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2017-01-05 04 Meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in two ways 28:33
Jill Shepherd
Two ways of working with mindfulness of the breath: to settle the mind and/or refine awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 03 Instructions: Mindfulness of breathing 13:59
Jill Shepherd
Some definitions of mindfulness, and two ways of working with mindfulness of breathing: for calm and concentration, or to refine mindfulness and clarity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Morning Reflection 49:14
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Staying Present 43:48
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 02 Instructions: Brief overview of insight practice 3:58
Jill Shepherd
A very brief introduction to the practice and purpose of insight meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Opening Night Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:54
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-04 01 Talk: Retreat opening - refuges and precepts, metta 28:32
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating supports for the retreat container: taking the refuges and precepts, and developing an attitude of kind curiosity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Returning to Simplicity 38:48
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith 32:49
George Mumford
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness 1:12:05
Tara Brach
The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at our habitual pursuit of substitutes to feel happy, and reflects on how we awaken through each true refuge. The talk ends with a living ritual anyone can participate in that helps us remember these refuges as we move through our lives.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-04 Grasping and Identification (upādāna) 69:59
Akincano Marc Weber
Where the heart gets stuck. From the metaphor to its 4 specific applications.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 New Year's Resolutions: Progress not Perfection 1:23:14
Shelly Graf
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-01-04 Being Appropriate & Setting Intention 42:23
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Acceptance 51:12
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 The Limits of Concepts -the complete class 1:27:39
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation On Foregivness 40:14
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Anicca Way of Looking ( Impermanence ) 51:20
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Does Real Change of Mind Happen? How? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:04:01
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Limits of Mind and the Limitless 28:54
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Morning instructions and reflections. 51:49
Catherine McGee
Deepening and opening to investigate Citta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation: Energy and Embodiment 35:37
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided meditation on energy, breath and embodiment
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 Q&A: Zigzagging along the Trails of Experience 58:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Metta/ divine abidings; verbal phrasing vs. felt sense; skilful humour; contact and the resulting chain; creative activity of the mind
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 The Completeness of Maps 55:57
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-03 Reflections and Guided Meditation 38:36
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections on the four universal forms of empathy (brahmavihāra) and a brief guided mediation on muditā
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-03 The Wound that Seeks the Arrow 57:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto explores the unskilful tendency to create an "I am" with reference to mental programs (sankharas), despite the unwholesome effect that this identification creates. We can learn to release the process between perception and activation so these programs no longer have a place to stand
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-03 Morning Instructions 51:06
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-03 Resting as Awareness 41:22
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-02 Embracing our aliveness. 65:22
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Monday Night Meditation 1:52:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-01-02 Practicing for the New Year 2017 47:40
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia
Given the conflicts, wars, and divisiveness over the past year, many people ask, “How do we practice with all of this?” Taraniya offers reflections on opening to difficulty, making practical adjustments in our lives to support inner balance, and increasing our capacity to manage mindstates through understanding and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge January 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-01-02 Guided Stretched Awareness of Body Breath Energy 42:31
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Q&A: Taking Responsibility for our Practice 59:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on sexual energy and fantasies; resistance to pain; feelings, memory and perception; planning and mental rehearsing / fantasizing
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-02 Ways of Looking 51:14
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Day 2 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Short and Subtle Breath 50:40
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-02 Guided metta meditation 45:58
Catherine McGee
Abiding and pervading with attention to abiding "in" and "as" the bigger body of earth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 A Head with No Body 57:43
Ajahn Sucitto
How to loosen the grip of the hindrances; realizing that we have a natural energetic body, and how seeing the body as an energy system can support our understanding of the Dhamma
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-02 On the role of hedonic tone (vedanā) in meditation. 47:16
Akincano Marc Weber
Reflections and an exercise.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-02 Guided Meditation on Compassion 43:21
Ayya Anandabodhi
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Transforming Conventional Tendencies into Supports for Awakening 39:26
Ayya Santacitta
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 The Dharma is What Holds This Teapot Together 60:51
Pamela Weiss
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-01-01 Preamble: A look at the causes for sleepiness. Main Theme: Saddhā – trust in the context of the 5 Cardinal virtues (pañcindriyāni) 59:04
Akincano Marc Weber
Identifying intellectual, volitional, emotional and social dimensions of trust. Balancing the virtues.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 The Beauty of Connection 53:17
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2017-01-01 A Heart that Has Breadth & Depth 51:26
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2017-01-01 Stopping the Spider on Amphetamines 64:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Releasing ourselves from our habitual tendencies of compulsion, of having to do, and creating a resting place for the mind to pause
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-01 Getting Skilful with Thinking 55:18
Nathan Glyde
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-01 Guided meditation on the full awareness of the breathing body 41:23
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 Reflection on Three Kinds of Thirst and Meditation on Three Kinds of Feeling 26:14
Ayya Anandabodhi
Reflection & Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Breath Awareness; Long and Deep Breath 50:13
Zohar Lavie
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-01 Learning How to Operate at 5 Decibels 54:25
Ajahn Sucitto
An explanation of hindrances and how they are conditioned by sense contact but amplified to fantastic proportions by shared social contact, “from 5 to 50 decibels”
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2017-01-01 Awareness of Thoughts, Instructions and Guided Meditation 1:35:12
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2017-01-01 New Year's Day Morning Reflection 9:11
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-01 Morning Instructions 53:26
Catherine McGee
Mindfulness Of Body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-01 Guided Meditation: Letting Go of the Meditator 47:57
Ajahn Sucitto
How to maintain the meditation; in Ajahn Sucitto’s words, “meditation is easy – it’s the meditator that complicates everything”. File has been edited for audio quality.
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 Greetings to the Natural World ~ Words Before All Else 10:49
Ayya Santacitta
Words of Giving Thanks from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Nation of Upstate New York and Canada
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-31 New Year's Eve Talk 46:03
Ayya Anandabodhi
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-31 Letting Go - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:18
Eugene Cash
The primary dynamic that leads to freedom is letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-12-31 Abiding as and in and through body 60:41
Catherine McGee
What supports us to have the courage to abide more thoroughly and for our body to plump out with affectionate attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-31 Opening Our Hearts in Challenging Times 65:32
Hugh Byrne
As we bring loving awareness to our all that is arising in our bodies, hearts, and minds, there is a natural falling away of the illusion of separation - of ‘us’ and ‘them’ - and the cultivation of a wise and compassionate heart. With our hearts open to the suffering of the world, the Bodhisattva path of commitment to healing suffering, division and separation provides us with a vision of engaged action in the world in these difficult times.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Die große Stille 47:10
Renate Seifarth
Nibbana, Befreiung ist das Ziel der Praxis. Was ist Nibbana? Buddha beschrieb das Ziel des Weges als das Aufgeben von Anhaften. Wenn Haften und Reaktivität erlöschen, wir innerlich loslassen und eintauchen in ein offenes Dasein, können wir eine tiefe Stille erleben. Oft übersehen wir die Stille, weil wir auf etwas anderes warten, einen Bigbang, etwas Außergewöhnliches. Nibbana können wir aber hier und jetzt erfahren, in den Momenten, in denen unsere Reaktivität erlischt und eine lebenige, offene Stille sich in uns ausbreitet, in der alles sein darf wie es ist.
West Germany :  Neujahreskurs 2016/17

