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Dharma Talks
2016-11-21 Morning Instructions 11:40
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-21 Removal of asava (outflow/taint/leakage) 58:38
Ajahn Sucitto
The removal of these dynamic forms of ignorance is dependent on deep attention, mindfulness and comprehension, restraint and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-20 Reflections on Beauty 41:08
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-20 Orientation around the midline – a standing meditation 51:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-20 Love - The Capacity of the Heart to Connect to What Is 53:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-20 Redemption 30:51
Ayya Medhanandi
How can we be free of anger? To cross a river, walk over it. From a burning house, escape. So too, when your heart is on fire, stay present, forgiving and compassionate. Balance and cleanse the mind to stop it from spinning with fear, to see deeply, to heal. We direct the mind to what is great – the very source of unsurpassed joy arising as we awaken to the blessed Dhamma.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-20 Practicing with Politics 46:11
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-11-20 Spirit Rock-Metta in the Post Obama Era 28:37
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-11-20 Anna Douglas at Spirit Rock - Eight Ways to Awaken As We Age 58:41
Anna Douglas
Dharma talk from the morning session of the daylong - Eight Ways to Awaken As We Age. As we age, we naturally experience new perspectives on life which, although sometimes unwelcome, are actually conducive to waking us up. The eight ways reveal a path of practice to follow which offers true refuge and deep nourishment for our spiritual aspiration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-20 Questions and Answers 1:35:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-20 Morning Instructions 41:49
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-20 Suitable Effort 50:54
Ajahn Sucitto
The energy of practice has to avoid the pitfalls of tanha (craving) but maintain chanda (motivation). Mindfulness and clear comprehension find what is suitable (sappaya).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-19 Shaping our world through perception 51:05
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-19 chanting 14:16
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-19 Questions and Answers 1:33:22
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-19 Guided Practice 4 -- Attending to the Aggregates 43:26
Donald Rothberg
A guided meditation exploring experience increasingly without a sense of self, through mindfulness of the five "aggregates" (khandhas or skandhas): form, feeling-tone, perception, thoughts and emotions (and other "mental formations), and consciousness.
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-19 Guided Practice 3 -- Inviting the 'Thick' Self to be Present 6:04
Donald Rothberg
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-19 Guided Practice 2--Tracking the Manifestations of the Self 5:48
Donald Rothberg
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-19 Talk 2 - Practices to "Thin" the Self: An Overview 34:34
Donald Rothberg
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-19 Talk 1 - Exploring and Practicing Anatta (Not-Self): An Overview 52:04
Donald Rothberg
An overview talk for a daylong of teachings and practices related to exploring anatta (not-self).
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-19 Morning Instructions 23:51
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-19 Shaping the world through perception. 59:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Distorted ways of preceiving lead to a lot of suffering. Understanding the conditionality of perception opens up the possibility of practicing with a different perception and creative ways
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-18 Mana: the conceit of I am better then, less than, equal too. 59:13
Rebecca Bradshaw
Discusses how all measuring of ourselves against others is a form of the conceit "I am", and the alternative of humility and authenticity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-18 Change for the Good 33:51
Ayya Medhanandi
Are we ready to stop clinging, let go and trust? If we live with gratitude and change for the good; if we learn to really see, we will be able to listen from within and notice the true condition of the mind, going from a state of fear to non-fear, from suffering to non-suffering, from trauma to trust and the truth of the Unconditioned. Putting out the fires of greed, hatred and delusion, we forgive, set our burdens down and embrace kindness. We make wise choices and we live and die with joy, peace, and blessing.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-18 The Art of Unknowing 52:39
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-18 Look Within and Wake Up 22:01
Ayya Medhanandi
What are we, and what are we doing on this planet? We easily get lost in the dream of the world. It is a very good time to wake up. Right here in your own heart is the greatest adventure possible. See the danger and look inwards into the centre of the storm for sanctuary. That is how we shall bring forth a wave of awakening in this world.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-18 Closing Dhamma Talk 59:28
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-18 Questions and Answers 1:31:50
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-18 Morning Instructions 14:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-17 Dependent Origination 58:23
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-17 "Equanimity: Finding Balance In Difficult Times" 61:48
James Baraz
In times of uncertainty and emotionally charged situations the teachings show us the power of equanimity–a balance of mind and heart. This is very different from a resigned quietism. Equanimity involves the courage to feel all our intense emotions and act from a balanced, committed heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-11-17 Brahma Viharas 26:13
Christina Feldman
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-17 Generating the Three Forms 38:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Three forms: body, heart and thought generated through various dhamma practices support each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-17 What Will Heal Us 22:49
Ayya Medhanandi
Discover the riches of the Noble Eightfold Path again and again. See into the depths of the mind by rightly remembering and using the Buddha's guidance not only in formal meditation practice but in every waking hour of daily life. Begin, sustain, and deepen the practice of clear seeing and understanding the Path. This is how we step out of suffering into true blessing and joyous freedom.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-17 Questions and Answers 1:14:54
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-17 Morning Instructions 35:13
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-17 Morning Reflection 5:36
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-16 "Play a Greater Part" - Bodhisattva for our Times - Part 1 69:16
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.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-11-16 Q & A Consciousness and citta, metta as field 60:01
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-16 Dhamma Talk: Paramis/Generosity 1:17:52
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-16 Questions and Answers 1:17:30
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-16 Dharma Practice after the Election 2: Out of This Difficult Time, Our Task is . . . 44:56
Donald Rothberg
A talk, followed by discussion, helping us to understand this time we have entered, after the 2016 election, and pointing to our core practices and understandings as our foundations and guides.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-16 Morning Instructions 65:02
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Maui, Hi :  When Awareness Becomes Natural

