2024-01-14 Morning Reflections: That Which Does Not Guarantee Power to Draw the Next Breath 8:22
Tara Mulay	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2024

2024-01-14 The Dharma of Martin Luther King Jr. 1:16:26
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  BIPOC Voices - Series

2024-01-13 Reflections on Mettā and Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:39
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
Mettā can be a foundation of cornerstone for Equanimity (Upekka). As we cultivate a mind that is more and more impartial the mind where Mettā can shine evenly on everyone the mind becomes less attached to preferences and this quality of mind is more able to meet any moment with ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-13 Introduction to Compassion Meditation and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 4:32:57
Kaira Jewel Lingo	Download Listen
We cover what compassion is and how it can help soothe our pain much better than avoiding or denying it. We distinguish between compassion and pity and then offer a variety of compassion phrases we can use. In the guided meditation, we begin with a dear friend who is undergoing some kind of suffering and then move on to ourselves, offering self-compassion for our own physical or mental suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-13 10 meditation: cultivating the heart energy of mettā or kindness 22:31
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short meditation to develop mettā, beginning by establishing well-being in the body then attuning to the energy of kindness at the heart-centre
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 09 instructions: cultivating skilful mind-states such as mettā or kindness 6:26
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short instructions for developing mettā or kindness as a skilful mental quality
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 08 instructions: proliferation 8:01
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short instructions for working with mental proliferation or papanca, seeing the chain reactions that cause it and coming back to the immediacy of sense-based experience to re-ground awareness
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 07 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 25:19
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to sounds, thoughts and emotions coming and going
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 06 instructions: mindfulness of mind 13:12
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for paying attention to the mind and mental activity, knowing thoughts and emotions without taking them personally and identifying with them
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 05 meditation: mindfulness of hearing and physical sensations 24:28
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Steadying awareness on the experience of breathing, then opening to hearing and physical sensations through the whole body
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 04 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness itself 14:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring different qualities of mindfulness, opening up from the "anchor" of the breath to bring awareness to sounds and physical sensations
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 03 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 26:52
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Establishing mindfulness of the body sitting, then bringing awareness to the rhythm of breathing and the subtle energetic effects of inhaling and exhaling
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 02 instructions: mindfulness of the body 6:47
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short introduction to mindfulness of the body, including posture instructions
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 01 talk: welcome and introduction to insight meditation 16:43
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Welcome and introduction to the workshop purpose: to deepen the practice of Insight Meditation, which harnesses the power of mindfulness to develop understanding in all aspects of our lives, which leads to greater ease, happiness, and peace of mind
Australian Insight Meditation Network :  Two-day insight meditation and Insight Dialogue workshop

2024-01-13 How to Put it Down 1:12:01
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-01-12 Metta and Compassion for Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:27
Beth Sternlieb	Download Listen
Compassion is the activity of wisdom. We practice because we care. When we offer ourselves compassion, resistance dissolves and like a gentle rain metta permeates our heart down to the roots of our being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-12 The 8 fold path, wise attention and purification 49:35
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk was offered during a month-long teaching period at the Forest Refuge. Its themes are the role, wise intention, and wise attention play in doing meditation practice and purifying the heart/mind
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2024

2024-01-12 The Big Picture 1:45:54
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-01-12 Q&A Group B 2:25:32
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat, 2024

2024-01-12 Movement & Meditation - Making the Right Effort 1:13:53
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-12 Dharma and Recovery 01/12/2024 69:34
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Dharma and Recovery

2024-01-11 Sharing What's Most Precious 48:56
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-11 Metta Practice As A Path of Awakening: How Metta Practice Transforms Us and How to Practice with Challenges in Metta Practice 54:45
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta practice is a wonderful, ancient practice that has parallels in the cultivation of kindness and love in other spiritual traditions; developing the wise heart of kindness is an ancient vocation. There are also parallels with the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his emphasis on bringing love to help transform injustice; we play a brief recording from Dr. King. We also explore different dimensions of Metta practice and how it relates to other pathways of awakening through mindfulness and wisdom. We then look at some of the main challenges of Metta practice, such as distraction, repetitive thoughts, sleepiness, and challenging emotions and body states, and how to practice with them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-11 More General Guidance on Mettā Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:33
Gullu Singh	Download Listen
In this guided meditation Gullu builds on the instructions for Mettā practice from the morning session.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-11 Movement & Meditation - Lightly Guided Mettā Practice 1:11:23
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-11 Basic Metta Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:57
Kaira Jewel Lingo	Download Listen
We cover the 3 elements of metta practice: generating the energy of friendliness, visualizing the person/being you are sending metta to, and repeating the phrases. We offer various versions of the phrases and introduce the first few categories of beings we can send metta to: self, benefactor, and dear friend. In the guided practice we begin by feeling held and loved by others and then offer this to ourselves, then move on to benefactor and dear friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-10 Opening of Metta Retreat and Introduction to Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:33:42
Donald Rothberg, Beth Sternlieb, Gullu Singh, Jonathan Relucio, Kaira Jewel Lingo	Download Listen
In this Opening talk, the teachers offer a land acknowledgement, introduce themselves, and Kaira Jewel gives a short talk on what metta is, how to practice metta and how we can take refuge in the retreat container.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  January Metta 2024

