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Dharma Talks
2018-12-01 Day 5 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:32
Mark Coleman
Mindfulness of Mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-12-01 37 Passing of Difficult Feeling 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The inability to feel difficult emotions causes closure of heart and body. If things haven’t been allowed to arise, they don’t pass. Using the practice of calming and insight, we calm just enough to make difficult feeling manageable and let it move through the body, then apply the skill of insight to look into just this experience without proliferation. Dispassion, clarity, and a wide attentive heart remain.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-30 Developing the graceful heart. 62:06
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discuss ways to strengthen the quality of equanimity, increasing our ability to move through the world with grace and poise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-30 Giving Oneself to Samadhi (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:04
Eugene Cash
The function of 'samadhi'-concentration, unification, absorption, jhana, in the service of awakening. How samadhi is cultivated, sustained and practiced traditionally as well as personally. What arouses and sustains ones investigative awareness in formal meditation and life? The joy of samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-30 The Mystery of Self and Not Self (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:18
Mark Coleman
An explanation of the teachings of impermanence and Anata, the selfless nature of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-30 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:26
Mark Coleman
This guided meditation explains the first 3 foundations of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-30 36 Q&A 35:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Relationship of tanha to chanda. How to arouse urgency for someone whose sankharas are geared more toward on desire? How to contemplate kamma as an object? How does wholesome “becoming” (bhava) happen?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-30 Day 4 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:50
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-30 Day 4 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:20
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-30 35 This Dhamma Is for Elimination of Stress 44:33
Ajahn Sucitto
[Citing from AN4:171] The ignorance that underlies volition conditions our ways of perceiving and being. As a result we bring stress and pressure into our bodies, hearts and minds. We train to come out of this by moderating attention and gentle persistence to everyday tasks. Communing with nature is also a resource.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-29 "On Concentration" 59:21
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-29 The Path Of Friendship 55:03
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-29 "IMCB Meditation Sit Before the Dharma Talk" 54:20
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-29 Melting into Tranquility (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:44
Pamela Weiss
The Fifth Factor of Awakening in the dynamic stillness of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-29 The Noble Truths of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:37
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-29 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:33
Mark Coleman
Vedana-Feeling tone + Four Elements
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-29 34 Q&A 3:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Is mano essentially the same as citta sankhara;? Is there awareness besides sense consciousness? Clarification between sati/mindfulness and citta. Is mindfulness of body necessary for liberation, why? Difference between circumstances and conditions; how to “eradicate” self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-29 Day 3 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:27
Eugene Cash
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-29 33 Resetting Your World 55:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Referring to the Madhupiṇḍika Sutta, The Honeyball, (MN18), Ajahn Sucitto describes a two-fold training to get a handle on and curtail mental proliferation. Citta can be trained through deliberate attention to starve afflictive intentions, and to instead establish pāramī tendencies towards renunciation, clarity and patience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-28 Benevolence is the Cure 60:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-28 Equanimity: The Great Balance 64:16
DaRa Williams
Reflections on the dharma of equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-28 Stabilizing our caring capacities, Instructions and Guided Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair
(Recording not available) 
True North Insight

2018-11-28 Meditation: Awareness, Aliveness and Space 18:36
Tara Brach
This guided meditation awakens our awareness within our body, extends to include sound, and invites a resting as awareness that includes all passing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-28 Part 1 – Healing Anxiety – How Meditation Frees Us 54:38
Tara Brach
Anxiety and the fear of failure is a pervasive suffering around the world. It is also increasing—along with the pace of life, over-consuming, addiction, noise, polarization and fears for our planet. How do we calm ourselves in a way that brings inner freedom and serves the healing of our larger world? These two talks explore the power of awareness in evolving ourselves beyond the anxiety that grips and confines our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-28 Joy in the Midst of Sorrow 65:04
Gina Sharpe
Fourth factor of Awakening, Joy, in the Awakening Mind, amidst life's vicissitudes.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 14 - Charnal ground contemplation 57:27
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Pilgrimage Talks 12 - Buddha's Life - The Final Mahaparinibbana Part 2 38:35
Ajahn Achalo
Kusinara

