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Dharma Talks
2017-10-08 Mindful Communication: How to Create Real Dialogue and Healthy Relationships - Part 1 morning 3:09:52
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-10-08 Day 6 Morning Instructions: Deathbed visualization (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:39
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-08 A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart 7:09:19
Pascal Auclair
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-10-07 Three Dimensions of Death Contemplation Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:12
Nikki Mirghafori
The three dimensions of death contemplation are discussed: 1) preparing for death (ours and others) 2) awakening to our precious human life, and 3) awakening/liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-07 Mindful Communication: How to Create Real Dialogue and Healthy Relationships (part 2) 2:53:13
Oren Jay Sofer
Combination of the core guidelines for Wise Speech offered by Buddhist Tradition, as well as the contemporary discipline of Nonviolent Communication. Part 2 of 2 (afternoon)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-10-07 Mindful Communication: How to Create Real Dialogue and Healthy Relationships (part 1) 3:13:53
Oren Jay Sofer
Combination of the core guidelines for Wise Speech offered by Buddhist Tradition, as well as the contemporary discipline of Nonviolent Communication. Part 1 of 2 (morning)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-10-06 Anathapindika: Letting Go into Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:22
Eugene Cash
The radical teachings of letting go are offered to Anathapindika before he dies. He advocated these teachings be offered to all householders. How we practice radical letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-06 Meeting Dosa with Mindfulness and Wisdom 62:42
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-06 Guided Loving Kindness For Neutral Person 49:33
Sally Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-06 Day 4 morning Instruction: This could be my last breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:12
Nikki Mirghafori
Sit with Instructions AM
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-05 Disturbance is the Path. 44:41
Thanissara
Balance and samatha (calm) and vipassana (insight). The hindrances and beyond.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2017-10-05 "Knocking on Heavens Door......A Big Perspective Along With Some Levity.....Searching for Self.....And What Are We Doing Here? Enjoy the Laughs!!! 52:09
Wes Nisker
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-10-05 Anatta: The Dukkha and The Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:14
Susie Harrington
How we create, reify and cling to self. How this is a source of Dukkha and how we can find our way to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-10-05 The Five Aggregates Are Not Self 62:23
Guy Armstrong
The five aggregates describe our whole human experience without reference to an "I" or "my". It is freeing to see in this way without the burden of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-04 Some 4 Noble Truths 64:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-10-04 From Samadhi Practice to Insight Practice 61:48
Donald Rothberg
After some further examination of the nature of samadhi practice, we look at the “three ways of seeing that liberate,” focusing especially on impermanence (anicca) and dukkha, with some attention to not-self (anatta)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Spacious Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-10-04 Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Life 16:29
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us in relaxing through the body, then opening to the changing river of experience. By continually relaxing back and letting go into what is unfolding, we discover the natural vastness, wakefulness and vitality of our essential Being. The poet Danna Faulds writes: In the shared quiet, an invitation arises like a white dove lifting from a limb and taking flight. Come and live in truth. Take your place in the flow of grace. Draw aside the veil you thought would always separate your heart from love. All you ever longed for is before you in this moment, if you dare draw in a breath and whisper “yes.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-04 River of Change – Bringing a Wise Heart to this Impermanent Life – Part 1 54:35
Tara Brach
These two talks look at how we relate to change – especially the notable changes involving loss of relationships and our own body and mind. We examine our strategies for avoiding uncertainty and fear; the consequences of resisting reality; our refuges of presence and compassion in the face of grief; and the gifts of opening fully to the river of change.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-10-04 Instructions & Guided Meditation 20:19
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-10-04 Kate Munger and The Threshhold Choir (Drop in program at Spirit Rock) 1:55:30
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-10-04 Samadhi - the three streams of energy 23:58
Thanissara
Breath, jhana factors, kaya sankhara, citta sankhara, vaci sankhara, calming body, uplifting heart/mind, stilling thought
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-10-03 Kisa Gotami: Buddha's Deep Compassion Toward Women 40:55
Ayya Santussika
In this fourth talk in a lecture series on the Great Disciples, the speaker, Ayya Santussika, tells the life story of two enlightened, fully ordained nuns. In fact, there were quite a few of enlightened, fully ordained nuns at the Buddha's time. The speaker also discusses how we can find the key to our own happiness in these nuns' stories, such as letting go, calming the mind, and realizing complete freedom from suffering. Finally, Ayya Santussika describes the Buddha's tremendous compassion for women. In his teachings, the Buddha acknowledged sufferings that were specific to women that are still relevant today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community

2017-10-03 Quatre vérités aidantes 58:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-10-03 Maranasati Retreat Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:44
Eugene Cash
Great is the matter of Birth-and-Death. Life passed swiftly and is quickly lost Awaken! Awaken! Do not waste your life... Exploring mindfulness of death in Theravada Practice. Looking at the reality of human death in the world today and at the time of the Buddha. The paradox and potential of opening to the reality of death as part of life and Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-03 Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2 64:11
James Baraz
Continuation of the last talk: using intention, mindfulness, difficulties, and gratitude as supports to greater well being in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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