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Dharma Talks in English
2020-05-06 Hindrances in Daily Life or Deep Meditation 32:21
Nathan Glyde
Hindrances appear in daily life, on the 'cushion', and right into deep experiences: if there is an appearance there must be a hindrance in someway, pushing and pulling at life. How can we be approariate to what arises? Joyfully breaking the (so called) hindrances into 5, or 3, or just 1, is a way of looking at these fabricated experiences, that helps us approach them with skill, flexibility, and freedom, no matter where they arise.
Gaia House Living Fearlessly With Change - Closing Retreat

2020-05-06 Guided Equanimity Mindfulness of Pleasure, Pain, and Neutrality (Online Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:02
Tempel Smith
Description: Guided meditation to bring mindful intimacy to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experiences in the body and other phenomena. This is the second foundation of mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Equanimity Retreat - Online

2020-05-05 31 Body as Meditation Object 22:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Unfortunately the laptop stopped! Luckily, I was coming to an end. Death contemplation is taught by the Buddha, see my Talk 03,04,45. I would simply have said that body as subjective experience is to be investigated and is a path itself to liberation from suffering.
Satipanya Retreat Centre Talks on the Middle Length Discourses

2020-05-04 Buddhist Studies: Compassion and Wisdom, Week 1 - Meditation 37:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Compassion and Wisdom

2020-05-03 Introduction to Standing and Sitting Meditation 62:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-05-03 Caring for the Heart and Mind, Week 7: Working with Difficulties - Meditation 35:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-01 Loving Kindness Guided Meditation 39:44
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-05-01 On the Cross of Our Illusions: A Guided Dying Meditation and Reflections 42:36
Ayya Medhanandi
To simulate the natural process of death is to experience the impermanence of the five aggregates and a pure awareness that knows the inherent emptiness of things as they truly are. Dying is a potent doorway for liberation of mind and the best death we can die is shattering the ego. Then we can let go of fear once and for all. This guided meditation was given during a death and dying retreat in an Australian church in 2004.
Australian Insight Meditation Network

2020-04-30 meditation: slowing, stilling, soothing 28:01
Jill Shepherd
Orienting to the body and the breath to slow down, steady and soothe the heart-mind
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-29 Meditation: Vipassana - Seeing Life As It Is 27:36
Tara Brach
This classic Buddhist meditation trains us to wake up out of thoughts and to attend to our changing experience with a balanced, clear and open presence. Enjoy a bit longer meditation with several quiet pauses.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-28 All Community Sit 19:43
Bob Stahl
Group meditation in the Insight Buddhist tradition, includes a Sit, short Dhamma talk, and discussion & connection
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-27 Living from Moment to Moment: Reflection & Guided Meditation 31:45
Oren Jay Sofer
A short reflection with instructions on samatha and vipassana practice (calming and insight), followed by a guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-26 Caring for the Heart and Mind, Week 6: Mindfulness of the Mind - Meditation 35:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-24 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Opening Body and Welcoming Breath 28:47
Zohar Lavie
In Hebrew
SanghaSeva Opening, Steadying, Allowing

2020-04-23 meditation: settling in to calm and steadiness 28:45
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation orienting the body and heart-mind towards stillness, calm, and ease
Auckland Insight Meditation

2020-04-23 Reflections on practice and guided big mind meditation 43:26
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-22 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Natural Awareness 27:08
Tara Brach
In this meditation we are guided to discover the space and aliveness that fills the body, sense the space in the universe, and then to realize our Beingness as continuous space, filled with the light of awareness. When our attention contracts into thoughts, the pathway to awareness is a relaxing back, reopening to the natural openness, silence and stillness of our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-04-21 All Community Sit 19:55
Bob Stahl
Group meditation in the Insight Buddhist tradition, includes a Sit, short Dhamma talk, and discussion & connection
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-04-20 Buddhist Studies: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships, Week 7 - Meditation 23:03
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course: Cultivating Wholesome Relationships

2020-04-20 Guided Meditation: Steadying through Resolution 29:38
Oren Jay Sofer
Resolve or determination is a steady firmness that is both flexible and strong. This meditation explores how to bring this quality into our meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-20 Meditation: Courage in Our Difficult Times | Monday Night 23:55
Jack Kornfield
Guided meditation for bringing loving awareness to all aspects of experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2020-04-19 Taking Care of the Heart and Mind, Week 5: Understanding Feeling Tone - Meditation 28:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-04-18 Creativity and Balance - Working with Fabrication 64:51
Zohar Lavie
Guided Meditation and Talk, given at Gaia House's Online Dharma Hall.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall

2020-04-17 Insight and Resilience during Times of Crisis 43:16
Oren Jay Sofer
Every generation feels like the world is ending or changing dramatically. When the world comes crashing down, how do we stay grounded and not lose our inner compass? This talk, given online via the Boston Meditation Center, explores three practical aspects of the Buddhist path for handling uncertainty with resilience.
Various

2020-04-16 meditation: steadying the body, the heart, the mind 28:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying and stabilising the body and heart-mind, then noticing our relationship to present-moment experience, opening to the simplicity of here ... now ... this ...
Auckland Insight Meditation

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