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Dharma Talks
2025-02-26 Freeing the Heart from Enmity: Metta for the Difficult 60:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Instructions and guided meditation on how to practice metta for those with whom we have conflict, difficulty, or struggle.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-25 12 instructions and meditation: Feeling-tones or vedanā 32:48
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances 46:40
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 09 meditation: Opening to sound 39:01
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 Guided Equanimity Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:22
JD Doyle
An overview of equanimity and then guided meditation using phrases as support.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-24 08 instructions and meditation: Practising with right intention 48:01
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 06 instructions and meditation: Coming into embodiment as an antidote to mental proliferation 41:38
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 Guest Teacher Talk with Chas DiCapua: Creating A Suitable Home For The Heart 1:32:56
Chas DiCapua
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Common Ground Meditation Center

2025-02-23 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 30:33
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 Morning Instructions: Metta Practice + Guided Meditation for Benefactor 59:58
Oren Jay Sofer
This talk introduces formal instructions for metta practice in the traditional form of phrases and categories. After sharing about the spirit and principles behind the practice, we engage in a guided meditation first receiving metta from a benefactor, then offering metta to a benefactor, and finally offering metta to oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

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