2020-06-21 Kamma Matters 46:38
Dhammadīpā	Download Listen
This is a talk on karma, the 5 precepts, right speech, Black Lives Matter, and the #MeToo movement.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2020-04-03 Refuges and Precepts 54:05
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
(five minutes of silence initially)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  Forest Refuge April Retreat Online

2020-04-02 Evening Lockdown Meditation 59:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Starts with Taking Refuges and Precepts and a contemplation. Ends with practices of Compassion, Joy and Goodwill (Metta)
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2020-03-05 Day 5 Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 62:17
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
With Refuges and Precepts
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  March Monthlong

2020-02-18 Meaning and Use of Refuges and Precepts 19:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The end of retreat brings the occasion to recollect our good actions and results. This is both in terms of what we do and what we refrain from. We also take the opportunity to align to refuges and precepts as a reminder to stay awake.
Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa :  Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat

2020-02-13 Hold the Heart Steady against the Push of Ill-Will 43:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The general mode is to change the outside world to please the heart, but this can never satisfy. We practice instead to change the heart, to make it strong enough to withstand the push of ill-will. Refuges include the Triple Gem, brahmavihāras, mindfulness of body and precepts.
Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa :  Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat

2020-02-12 Firm Center Open Heart 42:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On this retreat, practices for establishing a firm center and open heart will be presented. Openness can be too vulnerable, we need to know what to filter and what to linger in. Precepts offer a firm center of integrity. The body can be a source of steady and calm. We bring to heart and mind that which is beautiful and aspirational to shift agitated energies. These are our refuges.
Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa :  Ajahn Sucitto, Firm Centre Open Heart Retreat

2020-02-09 Refuges, Precepts and Reflections 61:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We can establish Firm Centre Open Heart as a core way of being. Refuges and precepts offer support as we train to remain awake and attentive outside of retreat. Vows of virtue and morality, when held with firm flexibility, allow wholesome qualities to be transmitted through the open heart.
Dharmagiri :  Firm Center, Open Heart

2020-02-04 Precepts –Fundamental Principles for Purification 37:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The heart has tremendous potential for good or bad. We practice to clean up unfortunate effects that get established on it. Principles of respect, restraint and compassion are not only foundations for heart cultivation, but offerings to the world.
Dharmagiri :  Firm Center, Open Heart

2020-02-02 Understanding the Five Precepts - Meditation 31:15
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2020-01-30 talk: taking refuges and precepts 31:56
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Some reflections on taking the three refuges and five ethical precepts, as a way of aligning with our deeper intentions for the New Year
Auckland Insight Meditation

2019-12-13 Sīla – A Vehicle for Happiness 33:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
When we make the intention to keep the precepts, we give ourselves the possibility to steer our own lives rather than being swept up in it. The basic principle is not fear and law but sensitivity and concern. We have the intention to live in an atmosphere of goodwill and respect for all sentient beings.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-10 Make the First Effort of the Day with Wisdom and Persistence 16:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Take the opportunity when you begin your day to turn away from unskillful states and start putting down the seeds for skillful states. Committing to precepts and recollecting Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha bring mental firmness. Breathing and chanting bring physical vitality and brightness. This builds up the reserves of wisdom and vitality to sustain you through the day.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-12-07 Preparing the Heart and Mind for Practice 63:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
An explanation of the opening rituals: what offering respect to the Triple Gem means; what the shrine offerings represent; how the precepts support our intention to train. Closes with the exhortation to make an effort with friendliness.
Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand :  6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2019-10-02 The Five Great Gifts 50:21
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Beginning s month-long retreat. Aligning with refuge. The five great gifts of undertaking the five precepts. Not being in a hurry.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-08-24 03 talk: sila or ethical conduct as an aspect of generosity 41:51
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of the five training precepts in their positive and negative expressions, and how the commitment to ethical conduct is a form of generosity to oneself and others
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Freedom Here and Now

2019-06-20 First Day Morning Instructions, Precepts and Taking Refuge 59:25
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  People of Color Retreat

2019-03-10 Refuges and Precepts 26:27
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  The Middle Way: Seeing Clearly, Relating Wisely, and Releasing the Heart

2019-02-27 Chanting - Refuges and Precepts 3:09
Tuere Sala	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awareness, Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2019-02-02 Opening Evening for Forest Refuge Wise Concentration Retreat 1:13:34
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Welcome, Introductions, Winnie and Marcia: opening remarks/short Dharma talk, Winnie: Refuges and Precepts discussion and offering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  February 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 Dhamma Talks 07 - Taking the Precepts with Deeper Understanding pt 2 36:19
Ajahn Achalo	Download Listen
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-10-25 The Precepts and Skillfulness 48:16
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Is all of Buddhist ethics contained in the Precepts? Probably not.
Insight Santa Cruz

