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Dharma Talks
2020-01-13 S.E.S. January - Intimacy & Imagination -Wise View - guided meditation 13:13
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 17:14
Tara Brach
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

2020-01-04 Breathing into the Heart Space 7:32
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided metta meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-12-30 Meditation on the Five Indriya 17:16
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-12-24 Short guided compassion meditation for the Australian bushfire situation 14:41
Jill Shepherd
A fifteen minute guided compassion meditation, offering compassion for all human beings and all other living beings affected by the current bushfire crisis in Australia
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2019-12-16 Guided Meditation - Love As Renunciation 29:34
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-15 Guided Meditation On Compassion 29:35
Jeff Haozous
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-14 Metta: Guided Meditation 29:41
Rachel Lewis
Defination of Metta; practicing with receiving Metta from benefactors and offering it to self and all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-11 Instructions and Guided Meditation 27:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular 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

2019-11-27 Meditation: Being Here 21:55
Tara Brach
This guided meditation is an invitation to rest in Hereness—the immediacy and aliveness of full presence. We arrive and quiet with a conscious long deep breath, relax our bodies, awaken our senses, and then bring our attention to relaxing with our moment-to-moment experience. The poem ends with a beautiful poem called “Interlude” by poet Danna Faulds.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-11-18 Buddhist Studies: The Five Aggregates, Week 2 - Meditation 13:13
Shelly Graf
Buddhist Studies guided meditation led by Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course with Shelly Graf: The Five Aggregates

2019-11-18 Guided Loving kindness Meditation 29:48
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-17 Guided Meditation 27:47
Leela Sarti
Gaia House The Beauty of Being

2019-11-11 S.E.S-November-Fire Element-guided meditation 16:35
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-11-10 Freeing Self and Others from Judgments, A guided Meditation, LGBTQ Retreat, Amsterdam 29:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-11-10 Metta for Our Times ~ Hopefree & Engaged 29:24
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation I
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-09 Metta for a World in Crisis 23:05
Dhammadīpā
Context for metta practice in a world full of delusion, guided meditation on loving kindness.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-08 Metta for Climate Crisis 18:02
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-07 Metta Basics 25:04
Dhammadīpā
a guided meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-11-07 2019 3CE Retreat : Day 1 Guided Meditation : Bhante Gunaratana 3:51
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2019 Three Characteristics of Existence Retreat

2019-11-01 Exploring Peace in Our Hearts - guided meditation 24:52
Nina Wise
During these troubled times when we are witnessing so much polarization, fear and hatred in our world, this is a time to come together to experience the peace that lies at the heart of our being. From that place of peace and ease, we can move out into the world as more effective agents of change to benefit of all beings.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2019-10-20 am06-guided-meditation 20:11
Jill Satterfield
New York Insight Meditation Center Anxiety: It’s Not All In Your Mind

2019-10-19 Forgiveness Meditation 15:09
Amita Schmidt
An unusual guided meditation in forgiveness using an empty chair. This practice was given to me by Matt Flickstein, Vipassana teacher.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2019-10-17 Guided Lovingkindness (Metta) Meditation 29:35
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom and Kindness

2019-10-16 Meditation: Vast and Timeless Presence 21:16
Tara Brach
The pathway to inhabiting our full presence is including, with mindfulness all parts of experience. This guided meditation explores how we can open, without resistance to the changing flow of sensations, feelings, thoughts and sounds, and discover the boundless awareness that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-10-16 RAIN on Blame: A Guided Meditation 14:38
Tara Brach
When we are stuck in blame or resentment we are in a trance – the other person becomes an unreal bad other, and our own sense of being contracts into a victimized self, an angry self, a righteous self. Using the acronym RAIN, this practice guides us in bringing mindfulness and compassion to our inner experience, and then to viewing the other with a more open and clear heart. By awakening from the trance of blame, we are able to respond with intelligence and care to the unmet needs that underlie all conflict.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-10-14 S.E.S-October-Water Element-guided meditation 14:30
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2019-10-01 Guided Metta Meditation 2:09
Leigh Brasington
Do you like to be happy?

