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Dharma Talks
2021-04-02 Delight in One's Presence 47:00
Kirsten Kratz
Reflections and Guided Practice
Gaia House Gaia House Spring Gathering - Celebrating Sangha

2021-04-02 IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 2 2021 20:48
Chas DiCapua
Anatta/Not Self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-04-01 The Buddha Was Right 18:13
Ayya Medhanandi
As seekers of truth, we turn the wheel of Dhamma inwardly. There alone can we understand the mind’s purity and directly know the true rhythm of the heart, undiluted by worldly refrains. The sounds of the world can turn coarse and invasive until we listen to the silence in our interior depths. Secluded from life's relentless currents, we traverse the ‘cloud of unknowing’ with the riches of our virtue. Then we shall dis-cover and gain strength enough to fulfill the way of the Buddha, a transcendent going forth through the gates of the Deathless.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2021-04-01 Compassion like an Old Friend 48:10
Oren Jay Sofer
(Day 1) Compassion is the open heart's response to suffering and a profound resource for meeting life. By attending to our experience closely we can develop compassion for ourselves and the world with the care and strength of an old friend.
Insight Meditation Retreats Steadying the Heart

2021-04-01 IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 1 2021 20:39
Chas DiCapua
Dukkha/Vulnerability
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-03-31 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:55
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-03-31 Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 2 64:02
Tara Brach
While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence awakens unconditional loving. These two talks explore the ways we habitually deny or resist reality, and the three interrelated pathways—refuge in the present moment, love and awareness—that liberate us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-03-31 Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 3 68:17
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief review of what we’ve explored in the last two sessions on this theme, including the importance of both doing and not-doing in Buddhist practice and the nature of identification with the “doer” (and the related themes of self, time, and the future). We then go into more depth inquiring into the nature of the “doer,” including a brief guided meditation looking into the experience of “doing” and opening to not-doing in meditation. We lastly further investigate traditions (Jewish, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist) that point to the importance of a doing coming out of not-doing, and ways that we can experience and explore this doing coming out of not-doing in daily life, including in the experiences of creativity in art and music, and being “in the zone” in sports.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-03-31 IMS Daily Dharma, Mar 31 2021 21:45
Chas DiCapua
Anicca (Change)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-03-30 Bien s'accompagner avec les sept facteurs d'éveil - méditation guidée et enseignement 50:01
Roxanne Dault
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

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