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Dharma Talks
2022-03-18 Sīla, Mettā meditation, Q+A 1:22:34
Bhante Sujato
From Harris Park. Sīla - a life in the Dhamma as foundation for meditation. Mettā meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Q+A: gratitude as an aspect of mudita. The role of mettā when dealing with trauma.
Lokanta Vihara

2022-03-17 Sharing the Happiness of Others (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:31
Winnie Nazarko
We can train the mind to recognize and rejoice in the happiness of others, experiencing happiness ourselves. But to be able to do this, we need to confront human tendencies to compare ourselves to others, and sometimes strong resistance. This talk discusses the beautiful quality of Mudita (Empathetic Joy), and how we can develop it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center March Insight Meditation One Month Retreat

2022-02-15 Mudita Practice 48:27
James Baraz
Mudita for a friend who is having great happiness, self, benefactor, and neutral categories
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1 Month Retreat

2022-02-02 Week 4 - Guided Meditation 47:14
Kirsten Kratz
Aspects of Mudita
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-02-02 Week4 - Exploring Appreciative Joy - Mudita 1:35:41
Kirsten Kratz
Instructions and Meditation
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-30 Guided Mudita Meditation 43:39
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Lingering in Happiness

2022-01-18 14 instructions: muditā 8:10
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to muditā as a support for skilful qualities of heart and mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-08 Appreciative Joy - Mudita: An Introduction and Guided Meditation 36:10
Brian Lesage
Mountain Hermitage Samadhi and Insight Online Meditation Retreat

2022-01-07 Guided Mudita, Appreciative Joy Practice 53:18
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2022-01-07 Guided Mudita, Appreciative Joy Discussion 27:47
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Monthly Lovingkindness Practice Group

2022-01-06 32 meditation: mudita as appreciation for outer conditions and inner qualities 29:13
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by acknowledging what we can appreciate about the outer conditions of being on retreat, then orienting to the skilful inner qualities that have been strengthened, specifically the seven factors of awakening
Sydney Insight Meditators :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-01-06 31 instructions: mudita p2 6:57
Jill Shepherd
As the retreat comes to a close, noticing the tendency for the mind to go into future thinking, and come back to abiding in the skilful qualities that have been developed here, specifically mudita as a form of appreciation or gratitude
Sydney Insight Meditators :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2021-11-19 Mudita - Appreciative Joy 45:44
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2021

2021-11-18 Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 27:43
Caroline Jones
Using mindfulness as a basis for the cultivation of meta (loving kindness0, karuna (compassion), and mudita (appreciation)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 2021

2021-10-18 Muditā or gladness as a support for samādhi, unification of mind 24:10
Jill Shepherd
Part two of an exploration of samādhi, unification of mind, and how opening to gladness can support deeper calm and ease
Sydney Insight Meditators

2021-10-18 Monday Night Dharma Talk - Mudita and Uppekha (Joy and Equanimity) 60:21
Sally Armstrong
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-10-09 Brahmaviharā Mantra Chant 2:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Mettā, karuṇā, muditā, upekkhā...
Chicago Theosophical Society :  Brahmavihara Workshop

2021-07-15 talk: Wise Effort p2 - cultivating skilful mind-states 18:43
Jill Shepherd
Exploring appreciation and gratitude as aspects of mudita, to support the development of Wise Effort
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-07-11 Mudita practice 46:19
Sally Armstrong
The practice of Mudita or Appreciative Joy cultivates an open and joyful heart that naturally inclines towards connecting with what is uplifting and beautiful in others and in our own lives. It works to counteract the subtle or not-so-subtle tendency towards envy, which tells us that we are deficient in some way.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center "July Lovingkindness Retreat" with Tempel Smith, Bonnie Duran, MPH, DrPH, John Martin, Sally Armstrong, Marcy Reynolds and Kristina Baré, MFT, SEP

2021-06-07 Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro 42:31
Zohar Lavie
Muditā meditation
Gaia House Meeting Uncertainty with Wisdom and Courage: Perennial Teachings for a Changing World

