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2020-12-08 Guided Meditation – Responsive Intelligence 25:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is a process repeatedly placing attention. Keep touching references of comfort and steadiness, listen and linger until citta picks up the sign. We begin to learn what is suitable, what is working to gladden citta. It then has the strength to break down the afflictions of heart and body.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-08 Guided Meditation On Primary Citta 31:51
Ajahn Sucitto
The baseline of citta is openness, but it’s forgotten, mesmerized by its constrictions. Return to this primary citta, beneath the external and internal concerns. Take as support breathing out and breathing in.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-08 Guided Meditation – Opening out of Circumstance 24:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation offers an important reference point out of the world of circumstances. Mindfulness of body and breathing offer rest and replenishment, giving citta access to its life force energy. Ends with walking meditation instructions.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-07 Guided Meditation – Intentional Aspect of Citta 29:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning with citta’s ability to intend and attend, steer away from distractions and compulsions. Establish mindfulness (sati ) using body as a mooring post. Guidance around breathing and body follow.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-07 Guided Meditation – Centring and Stabillizing Citta 39:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is our center, but it’s conditioned to allowing itself to be occupied with transient phenomena. In meditation we can shift back to citta as the center, thereby weakening the habits of running out and trying to control circumstances.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-06 The Fork Story & Other Meal Reflections 25:58
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | San Francisco Insight
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-06 Reach Out a Gentle Hand to Your Mind 27:55
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation | San Francisco Insight
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-12-06 Guided Meditation – Training the Mind with Light Touch and Listening 25:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is energetic, its energies habituated to going out. Settle and calm it through the body, and sustain attention with light touch and listening, vitaka-vicara. Listen for a long time to what you place your attention on. Mind becomes calm and receptive.
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-12-05 Cultivating Calm and Alive Awareness 1:14:07
Nathan Glyde
A guided meditation and talk exploring a way of practice developed from and inspired by Rob Burbea's Counting Within the Breath (see Practicing the Jhanas retreat) to steady the mind & heart, develop a whole body sensitivity, brighten awareness, and overcome the common hindrances to feeling free.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Dec 2020

2020-12-04 Introductory Teachings and Guided Meditation 56:29
Laura Bridgman
Gaia House Waking Up Everywhere

2020-12-03 Like a Walk to the Park 1:24:40
Dhammadīpā
A guided meditation and Dhamma talk hosted by the West Seattle Sangha, Eastside Insight Sangha, and Seattle Friends of the Dhamma. The talk is on the role of desire on the Path and supports for maintaining the practice over time
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-27 Guided Meditation – Thinking with Heart 15:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation is about opening up to the subjective aspect of our experience – the sense of knowing. Practice with placing attention on something very lightly, then listening with heart. Without force, without judgment, just aware of the sensations, emotion, energies, mental patterns. The quality of knowing gives rise to a tremendous immediate clarity.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-11-21 Settling the Activated Heart: Guided Meditation 31:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-11-21 Guided Meditation – Opening to the Cosmos 10:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja celebrates that there’s something in awareness more than just this ‘self’ thing. We can open to something bigger, experience a wider sense of being. Keep lifting and placing attention back into the Dhamma stream – that which touches and opens the heart.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-11-16 Developing Our Capacity to the Fullest 41:42
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Berkeley Buddhist Monastery)

2020-11-15 Just Because It Is 46:19
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-14 Guided Meditation – Opening body, opening heart 12:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Jhāna is an embodiment practice. Absorbing and settling deeply into presence, use awareness to encourage opening each part of the body. Enriched energy and heart can then begin to digest the events of the day and release them.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-11-13 Guided Sit on Vedana 37:19
Kate Munding
Bringing mindfulness to the tone of experience (Guided Meditation)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding True Refuge in Uncertain Times with Anushka Fernandopulle, Chas DiCapua, Kate Munding, Jozen Tamori Gibson and Dawn Scott

2020-11-11 Settling In Meditation 42:34
Kate Munding
First day of retreat instructions. Grounding the attention in the body (Guided Meditation)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding True Refuge in Uncertain Times with Anushka Fernandopulle, Chas DiCapua, Kate Munding, Jozen Tamori Gibson and Dawn Scott

2020-11-08 The Coming Together of the Coolness of Wisdom with the Inclusiveness of Love - Guided Meditation 33:02
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-11-07 Grounded in Skin, Flesh and Bones 17:17
Dhammadīpā
A guided meditation on the earth element, part of a day of retreat online, hosted by Red Clay Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-07 Guided Meditation – Faith as the Basis of Meditation 15:58
Ajahn Sucitto
We enter meditation with a sense of faith, that there’s something beneficial that can be derived just by coming into the present moment. Witnessing, aware of, not in it, not rejecting it – a firmness of presence builds up. The initiation is faith, the consummation is wisdom.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-11-07 Expansive Six Sense Fields 54:51
Dhammadīpā
A guided meditation on the six sense bases, part of a day of retreatonline, hosted by Red Clay Sangha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-11-06 Contemplation On Balance and Non-Harming - Guided Meditation 25:19
Mark Nunberg, Shelly Graf
Day 1 of a 2-day online retreat
Common Ground Meditation Center Valuing Calm, Clarity, and Non-Harming During Times of Intensity

