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Dharma Talks
2023-09-05 Emptiness & the Eye of the Heart 57:45
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-05 Wholehearted Livelihood 36:37
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2023-09-05 Online Evening Dharma Talk 57:52
Lama Rod Owens
Gaia House Finding Freedom in the Midst of Chaos (evening, online)

2023-09-05 Ayya Dhammadipa and Stephen Steiner | Tuesday Tune In 67:12
Dhammadīpā
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-09-05 Afternoon - Questions for the Lineage of Your Heart 16:31
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-05 Morning Instructions - Your Only Task Today is to Love 44:23
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-04 Eve - Emptiness; 'The World as Sacred Text' 52:02
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-04 Afternoon - Movement Practice; 'Joy' - with a Light Touch 42:12
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-04 Morning Instructions - Energy Body and the Brahma Viharas 43:38
Yahel Avigur
This recording also includes Monica Atunes (Walking Meditation Guidance)
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-04 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:40:58
James Baraz, Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, Terry Vandiver, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-03 Paticca-samuppada - Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 37:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn investigates the steps of dependent co-arising. First part of a two-part talk.
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-09-03 Eve - The Four Directions; Chanting 50:12
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-03 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:05
James Baraz
The Buddha said our suffering is caused by three activities of mind: greed, hatred, and delusion. And he said that the source of all happiness is rooted in their opposites: non-greed, non-hatred, non-delusion. This talk explains how our practice transforms that suffering into the true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-03 Guided Meditation - A living animated experience 15:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2023-09-03 Do No Harm: Exploring the Buddhist Precepts 40:27
Pamela Weiss
This talk unfolds teachings on sila, Buddhist ethics. It will explore the precepts as the heart of the Path, and share how we can use them to stay awake in daily life.
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2023-09-03 Grief, Refuge, and Liberation 62:36
Kate Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2023-09-03 Afternoon - Intentions; Inquiry; Short Practice w Benevolent Other 28:14
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-03 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 3 - Meditation 33:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-09-03 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 3 - Talk 39:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-09-03 Morning Instructions - 'The Body as Basis' and Guided Practice 44:35
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart: Tracing a Path to Soulfulness

2023-09-03 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:03
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-02 Nothing Can Make You Happier than You Are 58:33
Howard Cohn
Insight Meditation reintroduces us to our natural peace and well being and shows us the difference between the immediate experience of ourselves and the version of ourselves that plays in our minds. That story is one of hope and desire, reinforcing the feeling that happiness cannot be found right now but must wait for the right conditions to be achieved. This misplaced faith must be seen through.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-02 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:59
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-01 32 reflections: Navigating transitions 23:22
Willa Thaniya Reid, Elizabeth Day
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-09-01 Relationship Between Vipassana and the Four Brahmaviharas (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:58
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-01 The Sound of Silence 22:20
Ayya Medhanandi
Can we quieten the mind enough to hear that divine frequency of the heart’s innermost chamber? Into that stillness, we come, softly, humbly – to try – and we persevere, secluded from the noise of the world. As the fevers of wanting are purified, we devote our attention to the serene sound of silence, sublime and joyous. We are bathed as if by a holy baptism, eager to receive the gifts of the true Dhamma. So we practise, patient with our own work and patient with all the world.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2023-09-01 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 29:13
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-09-01 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 34:27
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 3 - Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-09-01 Guided Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:52
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-09-01 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:13
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-08-31 Guided Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 19:13
Tuere Sala, Eve Decker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-08-31 30 talk: An overview of the Noble Eightfold Path 35:57
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-31 Beyond the Comparing Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:09
James Baraz
We have a deeply ingrained tendency to compare ourselves with others or with an idealized standard that is bound to create suffering in the mind. The Buddha called this tendency mana "the conceit of I am." When we through see through our identification with experience we open to a freedom beyond the comparing mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-08-31 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Guided Meditation 31:42
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-08-31 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 - Talk 32:37
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and Compassion Working Together Part 2 -Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-08-31 29 reflection: Release the grip; come into full awareness 19:29
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-31 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:14:53
Howard Cohn, James Baraz, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-08-31 Craving the end of craving 46:13
Walt Opie
The Buddha often pointed to craving as the cause of our suffering. Walt explores how craving arises and how we might come to the end of craving. Ajahn Sucitto said, "In fact, our craving is about something we don’t have... The source is the ‘not having.’" When we start to see this with mindfulness and clear comprehension, we have more freedom to choose healthy habits over unhealthy habits, and we can begin to value the wholesome over the unwholesome. This can eventually become the condition for great happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-08-30 Opening Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:25:38
James Baraz, Eve Decker, Howard Cohn, Terry Vandiver, Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Retreat

2023-08-30 Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly 18:08
Tara Brach
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-30 The Honesty Challenge – Getting More Truthful with Ourselves and Our World 50:24
Tara Brach
Most of us value honesty yet are not aware of how regularly we avoid facing what’s difficult inside us, and how we are less than truthful with others. This talk explores the practice of radical self-honesty as the grounds of being more honest with others, and bringing more love and freedom to our lives. We close with a quote by Danna Faulds from her book:
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-30 Listen to More-Than-Human Authorities and Awaken to a Larger Context 47:43
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2023-08-30 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together - Part 1 - Talk 30:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2023-08-30 Wisdom and Compassion Working Together - Part 1 - Meditation 30:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2023-08-30 27 meditation: exploring the insubstantiality of experience 52:25
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with physical sensations, knowing them as impermanent and insubstantial, then opening to sounds and mental activity; simply recognising experiences being known, without identifying with them as I, me, or mine
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-29 26 talk: An overview of the Five Clinging-Aggregates, based on the Phena Sutta 34:30
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-29 Tuesday Tune In 57:43
Dhammadīpā
Class with meditation and talk.
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-08-29 Tuesday Tune In (en español) 51:11
Dhammadīpā
Interpretación simultánea para el programa virtual esta noche y todos los martes.
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-08-28 25 talk: Exploring the Awakening Factors 31:11
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the seven awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy (pītī), tranquility, samādhi and equanimity, and how these work together to support conducive conditions for insight to arise
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-28 23 reflection: Third Establishment of Mindfulness, citta or heart-mind 26:37
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

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