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Dharma Talks
2015-10-13 02 Body Meditation 50:50
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Letting Go

2015-10-13 01 Letting Go: Suffering, Impermanence, Not-Self, and the Aggregates 1:14:43
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Letting Go

2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
Sally Armstrong
In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-12 Practice as a Path of Happiness 68:49
James Baraz
Dharma practice is not only about learning to be with suffering. Cultivating wholesome states and noticing when they're here is an essential part of practice that leads to the highest happiness. This talk includes some teachings of the Buddha on how to develop happiness in our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-12 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 66:04
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-10-12 Heart Meditation: Loving Presence 33:54
Tara Brach
Lovingkindness (Metta) meditation begins with a smile meditation, then proceeds with calling on loving presence with someone easy to love, then self, others and extending out to the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-12 Climate Change: Waking Up in a Changing World 61:42
Mark Coleman
Monday Night Meditation Dharma Talk for Earth Care Week
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-11 An Independent Abiding 49:58
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Wisdom - Week 1 58:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2015-10-11 On The Wings of the Breath 17:38
Ayya Medhanandi
Using the breath to move into the silent space in the heart and attentively following its rhythm, the breath becomes our whole world. We let go of all objects that arise, all thought, as we stay present and aware in the simple current of breathing. In these moments of pure presence, we are planting the priceless seeds of our awakening.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2015-10-10 Guided Heart: Metta 101 37:38
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Afternoon Teachings - Countering Self-Centredness 49:35
Martin Aylward
Our practice offers the opportunity to move beyond a self-centred relationship to life, yet much of our practice is centered on the self! This talk explores dharma practices and skilful means by which to counter our self-centredness and points us towards the ultimate transparency of our sense of self.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-10 Mindful Eating 7:58
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Magnificent Consent with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander. Part Three of Three. 21:23
Arinna Weisman
How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-10 Magnificent Consent with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander Part Two of Three 16:03
Arinna Weisman
How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-10 Magnificent Consent with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander. Part One of Three 15:09
Arinna Weisman
How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-10 Walking Meditation Instructions (includes a sitting "walking" practice) 8:44
La Sarmiento
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 10:05
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Day Four - Morning Instructions 45:10
Martin Aylward
The nature of experience. The open field of experience and the open embrace of Awareness. Meditation with no body, no mind, no world.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-10 Morning Instruction and Meditation 30:00
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-10 Morning Reflection On Bowing - Excerpts from "Arctic Dreams" by Barry Lopez 5:37
Marcia Rose
Why do we bow? What or who are we bowing to? Author and naturalist Barry Lopez writes about these questions in a very essential way - directly from his own experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-10 10-Minute Basic Guided Meditation 10:30
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Compassion and the Law 1:27:20
Norman Fischer
A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Effective Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective Retreat

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong
The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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