2020-10-30 Mettā to the Whole World 40:59
Nathan Glyde
Guided mettā meditation where we are really feeling the feeling behind the phrases. Offering unconditional kindness: to someone from an easy relationship; to more neutral relationships; even towards slightly more difficult ones; or to ourselves; and then out to all of life and the whole world.
SanghaSeva Befriending Ourselves, Befriending the World

2020-10-26 08 instructions and guided walking meditation 10:55
Jill Shepherd
Short instructions and guided walking meditation, for the whole group walking in a circle together
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-25 Guided Meditation - Widening the Heart 26:14
Ajahn Sucitto
Instructions for sustaining a wide, soft awareness that includes it all. Aware of the background, aware of the details, the stillness, the movement – let things be as they are. Let citta learn from its own fluidity.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-24 Guided Meditation – Open Body, Open Heart 29:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance for moving from the anatomical body to sensing into the energy body. Switch off what isn’t needed, step attention back and listen. As one opens the body, one opens the heart. This is the basis for wisdom.
Teach na Tuisceana :  Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)

2020-10-22 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:20
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-21 Guided Meditation 36:52
Leela Sarti
Breathing with kindness, sensing the original goodness of the heart.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 Reflections and Guided Meditation 41:21
Yanai Postelnik
Asking for and offering forgiveness, for ways that we may have caused harm, or have been harmed by others.
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-20 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 41:49
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-19 Reflections, Instructions and Guided Meditation 34:50
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 Guided Meditation 41:56
Leela Sarti
Gaia House Embodying the Awakened Heart

2020-10-18 08 meditation: vedana or feeling-tones 17:38
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation exploring physical sensations in the body and the feeling-tones associated with them
Auckland Insight Meditation Cultivating resilience in challenging times: Learning from the "heavenly messengers"

2020-10-12 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 20:26
Jill Shepherd
A short guided meditation for beginners, starting with mindfulness of the body sitting and breathing
Auckland Insight Meditation Introduction to Insight Meditation

2020-10-11 Guided Meditation - Letting Go of Mental Complexities 35:14
Ajahn Sucitto
After setting up the posture, allow the breathing. Let it educate your mindfulness. Step out of the anatomy of body and into the energy body. Steadily wiping out the visual impression, just feel what you feel.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Suffusing Goodwill 23:12
Ajahn Sucitto
One transformative insight that arises from practice is the way you develop and store up goodness is by sharing it. The untrained mind thinks it’s by storing it up. Guidance is provided generate qualities of heart and extend them across a wide span.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Guided Meditation – Breathing and Body 30:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Guidance for establishing a suitable posture and attitude for meditation. Sustain attention on breathing – a moving sign is easier to stay with than a static sign. Use it along with supportive heart energy to help blocked places to unfreeze and dissolve.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Hebrew - Spacious Awareness 56:12
Zohar Lavie
Hebrew Guided Meditation and Meditation Instruction
SanghaSeva

2020-10-10 Guided Standing Meditation – Grounding through Standing 23:24
Ajahn Sucitto
Hindrances take us away from ground. Groundedness is an absolute requirement for skillful cultivation. Standing posture gives access to feet touching the ground to create a firm and steady foundation.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-10 Welcome, advice on online retreats, guided meditation 20:05
Ajahn Sucitto
With a heartful attitude, set aside what is not necessary and make a continued deliberate practice around your Dhamma aspirations. Tuning into embodiment with interest and sensitivity, we can locate the missing piece, where harmonization of the mental and somatic domains occurs.
London Insight Meditation Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-08 Guided Reflection & Meditation: Grief & Compassion 30:54
Matthew Brensilver
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-08 "The Three Groupings Meditation for Deeper Understanding of the Paramis” 51:04
Phillip Moffitt
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-06 Metta Practice 39:39
Tuere Sala
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-06 Guided Meditation: Feelings and their elaborations 54:09
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-05 Morning Instructions - Embrace the moment with stillness and listen 49:11
Tuere Sala
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-04 "The Arriving Meditation” for establishing mindfulness and presence 57:46
Phillip Moffitt
Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-10-03 Guided Meditation: Settling into the Body 40:14
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Fall Insight Meditation Retreat with Phillip Moffitt, MA, SEP; Matthew Brensilver, PhD; Tuere Sala and Dawn Scott

2020-09-30 Relaxing Body, Releasing Push-Pull - Online Dharma Hall 62:13
Nathan Glyde
Guided meditation and reflection on easing tension, demand, and Dukkha
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sept 2020

2020-09-27 Morning chanting and guided meditation 1:17:03
Ayya Santussika
AM of Directing the Mind, Cooling the Heart daylong
Portland Friends of the Dhamma

