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Dharma Talks
2021-05-19 Guided Meditation 52:16
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage

2021-05-18 2021-05-18 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Week One of Six 1:24:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation 6 week course

2021-05-15 Guided Meditation - Chanting is Your Dhamma Footprint 12:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is like a subtle yoga. It uses your whole body in a non-straining way. We bring something forth into the world with our voices, and we open awareness to what’s around us, to the persistent flow of mental and emotional arisings. Don’t try to change anything, but receive it all with a kindly devotional heart.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-13 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 21:00
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-05-12 Meditation: Being Here for Life 18:03
Tara Brach
It’s easy to race through our seasons and miss the mystery and preciousness of unfolding moments. This meditation invites us into an embodied, openhearted presence and includes a poem by Pat Schneider called “Instructions for the Journey.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-12 32 Parts of the Body—Urine, Oil of the Joints, Mucus, Saliva, Grease, Tears, Fat, Sweat, Blood, Pus, Phlegm, Bile, Brain Feces, Stomach, Small Intestines, Large Intestines, Lungs, Spleen, Diaphragm, Liver, Heart, Kidneys, Bone Marrow, Bones, Sinews, Flesh, Skin, Teeth, Nails, Body Hair, Head Hair 54:52
Bob Stahl
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace. This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-05-09 Part 2 - Afternoon talk and meditation 1:26:31
Ajahn (Ven.) Canda Bhikkhuni
London Insight Meditation Beautifying The Mind, with Venerable Canda

2021-05-09 Paramis, Week 3: The Release of Generosity - Meditation 35:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-09 Part 1 - Morning Talk and Meditation 1:20:17
Ajahn (Ven.) Canda Bhikkhuni
London Insight Meditation Beautifying The Mind, with Venerable Canda

2021-05-08 Anapanasati Guided Meditation 31:56
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-08 Anapanasati Guided Meditation 31:56
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-05-08 Guided Meditation - Trust the Simplicity of Body Breathing 12:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions to establish an upright, open and relaxed posture, following the natural expanding and subsiding of breathing. This allows the internal aspect of the body to become more apparent. Train the mind to relax its preoccupations and return to the simplicity of body breathing.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-05-07 Breath meditation, translations of the Therigāthā 1:39:10
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
At Harris Park – Therigāthā Festival - breath meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Bhante Sujato interviewed by Bhante Akāliko about translations of the Therigāthā
Lokanta Vihara

2021-05-07 2021-05-07 Lovingkindness Practice Group: The Radiance of Appreciative Joy - Meditation 45:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-07 Buddhanusati - Recollection of the Buddha 47:19
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-06 Radiating Metta for the Entire World 42:50
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-05 Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence 18:31
Tara Brach
We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-05-05 Returning to the Mystery We Came From ~ Maranasati 52:51
Ayya Santacitta
A guided meditation on death & dying
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-04 Guided Meditation on Skin, Flesh and Bones 49:01
Ayya Anandabodhi
This practice, one of the Four Protective Meditations, leads us to directly understand the true nature of the body. Through this understanding, the mind is released from desire and aversion and we can accept this body as part of nature, rather than "me" and "mine".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Protective Meditations: Developing Courage to Meet the Way Things Truly Are

2021-05-02 Embodying Mettā: A Daylong Retreat 3:34:42
Dawn Mauricio
Those who are familiar with the practice of mettā, or lovingkindness, know that it is one of four divine abidings of the heart according to the Buddha’s teachings. One way that this quality can be cultivated—as traditionally and so frequently taught—is through the recitation of phrases. However, without a deeper understanding or familiarity with the subtle expressions of mettā, or the alternate doorways into cultivating this profound and limitless quality, lovingkindness meditation can mislead us to binary thinking, as in: "I am loving and kind” or “I am not loving and kind." In our daylong together, we will explore the various doorways into cultivating mettā, as well as the spectrum in which it can come alive in our daily lives. All levels and experiences welcome.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-05-02 Q&A2 45:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Where is the experience of bodily energies found in the suttas; what is the source of Ajahn’s ‘forensic precision’; how to us somatic presence with the 3rd and 4th foundations of mindfulness; please help with insomnia; experiencing resistance to standing meditation; grief and pain experienced with ‘Future and Past’ exercise; how to deepen into the ‘neither/nor’ space; is samādhi developed by sustaining sati; how to deal with overactive citta; how did you deal with the fear of death when being robbed in India?
London Insight Meditation Clearing the Floods

2021-05-02 Paramis, Week 2: Calling on the Beautiful Qualities of the Heart - Meditation 35:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2021-05-02 Walking Meditation – Walking Through the Mind 4:52
Ajahn Sucitto
In walking, experience the fluidities and exchanges of movement. Walk through the sense realm, noticing how objects change. Walk through your mental field in the same way, the wallpaper changing as you move along. Notes on reclining meditation conclude these instructions.
London Insight Meditation Clearing the Floods

2021-05-02 Guided Meditation – Exploration of Energies in the Head 23:32
Ajahn Sucitto
First grounding the body, then settling the breathing, guidance to explore and ease areas of the face and head.
London Insight Meditation Clearing the Floods

2021-05-02 Standing Meditation – Open Energy 34:00
Ajahn Sucitto
The standing posture provides a simple process whereby energies can be balanced, soothed and steadied. Opening channels of the body so breathing can flow through, an open energy – light, spacious, repelling obstruction – becomes available.
London Insight Meditation Clearing the Floods

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