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Dharma Talks
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

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Chant and Meditation 29:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Karma - Week 8 - Talk 39:55
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-05 Guided Standing Meditation 22:18
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-05 The Deepest Holding is the Dharma (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:41
Erin Treat
Waking up together, personal and collective awakening, eve of election day, the dispassion that can hold the fullness of what and who we are, divesting from grasping.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-04 An Overview Of The Four Brahmaviharas. 50:30
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the Metta/Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity and the interrelationships between them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-04 First Aid 10:51
Ayya Medhanandi
To free us from our relentless conceptualising and the suffering that comes of it, the Buddha has thrown us a lifeline. We can grab hold of it by continually using the perspective that “this is impermanent”, and, thereby, we can pull ourselves to safety. A breakfast reflection given at Sati Saraniya Hermitage in 2018.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2018-11-04 Working With Distracting Thoughts - Talk 57:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-11-04 Working With Distracting Thoughts - Meditation 31:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-11-04 Meditation: Peace as the Ground of Resilience 33:03
Kittisaro
Gradual entry into release and peace as the ground of resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-04 Closing Talk 52:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-04 Morning Instructions - Keeping It Simple 47:39
DaRa Williams
Review of what we have covered in the first two weeks of instruction.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-04 Trust the Path: Medicine for Our Times (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 68:39
Kittisaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-03 Guided Meditation on Thoughts 28:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 Sexual Energy and Intimacy 57:09
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate the impulse to connect and sexual energy while on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-03 Mindfulness of Body and Guided Reflection on the Elements 64:36
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-03 Paradoxes in Practice 17:40
Amita Schmidt
Exploring four paradoxes in practice; thoughts and stillness; effort and relaxed, the personal and the profound, right now and forever.
Tri State Dharma

2018-11-03 Twelve Steps and Dharma 22:29
Amita Schmidt
12 Steps and the Dharma: Freedom from the Bondage of Self as it relates to Buddhism. Thoughts on addiction and no self.
Tri State Dharma

2018-11-03 Very Dependent Me 53:46
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 From Being Hindered to Being Insightful 58:51
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-03 Reclamation of the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:35
Thanissara
The Abstraction and disconnect of Seperative Consciousness The Journey through the Shadow Entering the depth feminine Awareness: the root to the living Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-02 The Dharma Lives in You 47:16
Erin Treat
Nurturing faith in awareness, removing the thorn from our hearts, the danger of deadening our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-02 Embodying Quiet 19:31
Amita Schmidt
How to embody a deep quiet in your practice and your life. Ways to work with thoughts and find more stillness.
Southwest Sangha

2018-11-02 Monkey Mind Strategies 5:41
Amita Schmidt
In answer to a question, this short piece describes a few strategies to work with monkey mind, from both the practical, to the emotional healing of the root cause.
Southwest Sangha

2018-11-02 Right Intention 41:44
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary

2018-11-02 Liberating Metta 28:29
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-02 Coming to terms with reality 50:52
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Coming Back to Our Senses

