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Dharma Talks
2020-06-05 Closing Session 34:21
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-05 Short Dharma Talk 27:24
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-05 Podcast: If You Won't Create Your Own Life the World Will Create It for You 1:11:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-06-05 Morning Instructions and Meditation 44:12
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 Exploring Racial Injustice and White Privilege 64:09
James Baraz
In the aftermath of the George Floyd tragedy and the protests that followed the community explores Racial Injustice and White Privilege. Special guest Deb Kerr, who is a Core Teacher of East Bay Meditation Center in Oakland. DE, who is one of EMBC's founders and has served on the EBMC Board has led White Privilege groups there.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-06-04 Evening Dharma Talk 44:30
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 62 The Greater Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN136 24:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Ven.Payutto Good Evil and Beyond, a basic text book on Kamma : http://www.buddhanet.net/pdf_file/good_evil_beyond.pdf
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-04 Guided Yoga Practice 2:09:19
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-04 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 44:12
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Meditation: Homecoming to Wakeful Presence 20:04
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with us standing in mindful movement, guiding us in awakening awareness in the body. Then in sitting practice, we open all our senses, resting in the wakeful presence that can include the changing waves of our life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-03 A Courageous Presence with Racism 38:13
Tara Brach
Anti-Black racism is the core wound of American culture, and we each have a role to play in fighting racism, a medicine to bring to these times. This talk explores how we can offer an honest and courageous presence to key domains of this suffering. We then look at affirming that Black lives truly matter with our dedicated and wise action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-06-03 Evening Dharma Talk - Treat Your Body Like a Bee Hive 43:43
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Ananda on How to be an Ally 61:48
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-03 61 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135 18:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-03 The Peace of a Boundless Heart 1:41:27
Nathan Glyde
Teachings and practices to ease us from habitual patterns towards something endlessly (boundless heart) liberating. Exploring through a mediation, talk, and Q&R, freedom with what appears, freedom from what appears, via the freedom teachings of anicca and dukkha, and particularly sankhara–how we participate in the creation of 'the all of the all'.
SanghaSeva The Peace of a Boundless Heart

2020-06-03 Guided Yoga Practice 2:00:25
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-03 Guided Meditation -- Direct Experience 16:14
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-03 Transformation of the Analytical Mind -- 1 1:10:17
Kim Allen
A six-session class on Maturing the Analytical Mind through Dharma practice
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-06-03 Morning Instructions and Meditation 43:50
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Evening Dharma Talk 50:23
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 60 The Shorter Exposition on Action (Kamma) MN135 19:09
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-06-02 Short Talk and Guided Yoga Practice 2:09:07
Helen Stephenson
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation 43:16
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Yoga

2020-06-02 Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns 58:32
Ayya Anandabodhi, Matty Weingast
Ayya Anandabodhi and Matty Weingast read from their new translation of the Therigatha - The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks

