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Dharma Talks
2017-05-26 Day 4: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 34:47
Matthew Brensilver
Reflections and INstructions: comparing mind, envy and Mudita.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-26 Investigating the Body Leading to Investigating the Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:16
Nikki Mirghafori
In this talk, the path of gradual cultivation is discussed, starting with establishing a container of Metta/Loving-kindness. Then, we calm and unify the mind, followed by investigating the body (through four elements meditation) which leads to investigating the mind and mental factors. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 7:01
Brian Lesage
Becoming unfamiliar with our experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-26 Day 4: Instructions: : "Love God, no Needs" (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:34
Sayadaw U Jagara
4 Elements and eating meditation instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Practicing with the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:54
Brian Lesage
This talk offers a perspective on the Four Noble Truths that interweaves with our meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Day 3 Guided Metta: Metta for Self, Receiving Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:39
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 "Appreciating our Benefactors" 47:38
James Baraz
It’s important to recognize and appreciate all the support we receive in our spiritual practice as well as in our lives. If practice sometimes seems like a solitary experience we’re not realizing all the ways that life has been supporting us. This can be an on-going rich source of inspiration in our spiritual development and growth. We’ll explore various practices and reflections to make this come alive.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-25 From "Let Go" to "Let's Go": Provided we know where we are (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Inquiry has to start with acknowledging where we are now, then further discernment will tell us a bit more about the why. Based on the morning instructions on the 4 Elements we come to know more about the dynamics of our life, i.e. the body and mind and the whole universe.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 Day 3: Metta Sit with Guidance (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:13
Brian Lesage
Forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-25 Day 3 Instructions: Four Elements Meditation 50:29
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-25 Day 3 Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:54
Matthew Brensilver
Feeling and Internal Dialogue
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Intentions for Practice and the Jewel of Curiosity (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:55
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

2017-05-24 Day 2: Metta sit with Guidance: Related to Examining Reality (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 26:55
Sayadaw U Jagara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-24 The Mind - Lost and Found 45:58
Lila Kate Wheeler
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-05-24 Meditation: Opening to the River of Aliveness 17:22
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. “This river of sensation ceaselessly vibrating… tingling… flowing… let it live through you.” “Completely relax with this ever changing dance of sound and sensation.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 The Reality of Change: Embracing this Living Dying World 53:02
Tara Brach
“What is it that allows us to open our hearts to every moment of our life? It’s the remembrance that it’s passing and it’s precious.” Our true refuge is reality – only by opening to “things as they are” do we find true peace and freedom. This talk explores impermanence – a key feature of reality. We look at our habits of resisting change – including loss and death, the practices that awaken and open us, and the gifts of letting go into the ever-changing river of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence 18:50
Tara Brach
We start with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then the attention opens to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-05-24 Pleasure & Displeasure 55:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-24 Instructions & Guided Meditation 36:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-05-24 Internal And External Mindfulness 55:44
Pamela Weiss

2017-05-24 Examining Reality: Preparing Ourselves by Grounding in Ethical Integrity 53:59
Nikki Mirghafori
This talk was given on the second day of a week-long retreat entitled, "Examining Reality". Four ways of practicing with sila (virtue) from the Visuddhimagga are discussed. The talk ends with an invitation to examine our assumptions about our physical experience of reality. Recorded at Spirit Rock at "Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2017-05-24 The Last Meal Blessing 1:31
Ayya Medhanandi
Pāli chanting for all the retreat yogis with a brief Dhamma reflection and blessings for the good kamma and happiness of all beings.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-24 I Would Have Wanted More, But I Never Wanted Other (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:04:21
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-24 Standing for the Dhamma 7:56
Ayya Medhanandi
Standing up in pure presence is one of the four great postures. In this simple act of being present, know one mind-moment at a time, repeatedly. Grateful for one breath, one posture, one point, we gain balance and poise. We allow our suffering to dissolve in the suffering of all the world. This is how we stand for the Dhamma in a practical way – with the body; and in a practice way – with compassion and understanding of the Dhamma.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  When Truth Speaks Out

2017-05-24 Day 2: Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 16:45
Brian Lesage
Opening to the Pleasant and Noting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

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