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Dharma Talks
2020-04-17 A healing time: practicing with difficult emotions. 54:27
Caroline Jones
There are 3.3 minutes of silence in the beginning.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-17 The Profound Implications of Interconnectedness 41:44
James Baraz
"Talk for Pandemic Reality"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-04-17 Finding Refuge 29:33
James Baraz
"Talk for Pandemic Reality"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley Dharma and Yoga Training Program 2020

2020-04-17 Fear or Love: We Have a Choice 33:18
James Baraz
"Talk for Pandemic Reality"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-04-16 Calling All Bodhisattvas 66:10
James Baraz
"Talk for Pandemic Reality" Including Jack Kornfield's "The Bodhisattva Responds to the Virus"
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-04-16 talk: hope, hopelessness and equanimity 26:29
Jill Shepherd
Exploring ways to open more fully to the truth of impermanence and death, then looking at equanimity as an antidote to any tendency to swing between hope and hopelessness
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-16 meditation: steadying the body, the heart, the mind 28:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying and stabilising the body and heart-mind, then noticing our relationship to present-moment experience, opening to the simplicity of here ... now ... this ...
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-16 Satipatthana Series, Class 7 1:35:35
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-16 Working with disturbance: reflections and guided meditation. 43:42
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-15 Meditation: Refuge in Sacred Presence 22:29
Tara Brach
Our experience includes a foreground of changing experience - sounds, sensations, feelings, thoughts. In the background is an alert inner stillness, the awareness that is our true nature. This meditation guides us in opening to the moment-to-moment flow through our senses, and learning to relax back to inhabit the mystery and vastness of awake awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-15 Sheltering in Love (Part 4) 43:21
Tara Brach
During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path - practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world. Talk 4 explores how the difficult emotions we all face can become direct portals to an inner refuge of sacred space.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-15 Grandmotherly Mind 51:08
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-15 14 Not-self Revisited The story of Sati MN38 20:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-15 Hebrew - Mettā and Emptiness in the World 28:05
Zohar Lavie
The last Hebrew talk of this retreat, talking about how to sustain our practice of metta and skilful ways of relating, and the possibilities of fostering more insights as we approach re-engagment with the world.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-15 Beauty and Care (Onine Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:05
Gil Fronsdal
The Buddha’s teachings on Beauty (Kalyana) and Care (Anukampa)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online

2020-04-15 Question & Answer 30:35
Oren Jay Sofer
Open Q&A covering topics such as: anchor vs. choiceless awareness; loss of concentration and self-judgment; patience vs. avoidance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-15 Day 5 Instructions - Just a Perception 56:20
Nathan Glyde
A review of all the ways of looking and relating to phenomena, culminating in seeing them as empty phenomena.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-14 Satipatthana Series, Class 6 1:39:43
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-14 All Phenomena are Empty. Fill them with Metta. 38:44
Nathan Glyde
All phenomena are fabricated by perception: all things are empty of inherently existing separate from the atmosphere of attention. We explore what happens to phenomena and the sense of self when perception is soaked in kindness and care. Supported by the suttas: Two Sorts of Thinking (MN19), and the Karaniya Metta Sutta (SN1.8).
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-14 13 Discourse on the Taints MN 2 - Overcome by seeing 21:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-14 Shining Clarity on the Environment of Mind (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:17
John Travis
In John's classic style, the Talk begins with a funny story and a moving poem, followed by John's reflections and stories from around the world about the theme of working with Wanting and Aversion in the mind. The Talk concludes with thoughts about Views and Opinions, the Sense of Self and Awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online

