Juha Penttilä's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Juha Penttilä  
         
         
     
     
 
    
        
                            
      Juha Penttilä has been practicing meditation since 2002. He has spent extended periods of time on retreats and in monasteries in Asia and Europe and is one of the founding members of Nirodha, the Finnish Insight Meditation practice community. Juha completed his Insight Meditation teacher training in 2020. In addition to exploring meditation, Juha’s teaching is influenced by the current climate crisis and engaged perspectives into the Dharma.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2025-08-16
            Afternoon Session 
    
        2023-10-21
            Afternoon Session (Part 1) - Quote from Rob Burbea;  Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-11-19
            Anatta - The Third Characteristic 
    
        2023-03-19
            Anattā Practice and the Path of Letting Go 
    
        2022-11-03
            Arriving Meditation 
    
        2024-10-12
            Attuning to Kindness - Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-10-14
            Attuning to Spaciousness, 3 Exercises - Dharma Talk & Short Practice Exercises 
    
        2022-10-29
            Brief Reflections on the Practice, and Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-10-28
            Centre Line Meditation 
    
        2025-08-17
            Closing Session 
    
        2022-11-10
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2025-08-16
            Evening Session 
    
        2023-10-21
            Evening Session (Part 1) - Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-10-22
            Evening Session (Part 1) - Guided Meditation - Allowing and Mettā 
    
        2023-10-22
            Evening Session (Part 2) - Reflections on Mettā, Fabrication and Insight 
    
        2023-10-20
            Evening Session (Part 2) - Reflections on the Theme of the Retreat; Guided Medi… 
    
        2025-06-07
            Exploring Ideas & Themes for Practice 
    
        2023-03-19
            Exploring the Emptiness of Self Practice 
    
        2022-10-13
            Grounding Meditation 
    
        2022-10-20
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-10-27
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-10-27
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-11-03
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-11-10
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-05-07
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-10-13
            Guided Meditation - Metta for Benefactor and Self 
    
        2022-10-30
            Guided Meditation Exploring Fabrication 
    
        2024-10-13
            Hindrances and the Thinking Mind - Instructions & Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-10-17
            Instructions - Guiding Your Own Practice 
    
        2022-10-28
            Introduction to the Material and the Exploration 
    
        2022-10-13
            Introduction to the Themes of the Course 
    
        2022-10-30
            Landing Meditation 
    
        2023-03-18
            Meeting Suffering with Compassion 
    
        2021-04-04
            Metta Towards Phenomena 
    
        2025-06-06
            Morning Instructions - Settling the Body, Cultivating Sensitivity & Mettā 
    
        2025-08-16
            Morning Session 
    
        2025-08-17
            Morning Session 
    
        2023-10-21
            Morning Session (Part 1) - Arriving and Settling Meditation (JP), Teachings on … 
    
        2023-10-22
            Morning Session (Part 1) - Arriving and Settling Meditation;  Teachings on Cond… 
    
        2023-10-21
            Morning Session (Part 2) - Guided Meditation (SM), Walking Practice Instruction… 
    
        2023-10-22
            Morning Session (Part 2) - Guided Meditation;  Retreatants Feedback (anonymous,… 
    
        2022-10-30
            On Fabrication 
    
        2023-03-17
            Opening Session 
    
        2025-08-15
            Opening Session 
    
        2024-10-11
            Opening Talk 
    
        2022-11-03
            Piti, Wellbeing and Metta to Phenomena 
    
        2022-10-30
            Reactivity, the Three Characteristics, and Emptiness 
    
        2022-10-27
            Reflections 
    
        2025-06-06
            Reflections on Being on Retreat & Practicing with the Brahma Viharas. 
    
