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Dharma Talks
2014-08-27 Loving Truth - The Power of Investigation 1:19:21
Tara Brach
A key element in spiritual awakening is wise and compassionate investigation. This talk explores how investigation and inquiry (the use of questions) serves emotional healing, intimacy with others and the deepest realization of who we are.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-27 Dharma Talk 1:16:51
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-08-27 Practicing with Challenges 5 - Working with Conflict 2 66:06
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore how to practice with conflicts, focusing especially on the vision of non-dual conflict transformation and empathy, learning particularly though a series of exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-08-26 Joy On and Off of the Cushion 37:40
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2014-08-26 Awakening The Belly 53:30
Leela Sarti
The gut is sometimes referred to as the second brain. It takes guts to live and practice in this beautiful, sweet, terrible and messy existence. The more we turn to life, open to life, the more our metabolisation of stored up past experiences accelerates. Full presence in belly, heart and head makes us more open to the Nothingness that is the deepest nature of reality. When we are natural in ourselves we know how to let go.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-26 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, August 2014 53:28
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2014-08-25 Relaxinig The Heart 58:50
Leela Sarti
The heart is the territory of our being where things are made personal. It is also the place were our most difficult personal issues are located. The awakened heart is a natural expression real openess, warm acceptance and the joy of being. A fierce, beating heart is needed in order to skillfully meet and transform shame and self-judgement. The fierce heart puts gentle pressure on all our defenses and structures, and when we melt a little, into the the authenticity of our heart, we become nourished but less demanding of life. The natural curiosity and peaceful simplicity of the heart emerges.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-25 Second Morning - Joyful Living Instructions 31:30
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-24 Joy and Presence 56:27
Leela Sarti
The fragmentation of life has a chance of ending when we drop into embodied presence. When our awareness is immediate and intimate with experience we can disentangle ourselves from inner stories, commentaries, concepts, and contracted ideas. The most basic function of the personality is the reduction and the restriction of awareness, but through our own practice we free and expand awareness and learn that it can be a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediatly filling up the space. When we are open to the immediacy of life, even when it is difficult, the heart responds with kindness, equanimity and joy.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-24 Mindfulness and the Six Sense Spheres 54:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Afternoon Part I, Talk on Lovingkindness & Instructions on Metta Walking Meditation 27:24
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part III,Talk & Q&A 60:24
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part II, Talk & Q&A 33:01
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part I, Intro Talk & Guided Meditation 29:34
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 First Morning - Joyful Living Instructions 43:03
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Power and Purpose of Concentration 56:46
Sally Armstrong
Concentration plays a central role in meditation practice. In this talk I look at the different trajectories in the development of concentration and how to use that form skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-23 Opening Talk - Joyful Living 61:36
Leela Sarti
The practice of embodied mindful meditation opens the possibility to understand and transform our habits of dissatisfaction and distraction, and invites spaciousness and openness in our day-to-day lives. Becoming intimate, moment by moment, with living reality expands our life-perspective and attunes us to what really matters in life. We can invite the practice of mind-heart-body fullness and the reorienting, and inclining of the mind towards the natural capacity for well-being, contentment, delight and kindness.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Evening Talk 1:59:18
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-23 Level 3 - Guided Meditation 4NT standing and sitting (Part 3b) 35:31
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Level 3 - (Part 3a) 16:21
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Reflection. Follow-up on 3 transformations of dukkha through sati. About the recurring statement of „supported by seclusion, dispassion, cessation and maturing in surrender“. 22:11
Akincano Marc Weber
Last night’s talk in a nutshell with a few added practical reflections. A brief interpretation of a somewhat enigmatic passage that occurs many times in the Suttas together with the Awakening-Factors and the 8-fold Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Seven Factors of Awakening 61:25
Adrianne Ross
How the seven factors of awakening develop in our practice and bring balance, ease, joy and liberating insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 The meeting of Dukkha and Sati - a transformative encounter. 60:29
Akincano Marc Weber
On dukkha and what it means, on sati and its seed quality in the development of stillness, wisdom, brahmavihāra and ethics. 3 specific ways in which mindfulness transforms the experience of dukkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Metta practice, Day 7 43:29
Sally Armstrong
Radiating in 4 directions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Reflection. Satipaṭṭhāna: Learning the holding skill in meditation 20:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Meditation instructions – between the basic outline and the detailed cut-out: On informed choices, defaulting to wrong options – and learning anyway.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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