2020-09-27 Guided Meditation from the Closing Session of retreat. 23:08
Kirsten Kratz
Guided meditation on choosing the practice that serves us right now.
Gaia House The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-26 Tuning into Mettā 43:35
Nathan Glyde
Guided Mettā Meditation - offering an easeful relationship, more neutral beings (the inbetweeners), and the image of oneself then expanding to all beings.
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-25 Afternoon Practice 35:43
Kirsten Kratz
Guided Meditation: A meditative contemplation to support lessening the sense of self.
Gaia House The Poetry of Self, The Poetry of Not Self

2020-09-24 Samādhi Surfing 45:34
Nathan Glyde
1st guided meditation of the retreat, steadying into the present experience of body-heart-mind unification. Riding the wave of the present moment in intimate connection with breath & body sensations or sounds near and far.
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-23 Meeting Strong Emotions 58:17
Kate Johnson
Dharmette & Guided meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center No Part Left Out: A Meditation Retreat for Self-Identified Womxn

2020-09-22 Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections 57:01
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-21 Evening guided meditation & reflections 58:58
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-21 Morning instructions and guided meditation with Andrea 61:20
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-20 Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections 41:06
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-20 Allowing Impermanence and Uncertainty to Transform the Heart - Guided Meditation 35:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-09-20 Guided Meditation on the Sense of I 17:02
Ajahn Sucitto
The sense of ‘I’ is crucial for understanding citta. Guidance is provided to access the direct experience of body, then tune into the fundamental sensitivity and receptivity of citta.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-09-19 Evening Guided Meditation and Reflections 56:39
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-19 Morning instructions and guided meditation 58:03
Andrea Fella
Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland Andrea Fella online retreat

2020-09-17 Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:35
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: MBCT / MBSR Foundations

2020-09-16 Instructions and Guided Meditation 46:32
Chris Cullen
Metta Practice - the Neutral and the Difficult Person
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: MBCT / MBSR Foundations

2020-09-16 Instructions and Guided Meditation 41:08
Christina Feldman
This recording also includes Chris Cullen, who offers guidance on the practice of walking meditation.
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: MBCT / MBSR Foundations

2020-09-15 Instructions and Guided Meditation 50:37
Chris Cullen
Metta Practice - Introduction and the Categories of Oneself and Benefactor
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: MBCT / MBSR Foundations

2020-09-15 Instructions and Guided Meditation 43:04
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: MBCT / MBSR Foundations

2020-09-13 Aligning with Change - Guided Meditation 35:11
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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

2020-09-07 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

2020-09-06 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

2020-09-02 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 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

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

2020-08-28 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

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

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

2020-08-25 Morning Teachings, Guided Meditation, Q&A 1:28:03
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Living Fearlessly

2020-08-23 Guided Meditation -- Breath and the Awakening Factors 15:31
Kim Allen
Using the breath to evoke all 7 awakening factors through the 16 steps of anapanasati.
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-08-22 Guided Meditation -- Gathering the Mind 20:44
Kim Allen
Establishing samadhi using the breath
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-08-20 Instructions and Guided Meditation 45:56
Gavin Milne
The doorway of vedana (feeling tone).
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-19 Guided Meditation 31:21
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-19 Instructions and Guided Meditation 40:50
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-18 Guided Meditation 30:01
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-18 Instructions and Guided Meditation 49:21
Gavin Milne
Becoming intimate with this moment, using the body and breathing.
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-17 Guided Meditation 29:32
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-17 Buddhist Studies - The Eightfold Path: The Buddha's Path of Awakening, Week 7 - Meditation 32:18
Mark Nunberg
Chant followed by guided meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: The Eightfold Path

2020-08-17 Guided Meditation 21:47
Gavin Milne
Gaia House Coming to Life

2020-08-16 Guided Meditation – The Process of Centering 12:28
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we try to establish a clear center from which to look at the various inputs and outputs happening in the mind. This process of centering is done through direct experience of body. The wholeness of body gives rise to a simple, centering effect.
Cittaviveka At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

2020-08-12 Meditation: Cultivating an Intimate Presence 24:24
Tara Brach
This guided meditation cultivates a relaxed, gentle presence with whatever expressions of life are arising in the moment. We begin by releasing and opening through the body, and then include all sensations, feelings and sounds in an intimate, allowing presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-08-08 Buddhanusati Guided Meditation 31:10
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-08-08 Buddhanusati Guided Meditation 31:10
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2020-08-05 Guided Meditation: Openhearted Presence 21:57
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2020-08-05 Guided Meditation Opening the Metta And Samadhi Retreat 43:20
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Mettā and Samādhi

2020-07-25 Receiving Blessings 25:11
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Sacramento Insight Meditation

2020-07-25 07 guided meditation: mudita or appreciative joy 16:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by tuning in to well-being in the body, opening to appreciation of what's going well in our own lives, then mudita for what's going well for others
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment

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