        2022-10-20
            Reflections on the Theme of Fabrication 
    
        2025-06-06
            Short Reflections - Ways of Connecting to Mettā 
    
        2024-10-15
            Suffering and Compassion 
    
        2024-11-05
            The Hindrances 
    
        2025-06-08
            Themes of Retreat, Ways of Understanding Practices 
    
        2024-11-12
            This That Conditionality 
    
        2024-10-16
            Turning Towards the Khandhas with Kindness & Disidentification 
    
        2024-11-23
            Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2022-10-29
            Walking Meditation Instructions 
    
        2022-05-15
            Week 1 - Course Introduction 
    
        2022-05-15
            Week 1 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-10-04
            Week 1 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 
    
        2023-10-04
            Week 1 - Guided Meditation - Practicing w the Hindrances 
    
        2022-05-15
            Week 1 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-05-15
            Week 1 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-10-04
            Week 1 - Teachings - Working w the Hindrances 
    
        2024-06-10
            Week 1 :  The Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2021-10-18
            Week 1, Part 2 
    
        2023-01-11
            Week 1, Part 2 
    
        2025-04-02
            Week 1, Part 2 - Introduction to the Themes of the Course 
    
        2024-10-30
            Week 1, Pt 1 - Opening of the Retreat & Mettā Meditation 
    
        2024-10-30
            Week 1, Pt 2 - Introduction - What is Vedana ? 
    
        2021-06-14
            Week 1:  Cultivating Mindful Awareness 
    
        2022-05-22
            Week 2 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-10-11
            Week 2 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 
    
        2023-10-11
            Week 2 - Guided Meditation - Opening Attention to the Whole Field of Body 
    
        2022-05-22
            Week 2 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-05-22
            Week 2 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-10-11
            Week 2 - Teachings - Opening Attention to the Whole Field of the Body 
    
        2024-06-17
            Week 2 :  The Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2021-10-25
            Week 2, Part 1 
    
        2021-10-25
            Week 2, Part 1 
    
        2023-01-18
            Week 2, Part 1 
    
        2021-10-25
            Week 2, Part 2 
    
        2023-01-18
            Week 2, Part 2 
    
        2025-04-09
            Week 2, Part 2 - Anicca in the Context of the Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2024-11-06
            Week 2, Pt 1 - Mettā Meditation 
    
        2024-11-06
            Week 2, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-06-21
            Week 2:  Beginning to Work with the Hindrances 
    
        2022-06-08
            Week 3 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-10-18
            Week 3 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 
    
        2023-10-18
            Week 3 - Guided Meditation - Narrowing the Lense of Attention 
    
        2022-06-08
            Week 3 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-06-08
            Week 3 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-10-18
            Week 3 - Teachings - Narrowing the Lense of Our Attention 
    
        2024-06-24
            Week 3 :  The Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2021-11-01
            Week 3, Part 1 
    
        2023-01-25
            Week 3, Part 1 
    
        2021-06-28
            Week 3, Part 1:  Exploring Suffering - A Therapeutic Path 
    
        2021-11-01
            Week 3, Part 2 
    
        2023-01-25
            Week 3, Part 2 
    
        2025-04-16
            Week 3, Part 2 - Teachings & Reflections 
    
        2021-06-28
            Week 3, Part 2:  Exploring Suffering - A Therapeutic Path 
    
        2025-04-16
            Week 3, Part 5 - Dana (Generosity) 
    
        2024-11-13
            Week 3, Pt 2 - Vedana & Emotions; Unpleasant Vedana 
    
        2022-06-13
            Week 4 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-10-25
            Week 4 - Guided Meditation - Settling & Arriving 
    
        2023-10-25
            Week 4 - Guided Meditation - Vitakka & Vicāra 
    
        2022-06-13
            Week 4 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-06-13
            Week 4 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-10-25
            Week 4 - Teachings - Vitakka & Vicāra 
    
        2024-07-01
            Week 4 :  The Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2021-11-08
            Week 4, Part 1 
    
        2023-02-01
            Week 4, Part 1 
    
        2021-11-08
            Week 4, Part 2 
    
        2023-02-01
            Week 4, Part 2 
    
        2024-11-20
            Week 4, Pt 1 - Karuna Meditation 
    
        2024-11-20
            Week 4, Pt 2 - Pleasant Vedana 
    
        2024-11-20
            Week 4, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation on Pleasant Vedana 
    
        2021-07-05
            Week 4:  Relaxing the Push and Pull of Experience 
    
        2022-06-19
            Week 5 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-11-01
            Week 5 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 
    
        2023-11-01
            Week 5 - Guided Meditation - Exploring Wellbeing & Pleasure (Piti) 
    
