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2024-07-21 The Wisdom of Caring 39:11
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-21 12 meditation: appreciating one's own strengths 24:48
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-21 11 instructions: Muditā for oneself 13:20
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-21 Samadhi, A Collected Stable Heart and Mind - Meditation 31:49
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-07-21 Samadhi, A Collected Stable Heart and Mind - Talk 41:39
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies - Understanding Karma and Intention

2024-07-21 Opening, Nourishing & Gladdening - Meditation Instruction 63:30
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-21 10 meditation: Muditā using the radiating energy method of practice 20:45
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-21 09 talk: Muditā or appreciative joy 13:50
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to cultivating muditā, gladness or appreciative joy, using the radiating-energy method of practice
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-21 08 meditation: Settling and stilling the body and mind 20:08
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-21 Guided Meditation on Big Mind 58:01
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-21 Guided meditation on big mind 58:05
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-20 Reflections on "don't know mind" 59:58
Jaya Rudgard
Don't know mind, not-self, and the relationship of don't know mind to awareness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-20 Asalha Puja - Practice | Part 3 of 3 65:30
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 Guided meditation on compassion 51:43
Sally Armstrong
Compassion for self and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-20 Meeting Experience with Care and Tenderness (Guided practice) 44:43
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 Compassion: Meeting Experience Skilfully 31:36
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 06 meditation: Compassion for a good friend 21:47
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 05 short talk: Compassion 12:27
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 Asalha Puja - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | Part 2 of 3 49:13
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 04 meditation: Resting into mettā / kindness 19:43
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 03 talk: Exploring mettā as rest 19:00
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 02 meditation: mettā for benefactor 24:53
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 2) 28:51
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 Kinds of Attention - Meditation Instruction (Part 1) 31:11
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 01 talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra heart qualities 22:36
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity work together to keep the heart in balance
Southern Insight Meditation Rest, resilience, renewal, release:

2024-07-20 AsalhaPuja - Adhitthana | Part 1 of 3 52:52
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 Morning Instructions - Hindrances in Awareness Practice 57:21
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-19 Fortunate heart energies 47:47
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2024-07-19 Working with the Hindrances in Awareness Practice 56:00
Yuka Nakamura
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-19 The Importance of Bhikkhuni Ordination for Buddhism - Eng/Thai 18:51
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni
Songdhammakalyani Monastery

2024-07-19 Skills in Samadhi 47:54
Sayadaw U Jagara
Quality of Mind being in relation to different objects. Metta practice in general.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge July 2024

2024-07-19 Guided Meditation: Building All the Awakening Factors with Emphasis on Concentration 16:47
Shaila Catherine
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine highlights the powerful role that concentration plays as we cultivate the awakening factors. The instructions slowly walk through the sequence of Awakening Factors demonstrating how they create the conditions for the next factor in the sequence, and then explores various qualities of the collected mind and choices the meditator may make to further develop the mind once samadhi has been established.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 The Nature of Awareness, Part 1 61:51
Guy Armstrong
Sense consciousness is the simple knowing of a phenomenon at one of the six sense doors. Awareness is the broad field that includes all six types of sense consciousness. Awareness can be freeing when we see that it's empty.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Cultivating Loving Kindness (Metta) and Compassion (Karuna) 45:51
Shaila Catherine
This is a long guided meditation in which Shaila Catherine offers systematic instruction for cultivating loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) through the use of intention filled phrases directed toward beings in various categories.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Metta, Friendliness 42:05
Yuka Nakamura
Metta for self and all directions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 Morning Instructions – hindrances in awareness practice 60:08
Sally Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-18 The 'Six Realms' as we experience them now 59:25
Judi Cohen
Dear Friends, Join guest teacher for a look at the Buddhist teaching on "The Six Realms" - as we might be experiencing them right now. Judi Cohen is a mindfulness teacher, law professor, and long-time student of Vipassana.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2024-07-17 Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle 55:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-17 short talk: an overview of brahmavihāra practice 14:00
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation

