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Dharma Talks
2019-04-24 Meditation: Awakening Our Energy Body 19:49
Tara Brach
This meditation scans the body and directly invites the awakening of key energy centers (chakras) in our body. We then rest in the openhearted awareness that includes this ever changing creative flow of aliveness. We close with a prayer of loving kindness. "No matter how often the mind drifts, all that really matters is the quality of heart in the way you come back… to come back with interest and friendliness to this moment, then you plant those seeds for whatever else arises."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-24 Equanimity: A Heart That is Ready for Anything (Duck Meditation) 50:28
Tara Brach
Equanimity is the quality of presence that is open, balanced and non-reactive. As this talk explores, when equanimity is lacking, we become easily lost in trance, identified as a defended and controlling egoic self. When present, the solidity and constriction of egoic self dissolves, and our heart is free to respond to life with love, compassion, forgiveness and joy. Note: this talk is a favorite from the 2014 archives and includes the “Duck Meditation” and bricklayer stories.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-24 Not this, Not That: The Path of the Middle Way - Meditation 35:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-04-23 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:32
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-04-21 Insight practice through a systematic and cultural lens: talk and experiential practice 48:51
Erin Selover
Insight Meditation, also known as Vipassana Meditation, is the 2,600-year-old practice of cultivating wise presence by bringing a caring, curious, and discerning attention to what is happening moment-to-moment. Conditioned to go after what we want and avoid what we don’t want, we often act from habit and reactivity instead of our deeper held values and beliefs. With mindful presence, we can learn to cut through habitual reactivity and access innate states of well-being, creativity, courage, and liberating personal and collective insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-04-19 Morning Session: What Obscures the Clarity of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:13:41
Brian Lesage
This talk utilizes "The Four Faults of Natural Awareness" by Niguma to support the practice of awareness. It also offers a guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring Awareness: Advanced Practitioner Program II

2019-04-19 Our True Inheritance: Guided Meditation 18:40
Ayya Medhanandi
We keep searching for happiness through travel, surfing the internet, shopping, and other worldly ways – but does it ever last? Supreme happiness arises right here in the heart. When we are present and patient beyond measure, we are stronger than we know. This groundbreaking inner seeing is free of devices – and free of vices. Pure, wise clarity and conscious awareness disentangle and unburden the mind of fear, obsession, all distractions, and at last, all suffering! This is the key to our self-made prison of beliefs, thoughts and opinions. We wake up to our true inheritance – the liberating Truth of what we are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Heart of Wisdom: Monastic Retreat

2019-04-19 Guided Meditation - Equanimity 15:11
Jill Shepherd
Working with a sticky person.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-18 Guided Meditation 31:27
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2019-04-18 Guided Meditation - Mudita 27:57
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-17 Meditation: Sea of Loving Presence 22:14
Tara Brach
In this meditation we begin with the image and felt sense of a smile to arouse an atmosphere of care, and allow that caring presence to fill our body and the entire field of awareness. We then open to the changing experience of breath, sensations, feelings, sound and thoughts. By resting in a wakeful and open heartspace, we can include all the passing waves with ease and tenderness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2019-04-17 Instructions and Guided Meditation 26:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-04-17 Making a Case for Love - Meditation 32:18
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-04-17 Guided Meditation - Compassion 12:31
Jill Shepherd
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-16 Instructions et méditation guidée 29:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2019-04-16 Guided Meditation: Concentration 55:59
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage 2019 Spring Hermitage Retreat

2019-04-16 Guided Meditation - Metta 25:06
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-16 Afternoon Instructions - Metta 13:15
DaRa Williams
Discussion of loving-kindness and preparation for guided meditation.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-16 Satipatthanapraxis, Teil 1 - Körper 44:32
Renate Seifarth
Nach einer kurzen Erklärung wie und wo sich die Vipassana Meditation enwickelt hat folgt eine Erklärung, was Achtsamkeit ist und wie sie mit dem Körper praktiziert wird. Was sind die Merkmale von Achtsamkeit? Was ergibt sich daraus? Welche Einsichten werden möglich? Was verbirgt sich hinter der Täuschung?
Waldhaus am Laacher See :  Vipassana, Metta und sanftes Yoga

2019-04-15 Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart - Week 4 - Meditation 28:20
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding the Wholesome and Unwholesome Roots in our Heart

2019-04-14 Freedom as Love - (Evening Session) - Meditation 32:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-04-14 Guided Meditation on Anchors 18:25
DaRa Williams
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-14 Freedom as Love - (Morning Session) - Meditation 34:22
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2019-04-14 Intentions 34:53
Jill Shepherd
Renunciation, sati and samadhi. Includes a body scan guided meditation.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-12 Guided meditation 10:36
Jean Esther
True North Insight Relating to Ourselves and Others with the Heart of a Buddha

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