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Dharma Talks
2021-12-01 Refuge in Sangha - Meditation 34:08
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-12-01 The Seven Factors of Awakening 2: Cultivating Mindfulness and Equanimity in Formal Meditation and in Daily Life 69:14
Donald Rothberg
Our practice aims at awakening (and awakened beings help others awaken). We review briefly the nature of awakening for the Buddha and later Buddhist traditions, and the centrality of the teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening. We then explore the two foundational factors--mindfulness and equanimity--identifying their core qualities, as well as how to practice to cultivate each of these factors, both in formal meditation and in the movement of daily life. There is a talk and then discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-11-30 Guided Meditation: Anchoring Attention and Settling (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:13:47
Oren Jay Sofer
Morning instructions of Day 1 offering an overview of how and why to use an anchor to support settling and collecting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration and Insight

2021-11-29 Week 7, Part 2 31:42
Juha Penttilä
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Exploring Anatta (online series)

2021-11-29 Four Brahma Vihara Supporting Meditation 33:00
Ajahn Achalo
Four Brahma Vihara as a support to developing mindfulness and wisdom. A talk given to students of the Mahachula International Buddhist College Nov 29, 2021.
Mahachula International Buddhist College

2021-11-28 Refuge in the Way It Is - Meditation 30:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-11-28 Impermanence ~ Allowing Ourselves to be Changed by that Truth 21:51
Ayya Santacitta
Talk & Guided Meditation | Tilorien Monastery
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-11-26 Breath meditation, Dhamma talk on letting go and finding peace 1:22:30
Bhante Sujato
Breath meditation led by Bhante Sujato. Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on letting go and finding peace: identify wants, understand suffering, take small and doable steps, experience your progress, gain wisdom.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-11-26 Transforming Unwholesome Karma Through Compassion 45:23
Thanissara
The mutability of karma. An act of beauty in a war zone. Moments of connection with wildlife. Compassion meditation for ancestors, those in our near relational field, future generations, and all beings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-26 Guided meditation – Breathing regulates body and mind 45:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Aspects of energy can be steadied through sustaining awareness over the entire process of an exhalation, until the inhalation begins. Help breathing to regulate your energy. Energy will regulate your mind, quiet it, steady it, compose it, and over time it will consolidate into a steady quiet form.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-26 Standing meditation - Unified energy 52:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Practicing in standing posture, it’s much easier to feel the whole body as an undivided object. Certain things then become apparent – an unbroken unity, an energy. Stay in your energy body as agitations well up, are received, and then dissolve – because they’re energy. This is the development of true insight, to know phenomena is changeable. Therefore one becomes dispassionate towards them.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-25 Guided meditation - Gladdening the heart 38:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Tuning into where gladness is can be approached from different ways. One can recollect people or events that are gladdening, or one can tune into the energy of gladness that is felt in the body. Linger in its effects, the brightening, lifting quality that is agreeable.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-24 Freedom is the Essence of All Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:26
Kittisaro
Contemplating what never changes. The indestructible heart. Mind the Gap. Radical reflection, returning to the root, where all things merge. Kuan Yin's meditation method.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-24 Gratitude: Entering Sacred Relationship 52:25
Tara Brach
Gratitude arises when we are in sacred relationship with life—present, open and receptive. This talk explores how central gratitude is to our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and then looks at the ways we can directly gladden our minds with gratitude. We end with a guided meditation that includes sharings from the group. The audio includes a poem of blessing by John O’Donohue with a brief cut from Robert Gass – Om Namaha Shivaya (from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-11-24 Meditation: Energy and Source (19:21 min) 19:21
Tara Brach
Our incessant thinking removes us from the full aliveness, vastness and mystery of Being. This guided practice helps us inhabit our energetic forms, and rest in the vast, formless stillness that gives rise to this ever creative living world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-11-24 Guided meditation – The craft of meditation 29:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Settling into direct experience, finding a stable place within the constant tidal wave of phenomena arising. Disengaging, carefully attending. It’s a craft, feeling out how this form is best sustained, smoothed out, appreciated, lingered in. This is the craft of meditation.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-24 Yin Meditation - Depth receptivity to internal experience. 29:55
Thanissara
Moving from goal to source. This is how it is now. Contemplation within the frame of the 4 Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-23 Standing meditation – Harmony of the elements 21:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance to sense into the felt body, experiencing its elemental qualities. When the elements do what they’re supposed to do, energy moves freely, harmoniously. Heart picks up the sign and feels happy, comfortable
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-23 Guided meditation - Breathing whole body 16:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Establishing a firm foundation and upright posture, breathing in, breathing out. Let the exhalation drain the tired, stressed energy; let the inhalation refresh embodied energy. Put attention where it needs to go to facilitate breathing in and out through the whole body.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-23 The Interplay Between Samatha and Vipassana 47:28
Kittisaro
Calm and Insight; contemplating supports for samadhi (unification of heart). Vitakka (directed thought), vicara (exploring, receptive attention), piti (joy), sukha (ease). Guided Meditation through 16 steps of Anapanasati Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-22 Week 6, Part 2 30:16
Juha Penttilä
A Guided Meditation, and Teachings
Gaia House Exploring Anatta (online series)

2021-11-22 Gratitude and Generosity Meditation | Monday Night 27:23
Jack Kornfield
Like the waves of the ocean, the breath rises and falls. Bring loving awareness to the breath. Shift your attention from the breath to all the sensations in your body. With mindful loving awareness, notice the whole field of sensations. If there are areas of pain or stiffness, bow to them and hold them with kindness. Hold them as you would a child who is going through a hard time. Notice how this kind loving awareness allows for the tension and knots to soften in their own way. Now as an expression of gratitude, say thank you to your own body for caring so much, for holding so much as you move through the days and nights. Tell your body, “I’m ok just now—you can relax. You can rest.” Now bring your attention to your heart that carries so much. Notice all that your heart has been holding: longings, fear, love, worry, frustration, excitement, sadness, appreciation, doubt, deep love. Say thank you to your heart for caring so much, for trying to help and protect you. Tell your heart, “I’m ok just now—you can relax. You can rest.” Let your heart be at ease. Now bring your attention to your mind that produces a stream of thoughts, images, pictures, plans, memories, ideas. Feel the energy of the mind, creative, sometimes obsessed, analyzing, exploring, opening. Say thank you for working so hard to take care of you, to protect you. Tell your mind, “I’m ok just now—you can relax. You can rest.” Notice that you’re not your body, feelings, thoughts. You are the loving witness, you are consciousness itself. You are the loving awareness that acknowledges the body, heart and mind. Relax into loving awareness. You are the silent, vast witness to it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-11-22 Guided meditation - Receiving the gift 44:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Tuning in to ground, space and breathing, send messages of safety and comfort, stillness and ease to your internal environment. What your citta lingers on becomes the dominant theme. This is why it’s possible to experience happiness in this crazy world. Receive the gift of abiding in the simplicity of the given.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-22 Morning Meditation with Instructions 44:50
Gullu Singh
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Journey into Refuge, Presence, and Love

2021-11-22 Introduction – Steadying our internal environment 35:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Our intimate environment shakes us up; we become activated by phenomena and impressions. Through meditation we can begin to undo some of these reflexes, and cultivate a sense of stability and happiness. Then when things go wrong, our internal environment can be ok – it knows how to steady itself and discharge stress.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

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