2024-07-17 Meditation: Awareness and Flow (20:17 min.) 20:16
Tara Brach
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-17 From Head to Heart 61:59
Tara Brach
If we are suffering, we are believing an interpretation of reality that is limiting and untrue. At these times we are imprisoned in a painful looping of fear-driven thoughts and feelings. This talk explores the ways our practices of mindfulness, compassion and loving presence can guide us from addictive thinking to perceiving life with a wise heart.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-17 Meditation: resting into mettā / kindness 29:40
Jill Shepherd
Southern Insight Meditation

2024-07-17 Talk 12 - Day 6 Eve - BVs in Daily Practice Teaching Announcements 1:39:48
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-17 Mindfulness of the Body Meditation Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 41:22
JD Doyle
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Tenderness Retreat: Compassion for Self and All Beings

2024-07-17 Morning guided meditation 56:50
Jaya Rudgard
Gathering and steading attention with body, breath, and sounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-17 Talk 11 - Day 6 Morning - Guided Forgiveness meditation - Practice for day 46:06
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-16 Opening evening 53:52
Jaya Rudgard, Sally Armstrong
Viveka/Seclusion. The different ways we practice seclusion when we come on retreat
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-16 Week 3, Part 2 - Teachings 1:13:57
Zohar Lavie
Subtlising Mettā; neutral relationships
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2024-07-16 Talk - Awakening Freedom and Compassion 48:15
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-16 Talk 10 - Day 5 Eve Upekkha Follow-up BVs as Concentration, Non-dual Love, Forgiveness 1:30:13
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-16 Instructions for Being a Tender Hearted Human (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 43:27
JD Doyle
Cultivating mindfulness and non-harming brings us to the practice of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Tenderness Retreat: Compassion for Self and All Beings

2024-07-16 Where's This Thought Headed ? 52:09
River Wolton
Reflections on skilful engagement with thoughts; unguided practice session; short reflection on walking and general practice with Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-16 Morning Instructions 59:46
Guy Armstrong
Choiceless awareness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-16 Talk 9 - Day 5 Morning - Guided Upekkha meditation 44:45
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-15 Opening Night Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:18:51
JD Doyle, Gullu Singh, Kate Munding
How to hold stress and suffering with a tender attitude in the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Tenderness Retreat: Compassion for Self and All Beings

2024-07-15 Buddhist Studies: Understanding Karma and Intention - Week 3 of 4 - Meditation 27:52
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies - Understanding Karma and Intention

2024-07-15 Buddhist Studies: Understanding Karma and Intention - Week 3 of 4 - Talk 59:00
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies - Understanding Karma and Intention

2024-07-15 The Extraordinatory Lightness of Being 50:17
River Wolton
A journey to joy in the light of impermanence.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-15 Talk 8 - Day 4 Eve - Mudita Follow-up Upekkha overview 1:32:14
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-15 Renouncing Compulsive Fixing and Receiving Life 1:34:20
Dana DePalma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-07-15 Morning Instructions 45:45
Yanai Postelnik
Includes walking meditation instructions by River Wolton
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-15 Morning instruction 15:54
Jaya Rudgard
(unfortunately, the fire alarm creates an interruption)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Dana Talks - PRIVATE

2024-07-15 Talk 7 - Day 4 Morning Guided Mudita meditation 42:53
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-14 Tranquility and insight 50:31
Guy Armstrong
The Buddha talked about tranquility and insight as, two primary developments in meditation practice. The two might have slightly different styles of practice, but each benefits the other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Unification of Mind: Concentration Retreat

2024-07-14 Talk - Contemplating Our Body 52:05
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-14 Walking the Path of the Precepts 45:05
Pamela Weiss
We will explore ways to engage with the precepts-as prescriptive prohibition; as compassionate inquiry; and as a description of Buddha's mind. To support San Francisco Insight Meditation Community, please go here: sfinsight.org/donate
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2024-07-14 Talk 6 - Day 3 Eve - Karuna Follow-up Mudita overview 1:23:23
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-14 The True Refuge: Remembering The Truth in Dark Times 69:06
Spring Washam
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2024-07-14 Cultivating the Ground of Friendliness 38:54
River Wolton
Gentle movement, mettā to friendly being & mettā to oneself.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-14 Samadhi, A Collected Stable Heart and Mind - Week 2 - Meditation 33:09
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-07-14 Samadhi, A Collected Stable Heart and Mind - Week 2 - Talk 43:17
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-07-14 Closing Session (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:19:56
Ajahn Amaro, Ajahn Nyaniko, Jill Satterfield, Ralph Steele
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-14 Talk 5 - Day 3 Morning - Guided Karuna meditation 44:30
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-13 Talk - The Dharma of Birdwatching 42:44
River Wolton
Exploring the intersections of wisdom and compassion.
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-13 Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:42:58
Ajahn Amaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-13 Talk 4 - Day 2 Eve Metta Follow-up - Karuna overview 1:25:01
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-13 Calm and Insight 1:52:51
Ayya Santussika
This Dhamma talk, Guided Meditation and Q&A was offered on July 13th, 2024 for East Bay Dhamma.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-13 Talk 3 - Day 2 Morning - Guided Metta meditation 27:30
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-13 Morning Instructions 39:11
Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

