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The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
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Dharma Talks
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2023-07-30
The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 6 - Talk
41:44
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Mark Nunberg
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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.
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Common Ground Meditation Center
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Weekly Dharma Series
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2023-07-28
Mindfulness in Daily Life for Parents (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
57:36
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Diana Winston
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The family retreat 2023 at Spirit Rock focused on the Eightfold Path. This talk was on Samadhi-- or Wise Cultivation through Mindfulness and Meditation and was specifically geared to parents. How can parents practice mindfulness right in the heat of in daily life? Can we practice when we’re getting kids ready for school or putting them to bed, or fighting with our teen or when we're worried about them? Mindfulness can offer incredible tools to support parents in staying present, connected, awake, and in right relationship with our children, partners, and self.
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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The Family Retreat
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2023-07-26
Guided Meditation: Intimacy with the Flow of Life
20:08
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Tara Brach
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The meditation begins with a body scan, filling the body with aliveness. Then we widen attention, becoming aware of the sounds that are happening moment-to-moment, aware of the sensations, feelings, or emotions that are here. Again and again, the invitation is to relax back into presence, intimate with the life living through you. In allowing life to be just as it is, we inhabit pure Beingness, at home in the dynamic and tender awareness that is our shared essence.
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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
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2023-07-23
Maintaining Clarity, Joy and Peace
38:44
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Ajahn Achalo
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This talk, given on the last day of a 9 day online retreat from Wat Marp Jan, gives some perspective as well as useful pointers, with regards to progressing steadily in the gradual training towards complete liberation of mind.
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Wat Marp Jan
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2023-07-23
Talk: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 2
64:06
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Donald Rothberg
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We start with a review and expansion of the main themes of the talk from two weeks ago, looking especially first at the possible confusion around the nature of "dukkha" (usually translated as "suffering"). We look at four meanings of dukkha in the teachings of the Buddha (the first of which is the most common meaning of dukkha as what is "painful"). Only the last sense of dukkha as reactivity (based on the teachings of the Two Arrows and of Dependent Origination) helps us make sense of what the "end of dukkha" means. We then give attention to a number of different ways of practicing to transform and "end" reactivity, followed by discussion with the community.
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Benicia Insight Meditation
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2023-07-23
Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity
45:10
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Donald Rothberg
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After an introduction of the teacher, there is a 30-minute guided meditation. We set the intention to track for moments of reactivity, and then have the first 10 minutes or so for settling. Then there are several lightly guided suggestions of ways to practice with reactivity, including noticing moderate or a little greater experiences of pleasant or unpleasant, and seeing whether we move to wanting and grasping, on the one hand, or not wanting or pushing away, on the other. At the end, there is guided practice on bringing up an experience of reactivity and exploring it especially with mindfulness and the wisdom of appropriate response. The meditation is followed by a dana talk.
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Benicia Insight Meditation
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