2016-12-31 The Five Recollections 52:50
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2016-12-31 Mistaken Identity 54:05
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-31 Meditation in 4 Postures 41:59
Nathan Glyde
Exploring Meditation in all 4 Postures in the first meditation of the Somnath retreat.
SanghaSeva Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2016-12-31 Q&A: A Pearl of Hatred and the Phantom of Perception 56:40
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on anger and revenge for past hurts; wholesome grieving; resistance to letting go of unskilful behaviours
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 The Mind Knowing the Mind 12:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-31 Metta - Breathing - Abiding 39:38
Akincano Marc Weber
Experiential guided metta
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-31 Heart Meditation: Awakening Loving Presence 35:33
Tara Brach
We each have an intrinsic capacity for loving presence, and there are powerful ways of paying attention that bring this potential alive. This meditation uses the image and felt sense of a smile to bring a relaxed receptivity to the body. We then engage with our future self (our Being when our heart is fully awake) and explore what it means to embody the fullness of that wisdom and love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Morning Meditation Instruction 5:49
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 2nd morning instructions 56:35
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-31 Morning Meditation 32:54
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-31 Second Morning Instructions - Body Breathing 45:39
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-31 Mindfulness and Experiencing a Living Being 58:29
Ajahn Sucitto
A truly excellent exploration of mindfulness, what it’s about, and how to get our minds around it
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-31 Maranasati ~ Contemplation of Death 38:40
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-30 Evening Chant - Om Tare 8:00
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-30 Intensity, Clinging and Anatta in the teen years (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:09
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2016-12-30 Courage and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:26
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-12-30 Meditation and Letting Go 53:08
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on renunciation and letting go as a foundation for deepening meditation practice and wellbeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-30 Evening Dharma 57:12
Anam Thubten
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-30 It Depends How You See It 51:31
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House New Year Retreat

