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2015-08-29 Untangling Through the Tangle - The hindrances as our doorway to liberation 59:45
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
True North Insight Freedom Through Understanding

2015-08-23 Transforming the Hindrances 1:10:36
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-20 Noble Search and Rescue 46:54
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we stay true to our spiritual aspirations and work to fulfill them without compromise? Diligence in our practice is a great resource for growing the endurance, patience, and courage we will need to guard the mind against the hindrances and keep our focus on present moment awareness. This is the way to free ourselves from all suffering. And it is also a gift we can offer to help others through life's inevitable trials.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2015-08-05 Mining the Gems of the Hindrances 64:18
Dori Langevin
When we can wisely relate to grasping, aversion, sleepiness/dullness, restlessness/worry and doubt as visitors rather than enemies, they can transform into their wisdom nature. Note: Description of the gem of sleepiness is at the end of the next morning's instructional sit.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat for Young Adults

2015-07-24 Mindfulness and Metta With the Hindrances 58:30
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2015-06-24 Self Compassion and Hindrances 59:23
Diana Winston
This talk weaves together the theme of self-compassion with how to work with hindrances that arise when we practice. We explore working with our minds, cultivating kindness for ourselves, and the recognition of our shared humanity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2015-06-23 Wise Attention 46:29
Sayadaw U Jagara
Wise attention deals with how we are directing our mind. We have the ability to choose what we think about, and how we pay attention. Wise attention can be divided into two parts. First, it deals with guarding the mind, so we can maintain a balanced mind, and protect the mind from various kinds of defilement such as the five hindrances. Second, wise attention encompasses the development of our mind, which starts with improving the quality of our observation. This improvement then leads to understanding, clarity and wisdom.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-06-14 First Evening Talk - The Hindrances 45:33
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Touching the Earth - Insight Meditation, Reflection and Ritual

2015-06-04 Day Three: Morning Instructions on working with hindrances and difficult mind states 42:24
Adrianne Ross
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Teachings of the Path of Awakening

2015-05-21 Working with Hindrances and What Brings Us to the Practice 62:41
Bob Stahl
Insight Santa Cruz (Insight Retreat Center) Cultivating Wisdom & Compassion

2015-05-09 Skillful Ways of Working with the Hindrances and Introduction to Convergence 53:45
Bob Stahl
How to work with the hindrances that come up in meditation practice and an Introduction to how the Dhamma informs all Mindfulness-Based Approaches.
Insight Santa Cruz (Copper Beech Institute) Convergence: The Meeting of the Insight Meditation Tradition and all Mindfulness-Based Approaches

2015-04-29 Mindfulness Of Dhammas 40:11
Ayya Anandabodhi
How can we transform the hindrances into the path of awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Listening to Natural Law: Monastic Retreat

2015-04-05 Hindrances - How They Manifest (2) 27:44
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-04 Hindrances - How They Manifest (eve talk) 66:50
Akincano Marc Weber
Gaia House Practising Presence - Touching the Still Heart

2015-04-01 The Buddha and Mara are Homies 49:12
Noah Levine
The 5 Hindrances and the path of mindful awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation for the Curious Retreat

2015-03-06 Approach to Meditation seen From Danta Bhumi Sutta, MN: 125 65:38
Sayadaw U Jagara
MN:125 dealing with renunciation, virtue, sense control, mindfulness, the hindrances and entry to satipatthana by insight. Followed by tranquility. A variant of the gradual training
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-02-22 Wholeness Through The Broken "Heart 54:01
Lila Kate Wheeler
Five hindrances with a metta flavour
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2015-02-04 Navigating Difficulty: the Five Hindrances 43:05
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on navigating the five hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-01-26 Self-view and the Fourth Satipatthana 58:57
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Here we look at fourth satipatthana and its specific instructions on what to see and how to see it—the five hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of awakening, and the four noble truths—with an eye to realizing how this practice helps us overcome self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-01-25 Morning Instructions: Awareness of Hindrances, Day 3 16:22
Kamala Masters
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Integration of Love and Wisdom

2015-01-12 Deconstructing the Layers of Self-View 57:43
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
This talk includes real practice stories about working with the hindrances and seeing how we deconstruct the layers of self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-01-04 Morning Instructions 50:06
Catherine McGee
Handling the spans of the mind in meditation. Recognizing hindrances and waking up.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-01-03 Hindrances: What Happens Really 65:24
Akincano Marc Weber
Contextualising of Nivarana and identifying their psychological manifestations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-11-03 Meeting the Challenges, Working with the Hindrances 54:26
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2014-11-02 Recognizing the Hindrances as they arise 24:07
Gregory Kramer
Contemplation with Pause and Relax. Why we don�t know and see things as they actually are? 1. We want out/2. Too busy/3. Mind won�t settle/Pause, Relax, Open now
Insight Dialogue Community (Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Insight Dialogue Retreat