2024-01-10 How to Be Happy: the Three Rules 44:54
David Loy	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-01-10 Meditation: Awakening Our Full Aliveness 20:22
Tara Brach	Download Listen
We cut off from our aliveness when we are lost in thoughts and on auto pilot. This meditation arouses a receptivity to sensation from “the inside out,” opens the awareness to sound, and then invites a full resting in receptive, dynamic presence (from the archives). It doesn’t matter how many times the mind drifts. It’s the gentle re-arriving that retrains your heart and mind. Just to choose to come back… Perhaps to sense what might let go a little more… If there’s something that might want to relax a bit more right now… To listen to and feel the changing moment-to-moment experience with an awake, open awareness. ~ Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-01-10 How Hope Can Heal and Free Us – Part 1 45:53
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The mature expression of hope includes three elements: the aspiration for manifesting our full potential, a trust that this is possible, and an energy that engages to serve this unfolding. In this talk, we explore the importance of hope on the spiritual path, its shadow side, and how we can nourish hope through these three elements in a way that serves inner freedom and the healing of our world (a special favorite from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-01-10 Loving Kindness & the Abandoning of Ill Will; The Chant of Mettā 44:22
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-10 The heart at home in the body 50:48
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How do use the body awareness to create a suitable home for the heart?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart

2024-01-10 Stay With the Intensity ~ Do the Connective Work! 54:37
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-01-10 Guided Movement & Meditation - Aspirational Intentions 55:29
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-10 Q&A Group A 2:20:52
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat, 2024

2024-01-09 The Art of Nourishing Intentions 31:46
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community :  FIMC Monday Night Talks

2024-01-09 The Khanda ("Aggregate") of Vedana 49:23
Tara Mulay	Download Listen
With a discussion of worldly and unworldly vedana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  January 2024

2024-01-09 Guided Movement; Cultivating Mettā with Inner Smile & Sun Imagery 61:09
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-09 Meditation Instructions - Seeing Inconstancy 1:13:11
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-08 Applying Wisdom 38:59
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-08 Mindfulness of Breathing with Awareness of the Body 50:24
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Reflections and Guided Meditation
Gaia House :  Mindfulness, Breath by Breath

2024-01-08 Guided Movement & Meditation - Resting & Aliveness 66:11
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-08 Q&A Group B 2:14:50
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Sayadaw U Tejaniya Meditation Retreat, 2024

2024-01-08 Guided Movement & Instructions - Summing Up Instructions So Far; Using Anchor with Kind Discipline 66:13
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-07 Sila Parami - Caring for Self & Other with Ethical Conduct 47:04
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-07 The Power & Simplicity of Awareness 41:45
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
“This vanishes, that vanishes, but that which knows their vanishing doesn’t vanish... All that remains is simple awareness, utterly pure.” - Maha Boowa
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community :  SFI Sunday Nights

2024-01-07 Guided Movement and Meditation: Subtlising 57:47
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Rest and Renewal

2024-01-07 Kindness Through and Through 25:10
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Contentment and generosity nurture a quality of metta that is kind through and through. We learn to respond to life like the good earth that is ever patient with and tolerant of our heedlessness. Whatever you throw on it – even if it’s harmful – the earth receives that. Generating such a depth of goodwill, we endure through hardships with contentment even if we’re struggling. And, with a generosity of harmlessness, we weave great compassion and benevolence to ourselves as well as to others. Such measureless kindness never dies. It is our true wealth and the bedrock of our path to liberation
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2024-01-07 Wise Intention - Meditation 33:46
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2024-01-07 Wise Intention - Talk 35:55
Shelly Graf	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series