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2023-10-23 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 7 - Meditation 33:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2023-10-23 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 7 - Talk 58:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies

2023-10-18 Meditation: Relaxing with Life 23:00
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that can include, with care, whatever arises.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Meditation 36:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-16 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 6 of 8 - Talk 31:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-14 Open Awareness Meditation 54:22
Devon Hase
A review of Satipatthana meditation, and a guided meditation working through the objects of mindfulness (body, breath, sounds, vedana, and citta), culminating in Open Awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-10 Morning Guided Meditation on Vedana 61:13
Devon Hase
Instructions and teaching on the second foundation of mindfulness, which is Vedana (feeling tone, or hedonic valence). A description from the Satipatthana, guided meditation, and ending reflections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight 2023

2023-10-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 5 of 8 - Meditation 35:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 5 of 8 - Talk 47:12
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-09 Investigating dependent arising 41:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Dependent arising is accompanied by dependent ceasing. Is mindfulness enough? The dhammas involved are potent and need persistent attention to a multiplicity of factors.
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-08 Awakening and Aligning with the Way Things Are - Meditation 33:16
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-08 Awakening and Aligning with the Way Things Are - Talk 56:23
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-10-06 Opening Instructions - Four Foundations of Mindfulness 37:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of these four areas: body, sensitivity, heart and emotional and psychological phenomena prevent us from being deluded.
Bodhi College Unpicking the Tangled Skein

2023-10-02 Mindfulness of Breathing = Week 4 of 8 - Meditation 32:33
Mark Nunberg
Buddhist Studies - Mindfulness of Breathing
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-02 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 4 of 8 - Talk 30:01
Mark Nunberg
Buddhist Studies - Mindfulness of Breathing
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-10-01 Instructions - Mindfulness of Moods & Thoughts 52:24
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT / SR Foundations

2023-09-30 How Mindfulness Heals Distress 47:07
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT / SR Foundations

2023-09-29 Instructions - Mindfulness of the Body 54:57
Jake Dartington
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT / SR Foundations

2023-09-18 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 2 of 8 - Meditation 35:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-09-18 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 2 of 8 - Talk 30:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center

2023-09-15 Supports for mindfulness 60:23
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2023-08-31 Craving the end of craving 46:13
Walt Opie
The Buddha often pointed to craving as the cause of our suffering. Walt explores how craving arises and how we might come to the end of craving. Ajahn Sucitto said, "In fact, our craving is about something we don’t have... The source is the ‘not having.’" When we start to see this with mindfulness and clear comprehension, we have more freedom to choose healthy habits over unhealthy habits, and we can begin to value the wholesome over the unwholesome. This can eventually become the condition for great happiness.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2023-08-30 Meditation: Vipassana – The Practice of Seeing Clearly 18:08
Tara Brach
Vipassana, also known as insight meditation, is training in bringing a clear mindful attention to our moment to moment experience. We begin by relaxing through the body and then resting attention with the breath – or some other sensory anchor – and allowing the mind to settle. Then we open to whatever is predominant or calling our attention – sensations, emotions, sounds – meeting each arising experience with a clear, kind attention. The gift of this process is discovering balance in the midst of the changing flow, and gaining deep insight into the nature of reality.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-28 25 talk: Exploring the Awakening Factors 31:11
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the seven awakening factors of mindfulness, investigation, energy, joy (pītī), tranquility, samādhi and equanimity, and how these work together to support conducive conditions for insight to arise
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-28 23 reflection: Third Establishment of Mindfulness, citta or heart-mind 26:37
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-27 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 2 - Introduction & Meditation 40:57
Mark Nunberg
The guided meditation begins at approximately 11 minutes and 30 seconds. It is preceded by chanting, with an insightful introduction by Mark. The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-27 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 2 - Talk 39:21
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-26 Morning Instructions on Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:53
Rebecca Bradshaw
Includes short explanation of being with thoughts mindfully and Guided Meditation with experiments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-24 Craving, Aversion, and Delusion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:11
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses how to be mindfully with these three protections.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Summer Insight Meditation Retreat

