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Dharma Talks in English
2016-03-12 Boundless compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity 61:42
Gregory Kramer
Receiving with compassion what is difficult / receiving joy / experiencing mutual equanimity. Guided meditation on the boundless with Open for the first 14:15 minutes. " there is an aspect of Open that is establishing the field of awareness that is the atmosophere in which Metta arises." Four part contemplation, first two separate speaker, last one the entire group 1. "Observe the opening of awareness to every cell of the vody, naming what it is like. This awareness is inclusive and spacious." Contemplate something in your life that is difficult, feeling your heart vibrating with the pain". " Be present to the pain waith compassion for this being, the compassionate response". "Listener, how was it like to receive this?" 2. Now the gift of our practice is to touch joy, something positive, wholesome, uplifting. Let it infuse you, vibrate within you." Listener, touch the experience of hearing about joy. 3." Whatever experience that might be present of mutual or sympathetic equanimity,where the heart balances together." 4. "What is manifesting now? Resting perhaps in the shared human experience of the whole of it; the hurt, the joy the boundless."
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Three kinds of Dukkha 21:44
Gregory Kramer
Dyad with separate speakers for the first two contemplations 1. straight-forward suffering. The pain can be proliferated and held up and at this micro-level flips into Dukka-dukka 2.the dukka of impermanence, that comes with the instability of things and our responses " Give attention to the quality of receiving." " What is it like to be speaking of this pain of impermanence....; to be hearing it?" 3.the suffering associated waith constructions and the constructing mind "Those images that come and haunt the mind." "That ongoing tumult of the body-mind responding to its own fabrications." "Can we get off the bus?"
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Attending to dukkHa with Relax, Receive 12:59
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Food for the Heart 28:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Impermanence of sense contact Shift to a more reliable refuge Embracing the cascade of self with goodwill Things have to arise before they can pass away Non-self as base to see self The only way out is kindness & mutuality
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-12 Exploring 'contact' with other human beings 20:36
Gregory Kramer
This contemplation was for a group of four.
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Pause to touch and be touched by the world 21:29
Gregory Kramer
Insight Dialogue Community (SatiSphere) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-03-12 Body Meditation 31:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Being embodied, sitting and standing meditation
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-12 Generosity is Enlightenment 57:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Giving from the Heart Generosity expects no results Being made into an "it" Mutuality - from "you" to "we" Differentiated consciousness - and beyond Softening and mercy
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-11 Compassion: The only thing that makes sense. 54:21
Nikki Mirghafori
The talk discusses what compassion is, what it is not, its relationship to the other brahma viharas and finally, why practice compassion. Some research studies are also discussed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-11 Guided Meditation 59:45
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

2016-03-11 Sitting on Potential Found in Body-Mind 66:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Arriving Potential Guided meditation (with rain) Posture No past, no future, rhythmic breathing, Trust breath Refuge and Precepts
Dharmagiri Healing the Cracks: Generosity and Interdependence

2016-03-11 Friday Night Dharma And Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:15:43
Kevin Griffin
Opening Comments and Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-11 Friday Night Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 35:55
Kevin Griffin
Step Three of the Twelve Step Program
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-10 "The Brightness of Awareness: An Evening with Catherine Ingram" 60:54
James Baraz, Catherine Ingram
James guest is Catherine Ingram, long time vipassana practitioner (with James on his first retreat in 1974 and IMS staff member in the 70's) as well as beloved non-dual teacher. After her talk and dialogues with the audience, James and Catherine have a conversation about applying the non-dual perspective in daily life situations.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-03-10 Opening Talk with Guided Meditation 1:20:36
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Teachings from the Wilderness

2016-03-10 Wisdom is Happening 59:45
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-09 Embodied Awareness- Embracing Unlived Life - Part 1 1:16:44
Tara Brach
When we disconnect from the aliveness of our body, we are in a trance that prevents us from living and loving fully. These two talks examine our habits of dissociation, and the suffering of “unlived life” that this creates. We then look at how practices of mindfulness and compassion, guided by the acronym RAIN, enable us to re-enter our bodies, and discover the creativity, love and wisdom that naturally flow from embodied awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-03-09 Mindfulness is Compassionate Awareness 54:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Dharma talk with Sylvia Boorstein from Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-03-09 Starting Where You Are 59:13
Phillip Moffitt
A description of how clearly seeing the 5 aggregates can bring freedom from clinging in any moment. This clear seeing allows us to start where you are in your practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-09 Day 11 Brahma Vihara Practice: Metta for All Beings 42:35
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-09 What is Insight--and What Good Is It? 38:36
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-03-08 Unstuck from the World 36:28
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-03-08 The End of Separation 62:36
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2016-03-08 Six Sense Spheres and Reflections on Long Retreat 54:37
Anushka Fernandopulle
Fourth foundation of mindfulness, six sense spheres, Bahiya sutta, advice on long retreats. Eat what's on your plate!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Monthlong

2016-03-07 The Way Things Are 2:00:02
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

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