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Dharma Talks
2020-01-13 S.E.S. January - Intimacy & Imagination - Reflections 27:13
Sebene Selassie
New York Insight Meditation Center Sacred Earth Sangha

2020-01-13 "What Is Meditation" 56:15
Sayadaw U Jagara
Meditation is described as "sensitivity, intelligence, and adjustment". Parallels are done with "Sati, Panna, and Viriya" - a trilogy principle seen in MN:117, Mahācattārīsaka Sutta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-13 Guided Metta meditation for self and benefactor 43:30
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-13 What Shape Is Your Mind 46:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Unskillful saṇkhāras can be undone in the same way they are formed – through perception. Choose particular tones like friendliness and welcome. Introduce them into the body and ask how it feels. Skillful use of perception and attention can sooth and steady the body’s energy.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-13 Climate Change / Ram Dass | Monday Night talk 62:14
Jack Kornfield
Jack talks about climate change, remembering the bigger picture of life, and the uncertainty of tomorrow. He also shares some memories and honors Ram Dass.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-13 Instructions and guided meditation: mindfulness of mindstates. 51:12
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-12 The Sensitive Heart - Meditation 33:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-12 The Sensitive Heart - Talk 44:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-12 Guided Metta Meditation 45:56
Chris Cullen
Brief introduction followed by a guided metta meditation for group, self, and benefactors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-12 Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm 45:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Contact with the world causes citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme. We practice to carefully meet contact impression, training intention and attention to be for one’s welfare.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-12 Instructions on mindfulness of vedana 54:06
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 The Four Ennobling Truths 61:30
Yuka Nakamura
The teaching on the four ennobling truths speaks to our lived experience. It addresses the existential fact of facing suffering, pain, stress, and conflict in our lives and offers a way to understand the causes and conditions that lead to suffering and to the end of suffering. The four ennobling truths can guide us in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Anattā Is the Way Out (Evening Public Talk) 52:12
Ajahn Sucitto
The unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anattalakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body. 45:34
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-11 Saṇkhāra – the Constructor of All 46:24
Ajahn Sucitto
We are encouraged to understand saṇkhāra, the programs that take hold of us and result in unskillful states. It is possible to not act on these programs, release some of their pressure, and turn the citta towards skillful states.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-11 Morning instructions on body 56:50
Chris Cullen
Review of first day instructions, suggestions about deepening and sustaining connection with anchors and practicing with discomfort and pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Practicing with the elements. 59:46
Chris Cullen
An exploration of ways of practicing with perceptions of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, space - so as to cultivate samadhi, realize non-self (anatta) and understand the appearance and fabrication of perception and intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Instructions on practicing with the hinderances. 44:35
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-10 Direct Practice – Feeling, Perception and Saṇkhāra 40:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is only touched by feeling and perception. Through not seeing this, not feeling and directly handling it, the whole realm of dukkha gets fabricated. Meet experience directly, with mindfulness and wisdom, and suffering eases up.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-10 Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:59:27
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-10 Presence, ease, and possibility. 44:27
Jaya Rudgard
Mindfulness of the body - bring mind and body together, establishing an anchor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 Opening Talk 59:06
Chris Cullen
Welcome and introduction to the retreat. Ethical container, simplifying, and silence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-09 In the Experience, Let there be Just the Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:38
Erin Treat
This talk explores working with Bahiya Sutta in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight

2020-01-09 Morning Instructions 9:00
Sayadaw U Jagara
Meditation requires sensitivity and intelligence from the heart. The seven bojjhangas in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-08 Spiritual Practice in Daily Life 37:38
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2020-01-08 Meditation: Relaxed and Awake 17:14
Tara Brach
This guided meditation helps us find ease and wakefulness in our body and mind. With the breath as our home base, we offer a gentle and full attention to the changing waves. We close with a beautiful poem, “Walk Slowly,” by Danna Faulds
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 The Three Refuges - Gateways to Belonging and Freedom 55:44
Tara Brach
We all need ways to guide our attention that allow us to find wisdom, love and freedom in the midst of our lives. This talk reviews three archetypal gateways—Buddha/awareness, Dharma/truth, and Sangha/loving community. Through teachings, guided meditations and a traditional refuge ritual, we engage together in bringing alive these pathways to healing and peace. (Note: Includes Refuges string tying ceremony and chanting the Refuges at end) St. Teresa of Avila says, “Only at the shrine where all are welcome will God sing loud enough to be heard.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-08 PS - Playing in the In-Betweens 64:24
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Going Forwards 49:46
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-08 Metta and the Seven Enlightenment Factors 45:47
Sayadaw U Jagara
The Buddhist practice of Metta needs to be combined with the seven bojjhangas. These seven can relate to different levels of practice, depending on "object" relation. e.g. insight or serenity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-08 Finding Reference in Ground, Space and Rhythm 47:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta only experiences perception and feeling. We can cultivate skillful perceptions of ground, space and rhythm that result in comfort and ease.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-08 Being a Friend to Everything 2:05:28
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-07 Letting Go 38:31
Leslie Booker
Mission Dharma

