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2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 29:37
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-11 The Peace Beyond 41:30
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-09 It's Already Here - Meditation 32:48
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-08 Meditation Vacation| Ayya Santussikā 52:48
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on 8th of March , 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-03-08 Feeling Tone: Cracking the Code on Patterns of Suffering (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:19
Anushka Fernandopulle
Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-07 Instructions and Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Thought 59:08
Tempel Smith
5 mins for chanting refuges and precepts, then a careful guided meditation on mindfulness of thought. We create a base of being mindful with the breath and body to allow us some perspective on thought as a direct stream of phenomena.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-06 Introduction to the Brahmaviharas 2 (Mettā) 1:37:41
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-03-06 Short Reflections; Unguided Meditation 35:33
Jaya Rudgard
Metta, Samadhi, and the perception of anatta, are all in service of letting go.
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-05 Down to Earth Dharma: Insight Meditation to Awaken the Heart 37:04
Rebecca Bradshaw
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2025-03-05 Drawing Capacity from the Depth of Our Being 49:28
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-03-04 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 2 - Meditation 32:37
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-04 Guided Meditation - Meditating into Joy and Calm 40:31
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-02 Meeting The Body With Loving Attention 30:30
Jean Esther
This is a Guided body scan meditation infused with metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Infusing Mindfulness Practice with the Spirit of Inquiry - 25MG

2025-03-02 Simple Practice Instructions, Part 1 - Meditation 29:46
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-03-02 Finding Your Anchor in Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:38
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided practice of tuning into mindfulness of the body with breath as a possible anchor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-03-01 Guided Meditation - Softening, Opening & Attending to Experience 44:51
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Radical Freedom, Wise Response

2025-03-01 Meditation Instructions - Ageing 59:09
Nathan Glyde
The first of the recollections: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember that ageing is part of life; I am of the nature to grow old.
Gaia House Letting In

2025-03-01 23 instructions and meditation: Opening to the heart qualities of the brahmavihāra 54:16
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-28 Opening Meditation: Letting In, Letting Be, Letting Go 35:57
Nathan Glyde
Supporting the container for our exploration.
Gaia House Letting In

2025-02-28 20 instructions and meditation: Opening to gladness 42:46
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 Introduction to Brahmaviharas 1 (Mettā) 1:32:17
Sari Markkanen
Guided Meditation; Instructions; Talk
Gaia House Brahmaviharas : Beautiful Qualities of Heart and Mind (online course)

2025-02-27 18 instructions and meditation: Finding the loveliness of the breath 41:08
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-27 17 instructions and meditation: Releasing grasping 45:38
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 15 instructions and meditation: Bringing awareness to mental activity, including thoughts, emotions and mind-states 36:04
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 14 instructions and meditation: Exploring citta, heart-mind 55:21
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-26 Freeing the Heart from Enmity: Metta for the Difficult 60:33
Oren Jay Sofer
Instructions and guided meditation on how to practice metta for those with whom we have conflict, difficulty, or struggle.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-25 Basic Practice Instructions - Meditation 31:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-25 12 instructions and meditation: Feeling-tones or vedanā 32:48
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-25 11 instructions and meditation: Exploring the presence (and absence) of the hindrances 46:40
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 09 meditation: Opening to sound 39:01
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-24 Guided Equanimity Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:22
JD Doyle
An overview of equanimity and then guided meditation using phrases as support.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-24 08 instructions and meditation: Practising with right intention 48:01
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 06 instructions and meditation: Coming into embodiment as an antidote to mental proliferation 41:38
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-23 Guest Teacher Talk with Chas DiCapua: Creating A Suitable Home For The Heart 1:32:56
Chas DiCapua
Common Ground offers all programs freely in the spirit of generosity. If you'd like to volunteer or donate to support the teacher(s) and the center, visit https://commongroundmeditation.org/about/supporting-the-center/.
Common Ground Meditation Center

