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Dharma Talks
2025-10-20 Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:30
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-10-17 24 instructions and meditation: choiceless attention 37:09
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat: Cultivating balance, finding freedom

2025-10-17 Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:36
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-10-12 Afternoon Meditation Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:35
Bob Stahl
Choiceless or Open Awareness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight Meditation Retreat (270R25)

2025-10-12 Morning session: karuna, guided meditation, small group instructions 34:31
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-10-11 Guided meditation and brief walking meditation instructions 34:41
Devon Hase
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Dwelling in Goodness and Safety: A Brahma Vihara Retreat for Young Adults

2025-09-16 Morning Instructions: Meeting Sensations & Pain with Mindfulness 57:58
Devin Berry
This session offers a brief reflection and guided meditation on expanding awareness to include sensations throughout the body. With special attention to working wisely with pain, the instructions emphasize mindful presence, compassion, and skillful relationship to experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-13 Q&A 51:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1 Could you speak further on how we can preserve our energies? 04:46 Q2 I've a volatile and troubled sibling and have tried to act with compassion. But the cost is over dependency and the constant drama. What can you advise? 17:33 Q3 Is there a way in meditation to deal with blind spots? 24:09 Q4 How would you suggest that we work with traumatic life events that have occurred in the past and of which one has hardly any recollection of? 27:28 Q5 How to deal with persistent feelings in different parts of the body? 33:24 Q6 I had a lot of difficulty with my hand. Sometimes the pain would throw me to the floor. QiGong has been helpful. Can you suggest any other techniques? 37:17 Q7 I've had problems in my throat with difficulty to swallow and also feeling difficult to balance and an inner shakiness. Do you have any suggestions? 38:48 Q8 Some meditation instructions I've tried suggest progressing in stages and only moving on to the next set of challenges once mastery has been achieved in the current level. I often feel contracted with a sense of me, doing this type of practice. What would you advise? 43:07 Q9 Can you please give further clarifications on cetana. 48:35 Q10 The mind can be silent for a long period of time with a few thoughts coming and going. I'm not sure what I should do. Just observe? I can be bored sometimes.
Amaravati Monastery Silent Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2025-09-07 Instructions; Meditation; Teachings 1:19:57
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Ease, Living with a Sense of Ground

2025-09-06 Instructions; Meditation; Inquiry Guidance. 57:13
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Ease, Living with a Sense of Ground

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