2020-01-07 The End of Time (The Cessation of Perception and Feeling) 1:42:55
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-07 Citta and the Khandhā 37:17
Ajahn Sucitto
The paradigm of practice is discerning skillful from unskillful heart states. We begin to turn away from the states that entangle the heart, and learn to linger in wholesome qualities. Skillful states always carry the mark of freedom.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-07 Closing Talk 53:36
Sharda Rogell
Closing reflections for a nine day New Year retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-07 Morning Instructions 15:21
Sayadaw U Jagara
Adaptation of Thich Nat Hann's Metta instructions.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-07 Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths 2:46:38
with Carla Brennan, Lisa Dale Miller, Shaila Catherine, Toni Bernhard
No one wants to suffer, and yet stress is everywhere in our lives. After the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree, the first thing he talked about was how to find true happiness. He described four wise ways you can work with your mind in the midst of ordinary and meditative experiences, popularly known as the Four Noble Truths. You can (1) comprehend your suffering; (2) abandon its causes; (3) realize that it is possible to end suffering; and (4) follow the path that leads to its end. Practicing this path, you will become free—not by avoiding what is unwanted, but by developing a wise relationship to your mind and all the myriad conditions by which it manufactures stress.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-01-06 Ceremony For Aspirations 1:17:46
Catherine McGee
20 minute refelections on New Years aspirations plus ceremony
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-06 The Eighth Jhana (The Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non-Perception) 69:47
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-06 How Turtles Find Their Way Back Home 47:40
Sayadaw U Jagara
Turtles and magnetic fields. Planes of existence and rebirth. Rahula's and Buddha's instructions on four elements and Brahma Vihara, before practicing breath meditation (ānāpāna)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-06 Monday Night Dharma Talk 63:04
Phillip Moffitt
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-01-06 Last Morning Instruction: Review and the 4th Foundation Of Mindfulness 53:07
Sharda Rogell
Mindfulness of dharma qualities.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Climate Emergency Dharma 2020 67:28
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on the climate and ecological crisiss we face, and my involvement in non-violent civil disobedance with Extintion Rebellion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Meditation 30:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives, Part 2 - Talk 57:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) 1:26:23
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-05 Guided Meditation On Equinimity 42:09
Sharda Rogell
How to bring the mind to more balance and ease in the face of challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Meditation 32:47
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Welcoming the Totality of Our Lives - Talk 45:29
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-05 Morning Instructions - Attention, Awareness and Presence. 53:09
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-05 The Simile of the Mountain or Good Compost for Evolution 32:29
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Freeing Ourselves From Anxiety About Non-Perfection 54:07
Sharda Rogell
We can easily believe that perfection truly exists and if we can work hard enough we may reach it, until we see the pain in our striving and let go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) 1:19:46
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-04 Guided Metta Meditation With Metta Mudra 44:21
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 Meditation Instructions 52:45
Catherine McGee
3rd foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-04 This Precious Life 28:28
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma Talk on the precious opportunity we have for practice - reflecting on the Five Indriya as a support for the Path.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 Breathing into the Heart Space 7:32
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided metta meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-04 What is Panna (Wisdom)? 23:09
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-03 Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching on Intention 57:50
James Baraz
As we start the New Year we explore Wise Intention, the basis of all karma and the second link of the 8-Fold Path. Clarifying your Intention is different from making a New Year's Resolution or going for a goal. It's what gives energy and power to our vision for practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2020-01-03 Gratitude & the Flowering of Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-03 Living In Rental Accomdation: Contemplating Impermance 61:57
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-03 Like Any Other Day Edited 38:33
Dhammadīpā
This talk has been edited for clarity.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-01-03 The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) 1:34:18
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-03 18 Movements Qi Gong (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 35:07
Devon Hase
Full sequence of shibashi 18 movements Qi Gong. You can access the sequence online at commongroundmeditation.org/qi-gong-movements/
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-03 Guided Compassion and Forgiveness Meditation 46:00
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-03 Day 5 Morning Instructions 55:11
Sharda Rogell
Bare attention and disengaging from story-making.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2020-01-03 Put the Fearful Mind in the Cradle of Loving Kindness 34:59
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-02 A Merciful Attention 58:53
Catherine McGee
We could all use a little mercy now!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-02 Jhanas and Insight 1:36:13
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-02 4th Day Morning Reflections and Instructions 55:52
Yanai Postelnik
Working with vedana - "hedonic tone"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-02 Every Meditation is an Act of Faith 45:51
Ayya Anandabodhi
Dhamma reflection on Going Forth into the practice.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2020-01-01 The Determination of Caterpillars 54:02
Devon Hase
Finding Freedom and its Natural Unfolding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-01 Developing The Five Spiritual Powers 56:15
Sharda Rogell
Once we strengthen the qualities of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom, this empowers us on the path to greater awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-01 Q&A Emotions: Awareness/Delusion:Insight : Masculine/Feminine : Sense-of-Self : Porridge-itself-has-no-taste 48:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-01-01 Heart Practice -- Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:05
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-01 Q & A 1:15:48
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2020-01-01 Guided Meditation - Kindness For The Body 41:52
Yanai Postelnik
Offering care and kindness to our human bodies and the larger body of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-01 Reintegration | Closing Dharma Talks, Q&A 59:56
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2020-01-01 Day Three Walking Instruction 5:12
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-01 The art of collecting attention with the living, breathing body. How to relate to thought. 48:06
Catherine McGee
Day 3
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2020-01-01 Ready to Give Up for Real? 22:27
Ayya Santacitta
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center)