2020-04-14 A Strong and Flexible mind (part 1): Patience 47:09
Oren Jay Sofer
Patience is said to lead the way to enlightenment. Why? Dhamma practice goes against the grain of ordinary life and against the acquiring tendencies of the mind. This talk explores the value of patience and how to we turn the mind towards the spacious flexibility of patience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-14 Metta to All Phenomena 42:05
Nathan Glyde
Spreading the atmosphere of metta to 'all of the all'.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-14 Hebrew - Day 4 Instructions - Anatta 60:17
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-13 Hebrew - Undoing - Lessening Fabrication 41:44
Zohar Lavie
Talk in Hebrew: Understanding how experience is fabricated leads us towards skilful ways of fabricating less dukkha, self-identity, and increasing well-being.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-13 Remembering 62:43
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-13 Crossroads and the Potential for Transformation or Disintegration 51:29
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2020-04-13 Buddhist Studies: Understanding Loneliness - Cultivating Wholesome Relationships, Week 6 - Talk 61:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2020-04-13 12 The Investigation of Eating 23:27
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-13 Embodiment and Nervous System Resiliency (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:43
Heather Sundberg
This Talk shares Heather's favorite teachings and practices of the First Foundation of Mindfulness of the Body and Mindfulness of the Nervous System. Heather offers a variety of simple short direct body/nervous system practices to support you during COVID-19 times and for everyday resiliency building. I hope it is helpful for you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online

2020-04-13 Guided Meditation: Unfolding Patience 30:09
Oren Jay Sofer
A short reflection and Guided meditation on patience in life and contemplative practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-13 Hebrew - Metta To Benefactor, Difficult Relationship, And All Beings 42:26
Zohar Lavie
Guided Metta Meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-13 Closing Reflections 13:59
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes River Wolton
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-13 Reflections, Instructions, Meditation 38:18
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-13 Day 3 Instructions - Meeting All Passing Vedana With Spacious Awareness 54:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-12 Easing Escalation 43:28
Nathan Glyde
Skilfully meeting the hindrances to meditation and to well-being in life, by understanding the dependent origination of experience: particularly fabrication (escalation–papancha, etc.) based on reactivity to unseen vedana.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-12 Holy Days 1:29:00
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-12 11 The Nutriments - Food, Contact, Volition and Consciousness 24:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma
An excellent Discourse SN12.63/64
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-12 Dharma Teachings 52:26
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-12 Five Faculties (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:08
Mary Grace Orr
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Living Awareness through Insight Meditation - Online

2020-04-12 Dimanche 12 avril 2020 1:31:37
Sayadaw U Jagara
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-04-12 Mettā to Self, Friend, those Suffering, and Whole World 42:14
Nathan Glyde
Guided Metta Meditation including a subtle compassionate quality as we gently include those in pain or difficulty in the world.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-12 Taking Care of the Heart and Mind, Week 4 - Meditation 35:27
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-12 Taking Care of the Heart and Mind, Week 4 - Talk 39:07
Mark Nunberg
Recording cuts out a few minutes early.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-12 Hebrew - Day 2 Instructions - Relax Contraction in the Body 50:33
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-12 Reflections, Instructions, Meditation 55:38
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes River Wolton
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-12 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: The End of Fear 26:17
Ajahn Sucitto
We look for safety and stability in a level of experience that cannot provide it, that’s the source of agitation. In meditation we practice the ability to sustain ungrasping attention around a thought, feeling, situation, and particularly unpleasant feeling. The content will constantly shift, but the relationship to them, awareness, can become the source of stability. *Sutta reference is SN2:17.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-11 Silent Meditation, Dedication, Chant 28:27
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes River Wolton
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-11 Hebrew - What is Metta? 46:40
Zohar Lavie
Talk in Hebrew, about how experience is fabricated. Particularly by the way of relating of 'firing the second arrow' of 'dukkha' towards what is difficult, and how we can find a more appropriate and liberating response via a 'metta' way of relating.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-11 10 Grief 18:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-11 Meditation and Dharma Teachings 48:22
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-11 Hebrew - Metta To Self, Easy And World 37:53
Zohar Lavie
Guided Metta meditation in Hebrew
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-11 Reflections, Instructions, Meditation 34:42
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes River Wolton
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-11 How to Retreat at Home 56:14
Mark Nunberg
Instructions and a guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-11 Day 1 Instructions - Welcoming Body in a Spacious Awareness 54:31
Nathan Glyde
Supporting steadiness, openness, and dedication in our practice. Via a spread and open awareness that is intentionally receiving–inviting–the present body sensations into the spacious awareness. Our dedication is to stay steady with it, and to re-open and re-invite, when our attention, naturally, moves away. All of this is done with a gentle atmosphere of metta–kindness.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-11 Lightly Guided Meditation 40:22
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Love in the Time of Coronavirus: Embodying Open-hearted Wisdom

