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Dharma Talks
2018-02-08 Day 12: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:47
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-08 Day 12: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:59
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-07 Meditation: Living Presence 20:58
Tara Brach
This meditation guides us to awaken to our senses through scanning through the body and then listening to sounds. When distracted by thoughts we relax open again and again, learning to rest in the formless awareness that includes sounds, sensations and all passing experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-02-07 Day 11: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 40:56
Devin Berry
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-07 Meditation Instructions. 60:31
Joseph Goldstein
Working with thoughts and emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-02-07 Day 11: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:42
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-06 Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 36:52
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-06 Summary - stewarding attention through the widening field of the inner and outer worlds 53:50
Ajahn Sucitto
Buddha’s last words were: All sankhāras are impermanent. Keep applying yourselves with vigilance. This closing talk offers a review of kāya-, citta- and vaci-sankhāra, and a simple 3 step process to moderate their energies: 1) Pay attention, 2) Soften, widen, 3) Include it all. These steps can be used in meditation practice as well as in interactions in the world. We will lose presence, but we don’t have to wait until the next retreat to work it out. When you notice the programs running, feel the body, come down into the feet, exhale, where am I?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2018-02-06 Guided Meditation 43:08
Jill Shepherd
Mindfulness of breath, body, and sounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-02-06 Day 10: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:45
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-06 Checking and moderating thought - Guided meditation 61:38
Ajahn Sucitto
Settling into sitting meditation, tracing posture and energy up the back and down the front, spherical breathing from abdomen. [Bell at 38:17] [Instructions at 40:27] Invitation to loosen the intensity and congestion of thought - vaci-sankhāra, that which forms thought energy. Rather than not thinking, take time to formulate what to think about and bring heart qualities into that. This is a dhamma practice.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2018-02-05 Evening Q&A 51:42
Ajahn Sucitto
1. Can you please speak about dependent origination; 2.(37:20 What is a skilful way to deal with boredom at work?; 3. (35:47) Question on body meditation; 4. (44:53) Could you talk about death?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2018-02-05 Metta Meditation 67:29
Joseph Goldstein
Flavors of loving kindness. Instruction for practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-02-05 Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 35:03
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-05 Day 9: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:45
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-04 Introduction and Guided Metta Meditation 35:08
Jill Shepherd
A brief overview of the four Brahma Vihara practices. An introduction to Metta and a short guided Metta meditation for the benefactor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Path to Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-02-04 Day 8: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:42
Rachel Lewis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-04 Metta All Beings, Guided meditation followed by considerations on benevolence and love 64:37
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2018-02-04 Day 8: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:13
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-04 AM - Cultivate in accordance with ‘sappaya’: what is suitable and fitting - 20m meditation 33:01
Ajahn Sucitto
In meditation we can be confronted with inertia or pushing hindrances. Recommendation is to use physical enactment of energy - bowing, chanting -so you’re not gliding along but rising up into the occasion. Cultivate with a sense of sappāya, that which is appropriate, comfortable, manageable. Finding a frame of reference that can support moving against hindrances with patience and opening. This must be a fundamental aim in meditation. [Instructions end 12:43]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

2018-02-03 Day 7: Sitting Meditation with Brahma Vihara Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:11
Carol Wilson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-03 Day 7: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:09
Greg Scharf
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-02 Day 6: Sitting Meditation with Instructions - Working with Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:19
Erin Treat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-02-01 Day 5: Sitting Meditation with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:50
DaRa Williams
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2018-01-31 Meditation: Beyond the Veil of Thinking 20:25
Tara Brach
This meditation awakens us to the space and aliveness in these bodies, and to resting in wakeful openness. When we get lost in thought, we practice relaxing open, and exploring the gap between thoughts. By opening beyond the veil of thinking, we discover the Beingness that is home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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