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Dharma Talks
2016-12-06 Tempel Smith - Spirit Rock Day 1: Morning Sit with Instructions 33:37
Tempel Smith
Spirit Rock Meditation Center In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-06 Relationships & Differentiation 63:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Experience manifests in terms of ‘fields’. Opening and holding a field (such as the bodily field) with mindfulness brings harmony. Conflicts can be relaxed, self-positions abandoned. This is also a model for relationships with other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-05 Q & A 67:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Dependant origination; bramavihara; strengthening citta; how to deal with a quiet mind; how to deal with obsessive thinking; right speech.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-05 Spirit Rock, Richard Shankman. Monday Night Dharma Talk 2:09:10
Richard Shankman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-12-05 Day 6b - Interviews 1:19:53
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-05 Day 6a - Interviews 1:49:47
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-05 La conscience vivante, dynamique 1:16:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-12-05 Reflective meditation on gladdening and steadying the heart 52:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A guided series of themes based to bring to mind and dwell upon, to support a skillful mental basis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 A Path of Wisdom and Love 47:58
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House A Path of Wisdom and Love

2016-12-04 Meeting the Problem 40:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Rather than immediately thinking, or trying to think of a solution, it’s more skillful to refer to embodiment and establish dispassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 Recognizing our Knowing Mind 63:35
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-12-04 Day 5b - Interviews 36:20
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yin Breathing with Manuela Mischke-Reeds 64:53
Heather Sundberg
Recording #4, Guided Meditation: 12 Fold Breathing & Yen Breathing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Day 5a - Interviews 1:46:19
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Guided Meditation: 10 Point Body Scan Lying Down Practice: taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds. 60:58
Heather Sundberg
Session #3, Awakening through the Body taught by Manuela Mischke-Reeds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Embodied Awakening in Difficult Times: Opening Story & Teaching 28:13
Heather Sundberg
Session #1 of daylong Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Teaching & Guided Practice: 1st Foundation of Mindfulness & Mindfulness of the Nervous System 16:57
Heather Sundberg
Session #2, Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-04 L’intégration de la pratique 1:15:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Connecting Mind and Heart: Awakening Joy 1:15:13
James Baraz
The Dalai Lama says: "The purpose of life is to be happy." This practice leads to true happiness. It starts with the mind intending to awaken the heart and all the goodness within us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-03 Chanting Fire Sermon 12:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-03 Ce qui soutient l’équanimité 58:47
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Guided Unbounded Metta Meditation 41:20
Heather Martin
Contacting our tenderness, through some sweet little stories, and then allowing that heart quality to expand everywhere, in all directions excluding nothing and no being at all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-03 Guided Practice: Resting in the Field of Awareness 45:40
Susie Harrington
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-12-03 Pensées et perceptions 26:57
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-03 Samadhi – absorbing the sweet spot 49:52
Ajahn Sucitto
In mindfulness, body teaches us what mindfulness is. When we steadily incline towards sensitive simplicity and getting comfortable – and absorb that, the result is samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-02 The Journey of Practice, and the Art of Staying 67:02
Heather Martin
Some of the beacons in the unfolding of Heather's practice journey, and the deep trust that grows when we are able to stay with our direct experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-02 Day 3b - Interviews 1:45:47
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-02 Être calme et engagé 57:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-02 Forgiveness Practice 0:00
James Baraz
(Recording not available) 
Forgiveness towards self (body, mind, heart). Asking and extending forgiveness with another.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-02 Day 3a - Interviews 1:46:29
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-02 Instructions 2e matin 59:54
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-01 The story of Angulimala 59:33
Andrea Castillo
A story of a mass murder in the time of the Buddha, offers us lessons in how ethical conduct can help support us and countering the forces of ignorance and cravings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-12-01 From Samadhi (Concentration) and Insight Practice to Awakened Awareness 66:08
Donald Rothberg
We first explore further the "three ways of seeing that free" (examining the "three characteristics" of phenomena), with particular emphasis on a practically-based overview of anatta (not-self). We then see how samadhi practice and insight practice develop, as they progress, toward a third mode of practice--opening to "awakened awareness" or "radiant mind." We look at the nature of awakened awareness, and point to several practical methods of accessing awakened awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-12-01 "Metta, Hatred and Forgiveness" 60:12
Kate Munding
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-01 Love, Serve, Remember = Non-Greed, Non-Hatred, Non-Delusion 65:13
James Baraz
The three sources of true happiness are the same no matter what the spiritual tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-01 Ce que révèle la présence attentive 52:42
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight La sagesse incarnée

