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Dharma Talks
2018-09-07 The Three Characteristics and Collective and Individual Empowerment 38:15
Tara Mulay
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-07 Working with the hindrances. 44:17
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-09-07 Opening Talk 1:21:10
David Loy
Mountain Hermitage An Eco-Dharma Workshop/Retreat with David Loy

2018-09-07 Hidden Insight 1:15:15
Nathan Glyde
The Buddha as Bodhisattva's 2 sorts of thinking, and 4 (great) efforts as a treatment for the easing of the 5 hindrances, for the promotion of peace and wellbeing.
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2018-09-07 Erwachen befreit das Herz 55:46
Renate Seifarth
Es geht darum, wie Erwachen erfahren werden könnte, und warum Herzensqualitäten wie Mitgefühl die natürlichen Resultate eines erwachten Geistes sind.
Seminarhaus Engl

2018-09-07 Metta For One's Body 41:58
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided meditation on cultivating goodwill or lovingkindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-07 Day 6 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 1:13:31
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-07 Working With Mindfulness Of Mind 58:22
Anushka Fernandopulle
Recognizing thoughts as an object of meditation. Guided meditation and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-06 Freedom and Ease Of Being 43:29
Anushka Fernandopulle
Dharma talk on LGBTQ retreat: Six senses, six animals leashed together, Amsterdam pride as a metaphor for your mind, retraining the mind and heart for freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-06 Bodily Fabrication 55:52
Zohar Lavie
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2018-09-06 Day 5 - Questions & Answers Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 62:06
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-06 Reflections on Metta. 44:01
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-06 Day 5 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 56:10
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-06 Awareness Of Body and Emotions 54:36
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-06 Day 5 - Meditation Instructions by Bhante Y Rahula 2:10
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-06 Coming to the Surface 37:46
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-09-05 How Dharma practice unfolds 43:51
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-05 Fundamentals of Mindfulness - Meditation 34:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-09-05 Fundamentals of Mindfulness - Talk 55:23
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-09-05 Don't Scratch the Itch 53:37
Nathan Glyde
Looking into how the 4 noble truths bring us to freedom by dropping the demand for life to otherwise. Moving from reaction to response we lossening around clinging and craving and find the space to be intimate.
Freely Given Retreats A Wide and Wonderful Path

2018-09-05 Day 4 - Questions & Answers instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 59:24
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-05 Happiness is a Benevolent Mind 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-09-05 Day 4 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 59:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-05 Morning Meditation Instructions 60:56
Anushka Fernandopulle
Practice instructions for the first day of a LGBTQISGL retreat at IMS. Cell phone ceremony of renunciation, sitting, walking
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2018-09-05 Day 4 - Meditation Instructions by Bhante Y Rahula 1:10:50
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-04 For The Next 100 Days 41:50
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-09-04 Day 3 - Questions & Answers Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 61:58
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-04 Dharma for All Kinds of Minds 67:10
Ven. Pannavati Bhikkhuni
Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center

2018-09-04 Day 3 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 61:10
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-04 Day 3 - Guided Meditation Instructions by Bhante Y Rahula 62:28
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-04 What Holds You 13:46
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-09-03 Day 2 - Questions & Answers Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 57:53
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-03 Totally Great America - Monday night dharma talk 43:05
Wes Nisker
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-09-03 Day 2 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 48:56
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-03 Day 2 - Guided Meditation Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 25:33
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-03 Day 2 - Guided Meditation Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 25:33
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-02 Transforming Suffering Into Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:22
James Baraz
Every moment of mindfulness we are weakening the forces of greed, hatred & delusion (roots of suffering) and strengthening the forces of non-greed (letting go & generosity), non-hatred (loving-kindness) and non-delusion (wisdom). This talk explains how that works.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-09-02 Taking Care of the Mind 44:51
Jaya Rudgard
Mindfulness of mind and mind states.
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2018-09-02 The Poignancy Of Ephemerality. 46:13
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-09-02 Day 1 - Questions & Answers Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 66:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-02 Recognizing Awareness 41:10
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided practice in recognizing the knowing factor of experience, which is not me or mine, or in my control.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-09-02 Day 1 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 0:00
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
(Recording not available) 
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-02 Day 1 - Dhamma Talk by Bhante Y Rahula 1:21:31
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-02 Instructions On Emotions And Moods. 62:22
Pascal Auclair
Instructions, guided meditation, and Q&A.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-09-02 Day1 - Guided Meditation Instruction by Bhante Y Rahula 69:15
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia Mindfulness-The Body And Mind Connection