2020-06-01 Coming Undone 63:16
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-06-01 59 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 23:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Elements and What is Possible and what is Impossible
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-31 Dharma talk 46:45
Michele McDonald
Closing dharma talk, given during an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Pandemic of Racism: For George Floyd 68:54
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-31 58 The Many Kinds or Elements MN115 22:13
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Continuing Dependent Origination. For further reading: PDF download - Ven.P.A.Payutto : Dependent Origination - The Buddhist Law of Conditionality. For a deeper understanding: Bhikkhu Bodhi - The Great Discourse on Causation DN15
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-31 Sit with Instructions 50:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions, given on the final day of an online self-retreat during the COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-31 Dimanche 31 mai 2020 1:39:13
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara a discuté de notre capacité de développer une intimité avec le moment présent, avec toutes les relations qui composent notre monde et notre environnement. En comprenant les relations entre les phénomènes et entre les êtres, nous pouvons mieux agir et interagir.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd - guided meditation 25:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Responding to the Killing of George Floyd Talk 40:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-31 Traditional Pāli Dhamma Talk Request Chant 0:40
Ayya Medhanandi
The deity Brahma Sahampati appeared before the Blessed One and urged the Buddha to teach to those who had little dust in their eyes so that they could learn the Dhamma and practice for their own awakening.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2020-05-31 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The Healing Potential of the Heart 47:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Training involves the pause – connect to what’s happening, and use careful attention to deepen into citta. There’s more than just discomfort there – there’s healing potential if one can touch into the healthy spots. *Sutta reference Udāna 4:1
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-30 Dharma talk: Our World is on Fire 50:45
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk on the Fire Sermon discourse, given during online self-retreat during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-30 57 The Many Kinds of Elements MN115 20:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The basic law of conditionality - This-that Law Idhapaccayata. Dependent Origination - the First Six Links : ignorance, habits, consciousness, body and mind, and the six sense bases and contact
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-30 Sit with Instructions 53:00
Michele McDonald
Guided meditation with instructions, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Dharma talk: Finding Peace, Ending the War 45:00
Michele McDonald
Dharma talk on annica, dukkha, anatta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort 51:16
Ajahn Sucitto
There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-29 56 The Shorter Discourse to Saccaka 1:21:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-29 Sit with Instructions 51:02
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Guided meditation with instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-29 Saṅkhāra Dharma Going Forward 30:54
Nathan Glyde
Continuation, Crossing the Threshold, or more commonly called Closing Talk of our retreat. Gathering our insights, transferring our practice, and going forth.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Dāna - Generosity and Freedom (a talk about/for dana practice) 14:08
Zohar Lavie
Dana talk for participants of the "Waking the Heart, Expanding the World" retreat
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 Mettā to the Sensate World 28:20
Zohar Lavie
Sending a welcoming quality of attention (metta) to whatever appears at the sense doors.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-29 In This Very Life -- 2020-05-29 55:14
Kim Allen
Sutta contemplation: AN 5.193 and MN 4
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-28 Dharma talk 52:25
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Dharma talk given on the second day of online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Metta for a Sangha of All Beings 42:04
Nathan Glyde
Opening our sense of community to expand to include more and more of the world.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 55 The Greater Discourse to Rahula 1:20:43
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha skilfully guides his son, around 18 years of age, to navigate the desire to return to the household life.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-28 Awakening the Heart 48:41
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-28 Sit with Instructions 46:30
Michele McDonald
Instructions on setting the intention for sitting followed by guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Meditation 24:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Humility in the Face of Difficulty Talk 67:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-28 Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Open Palm Attention 51:56
Nathan Glyde
Expanding the world through skilful wholesome modes of relating. When there is an object in attention there is always some degree of push or pull happening. The contraction is what holds attention there. It is not something we’re doing wrong, it is the nature of experience. What happens when we invite an opening in the contraction, either in the body sense, or the sense of awareness, or by bringing in a bit more metta in the atmosphere of attending?
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Metta Chanting and Sit 39:48
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Evening metta chanting instructions for online self-retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by chanting and sit
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Dharma talk 46:08
Michele McDonald
Opening talk of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, on self-retreat at home, meditation, and loving-kindness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 Compassion and Tenderness 42:18
Zohar Lavie
Guided meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Compassion 61:59
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-27 54 Ambalathika Rahula Sutta MN61 1:20:52
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha talks to his son, Rahula about lying and how to reflect.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-27 Metta Undefined 42:58
Nathan Glyde
Letting metta be expansive, unconstrained, vaster than vast, beyond boundaries, so that it can fabricate more and more well-being. Metta is an expression and experience of non-dukkha, it is a skilful delightful way of relating that brings wellbeing, it is a compass for practice, and it is so much more too.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-27 Sit with Instructions 53:47
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Introduction to the first day of online retreat, during COVID-19 pandemic, followed by guided meditation instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2020-05-27 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha-Mind 19: Transforming Reactivity 3 65:50
Donald Rothberg
After a review of our last two sessions exploring the nature of dukkha as reactivity and how to practice to transform reactivity, in the context of the Buddha's teachings of Dependent Origination and the Two Arrows, we explore a third aspect of practice. Some of our experiences of reactivity, particularly those in which there are repetitive and habitual patterns, sometimes open up to reveal old and relatively unconscious material, part of our "ignorance," giving us the chance to access and transform such material. This can occur, for example, when there is trauma, or when there are limiting beliefs originating from childhood (or sometimes later) related to psychological and/or social conditioning. A general model is given of four steps in the transformation of such material.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-05-27 Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Vedanā as a way of looking 29:25
Zohar Lavie
Practicing opening contraction by staying at contact with vedana.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Metta to Self or Other (with chanting) 43:44
Nathan Glyde
Starts with a 'Zoom video call' based metta practice, then some Pali metta chanting (around 13 mins in), then a guided metta practice towards oneself or another. Pali: Sabbe sattā sukhitā hontu. Sabbe sattā averā hontu. Sabbe sattā abyāpajjhā hontu. Sabbe sattā anighā hontu. Sabbe sattā sukhi attānaa pariharantu.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Talk: Coming Home to the Heart - Strengthening Our Natural Resilience to Meet Life’s Challenges 34:21
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how Buddhist practices such as the four Brahmavihara meditations of kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity can be used to strengthen our natural resilience, so that we can navigate life’s challenges with more ease
Sydney Insight Meditators

