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Dharma Talks
2019-10-11 Dukkha: The Master Teacher 48:49
Thanissara
Unpacking the mechanism the generates dukkha. Dukkha as a cause of liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-10-11 Developing Deep and Vast Compassion - Meditation #3 advanced 1:55:49
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2019-10-11 Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom-dharma talk 32:03
Alexis Santos
Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. These timeless qualities are essential for meeting the challenges of our current world and in helping us live a skillful life. This evening talk will start out with a guided meditation followed by a dharma talk on how to cultivate these essential qualities.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-10-11 Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom-guided meditation with occasional sirens 37:09
Alexis Santos
Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. These timeless qualities are essential for meeting the challenges of our current world and in helping us live a skillful life. This evening talk will start out with a guided meditation followed by a dharma talk on how to cultivate these essential qualities.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-10-11 Cultivating Awareness + Wisdom-Q+A 41:03
Alexis Santos
Awareness and wisdom are qualities of mind that together provide the ingredients for clear seeing and compassion to arise. These timeless qualities are essential for meeting the challenges of our current world and in helping us live a skillful life. This evening talk will start out with a guided meditation followed by a dharma talk on how to cultivate these essential qualities.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-10-11 Aspects of Loving Kindness 56:56
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-10-11 The Power Of Ajahn Chah's Transmission 36:45
Thanissara
Have you had enough yet? A few stories of Ajahn Chah in England.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-10-11 Morning Instructions: Big Mind Guided Meditation 57:54
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-10-11 Sweeping the Path 29:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Like dust, defilements creep into the mind and build up. We live in a dusty world, it’s not a personal failing. The normal response is to be vigilant about sweeping – sustain mindfulness. Persistence, energy, and right attitude are required.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery

2019-10-10 From Suffering to Peace 54:05
Mark Coleman
The True Promise of Mindfulness
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-10-10 The Way Out of the Jungle 32:50
Ajahn Sucitto
We can do better than just getting by. We can feel fulfilled in a deep way, released from our confusion and blind spots. We use meditation to cultivate qualities of non-suffering, comfort and steadiness and extend them. The resulting inner harmony becomes our vehicle for walking through the jungle of the heart.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery

2019-10-09 Meditation: Relaxed and Alert 21:16
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with a period of relaxing and collecting our attention with intentional long deep breathing. We then deepen embodied presence, and widen to the awareness that includes sounds, sensations, feelings, breath, and all experience. When the mind drifts from this open, awake awareness, we gently return, re-relaxing and resting in an easeful, alert presence. Recorded at Tara’s Wednesday night class, the meditation includes chanting of OM’s and ends with a sense of melting into community.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-10-09 Belonging to Each Other – Part 1 51:08
Tara Brach
Mother Teresa writes that if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. These two talks explore the causes for severed belonging, and pathways to deepening the felt sense of belonging to our own body, heart and spirit, and to all beings. Together the talks offer a natural and powerful progression of lovingkindness or metta reflections, that when practiced regularly can open us to the peace, joy and freedom of trusting our mutual belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-10-09 Entering The Mula Sutta: Journey To Freedom 33:16
Kittisaro
Born of desire are all things. Ruled by mindfulness are all things. Yielding deliverance as essence are all things. Turning the mind to the deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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

2019-10-09 Beginning Again--Listening for Our Deeper Aspirations 63:22
Donald Rothberg
On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, when it is said that the veils of ignorance are lessened, we explore ways to “begin again,” both in the moment and more generally,--to re-align our lives, guided also by Buddhist resources and by poets, sages, and activists. Through guided reflections, we examine (1) ways in which we are “off the mark,” in which we need re-alignment; (2) what we wish to let go of and/or forgive; and (3) our deeper aspirations for the next period of time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-10-08 Forgiveness Meditation 48:43
Guy Armstrong
Forgiveness as a complement to the meditations on Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2019-10-08 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Week Five 1:27:33
Mark Nunberg
Week 5 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

2019-10-08 Dharma Talk - On Meaningfulness 48:33
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the inherent human longing for meaning and purpose, in its historical and religious contexts, and in the flawed ways we habitually seek wholeness or meaning. He describes the internalising of a deep meaningfulness that transcends ordinary understanding, entering into a harmony and resonance with life just as it is, constantly expressing its infinite yet goalless meaningfulness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement

2019-10-08 The Liberating Power Of Breath Practice 52:24
Kittisaro
The Buddha's description of his own use of this practice: a neble dwelling, A Tathagata abiding. Deeping into the four tetrads of the Anapanasati Sutta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-10-08 Meditation Instructions (Day 4) 17:46
Martin Aylward
Three Forms of Skilful Attention.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement

2019-10-08 Introduction To The Anapanasati Sutta 35:45
Kittisaro
Mindfulness of breathing, 16 steps, four tetrads, Fulfilling the four foundations of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-10-08 Cultivating Factors for Release 30:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The mind requires both calm and energy for release. Then abandonment comes through investigation. The investigation is calm and sympathetic; thinking is minimal, mostly feeling and sensing how it is. A return to forest dwellers’ practice is recommended.
Cittaviveka Vassa 2019 Closing Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Monastery

2019-10-07 Dharma Talk - Depths of Connection 59:24
Martin Aylward
Various components of connection - kindness, empathy, joy -are explored in this talk, spanning both meditative and engaged forms of connecting with ourselves, others and life itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and in Movement

2019-10-07 Courage and Trust In Our Path 57:44
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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