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2018-11-19 Morning Reflections On The Death Of A Benefactor 17:01
Winnie Nazarko
A friend who sat the 3-month retreat 17 times, has passed away. As she was preparing, this talk by Ajahn Chaah was offered to her.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-19 22 Leave Space for Miracles 54:00
Ajahn Sucitto
The cultivation of samatha is to be able to direct one’s intentions and attention away from the afflictive activations, settling into a place where they’re not happening. This place of cooling and ceasing is to be lingered in. Here we come out of the personality and into the realm of the miraculous.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-18 Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 2 55:59
Jill Shepherd
Continuing to explore mindfulness of the body in terms of its anatomical parts, four elemental qualities, and as a corpse in decay, as ways to develop a wiser relationship to our bodies
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-18 Pilgrimage Talks 02 - Buddha's Life - Inspiring Renunciation and Awesome Determination 43:57
Ajahn Achalo
Bodhgaya

2018-11-18 Dhamma Talks 06 - Going for Refuge and Purifing Virtue with Deeper Understanding pt 1 36:13
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-18 Dhamma Talks 05 - A Complete Training in Mindfulness with Refuge, Sila and Four Brahma Viharas 51:59
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-18 21 Standing Meditation: Where There Is No Activation in the Body 40:13
Ajahn Sucitto
The theme of this meditation is to move attention from more activated areas to parts that have no activation at all. Beginning with the sense of balance and cohesion, guidance is provided to sense through the entire body, sustaining a soft attitude with no time frame, a quality of very little effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-18 Strengthening Our Intention 2 47:24
Dhammadīpā
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-18 Relating Wisely to the Thinking Mind - Talk 40:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-18 Relating Wisely to the Thinking Mind - Chant and Meditation 34:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-18 20 Review of Four Points for Orientation 42:29
Ajahn Sucitto
A review of the four points recommended to orient around: 1) The sacred - virtue and truth, 2) other people, 3) the subtle body/body energies, 4) nature. These are means for becoming more embodied and heartful, and regaining our natural intelligence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-18 Opening to Allness 6:29:50
Rick Hanson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-17 Faith and Confidence 49:49
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the importance of faith and confidence on the spiritual path and how to nurture it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-17 Don’t Seek for Truth Outside Yourself 36:40
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-11-17 Guided Meditation 02 - Cool Loving Acceptance, Warm Loving Kindness 41:00
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-17 Pilgrimage Talks 01 - Buddha's Life - The Bodhisattas Final Birth 40:35
Ajahn Achalo
Lumbini

2018-11-17 Dhamma Talks 04 - Experiencing and Applying the 5 Spiritual Powers 2:23:05
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-17 Guided Meditation 01 - Simple breath meditation with wise reflections 19:31
Ajahn Achalo
Anandagiri Forest Monastery

2018-11-17 Dhamma Talks 03 - What to hold onto, what to let go of in meditation 35:26
Ajahn Achalo
Sam Poh Temple

2018-11-17 Intentions Revealed, Netherlands Retreat 59:04
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Abiding Mindfully in the Body: Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2018-11-17 18 Brahmavihara Cultivation for a Happy Abiding 47:27
Ajahn Sucitto
The qualities of goodwill, compassion, gladness and equanimity can be cultivated to generate a subtle form, a subtle state of consciousness. Abiding and lingering in these qualities, citta sustains consciousness in that mode, sees objects in that light, and experiences itself in that light making human life manageable, fruitful, enjoyable.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-17 19 Q&A 62:17
Ajahn Sucitto
How to clear stuck sankharas (greed/overeating, fear); clarifying samatha, vipassana, samādhi; clarifying language: rūpa, nāma-rūpa
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-17 Freeing Yourself from the Inner Critic 6:24:22
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-16 Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 3 1:17:41
Kim Allen
Third of three classes on sutta study.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-16 Boredom and ordinariness. 57:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the goal of practice as becoming more ordinary and how boredom can be a doorway into peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 02 - The Importance of Daily Meditation Practice 34:12
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-16 Dhamma Talks 01 - Breath meditation for Peace and Insight 32:36
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-16 Believing in Me, Netherlands Retreat 55:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-16 17 Intention and Effort 63:58
Ajahn Sucitto
Take away the track of conditioned intentions – better, more efficient, goal orientation. Learn to sense into the intention of the citta here and now. Effort informed by the spiritual faculties is a means to stave off hindrances. The first right effort is to dwell in what is skillful.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-16 Four Hooks, Netherlands Retreat 59:01
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-16 16 Nothing Works - Get Used to It 61:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Our conditioning and underlying programs have us aiming at unattainable benchmarks. We come to believe it’s possible to make everything work, make things efficient, clear, comfortable. But this only sets us up for suffering. So we practice to purify intention and attention, widening the range of what our citta can bear with and accommodate. We’re then able to be with the uncomfortable without suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-16 The House that Ego Built: Understanding Self, Not-Self and Indentity 6:29:38
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-15 "Power of Mindfulness" 46:07
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-15 Is Meditation About Ending Thinking? 38:29
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-15 The Parami Of Generosity 60:12
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-15 IMCB Meditation Sit before the Dharma Talk 49:15
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-15 Satisfaction Not Guaranteed, Netherlands Retreat 62:56
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight

