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Dharma Talks
2018-03-28 Guided Meditation on Impermanence and a Sense of Self 41:42
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-27 Presence, Space and Attending to Contraction - Guided Meditation 40:04
Nathan Glyde
Dukkha is revealed by, and has the nature of, contraction. What happens when we're present to that, and open around it.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-27 Possibility of Inner Peace 34:28
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2018-03-26 Patience, Returning, Impermanence - Guided Meditation 40:13
Nathan Glyde
Gathering ourselves into the present unfolding, and considering the nature of arising and passing phenomena, to see what effect that has on experience.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-26 Breath Energy Unification - Guided Meditation 41:12
Nathan Glyde
Developing samatha - calm collectedness - for beneficial inner contentment, or further insight exploration.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-26 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 3 - Talk 59:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-26 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 3 - Meditation 28:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-26 Closing Q&A 30:27
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Guided Forgiveness Meditation 27:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Forgiveness: Freeing the Heart 38:11
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Guided Meditation: Embodied Equanimity Practice 28:55
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Guided Equanimity Meditation 58:07
Oren Jay Sofer
includes Question & Answer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Equanimity: A Wise and Balanced Perspective 47:24
Oren Jay Sofer
Reflections on the Brahma Vihara of equanimity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-26 Guided Mindfulness Meditation 14:11
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 The Happiness of Abiding - Talk 57:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-25 The Happiness of Abiding - Meditation 27:59
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-25 Guided Meditation on Compassion (with Q&A) 65:30
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Equanimity is Conditional, Vancouver 46:03
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-25 The Power of Kindness and Compassion 38:23
Oren Jay Sofer
Reflections on compassion, its cultivation, strength, and potency as a source for resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Mindfulness with Breathing 30:36
Oren Jay Sofer
A short guided meditation on settling and connecting with the breath.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Question and Answer (Brahma Viharas) 30:51
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Guided Meditation - Joy and Gratitude 33:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Resilience through Joy and Gratitude 33:22
Oren Jay Sofer
Exploring the qualities of mudita (empathic / appreciative joy) and gratitude as sources of resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-25 Guided Meditation: Breathing through Compassion 34:04
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 I Free You from My Expectations, A Guided Meditation, Vancouver 21:08
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-24 Question and Answer: Metta 28:28
Oren Jay Sofer
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 Expansive Metta - Guided Practice 37:53
Oren Jay Sofer
Visualization of expansive, radiant lovingkindness in all directions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 Guided Metta-Good friend 36:12
Oren Jay Sofer
Guided loving-kindness meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 Reflections on Resilience and the Heart 29:49
Oren Jay Sofer
A Dharma reflection on the aspects of practice that bring resilience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 The Self, A Representation, Vancouver 53:58
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-24 Guided Metta Meditation (with Instructions) 62:14
Oren Jay Sofer
Lovingkindness practice with phrases for a mentor or benefactor
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 The Contemplative Path and Resilience 34:13
Oren Jay Sofer
Reflections on the Brahma Viharas in the contemplative path of Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-24 Guided Meditation - Settling and Arriving 18:14
Oren Jay Sofer
A brief guided meditation to settle and arrive.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Strengthening Resilience, Finding our Home

2018-03-23 Q&A 0:58
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-23 Closing Talk 49:47
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-22 "Personal and Collective Karma" 57:59
James Baraz
Karma, the unfolding situation of our individual lives, is often understood to be dependent on our actions. These are, in turn, based on the intention of our underlying mind state. But what about societal conditions—including prejudice and inequality—that affect people’s lives? Is there collective karma? If so, can we affect it?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-03-22 Insight Ways of Seeing -- Honoring Ven Nanananda 45:45
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-21 Things Are Not As They Appear 3: Contemplating Impermanence 62:42
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of our first two sessions on this theme, we explore the third of the five ways that things are not as they appear. We look into how we see permanence and solidity where in reality there is a lack of permanence and solidity, pointing to a number of practices that help us examine this theme.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-21 All These Selves I Seem to Be Stuck With, Montreal 53:23
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-21 The Noble Eightfold Path for the Whole of our Lives (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:18
John Martin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-21 Listening to God, Horses or Life , Montreal 29:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-21 Identity and Non-Self 45:25
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-21 Guided Meditation on Impermanence 40:14
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-21 Morning Instructions 44:25
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-20 L’écoute attentive révèle la nature fugace de nos perceptions, Montréal 59:17
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-20 Freedom from Views+ Individual & Systemic Views of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:51
Brian Lesage
This talk explores the skill of navigating views. It also offers some reflections on the individual and systemic views of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-20 L’attention aux sens et l’attention aux intentions, Montréal 41:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-20 Day 24: Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 45:45
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-20 Le Rock de Dawn, Méditation guidée, Montréal 22:16
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-20 Instructions et Meditation guidée, Montréal 29:05
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-20 Monday Night Dharma Talk: A discussion about teaching in nature, learning form nature, and the nature of emptiness. 62:10
Susie Harrington
Susie Harrington and Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-19 Not Self and Selfing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:03
Andrea Fella
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-19 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 2 - Talk 40:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-19 The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 2 - Meditation 29:15
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - The Engine of Awakening: Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration, and Wisdom

