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Dharma Talks
2020-10-19 04 meditation: mindfulness of the body 26:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with a body scan, tuning in to areas of the body that tend to habitually store tension and inviting it to relax, then bringing awareness to physical sensations throughout the whole body
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-19 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 34:50
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 Guided Meditation 41:56
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 Making Peace with Insecurity - Meditation 33:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-10-18 08 meditation: vedana or feeling-tones 17:38
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation exploring physical sensations in the body and the feeling-tones associated with them
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messengers"

2020-10-17 In Our Own LIfeboat 14:08
Ayya Medhanandi
Intuitive knowing is the lens that connects us to the heart through our meditation. Leave the world behind and tap into that energy to enter the realm of pure receptivity, not known through the senses but fully known in complete Awareness that is a safe and liberating refuge. It leads us inward, beyond all wanting, to the ending of suffering, to an emptiness that surpasses all experience, all knowledge.
Ottawa Buddhist Society :  Day of Mindfulness

2020-10-14 32 Parts of the Body—Skin, Teeth, Nails, Body Hair, Head Hair 32:44
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

2020-10-12 The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 5 - Meditation 29:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release

2020-10-12 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 20:26
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation for beginners, starting with mindfulness of the body sitting and breathing
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-12 01 talk: introduction to mindfulness meditation for beginners 14:37
Jill Shepherd
A short talk introducing insight meditation for beginners
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-11 Méditation Guidée detaillée 67:32
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Weekend Retraite pour Terre d'Éveil Octobre 2020

2020-10-11 Q&A 35:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Advice for young people experiencing panic attacks, lack of motivation, depression; how to locate tension and contraction in the body; feeling restless about others’ difficulties and wanting to share Dhamma; working with disconnects in society; working with external sounds in meditation; how to get more steadiness in meditation when body is so uncomfortable.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Walking Meditation – Soothing Tension 12:45
Ajahn Sucitto
The mobility of walking helps soothe feelings of tension and aggression. The loose and the strong aspects as you walk create a feedback loop to circulate energy. A comfortable collectedness of energy can result.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Monday moring meditation: body, heart and mind coming together 43:08
Jill Shepherd
Steadying and stilling the body as a support for steadying and stilling the heart-mind
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-10-11 Guided Meditation - Letting Go of Mental Complexities 35:14
Ajahn Sucitto
After setting up the posture, allow the breathing. Let it educate your mindfulness. Step out of the anatomy of body and into the energy body. Steadily wiping out the visual impression, just feel what you feel.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Suffusing Goodwill 23:12
Ajahn Sucitto
One transformative insight that arises from practice is the way you develop and store up goodness is by sharing it. The untrained mind thinks it’s by storing it up. Guidance is provided generate qualities of heart and extend them across a wide span.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Méditation Guidée: Debout et Assise 60:46
Bhante Bodhidhamma
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre Weekend Retraite pour Terre d'Éveil Octobre 2020

2020-10-10 Q&A 26:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Working with past traumas; relationship between meditation and right livelihood; clarification around embodied presence; please elaborate on contracted and anxious modes; sequence of the 4 elements – earth, air, fire, water; recollecting teachers and use of Buddho in meditation; clarify the meaning of purification or cleaning of citta.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Breathing and Body 30:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance for establishing a suitable posture and attitude for meditation. Sustain attention on breathing – a moving sign is easier to stay with than a static sign. Use it along with supportive heart energy to help blocked places to unfreeze and dissolve.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Standing Meditation – Body as a Unity 21:11
Ajahn Sucitto
After establishing a firm and comfortable posture, expand awareness across each dimension of the body. The details become less, the whole body becomes a unity in harmony. In this state hindrances and discomforts have much less possibility to occur.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Hebrew - Spacious Awareness 56:12
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew Guided Meditation and Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva

2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Staving off Hindrances 15:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is about penetrating the roots of mental behavior. The primary doing is to settle and clear distracting influences so the mind becomes unified in purpose. A happy, firm mind leaves less traction for hindrances to take hold.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Welcome, advice on online retreats, guided meditation 20:05
Ajahn Sucitto
With a heartful attitude, set aside what is not necessary and make a continued deliberate practice around your Dhamma aspirations. Tuning into embodiment with interest and sensitivity, we can locate the missing piece, where harmonization of the mental and somatic domains occurs.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-08 Cultivating Equanimity 41:15
Donald Rothberg
We examine both the nature of equanimity and how to develop more equanimity, both in formal meditation and in the flow of our lives, including in the context of multiple contemporary crises. Equanimity has qualities of balance, evenness, unshakability, understanding and wisdom, faith, joy, and responsiveness. It can be cultivated in our basic mindfulness practice, as we develop more balance, particularly by learning from tends to unbalance us, including difficult emotions, thoughts, and body-states. We can also particularly focus on the teaching of the "Eight Worldly Winds" (or Conditions): pleasure and pain, gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame.
Insight Meditation Tucson

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