2024-07-13 The Crux of Delusion 1:10:44
Ayya Santussika
At 55 minutes, a participant offered some comments but asked that their audio be removed. Ayya's answer remains. Here is a summary of what the participant said: They reflected on Ajahn Anan's teaching of developing the Paramis over lifetimes to be ready to fully receive / understand the Dhamma and fully let go. They go on to express surprise, and some frustration, that they can be so inspired by Dhamma one evening and then so lost in anger the next morning. They also share that this session with the KBV community and the teachings instantly took them back out of the anger.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-13 Talk 2 - Day 2 Morning 4 Categories _ BVs _ Metta overview and practice overview 43:51
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-12 Exploring the Three Characteristics - Meditation 27:32
Tuere Sala
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-07-12 Exploring the Three Characteristics - Talk 65:15
Tuere Sala
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-07-12 Talk 1 - Day 1 Eve - Bramaviharas Retreat Overview - Logistics 1:24:19
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-12 Dharma and Recovery 1:15:16
Kevin Griffin
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2024-07-12 Not-self 50:02
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-12 Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:47
Ralph Steele
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-11 Evening Puja, Meditation and Dhamma Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:50:40
Jill Satterfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-11 Healing the Self 50:20
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-11 Throughlines of Self and Not-Self 45:29
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-11 Deep Embodiment 41:11
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-11 Love and Space 42:25
Matthew Brensilver
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-10 Meditation: A Listening Presence (20 min.) 19:59
Tara Brach
The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world. “Resting with the breath as a raft might rest and move with the waves…” ~ Tara
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-10 Embodied Presence (Part 2) – Planting Our Roots in the Universe – Working with Pain 52:12
Tara Brach
In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit – to live from embodied presence. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-10 Enthusiasm, Clear Knowing, and Contentment in our Practice 43:24
Andrea Castillo
This talk will focus on enthusiasm, clear knowing, and contentment, three beautiful qualities originating from the Satipatthana refrain. We'll explore how to cultivate them as part of the body contemplations.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2024-07-10 Attunement ~ Becoming Like an Antenna 24:56
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-10 Guided Meditation: Landing in the Breath and Soundscape 56:49
Matthew Brensilver
These recordings are available publicly from a retreat held in person at Big Bear Retreat Center. Learn more about the center and upcoming offerings for retreats in nature, gathered in community. bigbearretreatcenter.org/upcoming-retreats/ Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self Matthew Brensilver July 9 - 13, 2024 Co-sponsored by Insight Retreat Center (IRC) and Big Bear Retreat Center In this silent retreat, we explore how mindfulness supports the healing of the self. Many of the Buddhist teachings help us to tend to painful memory, old pains and the habits that compound suffering. As we become more gentle and loving towards experience, the self becomes less and less of a preoccupation. The more completely we accept ourselves, the easier it becomes to forget the self and rest in an awareness unencumbered by self-consciousness. This retreat includes sitting and walking meditation instructions, and dharma talks.
Big Bear Retreat Center Healing the Self, Loving the Self, Forgetting the Self

2024-07-10 Sitting with Dhamma Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:51
Ajahn Amaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-10 Morning Puja and Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:26:41
Ajahn Amaro
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Noble Truths and Dependent Origination: Are They Still Applicable?

2024-07-09 Week 2, Part 2 - Teachings 31:47
Zohar Lavie
Mettā and dukkha.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

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