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Dharma Talks
2025-10-07 Imaginal Practice 3b 8:32
Victor von der Heyde
Further possible characteristics of images: slightly less fabricated, sense of divinity, an unfathomable quality, soft and elastic edges, timelessness, sense that images can’t be fully captured or reduced, sense of other images being in the field, echoing or resonance between the image and oneself.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-07 Cooling the Passionate Heart, Warming the Aversive Mind 25:33
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Imaginal Practice 3 20:48
Victor von der Heyde
Julie Nelson and the romantic belief in knowledge from a perspective-free viewpoint; the interaction of eros, heart-mind-soul and the conceptual framework; the characteristic of soulfulness; Jack Kornfield on an approach to images in psychedelic experience: how that differs from imaginal practice; working with characteristics that may not be present; other characteristics: the lattice, grace, trust, reverence, humility, values, beauty, duty, fulness of intention, participation; imaginal views of oneself; WH Auden and Henry Corbin; caution on talking about images with others; the six devas on Lantau Island, what they represent, and how they could be related to.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-06 A steady plane in a see-saw world 44:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-06 Imaginal Practice 2b 8:39
Victor von der Heyde
Ways of relating to images; using or not using the list of characteristics; characteristics of eros and distinguishing it from clinging, energy body as a guide, theatre-like quality and the risk if this isn’t acknowledged, meaningfulness, two-ness, autonomy.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-06 Elements Meditation-Where Are We So separate? 59:04
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Morning Reflections: Just this... The Dharma can be seen in this 8:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-06 Settling & Noticing Awareness 52:05
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-06 Embodying Kindness & Returning This Body to Nature 38:31
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-05 Imaginal Practice 2 27:54
Victor von der Heyde
Unlimited possibilities for images with a range of examples, including God and gods, wild images, images based on people, the sense of being called, image with no figure, embodying an image, felt sense and image of spirit of place; putting aside questions about the reality status of images; Eucharistic imagination; fully and partially imaginal images; Iain McGilchrist on left brain right brain, and the world not being given before it’s experienced; Rob Burbea’s list of elements or characteristics and the characteristics: two-ness, unfathomable quality, participation, loving and being loved; different orientations of imaginal and insight practices.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-05 Goodwill is food for the heart 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-05 The Hindrances & Samsara 59:28
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-05 The Six Qualities of the Dhamma Touching Into the Four Elements 59:02
Ayya Anandabodhi
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-05 Friendship with One's Deepest Being 28:08
Sumedha
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Deepening Into Wisdom & Love

2025-10-04 Imaginal Practice 1 38:17
Victor von der Heyde
Ways of looking as a foundation; terms in imaginal practice; figures and presences; callings; example of very simple image; autonomy; cautions for working with images; types of image; spirits in the Pali Canon; dismissive attitudes; assumptions based on knowing what is measurable; views on the reality status of imaginal and the material world; relationship to an image or a presence; wide spectrum of images; Henry Corbin and a sense of the divine in an image; risks.
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-04 Praxis freudvoll im Leben fortsetzen 35:47
Renate Seifarth
Nach dem Retreat gilt es die Praxis fortzusetzen. Das besteht im wesentlichen darin, "Böses" zu unterlassen, "Gutes" zu tun und Herz und Geist von Gier, Hass und Unwissenheit zu läutern. Dies wollen wir freudvoll tun. Dazu können wir das Glück kontemplieren einen Weg zum inneren Frieden begegnet zu sein, ihn als etwas Wertvolles erkannt zu haben und uns auf den Weg gemacht haben. Unterstützen tun uns weiter Gleichgesinnte auf dem Weg. Sich mit ihnen anfreunden, hilft ungemein, wobei wir nicht zu viel von ihnen erwarten sollten.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Vipassana und Karuna

2025-10-04 Talk: The Humble Miracles: Seeing the Three Marks in the Final Six of the 32 Parts; Meditation: Tears, Grease, Saliva, Mucus, Oil of the Joints, Urine (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:14:42
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-04 Guided Meditation: Wise Intention of Kindness 20:37
Jeanne Corrigal
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community The Whole Path in a Nutshell

2025-10-04 Eightfold Parth: A Dependable Life Path 31:35
Jeanne Corrigal
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community The Whole Path in a Nutshell

2025-10-04 Dharma talk and Q&A 27:31
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-Day : Refined Happiness

2025-10-04 Second Meditation: Allowing Wholesomeness to Develop 42:24
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-Day : Refined Happiness

2025-10-04 Extinguishing, cooling, release 49:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Through a steady inclining towards release from personal habits, the root clinging of 'me' is exposed. Training challenges this, and with dispassionate perseverance, there can be a surprising release from the 'me bag'.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-04 Eightfold Path: overview and wise view meditation 1:13:39
Jeanne Corrigal
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community The Whole Path in a Nutshell

2025-10-04 Introduction and First Guided Meditation: Cellular Ease 45:42
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-Day : Refined Happiness

2025-10-04 Meeting Hatred with Love and Compassion 1:19:17
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, questions and responses was offered on October 4, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - Guided Meditation 22:55 - Dhamma Talk 35:16 - Questions & Responses
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

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