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Dharma Talks
2022-05-28 Awakening Joy as a Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:17
James Baraz
In his teaching on The Four Wise Efforts, the Buddha taught us to maintain and increase wholesome states (kusala) when they arise. This talk explains how to make that a central part of our practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy and Wellbeing

2022-05-28 Finding my Way 41:17
Dawn Mauricio
True North Insight Embodying Metta

2022-05-28 Suffering is to be Understood 26:12
Laura Bridgman
Understanding suffering is like loosening a tangled ball of threads. The Indriyas help us find balance and navigate even the most subtle mind states that arise.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-28 Loving kindness practice 27:50
Leela Sarti
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Timeless Presence

2022-05-28 Guided meditation on "the now of all time " 24:26
Rodney Smith
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-28 The now of all time 41:40
Rodney Smith
As we distance ourselves from now, the reification of thought, the world, and ourselves manifest - all locked within the forever of time.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2022

2022-05-28 Crossing the Floods 54:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn explores the Buddha's famous prescription: 'By not pushing forward and by not standing still, I managed to cross the floods'.
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-28 Getting Started: Learning the Basics of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:05
Diana Winston
This first day instructions guides students who are just starting out with their practice. We learn to find our meditation anchor and work with distraction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening Joy and Wellbeing

2022-05-28 Devotional Imaging - Inviting the Indriya (with 30 min meditation) 39:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Sacred images can brighten the mind and allow helpful energies to arise. We can summon the indriya through this means. With devotional practice, we dislodge the self from its center point, revealing the energy of spiritual desire (chanda).
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

2022-05-27 Q&A 28:17
Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 How wide can the space of embracing you spoke of be for people (like prisoners for example) who may not have the present capacity for insight and who seem not ready to face trauma. Perhaps they will never be ready. O1:44 Q2 When and how in meditation and life, should we put boundaries around unhelpful things without a pushing away quality? 06:10 Q3 Could you say more about the relationship between the composed part and the part that’s in disaray as more important than either of the two. 8:52 Q4 Could we hear more about jealousy please and the associated difficult shame reactions. 16:09 Q5 Does any kind of volition disrupt bodily alignment or subtle bodily energies, or can the well instructed person conceive or even act without resultant misalignment?
Gaia House The Indriya: Allies for Liberation

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