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 13 - Death of friends, loved ones and teachers meditation 45:53
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Guided Meditation 12 - Dying peacefully from old age as a layperson 41:53
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-28 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:56
Mark Coleman
Mindfulness of Four Elements of the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-28 Practicing Generosity 62:03
Donald Rothberg
We review last week’s focus on developing gratitude, and continue with the related practice of developing generosity. We explore the importance of generosity across multiple spiritual traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and, in more depth, Buddhism, pointing to several practices of practicing generosity and some of the challenges of such practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-28 Day 2 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:27
Gina Sharpe
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-28 Day 2 Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:11
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-28 32 Ajahn’s Advice - Play More 51:12
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha’s instructions for gladdening the mind are not to be skimmed over. Without qualities such as gladness and appreciation we approach practice through the highly conditioned, self-conscious personality. Gladdening must directly touch the citta which cannot be reached through the rational mind or personality. Ajahn suggests accessing citta through imagination and play.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-27 Late Evening Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 22:16
Mark Coleman
Loving Kindness Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-27 Une cure contre la haine 62:43
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-27 Opening to the Pali Chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta 43:18
Brian Lesage
This talk introduces the practice of opening to and meditating upon the chanting of the Satipatthana Sutta, the discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It utilizes the chanting of Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobhita Thero.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-27 Bienveillance 28:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-27 Investigation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:46
Eugene Cash
The function of 'dhamma vicaya'-Investigation in the service of awakening. How investigation is understood traditionally as well as conventionally. What arouses and sustains ones investigative awareness in formal meditation and life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-27 The Essence of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:02
Mark Coleman
this talk explores the essences of mindfulness practice, particularly mindfulness of body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-27 A Compassionate Response 53:03
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-27 You Are What You're Looking For 18:48
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-11-27 Guided Meditation 11 - Devanussati Appreciating Heavenly Beings - Meditation 1:21:55
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-27 Pilgrimage Talks 11 - Buddha's Life - The Final Mahaparinibbana Part 1 35:28
Ajahn Achalo
Kusinara

2018-11-27 Guided Meditation 10 - Holding the Entire World in the Heart of Loving Kindness Meditation 36:57
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-27 Satipattana Guided Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:06
Mark Coleman
Mindfulness of the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-27 Day 1, Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:53
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Seven Factors of Awakening

2018-11-27 Day One, Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:05
Mark Coleman
Includes Cell Phone Renunciation Ritual
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness as a Path of Awakening

2018-11-26 The Buddha's Teaching On Social and Communal Harmony 67:48
Winnie Nazarko
The Buddha lived and taught in a time of violence and strife. His teachings offer some ky advise for our own social development.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 09 - Gently pulling back from thoughts, feelings, emotions 46:09
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-26 Pilgrimage Talks 10 - Buddha's Life - Stages of Enlightenment and Final Nibbana 49:21
Ajahn Achalo
Kusinara

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 08 - Lotus Visualisation Metta Loving Kindness 1:42:00
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-26 Guided Meditation 07 - Heart Focused Metta Loving Kindness 1:29:01
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-26 La bienveillance, cours complet 1:23:02
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-26 Monday Night Dharma Talk 56:22
Nina Wise
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-26 31 Body - The Last Outpost of Sanity 55:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The experience of the aggregates doesn’t have to lead to suffering. Addressing the form aggregate of body, Ajahn Sucitto describes ways it teaches us, purifies the heart and mind, and can act as a source of refuge for our long-lasting welfare and benefit.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 Anatta And Nibbana 52:43
Jill Shepherd
How the chain of cognition leads to proliferative thinking centred around a distorted sense of self, and how mindfulness can stop the cycle, redirecting awareness instead to transcendent dependent origination which culminates in freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-25 Pilgrimage Talks 09 - Buddha's Life - Monuments to The Dhamma, King Pasenadhi's Praise 33:30
Ajahn Achalo
Jetavana Savathi

2018-11-25 Dhamma Talks 07 - Taking the Precepts with Deeper Understanding pt 2 36:19
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-25 Understanding the Power of Distraction - Talk 45:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-25 Understanding the Power of Distraction - Chant & Meditation 35:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-25 30 Q&A 1:13:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Translation of vipassana bhumi chant; clarificiation around sutta passage that asserts that a female could never become a Buddha; why we chant the Refuge Mantra 9 times; questions around working with perception; skillful contemplation of independence; taking pleasure from food; how to recognize and clear blocked energy in the body
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 29 Returning to Center 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta takes the five khandhå as truth, placing faith in them to be reliable and satisfying. The Buddha likened them to murderous thieves, not trustworthy. Truth is found in our center, not the peripherals. This is where our liberation potential lies.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 Losing Fear of Formations Talk 2 of 2 38:39
Dhammadīpā
(Talk 1 here - https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/379/talk/53264/)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-25 Losing Fear of Formations - Talk 1 of 2 36:03
Ayya Anandabodhi
(Talk 2 here - https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/278/talk/53268/)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-24 Sila as Our Practice in the World (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:15
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-24 Taking Out the Thorn: The Third Noble Truth 53:05
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the Third Noble Truth and how it can relate to retreat practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-24 Pilgrimage Talks 08 - Buddha's Life - The Buddhas Wisdom, Compassion and Power 28:29
Ajahn Achalo
Jetavana Savathi