2020-04-10 Opening Talk - Metta and Emptiness 39:19
Nathan Glyde
Introducing the main concept of this retreat: sankhara-fabrication. In particular the insight that experience is 'made up' from an object in attention and an atmosphere of attention. The latter we could call the way of relating, or way of looking (as Rob Burbea teaches it). We can pay attention to different objects, and that affects expereince. We can also develop ('bhavana' = cultivate) other atmospheres or modes of attending.
SanghaSeva Metta and Emptiness - Online

2020-04-10 09 Right Speech, Action and Livelihood 22:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma
How they all belong to a feedback loop to Right View and Right Attitude. How they are all starting points for practice.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-10 The four brahma viharas. 58:06
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-10 Liberating Teachings of the Buddha - 4 58:18
Kim Allen
A four-part sutta study class (part 2 was not recorded)
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-09 talk: the relevance of mudita, gratitude or appreciation during difficult times 23:28
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the role of mudita, appreciative joy and gratitude, as a support for equanimity during challenging times. Includes quotes from an interview with Rebecca Solnit on hope https://onbeing.org/programs/rebecca-solnit-falling-together/#transcript
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-09 meditation: mindfulness of breathing, then gratitude at end 26:33
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by settling into the body and the breath, then towards the end, orienting to mudita, appreciative joy or gratitude for a few minutes
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-09 Satipatthana Series, Class 5 1:30:52
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-09 Guided metta meditation 49:02
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-09 Home Movie from the Kuti: Where and How Are You Going? 35:30
Ajahn Sucitto
We can use this experience of lock down to address the routines and standards that support our daily becoming. The mind is pulled further and further wondering what to do, planning what's next. What to do is stop, rest in the body, maintain deep attention. Consider rituals that nuplug and cut the tide of becoming.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-08 Liberating Teachings of the Buddha -- 3 54:55
Kim Allen
A four part series on sutta teachings about Nibbana. (Session 2 was not recorded)
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-08 Sheltering in Love - Part 3 45:48
Tara Brach
During this time of pandemic, we need, more than ever, to feel our connectedness—true belonging with our own being, each other and all life. These talks explore the bodhisattva path – practices of an awakening being dedicated to living from love. The invitation is to let this season of close-in and global suffering deepen our collective commitment to creating a more compassionate world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-08 Meditation: A Calm Refuge 26:49
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a relaxing body scan and guidance on finding a space of peace and balance in the midst of whatever life brings us. Also enjoy the Virginia springtime rain that accompanies us halfway through the meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-08 08 Mindfulness at work And Right View Right Attitude 21:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Noting used at work. Continuing the Four Noble Truths; The Noble Eightfold Path
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-08 Practicing with the Pandemic 2: Cultivating Compassion and Equanimity 65:20
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of some of the suggested ways to practice with the pandemic given last week, we explore two key capacities for our times: Compassion and equanimity. We look into the key aspects of compassion and equanimity and also how to cultivate them. For each of the two qualities, we also have songs inspired by and inspiring the qualities, from Eve Decker. A period of discussion, including questions and responses, concludes the session.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-04-07 Flowers as Dharma Beauty 14:55
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-07 Satipatthana Series, Class 4 1:33:21
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-07 07 Setting the Wheel of the Dhamma in Motion 24:31
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Known as the first discourse of the Buddha expressing the basic understanding of the Four NOble Truths
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-07 06 Renunciation and Buddha's First Occasion to Teach 20:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma
The Buddha makes his way to meet ip with his former five friends.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-07 Coming Home in the Body 47:29
Oren Jay Sofer
Exploring our relationship with the body as a resource for practice and a doorway to liberation. Link to poem read at the end: https://www.orenjaysofer.com/blog/trust
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-06 Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships, Week 5 - Meditation 31:15
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2020-04-06 Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships, Week 5 - Talk 35:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2020-04-06 Groundlessness and Faith 46:09
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-06 Guided Meditation: Tone and Learning to be a Good Friend 31:22
Oren Jay Sofer
In this guided meditation we explore how to find a conducive "tone" or inner orientation for meditation—one of warmth, friendliness, and interest, like being with a good friend. Begins with a short reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-05 Covid-19 Right Action, Right Practice 1:34:00
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-05 05 Contemplation of Death again! 32:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-05 04 Contemplation of Death - Living more awake 21:41
Bhante Bodhidhamma
This is the Buddha's advice on how we should contemplate death in order to over come our fear. The outcome, paradoxically, is to live a fuller life.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-05 Teachings in the Midst of a Pandemic 47:22
Ajahn Jamnian
Topics covered: Dealing with the fear of getting Covid 19; If you have it, how to be with it from a Practice perspective; How to get along with others during a Pandemic. The main translator is Amdee Vongthongsri. Recorded via video teleconference.
Attached Files:
  • Ajahn Jamnian - mini glossary (PDF)

