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Dharma Talks
2017-04-05 Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body 24:23
Tara Brach
When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-04-05 05 Who is experiencing 50:17
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-05 Not Clinging to Fixed Views: Social Activism as Spiritual Practice (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:00:33
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-04 Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion - Week 4 63:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion

2017-04-04 Seeing Emptiness and Acting from There Part 2 33:22
Nathan Glyde
A guided exercise for pairs exploring who we are, how we frame that, and how the way we speak shapes how we perceive our changing idea of our self. Follows on from the Dharma Talk by the same name.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-04 Seeing Emptiness and Acting from There Part 1 28:34
Nathan Glyde
A talk about emptiness with examples from daily life as an exploration of self and "Who I am?"
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-04 04 How do I meet experience 35:19
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-04 Returning to Silent Meditation on a Work Retreat 16:13
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Work Retreat

2017-04-03 Pawan Bareja (Monday Night Talk at Spirit Rock) 2:04:25
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-03 Understanding doubt and aversion. 59:27
Joseph Goldstein
How to recognize and work with these mine states, in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-04-03 03 What is happening right now 55:08
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-02 Shaping Vessels 13:48
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-02 02 Point map of Inquiry 41:43
Martin Aylward
Moulin de Chaves The Art of Inquiry

2017-04-02 Guarding the Holy Fire 18:03
Catherine McGee
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-02 Guided Meditation - Becoming a Refuge unto Yourself 48:17
Ajahn Sucitto
We take refuge, but we also become a refuge. The degree to which we can cultivate value, precepts and restraint, we gain an increasing sense of authority to stand against the outward pull of thought and sense desire. This strength or determination can be felt in the body. Tap into the imaginal to sense its depth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-02 Requirements for Movement into the Immaterial Domain 1:15:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Movement into the immaterial/vertical domain occurs through restraint, renunciation and withdrawal, but all marked by pleasure. Most supportive is a cooperative social form where other people are doing the same thing. Monasteries model this social form. Refer to D33, considered ‘Vinaya for lay people.’
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Evening Chanting 3:51
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-01 Recollecting and Enacting the Sacred 46:17
Ajahn Sucitto
The cosmos is cosmos and not chaos because of a natural order. There is an internal order too in our embodiment where the energies of ideas, thoughts and psychologies are collected in the body. But we’ve lost our embodiment, and therefore access to the moral intelligence of the body. We can regain access through enacting, remembering and recollecting.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Q&A Pt II 32:46
Ajahn Sucitto
1. How to practice last 3 of 8 precepts; recipient of one’s giving determines one’s merit – please explain; 2. how interpersonal aspect of energy affect/support one’s practice and meditation; 3. giving hand to hand vs. in disembodied ways (credit cards, etc.); 4. self consciousness around my giving’ the art of receiving has been neglected; 5. how to be with others who don’t know their own goodness
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 The Field of Good Kamma and the Relational Field 21:10
Ajahn Sucitto
References to suttas about giving: A5:33-37 Benefits of giving, 5 timely gifts; A8:39 Streams of merit; A5 Good and bad gifts; A6:38 Factors of donors and recipients
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-04-01 Beauty and the Buddha 1:32:44
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 Modes of Soulmaking (Q & A) 36:24
Rob Burbea
Please Note: This series of talks is from a retreat led by Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee for experienced practitioners. The requirements for participation included some understanding of and working familiarity with practices of emptiness, samatha, metta, the emotional/energy body, and the imaginal, as well as basic mindfulness practice. Without this experience it is possible that the material and teachings from this retreat will be difficult to understand and confusing for some.
Gaia House Of Hermits and Lovers: The Alchemy of Desire

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Four 1:20:00
Rick Hanson
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Three 1:14:50
Rick Hanson
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-01 The Neurology of Awakening Part Two 1:28:45
Rick Hanson
This workshop will cover the relationship between the mind and brain; strengthening neural factors of mindfulness; the role of concentration in Buddhist practice and practical help from brain research for steadying and quieting the mind and bringing it to singleness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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