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2025-04-01 The Uplifting Attitude of Compassion - Meditation 31:36
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. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg and guest teachers. Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2025-04-01 The Uplifting Attitude of Compassion - Talk 44:32
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. No registration necessary. Led by Mark Nunberg and guest teachers. Mark Nunberg began his practice in 1982 and has been teaching meditation since 1990. He co-founded Common Ground Meditation Center in Minneapolis in 1993 with Wynn Fricke and continues to serve as the center’s Guiding Teacher. Mark has studied with both Asian and Western teachers and finds deep inspiration in the teachings of the Buddha. Mark practiced as a monk for five months in Burma and completed four three-month retreats at Insight Meditation Society Retreat Center, as well as many months of intensive retreat practice at The Forest Refuge. Mark continues to be a grateful student of Buddhist practice.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2025-04-01 Morning Instructions: First Day 40:59
Yuka Nakamura
Calming and collecting the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-03-31 Mother Earth’s Calling: A Path of Initiation and Renewa 1:51:00
Carol Cano
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-03-30 Closing Session - The End and the Start - Accessing Supports for Entering the Stream 35:15
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation Concentration Mudita Practice for All Beings Everywhere 15:51
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation - Concentration Mudita Practice for Family Member, Mudita Practice for Difficult Person 44:39
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Guided Meditation Introduction to Mudita Practice & phrases for Mudita practice, concentration - Mudita Practice for Benefactor, Mudita Practice for Dear Friend 59:10
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-30 Instructions - Kind, Relaxed Continuity of Awareness 64:21
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-30 Morning Welcome, Introduction to Gratitude Practice, Guided meditation - Anapanasati practice 24:42
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Dhamma Talk - Introduction to Gratitude followed by Gratitude Practice, Dedication and closing 51:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions Concentration - Metta Neutral Person & Self, Metta All Beings Everywhere & Self 44:10
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions - Concentration - Difficult Person & Self 43:38
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Talk - Establishing the Ground of Wise & Compassionate Awareness 1:16:24
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Metta Sit Instructions Concentration - Family Member & Self 44:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Instructions - The Practice of Jumping in and Swimming 21:41
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Metta Sit instructions, Concentration - Metta dear friend & self 44:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-29 Instructions & Guided Meditation - Insight Meditation & Crossing to the Other Shore 61:31
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-29 Morning Welcome, Guided Sit - Anapanasati Concentration, Metta Practice for Self & Benefactor 43:26
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Equanimity Meditation 45:04
Kaira Jewel Lingo
This meditation explores upekkhā, or equanimity—the deep steadiness of heart that meets life’s joys and sorrows with wisdom and care. Through reflections, guided phrases, and a progression of categories (from self, to loved one, neutral person, difficult person and finally all beings), we cultivate balance and spaciousness in the face of life’s ever-changing conditions. Rooted in the Brahmavihārā tradition, this practice invites us to rest in the truth that all beings are moving through causes and conditions beyond our control.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-28 Opening Session for the Retreat 43:08
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Insight at Home

2025-03-28 Introduction to Retreat Topic: Metta & Mudita retreat format, schedule, questions followed by Guided Sitting Meditation... Anapanasati concentration and Metta practice for oneself 60:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Dhamma Talk - Metta Closing comments Dedication and end of evening gathering 65:45
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage The Heart of the Matter: Metta (unconditional loving-kindness) & Mudita (appreciative/empathetic joy)