2016-12-30 Dharma practice in difficult times. 45:57
Caroline Jones
Our world is facing great challenges. This talk explores some of the ways our meditation practice and spiritual friendships can help us meet these.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge December 10 to 31 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-30 Forgiveness: on a teen retreat 29:53
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Teen Retreat

2016-12-30 End of Retreat Questions and Answers 58:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Transforming the Mind and Healing the Heart: 24th Annual Non-Residential Year-End

2016-12-30 Benevolent Space, Guided Meditation 57:51
Pascal Auclair
Benevolent Space, Guided Meditation
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-30 Q & A: Parami; Luang Por Chah; the Busy Mind 62:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions from the retreatants on various subjects, including patience, determination, and peace
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-30 What is an Insight? 17:21
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-30 Questions and Answers 31:06
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-30 How to Train an Elephant 55:23
Ajahn Sucitto
How to encourage the mind, dropping our need to know what happens next and our expectation of never being good enough; how to generate good will and how to breathe.
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-30 Morning Meditation Instructions with Question/Response 12:02
Tara Brach
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-30 1st morning instructions and guided meditation 40:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight 2016 New Year's Retreat

2016-12-30 It Is Possible 21:31
Ayya Santacitta
Reflection on Right Effort
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-30 Meditation: A Liberating Awareness - Embodying Full Presence 30:08
Tara Brach
This meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises in a kind, clear presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-30 Kayanupassana - Body Posture 1:43:24
Akincano Marc Weber
The body as support for contemplation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-30 A Skilful Use of Puja 34:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Explanation of the devotional element of chanting and its uplifting quality, bringing forth reflection and stopping inner chatter
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-29 Goodbye 2016, Hello 2017: Reflecting on What We've Learned and Where We're Heading 59:14
James Baraz
As we leave 2016 and open to 2017, how can we learn and grow from what's past and set ourselves in the right direction as we face an uncertain future? This talk includes recent Spirit Rock's Statement of Values: Spiritual Sanctuary and Refuge and the teacher meeting out of which it came. James reflects on his recent Huffington Post article "Holding Hands Together: From Helplessness to Empowerment." Finally, there is a ritual for letting go of the past and creating a wise intention for the future.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-29 Opening Talk 1:23:40
Yanai Postelnik
Reflections on renunciation and letting go as a foundation for deepening practice and well-being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-29 Opening Talk - Edited 51:10
Yanai Postelnik
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-29 No Mud No Lotus 46:10
Ayya Santacitta
Working with the Five Hindrances
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-29 Getting at the Mind and Into the Body 55:49
Ajahn Sucitto
Developing skilful intentions and letting go of self-creating and self-judgment
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-29 This Sensitive Life - And some practice reminders (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:34
Alexis Santos
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-12-29 The Path of Peace 55:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Transforming the Mind and Healing the Heart: 24th Annual Non-Residential Year-End

2016-12-29 Establishing the Ground 57:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Putting thoughts, goals and ideas into perspective; dropping into the body
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

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