2016-11-16 Asava and Careful Attention 66:10
Ajahn Sucitto
(from Majjhima Nikaya 2) Ignorance in action is asava, outflow-mind. Careful/wise/deep attention is a key to its stopping.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-16 Dharma Practice after the Election 1: Out of This Difficult Time, Our Task is . . . 32:11
Donald Rothberg
A set of interactive practices in the manner of Joanna Macy's "Work That Reconnects," exploring our post-election experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-15 11 Dhamma talk - Creating Refuge 6:00
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 Trusting your capacity to meet what is 46:02
Alexis Santos
"The simplicity of this moment holds everything." -- Sayadaw U Tejaniya. "Have the courage to trust love one more time, and always one more time." -- Maya Angelou
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-15 Cultivating Equanimity in Times of Uncertainty 28:26
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2016-11-15 Buddha as Virtuoso 50:59
Catherine McGee
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-15 Q & A - Embodiment and its intelligence 64:48
Ajahn Sucitto
Brief description of talk: Responses on embodiment, safety, right effort, mindfulness. Samadhi and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-15 10 Chant - The Highest Blessings 4:24
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 09 Q&A 18:25
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 08 Dhamma talk - The Highest Blessings 23:07
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 07 Guided Meditation 21:22
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 06 Q&A 8:32
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 05 Dhamma talk - The Four Powers 22:25
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 04 Guided Meditation 11:29
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 03 Saturday Afternoon Dharma Talk 33:59
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 02 Introduction to Refuges & Precepts 10:47
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 01 Saturday Morning 46:37
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 Complete Recording of Daylong 2:32:50
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-15 Wiser than we think 58:49
Ajahn Sucitto
The graduated ripening of conditions that support Awakening is to be studied – but it is led by an intelligence that is subtler than reason.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-15 Morning Reflection 8:13
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-15 Firming up confidence 14:53
Ajahn Sucitto
The actions of body, voice and heart can align to one’s aspiration. This gives rise to the inner strength of faith. This is knowable through aware intelligence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-14 Lessons from the Karaniya Metta Sutta – part two 56:17
Greg Scharf
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-14 chanting Vipassana – bhumi – patho 12:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-14 Spirituality and Politics (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) Part 1 of 2 69:11
Jack Kornfield
Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-11-14 dep. Origination, feeling, craving 12:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-14 Public Talk at Grace Church Parish Hall 1:50
Ayya Santussika
Karuna Buddhist Vihara Daylong on Lopez Island, Washington

