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2023-07-12 Mindfulness: a Buddhist context to sati 51:19
Akincano Marc Weber
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation

2023-07-12 Raising up with puja 10:09
Ajahn Sucitto
We use puja to exercise and develop our heart quality of honouring and respecting.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-12 Becoming Alive Again ~ Stepping out of the hamster wheel of repetition 53:36
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-07-12 Talk #6: The Second Tetrad 50:49
Sayadaw U Jagara
The objctive of the Second Tetrad is discussed in a broad framework - with doctrine readings and humor-filled anecdotes - to inspire us to reflect on our life's objective.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-12 Guided Naikan Reflections, followed by guided Energy Body Practice 39:39
Victor von der Heyde
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-12 Cultivating Wise Speech 1 61:26
Donald Rothberg
We look first at the importance of wise speech, the way that it forms an integral part of the path of awakening, the way that it is often underdeveloped in Western Buddhist practice, for various reasons, and some of the challenges of speech. We then examine three aspects of wise speech practice: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) integrating our practice to be mindful and skillful with thoughts, emotions, and body states with our speech practice. The talk is followed by discussion, focused especially on some challenging relational and speech situations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-07-12 Alms and Food Offering 7:48
Laura Bridgman
Ajahn Laura describes the form, process and dynamic of offering alms.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-12 Unselfish Joy and Naikan Practice 16:33
Victor von der Heyde
A brief overview of the cultivation of unselfish joy and an introduction to Naikan practice. There was about 25 minutes of Q and A taken out from the Naikan section, but what's left still gives a fair overview.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-12 Morning Reflections #10: Sukka (Step 6) 39:49
Sayadaw U Jagara
Reflections on two sources of sukka: the object and the body. Three signs for the quality of observation for sukkha: sign of effort, sign of samadhi, sign of equanimity. ( AN:3,102)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-12 Morning instructions 48:57
Yuka Nakamura
Settling in and gathering the mind. Mindfulness of body and breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation

2023-07-12 Responding to the call of spirit, of faith 60:20
Ajahn Sucitto
We use our practice for understanding the direct and intimate experience. This experience cannot be predicted, imposed or demanded, but it arises, offering itself for our careful attention.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-11 Steps towards an Enchanted World View 28:35
Victor von der Heyde
Exploring some of the possibilities when there's less clinging to a materialist world view
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-11 Learning to Walk with the World 35:28
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-07-11 Guided Meditation: touchpoints, energy body, vastness of awareness 29:47
Victor von der Heyde
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-11 Guided Meditation: Anatta and Energy Body practice 39:48
Victor von der Heyde
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-11 Opening Session and Meditation (LB) 20:14
Laura Bridgman
Formalizing our relationship to values of harmlessness, trustworthiness and respect in retreat, can remind us of what matters and let us land into a softer heart.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-11 Morning Reflections #9: Piti (Step 5) 40:56
Nikki Mirghafori
Reflections of various renditions of Piti from the Patisambhidamagga. And the natural cascade of arising of piti through the Seven Factors of Awakening, as outlined in the Anapanasati Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-11 ‘Welcome to Gaia’ guided meditation on the interconnected cosmos. 29:15
Ajahn Sucitto
The initial disorientation of entering a retreat is useful. It reveals how familiarity breeds stagnation, blinding us to the deeper reality and vitality of being alive.
Gaia House Unrestricted Awareness

2023-07-10 Anatta: overview and practice description 23:11
Victor von der Heyde
Practice section outlines one of the practices in the Seeing That Frees book.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-10 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 5 - Mindful Awareness - Meditation 34:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-10 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 5 - Mindful Awareness - Talk 53:33
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-10 Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:55
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

