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2025-07-08 Harmonizing With The Hindrances 59:51
Kristina Bare
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How to skillfully work with the 5 Hindrances in concentration practice. Threee Strategies are discussed: Ignoring, anti-dotes, mindfulness/inquiry
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat – 25CWN

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
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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

2025-07-03 Paradox of Life and Death 59:07
Eugene Cash
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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 Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration, Mindfulness, and Insight Practice Exploring Impermanence and Reactivity, with Reflection on Daily Life Practice at the End 39:10
Donald Rothberg
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-07-01 Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness 54:32
Eugene Cash
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How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-06-30 Seven Factors of Enlightenment, Part I, Mindfulness 61:49
Kamala Masters
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Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Insight and Liberation with Kamala Masters, Steve Armstrong and Deborah Helzer

2025-06-29 Normalcy of Life and Death 47:41
Eugene Cash
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How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2025-06-29 Q&A 58:05
Ajahn Sucitto
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1) priorities for lay practice- recollections to establish steady orientation to Dhamma; 2) mindfulness when talking and using computers etc.; 3) energy, qi, Anapanasati and integration of energy; 4) on chasing the unicorn; 5) wisdom and samadhi; 6) mudita, rapture (piti) and stability; 7) contemplating the arising of the ‘me’ sense, dependent on phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-06-25 Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration, Mindfulness, and Insight into Impermanence and Reactivity 38:54
Donald Rothberg
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-06-23 Vedana: dharmette and guided meditation 52:42
Jeanne Corrigal
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This talk overviews the four foundations of mindfulness, and then explores the second foundation of vedana, feeling tone, as a doorway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Celebrating Liberation, Love and Joy: A Journey to Freedom through Mind & Heart - 25EBIPOC

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