2020-04-05 Dimanche 5 avril 2020 43:03
Sayadaw U Jagara
L’Association de méditation Parami :  Sessions en ligne de méditation et de discussion - Printemps 2020

2020-04-05 Taking Care of the Heart and Mind, Week 3 - Meditation 31:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-05 Taking Care of the Heart and Mind, Week 3 - Talk 45:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Protecting Ourselves and Others 30:08
Ajahn Sucitto
By protecting ourselves we protect others. When we protect our own hearts from defensiveness, blame, hostility and stress, we also protect others. We train ourselves through the 4 foundations of mindfulness. *Sutta reference is SN47:19.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-04 Uprooting aversion and discussion 1:14:15
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-04-04 Brahmaviharas meditation 35:20
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-04-03 The Liberating Teachings of the Buddha - 1 25:12
Kim Allen
A four-part series on the teachings about Nibbana, Awakening, Enlightenment -- and the path to realizing this.
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-03 03 Coronavirus and the Contemplation of Death 18:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma
What different positions people take re Lockdown. Importance of coming terms with death.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-03 Refuges and Precepts 54:05
Caroline Jones
(five minutes of silence initially)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-03 Home Movie from the Kuti: Dealing with Isolation 38:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Even in this experience of physical isolation, we’re not exactly separate – we’re always with something. Practicing with the relational sense, we meet everything as it is rather than trying to change it or fix it. From this broad state of awareness, edges and boundaries soften, and the heart connects with lovingkindness, regardless of physical proximity.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-04-02 Equanimity as a resource in challenging times 13:56
Jill Shepherd
A short talk on cultivating equanimity: steadiness and balance, as a resource for ourselves and a benefit for others
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-02 Satipatthana Series, Part 3 1:32:45
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2020-04-02 Evening Lockdown Meditation 59:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Starts with Taking Refuges and Precepts and a contemplation. Ends with practices of Compassion, Joy and Goodwill (Metta)
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-04-02 02 First Three Noble Truths 32:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-02 01 MN9 Discourse on Right View Wholesome and Unwholesome Kamma 22:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma
What are their roots?
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-04-02 Approaching the practice, meeting the truth 45:22
Oren Jay Sofer
The opening talk for the month of April explores themes of how our practice can be a resource during the pandemic, as well as key suggestions for orienting to practice while living or working at home.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-02 Opening Meditation: A Fox in the Woods 14:06
Oren Jay Sofer
Short guided meditation on connecting with and being interested in an anchor.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

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