2018-03-19 Integrating the Path 52:11
Zohar Lavie
Dharma in Daily Life
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-19 The noble eightfold path: wise effort 55:31
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses the four great efforts and how to make a balanced effort in our spiritual practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-18 Questions and Responses (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:07
Susie Harrington
Questions and responses from the Question Bowl: Kamma, conditions, our basic goodness and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-18 Dependent Origination 60:46
Nathan Glyde
In celebration of DependentOrigination.org
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-18 The Art Of Losing Gracefully 45:37
Christina Feldman
Compassion in the face of loss.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-18 Understanding and Affirming The Five Precepts - Talk 37:25
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-18 Understanding and Affirming The Five Precepts - Meditation 36:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-18 Wise View 54:36
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Winter 2018

2018-03-17 Stores and Poems from the Therigatha (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 56:55
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-17 Metta Beyond Self and Other 61:04
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning closing 5:26
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts 14:47
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Talk 65:49
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - morning Guided Meditation 23:46
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon opening: Chants and Meditation Instructions 12:29
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon stories about standing up 18:07
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - afternoon Talk and Q&A 1:11:55
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-17 Morning Instructions 59:19
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-16 Opening Talk 52:05
Christina Feldman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-03-16 Italy Interview, Introductory Overview Talk 31:07
Stephen Snyder
This is an Interview conducted in Italy in March 2018, which provides an excellent overview of the teaching and work of Awakening Dharma, and Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder. A transcript of this talk is also available on Dharma seed with the same name.
Various :  Italy 2-week Luminous Mind Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Italy Interview, Introductory Overview (PDF)

2018-03-16 Italy Interview, Introductory Overview Talk 31:07
Tina Rasmussen
This is an Interview conducted in Italy in March 2018, which provides an excellent overview of the teaching and work of Awakening Dharma, and Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder. A transcript of this talk is also available on Dharma seed with the same name.
Various :  Italy 2-week Luminous Mind Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Italy Interview, Introductory Overview (PDF)

2018-03-16 The Six Sense Spheres & The Bahiya Sutta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:32
John Martin
The six sense spheres are the basis by which we experience the world. The Buddha provides a concise and liberating teaching in the Bahiya Sutta on these six sense spheres. The talk outlines the practice, the benefits and the power of this practice to free the heart from confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-16 Mind Not in a State 53:51
Nathan Glyde
The mutual dependencies in the arising mind moment. Then looking at skilful means in relation to the intellect and the arising and passing of both harmful and helpful thoughts.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-16 Right Speech 42:33
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge March 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-03-16 Freeing Our Consciousness (Friday) - Opening Talk 1:58:13
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-16 Freeing Our Concsciousness (Friday) - Opening Chants 1:58:13
Kittisaro, Thanissara
New York Insight Meditation Center Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-16 Day 20 Brahma Viharas (Retreat at Spirit rock) 41:10
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-15 Navigating a Sense of Lack in our Practice 46:59
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on how to navigate feelings of "not enough" and how they are connected to the Process of Becoming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-15 The Gap Between Attention and Distraction 58:52
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-15 Guided Meditation 30:31
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center

2018-03-15 Radiation Practice - Brahma Viharas 45:25
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-03-14 Timelessness in Rocks & Human Experiences, Montreal 62:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 Nothing is Hidden 1:13:46
Doug Phillips
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Meditation: Inhabiting Our Body, Realizing Wholeness 24:11
Tara Brach
Awakening awareness in the body is the portal to resting in boundless and dynamic presence. This guided practice scans the body from feet up, and helps us inhabit all parts of our body. As we open to the aliveness and space inside the body, we discover a permeability that allows us to inhabit the universe of aliveness and space, form and formlessness. With this homecoming to whole beingness is an intrinsic experience of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Awakening Our Body’s Awareness – Part 2 51:00
Tara Brach
Mindful awareness of our bodies is a portal to full aliveness, wisdom and love. These two classes will explore the trance that takes us away from our body, the pathways home, ways of working with pain, and the gifts of an embodied presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-03-14 Radical and Gradual 43:08
Nathan Glyde
How the path unfolds; radical shifts supporting our gradual development.
SanghaSeva Dharmalaya 2018

2018-03-14 Wise Action: Do No Harm 47:38
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2018-03-14 Freeing Life from Our Expectations, Montreal 29:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-14 On Retreating - Talk 51:23
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-14 Balancing effort and enjoyment 33:12
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the balance between effort and enjoyment, bringing awareness to some common biases in the practice and some ways to increase enjoyment (A talk given on-line to the Bellingham Insight Meditation Society, Washington)

2018-03-14 Things Are Not As They Appear 2: Examining the Personal and Collective Lenses of Perception 64:01
Donald Rothberg
We review some of the main themes covered in the first session on this theme, in the context of a series of talks on five ways that “things are not as they appear.” We first examine in more depth some ways that we see through the lens of the personal self. We then explore how we also see through the lens of our social conditioning, particularly focusing, on this morning when students are walking out of their schools and universities to point to the need to respond to gun violence, on ways that we don’t see, for various reasons, many of the roots of gun violence clearly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-03-14 Bring Daily Life Into Practice 59:33
Thanissara
Pathways to success. A metaphor for our times.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-03-13 La pierre, le temps et soi, Montréal 58:44
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Ne rien faire, un acte révolutionnaire, Montréal 28:18
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-03-13 Perception and Papanca (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:13
Andrea Fella
Exploring how delusion co-opts the process of perception
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-03-13 Equanimity 44:51
Oren Jay Sofer
The series on the Seven Awakening factors concludes with Oren J. Sofer’s talk on the quality of equanimity. Sofer tells us that this quality develops slowly among the other factors and is considered one of the highest attainments in Buddhist practice. The fore-taste of evenness and balance can be considered a glimpse into the mind of an awakened being.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Seven Factors of Awakening

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