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Dharma Talks
2017-05-07 Guided Meditation Instructions and Q&A 61:22
Mark Nunberg
Wisdom and love working together.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Wisdom and Love Working Together 60:30
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Workshop - Meditation as an Act of Love 3:40:03
Anushka Fernandopulle
When we develop meditation as loving awareness, we cultivate a beautiful way of living that supports wisdom and balance. We pay attention well to what we love and we learn to be present with a warm, open gaze for whatever shows up. This kind, gentle awareness brings mindfulness and metta (lovingkindness) practice together as one. Join us to explore meditation as an act of love
Common Ground Meditation Center

2017-05-06 Dhamma Talk: Wise Concentration 1:12:23
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-06 Guided Metta Meditation - Oneself, Benefactor Dear Friend, Neutral Person, Difficult Person 65:27
Kamala Masters
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Liberating the Heart 37:58
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-06 Awareness Of Please And Pain 63:52
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-06 Morning Reflection: Continuity of Practice 6:08
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-05 Seven Facets for Cultivating the Mind 34:27
Ayya Santacitta
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-05 Suffering and Its Causes 58:53
Deborah Ratner Helzer
The first and second noble truths: the three flavors of dukkha and the three varieties of craving.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-05 Loving the Stranger - Talk 52:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Anushka Fernandopulle leads Friday night Metta Practice Group at Common Ground Meditation Center.
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group
In collection: Loving the Stranger

2017-05-05 Loving the Stranger 1:23:43
Anushka Fernandopulle
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2017-05-05 Awareness as a Lifestyle (5 Spiritual Faculties) (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:48
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-05 Lecture 3 1:24:47
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 3 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-05-05 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 58:49
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-05 The Five Hindrances ~ a Template for Waking Up 29:15
Ayya Santacitta
SBMG Retreat at Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Knowing the Mind 42:19
Ayya Anandabodhi
SBMG Retreat, Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Five Spiritual FAculties 63:03
Kamala Masters
Understanding the balancing factors of practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Emptiness is Everything 65:46
James Baraz, Guy Armstrong
James introduces Guy Armstrong's dharma talk at IMCB.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-05-04 Suffering, Faith, and Refuge 60:46
Ruth King
This talk shares a personal journey of the dance between suffering and faith, and how the Bodhisattva path is cultivated by taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-04 Vedanā, Sañña, and Power of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:02
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-04 Dhamma Talk: The Heart's Release 1:10:23
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-04 The Three Protections: Transforming White Fragility and other Delusions 62:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-04 Understanding Metta - Breaking Down Barriers with Kindness 52:06
Michele McDonald
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-04 Guided Loving Kindness Practice 59:23
Deborah Ratner Helzer
Working with dear friends and neutral beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Instruction & Meditation: Tonglen - Radical Compassion 32:42
Tara Brach
We are conditioned to avoid suffering - our own and others. By pulling away, we also contract our heart and disconnect from our innate capacity for compassion. This short talk and meditation is a training in touching vulnerability, and discovering the boundless heartspace that can be a transformer of sorrows.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-04 Q and A May 2017 44:16
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-05-04 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Body 47:07
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation SBMG Retreat at Applegate, CA
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2017-05-04 Morning Instructions: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 62:15
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-04 Guided Meditation Instructions - day two 64:39
Mark Nunberg
Including Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-04 Morning Reflection: Brahmaviharas 14:53
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-03 Understanding The Path 59:09
Mark Nunberg
An introduction to the practice of mindful awareness and deepening experience of freedom that naturally unfolds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-03 Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part 2 63:55
Tara Brach
We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our experience. These two talks look at the emergence of the fear based “over-controller,” and explore a wise way of witnessing the suffering that comes with over-controlling, and awareness practices that naturally relax and awaken us to our whole and natural Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-03 The Living Dharma 53:44
Pamela Weiss
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-05-03 The Vipallassas: Individual and Community-level Distortion of View 51:19
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-03 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 3 64:38
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-03 Metta Guided Meditation 52:35
Kamala Masters
Oneself / easy person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-03 Deepening Daily Life Practice 3--Further Foundational Practices 63:58
Donald Rothberg
After a brief review of the first two sessions in this series, we explore three foundational practices for deepening daily life practice, first (1) grounding in awareness of the body, and (2) taking challenges (internal and external) as practice. We then explore experientially (3) a practice of stabilizing in mindfulness and then carrying out an activity with as much awareness as possible, then returning to mindfulness, then bringing awareness to another activity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-05-03 Morning Instructions: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness 62:43
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-03 First Morning Instructions 63:54
Kamala Masters
Wise view of how to practice with awareness, followed by instructions, awareness of the six sense doors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Sure Heart’s Release: Insight and Metta Retreat

