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Dharma Talks
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

2015-10-09 The Four Great Elements - the Four Great essentials 58:43
Marcia Rose
How ultimately and mindfully connected are you to these most basic and universal experiences...your body in its elemental nature. This talk includes a guided meditation to put you in touch with the direct experience of the body as earth, water, fire and air elements
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-09 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 2) 46:46
Martin Aylward
In this follow-up, Martin continues to look at the purificatory nature of dharma practice, opening up a space to meet and transform the impact of past habit energy. The teaching deconstructs the notion of karma, and maps the purification of mind-states.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-09 Morning Instructions 51:15
Martin Aylward
Recognizing states. Skilful response to how the mind is. Body and mind as a unified field of experience.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-08 Perception and Papanca 53:51
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-08 "The Truth of Suffering and the Way That Leads to the End of Suffering" 59:39
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-08 Afternoon Teachings - Practice as Purification (Part 1) 48:14
Martin Aylward
This teaching examines our problematic associations with ideas of Purity, and explores ways that the practice of sitting meditation can be purificatory - both in terms of developing wholesome qualities, and in healing and releasing stored tension patterns.
Gaia House Awake in Our Bones

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