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Dharma Talks
2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 41:30
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.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-10 Meeting the Reality of the Climate / Ecological Crisis with Awareness, Wisdom and Compassion 61:24
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mark Coleman - Monday Night Live - March 10, 2025

2025-03-10 Being the Earth - Rapture, Rupture, Regeneration 44:50
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mark Coleman - Monday Night Live - March 10, 2025

2025-03-10 Morning Instructions on Mindfulness of Arising & Vanishing (Anicca) & Intention or Volition (Cetana) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:35
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-09 Steady recognition of awareness untangles confusion 51:28
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-09 Wozu achtsam sein? 37:07
Renate Seifarth
Der Buddha erklärt in der Lehrrede MN1, was einen Erwachten von einem Weltling unterscheidet. Der Unterschied besteht im wesentlichen aus drei Punkten. Ein Erwachter ist unmittelbar in Kontakt mit Erfahrung, ohne davon ausgehend in Konzepte zu verfallen, die ihn zu der Ansicht führen, dies ist Mein. Aufgrund dessen ergötzt er sich nicht an der Erfahrung. Dieses Ergötzen ist der Ursprung allen Leidens. Achtsamkeit ermöglicht das direkt unmittelbare Erfahren und kennzeichnet sich durch Akzeptanz, Interesse und Nicht-Identifikation. Gerade Letzteres braucht Sammlung als Stütze, vor allem einer Sammlung auf unaufgeregte Erfahrungen, so dass kein Ergötzen sich mit einschleicht.
Seminarhaus Engl :  Engl 3-Wochenretreat

2025-03-09 It's Already Here - Meditation 32:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-09 It's Already Here - Talk 38:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-09 Shifting to Right View 61:45
Louije Kim
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2025-03-08 Vedana: The 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 54:44
Tempel Smith
An incredibly important aspect of mindfulness is to direct attention to "vedana" which is the tone of every moment which is either pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral. This one tone of conscious experience is at the very root of all suffering and therefore all liberation from suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-08 Meditation Vacation| Ayya Santussikā 52:48
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on 8th of March , 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-03-08 East Bay Dhamma--Dhammapada Verses 21-27 | Ayya Santussikā 1:48:41
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on March 8, 2025 for East Bay Dhamma. 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK with Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-03-08 Dharma Reflection - Beautiful Qualities of the Heart 20:38
Devon Hase
Guided practice on the five jhana factors and how they antidote the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-08 Morning Reflection 51:11
Carol Wilson
Reflections on being awake and trusting awareness, yet learning not to strive or try to create awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-08 Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:19
Anushka Fernandopulle
Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Lovingkindness Practice - Meditation 33:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-07 Lovingkindness Practice - Talk 42:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-07 Mindfulness and Inquiry into the Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:39
Kristina Bare
Seeing deeper into the true nature of body while cultivating the first two awakening factors of mindfulness (sati) and inquiry (dhamma vicaya)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 59:08
Tempel Smith
5 mins for chanting refuges and precepts, then a careful guided meditation on mindfulness of thought. We create a base of being mindful with the breath and body to allow us some perspective on thought as a direct stream of phenomena.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-06 talk: Foundations 2 - Dāna or generosity p2 22:31
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the practice of generosity as an antidote to the individual, societal and environmental harm caused by excessive greed and self-interest
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-03-06 Liberating Simplicity of Awareness 46:22
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas 2 (Mettā) 1:37:41
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-06 Short Reflections; Unguided Meditation 35:33
Jaya Rudgard
Metta, Samadhi, and the perception of anatta, are all in service of letting go.
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-06 Metta - Neutral Being (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:05
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-06 Instructions - Metta-ful Anatta Practice 57:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-06 Dharma Reflection - To Be a Person 12:46
Devon Hase
Short reflection on metta and the human condition, inspired by Jane Hirshfield's poetry.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-06 Introductory Instructions to "When Awareness Becomes Natural" 65:18
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center When Awareness Becomes Natural - An U Tejaniya-style Insight Meditation Retreat - 25UTAS