2018-09-01 You Are Not A Problem To Be Solved (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:31
Howard Cohn
Experiencing ourselves beyond our personality story and learning how to relate to our self view with wisdom and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-09-01 Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 42:32
Jenny Wilks
Finding peace within the fluctuating currents of pleasure and pain.
Gaia House Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course

2018-09-01 Soundtrack Of The Mind 40:21
Anushka Fernandopulle
Starting to notice mindstates that influence how we see life, including the five hinderances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-09-01 A Wake-up call 29:43
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-09-01 Understanding the Buddhas Liberating Path 63:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Common Ground Residential Retreat at Metta Retreat Center

2018-09-01 Displeasure As A Doorway 48:57
Pascal Auclair
Displeasure as a field of investigation and as a doorway to compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-09-01 Meditation Instructions - Day 1 65:33
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided meditation, posture, opening morning thoughts, walking instructions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2018-08-31 Going without Going (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:16
Sharda Rogell
We wonderfully open to all aspects of our mind body experience wherever we go - not leaving ourselves behind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-31 Questions & Answers 1:15:58
Ariya B. Baumann
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-31 Metta 33:21
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-31 Liminality 33:44
Kim Allen
Dwelling in the in-between
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-08-31 Cultivating Wise Speech - An Introduction 1:46:01
Donald Rothberg
In this introduction to a daylong on Wise (or "Right") Speech, there is a focus on the importance of Wise Speech for our practice and on the core ethical guidelines for wise and skillful speech given by the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-30 The Journey to Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:13
James Baraz
The course of practice is explored: how mindfulness works, willingness to open to our suffering, discovering our wholesome qualities & the Buddha within, dealing with forgetting who we are, then sharing our love & wisdom with the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-30 The Best of Everything (dana-sila-bhavana) 57:17
Ariya B. Baumann
The best we can extract from our life and all we use in our life are the practices of generosity, virtue, and the cultivation of the heart & mind.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-29 Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body 19:50
Tara Brach
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness (a special meditation from the archives).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-29 Part 2: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 55:05
Tara Brach
We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization. These talks explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts. (a special talk from the archives)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-29 How the Dhamma Protects You 61:10
Ariya B. Baumann
The practice of the Dhamma is a powerful protection that comes about by wholeheartedly applying mindfulness, the four protective meditations, restraint, virtue, going for refuge, patience, or the parittas.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-29 Purifying the Mind through Mindfulness of the Body 63:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Common Ground Residential Retreat at Metta Retreat Center

2018-08-29 What is the Meaning of Happiness 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein
(Recording not available) 
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2018-08-28 The Internal Dialogue 30:31
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-08-28 Lesser and Greater Happiness 22:24
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-08-27 The Development and Function of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:59
Sally Armstrong
The development of samadhi, a collected and unified mind, is central in the Buddha’s meditation training. This talk looks at how we can skillfully deepen concentration, as well as the place of concentration in various suttas and lists that guide us in the development of concentration, and then the function of concentration to lead to transformative insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-27 Confidence 67:19
Ariya B. Baumann
Confidence is crucial for any undertaking, also for our spiritual journey. Our confidence in the teaching, the actual practice, and in our ability to do the practice grow and deepen as we move along the way.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-27 Kindness as a Liberating Path 61:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Common Ground Residential Retreat at Metta Retreat Center

2018-08-27 Cultivating the Heart of Kindness - Monday night dharma talk 61:59
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-26 Deepening Insight Practice with the Support of Concentration Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 66:01
Donald Rothberg
Description: We first explore how concentration practice is both helpful and important for insight practice, and how the two practices are related. We then look at the nature of insight practice, and in particular examine three ways of liberating seeing in insight practice, namely practices in which we cultivate seeing anicca (impermanence), dukkha (reactivity or unreliability or suffering), and anatta (not-self).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-26 Training the Mind - Developing Happiness 58:52
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Common Ground Residential Retreat at Metta Retreat Center

2018-08-25 Seven Factors and the Practice of Concentration (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:01
Susie Harrington
The cultivation of the seven factors in samadhi and vipassana practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-25 Ways of Working with the ‘Thinking Mind’ 44:51
Ayya Jitindriya
Santi Forest Monastery

2018-08-25 OKness & the Four Noble Truths 33:13
Ayya Santacitta
Sacramento Insight Meditation

