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Dharma Talks
2019-09-30 The Buddha’s Liberating Teachings on Dukkha–The Unsatisfactory Nature of Sense Experience - Week 4 - Meditation 30:57
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha’s Liberating Teachings on Dukkha – The Unsatisfactory Nature of Sense Experience

2019-09-30 The Buddha’s Liberating Teachings on Dukkha–The Unsatisfactory Nature of Sense Experience - Week 4 - Talk 30:34
Mark Nunberg
The small group discussions which concluded the session are not included.
Common Ground Meditation Center The Buddha’s Liberating Teachings on Dukkha – The Unsatisfactory Nature of Sense Experience

2019-09-30 Compassion in Action 61:28
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-09-30 Holding Love and Grief for the Earth 51:55
Mark Coleman
How the Bramha Viharas - the divine abodes of love, compassion, joy and equanimity arise in relationship to being in nature and how they suggest us holding the grief and pain during climate/eco crisis.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild: Embracing Change

2019-09-29 Working With Afflictive Thought Patterns 1: Wisdom as antidote 52:36
Jill Shepherd
Some suggestions for bringing wisdom to deeply conditioned mental patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-09-29 Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional - Meditation 32:55
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-09-29 Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional - Talk 57:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-09-29 Insight and Awakening in Nature 45:40
Mark Coleman
Bringing a contemplative awareness in nature reveals profound insight into impermanence, anata (not self) and the nature of reality.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild: Embracing Change

2019-09-28 Coming into Presence through Reflecting on Death and Birth 50:31
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how reflecting on the inevitability of our death as well as the wonder of our birth establishes presence in a powerful and transformative way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-09-28 Why Practice in Nature, Part 1 47:06
Mark Coleman
This talk describes the beauty, joy, presence and wakefulness that arises as we meditate outdoors.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild: Embracing Change

2019-09-27 A Call to Women: Loving our Wounded World 59:15
Konda Mason
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Women's Retreat

2019-09-27 Finding True Refuge 1:38:39
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided meditation followed by dharma talk (begins at 29 minute mark) and question and answer session (begins at 1 hour mark).
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Guest Dharma Talk

2019-09-27 Deep Time on Earth; talk, guided meditation and Q&A 48:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-26 Seven Factors Of Awakening 63:24
Guy Armstrong
How mindfulness activates wholesome states of mind, including energy and concentration, that lead to full awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-09-26 Understanding Dukkha 57:18
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-26 What We Attend to & How 63:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-25 The True Promise of Mindfulness 1:24:19
Mark Coleman
In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world. In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-09-25 The True Promise of Mindfulness-guided meditation 27:05
Mark Coleman
In his new book From Suffering to Peace – The True Promise of Mindfulness Mark Coleman, author and senior teacher at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, weaves together contemporary applications with mindfulness practices in use for millennia. His approach to mindfulness and meditation empowers us to engage with and transform the inevitable stress and pain of life, so we can discover genuine peace — in the body, heart, mind, and the wider world. In this evening talk, Mark will lead brief mediations and explore the aspects of his book to help practitioners, of all kinds, access and benefit from the “true promise of mindfulness”.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-09-25 One Auspicious Day 61:06
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

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

2019-09-24 2019-09-24 - Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Week Three 1:27:58
Mark Nunberg
Week 3 of a 6 week introductory course to Mindfulness Meditation. Includes 30 minute meditation followed by talk and discussion with the class.
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2019-09-24 What Connection with Reality Reveals 52:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-24 Words on Practice & Instructions for Walking Meditation 14:50
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-24 Homemade Fake news, Talk and Guided Meditation 41:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2019-09-23 Perception Of Impermanence Leads To Awakening 58:40
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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