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Dharma Talks
2024-09-16 Cultivating Wholesome Relationships - Week 2 of 5 - Talk 58:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2024-09-16 Impermanence and Feeling Tone (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:50
Andrea Castillo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening

2024-09-15 Aging and Sickness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:41
Andrea Castillo
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening

2024-09-15 True Refuge: Finding Our Way Home 36:46
Pamela Weiss
True refuge is not a place or destination. It is a radical shift in attitude and orientation-from me to we, from reactivity to response-ability and from fear to love.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2024-09-15 Suffering and the End of Suffering - Part Two - Meditation 32:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-09-15 Suffering and the End of Suffering - Part Two - Talk 38:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-09-15 This Life Giving Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:53
JoAnna Hardy
Day one settling in the first foundation of mindfulness of breath and body sensations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening

2024-09-14 Nothing Matters, Everything Matters 42:03
Martin Aylward
This talk explores various paradoxes, and covers the inner territory of fear and control, inflationary and deflationary self-importance, the illusion of decision-making, and responsibility vs responsiveness in how we interact with the complexities of the world.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear

2024-09-14 Talk on joy as awakening factor 58:39
Jeanne Corrigal
True North Insight Joy: An Inner Wellspring

2024-09-14 Guided abiding and radiating joy meditation 1:22:59
Jeanne Corrigal
True North Insight Joy: An Inner Wellspring

2024-09-14 Toward a Refuge of Belonging 33:25
Devon Hase
In this talk, devon offers reflections on the importance of refuge in the Buddhist tradition and how deepening into refuge opens us to a stable sense of belonging, as well as building metta parami, the cultivation of love on the path.
Refuge of Belonging

2024-09-14 Feeling Things Change - A Closing Transition Talk for Feeling Freedom 19:50
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Feeling Freedom

2024-09-14 Don't Let the Mind Be Gloomy 60:23
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on September 14, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 19:00 - DHAMMA TALK 38:49 - Q&A At 49:22 a participant discusses not wanting to encounter certain people in their future lives and how they can put in the causes and conditions for this. Their audio was removed at their request, but Ayya's answer remains.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-09-13 Identity and Beyond 38:53
Martin Aylward
This talk discusses different aspects of identity, exploring them through the lens of anatta, or no-essence. Martin explores biological identity, personal identity, social identity, and how we can honour these different forms and their expressions, moving freely through a world of identities without being tied to them.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear

2024-09-13 Motivation for Practice 59:18
Winnie Nazarko
This talk discusses some of the motivations which can present in meditation practice, and encourages wisdom about which to act on.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2024-09-13 Living Kindness 1:18:25
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2024-09-13 Joy: An Inner Wellspring - Introductory talk 38:30
Jeanne Corrigal
True North Insight Joy: An Inner Wellspring

2024-09-13 Feeling Reborn 48:14
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Feeling Freedom

2024-09-13 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:42:27
James Baraz, Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, Jane Baraz, Stephanie Antoine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-12 Karma, Self-Reflective Consciousness & Buddha Nature 47:06
Martin Aylward
Martin explores various features of our conditioning, pointing throughout the talk to the natural ease of a free heart as we move beyond self-measurement.
Gaia House Radical Freeness: Everything to Lose, Nothing to Fear

2024-09-12 A Mettā Attitude to All Phenomena - Guided Meditation 44:46
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Feeling Freedom

2024-09-12 Feeling The Subtle and Overlooked 45:06
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Feeling Freedom

2024-09-12 Awakening Joy: Inclining the Mind toward Well-Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:52
James Baraz
The Buddha advised us to not only cultivate wholesome states but to maintain and increase them when they arise. How can we do that without attachment? This talk explains how to cultivate and strengthen wholesome states not only in retreat but in daily life. James explains the Buddhist principles and practices he shares in his Awakening Joy course.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

2024-09-12 Feeling Non-Identification - Anattā Meditation Instructions 61:42
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Feeling Freedom

2024-09-12 Instructions: Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:10
James Baraz
Expanding the meditation field beyond the breath to include the whole physical realm of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Founders Retreat: Insight Meditation with the Spirit Rock Founding Teachers

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