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Dharma Talks
2017-03-30 Commitment to Awakening 34:42
Sayadaw U Jagara
What are you committed to? Where is your path leading? This talk uses the Simile of the Heartwood to reflect upon various attainments and corruptions of insight that can occur through the practice. Minor attainments can support our path, but they may also become attachments if we become enchanted with them, allow them to stall our progress, or if we become negligent. We can nurture a deep aspiration without falling into traps of self-doubt, conceit, envy, or discouragement. We can aim for the ultimate goal, the liberating potential, of this path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-30 Morning Instructions-Vedana (feeling tone) 32:31
Will Kabat-Zinn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-29 Healing Addiction: De-conditioning the Hungry Ghosts 52:38
Tara Brach
This talk examines the suffering that arises when due to unmet needs for love and safety, our desire becomes narrowed and fixated on substitute gratifications. We then explore how we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to the habits of obsessing, over-consuming and hurting ourselves and others that keep us from true happiness, connectedness and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-29 Emptiness, Self and Dependent Arising 50:30
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-29 Mindfulness and the Relational Field 57:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-03-29 Meditation: Loving Presence – (with a smile body scan) 20:10
Tara Brach
This guided meditation helps cultivate the heartspace that can hold our life with tenderness and grace. We begin by using the image and felt sense of a smile in a body scan, and then open to the spacious presence that includes the changing moment to moment flow of experience. The meditation closes with a few minutes of offering loving blessings to our inner life, dear ones in need and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-03-29 Wanting What You Want, and Senses as Portals of Soulmaking 57:25
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

2017-03-29 Q&A 1:18:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-03-29 Opening to Desire and the Imaginal (Q & A) 40:24
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

2017-03-29 Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts 46:10
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided practice in investigating thought in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-29 Reflections on a Four-Week Retreat and Re-entry into Daily Life 63:45
Donald Rothberg
Reflections on some of the main themes of a just-completed retreat, focusing especially on several themes related to daily life, including our relationships, to information, doing, time and intention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-03-29 Instructions: Opening to the Current of Desire 30:12
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

2017-03-29 Day 5 - Ways of Looking - Dukkha 63:24
Nathan Glyde
Instructions in the hall regarding all conditioned phenomena as unsatisfactory; particularly the ill-ease caused by the tendency to seek satisfaction in ephemeral and inter-dependant things, and the potential contentment, ease and joy in letting them be.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-29 Morning Instructions-Emotions 31:57
Will Kabat-Zinn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-28 Introduction to Sutta Study 2017, part 3 1:25:58
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-28 Passionate Love 61:16
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

2017-03-28 Impermanence and Joyfulness 50:56
Nathan Glyde
Liberation through clear seeing
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-28 Clinging, Craving, Eros (Q & A) 43:11
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

2017-03-28 The Keys to Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:51
Anushka Fernandopulle
Dharma talk on day one of retreat. Working with challenges. Investigating experience. Happiness beyond changing circumstances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-28 The Middle Zone and Beyond 12:39
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-28 Twoness and Renunciation: 2nd Practice 14:10
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

2017-03-28 Instructions: Letting Go 27:27
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

2017-03-28 Day 4 - Way of Looking Anicca 54:33
Zohar Lavie
The fourth day's instructions in the hall, looking at and noting the character of impermanence
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-28 Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body 34:00
Anushka Fernandopulle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-28 No Title 16:41
Sayadaw U Jagara
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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