2018-11-15 Compassion: Cultivating This Heat Quality. 61:38
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-15 The Pleasure Bubble, Netherlands Retreat 62:31
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-15 15 Learning to Cultivate Relationship 61:41
Ajahn Sucitto
We can learn to relate to the conditioned world with a sense of knowing it doesn’t work, dealing with the inevitable clashes and frictions with a mind that is spacious, that can digest the chafing. Nourish and strengthen citta through qualities of goodwill, patience and acceptance facilitate disengagement. Then the heart is not troubled by things not going its way.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-14 Friends, Enemies, and Strangers 48:51
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-11-14 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 53:26
Tara Brach
We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores how meditation and conscious relating with each other can restore the connections so vital to healing and spiritual freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-14 The Fire Sermon 51:54
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-11-14 Purification - Talk 55:59
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-14 Purification - Meditation 30:28
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-14 The Tree, the Flood & the Flame, Netherlands Retreat 61:50
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-14 14 Sangha Heals Afflictions of Exclusion 50:17
Ajahn Sucitto
With devotional practices we choose to direct ourselves in terms of awakening. Pūjā gives the occasion to settle in our Refuge quality rather than our personal kamma. This is the way we build up a reference point to cultivate and clear the kamma of the person within the field of sangha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-14 Two Foundations for Mindfulness,, Netherlands Retreat 59:39
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-14 13 Soothing and Steadying Body Energies 53:33
Ajahn Sucitto
The deeply ingrained reactivity to jump from unpleasant feeling is saṇkhāra. We leave the richness and intelligence of embodiment for the virtual world of programs and drives. Steadying and stabilizing the bodily energies with ānāpānasati develops a different kind of saṇkhāra, one that responds to phenomena with non-demand and acceptance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-13 Impermanence: The Arising And Falling Of The Ten Thousand Joys and The Ten Thousand Sorrows 61:27
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-13 The Internal Story We Carry With Us 34:53
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-11-13 Contemplating Mortality 55:13
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-13 The Internal Story We Carry With Us 34:53
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-11-13 The River, the Cage & the Horse, Netherlands Retreat 55:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-12 The 7 Factors of Awakening. 62:35
Winnie Nazarko
This talk describes how one can develop certain "mental factors" which lead to awakening. Mindfulness initiates a beneficial cycle which does so.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-12 Monday Night Dharma Talk 1:16:43
Ruth King
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-12 12 Nourishing the Citta 47:31
Ajahn Sucitto
Creating a feedback loop to keep citta refreshed and nourished strengthens our ability to meet the uncomfortable. This can’t be done through the virtual realm of the intellect; take time every day to touch into bodily presence without adjusting anything or turning away. That steady presence becomes the place of regeneration and refreshment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Mindfulness Of The Body - Part 1 53:23
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the first establishment of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention part 2 35:20
Kim Allen
The intention of Renunciation or Letting Go. Questions and responses.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 Eightfold Path Program -- Wise Intention Part 1 66:01
Kim Allen
Introduction to practicing with Intention. The intentions of non-ill-will and non-cruelty.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-11 11 Q&As 53:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Q1: ways of strengthening the citta; Q2 31:37 How can one best work with the citta? Q3 34:01 What is the relationship of intuitive awareness to the citta? Q4 36:56 Could you say something more about the sacred? Q5 40:10 greed and aversion – are they two sides of the same coin? Can one exist without the other? Q6 46:46 What is animita (signless) samādhi as opposed to nimitta samādhi or jhāna?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 10 Weaning the Citta from Clinging 63:27
Ajahn Sucitto
The habit of clinging stems from a search for safety and security, yet we cling to that which can never provide security. It’s not easy to give up clinging, so an inner strengthening is required – energetically, psychologically and emotionally.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 09 Guided Meditation: Feeling Grounded and Safe in the Space 40:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Before reviewing the themes that present themselves to us in meditation, we need the support of safety and ground. Guidance is provided to establish center, ground and safety in this embodiment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 08 Resourcing the Faculty of Heart, Our Responsive Capacity 58:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Phenomena that are mutable, not solid, and dependently arisen become experienced as fixed and solid by unconscious grasping and holding on. The relationship is then one of fixation. A more mature relationship is not based on eliminating displeasure but on responsiveness and flexibility. With practice one can feel comfortable with things that are uncomfortable.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-11 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 2 of 2 6:59:52
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-10 Being Somebody and Being Nobody 51:57
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the importance of having a sense of self and the importance of going beyond a sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-10 To Dare the Impossible 57:24
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-10 07 Intention - a Property of Citta 31:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-10 06 Walking Instructions: Human Bodies Walk Like This 12:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Our walking gets programmed by the drives of the mind. Whatever affects the mind affects the nervous system of the body – the body shows us the effects of our thinking. Walking meditation can return us to the natural quality of the body, so the mind can relax.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge
In collection: A Moving Balance