2014-10-02 A Walk through the Hindrances 55:49
Dori Langevin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-27 Guided meditation 59:32
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Mindfulness of the body feelings, emotions, thoughts, and hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23
Bhante Buddharakkhita
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-17 Meeting The Five Hindrances With Mindfulness 56:10
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Guided Meditation on the five hindrances; sense desires, ill-will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor and doubt
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-16 A Legacy of Kindness 54:09
Bob Stahl
Working with the Five Hindrances and introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-08-29 Reflection. (A) Fire simile: When and when not practice some of the awakening factors. (B) What do hindrances feed on? What are the nutriments of the awakening factors? What the texts and commentaries say. 31:25
Akincano Marc Weber
(A) Short exposition of S 53,3 / S v 112: When to practice which particular awakening factors. (B) Exposition of S 51,1 / S v 102-105: a look at a terse text and a commentary’s helpful suggestions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-28 Reflection. Dhammānupassanā. Contemplation of Mindobjects and States. 24:49
Akincano Marc Weber
Structural difference of the 4th satipaṭṭhāna in comparison to the other three. Focusing on the nivāraṇa (hindrances) and bojjhaṅga (awakening factors) as possibilities for inquiry and investigation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-11 I Give You My Bread 24:26
Ayya Medhanandi
There is no final cure for the body, but the mind can be freed. No matter how much craving, anger, sorrow, fear or obsessive negative thoughts keep storming the mind, don’t let discouragement become another hindrance. Every new moment is a chance to see these hindrances for what they are with pure awareness itself. Patient, courageous and wise, we are ready to receive the gift of ‘bread’ and to win back the boundaries of our hearts.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-07-22 The Rebellious Path of Freedom from Habits of Mind 42:49
Jason Murphy
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." Vipassana takes our untrained mind as a starting point -- with its unruliness, hindrances, clinging and aversion -- and gives it a clear and systematic way of developing awareness. With practice, this awareness of what's happening within us and around us in any given moment is the key to not being a slave to our thoughts. It also teaches us to rebel against, or turn away from, our mind's tendencies towards greed, hatred and delusion; and instead, to incline our mind towards openness, freedom from attachment, freedom from suffering, loving-kindness, compassion, wisdom, and equanimity. This is the liberating power of awareness and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-07-14 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Contemplation of Mind Objects (Dhamma)--the Five Hindrances 56:44
Bhante Khippapanno
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-07-03 Just the Hindrances 65:34
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-06-23 Working with the Five Hindrances and How the Dhamma Informs Mindfulness Based Approaches 52:56
Bob Stahl
How to work with the five hindrances and how the Dhamma informs mindfulness based approaches.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2014-06-11 Meeting the Challenges, Working with the Hindrances 46:56
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2014-05-15 Investigation of dhammas 35:39
Thanissara
Balance of samatha and vipassana. Investigation of hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-05-11 The Five Hindrances & Clear Mind 46:46
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monastic Retreat - Listening to Natural Law

2014-04-21 The Ancient City - Brambles on the Path Hindrances and Faculties 33:12
Jason Murphy
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2014-04-17 Wise Responses to Hindrances 52:48
Jake Dartington
Gaia House A Path of Freedom

2014-03-30 Dharma Series - The Five Hindrances 6:29:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-03-08 Hello, It's You Again...Meeting the Five Hindrances 58:39
Kirsten Kratz
This talk explores how we can approach the five hindrances as just another aspect of our human experience we can pay attention to, and as something we can learn and gain deeper understanding from.
Gaia House The Wise and Loving Heart

2014-02-09 The Hindrances 1:11:46
Winnie Nazarko
Mountain Hermitage The Heart’s Release with Marcia Rose and Winnie Nazarko

2014-02-05 Unexpected Insights While Dancing with the Hindrances 51:19
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Developing skill in meditation involves making peace with mental states so that we can investigate them properly and understand them correctly.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Integrated Study & Practice Program, Session 2 (1314ISPP2)

2014-02-04 Understanding and Abandoning 59:19
Andrea Fella
A perspective on working with the hindrances...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-01-15 The Difficulties Are the Gifts: Metta, Compassion and Their Hindrances 56:11
Heather Sundberg
How to bring your metta practice alive in the midst of the inevitable cycles of difficulty and purification. Stories, poems, practices and tools to help us "keep going".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center January Metta Retreat

2014-01-12 Understanding The Obstacles To Meditation 53:09
Mark Coleman
What are the hindrances to meditation - how do they manifest and how do we develop a skillful compassionate and wise relationship to them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2013-12-20 Sitting in the Center 46:33
John Travis
The talk begins with the stories and teachings of the Thai Forest meditation masters, and continues with personal stories and the teaching of 'taking the one seat'. How to work with hindrances, pleasant and unpleasant, and allow the knowing quality to shine forth; 'sitting in the center' of all things.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

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