2023-07-10 Talk #5: Second Tetrad and Step 5 59:43
Nikki Mirghafori
Overview of the second tetrad, with emphasis on step five (piti); five kinds of piti presented and five jhanic factors as preparation for jhanas and antidotes to hinderances.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-10 Guided meditation on Allowing, reducing the push and pull (Dukkha Method 2) 27:07
Victor von der Heyde
Instructions for the first three minutes, then the guided meditation starts.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-10 Guided Meditation on reducing clinging: Dukkha method 2, Part 1 16:22
Victor von der Heyde
Guided meditation on one of the practices described in the book "Seeing That Frees" related to the perception of dukkha.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-10 Instructions and guided meditation: Breath practice followed by Dukkha Method 1 30:01
Victor von der Heyde
The "Dukkha Method 1" practice related to the practice described in the book Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising". The first 12 minutes are a description of the two practices, the guided meditation starts after that.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-10 Morning Reflections #8: Calming Bodily Formations (Step 4) 35:00
Sayadaw U Jagara
Different perspectives offered for relaxing the bodily fabrications.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-10 The Present Moment is a Temple 1:56:06
Dana DePalma
This guided meditation goes through the Arriving Sequence, including arriving in the present moment, becoming available to practice, and aligning with our deepest values. Having established ourselves thus, we deepen into the felt sense of presence and aliveness. Includes Mary Oliver’s poem, Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me. This talk follows the guided meditation from the same evening and continues the exploration of the Arriving Sequence and the felt sense of presence and aliveness. The Arriving Sequence includes arriving in the present moment, becoming available to practice, and aligning with our deepest values. Includes a short guided meditation to demonstrate the steps of the Arriving Sequence and turning toward aliveness and presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2023-07-09 Perceptions of Dukkha, and ways of looking related to Dukkha 21:53
Victor von der Heyde
Outline of ways of looking practices with a focus on dukkha and three practices related to dukkha
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-09 Goodwill supervises the Path 37:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Our life is the ever-changing experience of ourselves and the world around us - internally and externally. Cultivating goodwill provides stability for piloting this interaction.
Hartridge Monestary

2023-07-09 What Does It Mean To Be Free? 42:04
Pamela Weiss
Drawing on teachings from the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta and the Upādānas, this talk explores walking the path as radical reorientation, and the relationship between freedom and letting go.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-07-09 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 59:13
Donald Rothberg
The Buddha famously said, "I teach dukkha and the end of dukkha." Yet what does this core statement of the teachings mean? In this talk, we explore at least four meanings of dukkha in the discourses; not recognizing these different meanings can lead to considerable confusion. Only one of these four meanings of dukkha, dukkha as reactivity, helps us to understand directly "the end of dukkha." We look particularly at the teachings of the Two Arrows and of Dependent Origination to support the understanding of dukkha as reactivity, clarifying some of the complexities of the teaching (including that very commonly our reactivity is mixed with some insight, pointing to how what is important is to "transform" reactivity rather than simply suppress it or get rid of it). Lastly, we suggest a number of different ways to practice with reactivity. The talk is followed by a period of discussion.
Benicia Insight Meditation

2023-07-09 Practice Not Complaining 1:13:11
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-07-09 Death: guided meditation followed by reflection 21:52
Victor von der Heyde
A guided meditation bringing and awareness of death to present experience, see what comes from this perspective, followed by a reflection on the uncertainty of the time of death and our priorities.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-09 Pleasure and Insight 11:48
Bernat Font
London Insight Meditation Bernat Font – The Dharma of Pleasure

2023-07-09 Early Buddhism as a refined form of hedonism 25:31
Bernat Font
London Insight Meditation Bernat Font – The Dharma of Pleasure

2023-07-09 Guided meditation on abiding in the good 25:52
Bernat Font
London Insight Meditation Bernat Font – The Dharma of Pleasure

2023-07-09 Guided meditation on enjoying the breath 28:54
Bernat Font
London Insight Meditation Bernat Font – The Dharma of Pleasure

2023-07-09 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Secluding the Mind - Week 3 - Meditation 35:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-09 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Secluding the Mind - Week 3 - Talk 38:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-09 Enjoying what is good 16:56
Bernat Font
London Insight Meditation Bernat Font – The Dharma of Pleasure

2023-07-09 Anicca Practice: Guided Meditation 39:39
Victor von der Heyde
Practice cultivating a felt sense of transience
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-08 Cultivating the perception of Anicca / Transience 26:45
Victor von der Heyde
A short section on metta practice at the beginning, followed by an overview of the perceptions of anicca, dukkha and anatta. Then a focus on one particular anicca practice
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-08 Talk #4: All of Life in One Breath 47:41
Sayadaw U Jagara
A review of the first tetrad discussing adjusting the mode of observation. For samatha mode, the preliminary signs of breath touch is calmed to a perception of the feint effect of the breathing process.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-08 Metta to phenomena: overview and guided practice 21:17
Victor von der Heyde
An introduction to metta to phenomena. Guided meditation starts at 6 minutes
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-08 Introduction to Samadhi / Energy Body practice, with short guided meditation 34:17
Victor von der Heyde
An overview of samadhi / energy body practice with a guided meditation starting at 17 min 30 secs.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Seeing That Frees

2023-07-08 The Book Of Dana. Developing Positive Emotions. 65:12
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2023-07-08 Morning Reflections #7: Anapanasati (Step 4) 40:47
Nikki Mirghafori
Guided instructions for calming bodily formations
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-08 Morning Instructions - The Four A's (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:51
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

2023-07-07 Concentration and the Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:18
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Awareness 2023

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