2020-05-26 53 Advice to Channa MN144 15:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Concerning suicide.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-26 Dukkha, Construction, and Release 46:16
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Consciousness and Awareness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:04
Anam Thubten
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-26 All Community Sit 14:00
Bob Stahl
Group meditation in the Insight Buddhist tradition, includes a Sit, short Dhamma talk, and discussion & connection
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-26 Day 1 - Meditation Instructions - Easing Bodily Fabrication 50:38
Nathan Glyde
The importance of setting intention, bodily fabrication, seeing things as anicca–changing, and making incremental changes…to changeable experience.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-26 Tuesday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:36
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-25 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 4 - Meditation 30:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-25 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 4 - Talk 30:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-25 Opening and Steadying 44:20
Zohar Lavie
Guided Meditation
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-25 Metta 34:06
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-25 52 Good Friendship 22:34
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Passages from Social and Communal Harmony by Bhikkhu Bodhi. AN7.36 DN31 Sn45.2
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-25 Love and Awareness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:28
Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-25 Expanding Possibilities 35:36
Nathan Glyde
Exploring the appearance of all phenomena from an understanding of naive realism and fabrication. Then opening to a path of radical transformation developed from incremental change.
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-25 Opening Talk - Creating the Retreat Together 33:37
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Waking the heart, Expanding the world

2020-05-25 Monday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:28
Anam Thubten, Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-24 The Perfection of Patience 1:25:50
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-05-24 51 Potiliya Sutta MN54 20:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Talk 15 mins The Eight Abandonments and consequences if they are not abandoned. Meditation Practice and Contemplations.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-24 Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:15
James Baraz
Every momnet of mindfulness we are planting seeds of non-greed, non-hatred and non-delusion the basis of true happiness. This talk explores how that works and the bigger implication for our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-24 50 Dog Ascetic Discourse MN57 1:21:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-24 Enseignement : 5e agregat 58:11
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2020-05-24 Dimanche 24 mai 2020 1:24:57
Sayadaw U Jagara
Jagara a discuté des dix domaines d’action méritoire. Vous trouverez une liste de ces dix domaines et un exposé approfondi (en anglais) sur ce sujet, au chapitre 6 (p. 94), du livre Abhidhamma in Daily Life. Jagara a aussi parlé de la conscience infinie en puisant dans Derniers Fragments d’un long voyage, écrit par Christiane Singer.
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020
Attached Files:
  • Abhidhamma In Daily Life by Ashin Janakabhivamsa (PDF)

2020-05-24 Freedom and Intimacy - Meditation 37:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-24 Freedom and Intimacy - Talk 41:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-24 The Quail's Tale: A Path to Harmlessness 41:38
Ayya Medhanandi
Praising Truth for its own sake, we lean in the direction of Truth. We make our intention not to harm by body, speech, or thought. Harmlessness leads to selflessness. Selflessness leads to the Deathless. To boundless compassion. It will save us from the flames of greed, violence, and delusion raging around us. Like the baby quail. What saved it from the forest fire was the purity of its own truth developed over lifetimes. A talk given in a Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC) zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2020-05-24 A Cry of Surprise 21:05
Ayya Medhanandi
In the inner sea, we know what is truly true. Knowing is the mother, breathing is the child. Going beyond past hurts, beyond thought, being old or young, desolate or delighted, go even beyond Covid, there in the timeless emptiness of present moment awareness of the breath itself, teach your mind its true home. Given at an online meditation during the Covid pandemic.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2020-05-24 Sunday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:17
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-24 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Freeing the Heart from the Whip of ‘Should Be’ 37:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Mind (manas) whips the heart with its interpretations of how things should be, thereby stirring up discontent and agitation. Mind can be placed in service of heart (citta) instead. Citta’s awakened response to the conditioned realm is one of empathy. Holding, soothing, steadying – there is the possibility to experience the clarity and calm of the Buddha rather than the misery that mind creates. *Sutta Nipāta: 721, Dhammapada:134, and M.18
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-05-23 Wondrous Feeling 42:58
Dhammadīpā
Exploring how mindfulness and investigation of feeling tone is woven into many frameworks of practice given by the Buddha - the 5 aggregates, the 4 foundations of mindfulness, the 12 fold chain of causation, the 4 Noble Truths.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-05-23 Bringing Metta to Life 49:44
Yuka Nakamura
How can we practise Metta - benevolence - in the midst of our life? Metta can express itself in many ways, as generosity, ethics and kind speech, but also in the way we perceive people, appreciating what is good, and the world, seeing the non-separation and interconnectedness and living from this understanding.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Ascenscion Online Retreat

2020-05-23 50 Dog Ascetic Discourse MN57 16:17
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-23 Freedom through Knowing Oneself (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:41
Anam Thubten
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-23 Instructions et Assise : corps et 4 élments 60:51
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2020-05-23 Saturday Morning Dharmette and Instructions (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:40
Trudy Goodman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness - Online

2020-05-23 Morning Instructions, Questions 1:25:02
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House

2020-05-23 Guided Meditation -- Samatha 16:31
Kim Allen
Samatha is tranquility meditation. No end bell -- sit as long as you like.
Insight Santa Cruz

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