2021-05-30 01 meditation: cultivating mudita as a foundation for the day's practice 15:25
Jill Shepherd
orienting to appreciation and gratitude as a foundation for this day of celebration
Auckland Insight Meditation one-day celebration of Vesak and the Auckland Insight community

2021-04-21 short meditation orienting to mudita, appreciation and gratitude 15:01
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation

2021-04-12 Joy (Mudita) 58:36
Jack Kornfield
"Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate. Live in joy, in health, even among the afflicted. Live in joy, in peace, even among the troubled. Look within, be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of the way." —The Buddha (Dhp 197-200, Byrom) From suffering, greed, hatred, and fear we can shift our whole identity and find well-being, release, & freedom. This is possible for us and those around us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-04-12 Meditation: Joy (Mudita) | Monday Night 29:23
Jack Kornfield
Let yourself think of someone you care about. Picture them, remember them, see them in your mind's eye or hold them in your heart. Imagine their happiest moment as a child. Then begin to wish them well: "May you be joyful. May you remember that child of spirit that was born in you. May your joy increase. May the causes for happiness and joy grow stronger in your life." Then imagine this person wishing the same for you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-04-12 Q and A: Joy (Mudita) | Monday Night talk 18:52
Jack Kornfield
Q and A from 04-12-2021 Monday Night
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2021-04-02 Mudita as appreciative joy and altruistic joy in our daily life. 41:06
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Gaia House Spring Gathering - Celebrating Sangha

2021-04-02 Joy as the Path of Practice and its Fruition 47:00
Jessica Morey
Day 2: This talk explores the many kinds joy and happiness found within the Buddha's teachings of awakening and offers ways to nurture these. Cultivating gladness, happiness, piti and joy within our own heart-minds is a valuable support for the deepening of mudita, sympathetic joy.
Insight Meditation Retreats Steadying the Heart

2021-03-19 Continuing with Mudita Practice, Introducing Equanimity (Upekkha) Practice 62:42
Donald Rothberg
First, we consider further some of the qualities of mudita, how joy is central to the teachings of the Buddha, how the cultivation of joy is crucial for being able to address difficulties and painful situations, how joy can be understood as a deep expression of our fundamental nature, and how joy can be present even in the midst of difficulties. Then we explore the nature of equanimity, pointing to several of the qualities of equanimity, including balance, evenness, unshakability, undetstanding and wisdom, warmth, and responsiveness. We also examine some of the typical distortions of equanimity and importance of the interconnection of the four brahmavihara as one to avoid such distractions.
InsightLA :  Cultivating the Wise Heart on the Cushion and in the World: Practicing Mindfulness and the “Divine Abodes” (Lovingkindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity)

2021-03-18 Embracing Strong Emotions and Practices to Grow our Joy 64:36
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with a 5-step process for caring for strong emotions and then look at ways to cultivate and strengthen the Brahmavihara of mudita or joy, also in relation to working with jealousy.
InsightLA :  Cultivating the Wise Heart on the Cushion and in the World: Practicing Mindfulness and the “Divine Abodes” (Lovingkindness, Compassion, Joy, Equanimity)

2021-03-17 32 talk: working with afflictive thought patterns 52:01
Jill Shepherd
Looking at common afflictive thought patterns such as lack mind and comparing mind, using the wisdom of anicca dukkha anatta to help them release, and the practice of mudita, appreciative joy, to help prevent them from re-arising
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Finding the heart of freedom

2021-02-28 16 meditation: mudita for a good friend 17:55
Jill Shepherd
Insight San Diego :  Coming home to the heart: A Brahmavihara retreat

2021-02-28 15 talk: mudita / appreciative joy 29:28
Jill Shepherd
Insight San Diego :  Coming home to the heart: A Brahmavihara retreat

2021-02-26 Muditā and Samādhi 46:37
Nathan Glyde
Exploring a central place for joy on the path of release from dukkha
Tovana Insight Meditation Lingering in Happiness

2021-02-26 Muditā Guided Meditation 43:01
Nathan Glyde
Tovana Insight Meditation Lingering in Happiness

2021-02-25 מודיטה; דרך הסתכלות שמגמישה ופותחת את התודעה ומחברת אותנו לאפשרויות ללא גבול 47:12
Zohar Lavie
Mudita talk in Hebrew
Tovana Insight Meditation Lingering in Happiness

