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Dharma Talks
2017-03-31 Retreat Intro: The Gradual Path 19:59
Ajahn Sucitto
The gradual path is the essence of the Buddha’s presentation. It starts with qualities we already know – generosity, morality and renunciation. Rather than starting with meditation while sitting on the cushion, this is the movement that begins to be properly cultivated and groomed in meditation. Then our work is much more internal, to clear the mind of the 5 hindrances.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 Awakening and Soulmaking (Q & A) 38:17
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

2017-03-31 Twoness Continued 17:26
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

2017-03-31 Guided Meditation - Offering Ourselves Dhamma Dāna 13:16
Ajahn Sucitto
As we enter the field of practice, we have the opportunity to clear the desktop and deepen into our receptivity. We offer ourselves Dhamma dāna: the gift of time, space, permission and resources to deepen within this very embodied mind. We acknowledge what arises and lay aside what can be laid aside.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening

2017-03-31 On Blessed Ground: Fantasies of the Self on the Path 32:07
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

2017-03-31 Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A 54:36
Anushka Fernandopulle
Day 4 instructions morning practice period, plus questions and answers. Last full day of retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-30 Our Relationship to Time 43:59
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-03-30 Be Humanity 55:00
Nathan Glyde
Once we've looked within and seen the changeable and interconnected reality of our life, how can that support an active and engaged spirituality (with all the changeable and interconnected realities of all other beings)?
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

2017-03-30 "The Problem With Being a Good Meditator" 53:57
James Baraz
At times our meditation practice is a powerful delicious experience. The factors of awakening like concentration, calm, joy or equanimity may be strong. As wonderful as that is, the mind can easily grasp as if that were the real goal of practice. But when we're attached or take ownership of those states they become a trap--sometimes referred to as the stink of enlightenment--and we miss the true freedom that practice can reveal.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-03-30 Visions of the Beyond 1:44:13
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

2017-03-30 May I take care of myself happily. 54:58
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-03-30 Freedom from Injustice: A Tribute to Bryan Stephenson 48:14
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-03-30 Some Different Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:01
Anushka Fernandopulle
Different perspectives on dharma and retreat. Practice as an act of devotion, purification, lab experiment and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-30 Energy Body and Image (Q & A) 45:45
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

2017-03-30 Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness 59:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided Metta-well wishing (Q&A). Loving kindness to benefactor, friend, neutral person, self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight and Awakening: The Liberating Art of Samatha-Vipassana

2017-03-30 Intention and Devotion (Guided Meditation) 37:40
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

2017-03-30 Your Body as Beloved Other (Guided Lying Meditation) 55:37
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

2017-03-30 Day 6 - Ways of Looking - Anatta, not self 59:17
Zohar Lavie
Instructions in the hall - bringing awareness to the interconnected nature of all phenomena and their lack of inherent self existence
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya Silent Retreat

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

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