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Dharma Talks in English
2017-01-12 Integrity of Love (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:11
Larry Yang
Metta and Ethics.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-12 The mind, the pain and the promise of mindfulness 1:10:37
Akincano Marc Weber
The nature of the citta – the experience of dukkha & tanhā – dimensions of ignorance – clarifications on sati and the transformation of dukkha through mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-12 Metta meditation. 34:01
Chris Cullen
Guided meditation. Metta is embodied practice– Categories of community, self, benefactor and good friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-12 Reflexions on the practice of contemplating mind states (cittānupassanā). Exercises with 3 questions. 53:12
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-11 The Spirit of Metta Practice and the Challenges to Practicing Metta 55:03
Donald Rothberg
Metta practice offers a radical approach: To bring the wise, kind, and embodied heart to every moment and to every situation, even when things are difficult. Yet there are a number of challenges to such practice. These challenges are identified, and suggestions are given on how to work with these challenges.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-11 Dissolving Trance with RAIN 1:12:46
Tara Brach
One of the pervasive expressions of trance is identifying with a limited and separate sense of self. This talk contrasts the self-trance to our intrinsically open, awake and loving awareness. We then explore how the mindfulness and self-compassion in the RAIN practice can directly dissolve trance and reconnect us to our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-11 Language, Lies and Truth 51:46
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-01-11 Full Meditation Instructions for a Work Retreat: Guided in Anandwan 41:39
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Anandwan Power of Love

2017-01-11 Reflexions on the role of hedonic tone and attention (vedanā) 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-11 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Buddhist Practice, and the Needs of Our Times 1: Bringing Wisdom and Love to All Parts of Our Lives 61:11
Donald Rothberg
We explore the shared heart of the approaches of Buddhist practice and of the life and work of Dr. King (playing a recording of Dr. King reading "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"), pointing to how their integration is crucial to respond to the needs of our times.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-10 The Wisdom Guided Heart: The Safest Refuge (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:10
Sylvia Boorstein
Overview of meditation techniques and how they contribute to the development of wisdom and its expression as kindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2017-01-10 "Cultivating Samadhi" 58:11
Chris Cullen
Practices for cultivating appreciative fullness and collectiveness using the Jhana factors. Hindrances are also briefly explored
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-10 Faith and Hope in a Changing World 13:43
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-01-10 Contemplating Body – take two (kāyānupassanā) 42:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Involuntary and voluntary attention – attention vs. mindfulness – the notion of embodiment – pleasure and discomfort and the training of a deliberate attentional relationship. Followed by experiential exercise: Three dimensions of bodily awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-09 Spirit Rock, Taking Refuge, Monday Night Dharma Talk 62:55
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-09 Re-contextualising Mindfulness 54:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Sati in Buddhist Psychology, sati in Mind-development, Images of sati. Establishing the Fourfold Mindfulness: (satipaṭṭhāna) as map and as four channels of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening - Week 1 (2017) 1:28:08
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on: mindfulness, investigation, energy, rapture, tranquility, stability of mind, and equanimity. It is the development and balancing of these seven wholesome factors that set in motion insight and the release from all grasping and stress. Here are three study resources to use as you wish, including the passage that I read from last night:
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Seven Factors of Awakening (2017)
Attached Files:
  • Passage on the Scope of the Practice from Wings to Awakening, p. 161 by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
  • The Buddha's Teachings on Mindfulness by Gil Fronsdal (Link)
  • The Investigation of What Is Important: The Second Factor of Awakening by Santikaro Bhikkhu (Link)

2017-01-09 Guided meditation on body & body-awareness 43:21
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-08 How I became a Buddhist, then and monk and then a Dhamma Teacher 1:23:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Autobio on Bhante's 70th Birthday
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2017-01-08 Letting Go 52:47
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-01-08 Appreciative Joy (Mudita) - Week 1 - Talk 53:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-01-08 16 Instructions: Integrating Practice Into Daily Life 14:45
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating equanimity and ways to continuing deepening the practice at home
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 Dharma Duet: The Essential Teachings of the Buddha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Howard Cohn and Heather Martin 56:30
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-07 15 Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening, and Energy 45:31
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening: Mindfulness, Investigation, Energy, Joy, Tranquillity, Concentration and Equanimity, then exploring the Factor of Energy in more detail
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 14 Meditation: Metta for Benefactor 27:06
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

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