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Dharma Talks
2024-06-20 Retreat Closing 17:52
Ayya Santussika
Closing questions and advice
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-20 The five hindrances 48:26
Cara Lai
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-20 GM - standing 23:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence 21:58
Tara Brach
The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-06-19 Q&A 4 62:36
Ayya Santussika
The final Q&A and the final evening for this retreat.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Touching the earth 41:29
Cara Lai
From the Plum Village tradition ceremony
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-19 Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution 56:36
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-06-19 Metta Meditation 24:10
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided metta meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 2 63:52
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief reflection on today's holiday, Juneteenth. Then we review last week's initial exploration of practicing with views, including (1) identifying the main teachings on views given by the Buddha, and (2) three basic ways to practice with views, including developing mindfulness of views, inquiring when there is a charge related to another's view, and developing careful listening. This review is followed by bringing in several further ways to understand and practice with views, including working with a specific teaching and letting the "view [coming from the teaching] be the meditation," exploring how sometimes to rest in a kind of unknowing, and then how awakening lies beyond views and concepts. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views 36:07
Donald Rothberg
After initial instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then mindfulness, there are further instructions, given after 10 and after 20 minutes, on developing more mindfulness of views, stories, and narratives (related to the talk given after the meditation). At the end, there is an invitation to reflect on views or stories that have been prominent in the last few days.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 GM - sitting basics 12:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Reflections on the Teaching in Brief 20:05
Ayya Santussika
Are we really practicing? What do we need to use right now?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:15
James Baraz
This meditation shifts from focusing on objects in our experience to the awareness in which all objects appear and disappear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-19 Morning Instructions: Consciousness 53:06
Andrea Fella
A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, followed by further reflections.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-19 Using the khandha 48:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Amplifying skilful states 45:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Pali sounds - chanting guidance 34:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn provides a guide to resonant sound production, Pali pronunciation and leads a mantra.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-18 Q&A 42:24
Ajahn Sucitto
02:00 Q1 Regarding the sankaras, is it possible for feelings to land on contact without being in the realm of sankaras? If so how would this perception manifest? 17:15 Q2 Could you please explain the distinction between mental formations and consciousness. 30:02 Q3 Some questions on mindfulness of breathing. Should we regulate the breath and use the length of the breath as the object of mindfulness? 38:24 Q4 Can you speak about the third tetrad of the anapanasati sutta.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-18 Facing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:20
Trudy Goodman
This talk is about a recent near death experience and the choice to live, exploring how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-18 Observing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment as an Aspect of Dhamma 36:43
Ayya Santussika
AN 8.63, MN 10 4.1-4.4, SN 46.16, SN 46.3
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Evening Talk: Five Aggregates and Emptiness 60:07
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Meditation 28:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Talk 57:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-18 Three Characteristic 16:30
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided meditation on dukkha, anicca, anatta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Observing the Five Hindrances as an Aspect of Dhamma 35:00
Ayya Santussika
"I'll meditate observing an aspect of Dhamma" from AN 8.63, specifically looking at the five hindrances from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

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