect in removing the need to prove oneself.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-05 Cultivating Calm and Alive Awareness 1:14:07
Nathan Glyde
A guided meditation and talk exploring a way of practice developed from and inspired by Rob Burbea's Counting Within the Breath (see Practicing the Jhanas retreat) to steady the mind & heart, develop a whole body sensitivity, brighten awareness, and overcome the common hindrances to feeling free.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020

2020-11-16 15 meditation: recognising the hindrances of desire for sense pleasure, and aversion 19:49
Jill Shepherd
A short meditation exploring the hindrances of sensual desire and aversion or ill will, together with their antidotes
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-11-16 14 talk: a short introduction to the five hindrances 24:33
Jill Shepherd
A short overview of the five hindrances, particular mental qualities that get in the way of clear seeing
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-11-06 Five Hindrances 47:22
Leigh Brasington
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community :  The Jhanas and Insight: a 10-Day Online Retreat

2020-10-14 The Hindrances 48:22
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks given at Maison Mudita, Suisse 2021

2020-10-10 Standing Meditation – Body as a Unity 21:11
Ajahn Sucitto
After establishing a firm and comfortable posture, expand awareness across each dimension of the body. The details become less, the whole body becomes a unity in harmony. In this state hindrances and discomforts have much less possibility to occur.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Staving off Hindrances 15:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is about penetrating the roots of mental behavior. The primary doing is to settle and clear distracting influences so the mind becomes unified in purpose. A happy, firm mind leaves less traction for hindrances to take hold.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-08-06 01 talk: an overview of the Fourth Establishment of Mindfulness 36:50
Jill Shepherd
A brief introduction to Mindfulness of Dhammas, focusing on the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors
Auckland Insight Meditation Foundations of Insight

2020-08-06 Opportunities for Samadhi and Metta 50:37
Nathan Glyde
Drawing the hindrances towards samadhi. Exploring how we can find ways to ease greed and aversion by relating to them as energy, rather than as content and story. Based around the insight that all obstacles to practice arise in our ways of relating. And remembering there is always a possibility for another way of relating, leads us towards the liberation of possibilities.
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi

2020-08-05 Equanimity 45:55
Kate Munding
Equanimity: This practice is explored as the heart's expression of deep wisdom. We don't have to wait to cultivate this practice since it can be experienced at any point and strengthens over time. Getting caught in the weeds of life, equanimity is the mind and heart gaining perspective as an inner voice that is like a wise elder offering advice and caring. This talk explores the hindrances and 8 worldly winds. Q & A included.
Assaya Sangha Assaya Sangha Dharma Talks

2020-07-07 Practising with the Hindrances 61:10
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat

2020-07-02 Guided Meditation on the Hindrances 41:34
Pawan Bareja
Sit with Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-05-17 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Make Your Mind Like Gold 37:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of purifying gold can help us understand the nature of mind. Clearing out the turbulences and impurities makes way for what is naturally pure and radiant to come forth. Freed from the hindrances, the mind is pliable, luminous, properly fit for work. *Sutta references: AN5:193; AN3:101-102; SN:46:53; AN6:85
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-16 42 Discourse on the Establishment of Awareness Satipatthana Sutta MN10 22:06
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Section on Dhamma: Five Hindrances, Five Aggregates, Six Sense Spheres, Seven Factors of Awakening
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-06 Hindrances in Daily Life or Deep Meditation 32:21
Nathan Glyde
Hindrances appear in daily life, on the 'cushion', and right into deep experiences: if there is an appearance there must be a hindrance in someway, pushing and pulling at life. How can we be approariate to what arises? Joyfully breaking the (so called) hindrances into 5, or 3, or just 1, is a way of looking at these fabricated experiences, that helps us approach them with skill, flexibility, and freedom, no matter where they arise.
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat

2020-04-24 Ways of Looking, Hindrances, and the Transformation of Dukkha 41:09
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Opening, Steadying, Allowing

2020-04-12 Easing Escalation 43:28
Nathan Glyde
Skilfully meeting the hindrances to meditation and to well-being in life, by understanding the dependent origination of experience: particularly fabrication (escalation–papancha, etc.) based on reactivity to unseen vedana.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-03-12 The Five Hindrances 59:22
Chas DiCapua
How to cultivate a correct view of the hindrances and how to include them in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom Here & Now: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-03-11 Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:35
Eugene Cash
Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.'
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2020-03-05 When You Are Struggling And You Need A Friend. 58:50
Matthew Hepburn
The hindrances are motifs of mind that can propel us into suffering or freedom. How can we use loving-kindness (Metta) to let them open the door to wisdom and peace?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Seven Factors of Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-03-01 Morning Reflections: Challenges and Appropriate Response 43:57
Nathan Glyde
Exploring the so-called hindrances. This recording also includes Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Inquiring into the Nature of Experience

