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Dharma Talks
2025-10-02 The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight 63:58
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-10-02 meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness 28:03
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

2025-10-02 Mitgefühl leben 38:40
Renate Seifarth
Wer achtet auf wen? In einer Sutta diskutieren Bambusakrobaten darüber wie sie vorgehen sollen, um unbeschadet ihre Kunststücke zu zeigen. Für den Buddha ist es eine Gelegenheit darzulegen, dass sowohl das achten auf sich selbst wie das achten auf den anderen wichtig ist. Ersteres wird durch die Praxis der vier Grundlagen der Achtsamkeit erreicht, während das Achten auf den anderen in der Praxis von Geduld, Gewaltlosigkeit, Liebe und Teilnahme besteht.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Vipassana und Karuna

2025-10-02 The Merging of Love & Wisdom 50:24
Diana Winston
This talk explores the way wisdom develops and focuses on the three characteristics of impermanence, suffering, and not self. It touches on not clinging, dropping bananas, two arrows, and how love fits into it all.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Talk: The 32 Parts Practice within the Context of the Satipatthana Sutta; Meditation: Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow, Kidneys (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:13:31
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Undoing obsessions through mindfulness 46:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Ingrained habits and obsessive emotions can be met and released through mindfulness established in the body. The practice of mindfulness of breathing purifies perception and volition to undo the sense of self based in time,
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-02 Energy Body (guided meditation) 15:18
Victor von der Heyde
Sparcely guided energy body practice
Australian Insight Meditation Network Insight and Imaginal Practice

2025-10-02 Guided Meditation: Working with Emotions 47:45
Leslie Booker
RAIN DROP!
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-02 Morning Instructions on Body and Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:26
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Wild Wise Words: A Mindfulness Meditation and Writing Retreat

2025-10-02 Talk: How to practice the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation. Meditation: Head Hair, Body Hair, Nails, Teeth, and Skin (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:07
Nikki Mirghafori, Bob Stahl
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Buddha’s Teachings on the Body: The 32 Parts Practice

2025-10-02 Clock Time, Heart Time, Deep Time: Songs, poems, reflections on navigating our relationship to time 54:05
Betsy Rose
Singer ,Songwriter, Dharma Teacher, Betsy Rose shares some songs, poems and reflections on navigating our relationship to time. How many of us are experiencing time as a vanishing “commodity?” The speed and amount of digital inputs (email, activist alerts, webinars, headlines and more..) threaten to overwhelm us. Feeling pressured, squeezed, and overloaded can be a familiar experience. This talk explores practices and choices that can help restore a sense of spaciousness and wise view to the mysterious construct we call “time.”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center OD Course | White & Awakening (CJ1N24)

2025-10-01 What does Buddhism teach about the natural world? 48:48
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-10-01 Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It 52:46
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-10-01 Die acht weltlichen Winde 41:43
Renate Seifarth
Dukkha ist Teil der Welt. Dazu gehören die acht weltlichen Winde, Gewinn und Verlust, Ehre und Verleumdung, Lob und Tadel, Freude und Leid. Sie wehen um alle, aber Personen, die in rechter Weise die Wechselhaftigkeit aller Phänomene erkannt haben, werden von den Winden nicht erschüttert.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Vipassana und Karuna

2025-10-01 The Hindrances 46:31
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-10-01 Wisdom of the Body, part 1 16:58
Dawn Neal
A very brief introduction to the discourse on Mindfulness of the Body (Kayagatasati Sutta)
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-10-01 Effort means using energy wisely 46:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-10-01 Morning Instruction 40:34
Diana Winston
Focus on Investigative Awareness and Working with Pain
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Metta practice 43:03
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Mitgefühl 51:08
Renate Seifarth
Mitgefühl ist die Antwort des offenen Herzens auf Leiden. Hierin finden wir und geben wir Trost. Im Vortrag geht es um die Bedeutung von Mitgefühl und aus welchen Bedingungen heraus sie entsteht. Als Praxis entwickeln wir Mitgefühl in alle Richtungen, gegenüber allen Wesen. Dabei überwinden wir viele Hindernisse in uns wie Ärger und Angst.
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Vipassana und Karuna

2025-09-30 Is it Okay to be Aware of Just This? 43:18
Diana Winston
This foundational talk on mindfulness offers insight into why and how to practice mindfulness, what makes meditation difficult, the qualities of a mindful mind, and the fruits of the practice.
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Indriya allies for citta's release 50:50
Ajahn Sucitto
The five indriya are factors that are accessible and take one's attention from the sensory world of circumstance to the citta -heart or mind. The initial indriya is faith, a quality that serves as a wellspring off support through the ups and downs of life.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa

2025-09-30 Morning Instructions 45:05
Leslie Booker
Big Bear Retreat Center Awakening Mindfulness and Compassion

2025-09-30 Morning Reflections: Purity and Purification 64:56
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 The Four Great Efforts: PACE Yourself on the Path 58:31
Marjolein Janssen
Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-29 Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:00:34
Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Devotion to the Sacred (262R25)

2025-09-29 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 4 of 5 - Meditation 28:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-29 Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training - Week 4 of 5 - Talk 37:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Buddha's Gradual Training

2025-09-29 Working Mindfully with Technology 1:37:40
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-09-28 Devotion to the Sacred (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:06:47
James Baraz
This talk explores the place of Devotion in practice and what it means to look at reality through the lens of Sacred Perception.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Devotion to the Sacred (262R25)

2025-09-28 Wk 1 Pt 1 - Tuning Out of the Storyline: The First Step to Freedom 1:21:45
Bernat Font
The difference between 'having a thought' and 'active thinking'. The trap of wanting to figure things out. How we feed harmful discursive patterns & how to stop; withdrawing our contribution, disidentifying.
Gaia House Oh No - Not This Thought Again ! (Online Series)

2025-09-28 Recollecting One's Virtue - Meditation 29:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-09-28 Recollecting One's Virtue - Talk 36:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-09-27 Mind-moments, Mountains & Molehills 1:11:06
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-27 The Three Refuges - Awake. Here. Together 48:19
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-27 Nothing to Accomplish - Except Building A Kuti, Two Monasteries, and Realizing Nibbana 1:28:54
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
For this Dhamma Talk Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda were joined by the Clear Mountain Monastery monks Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-09-26 Checking-In | JC2C25 | Week 4 | 9.26.25 12:49
Jill Satterfield
Check-in | JS2C25 | Week 4
Spirit Rock Meditation Center A Path of Healing | Jill Satterfield | JS2C25

2025-09-26 All Conditioned Things Are Impermanent - All Things Are Not Self l KBV & CMM 69:16
Ayya Santussika, Ayya Cittananda
00:00 - 10:00 Morning Chanting 10:00 - 35:27 Sutta Reflections 35:27 - 1:09:21 Comments, Questions and Responses This video is a recording of the regularly presented Sutta Study by Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda that occurs most Friday evenings at Karuna Buddhist Vihara. These meetings start with the Morning Chanting followed by the study of discourse(s) of the Buddha from the Sutta Pitaka. In this video Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda are joined by Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho from the Clear Mountain Monestary. The Suttas discussed include: Arising AN 3.136 https://suttacentral.net/an3.136/en/sujato With Channa SN 22.90 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.90/en/sujato With Ananda SN 44.10 https://suttacentral.net/sn44.10/en/sujato The Shorter Discourse with Saccaka MN 35 https://suttacentral.net/mn35/en/sujato You can find more information about Karuna Buddhist Vihara at the website below: https://www.karunabv.org/
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 3 - Guided Meditation - First, Second, Third & Fourth Tetrad: Body, Vedana, Citta & Dhammas 35:11
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 2 - Reflections & Instructions - Fourth Tetrad: Dhammas 26:52
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Wk 4, Pt 1 - Guided Meditation - Settling 27:09
Juha Penttilä
Gaia House Ānāpānasati - Exploring the Beautiful Breath (online series)

2025-09-26 Morning Questions and Reflections 63:54
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-25 Dimensions of Relaxation - Total Belonging is Close at Hand 43:48
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-25 Dependent Origination 64:37
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat – Part 1 - 25PT1

2025-09-25 Meditation Instruction - Smiling & Relaxing into Big Bellied Presence & Awareness 69:17
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-25 You Are Loving Awareness 45:21
James Baraz
Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is interacting with the world around it. I use Ram Dass's practice of seeing beyond this mind/body by abiding in the perspective "I Am Loving Awareness". This is where the devotional and non-dual meet. To aid in this exploration James shares some powerful cuts from the album Ram Dass, a collaboration of Ram Dass's voice and teachings with background music by East Forest, who will be offering a hybrid concert "Echoes of Ram Dass" at Spirit Rock October 19, 2025.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2025-09-24 Mind as Water, Practice to Clear the Mind, the Mind is Already Clear 46:50
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-24 Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities 60:33
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2025-09-24 Meditation Instruction - Full Presence, Posture, Walking 1:20:09
Martin Aylward
Gaia House Tools of Liberation: Presence, Curiosity and a Tender Heart

2025-09-24 Meeting Yourself With Kindness: A Guided Meditation 26:44
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spirit Rock - Rainbow Sangha

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