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Dharma Talks
2019-05-13 Perception 32:59
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-13 Guided Meditation: Sensitizing to the Direct Experience of the Body 55:21
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation through the Ānāpānasati sutta. Establishing a comfortable, upright posture, incline awareness toward direct experience of the body. Sustain appropriate mindfulness and citta will sensitize to the qualities we call 'body’. This exercise resets the mind, which is then gladdened, steadied and cleared so that insight can develop.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-13 Samādhi – A Step Outside the Personal Footprint 57:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Samādhi is entered into dependent on the ripening of other factors. It gives us a place to stand outside of the personal perspective. The process of stepping out requires meeting the painful and unresolved in the body, then calming and soothing the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 8FP Program -- Wise Concentration part 2 49:16
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-05-12 8FP program -- Wise Concentration part 1 63:25
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2019-05-12 Working Wisely with Challenges of Practice and Life and Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:33
Bob Stahl
How to work wisely with the 5 hindrances as well as working wisely in meeting life and death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-12 A Tribute to Buddha's Mom 48:02
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2019-05-12 Making Use of the Power of Mindfulness 54:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness is an empowered awareness that exerts authority over dukkha. Mindfulness doesn’t contract or become agitated by it. Holding steady and curtailing proliferation, it provides the proper laboratory within which wisdom can arise.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 End Of Retreat Dana Talk 67:38
Kamala Masters
The historical and wise view of dana (giving) and its application in our practice in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-12 Puja – A Daily Going Forth 11:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja provides an occasion to step out of our personal lives. The gesture of offering and dedicating trains citta to open rather than grasp. The unfolding of citta reveals awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-12 Standing Meditation: Relieving Pressure with Ground and Space 21:40
Ajahn Sucitto
An important theme in mind cultivation is to relieve pressure – mental, emotional, physical. This is done through moderating the quality of ground and space. When these are sensed through the body, citta picks up their signs and relaxes its own pressure.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-11 Abiding in Emptiness 49:42
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-11 Do Not Waste Your Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:21
Eugene Cash
Exploring Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death/Awakening to Life. This talk highlights the normalcy of Death. We survey how death is related to in various Buddhist traditions as well as discussing personal experience of death as part of contemplative practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life

2019-05-11 Seven Factors 47:35
Norman Feldman
True North Insight Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-11 6 Sense Bases & & Factors of Awakening 36:50
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-11 Viriya – The Cultivation of Energy 54:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Energy has to be cultivated as a resource for practice. This process has three stages: gathering, specific application, and the strength that can release obstacles. The thinking mind uses energy but cannot generate it; energy is generated in the heart (citta) and in the body. Apply energy to empty out the negative and unskillful – the good and bright will arise on its own.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Emptiness 60:00
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-10 Faith 62:58
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-10 Living with Upheaveal, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World 49:47
Molly Swan
True North Insight Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-10 Lecture 27 1:15:03
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 27 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-05-10 Training in Direct Knowing 22:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Sati – mindfulness – is only mentioned once in the Ānāpānasati sutta. ‘Directly feeling and knowing’ – pajānati – is the mode of practice. When we’ve attuned to this, we move to ‘training’. This phase of ānāpānasati begins with training in deeper sensitivity of the entire body.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Mind States, Hindrances & 5 Aggregates 45:40
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-10 Standing Meditation: Contemplate Inner and Outer Space 23:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Sensing the space beyond the skin boundary, and the space felt ‘within’ the body. The two can blend. In this way, they facilitate our experience of breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Wisdom as Know-How 55:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Wisdom is the know-how faculty that discerns suffering and its end. It knows how the 3 intelligences (verbal, emotional, bodily) can work together to bring about the stilling of saṇkhāras. From it noble knowledge – realization – arises.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-09 An Evening with Stephen Fulder, Founder of the Israeli Dharma Community 61:54
James Baraz, Stephen Fulder
James welcome Stephen Fulder who explores themes from his new book What’s Beyond Mindfulness? and shares about the Israeli sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-05-09 Dependent Origination 38:05
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-09 The Joy Of Renunciation 58:54
