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2016-05-09 Rewilding the Wasteland ; the Arising of the Five Indriya 55:29
Ajahn Sucitto
From the “Wasteland” of samsara, (which is generated by ignorance and craving), a natural arising of spiritual strength can occur – if we ‘touch the ground’ of truth and empathy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Standing Meditation – Finding the Somatic Body 21:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Standing can put us in touch with somatic intelligence as: balance, as cohesion. Gradually the felt sense of body re-forms as a mid-line central stillness and as peripheral sensitivities and openness.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Puja: Participation not Observation 26:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Devotional practice works through including us in bodily, verbal, and heartful actions. Words and concepts are secondary to images and romances. Images of Buddha hands carry deep meaning.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Accessing ‘Ground’ – Unconditional Acceptance 13:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Awareness is often beset with thoughts, emotions, and narratives that cause a ‘jump’ into conceptual proliferation. With unconditional acceptance we hold awareness as a non-reactive ‘pool’ that receives and resonates with mind-stuff but doesn’t react.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 62:42
Tara Brach
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are too: don’t leave this companionship… The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full. - rumi
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-08 Citta and a person meet in the body. 61:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is occluded by not knowing its freedom. Citta enters the sensory condition, is ‘born’, develops a person to meet ‘the other’. Here is dukkha and personal responses to that don’t work, but dukkha can be released through citta in the body.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Standing Meditation: Finding Balance 19:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Balance is an important aspect of bodily/somatic intelligence. It is alert, free from pressure and sensitive. Attuning to this can bring these qualities into citta.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-08 Puja: Devotion as a way of bringing citta into personhood 41:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Use of one’s voice and of giving it to the sacred. Through merging one’s voice and giving into the communal field, citta can rise out of the isolation of personhood.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Compassion Slogans 65:38
Norman Fischer
About how to practice with slogans and a few specific slogans to practice with.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-07 The Bodhisattva Leaves a Retreat 65:49
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Meditation – the gift of natural ease 47:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Find ground in the body as a gift, not worked for. This opens space around the body. Breathing is another given that flows through that, establishing rhythm = natural time.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 4) Instructions for Vipassana Meditation 59:17
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-07 Guided Meditation 24:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 The Nature of Citta 59:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is awareness, heart and mind. It experiences involuntary and voluntary modes. In the involuntary is release, but the path to that is through intention, disengagement, and discernment.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Day 8 Instructions 55:20
Noah Levine
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Guided meditation instructions and questions and answers 44:56
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-07 Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness 12:17
Tara Brach
- from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Morning 1:42:54
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-06 Joy 39:08
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2016-05-06 Heart Surgery 54:18
Mary Grace Orr
Opening the heart to forgiveness and compassion. A discussion of practices that support opening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "What the Dharma Offers as We Get Older: with Anna Douglas

2016-05-06 Mindfulness and delusion: going beyond the four distortions 64:53
Mark Nunberg
Learning to see and what is changing, suffering in what is suffering, non self in what is without self, and what is un-lovely as such
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom: Insight and Metta Retreat

2016-05-06 Three Refuges 58:58
Trudy Goodman
Trust the unfolding experience of reality in Dogen’s backward step. Trust yourself as a spiritual friend.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-06 Metta. 46:25
Caroline Jones
this talk explores the crucial role kindness plays in our meditation practice and in our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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