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Dharma Talks
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2025-02-28 Intro to Lovingkindness class 2 63:28
Dawn Neal
Homework for this class is: Daily meditation: 15-20 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced. --At least 2/3 metta for easy being/benefactor & self. (start with easy being if it’s helpful). --Up to 1/3 mindfulness (or end with a bit of mindfulness). --If it gets challenging, return to where it’s easy. 2. Micro-practice: Stop, notice, appreciate, kindness/positive regard for self or others: Appreciation, gratitude, or inspiration as a form of mindfulness. If you don’t notice in daily life, recall/write down a few in the evening. Due to a recording error, the second mini lecture was not recorded. The topic was the Buddhist and Scientific rationales for cultivating lovingkindness for oneself. The scientific study referenced is entitled "Open Hearts Build Lives," by Barbara Fredrickson, et al. https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=-0XLchUAAAAJ&citation_for_view=-0XLchUAAAAJ:geHnlv5EZngC
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-02-23 As the Hollow Reed Becomes a Flute 28:31
Ayya Medhanandi
There is a transcendent Reality – inaccessible to the thought world – but to be known with right mindfulness and its accompanying powers of mind, patiently developed and polished day by day. These skills we learn provide tremendous traction to cultivate the mind, like gardeners watering the seeds of awakening. At the root of this uplifting spiritual training is the fundamental premise of our mortality. But are you ready to sit at the altar of the sublime and to have your illusions shattered? Like the hollow reed that becomes a flute, empty yourself of fear and be the pure love you seek.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2025-02-23 05 meditation: Mindfulness of the body and physical sensations 30:33
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-22 03 meditation: Arriving more fully here 36:29
Jill Shepherd
Settling in to the body sitting, breathing, balancing the overall energy through the rhythm of breathing in and out Closing with short instructions for maintaining continuity of mindfulness
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-20 Intro to Lovingkindness class 1 1:11:39
Dawn Neal
Week One Homework: 1. Daily meditation: 15-20 minutes per day if new, normal amount if experienced. 2/3 appreciating & offering, 1/3 mindfulness (if you have practiced mindfulness) 2. Micro-practices: notice/recall feeling or offering kindness. Notice kindness between others.
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mettā (lovingkindness) meditation

2025-02-18 Third foundation: Mind/Heart States 49:54
Rebecca Bradshaw
Talk on the third foundation of mindfulness
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT

2025-02-17 Body: First establishment of mindfulness 48:24
Chas DiCapua
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective TCVC FEBRUARY 2025 RETREAT

2025-02-12 Guided Meditation: Exploring Feeling-Tone and Reactivity 0:00
Donald Rothberg
(Recording not available) 
After guidance in developing concentration and mindfulness, we practice in silence. Then there is guidance related to mindfulness of the feeling-tone (the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), particularly the pleasant or the unpleasant (and whether there is reactivity, grasping after the pleasant and pushing away in some way the unpleasant), related to the theme of the talk given after the meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-12 Mindfulness of Strong Emotions 58:57
Devon Hase
Instructions and guided practice on meditating with strong emotions - light RAIN with somatic experiencing using orienting, titrating, and pendulating.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-11 The Hindrances and Mindfulness 47:27
Deborah Ratner Helzer
There is tremendous power in being mindful in the midst of the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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