2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Meditation 29:57
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Standing Meditation 15:25
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday AM Guided Meditation 34:10
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions 18:05
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Guided meditation on morning of day two.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-02-25 Feeling your breath and how feeling helps. 40:40
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A consideration of the how/why of meditation instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-02-25 How Do We Meditate ? 59:45
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Exploring the basis of meditation and how cultivating meditation is going to help us in our daily life.
Gaia House :  Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2017-02-25 29 guided meditation: compassion for a friend experiencing difficulties, then oneself 23:21
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Practising compassion for a friend experiencing difficulties, then oneself, mostly using the reciting-phrases method
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday AM Guided Meditation 29:09
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human

2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday PM Guided Meditation 45:15
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Free To Be human

2017-02-24 26 guided meditation: radiating energy metta practice 17:12
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short guided metta meditation using the radiating-energy method, pervading metta in the four directions, above, below, and all around
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 21 guided meditation: metta for benefactor 27:37
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation beginning with connection to one's own well-being, then metta for the benefactor using the reciting phrases method of practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 Twelvefold chain of Interdependent Co-Arising. Meditation Included. Over 1.5 hrs. - EBMC POC Sangha 1:33:04
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
East Bay Meditation Center

2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 Reflections on Not-Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:13
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
These reflections begin with a guided meditation on expanding awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 10 guided meditation: five hindrances 26:34
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided meditation, mostly silent with occasional questions to notice the presence or absence of the five hindrances
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:58
James Baraz	Download Listen
With so many different meditation instructions and approaches to practice how do we know which is the right one for us? This talk includes the Buddha's different methods for dealing with distracting thoughts as well as learning how to listen and trust your own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-20 06 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 25:23
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 15:35
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short guided meditation practising mindfulness of breathing, with an emphasis on calm and ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 Noble Eightfold Path 13: guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring Right Concentration 7:53
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for exploring Right Concentration in dyad practice, 3 minutes each separate speaker and listener then 12 minutes free-flow dialogue
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-15 Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain 25:28
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and mind to a full, vibrant presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-02-15 Is Your Meditation Practice a Circle or a Line? 60:58
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2017-02-15 Aware of the Alive & Dynamic Nature of Being, Instructions and Guided Meditation 31:52
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-02-14 Instructions et méditation guidée 32:29
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-02-13 Dharma Talk from Spirit Rock's Monday Night Meditation Class. (Drop-in class at Spirit Rock) 41:02
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Non-doing as an Orientation to Practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-02-12 Noble Eightfold Path 11: guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring Right Effort 12:57
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad meditation exploring Right Effort, beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes each) then open dialogue (allow 6-10 minutes)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-12 Noble Eightfold Path 10 talk: Right Effort 34:04
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An exploration of Right Effort in daily life and formal meditation, with an overview of the Four Great Efforts for working skilfully with mental states
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-11 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 44:49
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Gaia House :  Wholehearted Living

2017-02-11 Standing meditation instruction 28:02
Leslie Booker	Download Listen
Booker offers basic standing instruction for retreat means on body retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Weekend

2017-02-11 Instructions And Meditation Sitting 57:38
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
This recording also includes some instruction on The Hindrances by Gavin Milne.
Gaia House :  Wholehearted Living

2017-02-10 Open to Impact - Awakening the Human Heart 42:29
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
"wisdom does not inspect, but behold. We must look a long time before we can see." - Henry David Thoreau. The willingness and capacity to feel vulnerable and respond to oneself with kindness is a sacred gateway to being a true human being and to live this earthly life with dignity and depth of being. The practice of meditation is to behold oneself.
Gaia House :  Wholehearted Living

2017-02-08 Meditation: At Home in the Moment 20:06
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation cultivates a gentle, wakeful presence in the body, with the “smile down” and then guides us to resting in a home base of sensations or the breath. We then open to whatever arises with a clear and inclusive attention, saying Yes to the life that is here.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-02-06 Monday Night Meditation. Drop-In at Spirit Rock 65:31
Erin Selover	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-02-05 Noble Eightfold Path 09 Guided meditation: Investigating skillful behaviour skilfully 13:24
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Short guided meditation investigating an example of skilful action of body, speech or mind, based on the Buddha's instructions to Mahanama AN6:10
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-04 Guided Meditation on Equanimity and Compassion 28:08
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-02-04 Patience in Practice and Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:25
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Patience is one of the paramis, the 10 beautiful qualities of the heart/mind that we develop in our sincere practice. Patience is essential if we are to deepen in meditation, especially on long retreats, as it allows us to be present when things are difficult or not exciting, which can be a lot of the time! True patience not just tolerance, a willingness to put up with things until they get better. Patience is a full body experience, a commitment to being present with care and acceptance. Patience brings with it many other wholesome factors such as contentment and equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-01 Samvega-Spiritual Urgency 62:25
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
What are the seeds that bring you to spiritual practice? This Dharma talk explores many aspects of our human experience right here and now and on back through time that can bring an ardency/a passion for entering into and deepening our meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-01-31 Tuesday Night Teacher-Led Sit With Mark Coleman 63:22
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Guest teacher Mark Coleman will begin with a guided meditation, followed dharma talk on his new book Make Peace With your Mind – How Mindfulness And Compassion Can Help Free You From The Inner Critic, then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2017-01-29 Wise retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
For some people, the idea of retreat implies some form of escape or avoidance. But actually, meditation retreats, especially long ones, are deep dive into our direct experience, both individual and collective. Though we disengage from the busyness and distractions of our daily life, we are still deeply engaged in understanding the world and our place in it, and can return from retreat more balanced and compassionate, ready to engage wisely with our lives and the issues of our time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  February Month-long Retreat

2017-01-29 Noble Eightfold Path 07: guided meditation Investigating unskilful speech skilfully 14:43
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A short guided meditation investigating an example of unskilful speech, paying attention to sensations in the body and emotions in the heart-mind with the intention of gaining clarity about what happened
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-01-29 Noble Eightfold Path 06: guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring Right Speech 14:40
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Guided dyad meditation exploring Right Speech, beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes each) then open dialogue (allow 6-10 minutes)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-01-26 Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:34
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Reflections on taking meditation practice and spiritual path into the world of non-retreat life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-25 Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:18
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral tonal quality of experience and our habitual reactions. Guided meditation and Q&A. Feeling tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-24 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:58
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-24 Instructions et méditation guidée 19:35
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight :  TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-24 Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:30
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Description of thinking, from the perspective of a sense door where we can observe mind objects. Guided meditation and Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-24 Thinking and Mind-objects: Mindfulness of Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:20
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Description of thinking, from the perspective of a sense door where we can observe mind objects. Guided meditation and Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind

2017-01-23 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Wise Speech and Alternative Facts 59:44
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Monday Night Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-23 Beginning Meditation Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:09
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
On the first morning of retreat we guide our bodies to be still and relaxed as a base for the mind to settle. We can use sounds, body sensations and the breath to gather our attention and start the training not to be lost in thought.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Mindfulness of Body, Speech and Mind