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Dharma Talks
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

2021-03-24 32 Parts of the Body—Head hair, Body hair, Nails, Teeth, Skin, Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow, Kidneys, Heart, Liver, Diaphragm, Spleen, Lungs, Large Intestines, Small Intestines, Stomach, Feces, Brain, Bile, Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, Fat 48:20
Bob Stahl
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace. This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-03-23 Open the Centre, Reset the Boundaries 35:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is often approached from the standpoint of a person who ‘does’ the meditating. This self view is not a position that will give rise to calm or release – it’s the condition we want to be released from. Meditation can be used to change the ways we attend that form the separate self. Eventually the steadiness of mindfulness, rather than the ‘I am’ sense’, can become the orientation.
Cittaviveka 2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2021-03-22 Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 3 - Meditation 36:25
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Spring 2021

2021-03-22 Les cinq empechements - méditation guidée et enseignement 62:38
Roxanne Dault
True North Insight Mindfulness in Daily Life Retreat

2021-03-22 Meditation: The Sacred Pause | Monday Night 26:53
Jack Kornfield
Basic instructions for insight meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-03-21 Bringing Equanimity to the Experience of Impermanence and Dukkha 28:45
Alisa Dennis
Understanding the truth of impermanence supports the practice of equanimity and cultivating equanimity strengthens our understanding of impermanence. We are often conditioned to want things to be different from how they are. Whenever we find ourselves thinking that things would be better if they were different, we are in our egos or separate selves. This creates suffering. This meditation is an invitation to explore first bringing compassion to the experience of dukkha, then opening to equanimity as space and acceptance of how things are in the present moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari

2021-03-21 Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 10: Dispassion, Compassion, and Freedom from Suffering - Meditation 41:07
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Mindfulness of Breathing - A Dharma Talk Series with Mark Nunberg

2021-03-21 Meditation 36:18
Eugene Cash
Morning Instructions
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community SFI Sunday Nights

2021-03-21 Opening into Consciousness 38:01
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we rest into what’s always here. Like dropping a net into the river and seeing what we catch, we simply take note with awareness, deep listening and open presence. Use structures and qualities as a skillful tetherings, to turn citta away from the complexity of stimulation, activity and abstraction. When energies are no longer running out, citta settles in itself. This is samādhi.
Cittaviveka 2021 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice

2021-03-20 Meditation 29:26
Eugene Cash
Evening sitting meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari

2021-03-20 Opening Perspective, Inclining To Well-Being 66:40
Zohar Lavie
Guided meditation and Dharma Talk
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Mar 2021

2021-03-20 Meditation 27:49
Eugene Cash
Afternoon sitting meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari

2021-03-20 Morning Instruction: Last Breath 40:01
Victoria Cary
Last Breath Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Maranasati: Contemplating Death, Awakening to Life with Eugene Cash, Victoria Cary, Alisa Dennis, PhD and Hakim Tafari

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