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Dharma Talks
2017-03-06 The arc of practice. 60:59
Winnie Nazarko
How meditation practice transforms the minds relationship to its experience. Explains how we can tell whether we have "good practice"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center In the Footprint of the Buddha: Wise Concentration

2017-03-01 Meditation - A Sky-Like Mind 23:57
Tara Brach
This meditation begins with listening to sounds as a portal to spacious awareness. In addition to guiding attention to naturally occurring sounds, Tara plays chimes and gongs to deepen the experience of receptivity and openness. The meditation progresses to include all experience - sounds, sensations, thoughts, feelings - in the vast, transparent, timeless space of awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-02-27 Grasping and Creative Engagement 53:46
Martine Batchelor
Looking into experiencing degrasping directly and indirectly through cultivating meditation and mindfulness. How can we creatively engaged with self, others, material things, etc in our daily life.
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Meditation 29:57
Martin Aylward
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday PM Guided Standing Meditation 15:25
Martin Aylward
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Free to be Human - Sunday AM Guided Meditation 34:10
Martin Aylward
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center Free To Be human

2017-02-26 Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions 18:05
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided meditation on morning of day two.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-02-25 Feeling your breath and how feeling helps. 40:40
Winnie Nazarko
A consideration of the how/why of meditation instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-02-25 How Do We Meditate ? 59:45
Martine Batchelor
Exploring the basis of meditation and how cultivating meditation is going to help us in our daily life.
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2017-02-25 29 guided meditation: compassion for a friend experiencing difficulties, then oneself 23:21
Jill Shepherd
Practising compassion for a friend experiencing difficulties, then oneself, mostly using the reciting-phrases method
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday AM Guided Meditation 29:09
Martin Aylward
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center Free To Be human

2017-02-25 Free to be Human - Saturday PM Guided Meditation 45:15
Martin Aylward
Teachings of liberation can seem to point to a kind of superhuman perfection, one reinforced by classical images and stories of Buddha and other semi-mythical historical saints. This can make our own freedom of being seem unattainable or at least far distant, yet Dharma teachings and practices emphasize immediate experience as the ground of liberation. This day/weekend will look at our human freedom as very near to hand, and will explore how to contemplate and integrate the liberating possibilities of our practice in the midst of our everyday lives.
New York Insight Meditation Center Free To Be human

2017-02-24 26 guided meditation: radiating energy metta practice 17:12
Jill Shepherd
A short guided metta meditation using the radiating-energy method, pervading metta in the four directions, above, below, and all around
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 21 guided meditation: metta for benefactor 27:37
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with connection to one's own well-being, then metta for the benefactor using the reciting phrases method of practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 19 guided meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions 24:44
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation beginning with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-23 Twelvefold chain of Interdependent Co-Arising. Meditation Included. Over 1.5 hrs. - EBMC POC Sangha 1:33:04
Mushim Ikeda
East Bay Meditation Center

2017-02-22 15 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, sounds 25:41
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations, then opening to sounds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 Reflections on Not-Knowing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 47:13
Andrea Fella
These reflections begin with a guided meditation on expanding awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-21 12 guided dyad (pairs) meditation: pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone (vedana) 8:15
Jill Shepherd
Guided dyad meditation exploring unpleasant then pleasant feeling-tone (vedana), beginning with separate speaker and listener (allow 3 minutes for each speaker)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-21 10 guided meditation: five hindrances 26:34
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation, mostly silent with occasional questions to notice the presence or absence of the five hindrances
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-20 Ehipassiko: Come See For Yourself (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:58
James Baraz
With so many different meditation instructions and approaches to practice how do we know which is the right one for us? This talk includes the Buddha's different methods for dealing with distracting thoughts as well as learning how to listen and trust your own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Month-long Retreat

2017-02-20 06 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing for calm and insight 25:23
Jill Shepherd
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 04 guided meditation: mindfulness of breathing 15:35
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation practising mindfulness of breathing, with an emphasis on calm and ease
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Seven-day insight meditation retreat

2017-02-19 Noble Eightfold Path 13: guided dyad (pairs) meditation exploring Right Concentration 7:53
Jill Shepherd
Instructions for exploring Right Concentration in dyad practice, 3 minutes each separate speaker and listener then 12 minutes free-flow dialogue
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre

2017-02-15 Meditation: Sitting Like a Mountain 25:28
Tara Brach
Meditation can empower us as we learn to access our potential for stability, strength and openness. This meditation calls on the image of a mountain as we awaken our body and mind to a full, vibrant presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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