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2024-06-25 Morning Instructions: Mettā - Abiding, Suffusing; Autonomy of the Loving Figure 52:49
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-25 Morning Reflections: Opening to the Truth, the Mind can Relax 53:17
Andrea Fella
A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, followed by further reflections.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-25 Aging out of self and into the deatlless 41:57
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-25 Voice and chanting guidance (4) 22:38
Ajahn Sucitto
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-24 Week 3 : The Vastness of Awareness 1:30:03
Juha Penttilä
Teachings, Guided Practice
Gaia House The Vastness of Awareness (online series)

2024-06-24 Evening Guided Practice: Two Kinds of Goneness; 'Gate, Gate' - Guided Practice with Chanting for the One; Approaching Two Kinds of Goneness. 45:06
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-24 Going to Battle or Changing Course: The Five Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:49
Gullu Singh
Gullu explores the 5 hindrances (nirvanas) and how to work with them skillfully, allowing them to be teachers rather than enemies.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-24 Reclaiming the Sacredness of Our Being 1:37:27
Amana Brembry Johnson
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-24 Receptivity towards the manifest and the non-manifest 50:26
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-24 Dharma Reflections (title pending) 57:46
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-24 Morning Instructions - Emotional Sensitivity in Mettā Practice 59:32
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-24 Instruction for Talking Practice 58:37
Andrea Fella
Instruction for Talking Practice (talk begins after a silent 40 minute meditation)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-23 Curious and Creative: Mindfulness Meditation Is Investigation 67:49
Mushim Ikeda
Spirit Rock Meditation Center BIPOC Voices - Series

2024-06-23 Dharma Reflections (title pending) 54:49
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-23 Understanding Dukkha (part 2) - Meditation 30:17
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-23 Understanding Dukkha (part 2) - Talk 39:23
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that will help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-23 Morning Instructions (title pending) 52:36
Yahel Avigur
This recording also includes Catherine McGee.
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-23 The Basics of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 59:05
Diana Winston
First day of a retreat. How do we start our practice? Learn how to focus our attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Mindfulness for Everyone

2024-06-23 The four establishments of sati 48:44
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-22 Evening Teachings 1:21:59
Gavin Milne
From radical allowing to radical connecting. Getting a feel for compassion, through the ocean and wave analogy. Mingyur Rinpoche's journey with panic.
Gaia House Awakening in the World : Self Compassion, Whole Compassion

2024-06-22 Evening - Guided Practice (title pending) 37:55
Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-22 The Mighty Trumpeters: Reflections on Mettā 55:24
Catherine McGee
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-22 Morning Instructions 55:27
Yahel Avigur
Thei recording also includes Catherine McGee offering walking meditation instructions.
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-22 Morning reflection 54:55
Carol Wilson
Some reflections on emptiness and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-22 The Tatagata is the escape from the tangles 53:42
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-22 Voice and chanting guidance (3) 31:11
Ajahn Sucitto
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-21 Q&A 48:53
Ajahn Sucitto
00:00 Ajahn’s comments about retreat. 01:44 Q1 Could you offer any practice suggestions around eating? 10:55 Q2 How does designation consciousness relate to perception? 18:02 Q3 One is aware of feelings and the teaching on dependent origination. Is it possible to slow down the craving and the clinging that ensues? 24:49 Q4 How does one stay and not jump? 27:46 Q5 Is the citta a sankara? Is the purpose of practice to calm and purify the citta, which seems away of caring for life, or to uproot it and all of the khandhas which has to me a flavour of rejecting life. 37:59 Q6 I struggle with the first noble truth. Spending time with my daughter is certainly transient and structured by I-making. Buddhism says this is dukkha and seeks to change my relationship to experience or its qualities. But to me its value is intrinsic and undeniable. 42:39 Q7 Can one attain liberation or enlightenment without the knowledge of the path leading to it? What's the relationship between knowledge and wisdom?
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-21 The case for passion 62:10
Cara Lai
How passion can support us in the search towards dispassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-21 Opening Talk 1:10:30
Catherine McGee, Yahel Avigur
Gaia House The Eye of the Heart

2024-06-21 Morning Instructions 1:18:28
Gavin Milne
The practice of radical allowing - shifting energy from that which obscures (the usual status-quo), into that which opens. An alive attitude, and the wings of awakening. The imminent experience of life through our 6 senses, as our fluid object of awareness. Continuity of kind awareness.
Gaia House Awakening in the World : Self Compassion, Whole Compassion

