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Dharma Talks
2020-09-13 Guided Meditation - Basic Luminosity of Citta 11:02
Ajahn Sucitto
Establish strong mindfulness that can act as a frame for shifting states of mind. Go easy on the mental content letting it all pass through. Aware of a basic luminosity, or vibrancy, assess what is needed to encourage citta – goodwill, patience, dispassion.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-09-10 meditation: exploring dukkha 24:44
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to any dukkha present in the moment, noticing any reactions of clinging or resistance, and using wisdom, compassion and equanimity to help that clinging release
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-09-10 04 meditation: dukkha and release 24:44
Jill Shepherd
Bringing awareness to dukkha or unsatisfactoriness in the moment, and inviting the release of any resistance to it
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-09-09 Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart 22:00
Tara Brach
Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through our bodies, and then meet changing waves of experience with a sea of awareness that is intrinsically allowing and tender.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-09-07 Manifesting Metta in All Directions 27:19
Dhammadīpā
A guided meditation offered as part of the Sunday evening program of Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-07 The Immeasurable Mind of Metta 56:54
Dhammadīpā
A talk given as part of the Sunday program at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-09-06 Guided Meditation – Arrive at the Basis 10:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta has its own basic clarity and sanity. Practice to establish citta on its own ground, where there is no suffering. This is the upright citta, the foundation for all the virtues leading to awakening.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-09-05 Mettā Can Go Everywhere To Everything 56:03
Nathan Glyde
A meditation and reflection about metta and emptiness
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sept 2020

2020-09-03 01 meditation: impermanence 30:01
Jill Shepherd
Exploring impermanence through the breath and physical sensations
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-09-02 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness 21:28
Tara Brach
When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back into the awareness that is always, already here. We explore relaxing back through a body scan, and then with all our senses wide open. With practice we increasingly find our pathway home by relaxing the clench of doings, and resting in what is.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-08-30 Guided Meditation – Letting Citta Freely Flow 9:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Realize that it’s possible to divert one’s normal preoccupations and thought patterns, and come instead into the sense of penetrating to the roots of it all. Collecting energy into this state of being conscious, being aware, lets citta flow freely, unconstricted by our habitual grasping of form.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-08-30 Contemplating Impermanence - Meditation 35:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-08-30 Guided Meditation 46:28
Caroline Jones
Guided meditation on impermanence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-30 Meditation Instructions + Suggestions 29:01
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's meditation instructions on the three characteristics of existence (impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, non-self)--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-29 Guided Meditation 43:59
Caroline Jones
Guided metta practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-29 Meditation Reflections + Guidance 46:20
Caroline Jones
Guidance on spacious awareness meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-28 Guided Meditation 44:17
Caroline Jones
Reflections on mindfulness of body and a guided body scan
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-28 Morning Teachings, Guided Meditation, Q & A 1:25:53
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Living Fearlessly

2020-08-28 Meditation Instructions + Suggestions 43:04
Caroline Jones
Guidance for mindfulness of breathing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-28 Meditation Reflections & Guidance 29:39
Bhante Buddharakkhita
Venerable Bhante Buddharakkhita's meditation instructions on mindfulness of breathing--given at the Uganda Buddhist Centre temple.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-27 Further Introduction + Meditation Guidance 51:54
Caroline Jones
Opening talk part 2 of 2
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Strengthening the Heart-Mind: A Retreat for Experienced Dharma Practitioners

2020-08-27 Morning Teachings, Guided Meditation, Q & A 1:27:00
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Living Fearlessly

2020-08-26 Meditation: Resting in Awake Awareness 18:49
Tara Brach
This practice opens with a body scan, employing the image and felt sense of a smile to awaken awareness through the body. We then open to all the senses, and rest in the awareness that includes this changing life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-08-26 Morning Teachings, Guided Meditation, Q & A 1:25:09
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Living Fearlessly

2020-08-25 31 meditation: compassion practice 17:52
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with compassion for a friend who's suffering, then oneself
Auckland Insight Meditation Finding the heart of freedom

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