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2021-04-09 The way we start anything will determine its outcome 59:10
Sayadaw U Jagara
This principle is applied to meditation: The in-coming bread, the out-going bread.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 Guided Meditation: Life as A Dream 44:34
Nikki Mirghafori
In this guided meditation, we explore emptiness as a way of seeing the dreamlike nature of what we assume to be our fixed reality. "Thus shall you think of all this fleeting world: As star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightning in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Practical Emptiness: The Womb of Love and Compassion with Nikki Mirghafori, PhD and Sayadaw U Jagara

2021-04-08 04 meditation: simple mindfulness of the body and breathing, with an orientation to metta 30:08
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with chanting the Karaniyametta Sutta in English as an invitation to orient towards kindness while settling into mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-04-07 Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence 23:39
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-04-05 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 5 - Meditation 31:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Spring 2021

2021-04-05 09 Guided Metta Meditation 62:54
Roxanne Dault
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Forces at Play in Our Lives - 21JG0

2021-04-04 Brahmaviharas Guided Meditation 35:20
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2021-04-04 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 12: Delighting in Letting Go - Meditation 46:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-04-03 03 Guided Meditation 59:06
Roxanne Dault
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Insight Meditation and the Forces at Play in Our Lives - 21JG0

2021-04-03 Q&A 32:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Please describe āsava in relation to citta; nagging sense something is wrong with me; how to access kalyāṇamitta for support in Dhamma practice; neck and head feel separate from body in meditation; please clarify terms vitaka-vicāra, dhammavicaya and vimaṃsa.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-04-03 Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit 38:37
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2021-04-03 Dhamma Stream Q&A 32:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Please describe āsava in relation to citta; nagging sense something is wrong with me; how to access kalyāṇamitta for support in Dhamma practice; neck and head feel separate from body in meditation; please clarify terms vitaka-vicāra, dhammavicaya and vimaṃsa.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-03-31 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence 11:55
Tara Brach
When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-03-31 Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 3 68:17
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief review of what we’ve explored in the last two sessions on this theme, including the importance of both doing and not-doing in Buddhist practice and the nature of identification with the “doer” (and the related themes of self, time, and the future). We then go into more depth inquiring into the nature of the “doer,” including a brief guided meditation looking into the experience of “doing” and opening to not-doing in meditation. We lastly further investigate traditions (Jewish, Christian, Taoist, and Buddhist) that point to the importance of a doing coming out of not-doing, and ways that we can experience and explore this doing coming out of not-doing in daily life, including in the experiences of creativity in art and music, and being “in the zone” in sports.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-03-30 Bien s'accompagner avec les sept facteurs d'éveil - méditation guidée et enseignement 50:01
Roxanne Dault
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2021-03-29 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 4 - Meditation 35:38
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Spring 2021

2021-03-28 The Buddhas Advice on Cultivating Wellbeing and Happiness 65:44
Zohar Lavie
Meditation and Dharma talk. The Sutta that is mentioned: AN 8.54. To Dighajanu from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, in the Book of the Eights.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2021

2021-03-28 Equanimity Meditation 20:06
Amita Schmidt
A 20 min equanimity meditation that will help you navigate inner and outer difficulties. This meditation shows you how to rest in the eye of the storm, and open up space within the difficulty itself.
Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community

2021-03-28 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 11: Understanding Letting Go, Giving Up - Meditation 43:54
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-03-27 Rest Intention through Embodiment, Dhamma Stream Live Puja 33:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Intention is the basis for action, giving shape to what we do and who we become. Conditioned intentions around beliefs, work and security cause stress. The process of meditation takes us into the somatic domain, to the roots of the mind. Here intentions and reflexes can be reset to be lighter, more flexible and comfortable.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-03-27 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation – Jhāna is Based on Disengagement 11:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Properly establishing jhāna begins with disengagement. With eyes slightly open, downcast, poised between the inner and outer world, widen attention. Open up sensitivity of awareness without focusing on any particular object, attentive to the qualities that sustain that cool balance.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2021-03-26 Breath Meditation with Instruction and Dhamma Talk 2:14
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
Breath meditation and tips for meditation practice by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on morality and religion
Lokanta Vihara

2021-03-25 How to Not Go Crazy 41:31
Ajahn Sucitto
On account of the untrained citta, consciousness is skewed – its input is unstable, unsatisfactory, doesn’t fit. It can make one feel crazy. How to get free? In meditation we practice disengagement, the possibility to be ‘with it’ rather than ‘in it’. Lingering in that space, what can arise is action based on sanity, that comes from a trained and healthy citta.
Cittaviveka 2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2021-03-24 Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness 19:22
Tara Brach
Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-03-24 Reflections on the Hindrances - Meditation 35:18
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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