2016-12-01 Day 2b - Interviews 2:05:03
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-01 A Guided Meditation on Passive Friendliness 24:36
Heather Martin
A guided session. We can forget that there's a whole range of qualities of friendliness that are non-doing or passive. Listening, caring, empathizing, respecting, allowing, appreciating, honoring and more.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-12-01 Day 2a - Interviews 1:38:28
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English and Myanmar
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-12-01 Waves and Fields - no self 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhammas are wave-like qualia rather than things. They are conditionally arisen. With dispassionate mindfulness they can subside. They need not define or belong to anyone.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-01 Faith: sustained wonder 16:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Open to the field of experience; avoid conclusions sustain presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-30 Radiating Metta 25:56
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 The Four Boundless Qualities 3:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Pali chanting
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-30 Concentration and Insight 59:15
Erin Selover
This talk gives a general overview of practice, follow up thoughts from the previous night's talk on samadhi, and an introduction to the process of orienting perception towards change and dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 Mind-Mind and Heart-Mind 62:53
Heather Martin
Their respective functions and how integrating them brings real well being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-30 Q & A 1:12:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Intention; attention; potencies; self-criticism; metta; consciousness; faith in what?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-30 Day 1 - Opening 1:13:45
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
in English, Myanmar and Vietnamese
Saddhamma Meditation Society :  Fall Retreat 2016 with Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-11-30 Samadhi: Practice Instructions 3: Working with Intentions, Working with Challenges in Practice 41:01
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-30 Equanimity Does Not Mean Indifference 2:11:22
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-29 Making Friends with Ourselves: Working with Judging Mind 67:58
James Baraz
Judging ourselves or comparing ourselves with others is a central issue for many. How we get caught and how to skillfully work with these habits is the topic of the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-29 The Art of Samadhi Practice 64:52
Donald Rothberg
We explore the nature and importance of samadhi (or concentration) practice in the context of the sequence of the three core practices of the retreat—samadhi practice, insight practice, and opening to “radiant mind.” We also examine a number of ways to engage skillfully in samadhi practice, including in the context of several core challenges to such practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center From Mindfulness Breath to Radiant Mind

2016-11-29 Our Capacity to Awaken 34:32
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-11-29 Chanting Vipassana-Bhumi-Patho 5:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-29 La sagesse me montre que je ne suis rien, l’amour, que je suis tout. 54:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-29 Metta Instructions - General Overview: Self and Benefactor 44:51
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Connecting Mind and Heart