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

2019-09-15 Moving From Misperception To Clear Seeing-Meditation 27:56
Mark Nunberg
Guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2019-09-15 Loving Kindness guided meditation - metta 11:51
Dhammadīpā
a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-14 Beginning, Middle and End: a guided meditation on breath 10:03
Dhammadīpā
a talk given at a non-residential retreat at Dharma Zephyr Insight sangha in Carson City, NV
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-09-08 AM02- Guided Meditation 25:53
Martin Aylward
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly

2019-09-08 AM03- Guided Meditation 29:53
Martin Aylward
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly

2019-09-08 pm05-mind-guided-meditation-short 9:07
Martin Aylward
New York Insight Meditation Center Wisdom, Love and Presence: Awakening the Three Centers of Head, Heart and Belly

2019-08-30 What Does Master Gotama Live For? 14:01
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-29 Knowledge & Vision 15:56
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-28 Temporary Liberation of the Mind 21:33
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-25 Working with the Hindrances 17:41
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-24 Mindfulness & Clear Comprehension ~ Sati & Sampajanna 16:37
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2019-08-21 Meditation: The Sea of Awareness 18:08
Tara Brach
We begin this meditation with awakening to the aliveness in our body, using the imagery of a smile, and a body scan. Then we are guided to sense the vastness of awareness and to rest in that open wakefulness, allowing the changing thoughts, sounds, sensations and feelings to come and go. When we let life be just as it is, we become a sea of awareness that includes all the waves.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-08-14 Meditation: Everything Belongs 20:34
Tara Brach
This guided meditation awakens an embodied presence through a body scan, and invites us to rest in the breath, while allowing the different waves of sensations, feelings and sounds to come and go. When difficult experiences arise, we breathe with them, feeling them fully and mentally whispering, “this belongs,” or “this too.” By not resisting, we discover the sea of awareness that has room for all the waves.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-08-08 27 guided meditation: compassion for a good friend, and self-compassion 20:46
Jill Shepherd
Practising with compassion for a good friend who is currently experiencing some challenges, then offering compassion to oneself
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2019-07-27 Shelly's Guided Meditation 26:09
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Daylong Retreat for Millenials with Shelly Graf and Gabe Keller-Flores

2019-07-22 Uppekha | Guided Meditation 24:22
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-20 Karuna | Guided Meditation 25:45
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2019-07-20 16 guided meditation: dyads, exploring fearlessness 25:00
Jill Shepherd
Working together in pairs, taking turns to describe a time of feeling ease, calm, confidence, courage, and noticing the effect this has on the body, heart, and mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-20 14 guided meditation: relaxing the body, stilling the mind 14:56
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation beginning with a brief body scan to relax tension, then using the breath to help steady and calm the mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-14 13 guided meditation: dyad practice, exploring gratitude and mudita for oneself 23:56
Jill Shepherd
Working in pairs, contemplating gratitude for aspects of one's life, then a short written exercise exploring one's own good qualities
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-14 11 guided meditation: body and heart-mind 15:23
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation attuning to the body and the heart-mind, noticing how we're relating to experience, and inclining in the direction of appreciation and gratitude
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-06 10 guided meditation: dyad practice, mindfulness of mind 21:24
Jill Shepherd
Working in pairs naming mind-states out loud using just one word; separately for four minutes each, then alternating back and forth
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-07-06 07 guided meditation: body, breathing, choiceless awareness 14:46
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation beginning with physical sensations and the breath, opening to choiceless awareness, orienting to kindness and metta
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-06-29 03 meditation: body sitting, breathing 13:49
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation with an emphasis on settling and soothing the body, heart, mind before starting a study class
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Transforming Fear into Fearlessness

2019-06-09 Seven Factors of Awakening & Cultivation of Refuge 29:26
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2019-06-09 14 guided meditation: mudita 21:59
Jill Shepherd
A short mudita meditation incorporating experiences of gratitude offered by the retreatants
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-06-09 12 guided meditation: self-compassion 15:32
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation exploring compassion for oneself
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-06-09 09 guided meditation: mindfulness of body, sounds, thinking 22:21
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation expanding mindfulness to include physical sensations, sound, mental activity then choiceless awareness
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-06-08 08 guided metta meditation 18:39
Jill Shepherd
A short guided metta meditation using the "radiating energy" method to extend the energy of kindness in every direction
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-06-08 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of the body, emphasising ease 22:43
Jill Shepherd
Mindfulness of the body as a support to develop ease and calm, through a body scan inviting physical tension to release wherever possible
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-06-08 01 short guided meditation: mindfulness of body and breathing 15:20
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of body and mindfulness of breathing, to help settle in to the workshop
Mariposa Sangha :  Befriending the mind

2019-05-31 Lovingkindness Talk and Guided Meditation 23:04
Hugh Byrne
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Opening Our Hearts to Ourselves and the World

2019-05-29 Meditation: Opening to Life 20:46
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a mindful body scan, and awakening all our senses to our moment to moment experience. We relax open to the presence that is unobscured by thoughts, letting life be just as it is.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-05-25 AM-04-Guided-Lying-Meditation 28:21
Stephen Fulder
New York Insight Meditation Center Equanimity: Dancing with the Unpredictability of Life with Dr. Stephen Fulder

