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Dharma Talks
2022-04-22 The elements are empty of a self. 34:15
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation on the six elements.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-21 Guided meditation: tranquility 15:48
Jill Shepherd
An invitation to incline the body, heart and mind towards tranquility
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-21 Fill yourself with the Dharma 1:12:41
Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta
A Therigatha overview (the first five minutes are announcements. The talk ends with a silent meditation)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Therīgāthā – Awakening Verses of the Early Buddhist Nuns: Monastic Retreat

2022-04-20 Meditation: Path of Love 18:04
Tara Brach
This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-04-17 Spiritual Urgency and Renunciation – Meditation 36:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion

2022-04-17 Reflections & Guided Meditation 39:09
River Wolton
Impermanence.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2022-04-16 Reflections and Guided Meditation 41:48
River Wolton
The ground of metta.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2022-04-16 Guided meditation exploring pleasant feeling-tone 30:29
Jill Shepherd
Exploring pleasant feeling-tone as a support for skilful mental qualities to arise
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-15 Guided Metta meditation. 43:10
Greg Scharf
Radiating metta to all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2022-04-15 Mettā meditation towards oneself, Discussion of types of investigation/insight 1:36:09
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Mettā meditation towards oneself. Discussion of types of investigation/insight assessment of one's wisdom; vīmaṁsa (investigation), paccavekkhana (reviewing/reflection). Expertise and how you might know that you know.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-04-15 Instructions & Guided Meditation 41:03
River Wolton
The five hindrances as coverings.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2022-04-14 Maranasati: Practice with Death and Dying 50:31
James Baraz
The Buddha suggested reflecting regularly on five aspects of life called the Five Reflections (also called the Five Remembrances). This talk focuses on what he called "the most supreme of all meditations": mindfulness of death or maranasati. Although contemplation of one's death might seem unsettling or scary, when undertaken as a conscious practice it can be extremely enlivening and even liberating.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2022-04-14 Guided Metta meditation 45:31
Roxanne Dault
Opening to self, a good friend, and a neutral being
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2022-04-14 Instructions & Guided Meditation 45:04
River Wolton
Grounding, breathing & soothing.
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2022-04-14 Guided meditation exploring balanced energy or effort 46:19
Jill Shepherd
An invitation to notice how any sense of identification with our meditation practice can create a subtle pressure that interferes with the development of the awakening factors
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-13 Meditation: Present Heart 14:15
Tara Brach
We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2022 IMCW Spring Retreat: Flexing the Five Strengths

2022-04-13 Metta for self and easy people. 47:33
Rebecca Bradshaw
An introduction plus a guided meta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying Kindness & Wisdom: Insight & Lovingkindness Meditation Retreat

2022-04-13 Cultivating a Wonderful Mind 1:23:15
Sylvia Boorstein
Meditation & Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-04-12 Guided Meditation: Beyond Distraction — Five Strategies to Remove Distracting Thoughts 23:57
Shaila Catherine
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a progressive series of strategies to overcome restlessness, obsessive thinking, rumination, and habitual obstacles and hindrances. By freeing the mind from the fetter of restlessness, meditators calm their minds, develop tranquility, strengthen concentration, create the conditions for jhana, and incline the mind toward liberating insight and nibbana. These teachings are based on two suttas (19 and 20) n the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2022-04-11 Week 5 - Guided Meditation 27:09
Laura Bridgman
Intention, effort & stabilising.
Gaia House Foundations of Dharma practice: what the Buddha taught.

2022-04-10 meditation: mindfulness of mindfulness 27:17
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to the quality of mindfulness itself, and as needed, infusing it with kindness, compassion, appreciation or equanimity
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight weekly talks 2022

2022-04-10 The Sister Selā Discourse 1:18:38
Zohar Lavie
This session starts with a guided meditation (30 mins). Followed by a reflection on the Sister Sela sutta. The latter part is a questions and response session. For privacy, the questions have not been recorded, but it should still make sense.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Apr 2022

2022-04-10 Meeting and Healing the Unresolved Pain in the Heart – Meditation 36:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-04-09 Guided meditation exploring mindfulness and investigation 17:26
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions and guidance for investigating mindfulness of mindfulness itself
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2022

2022-04-08 Talk at Bodhgaya 1:16:37
Ajahn Achalo
40:19 Q&A (questions are précised) 40:33 Q1 History and geography teach us that ten thousand years ago people were living in filth, like animals. Yet the scriptures speak of many thousands of eons of lives. How are these [two very different time frames] possible? 43:00 Q2 Could you please give more tips and advice for real beginners in meditation? 50:08 Q3 Regarding the four foundations of mindfulness, is there one which is more important? 53:57 Q4 I have come to see doubt as a most important hindrance in my practice. I even doubt the existence of that thing called enlightenment. How can I get rid of that? 58:46 Q5 Regarding sense restraint, can you say more about practicing with sound here. 1:07:54 Q6 How can householders go deeper into vipassana with the limited time in their lives? 1:12:31 Q7 Could you clarify how we would do the Buddho mantra in our daily tasks
Bodhgaya

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