2017-05-02 Let Our Hearts Not Forget 0:00
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-05-02 Impermanence 61:56
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Torments to be Known and Released (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:21
Steve Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-02 How Mindfulness Breaks the Spell of "I Am" 62:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-02 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 2 57:43
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-02 Forgiveness Practice 39:56
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat 9:44
Tara Brach
Instruction and Question-Response during Retreat (2017-05-02) - Topics include individualizing your meditation practice, working with the "tangles," forgiveness practice, and using the "nurturing" of RAIN.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-02 Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation: Vedanas 4:56:44
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-02 Morning Reflection: Balanced Effort 10:37
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-05-01 Emptiness: A Practical Introduction for Meditators (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 62:55
Guy Armstrong
Emptiness, one of the most important concepts in Buddhism, refers to fundamental understandings of our human condition, deep spiritual insight, and the radical experience of liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-05-01 Mindfulness and Right View (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:12
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2017-05-01 Sila and the Lawfulness of Progress 53:28
Bonnie Duran
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-05-01 The Seven Factors of Awakening - Part 1 60:23
Steven Smith
Hollyhock :  Metta Vipassana: Awareness as a Path to Liberation

2017-05-01 Instruction & Meditation: A Forgiving Heart 36:04
Tara Brach
A forgiving heart clears the way for giving and receiving love freely. This talk and meditation explores where we have become habituated in blame towards ourselves and others, and a classic three part reflection that can loosen and release the armoring around our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 AM Instruction and QA 11:48
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 AM Meditation and Instruction 29:09
Pat Coffey
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-05-01 Morning Instructions: Bringing Calm & Curiosity to the Exploration of Mind States & Emotions 60:09
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-04-30 Radical Compassion – Part 1 58:27
Tara Brach
Compassion is the medicine we most need as individuals and a species to heal suffering and free our spirits. The essence of compassion for ourselves and others – what I call Radical Compassion – has three key elements: it is an embodied experience (a felt sense of tenderness), it is inclusive all beings, and it naturally moves us to act from a caring heart. This two-part talk explores the alchemy of Radical Compassion and guides us in awakening this intrinsic expression of our evolutionary potential. A talk given on 4/30/2017 at the IMCW Spring Retreat
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-04-30 Dhamma Talk: Mindfulness Part 1 1:14:42
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-30 Can that be OK? Balancing Interest and Calm with Mindfulness 51:34
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight Fluid Heart, Creative Mind

2017-04-30 Devastation And Aliveness 40:09
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-30 Morning Reflection: Patience 9:25
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-29 Brief Reflection On The Relationship Of Dharma. With Q&A 60:16
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-29 Dhamma Talk: Samvega Spiritual Urgency 63:29
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-29 Bramaviharas and Meditation: Invoking Metta 34:10
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-04-29 Morning Reflection: How do you hold your practice? 9:50
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-29 Meditation: Know That You're Here 9:59
Tara Brach
Meditation: Know That You're Here, Right Here (2017-04-29) - Given the first morning of the 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat, this meditation guides you through a body scan, opens to sounds, then expands to the body as a field of sensation. With no closing bells, it can serve as a way to start a longer meditation sit, or to start your journey for the day.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2017 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2017-04-28 Wise relationship to practice 43:25
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-04-28 Opening Talk & Welcome, Refuges and Precepts 66:05
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage Spring Two-Week Hermitage Retreat with Marcia Rose

