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Dharma Talks
2016-01-06 Meditation Instructions - Intentions 49:57
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-06 Reactions to adjustments to a retreat form 50:18
Ajahn Sucitto
need to take a long view of spiritual development; caution with idealism; moving from head to heart; the importance of checking in with yourself; listening sympathetically internally; trusting the retreat form; taking it steady to steady the citta; patience; recalling, it’s like “this” now; dukka is not personal, not ‘mine ‘; good will points to the exit; Christian sin /guilt and Buddhist “bap”/ bad karma; going into the head closes down the heart; gestures and offerings of courtesies to others; dana – the spirit of the heart; sila – manufacturing mutual harmlessness; metta, karuna, enjoying gladness and goodness; anumodana; dissolving the boundaries of self and other; seeing what the citta responds to; equanimity – it’s like this now; the citta can be bigger than the conditions it meets; the measurelessness of awareness; living in the wide sphere; thanking mistakes as a necessary way of learning

2016-01-06 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings – English chanting 3:38
Ajahn Sucitto

2016-01-06 Morning talk 37:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Wanting and not wanting it like this; What’s helpful now without finding a word; the essential stepping back; conditions that change; good will towards oneself; waking up the citta from its numbness; pausing and checking in; what’s helpful now? [sound quality issues]

2016-01-05 Beyond Ideas Of Right And Wrong 52:15
Catherine McGee
Cultivating the path of skillful action
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-05 No Comparisons - Working with The Judging Mind 62:29
James Baraz
How we get caught in comparing and judging and skillful ways to work with this practice challenge.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-01-05 Evening Chanting – English 13:32
Ajahn Sucitto

2016-01-05 Compassion and Joy - A Guided Meditation 43:04
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-05 Standing guidance 14:27
Ajahn Sucitto

2016-01-05 Q and A 36:40
Ajahn Sucitto
early group issues; dealing with energies; developing and using awareness of the body; pausing; concentrating and noting; taking only the “oh yeah!” from talks and instructions; guidelines for investigating traumatic experience; allowing energy to rest and come back; reclining meditation

2016-01-05 Standing and walking 16:09
Ajahn Sucitto
a standing taster - posture basics and refinements of attention; healing processes; walking – composed. flowing, balanced movement

2016-01-05 Right view 43:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Right view; qualities of the citta; recognizing awareness and attention; the mutual support of body and mind; difficult mind states /letting go; using the internal body sense to deal with “this”; tuning into incremental subtleties

2016-01-05 Orientation 51:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Orientation to chanting; suggestions for sitting; importance of posture; using pause moments

2016-01-04 Layers Of Wisdom 58:48
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-04 Seeing Anew 61:39
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Meditation Class Dharma Talk from January 4th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-04 Practicing With Mindstates 50:21
Catherine McGee
Recognizing a mind state within a continuity of awareness, rather than a construct of self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 Translations, Numbers, and the Anguttara Nikaya -- Shaila Catherine Interviews Pali Scholar John Kelly About His Work on the English Translation of the Numerical Discourses 48:24
Shaila Catherine, John Kelly
This is a recorded dialog between Shaila Catherine and John Kelly. Shaila is a Dharma Teacher in San Jose, California who leads local and online sutta study courses; John Kelly is a Pali Scholar in Australia. John assisted Bhikkhu Bodhi on the production of the English translation of the Numerical Discourses. Shaila and John share their impressions and insights regarding of this ancient text, highlighting the practical relevance of these teachings for contemporary lay people.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2016-01-03 The End Of Seperation 60:45
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on how we see through the appearance of separation and, experientially correct, with the non separate nature of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 The Principle Behind Our Practice 58:42
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-01-03 Guided Space Equanimity and Compassion Meditation 45:28
Catherine McGee
Includes chanting, recognizing space can be balancing and intimately tender.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness - Afternoon Session 2:35:37
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-03 The Buddha's Path of Well Being and Happiness - Morning Session 3:17:10
Howard Cohn
This day of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of Mindfulness, Concentration and Love, illustrating how each of us can move from clinging and attachment to freedom, from confusion to clarity and from tension to well- being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-03 Morning Meditation Instructions - Receptivity 56:20
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 The Four Or Five Elements 1:10:11
Catherine McGee
Attending to experience through the lense of the elements, fire, water, earth, air and space. Expanding the range of ways of knowing and seeing experience returns us to the sacred.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-01-02 Metta Practice 41:36
Pascal Auclair
Instructions and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

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