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Dharma Talks in English
2025-10-04 Extinguishing, cooling, release 49:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Through a steady inclining towards release from personal habits, the root clinging of 'me' is exposed. Training challenges this, and with dispassionate perseverance, there can be a surprising release from the 'me bag'.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-04 Eightfold Path: overview and wise view meditation 1:13:39
Jeanne Corrigal
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community The Whole Path in a Nutshell

2025-10-04 Introduction and First Guided Meditation: Cellular Ease 45:42
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-Day : Refined Happiness

2025-10-04 Meeting Hatred with Love and Compassion 1:19:17
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, questions and responses was offered on October 4, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - Guided Meditation 22:55 - Dhamma Talk 35:16 - Questions & Responses
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-10-04 Talk: Why we practice the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. Meditation: Bile, Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, Fat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:14
Nikki Mirghafori, Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-04 Guided Meditation: Noticing & Nourishing Our Listening Presence 58:17
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-04 Unpacking the Metta Sutta (Loving-kindness) 49:12
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-03 Fabricating Self and World 30:52
Victor von der Heyde
Some of the common ways that the sense of self and sense of world are dependent and can be noticed; how the sense of self can be dependent aspects of the imaginal world; how the sense of self can relate to one’s worldview. This talk serves - in part - as an introduction to the imaginal practice talks.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-03 Clearing the Mind to Open, Create and Act (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:54
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Wild Wise Words: A Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Retreat

2025-10-03 Dharma talk on integrating the practice 45:05
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-03 Talk: From Meal to Mind -- A Process, Not Me, Mine, Myself; Meditation: Large Intestine, Small Intestine, Stomach, Feces, Brain (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:15:14
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-03 Practice is internal-external with an open centre 48:36
Ajahn Sucitto
The citta/heart is affected or confronted by external and internal conditions. Apply wise attention to draw the energies of wholesome conditions into the heart – this is the foundation for samadhi. With a collected heart one can review and release from the constructs of time and space.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-03 The Full Spectrum of Awareness 26:45
Diana Winston
After a creative interpretation of the Spectrum of Awareness Practices, we meditate with all four: Focused, Investigative, Open, and Natural
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-03 Talk: The 5 Hindrances and wise ways to support practice. Meditation: Heart, Liver, Diaphram, Spleen, Lungs. (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:43
Nikki Mirghafori, Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-03 Morning Reflection: Further Reflections on the Four Noble Truths 19:42
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-02 talk: Reflections on retreat practice and the cultivation of muditā: gladness and appreciative joy 22:45
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-02 Dry and Wet Loving Kindness 41:42
Diana Winston
Two forms of practicing loving kindness are explored here: Dry– thoughts based, and wet– emotions based.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight 63:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-02 meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness 28:03
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-02 The Merging of Love & Wisdom 50:24
Diana Winston
This talk explores the way wisdom develops and focuses on the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and not self. It touches on not clinging, dropping bananas, two arrows, and how love fits into it all.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Talk: The 32 Parts Practice within the Context of the Satipatthana Sutta; Meditation: Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow, Kidneys (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:13:31
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Undoing obsessions through mindfulness 46:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Ingrained habits and obsessive emotions can be met and released through mindfulness established in the body. The practice of mindfulness of breathing purifies perception and volition to undo the sense of self based in time,
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-02 Energy Body (guided meditation) 15:18
Victor von der Heyde
Sparcely guided energy body practice
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-02 Guided Meditation: Working with Emotions 47:45
Leslie Booker
RAIN DROP!
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Morning Instructions on Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:26
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Wild Wise Words: A Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Retreat

2025-10-02 Talk: How to practice the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. Meditation: Head Hair, Body Hair, Nails, Teeth, and Skin (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:07
Nikki Mirghafori, Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Clock Time, Heart Time, Deep Time: Songs, poems, reflections on navigating our relationship to time 54:05
Betsy Rose
Singer ,Songwriter, Dharma Teacher, Betsy Rose shares some songs, poems and reflections on navigating our relationship to time. How many of us are experiencing time as a vanishing “commodity?” The speed and amount of digital inputs (email, activist alerts, webinars, headlines and more..) threaten to overwhelm us. Feeling pressured, squeezed, and overloaded can be a familiar experience. This talk explores practices and choices that can help restore a sense of spaciousness and wise view to the mysterious construct we call “time.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center OD Course | White & Awakening (CJ1N24)

2025-10-01 What does Buddhism teach about the natural world? 48:48
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-01 Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It 52:46
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-01 The Hindrances 46:31
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-01 Wisdom of the Body, part 1 16:58
Dawn Neal
A very brief introduction to the discourse on Mindfulness of the Body (Kayagatasati Sutta)
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-10-01 Effort means using energy wisely 46:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-01 Morning Instruction 40:34
Diana Winston
Focus on Investigative Awareness and Working with Pain
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Metta practice 43:03
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Is it Okay to be Aware of Just This? 43:18
Diana Winston
This foundational talk on mindfulness offers insight into why and how to practice mindfulness, what makes meditation difficult, the qualities of a mindful mind, and the fruits of the practice.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Indriya allies for citta's release 50:50
Ajahn Sucitto
The five indriya are factors that are accessible and take one's attention from the sensory world of circumstance to the citta -heart or mind. The initial indriya is faith, a quality that serves as a wellspring off support through the ups and downs of life.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-09-30 Morning Instructions 45:05
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Morning Reflections: Purity and Purification 64:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 The Four Great Efforts: PACE Yourself on the Path 58:31
Marjolein Janssen
Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:00:34
Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Devotion to the Sacred (262R25)

2025-09-29 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 4 of 5 - Meditation 28:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-29 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 4 of 5 - Talk 37:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-29 Working Mindfully with Technology 1:37:40
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-09-28 Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:06:47
James Baraz
This talk explores the place of Devotion in practice and what it means to look at reality through the lens of Sacred Perception.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Devotion to the Sacred (262R25)

2025-09-28 Recollecting One's Virtue - Meditation 29:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-09-28 Recollecting One's Virtue - Talk 36:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-09-27 Mind-moments, Mountains & Molehills 1:11:06
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-27 The Three Refuges - Awake. Here. Together 48:19
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-27 Nothing to Accomplish - Except Building A Kuti, Two Monasteries, and Realizing Nibbana 1:28:54
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
For this Dhamma Talk Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda were joined by the Clear Mountain Monastery monks Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-09-26 Checking-In | JC2C25 | Week 4 | 9.26.25 12:49
Jill Satterfield
Check-in | JS2C25 | Week 4
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Path of Healing | Jill Satterfield | JS2C25

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