2016-11-29 Relational Fields and Satipatthana 52:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Mindfulness of mind is the ability to hold the range of mind states in the field of mind so that dispassionate presence is realized. This ‘holding’ is not grasping any phenomenon as a real thing, more relating to it as a potential citta characteristic.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-29 Entering Sangha: a reflection 8:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-28 Javana Hamsa - the swift swan. 52:10
Greg Scharf
A teaching on impermanence and non-clinging. Begins with a Jataka based story.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-28 Being in a Living Prayer 58:06
Catherine McGee
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-28 Cours du lundi 28 nov 2016 52:38
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-28 Sally Armstrong at Spirit Rock - Living in an Imperfect World 62:41
Sally Armstrong
Dharma Talk from the Monday Night Meditation class at Spirit Rock on Monday, November 28th 2016.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-28 Morning Reflection 54:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-27 Question & Answer Session 56:53
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-27 Enriching embodied space: Guided Meditation 44:41
Ajahn Sucitto
A series of themes to support a rich, blessed state of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-27 Understanding the Empathetic Heart 56:19
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-27 Right Effort 61:30
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-11-27 Consciousness, latent tendencies and true response. 65:35
Ajahn Sucitto
To respond to what arises is important – how to avoid blind reactions? Citta, core presence, can be accessed through mindfulness. When it is stable, a true response arises.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-25 Spirit Rock-Attention, Love and Service 45:10
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-25 Karma 57:40
Stefan Lang
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2016-11-25 Guided Compassion; Holding Conflicting Views. 29:21
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-25 Last Morning Instructions 31:09
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-24 Wisdom at work, taste of Nibbana 59:42
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-24 Meditative Reflections on Emptiness and Not-Self with periods of silence 46:44
Alexis Santos
"How to stop making such a big deal of our problems". -- Pema Chodron
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-24 Q & A 38:19
Ajahn Sucitto
Standards for daily life; the stress of planning; yoga and qi gong
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-24 Questions and Answers 1:11:13
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-24 Morning Instructions 20:09
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-24 Deep/wise/careful attention and holistic awareness. 58:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Deep/wise/careful attention opens holistic awareness. The response to any impression forms a ‘sign’. This guides mindfulness and samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-23 Sacred Rage: The Descent and Emergence of Wisdom 40:54
Erin Selover
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-23 Giving Thanks - Reflections on Meditation as a Way of Life 25:54
Larry Rosenberg
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-11-23 “Play a Greater Part” – Part 2 - Bodhisattva for our Times 1:18:14
Tara Brach
During scary and uncertain times, the habitual reflex is to try to find ground by creating stories about what’s happening and hardening into us-them blame. This only perpetuates the aggression and violence that is so prevalent in our societies. These two talks are a reflection on how we as awakening bodhisattvas can evolve our consciousness in a way that serves authentic societal healing and transformation. “Though I do not expect a plant to spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” ~ Thoreau
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-11-23 Buddha as Virtuoso (Part 2) 59:52
Catherine McGee
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-23 Question and Answer Session 39:04
Christina Feldman
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-23 Guided meditation: What is needed? 13:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Drop the question into the embodied mind (citta) like dropping a penny down a well. What is the shiver of response?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-23 Questions and Answers 1:37:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-23 Morning Instructions 3:30
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-23 Generosity and Gratitude 64:26
Donald Rothberg
The day before Thanksgiving, we explore the nature and practice of generosity and gratitude and how they are interrelated. We look at both individual and cultural dimensions of these two qualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-23 The process of practice 14:39
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice is less a matter of doing it and more a process of selection and establishing supportive conditions. These are sourced in association with good people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-23 2016 Thanksgiving Retreat : Q&A : Bhante Pannaratana 62:56
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2016 Thanksgiving Retreat

2016-11-23 2016 Thanksgiving Retreat : Dhamma Talk : Bhante Pannaratana 54:44
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2016 Thanksgiving Retreat

2016-11-22 Spirit Rock-Samadhi in the Context of Letting Go 48:44
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-22 Open Your Heart 28:01
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-11-22 Q & A: Dependent origination, ease, lightness of attention 1:16:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Explanation of dependent origination; how to weaken and sever the link between feeling and craving; value of spiritually based feeling; quality of applied thought and evaluation; domain of insight and dispassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-22 Cours du mardi 22 nov. 2016 1:25:25
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-22 Questions and Answers 1:20:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-22 Morning Instructions 3:51
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-22 The clinging reflex and where to break it 47:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Upadana (clinging) is a reflex, not a rational choice. It can be released at the point where perception (sanna) triggers reaction (sankhara), through widening attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-21 Spirit Rock-Staying Steady with the Hindrances 50:59
Kate Munding
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-21 Stories and poems from the Therigatha 52:30
Greg Scharf
Inspiration from the first Buddhist nuns
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-21 Cours du lundi 21 nov. 2016 1:23:07
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-11-21 Questions and Answers 1:27:09
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

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