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Dharma Talks
2025-11-03 First Morning Instructions: Breath & Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:25
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Love, Clarity, and Resilience: An LGBTQIA+ and GNC Retreat

2025-11-03 Wholesome and Unwholesome States of Mind 1:26:00
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The Mindfulness practice helps us to prevent and overcome unskillful states of mind and develop and maintain wholesome states of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-03 Interconnection: Our True Nature! 1:33:16
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-11-02 An overview of the four Brahmavihāra 46:55
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the interrelationships between mettā / kindness, compassion, muditā / gladness and equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-11-02 Dharmette: The Journey of Embodied Awareness 18:22
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Der Dhammaweg, Teil II 47:50
Renate Seifarth
Im weiteren geht es um die nächsten Bereiche des achtfachen Pfades, nämlich rechte Absicht, wofür ein Erkennen unserer Absicht hinter unseren Handlungen gehört. Wissensklarheit ist ein wichtiges Instrument dafür, das wir in der Vipassanapraxis entwickeln. Unsere Absichten führen zu entsprechenden Handeln, als erstes auf der gedanklichen Ebene, dann wie wir handeln und sprechen, ob privat oder beruflich. Für Buddha sind das wesentliche Aspekte unseres Dhammaweges.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Vipassana und Karuna Retreat

2025-11-02 Instructions and guided meditation: Choiceless attention 53:24
Jill Shepherd
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-02 An Ancient Body Scan 49:39
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Metta Meditation 35:39
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-02 Orienting and settling into sensations 41:33
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Mindfulness of the Body daylong retreat

2025-11-01 Metta Practice toward a difficult person and all beings 61:51
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Understanding the 11 benefits of practicing Metta along with mindfulness of the loveability of the difficult person and all beings can lead to happiness and freedom of the mind from annoyance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-11-01 Cinq images parlantes 🫧 61:39
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-11-01 Reflections on Cetana: Intentions 49:55
Devon Hase
Teachings and Guided Practice on working with Intention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-31 Quatre erreurs de perception qui créent toute la souffrance du monde 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-31 Méditation guidée sur le thème de l’équanimité 31:48
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-31 Contentment and Samadhi 50:05
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-31 Der Dhammaweg, Teil I 48:04
Renate Seifarth
Zunächst werden die vier Wahrheiten dargestellt, die uns vier Aufgaben präsentieren. Hierbei geht es vor allem um dukkha, einer komplexen vielschichtigen Gegebenheit in unserem Leben, die für den Buddha der Mittelpunkt seiner Lehre bildet. Es gilt dukkha zu überwinden. Buddha beschreibt dazu einen achtfachen Pfad, den wir Schritt für Schritt gehen können. Der erste Bereich ist rechte Sichtweise. Dazu gehören all unsere Konzepte, Vorstellungen, Ansichten, Meinungen über die Welt und über einen Weg zu Glück.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Vipassana und Karuna Retreat

2025-10-31 Instructions du 4e matin de la retraite 61:19
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-30 Transition From Settling to Seeing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:49:25
Tere Abdala-Romano
This talk explores the gentle transition from shamatha (calm abiding through concentration) to vipassanā (insight), inviting us to cultivate stillness not through effort but through nourishment, (as The Budha did) curiosity, and kindness. It reminds us that the mind’s obstacles—dullness and agitation—are gateways to balance and presence. From this grounded calm, clarity naturally arises, revealing the truth of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. In resting with things as they are, stillness ripens into seeing, and seeing reveals freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness (276R25)

2025-10-30 Meeting the 5-Hindrances with mindfulness and wisdom 58:40
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The arising of the 5-hindrances is beyond our control. However mindfulness and wisdom applied to these hindrances can make a difference between being caught up in them and being free from them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Intelligence émotionnelle et entraînement cognitif 65:33
Pascal Auclair
Moulin de Chaves Pascal au Moulin

2025-10-30 Guided Meditation on Wholesome Emotion 68:57
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Use the acronym of M.A.I.N. (Mindfulness, Attitude, Insight and non-clinging) towards mindfulness of wholesome emotion can lead to development and maintain these beautiful states of mind such as generosity, lovingkindness, compassion, joy, happiness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 2 - 25PT2

2025-10-30 Instructions from My Teachers 40:12
James Baraz
We all have teachers who've inspired us to see life in a new way. Who have been your inspirations? What have you learned from them? I thought I'd share some ways that instructions from two of my teachers--Ram Dass and HWL Poonja (Papaji)-- have shaped how I see the world and how I practice. The talk includes a recording of a significant dialogue from 1990 with Poonjaji that reconnected me with my joy. Here is a link to the dialogue of the Poonjaji satsang where James asked the question https://docs.google.com/document/d/16TnL2Zev-6r_mZPrgdSxSTaYLoyzdLOg3CnJ2U3D6C8/edit?tab=t.0 Here is a link to the video on Youtube that is over an hour long https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjspK5fHiQ. James is at 23:38
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-10-29 Equanimity and Compassion in a World on Fire 49:17
Devin Berry
A talk on training the heart in a time of heat: drawing from the Fire Sermon, the Sutta Nipata, and lived stories – showing how equanimity and compassion meets suffering without collapse, numbness, or bypass.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-29 Anathapindika's Gift to Us (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:10
Eugene Cash
The talk explores the sutta, The Advice to Anathapindika. The sutta reveals how Anathapindika bestowed the teachings of non-clinging and letting to those of us who ar householders. The talk concludes with a current story of a near death experience that embodies the realization of the goodness of the dharma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maraṇasati: Contemplating Death - Awakening to Life

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