2023-08-23 The Superpower of Mindful Witnessing 42:51
Tara Brach
The capacity to witness what is happening inside us with a non-judging attention allows us to respond to life from our full intelligence and heart. This talk looks at the role of witnessing in spiritual practice, and how we can cultivate this superpower in a way that reveals the light or spirit that lives through all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-23 10 instructions and meditation exploring feeling-tone or vedanā 24:34
Jill Shepherd
How feeling-tone conditions reactivity when there's no mindfulness, then exploring vedanā in relation to the sense doors of seeing, hearing and the body
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-23 Guided meditation, instructions: including everything in simplicity 36:06
Matthew Hepburn
Final day guided, mindfulness instructions. Fourth foundation. Six sense spheres. Traces awareness. Just this.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-21 04 instructions: Mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing 50:29
Jill Shepherd
Establishing a strong foundation of embodied awareness as an antidote to the tendency to be lost in the mind
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Two-week insight meditation retreat

2023-08-20 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 1 - Talk 42:59
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-20 The Joy of Renunciation - Week 1 - Meditation 25:34
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-08-18 Mindfulness and investigation, as factors of enlightenment. 49:43
Matthew Hepburn
A practical understanding how sati and dhammavicaya emerge as factors that lead toward awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice

2023-08-16 Meditation: Openhearted Presence 19:26
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2023-08-10 Meditation instructions/sitting 49:24
Kamala Masters
Guidance on mindfulness of intention
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart's Release

2023-08-09 Letting go of everything 52:06
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Step-by-step, through the simple practice of mindfulness, the heart learns to let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart's Release

2023-08-09 Cultivating Wise Speech 3: Review of the Foundations of Wise Speech, and Bringing Wise Speech into Difficult or Challenging Interactions 66:45
Donald Rothberg
We first review four foundations of wise speech: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; (3) bringing our mindfulness and skillful responses to our thoughts, emotions, and body states into our speech practice; and (4) empathy practice, tuning into others' and our own emotions and sense of "what matters." We then explore the importance of being with challenges and difficulties in our practice generally, and do two exercises exploring a difficult or challenging interaction with another, including working with an "empathy map." Discussion follows. (Materials on emotions [or feelings], needs, and an "empathy map" are given below, under "documents.")
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files:
  • Feelings Inventory from NVC by NVC (added by Donald Rothberg) (PDF)
  • Needs Inventory from NVC by NVC (added by Donald Rothberg) (PDF)
  • Empathy Map by Donald Rothberg/Oren Jay Sofer (PDF)

2023-08-07 Finding one's centre – view, virtue, mindfulness, concentration 54:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Retreat is a renunciant experience recommended by the Buddha. Through this we can clarify and collect our centre.
Cittaviveka 2023 CBM Vassa Talks - Week 1

2023-07-31 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Wisdom - Meditation 26:54
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-31 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 8 - Wisdom - Talk 35:48
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-30 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 6 - Meditation 33:43
Mark Nunberg
This guided meditation begins with a four-minute introduction. The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-30 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 6 - Talk 41:44
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome. No registration necessary.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2023-07-30 Guided instructions: mindfulness of thoughts and thinking 39:36
Matthew Hepburn
When we're not mindful of them, thoughts have so much power over our lives. These instructions are intended to help lead the way to freedom from these fleeting mental phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2023-07-28 Mindfulness in Daily Life for Parents (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:36
Diana Winston
The family retreat 2023 at Spirit Rock focused on the Eightfold Path. This talk was on Samadhi-- or Wise Cultivation through Mindfulness and Meditation and was specifically geared to parents. How can parents practice mindfulness right in the heat of in daily life? Can we practice when we’re getting kids ready for school or putting them to bed, or fighting with our teen or when we're worried about them? Mindfulness can offer incredible tools to support parents in staying present, connected, awake, and in right relationship with our children, partners, and self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Family Retreat

2023-07-24 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week Seven - How Stability of Awareness Supports Deepening Wisdom - Meditation 32:51
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-24 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week Seven - How Stability of Awareness Supports Deepening Wisdom - Talk 56:34
Mark Nunberg
This course examines the Buddha’s teachings on the five spiritual faculties of confidence, energy, mindful awareness, stability of awareness, and wisdom. It is the development and balancing of these five faculties that provide the force that moves the mind from faith to wisdom and release.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Five Spiritual Faculties (Summer 2023)

2023-07-23 The Healing and Liberating Potential of Awareness - Week 5 - The Nature of Awareness - Talk 57:50
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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