2018-11-10 Cultivating Compassion: The Art and Science of Kindness - Day 1 of 2 6:48:07
Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-11-09 Life Of The Buddha - The Heavenly Messengers 56:50
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-09 Anapanasati Sutta 57:40
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma II, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 55:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Q&A, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 16:13
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Investigating Human Nature, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 42:27
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Freeing Metta, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 29:27
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Queer Dharma I, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 61:07
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Morning Instructions, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 44:20
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 Changing Values, LGBTQI+ Retreat, Netherlands 10:10
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-11-09 05 The Wisdom Faculty 52:10
Ajahn Sucitto
The search for happiness, security and steadiness binds us in a tangle of stressful and unsatisfactory experiences – because we’re looking in the wrong place. Wisdom/discernment helps us detangle and discern what to set aside and what is worth bearing in mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-09 Dialogue in the Suttas -- session 2 1:19:55
Kim Allen
Second of a 3-session class looking at situations where people ask the Buddha a question.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 Tenderness Practice 52:39
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 Meditation sit with some spaces in between before the Dharma talk. 50:00
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-08 The Six Realms 40:48
Kim Allen
A way to understand and practice with difficult (reactive) emotions
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-08 04 Calm and Discernment Work in Tandem 20:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Discernment helps filter from the amalgam of experience what’s skillful now. Having picked up what is skillful one lingers in it, dwells in it, sustains it. This is calming. So skim off stressful habits of “trying to make it work”, “getting on to the next”. Use the body to learn what the mind is happy to linger in.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-08 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence 37:28
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha--Individual and Collective 1:24:07
Donald Rothberg
We explore the core teaching of the Buddha; he says, "I teach one thing and one thing only, dukkha and the end of dukkha." We examine how we can understand and practice this teaching in terms both of individual and collective dukkha, especially understanding dukkha as reactivity.
Asheville Insight Meditation

2018-11-07 Meditation: Whole Body Breathing 19:52
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Part 2 – The Jewel in the Lotus: Cultivating Compassion 54:58
Tara Brach
The compassion that arises from mindful awareness can heal our inner wounds, interpersonal conflict and the suffering in our world. These two talks focus on cultivating self-compassion and compassion for others. They look at the blocks to compassion and accessible powerful practices that awaken the full wisdom and tenderness of our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-11-07 Contemplating Conventions and The Four Noble Truths 40:04
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-11-07 02 Going for Refuge - Reorientation of Citta 58:37
Ajahn Sucitto
What is it that we need to take Refuge from? The poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that mask themselves and corrupt our hearts and minds. This requires reorienting from worldly ways and orienting around what has value and meaning, that which you can trust: virtue, embodiment, nature and other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 01 Setting up the Relational Context of Dhamma 22:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Four compass points to orient around while on retreat: how you relate to the earth, to other people, to your body and to the sacred; an explanation of pūjā – recollections and making offerings, as with the offering of food.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-07 Courage as the Buddhist Equivalent of Hope 2:06:19
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-11-06 The Bridge of Sangha, Taking the Sacred Home With You (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 29:50
Noliwe Alexander
It's one thing to cultivate awakening, it;s another thing to stay woke, fierce tenderness, we are the ones we have been waiting for, practicing for 7 generations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-06 The Miracle Of Awakening 32:04
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-11-06 Stinkin Thinkin 50:18
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-11-06 Day 6: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:22
Thanissara
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-05 Mixing Things In 54:45
Winnie Nazarko
The Buddha describes Wise Effort in specific ways. But we have our own particular ideas of what we want to accomplish. How to practice"when worlds collide?"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 Contemplating Citta - Mind States 43:15
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

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