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Dharma Talks
2020-01-29 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 13: Exploring Our Experience of Time 4 64:24
Donald Rothberg
We focus in this session on four ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment, as in our core practice of mindfulness; (2) exploring impermanence reflectively and experientially in several ways; (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness, and learning to live from this awareness more and more; and (4) noticing and examining our various forms of conditioning around time. The first three ways of practicing correspond to the guided practices in the earlier guided meditation. For the fourth, we look especially in this session at the powerful ways that our cultural and social conditioning operates, comparing some of the main aspects of conditioning in the mainstream U.S., with its emphasis on future planning, productivity, and busyness, among other orientations to time, with how some other cultures experience time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-29 A Guided Meditation Exploring Our Experience of Time through Three Practices 41:06
Donald Rothberg
After starting with the foundational mindfulness instructions for settling, becoming less distracted, and then seeing clearly whatever is predominant in experience, we explore three ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment; (2) exploring impermanence, particularly the arising, staying, changing, and passing away of experiential phenomena; and (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-28 Morning Meditation Instructions 7:40
Sayadaw U Jagara
"Meditation" is done by first acknowledging facts, seeing causes and remedies.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2020

2020-01-26 The Path Begins with Understanding - Meditation 35:43
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-25 Guided Meditation on Awareness of Breath and Body 33:19
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Dana Retreat - A Path of Peace and Kindness

2020-01-25 Guided Standing and Sitting Meditation, Advice on Sitting Posture 45:46
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Dana Retreat - A Path of Peace and Kindness

2020-01-22 Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence 22:00
Tara Brach
This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds, Trusting Prana.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-22 The Path with Kamma, Part 3 - Meditation 33:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-22 Instructions et méditation guidée 25:54
Pascal Auclair
Instructions et méditation guidée
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2020-01-22 Reconciliation and Loving Kindness Meditation 35:53
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Practice Day 5
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-21 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Week 2 1:31:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Jan-Feb 2020

2020-01-21 Open Awareness 36:28
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 4
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-20 Mindfulness of the Mind States 30:37
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 3
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-19 The Path with Kamma, Part 1 - Meditation 12:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-19 The Path with Kamma, Part 2 - Meditation 34:29
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-19 Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 39:30
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 2
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-18 Mindfulness of the Body 47:37
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 1
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-18 13 meditation: mindfulness of mind 27:06
Jill Shepherd
Steadying awareness on the breath and physical sensations, then opening to include sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-17 10 guided meditation: metta for the benefactor 21:13
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation offering metta to the benefactor, using a combination of radiating energy and reciting phrases methods
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-17 08 guided meditation: exploring the four elemental qualities 15:51
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation lying down, bringing awareness to the elemental qualities of earth, water, fire and air within the body and externally
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-16 04 meditation: body scan and mindfulness of breathing 25:12
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with a body scan inviting tension to soften and relax, then bringing awareness to the breath, starting with the simple knowing of breathing in and breathing out
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-16 03 instructions: sati and samadhi 14:15
Jill Shepherd
A short exploration of mindfulness (sati) in the context of insight meditation, and how it is supported by clear comprehension (sampajanno) and stability of mind or non-distractability (samadhi)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-15 Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath 20:34
Tara Brach
This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The meditation ends with lovingkindness for ourselves and our world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-01-15 Sweeping the Body 44:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Something in us – citta – searches for release from suffering. It struggles to rise out of old patterns, which means one has to enter them. Sweeping meditation is a skillful means. It’s not just a physical exercise but an opportunity to clear kamma.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Winter Retreat 2020

2020-01-14 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Week 1 1:29:31
Mark Nunberg
Course introduction, two guided meditations, and dharma talk
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Jan-Feb 2020

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