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-09 Four Guided Practices (Breath, Heart, Open Awareness, Vipassana Out-Loud) 1:24:45
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Living with Upheaval, Uncertainty, and Opportunity on the Cushion and out in the World

2019-05-09 Guided Metta - Going through Self, Benefactor, Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Person we are having difficulty with. 61:30
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-09 Meditation: Sympathetic Joy (Mudita) 34:42
Kate Johnson
Practicing joyful difference in diverse community.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-09 Charnel Grounds & Vedena 54:40
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-09 Meditating on the Seven Factors and Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:56
Ayya Santacitta
Guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-09 Meditation and Morning Instruction - Day 6 33:37
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-09 Don’t Take Saṁsāra Personally 52:32
Ajahn Sucitto
The 5 indriya are spiritual faculties that become activated by feeling them in the body. Starting with faith –the pivotal faculty for coming out of the personal and sensory realm – and culminating in wisdom – the ability to discern skillful from unskillful, non-stress from stress – these 5 indriya work to release the mind from the pressure of identity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-08 Impermanence 53:16
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-08 Spontaneous Thoughts on Practice 60:23
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-05-08 Skillful Effort 58:46
Deborah Ratner Helzer
What are the qualities of skillful effort, and how does it cooperate with mindfulness and concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-08 The Gift of Embodied Wisdom 53:12
Tuere Sala
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2019-05-08 Day 3: Evening Dhamma Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 33:33
Dhammadīpā
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-08 Trusting the Gold (retreat talk) 62:06
Tara Brach
This talk looks at how our upbringing and culture lead us to mistrust who we are and become identified as a separate, deficient self. We then explore the practices of presence and self-inquiry that turn us toward the openness, tenderness and wakefulness of our Being. Our trust grows as we increasingly glimpse, embody and live from our natural Being. NOTE: This talk was given at the Spring 2019 IMCW 7-day Silent Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-08 Instructions and Guided Meditation 26:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-05-08 Meditation: Forgiving our Humanity and Offering Compassion 38:25
La Sarmiento
In this guided meditation, we forgive or at least intend to forgive ourselves and others for being human and clearing the way to offer kind and gentle compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-08 4 Elements 28:23
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-07 The Brahman Viharas 58:00
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-07 Beginning at the Beginning (Retreat at Spirit rock) 36:15
Ayya Santacitta
Practicing with the Seven Factors of Awakening
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-07 Compassion - The Inter-relationship of our inner and outer life. 59:10
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-07 Meditation: Releasing the Armor of Blame 35:22
Tara Brach
We can’t will forgiveness, but we can be willing to bring presence to our wounds, and gradually let go of the blame that contracts and dulls our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-07 Body Scan 53:29
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-07 Face to Face with the Present Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:40
Dhammadīpā
A talk on the 7 factors of awakening bojjhanga
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-07 Taking Your Seat (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:21
Ayya Anandabodhi
An encouragement to make the path your own
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-07 Equanimity 52:39
Stephen Fulder
Equanimity is a key spiritual faculty which allows us to face the known and the unknown, the ecstasies and the despairs, with steadiness and lightness. Equanimity helps us engage with life from an unlimited and interconnected perspective. In this talk Stephen Fulder stresses the role of equanimity in our practice and life, how to develop it and use it to let the world in, not keep it out.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2019-05-07 Standing Meditation: Restraining the Mind So the Body Can Speak 22:51
Ajahn Sucitto
Placing one’s attention carefully and repeatedly into embodiment, listen to what manifests as body. Make the shift from conceiving of body to felt knowledge, from regarding body to being body. Clearing away what’s not needed and inviting what’s important, let the body speak and hear itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-07 Free Your Inner Dog 60:42
Ajahn Sucitto
We’re endowed with 3 kinds of intelligence: bodily, heart and verbal/thinking. The priority given to the thinking mind has numbed and shut down the body and heart. We train in direct knowing and primary sympathy to reawaken our deep intelligences.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-06 Jhanas 5-8 28:22
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-06 Inclining Towards the Ocean (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:11
Ayya Anandabodhi
The 5 hindrances and the 7 awakening factors
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-06 Going Against the Stream: The Gift of Being Real 51:54
La Sarmiento
Through stories and songs giving a talk on the fly models vulnerability, judging mind, acceptance, and healing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-06 The Parallel Paths of Transformation and Transcendence 69:13
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-06 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation and Q&A 58:58
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2019-05-06 Meditation: Equanimity (Upekkha) 29:41
Kate Johnson
Cultivating a wise heart on the path to societal transformation...
