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2025-07-08 Becoming the River 28:14
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2025-07-07 Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path 66:51
Donald Rothberg
For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in later Buddhism, including Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further. In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It’s outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-07 Guided Meditation on the Two Main Forms of Buddhist Practice, Developing Concentration and Insight (Directed by the Core Wisdom Teaching) 39:28
Donald Rothberg
We begin with brief instructions for developing samadhi (“placing together” or “concentration”), followed by basic mindfulness instructions and then guidance for working with the feeling-tone of pleasant or unpleasant, when it appears in the moderate range. We are mindful of pleasant or unpleasant and look for grasping or pushing away in some form, guided by core wisdom teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-06 Attending to the way of release 26:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-07-06 Guided meditation - Attention as an exercise 20:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma Stream Online Sessions

2025-07-05 Spacious Approach 1:24:52
Nathan Glyde
A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of spacious intimacy: and what it reveals and opens about experience (wisdom), and creative well-being (samādhi), and positive action in the world
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - July 2025

2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Eugene Cash
Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-07-02 Restoring Ancestral Relationships 55:41
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a quote by Arundhati Roy | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-07-02 Going Against The Grain and Creating a Wholesome Field 35:03
Chas DiCapua
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-07-02 Talk: The Big Picture 3: Introduction to Ethical Practice 63:19
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the first two talks in this series, we explore the nature of ethical practice, one of the three core inter-related areas of training for the Buddha, along with training in meditation and in wisdom. We see how ethical practice has often been understood historically as having a social dimension, both in the teachings of the Buddha and later, as in the edicts of King Ashoka. We also explore some of the ways that ethical practice has been marginalized in Western Buddhist practice, with significant consequences. Then we look at the commonality of ethical guidelines in cross-religious context, with Donald telling some personal stories. Finally, we outline several ways to carry out ethical practice and then open up to discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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