        2022-06-19
            Week 5 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-06-19
            Week 5 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-11-01
            Week 5 - Teachings - Piti 
    
        2021-11-15
            Week 5, Part 1 
    
        2023-02-08
            Week 5, Part 1 
    
        2025-04-30
            Week 5, Part 1 - Compassion-based Samadhi 
    
        2021-11-15
            Week 5, Part 2 
    
        2023-02-08
            Week 5, Part 2 
    
        2025-04-30
            Week 5, Part 2 - Teachings & Reflections 
    
        2022-06-26
            Week 6 - Dharma Talk 
    
        2023-11-08
            Week 6 - Guided Meditation - Arriving & Settling 
    
        2023-11-08
            Week 6 - Guided Meditation - Enjoying the Breath 
    
        2022-06-26
            Week 6 - Guided Meditation (1) 
    
        2022-06-26
            Week 6 - Guided Meditation (2) 
    
        2023-11-08
            Week 6 - Teachings - How to Enjoy the Breath 
    
        2021-11-22
            Week 6, Part 1 
    
        2023-02-15
            Week 6, Part 1 
    
        2021-11-22
            Week 6, Part 2 
    
        2023-02-15
            Week 6, Part 2 
    
        2025-05-07
            Week 6, Part 3, Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-12-04
            Week 6, Pt 1 - Mudita Meditation 
    
        2024-12-04
            Week 6, Pt2 - Skilful Ways of Relating to Vedana - Three Ways of Looking 
    
        2023-11-15
            Week 7 - Guided Meditation - Arriving and Settling 
    
        2023-11-15
            Week 7 - Guided Meditation on Moving Skilfully Between Different Ways of Looking 
    
        2023-11-15
            Week 7 - Teachings - Moving Skilfully Between Different Ways of Looking 
    
        2021-11-29
            Week 7, Part 1 
    
        2023-02-22
            Week 7, Part 1 
    
        2025-05-14
            Week 7, Part 1 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-11-29
            Week 7, Part 2 
    
        2023-02-22
            Week 7, Part 2 
    
        2025-05-14
            Week 7, Part 2 - Teachings & Reflections 
    
        2025-05-14
            Week 7, Part 3 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-12-11
            Week 7, Pt 1 - Upekkha Meditation 
    
        2024-12-11
            Week 7, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - Vedana as Fabricated 
    
        2025-05-21
            Week 8, Part 1 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-05-21
            Week 8, Part 3 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-12-18
            Week 8, Pt 2 - Empty Nature of Vedana 
    
        2025-05-28
            Week 9, Part 1 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-05-28
            Week 9, Part 2 - Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-01-11
            Week One, Part 1 
    
        2021-10-18
            Week1, Part 1 
    
        2022-11-10
            Welcome and Arriving Meditation 
    
        2022-10-20
            Welcome, and Arriving Meditation 
    
        2022-10-30
            Welcome, and Arriving Meditation 
    
        2022-10-13
            Welcome, and Course Outline 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2021-04-01
            Gaia House Spring Gathering - Celebrating Sangha 
    
        2021-06-14
            Foundations of Meditation 
    
        2021-10-18
            Exploring Anatta (online series) 
    
        2021-10-22
            Embodying the Awakened Heart 
    
        2022-05-15
            Exploring Vedana (Online Series) 
    
        2022-10-13
            Cultivating Goodness, Exploring Fabrication 
    
        2022-10-28
            Exploring Emotions and Mindstates 
    
        2023-01-11
            The Path of Letting Go 
    
        2023-03-17
            Compassion and Emptiness of Self (online retreat) 
    
        2023-10-04
            Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi (online series) 
    
        2023-10-20
            Exploring Mettā and the Practice of Allowing 
    
        2024-06-06
            The Vastness of Awareness (online series) 
    
        2024-10-11
            Liberating and Compassionate Ways of Looking 
    
        2024-10-30
            Vedana - A Path of Easeful Liberation (online series) 
    
        2024-11-01
            November Solitary 
    
        2025-04-02
            Natural peace - Exploring Vastness of Awareness 
    
        2025-06-05
            The Eye of the Heart 
    
        2025-08-15
            The Foundational Skills of Attention and Samadhi