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Dharma Talks
2025-12-23 Guided Meditation: Offering and Receiving 43:47
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-12-20 Knowing the Dark: Dukkha and the Unfabricated 1:27:39
Nathan Glyde
A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of the dark and lightening; and what exploring the dark, darkening, and light, and lightness reveals and opens about experience and freedom.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - December 2025

2025-12-19 Receiving Care Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:38
Devon Hase
Guided meditation on Caring Figure practice and receiving unconditional love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Solstice Retreat (2025): Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2025-12-19 Lying Down Meditation - Body Scan 43:03
Ajahn Jutindharo
Gaia House Refuge & Embodiment

2025-12-18 Energy, Effort, and Courage in Our Insight Meditation Practice 46:13
Tara Mulay
A discussion of Equanimity and confidence and Mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA

2025-12-18 Q&A 29:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 How can we reconcile joy and dispassion? How are nipita and virago supposed to feel? 11:55 Q2 Are the 16 steps of vipassana meditation the result of calmness meditation, or is it a wise directing of attention as a goal? 17:59 Q3 You mentioned to notice the space between the in and out breath and the out and in breath. When I do that my breath seems to get more shallow and I feel a threat and start coughing. 22:32 Q4 Something seems to keep kicking in the breathing process. What should I do? 23:18 Q5 How to be less demanding, to maintain the highest quality to do well, but less demanding, e.g of expectations of others?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat

2025-12-17 Guided Meditation: Exploring Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences, with a Closing Reflection on Skillful Aversion 37:54
Donald Rothberg
We start with settling for about 8 minutes followed by about the same time with basic mindfulness practice. Then we explore "moderate" experiences of pleasant or unpleasant when they occur, whether a bodily experience, an emotion, or a thought (or a mix), experiencing pleasant or unpleasant and seeing whether there follows wanting (or not wanting) and reactivity (habitual grasping or pushing away). We close with some reflection on what we explored, with an emphasis on skillful aversion: Was some of the not wanting skillful? Unskillful? What do we find in some daily life examples of aversion? This exploration is related to the talk given a short time later.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-12-17 Meditation:"Guided Compassion" 27:46
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-12-16 Guided Metta Meditation 27:57
Pascal Auclair
Metta as renunciation and chanting to end the evening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Heartfelt Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat – 25PA

2025-12-16 Q&A 33:15
Ajahn Sucitto
00:10 Q1 Can you say something about handling concerns about people quarreling, people sick, family members? 08:40 Q2 I get a vibration in my body that progresses up through the body. It produces a peaceful and equanimous feeling. Why is this happening and what should I do next? 13:27 Q3 I get warmed when I engage in standing meditation. What's happening? 13:43 Q4 During one meditation when one attains full concentration and calmness, how does one feel in mind? What does one hear? What is the colour when one closes one's eyes? Do we still feel breathing? What's happening? 16:16 Q5 When I sit I get a sudden jolt. Is this sloth and torpor. 16:41 Q6 Why does thinking about revenge although unwholesome, feel good?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  BUBS Silent Retreat

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