2025-03-06 Taking Sides in a World of Non-Duality 49:46
James Baraz
This talk explores the view that the wide and profound perspective of Non-Duality sees that everything belongs. One is not creating divisions between "good and bad" or "right and wrong". It is all part of the dance of life. However, in the relative level of reality these categories are real and shape our thoughts, reactions and actions. The Buddha advises us to not be attached to views and opinions. How can we reconcile this paradox and live with this wise non-dual perspective while taking a courageous stand against the forces of greed, hatred delusion that are creating suffering?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-03-05 Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart 37:04
Rebecca Bradshaw
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-05 Developing Insight Through Dependent Origination Teachings 59:09
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-05 Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being 49:28
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-05 Instructions - Inclining to Samadhi 58:22
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-05 Morning Instructions - Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:01
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-05 Moving Beyond the Known 22:41
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

2025-03-04 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 2 - Meditation 32:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-04 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 2 - Talk 57:01
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-04 Dharma Talk - Samadhi - Concentration & Transcendent Dependent Arising 49:25
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-04 Taking Out the Thorn in the Heart 35:31
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-03-04 Guided Meditation - Meditating into Joy and Calm 40:31
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-03 Tasting the True Grain of the Moment 45:31
Rebecca Bradshaw
With a more receptive mindfulness, we settle into tasting the truth of each moment
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-03-03 Faith and Settling Into a Long Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:02
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-03 Presence and Heart Now More Than Ever 1:28:36
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-03-03 Lightly Guided Med - Suffusing Our Practice w Metta 42:21
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-03 Metta: Cultivating Kindness and Goodwill (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:52
Anushka Fernandopulle
Introduction to Brahma Vihara practices and Guided Metta practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-02 Dharma Talk - Saddha - Faith, Conviction & Trust 50:00
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-02 Embracing Our Lives Through The 4 Noble Truths 49:35
Jean Esther
This talk invites the listener to reflect upon the application of the Buddhas teachings on the 4 noble truths on and off the cushion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-03-02 Acting For The Benefit of All 39:48
Nathan Glyde
Using the Five Recollections to shape a better world of appearances and connection.
Gaia House Letting In

2025-03-02 Meeting The Body With Loving Attention 30:30
Jean Esther
This is a Guided body scan meditation infused with metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-03-02 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 1 - Talk 42:06
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-02 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 1 - Meditation 29:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-02 Instructions - Meeting the Hindrances with our Practice 52:52
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-02 Finding Your Anchor in Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:38
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided practice of tuning into mindfulness of the body with breath as a possible anchor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-01 Wise Acceptance & An Appropriate Response 44:16
Nathan Glyde
Meeting Ageing, Sickness, Death, Loss, & Action, Well
Gaia House Letting In

2025-03-01 24 talk: Noble Eightfold Path 30:13
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-03-01 Dharma Talk - Changing Our Relationship to Dukkha or Suffering 50:21
Jaya Rudgard
An introduction to transcendent dependent arising.
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-01 Guided Meditation - Softening, Opening & Attending to Experience 44:51
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-01 Meditation Instructions - Ageing 59:09
Nathan Glyde
The first of the recollections: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember that ageing is part of life; I am of the nature to grow old.
Gaia House Letting In

2025-03-01 23 instructions and meditation: Opening to the heart qualities of the brahmavihāra 54:16
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-03-01 Taking the Self Out of Current Affairs | Ayya Santussikā 58:46
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on March 1, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 27:15 - Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-02-28 Opening Meditation: Letting In, Letting Be, Letting Go 35:57
Nathan Glyde
Supporting the container for our exploration.
Gaia House Letting In