2024-06-21 Wise attention 57:59
Carol Wilson
From the Majjhima Nikaya. The Buddha offers several examples of meeting our experience with wise attention: Purifying the habits of craving and delusion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-21 Touching the citta's formations 49:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-21 Guided voice and chanting (2) 29:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn instructs on voice and breath issues and leads chanting of a refuge mantra.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-20 Q&A 46:12
Ajahn Sucitto
00:16 Q1 I believe you said to not do concentration practices but rather to see if the breath could go deeper or have more calm. Isn't that a form of concentration? And aren't the brahma vihara a form of concentration practice? 18:26 Q2 If attention is a sankara can you suggest how one might let go of it? 29:02 Q3 Regarding the anapanadsati sutta, is it sequential? Must one follow the tetrads in order? 3818 Q4 A person relates some of their meditation experiences and asks if this is a wise reflection.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-20 Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:23
James Baraz
Awareness is not only spacious and wakeful, compassion is also an inherent component. Expressing care to address the suffering in the world is understood to be an essential part of practice. This talk explores the greater implications of this understanding especially at this critical time of global dukkha on so many levels.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-20 Recognizing delusion 53:31
JoAnna Hardy
How to see that which is hard to see - delusion and what brings us to wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-20 Guided Meditation for the Last Day (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:30
Trudy Goodman
Guided meditation for the last full day of retreat
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-20 Morning reflection 54:28
Carol Wilson
Wise effort
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-20 Interview about Dipa Ma 37:29
Amita Schmidt
Interview with Amita Schmidt about Dipa Ma Barua. Interview is a podcast with Donna Ferris on her podcast series Bounce Back Stronger.
Maui, Hi

2024-06-20 Retreat Closing 17:52
Ayya Santussika
Closing questions and advice
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-20 The five hindrances 48:26
Cara Lai
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-20 GM - standing 23:52
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence 21:58
Tara Brach
The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-06-19 Q&A 4 62:36
Ayya Santussika
The final Q&A and the final evening for this retreat.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Touching the earth 41:29
Cara Lai
From the Plum Village tradition ceremony
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Retreat – BIPOC

2024-06-19 Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution 56:36
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-06-19 Metta Meditation 24:10
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided metta meditation
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 2 63:52
Donald Rothberg
We start with a brief reflection on today's holiday, Juneteenth. Then we review last week's initial exploration of practicing with views, including (1) identifying the main teachings on views given by the Buddha, and (2) three basic ways to practice with views, including developing mindfulness of views, inquiring when there is a charge related to another's view, and developing careful listening. This review is followed by bringing in several further ways to understand and practice with views, including working with a specific teaching and letting the "view [coming from the teaching] be the meditation," exploring how sometimes to rest in a kind of unknowing, and then how awakening lies beyond views and concepts. The talk is followed by discussion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views 36:07
Donald Rothberg
After initial instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then mindfulness, there are further instructions, given after 10 and after 20 minutes, on developing more mindfulness of views, stories, and narratives (related to the talk given after the meditation). At the end, there is an invitation to reflect on views or stories that have been prominent in the last few days.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-19 GM - sitting basics 12:55
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Reflections on the Teaching in Brief 20:05
Ayya Santussika
Are we really practicing? What do we need to use right now?
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-19 Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 57:15
James Baraz
This meditation shifts from focusing on objects in our experience to the awareness in which all objects appear and disappear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-19 Morning Instructions: Consciousness 53:06
Andrea Fella
A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, followed by further reflections.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-19 Using the khandha 48:03
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Amplifying skilful states 45:20
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-19 Pali sounds - chanting guidance 34:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn provides a guide to resonant sound production, Pali pronunciation and leads a mantra.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-18 Q&A 42:24
Ajahn Sucitto
02:00 Q1 Regarding the sankaras, is it possible for feelings to land on contact without being in the realm of sankaras? If so how would this perception manifest? 17:15 Q2 Could you please explain the distinction between mental formations and consciousness. 30:02 Q3 Some questions on mindfulness of breathing. Should we regulate the breath and use the length of the breath as the object of mindfulness? 38:24 Q4 Can you speak about the third tetrad of the anapanasati sutta.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-18 Facing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:20
Trudy Goodman
This talk is about a recent near death experience and the choice to live, exploring how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-18 Observing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment as an Aspect of Dhamma 36:43
Ayya Santussika
AN 8.63, MN 10 4.1-4.4, SN 46.16, SN 46.3
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Evening Talk: Five Aggregates and Emptiness 60:07
Andrea Fella
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Meditation 28:28
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-18 Understanding Dukkha - Talk 57:21
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2024-06-18 Three Characteristic 16:30
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided meditation on dukkha, anicca, anatta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Observing the Five Hindrances as an Aspect of Dhamma 35:00
Ayya Santussika
"I'll meditate observing an aspect of Dhamma" from AN 8.63, specifically looking at the five hindrances from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-18 Mindfulness of Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:41
Trudy Goodman
How the emotions are sensed in the body and why it's important to learn to feel them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-18 Morning reflection: not knowing 51:00
Andrea Fella
A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, followed by further reflections.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-18 Sensitive to citta 37:17
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-18 Chanting guidance 24:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-17 Retrieving the empty centre 28:37
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-17 GM - Aim to not-self (with 30 min silence) 45:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-17 Week 2 : The Vastness of Awareness 1:36:34
Juha Penttilä
Teachings, Guided Practice
Gaia House The Vastness of Awareness (online series)