2025-02-23 The Practice of Wisdom and Awareness - Meditation 28:14
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

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

2025-02-23 Morning Instructions: Metta Practice + Guided Meditation for Benefactor 59:58
Oren Jay Sofer
This talk introduces formal instructions for metta practice in the traditional form of phrases and categories. After sharing about the spirit and principles behind the practice, we engage in a guided meditation first receiving metta from a benefactor, then offering metta to a benefactor, and finally offering metta to oneself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Lovingkindness Retreat – 25MOS

2025-02-23 Connect and Soothe Your Parts during Difficult Times 26:48
Amita Schmidt
This is a meditation will help you connect, regulate, repair, and soothe parts of yourself during difficult times. It includes principles from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Metta (lovingkindness).
Clintonville Sangha Ohio

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

2025-02-22 Une présence dépouillée des constructions habituelles 60:58
Pascal Auclair
Enseignement, méditation guidée et philosophie et instructions sur la méditation marchée
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana Une nouvelle vision

2025-02-21 02 meditation: Settling and steadying through the sense doors 17:54
Willa Thaniya Reid
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Nine-day retreat: The heart’s release - Cultivating the spiritual faculties

2025-02-21 Ideas for Self Guided Practice; Guided Meditation - Radiant Goodwill (Metta) 39:58
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening in Motion and Stillness

2025-02-19 Posture Ideas; Guided Meditation - Breath, Energy & Exploration 50:28
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Awakening in Motion and Stillness

2025-02-18 Trusting our Practice - Meditation 31:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-18 Meditation Instructions - Everyday is a Good Day 8:24
Brian Lesage
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-17 Understanding Impermanence, Week 6 of 6 - Meditation 28:45
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-02-16 An Appropriate Response 44:22
Pamela Weiss
In an old Zen story, a student comes to see his beloved teacher who is on his death bed and asks: Tell me, what is the teaching of your entire lifetime? And the teacher replies: An appropriate response. Tonight's talk will explore what it means to respond appropriately to a world on fire. To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2025-02-15 Se simplifier la vie 60:05
Pascal Auclair
Enseignement et méditation guidée
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti Retraite Genève 2025

2025-02-14 Mettā Meditation in the Context of the Buddha’s Teaching 1:21:43
Ariya B. Baumann
What is meditation? Two main approaches of meditation: vipassanā & samatha
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 11th Annual Metta Retreat 2025 - Part 2

2025-02-13 talk: Foundations of the Path 1 - Generosity / dāna 30:49
Jill Shepherd
Beginning the year by refreshing the foundations of our practice, starting with a brief overview of what insight meditation is, then exploring how generosity supports this path to freedom all along the way
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2025

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

2025-02-11 Equanimity with Sense Experience - Meditation 32:32
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-11 Guided Meditation - Mettā - Uncontracted Non-Clinging 42:09
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House An Open Path

2025-02-10 Understanding Impermanence, Week 5 of 6 - Meditation 30:45
Mark Nunberg
This guided meditation centers on the nine contemplations of death.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-02-10 Guided Meditation : Mettā to Sensations 42:17
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House An Open Path

2025-02-09 Responding to Reality with Heart: Compassion and Equanimity 35:31
Eugene Cash
The world suffers. But most people have their eyes and ears closed. They do not see the unbroken stream of tears flowing through life; they do not hear the cry of distress continually pervading the world. Bound by selfishness, their hearts turn stiff and narrow... It is compassion that removes the heavy bar, opens the door to freedom and makes the narrow heart as wide as the world. ~Nyanaponika Thera To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2025-02-09 Understanding the Experience of Sensuality - Week 2 of 2 - Meditation 32:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-09 Teachings on Second and Third Foundations of Mindfulness 58:55
Devon Hase
Short talk followed by a guided meditation on working with vedana in the mind. How to practice with thoughts and their machinations in the third foundation of mindfulness from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-08 Stay in your boat 31:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Retreat is an occasion in which to repair, reset. In terms of life and meditation practice. In this process, mindfulness is accompanied by atapi - ardour, keeping things fresh - and various forms of clear comprehension (sampajano): to sense what is appropriate and fitting. Through referring to what arises in terms of objects one cultivates comprehension of purpose: to know objects as they are, and not self. This is comprehension in terms of non-delusion. There is also comprehension in terms of context (gocara), both internal and. external. This cultivation brings stillness in the midst of conditions, and if we keep this going results build up. Through sustaining clear comprehension one realizes an openness that is stable, alert and all-encompassing
Cittaviveka