2018-11-24 28 The Luminous Citta 27:56
Ajahn Sucitto
The aggregates themselves are not problematic, it’s our blind, desperate clinging to them that causes suffering. It’s possible for citta to radiate into the aggregates and into our lives. First what’s needed is the act of withdrawing into a place of refuge to collect and gather. Then the act of integration, bringing qualities of calm, kindness, resolve into our spee
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-23 Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:09
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-23 Exploring not-self in our own practice. 62:24
Rebecca Bradshaw
This talk describes various ways that we can explore the truth of not-self experientially in our own practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-23 Guided Meditation 06 - Meeting Mahapajapati Bhikkhuni Metta Visualisation - Loving Kindness 63:01
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-23 Pilgrimage Talks 07 - Buddha's Life - The Protective Power of Truth 30:47
Ajahn Achalo
Vaisali

2018-11-23 Guided Meditation 05 - Meeting Lord Buddha Metta Visualisation - Loving Kindness 61:05
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-23 Untitled (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:45:32
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-23 Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:14
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-23 27 Don’t Go into Things until You Can Stay Out of Them 41:53
Ajahn Sucitto
We need firm ground to stand on before meeting the difficulties of our lives. Without that firm place, the difficulties don’t unravel –you unravel. With cultivation of the five spiritual faculties – indriyas – they become rock solid, enabling us to stand back from experience and allow it to unravel and pass.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 Excavation of My Notebooks (Retreat at spirit Rock) 38:11
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-22 Pilgrimage Talks 06 - Buddha's Life - First Monastery, Great Disciple Sariputta 55:46
Ajahn Achalo
Rajagaha

2018-11-22 Mudita or appreciative joy guided meditation 41:30
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of mudita, appreciative joy, followed by a guided meditation offering mudita to a good friend who is experiencing success and happiness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-22 26 Fields as a Way of Experiencing Phenomena 16:45
Ajahn Sucitto
In a field of experience, qualities that are assumed to be other people, entities or myself because of the way they’re stuck together can be seen as specific factors that are pliable and flexible. “Field awareness” means a wider span of attention where suppressed, unnoticed, unresolved energies can arise and be discharged, purifying the bodily field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 25 What Sustains a Steady Heart Energy? 49:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Compulsive problematic activations can be replaced with conscious deliberate ones aimed at liberation. Whether in daily activities or in the action of meditation, we can steady and calm energy by orienting around skillful signs – generosity, service, clarity – until the mind is comforted and no longer flowing down old tracks.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 24 Place Attention Directly on the Here and Now 29:37
Ajahn Sucitto
There is a different way to meet what arises rather than through our conditioned perceptions, one free of self, other people, the future. Place attention on what’s arising directly as it is.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-21 Reclamation of the Sacred 60:38
Kittisaro, Thanissara
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-11-21 Meditation: Yes to Life 19:52
Tara Brach
After relaxing our bodies and quieting our minds, this meditation guides us to open to the changing experience of being alive. We ask ourselves two questions: “What is Happening Inside me?” and “Can I be with this?” By learning to bring an unconditional presence and an accepting Yes to our lives, we begin to touch openheartedness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-21 Authentic Thanks Giving 49:26
Tara Brach
How do we awaken our natural capacities for gratitude and generosity? This talk explores the pathways of honest presence and purposeful cultivation, and offers several reflections that guide us in contacting and expressing our love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-21 Dependent Arising and Mental Proliferation 46:57
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-21 Guided Meditation 04 - Breath meditation using Counting 55:39
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-21 Pilgrimage Talks 05 - Buddha's Life - Synergistic Explosion of Enlightenment 38:47
Ajahn Achalo
Bodhgaya

2018-11-21 Day 6: Sitting with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:52
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Retreat

2018-11-21 Cultivating Gratitude 63:45
Donald Rothberg
Through teachings, poems, stories, and reference to the science related to cultivating gratitude, we explore the nature of gratitude and how to practice it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-21 23 Ānāpānasati – A Model for Cultivation and Freedom 53:34
Ajahn Sucitto
In the search for happiness, we generally only experience the search, marked by discomfort or desperation. Relationship is key. The instructions for ānāpānasati train us to develop a more dispassionate relationship where we learn to stand in the presence of, or witness from, the edge of experience. From here the right kind of relationship, marked by non-expectation and non-aversion, can be cultivated.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-20 The Bhrama Viharas; A Roadmap To Freedom and Mudita, 53:34
DaRa Williams
Forgiveness with a bit on gratitude added in!
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-20 Guided Meditation 03 - Breath meditation noting Rising and Falling 50:35
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-20 Pilgrimage Talks 04 - Buddha's Life - The Buddha's First Liberating Teaching 53:14
Ajahn Achalo
Sarnath

2018-11-20 True Happiness 55:23
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-19 Moral Restraint and Non-harming. 53:50
Winnie Nazarko
The Buddha says to develop goodwill and compassion as the second step of the 8-fold path. Steps 3-4-5 show specific ways to practice this.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-19 Questions and Responses 57:24
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-19 Pilgrimage Talks 03 - Buddha's Life - The Enlightenment 50:21
Ajahn Achalo
Bodhgaya

2018-11-19 Monday Night Dharma Talk 67:58
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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