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Dharma Talks
2019-12-07 Preparing the Heart and Mind for Practice 63:48
Ajahn Sucitto
An explanation of the opening rituals: what offering respect to the Triple Gem means; what the shrine offerings represent; how the precepts support our intention to train. Closes with the exhortation to make an effort with friendliness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Honoring All Life: Exploring the First Precept of Non-Harming 2:35:16
Bob Stahl
Bob Stahl, Richard Shankman, James Baraz, Thanissara, Bob Isaacson, Patti Breitman, WIll Tuttle, Jina Shah, Tara Brach, Konda Mason, Dawn Mauricio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-06 Working with disturbance. 43:15
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-06 Lovingkindness Guided Meditation 42:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-12-06 Freedom from the Inner Critic 6:10:26
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-05 Just Another Ego Trip 46:16
James Baraz
Sometimes our shyness or concern about what others think keeps us from expressing our gifts and making as meaningful a contribution as we can. In seeing through the constructed sense of self—the understanding of Anatta—those thoughts lose their power and don’t get in the way of expressing our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention 18:55
Tara Brach
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Part 1 - Radical Compassion - Loving Ourselves and Our World Into Healing 55:04
Tara Brach
Drawn from Tara’s new book, Radical Compassion (2020), these three talks explore how the RAIN practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) awakens the active, embodied caring that heals and frees our hearts. Check www.tarabrach.com for more information on Tara’s new book, including pre-order links.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Meditation: Surrender into Living Presence 19:50
Tara Brach
In this guided meditation we begin with a body scan, and rest in awareness with our senses awake. The key practice is to recognize when the mind immerses in virtual reality, reawaken our senses, and surrender again and again into the immediacy, vibrance and mystery of living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Meditation 32:33
Shelly Graf
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Reflections on Every Day Practice - Talk 43:18
Shelly Graf
Shelly Graf with Meski Mebatsion
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-04 Worthy of Waking Up 47:13
Dhammadīpā
a talk given to the Sierra Insight Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-12-04 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 10: Time 68:36
Donald Rothberg
In this initial inquiry into our experience of time, we explore (1) the nature of the ordinary conditioning related to the experience of time, including how we relate to past, present, and future, how we take time to be objectively “real,” and how we learn as children to use the construction of time; (2) how the Buddha and other sages seem to experience and teach about time, including about the “timeless”; and (3) how to practice to explore and transform our conditioning related to time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishment of Virtue 17:38
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Magga Samyutta (SN 45:49-90): good friends, and the accomplishments in virtue, desire, self, view, diligence, and careful attention. This series of brief talks, Shaila Catherine introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how their development can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments 1:46:26
Shaila Catherine
The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Samyutta Nikaya (SN 45:49-90): good friends, virtue, desire, completeness of mind, view, diligence, and careful attention. This speaker series introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how developing each one can support our path to liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-03 Quand « je » disparaît pour un moment 64:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-03 How Meditation Supports the Path of Awakening 34:33
Shaila Catherine
Scientists have documented some significant and measurable changes that occur as a result of meditation. But Buddhist practice is not limited to calm, pleasant, relaxing states of meditation. The liberating path includes a broad range of practices that produce a wide variety of benefits. We learn how we encounter the world of the senses; we unravel distortions of perception. We weaken defilements. We learn to let go. In this talk, Shaila Catherine points to the liberating potential of the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-03 Cultivating Compassion : Q&A and Dharma Talk 41:10
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2019-12-02 Trois portes inattendues vers le bonheur, cours 3 de 3 1:24:00
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-12-02 Monday Night Dharma Talk 64:30
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-12-01 Dharma Talk - Finding Peace and Stillness in Movement 52:58
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Path of Insight Meditation

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 2 - Meditation 34:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 2 - Talk 59:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 1 - Meditation 39:07
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-01 Releasing the Mind as a Natural Process, Part 1 - Talk 40:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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