2025-02-08 East Bay Dhamma - Dhammapada Verses 9 to 20 1:46:57
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on February 8, 2025 for East Bay Dhamma 00:00 - MEDITATION 14:08 - DHAMMA TALK & Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-02-07 Guided Meditation : Breath Energy 46:15
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House An Open Path

2025-02-05 Guided Meditation: Exploring Some Further Ways We Construct Experience 35:51
Donald Rothberg
We start with basic instructions in developing (1) concentration and stability, and (2) mindfulness, and then practice developing these two qualities. With mindfulness practice, we notice the main patterns of thoughts, emotions, and bodily experience. In the second half of the session, we work with being aware of the feeling-tone (linked with the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), noticing moderate (or somewhat greater) pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, and what occurs after we notice them. We also attend for a short period of two minutes to the moment-to-moment feeling tones of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, and then go back to basic mindfulness practice for the last part of the session.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-05 Instructions on Noting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:18
Devon Hase
A brief overview of noting practice as done using sounds, body, or breath as our primary anchor. Description of how to use perception (sañña) as the proximate cause for a moment of mindfulness to arise, followed by a silent 30 min meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-03 Understanding Impermanence, Week 4 of 6 - Meditation 28:16
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-02-02 Reflections on the 4 Traditional Elements; Guided Meditation on the Elements. 59:52
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online weekend retreat)

2025-02-02 Understanding the Experience of Sensuality - Meditation 30:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-02-02 Morning instructions, hindrances and vedana 64:54
JoAnna Hardy
Short talk and 30 min. guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-02-01 Guided Meditation 38:22
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House Returning to the Heart

2025-02-01 Daylong Part 2: Who's Content in this World? | Ayya Santussikā 1:12:07
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on February 1, 2025. 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 30:21 - DHAMMA TALK with Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-02-01 Reflections on Kindness as Part of Mindfulness Practice; Guided Meditation : Breathing In and Out Compassion. 58:00
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online weekend retreat)

2025-02-01 Instructions 37:18
Yanai Postelnik
This recording also includes walking meditation instructions with Mat Schencks.
Gaia House Returning to the Heart

2025-02-01 Daylong Retreat part 1: Contentment on a Scale from 1 to 10 | Ayya Santussikā 35:04
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on February 1, 2025.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2025-02-01 Embodying Peace Part 1 2:17:59
Andrea Castillo, Dawn Neal
The First Four Principles ~Settling Sit ~Teachings on Individualism and Community ~Teachings on the Six Principles of Cordiality ~Guided Meditation (Bio break- not recorded) ~Lightly Guided Meditation: Generosity and Metta ~Teachings on Metta (Lovingkindness) ~Teachings on Generosity ~Lightly Guided Meditation (Ritual - not recorded)
Insight Santa Cruz Embodying Peace: A Daylong Retreat on the 6 Principles of Cordiality

2025-01-29 We Belong to a Rich & Robust Lineage 50:00
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-01-28 Questions and Answers - Meditation 30:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-27 Guided Meditation on the Four Tasks (noble truths). 21:41
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online series)

2025-01-27 Understanding Impermanence, Week 3 of 6 - Meditation 30:41
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Talk 39:56
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Meditation 27:48
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-25 The Timeless Ground and the Practice of Opening to it; Walking Meditation Instructions 1:16:19
Gavin Milne
Introduction and Instructions
Gaia House Opening to the Timeless Ground - Meditation Day

