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Dharma Talks in English
2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - First, Second, Third & Fourth Tetrad: Body, Vedana, Citta & Dhammas 35:11
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 2 - Reflections & Instructions - Fourth Tetrad: Dhammas 26:52
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 1 - Guided Meditation - Settling 27:09
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Morning Questions and Reflections 63:54
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-25 Dimensions of Relaxation - Total Belonging is Close at Hand 43:48
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-25 Dependent Origination 64:37
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-25 Meditation Instruction - Smiling & Relaxing into Big Bellied Presence & Awareness 69:17
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-25 You Are Loving Awareness 45:21
James Baraz
Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is interacting with the world around it. I use Ram Dass's practice of seeing beyond this mind/body by abiding in the perspective "I Am Loving Awareness". This is where the devotional and non-dual meet. To aid in this exploration James shares some powerful cuts from the album Ram Dass, a collaboration of Ram Dass's voice and teachings with background music by East Forest, who will be offering a hybrid concert "Echoes of Ram Dass" at Spirit Rock October 19, 2025.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-09-24 Mind as Water, Practice to Clear the Mind, the Mind is Already Clear 46:50
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-24 Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities 60:33
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-09-24 Meditation Instruction - Full Presence, Posture, Walking 1:20:09
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-24 Meeting Yourself With Kindness: A Guided Meditation 26:44
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-09-24 The Worldly Winds 28:50
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-09-23 Guided Equanimity Meditation - Cultivating the Strength to Stand in the Center of Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:49
Erin Selover
This guided meditation starts with brief talk on equanimity. Followed by a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat (260R25)

2025-09-23 Morning Instructions: Intention 62:47
Marjolein Janssen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-22 The Benefits of Walking Meditation 56:44
Marjolein Janssen
While walking meditation often receives less attention than sitting meditation, it offers numerous benefits worth exploring. In this talk, we will go into the 'Walking Meditation' sutta, where the Buddha outlines five benefits of this practice. We’ll conclude with a bonus benefit.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-22 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 3 of 5 - Meditation 30:27
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-22 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 3 of 5 - Talk 53:48
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-22 Falling in Love with Anicca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:19
Kate Johnson
When met with love and awareness, change opens the path to liberation through letting go
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat (260R25)

2025-09-22 Guided Meditation: Establishing Your Seat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:51
Erin Selover
This guided meditation lead you through a series of practices to establish yourself as you enter into formal meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat (260R25)

2025-09-22 Morning Instructions: Further Reflections on Noticing Feeling Tone 61:40
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-21 Happiness online retreat - Session 4 1:49:06
Kim Allen
The emergence of heart qualities.
Uncontrived Happiness Beyond Conditions online retreat

2025-09-21 Compassion Practice: Meeting Suffering with Care (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:30
Kate Johnson
A short talk on how compassion dissolves the suffering of separation, followed by guided practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat (260R25)

2025-09-21 The Joy of Touching Truth - The Liberating Power of Dukkha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:46
Erin Selover
This talk explores the joy and dignity that is available when we know dukkha directly. It explores the three kinds of dukkha and perceptions that lead to dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Awakening through the Three Characteristics: A Women’s Liberation Retreat (260R25)

2025-09-21 Happiness online retreat - Session 3 2:15:04
Kim Allen
The deepest forms of happiness.
Uncontrived Happiness Beyond Conditions online retreat

2025-09-21 Responsibility and Humility - Meditation 30:21
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center July Residential Retreat for the BIPOC Community

2025-09-21 Responsibility and Humility - Talk 33:43
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center July Residential Retreat for the BIPOC Community

2025-09-21 Light of Your Happiness 1:15:44
Pawan Bareja
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-09-21 The Dharma of Divorce 1:33:50
Leslie Booker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-09-20 Happiness online retreat - Session 2 2:02:46
Kim Allen
Well-being cascade and gladness pentad. Choosing refined happiness.
Uncontrived Happiness Beyond Conditions online retreat

2025-09-20 Guided Meditation: Metta (loving-kindness) for dear friend and neutral being 60:23
Marjolein Janssen
After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-20 Happiness online retreat - Session 1 2:23:52
Kim Allen
Introduction -- unreliable and more reliable forms of happiness
Uncontrived Happiness Beyond Conditions online retreat

2025-09-20 What Are We Really Building?: An Empty Hut, Community, Our Practice 1:19:51
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, questions and responses was offered on September 20, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 15:30 - DHAMMA TALK 46:36 - Q&R
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-09-20 Guided Meditation: Internal and External Sound and Silence 32:17
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2025-09-19 Compassion: Letting Go, Laying Down the Armor 40:23
Devin Berry
This talk explores how compassion loosens striving, softens judgment, and reveals freedom. Through stories and practice reflections, we explore letting go, laying down the armor, and beginning again
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-19 Wk 3, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - First, Second & Third Tetrad: Body, Vedana & Citta 0:00
Juha Penttilä
(Recording not available) 
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-19 Wk 3, Pt 2 - Reflections & Instructions - Third Tetrad: Citta 26:35
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-19 Breath of Nature | JC2C25 | Week 3 | 9.19.25 18:13
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Path of Healing | Jill Satterfield | JS2C25

2025-09-19 The Circuitous Journey to Presence through Past and Future 46:33
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2025-09-19 Wk 3, Pt 1 - Guided Meditation - Settling 23:46
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-19 Guided Meditation: Forgiving Body, Mind and World 40:48
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2025-09-19 Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts 60:20
Marjolein Janssen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-18 Mettā for Self and the Spectrum of Mettā (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:47:18
Dawn Mauricio
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Clearing the Path: Opening the Heart and Mind

2025-09-18 Untangle the Tangle 53:57
Andrea Fella
Exploring the tangle of dukkha, and how it is related both to the nature of experience as impermanent, unreliable and uncontrollable and to the deep wish for happiness, safety and ease.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-18 Active and Receptive Dimensions of Practice 44:26
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2025-09-18 Guided Meditation: Urgency of Feeling 32:37
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2025-09-18 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 62:41
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-18 Longing for the Sacred 48:30
James Baraz
With so much violence and insensitivity all around us, we can lose touch with our love for what is sacred. All that is required is a heightened sensitivity to tune into what is always around us.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-09-17 Healing and Liberation in Times of Activation and Entanglement 60:00
Mark Nunberg
We live in times when fear, greed and anxiety provoke our hearts & minds daily. Often, we relate to these triggers in ways that only amplify agitation and conflict in and around us. The Buddha’s teachings and practices help us uncover the stabilizing, tenderizing, and liberating force of wisdom and awareness. Wisdom and awareness is the necessary antidote for troubled hearts in troubled times.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-09-17 Attention Models the Object, Mindfulness Models the Attention 45:43
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

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