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2024-11-14 Breath as Loving Partner: Instruction & Meditation 41:14
Trudy Goodman
Beginning with the Buddha’s teaching of Anapanasati, a general guidance on mindfulness with the breath & how it carries mettā
Big Bear Retreat Center The Dharma of Desire

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

2024-06-09 Relaxing into Retreat 2 33:19
Ayya Santussika
Anapanasati - Body, feeling, mind
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-08 Cooling the Mind, Making it Firm 49:29
Ayya Santussika
What methods are you using to cool the mind? How about making it steady? Using anapanasati and various reflections, including the three characteristics.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-08 Relaxing into Retreat 42:18
Ayya Santussika
Anapanasati - body and feeling
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-03 How to Meditate--The 4 Practices Rooted in Tradition and Confirmed by Neuroscience 56:20
Tina Rasmussen
How to Meditate--The 4 Practices Rooted in Tradition and Confirmed by Neuroscience. In this talk, Tina gives concise overview instructions and guidance on how to begin meditating, suitable for beginners and experienced meditators alike. She talks about general guidelines that apply to every type of meditation. Then she gives an overview of the 4 practice categories being studied in neuroscience, which are also reflected in the Buddhist tradion. Then she gives instructions on how to practice each type of meditation, with a short period of practice. To go directly to those sections, please see the following time markers: -Heart Practices--Bodhicitta and the Bramaviharas (lovingkindness, compassion, joy/gratitude, and equanimity): 15:45 -Focused Attention--Samatha (concentration and serenity), Anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing): 31:03 -Open Monitoring--Vipassana (insight meditation): 39:26 -Self-Transcending--Dzogchen (Rigpa): 49:37
Luminous Mind Sangha

2024-05-07 Mindfulness of Breathing Lite (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:01
Ayya Santussika
A guided meditation lightly touching on most of the 16 instructions of anapanasati.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center With the World on Fire, Embody the Eightfold Path

2024-04-06 Morning Day 5: Anapanasati Meditation with Guidance 48:46
Ayya Santussika
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dispelling Delusion: Exploring the Vipallāsas Through Early Buddhist Poetry

2023-07-19 Talk #8: Anapanasati & Satipatthana Comparisons (Steps 11 & 12) 46:38
Sayadaw U Jagara
Critical text analysis of how Anapanasati practice fulfills the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. Discussion of the samadhi (step 11) and liberating the mind (step 12) from hindrances and self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-11 Morning Reflections #9: Piti (Step 5) 40:56
Nikki Mirghafori
Reflections of various renditions of Piti from the Patisambhidamagga. And the natural cascade of arising of piti through the Seven Factors of Awakening, as outlined in the Anapanasati Sutta.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-07-08 Morning Reflections #7: Anapanasati (Step 4) 40:47
Nikki Mirghafori
Guided instructions for calming bodily formations
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2023

2023-06-07 Anapanasati Tetrad 3 and 4 -- Guided meditation 48:47
Ayya Santussika
Brief instruction on Tetrad 3 and 4 of Anapanasati - Mindfulness of in and out breathing, followed by a guided meditation for the 16 instructions.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-06-06 Anapanasati Part 1 37:13
Ayya Santussika
A short explanation and guided meditation for the first two tetrads of Mindfulness of In and Out Breathing.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Buddha’s Gradual Path: Spiritual Progress in Lay Life

2023-04-01 Suggestions for Anapanasati Practice 55:05
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 3-Week Spring 2023 Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2023-03-29 Anapanasati 69:53
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 3-Week Spring 2023 Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2023-03-15 16 pasos de atención a la respiración 50:21
Dhammadīpā
Anapanasati para los hispanohablantes
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2023-02-20 Forgiveness Practice Supporting Insight 50:26
Ajahn Achalo
From an online retreat at Wat Marp Jan | Day-3 Afternoon All questions précised 34:28 Q1 Regarding metta, do we keep repeating and radiating out the metta until we achieve concentration? 36:29 Q2 When your mind is not pure, how effective is that loving kindness to others? How pure do we have to be to spread metta? 38:48 Q3 When I meet difficult persons, it seems very difficult to generate loving kindness Online questions read out: 43:03 Q4 How can I know if I have really forgiven myself? 44:34 Q5 Can you please elaborate on using gestures to forgive ourselves 46:28 Q6 In metta practice, may we include teachers who have passed away, as well as beings in nibanna? 47:40 Q7 Is it OK to meditate using metta for a little while and then anapanasati for 40-45 minutes and finish with Buddha anussati? 48:08 Q8 I am a busy wife and mother and I feel angry with myself when I cannot find the time to cultivate. How can I find the balance?
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2022-11-19 Samadhi: Cultivating a Gathered Heart & Mind 56:13
Kittisaro, Dawn Mauricio, Djuna Devereaux, Gullu Singh, Thanissara
Steps on Anapanasati: Mindfulness of Breath
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey Into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2022-11-13 Samadhi: Training, Benefits, Healing, Pitfalls (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:21:36
Thanissara
Anapanasati Sutta, generating wellbeing, subtle energetic healing, ground of insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center DPP7#2

2022-10-12 Mindfulness of Breathing - the first 12 steps 38:47
Dhammadīpā
Guided meditation using the first three tetrads of anapanasati
Dassanāya Buddhist Community

2022-09-30 Meditation on the elements inside ourselves, Dhamma talk Part 2 on Satipaṭṭhāna: Feelings (vedana) 1:22:06
Bhante Sujato
Meditation on the elements inside ourselves. Dhamma talk Part 2 on Satipaṭṭhāna: Feelings (vedana). Satipaṭṭhāna as a "samādhinimitta", use of nimitta vs. descriptions of lights during meditation in the suttas. Anapanāsati as a another way to do Satipaṭṭhāna. Vedana as present in the breath. Pain during meditation. How the Buddha emphasised happiness during meditation (often a synonym for meditation!). Equanamity is the final stage in major lists such as the seven awakening factors, brahmavihāras.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-08-22 Concentration and Insight (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:10:17
Tempel Smith
In the detailed description of the 16 steps of anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing) the first 12 steps develop samadhi (concentration) as a basis for the last four steps (13-16) of insight practice. These are using in and out breathing to become sensitive to impermanence (anicca), and from impermanence to releasing the agitation (viraga) from trying to find security in a fluid and fluctuating world. The second to last step in relaxing into the completeness and thoroughness of endings (nirodha), as a support to the last step of fully letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating Concentration

2022-06-21 Morning Instructions 56:41
Jaya Rudgard
Anapanasati (mindfulness of breathing) and the simile of the wood turner: how we relate to our meditation object.
Gaia House Creative, Living Dharma: practising with the similes of the Buddha

2022-06-07 Anapanasati part 2 43:26
Ayya Santussika
Instruction and Guided Meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Infusing Every Aspect of our Life with the Dhamma

2022-06-06 Anapanasati part 1 41:21
Ayya Santussika
Instruction and guided meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Infusing Every Aspect of our Life with the Dhamma

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