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Dharma Talks in English
2018-07-12 Morning Reflection 32:14
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-11 Joy 49:39
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-07-11 Meditation: Natural, Open Awareness 16:54
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our attention narrows and fixates, often into obsessive thinking, worry and judgment. This meditation relaxes and opens the mind, first by a body scan and a “smile down,” and then by including all changing experience in a spacious awareness. As our attention shifts from mind objects like sensation and sound to the space of awareness itself, we discover the Beingness that is our formless home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-11 From Human Doing to Human Being – Part 2 50:15
Tara Brach
Like Sisyphus eternally pushing the boulder up the hill, we can spend many moments busily trying to manage our life. This two-part talk explores how we can awaken from our non-stop doing, including the incessant inner narrative, and discover the mystery, love and freedom that arises in Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-07-11 Attention, Perception and the Immeasurables 58:12
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-11 Fabrication: Non-Fabrication 44:49
Christina Feldman
Reflects on the cognitive chains involved in building our world of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-11 Knowing Dhamma in the Present 32:39
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-07-11 Reflections on Seclusion - Talk 58:50
Shelly Graf
Additional Teacher: Gabe Keller-Flores
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-11 Reflections on Seclusion - Meditation 29:38
Shelly Graf
Additional Teacher: Gabe Keller-Flores
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-07-11 It Is Possible 52:35
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-07-11 Compassion - Educators Retreat 45:54
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Educators retreat

2018-07-11 Q/A Session 58:50
Sayadaw U Jagara
Both Sayadaw U Jagara and Nikki Mirghafori share answers and reflections on pre-written questions: What’s the nutriment for equanimity and doubt? What is the difference between a cause and a condition? Explain anatta — If there is not a self, whose kamma gets reborn? Etc.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-11 Guided Body Scan Meditation 45:04
Caroline Jones
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-11 Morning Teachings - The Pleasant Breath 56:51
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House The Four Immeasurables

2018-07-11 Ethical Practice 3: Transforming the Roots of Harming in Greed, Hatred, and Delusion 63:47
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-10 Holding It... Together Educators Retreat 43:18
JoAnna Hardy
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Educators retreat

2018-07-10 Holding It... Together Educators Retreat 43:18
JoAnna Hardy
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Educators retreat

2018-07-10 Morning Instructions: Exploring gladness, joy, tranquility, and happiness 33:10
Nikki Mirghafori
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-10 Morning Instructions - recap 47:35
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-09 Satipatthana - Four Establishments Of Mindfulness 58:15
Akincano Marc Weber
Satipatthana as a map of experience and practical orientation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2018-07-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 2 - Talk 42:53
Shelly Graf
Additional Teachers: Wynn Fricke, Gabe Keller-Flores .Please note this audio file has poor audio quality
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-07-09 Awakening Self-Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:40
Diana Winston
This talk explores how we can counteract self-judgement through mindfulness, the cultivation of positive emotional states, and the recognition of our shared humanity. It also weaves in teachings of natural awareness, inner goodness, and the importance of stepping into our power in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2018-07-09 Joy —> Tranquility —> Happiness 54:44
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk discusses the third, fourth, and fifth (piti —> passadhi —> sukha) conditional links described in the Kimatthiya Sutta (“What Purpose?”) (Anguttara Nikaya 10.1), where the Buddha teaches Ananda that wholesome ethical behavior leads to non regret, which leads to gladness, .... ultimately leading to liberation. Conditionality (root condition and object condition) are also discussed at the end of the talk, the latter related to the pith and profound teaching to Bahiya.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-07-09 Monday Night Dharma Talk 58:36
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-07-09 Deeper Peace- Educators Retreat 33:42
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Educators retreat

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