2020-02-11 The Seven Factors of Awakening 1:24:08
with Kim Allen, Shaila Catherine
The Seven Factors of Awakening offer an effective framework for cultivating the mind, overcoming the hindrances, and balancing the energetic and calming forces that develop through meditation. When these seven factors are well developed, the mind is ripe for awakening. This series will explore each factor to reveal its importance, function, and role in the process of awakening.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-02-09 Instructions: Mindfulness of Body & Working with the Hindrances 40:05
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2020-02-07 Day Six Morning Instructions - Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:03
Beth Sternlieb
Meeting hindrances with mindfulness & compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-06 Five Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:36
Beth Sternlieb
When we meet hindrances with loving awareness they nourish wisdom & compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-04 Working With The Hinderances 48:45
Walt Opie
A description of the five hindrances to meditation practice along with some antidotes for working with them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-26 Instructions (Day 2) - The Hindrances 56:22
Gavin Milne
This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Dana Retreat - A Path of Peace and Kindness

2020-01-15 From hindrances to awakening factors. 53:23
Jaya Rudgard
Long term and immediate practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-29 Hangin' in with the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:08
DaRa Williams
Hindrances, Judgment, Non-clinging
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-19 A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances 62:51
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2019-12-16 Q&A 1 60:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Samatha and vipassanā; dullness and hindrances; samādhi for lay people; witnessing cruelty; awareness and mindfulness
Uttama Bodhi Vihara :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-10-21 Day 4 Morning Guided Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:12
Erin Treat
Anchor, Presence + Absence of Hindrances
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-10-20 Wise Relationship with the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:59
Tuere Sala
Practicing with the Hindrances
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-10-17 Dharma Talk - A Handful of Hindrances 57:06
Gavin Milne
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2019-10-09 Meeting the Wild Stuff 36:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The way of the world is linked up to the five hindrances, so we can’t often see them. Automatic attention takes you straight into them. Train attention to be broad and dispassionate. Recognize sense objects for what they are, a secondary reality. Primary reality is contact impression, how citta is affected.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery

2019-09-25 Reporting on Practice & the 5 Hindrances 56:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-16 Morning Instructions on working with the hindrances and framing of the importance of working with sexual energy on retreat. 57:14
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-09-15 Five Hindrances 59:23
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the five hindrances: afflictive states that get in the way of clear seeing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-08-30 Getting Real with your Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:03
Sharda Rogell
The five difficult mind states, classically laid out by the Buddha, that obstruct open heart and free mind, and the potential for deepening insight and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2019-08-27 Dharma Talk - From Hindrances to Gladness 56:18
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Pathways to Happiness - Cultivating Wellbeing and Contentment

2019-08-27 16 talk: Five Hindrances part 2 - aversion, and the antidote of compassion 46:26
Jill Shepherd
Continuing the exploration of the five hindrances, focusing on ill will or aversion, and how cultivating compassion is both a protection and an antidote to aversion arising
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Freedom Here and Now

2019-08-26 11 talk: the five hindrances, with a focus on desire for sense pleasures 43:02
Jill Shepherd
An overview of what gets in the way of freedom, namely the five hindrances, with a focus on the first one, desire for sense pleasures
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Freedom Here and Now

2019-08-25 Working with Challenges: The 5 Hindrances 1:22:06
Bob Stahl
Hof Oberlethe :  Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-08-25 Working with the Hindrances 17:41
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-22 Day 4: Guided Meditation on the 5 Jhana Factors (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:58
Tempel Smith
Following the talk on the 5 jhana factors and the 5 hindrances from the night before... We welcome a sense of contentment in our starting conditions, take interest in our breath and remind ourselves it is all we need while meditating. From here, we aim and sustain our attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2019-08-21 5 Jhana Factors and 5 Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:06
Tempel Smith
With mindfulness of breathing as a concentration practice we intentionally develop the 5 jhana factors. We also will definitely experience their opposites. - the 5 hindrances. As the 5 jhana factors become stronger we experience fewer hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

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