2025-01-23 The Four Elements Meditation 51:11
Tina Rasmussen
Luminous Mind Sangha

2025-01-22 We Are Not Without Medicine! 50:49
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-01-21 Relating Wisely to the Unwholesome Qualities of Mind - Meditation 31:30
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-20 Understanding Impermanence, Week 2 of 6 - Meditation 28:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-01-19 Reflections on Last 3 Limbs of Awakening; Meditation 41:01
Christina Feldman
Gaia House The Seven Treasures (online teaching day)

2025-01-19 Meditation; Continued Reflections on 5 Limbs of Awakening 44:04
Christina Feldman
Gaia House The Seven Treasures (online teaching day)

2025-01-19 Reflections on Viriya, Short Meditation 58:40
Christina Feldman
Gaia House The Seven Treasures (online teaching day)

2025-01-19 Introduction, Reflections on the 5 Limbs of Awakening; Meditation 60:22
Christina Feldman
Gaia House The Seven Treasures (online teaching day)

2025-01-18 Guided Meditation2, Receptive Enquiry (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma) 45:20
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma

2025-01-18 Guided Meditation 1: Recollection of the Dhamma: Sanditthiko (Uncontrived Half-Day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma) 43:48
Kim Allen
Uncontrived Uncontrived Half-day Retreat – Dwelling in the Dhamma

2025-01-18 Befriending Death: Compassion Meditation 25:40
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Befriending Death: Mindfulness of Dying as a Path to Awakening with Meg Brandeland and Mark Nunberg

2025-01-18 Befriending Death: Introduction and Meditation 13:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Befriending Death: Mindfulness of Dying as a Path to Awakening with Meg Brandeland and Mark Nunberg

2025-01-15 How to Meet These Times? 53:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Aloka Earth Room

2025-01-15 How concentration works in a nutshell 11:04:01
Christiane Wolf
15 min talk, then mostly silent meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-14 Opening to the Underlying Nature of Experience - Meditation 32:34
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-14 Morning Instructions Day 4 - Introducing the Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:01
Gullu Singh
In this guided meditation we expand the sphere of Mettā from Self, Benefactor and Friend to also include the neutral person. This is the person you do not know well or have any strong feeling for or against. The ancient texts describe this as the one that is neither loved nor unloved.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2025-01-13 Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Feeling Tones. 25:17
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online series)

2025-01-13 Understanding Impermanence - Week 1 of 6 - Meditation 23:03
Mark Nunberg
UNDERSTANDING IMPERMANENCE with Mark Nunberg This six-week course will explore the Buddha’s teachings on impermanence, the first of the three characteristics that are said to mark all of existence. Sensing deeply the changing and insubstantial nature of all conditioned experience liberates the heart from its entrenched habits of attachment. Participants will be expected to use the teachings as a focus of their daily practice. This ongoing program is designed to deepen our understanding through the study and application of the teachings of the Buddha.
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies: Understanding Impermanence

2025-01-13 Guided Meditation: Radiating Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 37:19
Donald Rothberg
We start with naming two general contexts for metta practice: (1) metta is practiced along with the other three brahmavihara—compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity—and when mature integrates the other three; and (2) there are different ways of practicing metta. We then look at another main way of practicing, likely the way that the Buddha practiced—radiating metta. After a brief overview, we practice radiating metta first through a guided spatial expansion of radiating metta, from one’s own heart to the infinite expanse. Then we practice briefly a simple way of just letting metta radiate. After practice, there is discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mettā Retreat: Teachings and Practices to Cultivate a Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2025-01-13 Morning Instructions: Third Foundation of the Mind 60:59
Jeanne Corrigal
Brief instructions on working with thoughts, emotions, and mind states followed by a guided meditation on the 7 Factors of Awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

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