2019-05-24 Finding Ourselves and Losing Ourselves guided meditation 28:44
Stephen Fulder
There is no question more engaging, universal and mysterious than the question: ‘Who Am I?’
New York Insight Meditation Center

2019-05-08 Instructions and Guided Meditation 26:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-05-03 Standing Meditation: Grounded and Firm, Yet Supple and Fluid 26:20
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation to fully feel the body, filling out the length, width and thickness of the entire bodily form. This upright yet relaxed posture is firm and allows energy to freely flow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-04-19 Our True Inheritance: Guided Meditation 18:40
Ayya Medhanandi
We keep searching for happiness through travel, surfing the internet, shopping, and other worldly ways – but does it ever last? Supreme happiness arises right here in the heart. When we are present and patient beyond measure, we are stronger than we know. This groundbreaking inner seeing is free of devices – and free of vices. Pure, wise clarity and conscious awareness disentangle and unburden the mind of fear, obsession, all distractions, and at last, all suffering! This is the key to our self-made prison of beliefs, thoughts and opinions. We wake up to our true inheritance – the liberating Truth of what we are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-19 Guided Meditation - Equanimity 15:11
Jill Shepherd
Working with a sticky person.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-18 Guided Meditation - Mudita 27:57
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-17 Instructions and Guided Meditation 26:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-04-17 Guided Meditation - Compassion 12:31
Jill Shepherd
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-16 Guided Meditation - Metta 25:06
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-16 Afternoon Instructions - Metta 13:15
DaRa Williams
Discussion of loving-kindness and preparation for guided meditation.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-14 Guided Meditation on Anchors 18:25
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-12 Guided meditation 10:36
Jean Esther
True North Insight Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha

2019-04-03 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 18:14
Tara Brach
This guided meditation starts with a scan that invites relaxing and awakening through the body. We then allow life – sounds, sensations, aliveness – to live through us, resting in open presence. When there is tightening, holding or confinement in thoughts, we recognize and re-open, letting go into the presence that is always here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-03-30 Closing Comments From Rob - Soulmaking and Sangha 18:53
Rob Burbea
PLEASE NOTE: The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 Ways of Reading the Seven Stories 5:02
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-24 The Balance of Attention 24:23
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-23 Seven Stories for Lovers of a Soulmaking Dharma 29:04
Catherine McGee
The talks, instructions, and guided meditations in this set are from a retreat, led by Catherine McGee and Rob Burbea, for practitioners already familiar with Soulmaking Dharma. The teachers strongly recommend that you also have an understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice, before listening. Without this background in practice it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Roots into the Ground of Soul

2019-03-09 pm02-guided-meditation-open-eyes-big-skies 28:29
Martin Aylward
New York Insight Meditation Center Vast View, Fine Attention with Martin Aylward

2019-03-06 Instructions and Guided meditation 27:22
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-03-04 Posture Instructions 10:32
Tina Rasmussen
Tina Rasmussen provides a 10 minute overview on how to support your meditation practice by setting up your posture at the beginning of each sitting period. Guided instructions are provided to create a supportive posture before you begin meditation.
Various

2019-03-03 Recognizing Wholesome and Unwholesome Heart States with Kindness and Wisdom - Guided Meditation 28:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-02-05 Meditating on the Brahmaviharas 29:05
Ayya Santussika
A guided meditation on practicing the Brahmaviharas.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Engaged Buddhism

2019-01-17 Guided Meditation (Opening Eve of Retreat) 21:36
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Inquiring into the Nature of Experience

2019-01-16 Instructions and Guided Meditation 29:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-01-09 Meditation: Letting Go… Letting Be 16:57
Tara Brach
This guided meditation invites us to imagine a clenched fist relaxing open, and explores this in releasing contractions in the body as well as the grip of thoughts. When we deeply let go and let be, our energy flows freely. We reconnect with our natural aliveness, love and awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-12-31 Breathing in Joy, Breathing out Joy 22:41
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-30 Karuna - Freedom from Harm 12:18
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2018-12-28 The Four Elements 24:49
Dhammadīpā
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2018-12-12 Instructions and Guided Meditation 28:55
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-12-03 41 Brahmavihāra Follow Up 21:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Following up from the brahmavihāra guided meditation, the powerful potential of the practice is described. Taken in depth, these qualities offer a means for feeling steady and comfortable, a home base from which to clear fear mistrust and loss of heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-28 Stabilizing our caring capacities, Instructions and Guided Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
True North Insight

2018-11-28 Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space 18:36
Tara Brach
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-17 Guided Meditation 01 - Simple breath meditation with wise reflections 19:31
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 19:52
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-05 Guided Standing Meditation 22:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-03 Guided Meditation on Thoughts 28:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

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