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-06 Reflection - Equanimity as Seeing with Compassion, Guided Meditation 45:45
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-06 Let Loving-Kindness Shine (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:32
Dhammadīpā
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-06 Sattipatthana Introduction & Body 44:15
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-06 Setting the Tone--Getting Started (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:55
Ayya Santacitta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-06 Standing Meditation: Appropriate Intentions and Attitudes 24:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Scanning over the body we are appropriately sensitive, naming and lingering with awareness. There’s a certain sensitive touch and the body responds with warmth and subtle energy. It’s a matter of placing attention with the right intention.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-06 Storing Up the Good 55:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Notice what one’s citta stores and brings out at potent moments. We tend to store the negative, and that which is most familiar becomes myself. Why not store the good? Store up qualities of the brahmavihāras – goodwill, compassion, gladness & equanimity – as energy in the body. These energetic effects are a resource for your long-lasting welfare.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Jhanas 1-4 43:06
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-05 Loving That Which is More Than Me 57:29
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-05 Impartiality and Deep Contentment 57:08
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-05 Brahma Viharas, Reflections, Chanting 57:20
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-05 5 Daily Recollections 55:58
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-05 Day 1: Morning Dhamma Reflection (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:08
Dhammadīpā
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Treasures

2019-05-05 Compassion, Reflections, Guided Meditation, Chanting 56:18
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-05 Meditation: Retreat Instructions, Day 2 34:56
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-05 Open the Heart to the Beautiful and Good 1:17:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate the quality of intention rather than objects of attention. Intention is broader, it encompasses everything. Correct intention neither holds on, nor resists. The quality of anukampā – primary sympathy – from which mettā arises. Puja acts as an emblem, it resonates meanings that open the heart. Beyond the physical body or personal state, rise up to the sign of the beautiful, worthy, admirable and the good.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Standing Meditation: Balance and Alignment Enable Letting Go 41:38
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation to establish a balanced upright posture upon which the rest of the body can relax and let go. It may not do so quickly, so be patient with how the body actually is, always attending with a mind of sympathy and goodwill.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Intention Is Primary, Attention Is Secondary 51:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Attention forms a focus that is by definition, only a part of the whole field (especially the visual focus). So if a ‘watchful’ focus is making your practice tense and try, relax attention and cultivate intention – it covers it all. Intention has a certain motivation, it steers attention. The intention for freedom from stress and pain is what citta is looking for.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Resilient: Cultivating an Unshakable Core 5:58:58
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-05-04 The Hindrances 44:35
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-04 Making Friends With Your Body 59:37
Kate Johnson
Working with common meditation obstacles through embodied awareness...
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-04 Bodhicitta - Reflections on Altruistic Intention 44:15
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-04 Faith: Waking up from Spiritual Slumber 57:40
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-04 Notes on Ānāpānasati 40:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Referring to the text, see what’s not there – there’s no mention of one-pointed attention. This is a common misunderstanding. Consider instead a one-pointed intention, to bear in mind, and return again and again to the process of breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-04 Meditation Instructions and Guidance - Imbuing Attention with Kindness 50:44
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-04 4 nobles vérités 56:18
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-04 Finding Common Ground Metta 33:05
La Sarmiento
From my teacher Thea Elijah, through establishing our connection to the earth, we create common ground upon which we realize our interconnectedness. This meditation guides us through this process so that we can offer lovingkindness to ourselves, a beloved, a neutral person, a difficult person, and all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-04 Further Instructions 1:24:29
Catherine McGee
This recording also includes Jaya Rudgard.
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-04 First Jhana Instructions 27:30
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-04 Morning Instructions 55:33
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-05-04 Le bol 59:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Cette vie qui nous échappe

2019-05-04 Meditation - First Morning 16:58
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-04 Where There Is No Faith There Is No Practice 38:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Fabricated formations, such as clock time, are useful for some things but not for liberation. Use the ritual of puja to transcend circumstantial reality; recognize there is a place in citta to stand outside of self – in faith and devotion. The belief that an end to suffering is possible is the initiator of Dhamma practice. Where there is no faith there is no practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-04 Standing Meditation for Energy and Vitality 22:33
Ajahn Sucitto
When standing we don’t stand stiff, but fluid. Balanced posture and alignment allow muscles to release so energy can move through the form in a supportive way. Over time we become supported by the body’s energy rather than its muscles.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-04 Do What Will Undo 49:51
Ajahn Sucitto
How to peel off the layers of saṅkhāra? Do with an intent to undo. Although we unconsciously give energy to our hindrances and programs, if we withdraw energy and interest, they wither. This is right effort. When citta is cleared of hindrances and is no longer pulled out into the abstract, it gains its own strength and you can trust it.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-03 Four Noble Truths 56:10
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-03 Opening Retreat Talks - 63:19
Tara Brach
Introductions, Orientation, Instructions Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, La Sarmiento, Kate Johnson
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2019 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2019-05-03 Dana/Sila Transforms The Habits Of The Mind 61:23
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating Awareness & Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-05-03 Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group - Talk 34:17
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2019-05-03 Lecture 26 1:27:14
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 26 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2019-05-03 The Fulfillment of Remembrance: Unconditional Acceptance 58:37
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2019-05-03 Breathing Forms the Body 14:34
Ajahn Sucitto
What is the body? Not the picture of it but the direct experience of it. Referring to instructions given in the Ānāpānasati Sutta, guidance is given to directly experience the body in its diverse manifestations of energy, feeling and sensation. Breathing in, breathing out, allow the process to occur at its own rate and stay with what’s unfolding for you.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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