2018-10-13 Delusion is Not the Way Out 32:50
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How can we have compassion for others without falling apart? The Buddha's path of awakening teaches us how to disarm our internal armour, to be harmless. This will be for us a true basis for following precepts and thereby developing enough inner quiet to investigate ill-will. We begin to clearly see and understand our mind-states. This full presence enables compassion that is tireless and unconditional.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2018-08-03 01 talk: retreat opening 19:54
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Retreat opening talk, with an overview of the practice and supports for our inner journey, including commitment to non-harming through taking the five ethical precepts
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-07-14 01 Precepts: Something You Can Always Do 15:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
You can’t always “do” pleasant mindstates or an easeful body. Precepts are always available to enact as a way of practice.
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Madison Vipassana Retreat: A Detox for the Heart

2018-06-25 01 Heart Offerings 33:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The occasion for retreat gives opportunity to establish a field of integrity and make heart offerings by taking precepts, chanting, making offerings to the shrine, and bowing.
Insight Retreat Center :  Dhamma-fields Dhamma-nature

2018-05-21 Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals —Part II 56:53
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-05-16 Opening Talk 53:15
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Welcome, orienting to retreat, taking refuge and precepts as a support to practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-14 Entering the Stream: Attachment to Rites and Rituals — Part I 51:29
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk is about sīlabbataparāmāsa—a subtle clinging to rites, rituals, precepts, and practices. We train in order to see and overcome this heady attachment to our practices (dāna, sīla, bhāvanā, mettā bhāvanā).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  May 2018 at IMS- Forest Refuge

2018-05-11 Refuge in the Precepts Chanting 45:42
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Retreat with DaRa Williams

2018-05-04 Opening Talk, Refuges & Precepts 40:48
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Opening Reflections on Speech and Relational Dharma(with Bart van Melik), Refuges and Precepts
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-04-13 Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:30
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Further reflections on being an animal body and mind. Reflections on precepts, compassion and the fellowship of suffering. You are not alone, no matter what your trouble.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Insight and Awakening

2018-03-28 Wise Action Engaging With The Precepts 52:06
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2018-03-18 Understanding and Affirming The Five Precepts - Talk 37:25
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-18 Understanding and Affirming The Five Precepts - Meditation 36:13
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2018-03-17 Freeing Our Consciousness (Saturday) - Refuges and Precepts 14:47
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Freeing Our Consciousness

2018-03-06 Opening Talk: The Eight Great Gifts 1:12:06
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Refuges, precepts, an overview of retreat and the blessing chant.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred: A Journey of Healing and Reconnection Through Insight Meditation

2018-02-25 Intro Sasanarakkha: Make your practice extensive, rather than intensive 62:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The essence of Buddhist practice is dealing with dukkha, unsatisfactoriness. While on retreat, observing precepts, making determinations and simplicity support our cultivation. So there’s always something you can be cultivating throughout the day. Meditation is just a support to Dhamma, Dhamma is the main thing. Cover it all. [40:36 Guided meditation] Settling practices, settling into space. Begins with feeling ground beneath, upright axis of spine, using wide visual field as a support.
Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary :  Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat

2017-12-27 Meditation: The Five Precepts 7:43
Kaira Jewel Lingo	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2017 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2017-12-22 Respect to the Shrine and 8 Precepts 13:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Phu Tara Faa :  December 2017 Retreat

2017-12-17 Refuges and Precepts 1:16:42
Mark Nunberg	Listen to tracks Show 3 Tracks
Common Ground Meditation Center
Intro to Divine Abodes Chant 3:27 Download Listen Divine Abodes Chant and Guided Meditation 28:58 Download Listen Talk - Refuges and Precepts 44:16 Download Listen

2017-10-24 Welcoming Talk - Refuges and Precepts - Practice Comments 56:33
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This is the opening talk for a six week practice period at Insight Meditation Scoiety
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2017-10-21 Foundations of Peace - Day 1 - Intro/Precepts 35:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Foundations of Peace

2017-10-02 Power Of The Precepts 1:10:49
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Eight streams of blessing and supports for samadhi. Discussion of vitakka/vicara.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  October 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-07-18 Taking Refuge 7:47
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Five precepts and taking refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat

2017-05-23 Refuges & Precepts & Introduction to Chanting Them 50:55
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on one way of understanding the refuges and precepts. It also introduces the practice of chanting the refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Essential Teachings on the Path of Awakening

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

2017-04-15 Protection skill and strength - Refuges and Precepts 54:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Refuges and precepts offer the practice of Protecting our Dharma-hearts.They are then a source of inner wealth, friendship and an asset for meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2017-04-07 Chanting Refuges & Precepts (Call and Response) 6:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center :  Awareness, Insight & Liberation

2017-04-02 Guided Meditation - Becoming a Refuge unto Yourself 48:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We take refuge, but we also become a refuge. The degree to which we can cultivate value, precepts and restraint, we gain an increasing sense of authority to stand against the outward pull of thought and sense desire. This strength or determination can be felt in the body. Tap into the imaginal to sense its depth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies :  BCBS The Gradual Path: The Step-by-Step Way to Awakening