2018-11-02 Morning Instructions: Using the Tool of Mental Noting. 59:51
Brian Lesage
This talk offers a guided meditation and instructions for using mental noting in meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-02 Seven Ways to Let Go 38:01
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-01 Seven Ways to Let Go 38:01
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-11-01 Honoring the Sacred in this Moment (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:16
Kittisaro
Listening into depth. Relinquishing grasping and aversion is Nibbana. Working with breath and mantra. Resourcing ourselves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-11-01 What Is Insight? 57:28
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-11-01 "Meditation Sit Before the Talk" 52:04
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-01 "Compassion as a Practice" and "Safe and Doubt" 50:26
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-11-01 Day 1: Sitting w/ Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:12
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-10-31 A few words on practice & a guided meditation 29:52
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-31 The Dharma of #MeToo: A Conversation on Ethical Misconduct, Boundaries and the Teacher-Student Relationship - Insight OUT 66:07
Lama Rod Owens
A note on the recording: Approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens talk, he begun a guided meditation practice. This approx. 36 minutes guided practice was extracted from this recording and was made a stand alone track which you can freely access. Once Lama Rod announces start of guided practice, a bell is heard, which marks the End of extracted guided practice. Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October. Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome. We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-31 The Dharma of #MeToo - guided meditation - INSIDE OUT 35:59
Lama Rod Owens
A note on the recording: This guided meditation recording took place during Lama Rod talk for Insight OUT sangha. It was extracted from the main reocrindg of this talk to be a stand alone recording. It begun approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens' talk. Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October. Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome. We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-31 Bowing from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez 42:11
Marcia Rose
Why do we bow? Who and what are we bowing to? Reading of a short section about bowing from Barry Lopez’ book called Arctic Dreams.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-31 Morning Guided Meditation and Reflection. 56:19
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-30 Le mirage 62:53
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-30 Hindrances 56:00
DaRa Williams
Hindrances, relationship to practice and how to work with them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-30 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-30 Equanimity: Equipoise and The Greatness of Heart. 1:14:49
Marcia Rose
Exploring the development, blossoming and maturing of the Equanimity Factor of Enlightenment along with two particular insights that are the roots of Equanimity.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-30 The Dharma of Consent, Finding a Common Language 1:24:38
Lama Rod Owens
This is the main track of lama rod dharma talk. During this talk, after thirty two minutes, an approx. 25 minutes guided meditation practice took place. the guided practice was extracted and was made a standalone track which you can access as well. A short small bell sound was inserted to mark the point in which the talk was paused. It then continues seamlessly. However, after the guided meditation, a five minute break in which sangha members were offered to submit written questions, and it is that which lama rod refers to after the short bell sound.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-30 The Dharma of Consent - guided meditation 24:38
Lama Rod Owens
New York Insight Meditation Center

2018-10-30 Morning Instructions - Emotions 44:22
Rebecca Bradshaw
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-29 Que pratiquons-nous? 41:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-29 The Rest Of The Retreat 57:12
Winnie Nazarko
Our schedule alternates walking and sitting meditation practices periods which take up many hours. But there are still many other times in the day to practice mindfulness in activities.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-29 Faire confiance à la pratique, Instructions et méditation guidée 20:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-10-29 Determining the Skillfulness and Unskillfulness of Thoughts - Talk 41:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-29 Karma - Week 7 - Talk 66:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-29 Karma - Week 7 - Chant and Meditation 29:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Karma

2018-10-29 Monday Night Dharma Talk 69:05
Amma Thanasanti
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-29 Morning Reflection: Balancing The 7 Factors of Enlightenment 42:24
Marcia Rose
Exploring the three energizing and the three calming Factors of Enlightenment along with the Factor of Mindfulness which is what keeps it all in balance.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-29 Meditations Instuctions - Day 7 50:16
DaRa Williams
Working with emotions and review of instructions thus far.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-28 Fear and Fearlessness 59:19
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of ways to work skilfully with fear, to cultivate courage, and to incline the heart-mind in the direction of love
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-28 Determining the Skillfulness and Unskillfulness of Thoughts - Meditation 32:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-10-28 Questions and Answers on Trauma, Love, and Rawness 6:54
Amita Schmidt
Three Questions on Trauma, Love, and Rawness
Tri State Dharma

2018-10-28 Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World - Part 5 38:05
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-28 Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World - Part 4 34:53
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-28 Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World - Part 3 1:13:13
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-28 Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World - Part 2 24:42
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-28 Living Kindness: Buddhist Teachings for a Troubled World - Part 1 41:17
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-10-27 Practicing For Oneself And Others. 44:44
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the importance of having this broad aspiration for our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-27 What does 2,500 Years of Buddhist Practice Have to Teach the Modern Non-dual Practitioner? (from the Science and Non-duality Conference) 21:10
Tina Rasmussen
Various

2018-10-27 Morning Instructions: Guided Meditation Highlighting Sensations 43:19
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-26 Guided meditation on upekkha/equanimity. 49:34
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 - November 5, 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-10-25 The Precepts and Skillfulness 48:16
Kim Allen
Is all of Buddhist ethics contained in the Precepts? Probably not.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-10-25 The Gentle Hand Of Friendship 50:45
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-25 Touching the Earth, Awakening to Our Human Birthright 50:00
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2018-10-25 Introduction To Metta Meditation. 50:36
Rebecca Bradshaw
Includes a guided metta (loving-kindness) practice for oneself and an easy person.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-25 Questions as the Path 39:58
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

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