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2023-08-24 Craving, Aversion, and Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:11
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses how to be mindfully with these three protections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-24 13 instructions: vitakka and vicara - placing and receiving 22:31
Willa Thaniya Reid
Exploring the mental factors of vitakka and vicara as placing attention on the meditation object and receiving its qualities
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-24 12 instructions and meditation: pleasant unworldly vedanā and mettā 41:12
Jill Shepherd
Exploring pleasant worldly and unworldly vedanā as a support for mettā; guided meditation orienting to the embodied energy of warmth and kindness, and inviting that energy to pervade in all directions
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-24 15 instructions: reviewing the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 52:53
Willa Thaniya Reid
An overview of the brahmavihāra heart qualities and their role in supporting ease and well-being; guided meditation opening to the sense doors with this same ease and well-being
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-24 Showing Up as a Joyful Responsibility 43:12
James Baraz
This moment in time is calling us to contribute what we can to bring more consciousness into the world. But rather than acting from anger or despair I believe the key is to come from love and even joy. One of my teachers calls this our "joyful responsibility."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-08-23 11 talk: an overview of the Four Noble Truths 32:48
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-23 Meditation: Being a Kind Witness 18:01
Tara Brach
Learning to witness what is going on inside us is the gateway to inner freedom and deep realization. This meditation guides us in witnessing our experience with a non-judging and kind awareness. “A witnessing awareness is like a kind grandmother watching children – that simply notices what’s happening without judgment.” ~Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-23 The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing 42:51
Tara Brach
The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, and how we can cultivate this superpower in a way that reveals the light or spirit that lives through all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-23 Vedena: the Secret Teaching of “Here and Now” Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:57
Kristina Bare
Evening dhamma talk at Summer Insight Retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-23 Resonance ~ Engaging with Creativity Beyond the Intellect 47:15
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-08-23 The parami of generosity 36:12
Devon Hase
Thoughts and reflections on the paramis, Dana parami in particular
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-23 10 instructions and meditation exploring feeling-tone or vedanā 24:34
Jill Shepherd
How feeling-tone conditions reactivity when there's no mindfulness, then exploring vedanā in relation to the sense doors of seeing, hearing and the body
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-23 Guided meditation, instructions: including everything in simplicity 36:06
Matthew Hepburn
Final day guided, mindfulness instructions. Fourth foundation. Six sense spheres. Traces awareness. Just this.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-23 Guided Meditation: Hearing, Sensing, Breathing-Aware of Arising & Passing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:55
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-22 08 talk: the four brahmavihāra as supports for releasing the hindrances 28:39
Jill Shepherd
An overview of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity, and how they can be used as antidote to the hindrances
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-22 Guided meditation: metta for difficult beings 45:42
Matthew Hepburn
If metta is taught to be practiced boundlessly, how can we expand our own hearts to that limitless capacity through our dharma training?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-22 06 instructions: following the pathway of the breath 50:21
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-22 Instructions with Anchor/Home Base (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-21 Living the Middle Way of Self and Not-Self 1:30:52
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-08-21 Short Meditation Practice on Practising with Unsatisfactory; Concluding Teachings on Sensational Unsatisfactoriness. 30:22
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Sensational Unsatisfactoriness (online evening session)

2023-08-21 Samadhi (concentration) is a factor of awakening. 48:17
Matthew Hepburn
Stories of samadhi in unlikely places, and a discussion of what factors we can influence, and what factors arise naturally, which support the development of samadhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-21 Welcome; Introductory Teachings on the Theme of Sensational Unsatisfactoriness; Guided Meditation on Practising with Unsatisfactory; Further Teachings. 56:46
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Sensational Unsatisfactoriness (online evening session)

2023-08-21 Metta For A Friend 43:34
Devon Hase
Guidance on using metta phrases, and the cultivation of friendliness for a good friend, prentices, (including pets, trees, and nature)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-21 04 instructions: Mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing 50:29
Jill Shepherd
Establishing a strong foundation of embodied awareness as an antidote to the tendency to be lost in the mind
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-20 03 talk: the precepts as support for establishing the wholesome 23:15
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-20 Ground in Daily Life 55:00
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2023-08-20 On Bumpy Roads and Muddy Trails: reflections on tranquility 48:06
Devon Hase
Stories and dhamma on the awakening factor of Passaddhi (calm, peace, tranquility)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-20 Words Create Worlds 36:44
Pamela Weiss
This talk explores the power of language and potent Buddhist teachings on Wise Speech.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-08-20 Meeting the Unexpected 59:21
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-08-20 The Fire of Illumination 26:34
Ayya Medhanandi
We wish for perfect conditions in life. But true perfection only arises within the awakened mind. So we are like mendicants of the present moment – not able to control or know what lies ahead. Let us not lose heart. In truth, this Middle Way of awareness has great fruit and great benefit, and we can walk it – even in this digitally driven era. Being patient, brave, and staying true to the wisest course, we gain strength and skill at each step. It may feel like balancing on a tightrope of fire. But with unflagging resolve and care, we burn out delusion. And that will be the fire of our illumination.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2023-08-20 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 1 - Talk 42:59
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-20 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 1 - Meditation 25:34
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-19 The Usefulness of Truth 1:25:15
Nathan Glyde
The Buddha asked us to speak what is true and useful. Are those the same things? What is more important, usefulness or truth? And what is truly useful? Guided meditation, reflection, and (just Nathan's part of a Q&R session) Bear in mind, this is not speaking about truth as an objective exploration of scientific understanding, but an exploration of the truth of first person subjective knowledge: which is all a meditator can know about their experience.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - August 2023

2023-08-19 01 opening talks and guided meditation 53:38
Jill Shepherd, Elizabeth Day, Willa Thaniya Reid
Welcome and orientation to the retreat structure and purpose, with guided standing and sitting meditation
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-19 Exploring Subtle Aspects of the Groundless Ground 48:19
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2023-08-19 Closing blessings 2:44
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality

2023-08-19 Metta (loving-kindness) guided instructions for self 38:25
Matthew Hepburn
A brief discussion of foundational understanding for the practice of meta-. Followed by guided phrases practice. Concluding with reflections on the dynamic nature of meta-for self: compassion, categories, and non-self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-19 Establishing harmony in a community 11:23
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality

2023-08-19 The power of awareness when practising loving-kindness 5:20
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality

2023-08-19 Guided meditation 37:31
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality

2023-08-19 Togetherness and Individuality 39:57
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Togetherness and Individuality

2023-08-19 Metta Instructions for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:48
Rebecca Bradshaw, John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Metta Retreat

2023-08-18 Mindfulness and investigation, as factors of enlightenment. 49:43
Matthew Hepburn
A practical understanding how sati and dhammavicaya emerge as factors that lead toward awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-18 From Meditation to Life Practice: Paramitas 45:50
Fred Von Allmen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2023-08-18 Brahmavihārās, Coming into Harmony (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:00
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Metta Retreat

2023-08-18 The Heart as a Gateway to Ground 48:00
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2023-08-17 Metta Concentration and the Tender Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:34
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the underlying existential question, how do I live with an open heart and feel safe in this world? Also explores five jhanic factors.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Metta Retreat

2023-08-17 Exploring the Barriers to Grounded Presence 49:26
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

2023-08-17 Global Witnessing: Take in the Planet's Feedback ~ It's a Practice for Our Times 47:34
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-08-16 Willfulness, and Basic Trust 48:11
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Deep Ground Practice

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