2025-02-28 22 talk: Insight into the impermanent, imperfect and impersonal nature of experience 25:14
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-28 Khamā Paṭipadā: The Way of Gentleness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:53
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-28 20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness 42:46
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 19 talk: Reflections on samādhi 21:38
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 Introduction to Brahmaviharas 1 (Mettā) 1:32:17
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-02-27 Loving Letting Go: Metta and Letting it All Be 46:16
Yong Oh
Renunciation and Refuge - Metta and the path of letting be, of loving. Our ground of liberation is love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-27 The Brahma Viharas dispel the hindrances: Part 2 49:14
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-27 18 instructions and meditation: Finding the loveliness of the breath 41:08
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping 45:38
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 Morning Reflection: The Seven Awakening Factors: equanimity 17:20
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-26 16 talk: Relating to afflictive mind-states with wisdom and compassion 26:02
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 Mudita and Joy as a Path to Liberation 46:28
Jessica Morey
This talk explores how mudita deepens connection, strengthens self-confidence, and reveals joy as an essential force in both personal liberation and collective well-being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-26 4 façons erronées de trouver la stabilité et 4 protections 1:20:40
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une nouvelle vision

2025-02-26 15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, including thoughts, emotions and mind-states 36:04
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 Quelques formes de sagesse 62:16
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une nouvelle vision

2025-02-26 14 instructions and meditation: Exploring citta, heart-mind 55:21
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 Freeing the Heart from Enmity: Metta for the Difficult 60:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Instructions and guided meditation on how to practice metta for those with whom we have conflict, difficulty, or struggle.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-25 13 talk: Exploring aspects of vedanā or feeling-tone 25:43
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 Beyond Control, Within Our Hands: The Power of Compassion & Equanimity. 42:06
Oren Jay Sofer
How do we meet suffering—our own and the world’s—without being overwhelmed? Compassion invites us to turn toward pain with an open heart and respond, while equanimity offers balance and perspective. The two work together, allowing us to engage wholeheartedly, without attachment to outcomes, responding with wisdom and care in the face of uncertainty, loss, and change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-25 Awakening: Like a Bird Flying in the Sky (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:54
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-25 Basic Practice Instructions - Meditation 31:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-25 Basic Practice Instructions - Talk 60:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-25 12 instructions and meditation: Feeling-tones or vedanā 32:48
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 Passer de l’agrippement à la réponse sage 58:24
Pascal Auclair
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une nouvelle vision

2025-02-25 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances 46:40
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:14
Tuere Sala
Reflections and mostly silence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-24 10 talk: Five Hindrances 29:28
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 Metta, Safety, Protection, Care 39:36
Yong Oh
Exploration of Metta and our relationship to safety, protection and care.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-24 How Emptiness Reveals Love 60:21
Devon Hase
Reflections on emptiness as taught by the Buddha (Bahiya, Rohitassa, Rahula). And how this reveals a deep and abiding compassionate kind of love for ourselves, all beings, and the world. Invitation to the Devas paritta chant with Dawn Scott at the beginning.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-24 The Hindrances and Insight 56:26
Deborah Ratner Helzer
How our experience of the hindrances interacts with our understanding of impermanence and emptiness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-24 The Commonality of All Beings 1:16:27
Ariya B. Baumann
With mettā, we try to see others as living beings not different from me. Beings, like me, who want to be happy and do not want to suffer.
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 11th Annual Metta Retreat 2025 - Part 2

2025-02-24 The Ennobling Quality of Suffering 1:58:08
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-24 4 erreurs de perception 65:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2025-02-24 09 meditation: Opening to sound 39:01
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 Guided Equanimity Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:22
JD Doyle
An overview of equanimity and then guided meditation using phrases as support.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-24 08 instructions and meditation: Practising with right intention 48:01
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 Instructions - Noticing Perception and Time 10:00
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-23 07 talk: Effort and Energy 34:16
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 Disenchantment and Dispassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:32
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-23 Investigation et perceptions 66:06
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

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