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2020-01-12 Guided Metta Meditation 45:56
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Brief introduction followed by a guided metta meditation for group, self, and benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-12 Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm 45:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Contact with the world causes citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme. We practice to carefully meet contact impression, training intention and attention to be for one’s welfare.
Cittaviveka : Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-12 Instructions on mindfulness of vedana 54:06
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 The Four Ennobling Truths 61:30
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
The teaching on the four ennobling truths speaks to our lived experience. It addresses the existential fact of facing suffering, pain, stress, and conflict in our lives and offers a way to understand the causes and conditions that lead to suffering and to the end of suffering. The four ennobling truths can guide us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Anattā Is the Way Out (Evening Public Talk) 52:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.
Cittaviveka : Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body. 45:34
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Saṇkhāra – the Constructor of All 46:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We are encouraged to understand saṇkhāra, the programs that take hold of us and result in unskillful states. It is possible to not act on these programs, release some of their pressure, and turn the citta towards skillful states.
Cittaviveka : Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Morning instructions on body 56:50
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Review of first day instructions, suggestions about deepening and sustaining connection with anchors and practicing with discomfort and pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Practicing with the elements. 59:46
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Instructions on practicing with the hinderances. 44:35
Yuka Nakamura	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Direct Practice – Feeling, Perception and Saṇkhāra 40:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is only touched by feeling and perception. Through not seeing this, not feeling and directly handling it, the whole realm of dukkha gets fabricated. Meet experience directly, with mindfulness and wisdom, and suffering eases up.
Cittaviveka : Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-10 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:59:27
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-10 Presence, ease, and possibility. 44:27
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body - bring mind and body together, establishing an anchor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 Opening Talk 59:06
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Welcome and introduction to the retreat. Ethical container, simplifying, and silence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 In the Experience, Let there be Just the Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:38
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores working with Bahiya Sutta in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Winter Insight

2020-01-09 Morning Instructions 9:00
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Meditation requires sensitivity and intelligence from the heart. The seven bojjhangas in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2020

2020-01-08 Spiritual Practice in Daily Life 37:38
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 17:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 55:44
Tara Brach	View Download Listen
We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional refuge ritual, we engage together in bringing alive these pathways to healing and peace. (Note: Includes Refuges string tying ceremony and chanting the Refuges at end) St. Teresa of Avila says, “Only at the shrine where all are welcome will God sing loud enough to be heard.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 64:24
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Going Forwards 49:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on "object" relation. e.g. insight or serenity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2020

2020-01-08 Finding Reference in Ground, Space and Rhythm 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta only experiences perception and feeling. We can cultivate skillful perceptions of ground, space and rhythm that result in comfort and ease.
Cittaviveka : Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-08 Being a Friend to Everything 2:05:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-07 Letting Go 38:31
Leslie Booker	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

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