2021-02-25 הנחיות ותרגול מונחה מודיטה - שמחה מפרגנת 39:32
Zohar Lavie
Mudita guided in Hebrew
Tovana Insight Meditation Lingering in Happiness

2021-02-24 Opening to Lingering in Happiness 46:56
Nathan Glyde
Meditation as the cultivation of wellbeing, or attuning to or supporting the coming into being of pleasure. Muditā as a way of relating well with appreciation and joy. And enriching and absorbing into harmony and happiness in samādhi.
Tovana Insight Meditation Lingering in Happiness

2021-02-21 Mudita - The Joyful Heart 50:41
Yuka Nakamura
Mudita means appreciative or sympathetic joy and is the third of the four Brahmaviharas, the boundless qualities of the heart and mind. It stands for our ability to appreciate and delight in what is good and beautiful in our own being and in the world. It inspires and uplifts the heart and purifies it from unwholesome states.
Bodhi College

2021-02-21 Guided Meditation and Dharma Talk 57:29
Martine Batchelor
Mudita (appreciative joy/altruistic joy) as the gateway for gratitude and flourishing amidst life’s ups and downs.
Gaia House Meeting Life's Ups and Downs

2021-02-11 Brahma Vihara: Equanimity 51:38
James Baraz
Equanimity is the last of the 4 Brahma Viharas. It holds the other three--metta, compassion/karuna, and mudita--with spaciousness and balance. Equanimity reminds us to allow for life to unfold as it will. We can let go of control, which we never had in the first place, meeting life's up and downs with balance and the possibility of a wise, skillful response.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat: A Retreat for Experienced Students with James Baraz, Sally Armstrong, Kamala Masters, Andrea Fella, Dawn Scott, Bob Stahl, PhD, Louije Kim and Martha "Rasika" Link

2021-02-10 Brahma Vihara teaching on Mudita - Appreciative Joy 49:44
Bob Stahl
Brahmaviharas (Heart Practices)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation Retreat: A Retreat for Experienced Students with James Baraz, Sally Armstrong, Kamala Masters, Andrea Fella, Dawn Scott, Bob Stahl, PhD, Louije Kim and Martha "Rasika" Link

2021-01-02 Metta, Karuna, Mudita ~ Expressions of Awakening 44:04
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2020/21

2021-01-01 Morning Reflection on Mudita 21:00
Ayya Dhammadīpā
A short talk on empathetic joy in the natural world, and joy as a key aspect of the Buddha's teachings
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 Bright Mind of Compassion 39:28
Ayya Dhammadīpā
A guided meditation on karuna, mudita, upekha
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-12-31 The Power of Loving Kindness 46:44
Ayya Dhammadīpā
A Dharma talk on metta as well as karuna, mudita, and upekkha, their inter-relationships, leading to jhana and transformation of the karmic stream.
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery New Year Retreat 2020/21

2020-08-24 Appreciative Joy - Mudita 31:22
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the practice of Appreciative Joy.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community FIMC Monday Night Talks

2020-07-25 07 guided meditation: mudita or appreciative joy 16:36
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by tuning in to well-being in the body, opening to appreciation of what's going well in our own lives, then mudita for what's going well for others
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment

2020-07-25 06 talk: Right Effort and Mudita or appreciative joy 24:04
Jill Shepherd
Looking at the four-part definition of Right Effort, and how mudita practice, the cultivation of appreciative joy, can support the development of skilful mental states
Auckland Insight Meditation Balancing Effort and Enjoyment

2020-07-02 Muditā: An Introduction & Meditation 56:27
Jozen Tamori Gibson
Morning Meditation Heart Practices, Brahmaviharas
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating the Wisdom of the Heart - Annual People of Color (POC) Retreat

2020-06-11 25: guided meditation cultivating mudita 28:38
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by orienting to pleasant feeling-tones in the body as a way in to the experience of appreciation, then opening to other aspects of one's life that are going well, and noticing the effect of mudita on the body, heart and mind
Auckland Insight Meditation Insight Meditation + Insight Dialogue seven-day retreat

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