2016-11-14 Breaking through the web 63:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Existence is an ongoing arising of dynamic and interdependent factors. We both arouse and support skilful ones and break through the obsessive and deluded ones.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-14 Keeping it fresh 26:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Beginning a day, beginning anything, requires openness, letting go of the known. Reorient the mind through deep attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-13 Becoming Part of the Healing 53:40
Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-13 Working With The Inner Critic 48:14
Mark Coleman
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-11-13 Understanding the Dance Between Seclusion and Engagement 57:51
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-13 Realizing and Resting in Refuge 31:49
Amma Thanasanti
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-13 Four Elements and Guided Meditation 1:11:48
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-13 Saving Grace 23:04
Ayya Medhanandi
The Buddha offers us an extraordinary medicine – the medicine of Truth. No one can take it for us nor can we take it for anyone else. And we discover it through our own wisdom, love, and compassion. We are the surgeon and the Dhamma is our saving grace. Even in the midst of the raging fires of the world or the fires of greed, hatred and delusion within us, we gain a foothold to the heart's peace.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2016-11-13 Afternoon Dhamma Talk 57:42
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-13 The Power of Perception: The Colors of Experience 2:21:05
Ajahn Karunadhammo
Afternoon Session from 12:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-13 Morning Dhamma Talk 44:13
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-13 Spirit Rock, The Power of Perception: The Colors of Experience, Morning Session 1:53:03
Ajahn Karunadhammo
Morning session 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-13 A firm foothold 45:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Dhamma is a wheel of factors that incline towards awakening. ‘World’ is a wheeling of factors that go nowhere useful. Place a firm footing on the Dhamma through the five indriya.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-13 Morning Reflection 12:16
Marcia Rose
Mountain Hermitage "...in the footprint of the Buddha..." Concentration/Samatha Retreat with Marcia Rose

2016-11-13 Puja as practice. 11:51
Ajahn Sucitto
The use of chanting, ritual and devotional practice to attune the citta to the field of shared aspiration
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-12 Mindfulness - The Light On Our Path 60:03
Yuka Nakamura
Mindfulness plays a central role in the cultivation of the mind. The talk discusses the different functions of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-12 Fields and forms – the play of consciousness 43:56
Ajahn Sucitto
From awareness in the field of sense data, consciousness selects an object. That process generates a subject. In the split between subject and object, demons arise. The true subject has no object, and cannot be tracked. This is presence, awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-12 Workshop - Surrendering to Love 2:49:07
Amma Thanasanti
Lovingkindness (Metta)
Common Ground Meditation Center

2016-11-12 Afternoon Final Dhamma Talk 8:14
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-12 Afternoon Dhamma Talk 33:59
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-12 Morning Dhamma Talk 20:25
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-12 Retreat Introduction 46:37
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-12 Chanting: the movement into harmony 10:43
Ajahn Sucitto
Chanting is trans-rational - it’s not just what it means but what it does. By incorporating the body’s emotionally sensitive energies, and by attuning to others, it brings us to harmony.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-11 Strengthening the bodily field through standing 22:18
Ajahn Sucitto
A standing meditation to cultivate a unified, stable and strong bodily field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-11 Core truths and core wishes 53:46
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-11 The Beauty of Discomfort & Tribute to Leonard Cohen 58:36
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House November Solitary

2016-11-11 Acknowledgement of Fields 56:27
Ajahn Sucitto
Experience arises as ‘fields’ – for example the visual field. Skilful fields – ‘places’ to dwell in - are necessary and can be generated - for example the moral field, the devotional / sacred field and the embodied field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-11 Step 11: Cultivating Your Inner Monastery in Recovery 2:02:05
Walt Opie
Friday Night Dharma and Recovery Talk with guest speaker Walt Opie, November 11, 2016.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-11-11 Integral Awakening 1:12:06
Amma Thanasanti
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2016-11-11 Public Talk 1:13:21
Ayya Santussika
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Retreat

2016-11-11 The Breath as a Gateway to Liberation - part 3 1:38:01
Kim Allen
A 3-session series on the practices of the Anapanasati Sutta
Insight Santa Cruz

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