2019-12-31 WholeHearted Practice 12:35:24
Yanai Postelnik
Refelections on craving, aversion and the cultivation of non attachemnt, inclusivity and the wholeness of heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-12-31 Seven Factor and Intention 45:49
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Guelph New Year's Retreat

2019-12-31 The Fourth Jhana 1:31:35
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2019-12-31 Joy | Guided Heart Meditation 40:30
Noliwe Alexander
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2019-12-31 Guided Standing Meditation - The Body 360 Degrees 39:35
Catherine McGee
Working with the middle aperture of attention, neither focused to one nor wide open. Mindful of the whole body and space around the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-12-31 Five Tips For Walking Meditation 5:02
Catherine McGee
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2019-12-31 Receptive Awareness | Guided Instruction 40:13
Konda Mason
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2019-12-31 Morning Instruction - Thoughts and Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:05
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-31 Mroning Instructions 43:42
Sharda Rogell
Arriving On retreat. Body as a foundational support.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-12-30 The Home Ground of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:12
Tuere Sala
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Years' Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-12-30 Your Attention Can Become Beautiful 45:37
Catherine McGee
What do you want more than the inerta of involuntary habit of attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2019-12-30 The Three Characteristics | Dharma Talk 54:06
Konda Mason
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2019-12-30 Love With Equanimity 39:20
Molly Swan
True North Insight Guelph New Year's Retreat

2019-12-30 Living an Engaged and Ethical Life 52:41
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-12-30 Beginning Again 26:20
Brian Lesage
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2019-12-30 Q & A 1:30:33
Rob Burbea
Gaia House Practising the Jhānas

2019-12-30 Releasing Blame | Guided Heart Meditation 41:38
Tara Brach
Our self-protective habits of resentment and blame block intimacy and connection with ourself and others. This short talk and meditation are an invitation to deepen our understanding of the suffering of blame, and to release the armoring to loving freely.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

2019-12-30 Thoughts, Vedana | Guided Instruction 40:51
Noliwe Alexander
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion | with Tara Brach, Noliwe Alexander, Konda Mason and Jonathan Foust

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