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Dharma Talks
2017-09-08 Loving The Body 25:37
Pascal Auclair
A guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-08 Guided meditation: exploring difficult emotions 13:42
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation offering some techniques for exploring difficult emotions, including self-compassion
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Instructions: exploring difficult emotions 17:14
Jill Shepherd
Short talk exploring some approaches to working with difficult emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Dhamma Discussion 1:30:56
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  2017 Vassa

2017-09-08 Morning Instructions 57:47
Jean Esther
Working with thoughts as a sense door.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 "Peaceful Warrior in Modern Times" 52:12
James Baraz
The Buddha spoke of the power of non-harming as a support for inner peace and outward harmony. But how can we both commit to being peaceful while courageously and passionately standing up for what we feel is right and make a difference in the world? This talk includes some of the Buddha's words on peace and non-harming as well as two clips of Julia Butterfly Hill speaking about "Anger v. Love" and "Fierce Compassion".
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-09-07 Working With The Five Hindrances 50:20
Jean Esther
In meeting the hindrances and afflictive emotions in our lives with out resistance, we find greater and greater pathways to peace in our hearts and minds
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 Talk: from Aversion to Compassion 41:49
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the hindrance of aversion and how it can be transformed through compassion, with an emphasis on self-compassion
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 Guided Meditation On Four Wholesome States 32:02
Anushka Fernandopulle
Metta (kindness), compassion, joy, equanimity, Brahma viharas. Explanation and guided practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-07 Standing meditation observing all four foundations of mindfulness 30:52
Jill Shepherd
Standing meditation exploring all four foundations of mindfulness and the mental factor of intention/volition Interval bells at five minutes with the invitation to sit at any time when the bell rings
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 Instructions: four foundations of mindfulness overview and standing meditation 9:26
Jill Shepherd
Four foundations of mindfulness overview, the mental factor of intention or volition, and standing meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-07 On Being - Part 2 39:32
Pascal Auclair
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-06 The Causes for Happiness 1:25:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-09-06 Awareness of Being 26:48
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-09-06 Reflections on Driven Doing 56:12
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-09-06 On Being 47:45
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-06 Who Do You Think You Are? 45:36
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-09-06 The Four Noble Truths and the end of dukkha 52:37
Greg Scharf
The dukkha that leads to the end of dukkha, through the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-06 The Two Arrows 1 2:07:14
Donald Rothberg
We explore the powerful teaching and how it might be understood and practiced, this week more in terms of individual inner practice, and next week, more in terms of interpersonal and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-06 Morning Meditation Instructions 46:04
Anushka Fernandopulle
First day instructions for sitting and walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-05 Open To Suffering 31:13
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-09-05 Feeling Tone (Vedana) and Reactivity 47:45
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2017-09-05 Talk: viriya, energy, effort and balance 37:48
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how we commonly get off balance, and ways to come back to balance
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-04 The Bodhisattva, Integration, and Next Steps 28:09
Donald Rothberg
Near the end of the retreat, offering of some integrative reflections to help us each reflect on our next steps following our three-day retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

2017-09-04 Forgiveness Practice 51:10
Donald Rothberg
A short talk on the nature of forgiveness, followed by instructions for one type of forgiveness practice, and then guidance in this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddhist Practice and Gandhian/Kingian Nonviolence Training

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