2025-03-28 Dharma Reflection: Dhamma Chanda 18:56
Devon Hase
Teachings on how to work with deep desire for deliverance and how to smooth out the energy body when things get intense in retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-27 Practicing Upekkha (Equanimity) 1:49:20
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-27 Spiritual Friendship (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:28
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-27 Light on Path - deconstruct, return to presence 40:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our 'Dhamma home'. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-27 Mindfulness of Thoughts 52:48
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk, we explore mindfulness of thoughts as part of the third foundation of mindfulness—learning to meet thoughts not as distractions or enemies, but as present-moment experiences to observe with curiosity and care. Through guided practice and teachings, we investigate the nature of thinking, including how to relate to repetitive or difficult thoughts with clarity and compassion. By developing this skill, we discover a deeper steadiness and freedom in the midst of the mind’s activity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-27 Composting the Old Paradigm & Composting Yourself 51:20
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-26 Ancient Wisdom, Present Freedom: Following the Buddha’s Recipe for Liberation 56:55
Will Kabat-Zinn
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-26 Light on knowing - empty, open, secure 43:08
Ajahn Sucitto
What is the knowing? It’s not the phenomena, not the mood, not the mind. It’s a basic openness that helps one get less impacted by the pleasant and unpleasant. Recognize the aggregates and how they are activated, then stay with the knowing where is no establishment, no activation. This knowing makes way for discernment to arise.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-26 Closing Session: Maintaining Joy in a Chaotic World 1:29:26
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Evening Session: Advice to Rahul (MN62) 1:44:41
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-25 Light on concentration – a skilful gathering of factors and fruits 55:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi is generally translated as 'concentration' but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-25 Confidence in Goodness - Meditation 31:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-25 Confidence in Goodness - Talk 51:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-25 Freude Teil 1 52:13
Renate Seifarth
Praxis ist ein Weg, der zu innerer Freude führt. Meist kennen wir Freude über schöne Dinge, Erfahrungen oder Begegnungen. In der Praxis empfinden wir Freude in Momenten echter Achtsamkeit, tiefen Mitgefühls und Dankbarkeit.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-25 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas and the Practice of Metta 58:28
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with a song and for the first half hour Kaira Jewel gives a brief overview the Four Brahmaviharas followed by an introduction to the practice of metta: what it is, how it can transform our lives, what some of the challenges are and then how to practice with the categories and the phrases. Then in the second half hour Kaira Jewel leads a guided metta meditation offering metta to ourselves, our benefactor and a dear friend.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-25 Instructions - What Am I Not Noticing ? 54:15
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-25 Morning Session: Guided Meditation - Brahma Viharas 32:56
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 The Power and Freedom of Equanimity in Polarized Times 60:11
Kaira Jewel Lingo
In this talk we explore the power of equanimity to help us remain steady and spacious in the face of life's ups and downs. Trusting, relaxing and letting go all help us to see we don't have to hold the challenges of life alone, we can open to the larger mystery holding us all. We also look at how to engage with the suffering and injustice of our world, to practice sacred criticism, and depolarizing ourselves and our communities. We take inspiration from the Civil Rights Movement and their practices of self-emptying and how we can give our whole hearts to the task and then let go of attachment to the outcome. Kaira Jewel ends by singing the poem Recommendation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Understanding Dukkha - Meditation 29:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2025-03-24 Understanding Dukkha - Talk 62:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2025-03-24 Talk - More than Meets the Eye 23:33
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

2025-03-24 Not self from a heart paradigm 55:39
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-24 The Importance of Emptiness, Hiri and Ottappa 55:51
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-24 Light on desire 52:54
Ajahn Sucitto
This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
Cittaviveka End of 2025 CBM Winter Retreat

2025-03-24 Evening Session: Tetrad 4 + Equanimity 1:35:16
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Ānāpānasati: Opening to Stillness, Kindness, Compassion, Joy and Equanimity

2025-03-24 Mara's Teaching Us to Love More Deeply 36:23
Yong Oh
Talking about the paradox of perfection and improvement. Loving ourselves to wholeness. Love as the path. Mara as teacher rather than foe or antagonist. Teaching us to love ever more deeply.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Return to Wholeness: Opening to Wisdom & Love - 25DW

2025-03-24 Guided Meditation - Mudita (Appreciative Joy) 38:34
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness & Loss

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