2017-04-28 Lecture 2 1:32:01
Bhikkhu Analayo
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled
Attached Files:
  • Nibbana - Lecture 2 by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2017-04-28 What Blocks True Happiness 46:23
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-28 Ending the Retreat and Re-entry in Daily Life 45:31
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-27 Mindfulness and the Four Noble Truths 41:00
Kim Allen
The four Satipatthanas can be mapped onto the four Noble Truths
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-04-27 The Paradox of Solitude 65:26
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-27 Sangha as Refuge - EBMC POC Sangha 1:19:27
Mushim Ikeda
Sangha as Refuge - EBMC POC Sangha
East Bay Meditation Center

2017-04-26 Relaxing the Over-Controller – Part I 51:49
Tara Brach
We all have conditioning to do what we can to protect and promote our wellbeing. Our suffering arises to the degree that our life and identity become organized around controlling our experience. These two talks look at the emergence of the fear based “over-controller,” and explore a wise way of witnessing the suffering that comes with over-controlling, and awareness practices that naturally relax and awaken us to our whole and natural Being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-04-26 Becoming Human. 50:00
Rebecca Bradshaw
Explores connection and resistance, owning and not owning experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-26 Meditation: The Center of Now 16:19
Tara Brach
This meditation awakens our senses and then guides us to rest in the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, we are invited to relax back into full living presence, into that Beingness that is the center of now.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-04-26 Receiving Metta 39:20
Jessica Morey
An overview of the metta practice with instructions on receiving metta from benefactors and then offering metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-04-26 Deepening Daily Life Practice 2--Developing a Broad Sense of Practice 66:14
Donald Rothberg
We continue to explore a number of ways to deepen practice, here particularly focusing on having a broad view of practice, that includes formal meditation, but brings in many dimensions of practice, some traditional, some more contemporary. We explore evolutionary perspectives on the nature of contemporary practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-04-25 Une écoute animale 55:11
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-04-25 Instructions et méditation guidées 33:52
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-04-25 Emptiness and Not Self (Anatta) 54:03
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-25 Emptiness and Solitude 48:42
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-25 Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion - Week 7 1:29:06
Mark Nunberg
Note: Week 6 not recorded due to technical difficulties
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness and Compassion

2017-04-25 Awareness Of Sound - Not Picking And Choosing 41:16
Nathan Glyde
Utilising the impermanent and fabricated nature of sound to deepen our listening to all phenomena of experience.
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-25 A Walk On The Wild Side 40:08
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-25 Noticing Absence 22:26
Kim Allen
Insight Santa Cruz

2017-04-24 Intro to Questioning and Background 55:19
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-24 The Tender Heart of Life and Death (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 2:07:13
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Meditation and Dharma talk with Jack Kornfield and Frank Ostaseski
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-04-24 The Nature Of Mind: Intrinsically empty, Naturally radiant, Ceaselessly responsive 57:29
Joseph Goldstein
An exploration of emptiness, awareness and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-04-24 Mind Shapes Experience 50:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-23 The Art of Solitude 63:38
Stephen Batchelor
Gaia House Son Retreat

2017-04-23 Understanding the Steps for Daily Practice 2:54:13
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-04-23 Undying Love 41:34
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-23 Finding Our True Home 38:46
Jose Reissig
The problem with our habitual search for our home is that we restrict it to the outer world, bypassing our inner being.
Rhinebeck Sitting Group :  Rhinebeck Sitting Group

2017-04-22 A Wise Person Is Know By Their Actions 61:32
Carol Wilson
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness & Wisdom

2017-04-22 Look But With Love 50:24
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Himalayan Yatra

2017-04-22 Eyes Of The World: Guided Meditation 46:05
Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness & Wisdom

2017-04-21 Q&A - Day five 56:54
Alexis Santos
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness & Wisdom

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