2018-08-24 Anatta. 49:48
Caroline Jones
The third in a series of talks on the three characteristics of experience: impermanent, unsatisfying and not me or mine.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-08-24 Gratitude 50:20
Ariya B. Baumann
Gratitude is a hidden treasure: it is a simple but incredibly powerful quality that brings so much joy and contentment into our life.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-23 Chanting 29:05
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-23 'The Dharma and Nature' 54:45
James Baraz
One definition of the word Dharma is Natural law. Trees hold a very special place in the Buddha’s teaching.. The Buddha was born under a tree, enlightened under a tree and died under a tree. He told his disciples to find “roots of trees” to sit and meditate. Trees are the perfect environment to practice in the Thai Forest Tradition. Metta practice was taught by the Buddha in response to actions of “Tree spirits”. We’ll explore the special significance of trees and Nature in the Buddha’s teaching.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-08-23 Developing a Skillful Relationship to Happiness in Practice and in Life (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:57
Sally Armstrong
Though the teachings on dukkha (suffering) are an important part of the Buddhist path, a skillful relationship to sukha (happiness) actually played a significant part in the Buddha's awakening. This talk explores the wise use of happiness and pleasure and the cultivation of beautiful qualities of mind, especially in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-23 Closing Talk 49:59
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-23 Metta - All Categories 46:14
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-22 Skillful Effort in Concentration Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:03
Donald Rothberg
After some general reflections on the nature of concentration (or samadhi), concentration practice, and its place and importance, we explore the nature of skillful effort. We particularly focus on the balance of "pro-active" effort and relaxation/ease, identifying a number of specific practice tips and suggestions that support development in both aspects of practice, as well as how to cultivate the balance between the two. [A clarification about terminology: There are two terms that have at times been translated as "effort”: (1) The 6th factor of the Noble Eightfold Path is “Right Effort” (same vayama); (2) Viriya is one of the Five Spiritual Faculties and one of the Seven Factors of Awakening and is often translated as “energy,” sometimes as “effort.”]
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-22 Meditation: Awake & Open Awareness 21:02
Tara Brach
This calming meditation practice helps settle the mind with the breath and then opens to the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-22 Part 1: Vulnerability, Intimacy, & Spiritual Awakening 59:10
Tara Brach
We each live with uncertainty and the fear of rejection and loss, and we each are conditioned to avoid feeling or expressing that vulnerability. Yet intimacy with this unlived life is the gateway to connecting authentically with others, full aliveness and spiritual realization. These talks explore the ways that we defend ourselves, and the pathway to gently, wisely and intelligently disarming and freeing our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-08-22 Metta, loving kindness meditation 32:02
Bob Stahl
Casa de Espirtualidad Santa Elena :  Retiro mindfulness de 7 días agosto (with Bob Stahl)

2018-08-22 Thoughts 56:13
Ariya B. Baumann
Thoughts are a natural manifestation of the mind. We need to understand the nature of thoughts and then use them wisely and skillfully in our meditation practice and life.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-08-22 Virya Paramita 54:25
Pamela Weiss

2018-08-22 Originazione dipendente / Dependent origination 59:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Insegnamenti di buddismo Theravada. 19. 6. 2018 Ritiro di Satipatthana Vipassana a Pian dei Ciliegi, Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation retreat in Pian dei Ciliegi
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi

2018-08-22 Evening Dharma talk, the power of love - El poder del amor 1:30:24
Bob Stahl
Casa de Espirtualidad Santa Elena :  Retiro mindfulness de 7 días agosto (with Bob Stahl)

2018-08-22 Morning talk, instructions, Q&A - instrucciones, preguntas-respues 1:12:47
Bob Stahl
Casa de Espirtualidad Santa Elena :  Retiro mindfulness de 7 días agosto (with Bob Stahl)

2018-08-21 Open Conversation Q&A 42:09
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-08-21 Jhanic Factors in Samadhi Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:41
Susie Harrington
The supports and obstructions for samadhi: The hindrances and jhanic factors: vitakka, vicara, piti, sukha, ekaggata.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2018-08-21 The Practice Of Forgiveness 48:19
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-21 Evening Dharma talk, the myth of me - El mito del yo 1:23:46
Bob Stahl
Casa de Espirtualidad Santa Elena :  Retiro mindfulness de 7 días agosto (with Bob Stahl)

2018-08-21 Metta (self, benefactor, friend, neutral person) 46:18
Narayan Helen Liebenson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-21 Morning talk, instructions, Q&A - instrucciones, preguntas-respuest 58:32
Bob Stahl
Casa de Espirtualidad Santa Elena :  Retiro mindfulness de 7 días agosto (with Bob Stahl)

2018-08-20 Wisdom and Compassion 43:14
Tim Geil
An exploration of the interplay and interdependence of wisdom and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-08-20 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 8 - Meditation 31:54
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

2018-08-20 Mindfulness of Breathing - Week 8 - Talk 34:06
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Breathing

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