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2025-06-11 Freedom from the First Two Fetters 40:34
Ayya Santussika
How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 Practicing with Emotions and the Six Senses 21:31
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-06-11 Wisdom Teachings From Nature 53:31
Mark Coleman
Exploring how the three characteristics are revealed in nature practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-11 Sterben & Tod (4. Tag) 62:37
Ariya B. Baumann
Gibt es ein Leben nach dem Tod? Wie würdest du leben? Fünf Phasen im Umgang mit einer Krankheit, die im Tod endet.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-11 Stay Engaged So That the Path Can Become Discernable 55:09
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-06-11 Body Meditation and Chi Gong 44:41
Ayya Santussika
Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 You Can Do It 16:20
Ayya Santussika
There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-11 The Karma of Forgotten Stories 31:36
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-06-10 Brahma Vihara Practice Instructions on Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:17
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-10 Building up the Awakening Factors 38:29
Ayya Santussika
The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-10 Listening for the Deeper Silence 27:08
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-10 Guided Meditation: Listening for the Deeper Silence 27:32
Brian Lesage
This accompanies the talk entitled: Listening for the Deeper Silence
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-06-10 "When you know the place you are, practice begins" -- Working with obstructions to clear, embodied knowing 49:22
Kirsten Rudestam
This talk describes hindrances as fuel for our practice and offers suggestions for working skillfully with them.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild

2025-06-10 Sterben & Tod (3. Tag) 1:29:00
Ariya B. Baumann
Hilfreicher und heilsamer Umgang beim Sterben. Wir müssen alles loslassen, wir können nichts mitnehmen. Einzig die direkten Erkenntnisse in die wahre Natur der Dinge, d. h. ein tiefes Verständnis des Dhamma, begleiten und unterstützen uns auf der letzten Reise. Das Hinscheiden des Buddha.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-10 Bahia & Prajnaparamita Walk into a Stone Circle: Reflections on Embodied Emptiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:18
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-10 Mindfulness in Daily Life 14:48
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-06-10 Roots of felt body - sensing the field 50:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Touch sense establishes relationship and presence within the shared field. When this is safe, citta can unfold, and we re-form.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-10 Energy without Striving 21:33
Ayya Santussika
How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Fueling and Starving the Hindrances and Awakening Factors 53:53
Ayya Santussika
The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Sterben & Tod (2. Tag) 1:31:56
Ariya B. Baumann
Der eigene bevorstehende Tod oder der nahende Tod einer lieben Person führt oft zu Kummer und ist begleitet von Angst. Maraṇassati – die Betrachtung des Tods wie sie in der Visuddhimagga erklärt wird.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-09 Meditation on Loving-Kindness 21:30
Ayya Santussika
Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness 5:38
Ayya Santussika
A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-09 Morning Instructions: Orienting to Pleasure (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:39
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-09 Awakening from the Illusion of Separation 1:53:35
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-06-08 Brahma Vihara Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:41
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-08 Wise Effort and Faith: The Heart of Steady Practice 35:06
Devin Berry
Explores the relationship between wise effort and faith on the path of insight. Through story, sutta, and reflection, this talk offers guidance for navigating striving, doubt, and comparison.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Natural Clarity of Awareness: A Two-Week Insight Meditation Retreat - 25WMRT

2025-06-08 Breakthrough Defilement Killers 33:45
Ayya Santussika
Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-08 Themes of Retreat, Ways of Understanding Practices 43:40
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-08 Sterben & Tod (1. Tag) 0:00
Ariya B. Baumann
(Recording not available) 
Der Tod ist unvermeidlich und unausweichlich. Wann ist ein Mensch tot? Die Memento mori sind allgegenwärtig, doch nehmen wir sie bewusst wahr?
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-08 Sterben & Tod (1. Tag) 1:11:00
Ariya B. Baumann
Der Tod ist unvermeidlich und unausweichlich. Wann ist ein Mensch tot? Die Memento mori sind allgegenwärtig, doch nehmen wir sie bewusst wahr?
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-08 Exploring the Relationship between Love and Intuitive Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:07
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-08 Teachings 44:06
Gavin Milne
Boundaries and firm compassion - unfurling the heart in the world. Includes an inquiry exercise.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-08 Body Contemplation (33 Parts!?) 23:58
Ayya Santussika
Mindfully and kindly bringing attention to the body parts on the traditional list plus.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-08 Some Reflections Before Lunch 14:13
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-08 Walking Meditation 5:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge One Month Retreat at the Forest Refuge

2025-06-08 Morning Meditation Instructions with Guided Meditation 1:29:19
Gavin Milne
The practice of radiating friendliness - includes walking instructions.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-08 Resting in Essence 32:19
Amita Schmidt
This talk offers several practices and reflections on how to rest in your infinite essence/true nature. It also includes reflections on how to unblend from the constant commercials of your mind and the worries of your life.
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

2025-06-08 Dropping in for Contemplation 25:14
Ayya Santussika
Establishing mindfulness and turning to investigation of whatever is present in this moment.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Q and A 43:32
Ajahn Sucitto
01 06 Q1 I don't have any particular devotional practice. Is this like a Brahmavihara practice? 01:41 Q2 Regarding the relationship between citta and yoni as in yoniso manasikara, I relate to citta on a moment to moment basis. Yoni seems to be a seat of integrated wisdom. 20:15 Q3 Can you explain about metta practice. 27:31 Q4 Someone said resentment and aversion are natural conditions of the mind. They're not self and when seen as not self, they disappear. Can you comment please? 34:17 Q5 I would like to know if the inner tyrant is considered wrong view.
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-06-07 May Loving Kindness Arise (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 24:43
Emily Horn
Guided practice "May Loving Kindness Arise"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-07 Nibbana Biofuel: The Causes for Awakening 41:24
Ayya Santussika
"It's like when the heavens rain heavily downhill to fill the hollows ... they fill the ocean," starting with the factor of associating with noble people, factors are fulfilled all the way to Nibbana. AN 10.62 Craving
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Talk - Dukkha and the Whale 55:23
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2025-06-07 Guided meditation 14:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-06-07 A simple short refuge mantra is offered 3:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddhaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi Dhammaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāmi Sanghaṃ me jīvitaṃ yāva nibbānaṃ saranaṃ gacchāami {To the Buddha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana To the Dhamma I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana To the Sangha I go for refuge living my life to realize nibbana}
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-06-07 Krankheit 1:56:05
Ariya B. Baumann
Körper und Geist können von den verschiedensten Krankheiten befallen werden. Wie gehen wir damit um und was hilft uns dabei? Können wir das Leiden des zweiten Pfeils vermeiden?
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre Altern Krankheit Sterben Tod

2025-06-07 Liberating the Sense of Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:44
Emily Horn
In this talk, Emily explores the Buddha’s teachings on the Liberating Insights and the Three Characteristics. She explains how suffering and impermanence shape our experience of self—sometimes making it feel solid and fixed, other times more open and fluid. By working skillfully with the hindrances, we can loosen our grip on a rigid sense of self and allow it to move with greater freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Intuitive Wisdom and Embodied Love

2025-06-07 Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors 42:27
Ayya Santussika
After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cultivating the Seven Awakening Factors – the Sambojjhaṅga

2025-06-07 Instructions 22:17
Gavin Milne
Reflections around inquiry practice - including the 'view' of parts as a compassionate response for our times.
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-07 Guided Meditation - RAIN as Support for Attuned Awareness 43:21
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Trusting the Strong and Tender Heart (online)

2025-06-07 Exploring Ideas & Themes for Practice 53:28
Juha Penttilä
This recording also includes walking meditation instructions from Monica Antunes.
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

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