2024-06-17 The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:37
James Baraz
By opening to the perspective of everything arising and passing away in the space of awareness we see through the illusion of separation, directly experiencing anatta, the selfless nature of reality. We also let go of identifying with hindrances and and other ways we identify with the natural unfolding of experience. This talk includes an exploration of the Kashmir Shaivism text "Realization of Our True Heart."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-17 Sayings of the Dhammapada on the Mind 20:16
Ayya Santussika
Dhammapada Verses 33-43
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-17 Observing an Aspect of Mind 46:00
Ayya Santussika
AN 1.21-60
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-17 Monday Night Meditation 1:40:31
Jack Kornfield
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-06-17 Perceptions, Thoughts, Feelings 14:34
Ayya Santussika
Lightly guided meditation on perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-17 Instructions Including Breath, Body Sensations and Sounds (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 51:09
James Baraz
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-17 Morning Reflections: Impermanence 54:19
Andrea Fella
A meditative reflection, followed by a silent sitting, followed by further reflections.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-17 Voice, resonance and mantra 26:28
Ajahn Sucitto
Ajahn provides guidance on the power of group voice and offers a mantra: Metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-17 Mindfulness of feeling and emotion 41:05
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-16 Seeing Everything through Sacred Outlook (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 54:54
Anam Thubten
Seeing our inner light and darkness as sacred, and working on letting go of identification with our internal afflictions with all embracing awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-16 Q&A 3 69:16
Ayya Santussika
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-16 Metta with Breath and Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 30:07
Trudy Goodman
Affectionate breath practice, feeling cared for by the breath. Metta for the body, brief lovingkindness body scan
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-16 Guided Mindfulness of Feeling 39:16
Ayya Santussika
Sweeping the body -- front, back and inside - observing the feeling tone.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-16 Upright and Noble Parami 30:22
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-16 Feeling - Morning Reflection 21:10
Ayya Santussika
Three short suttas from the Vedana Samyutta for reflection on Mindfulness of Feeling. SN 36.1, SN 36.12, and SN 36.24
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-16 The Breath Is Your Partner (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 65:13
Trudy Goodman
This is the opening morning of the retreat, offering guidance in working with the breath skillfully by infusing the mindfulness with lovingkindness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Magic of Awareness

2024-06-16 Voice and resonance/ chanting guidance (1) 31:54
Ajahn Sucitto
In this retreat Ajahn offered a series of guidance on voice production and resonant chanting.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-15 Mindfulness of Feeling 37:55
Ayya Santussika
Using AN 8.63 and MN 10 to investigate the practice of Mindfulness of Feeling as a way into deep meditation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-15 Wise effort and inquiry 45:35
Michael Grady
Working with fear and anxiety
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Practicing with a Spirit of Inquiry

2024-06-15 Questions and Responses - Talk 50:50
Kamala Masters
Common Ground Meditation Center

2024-06-15 The Water Element 33:20
Brian Lesage
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Dharma, Intimacy, and Ecology: Finding the Path in Every Step

2024-06-15 Disassembling and Reassembling the Body 37:57
Ayya Santussika
Taking out the parts of the body and putting them back in again - body parts contemplation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-15 Mindfulness of the Body Morning Reflection 20:18
Ayya Santussika
Reading and reflection on "The Chapter on Mindfulness of the Body" AN 1.575-615
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-15 Satipatthana - internal and external 50:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) :  A Mindful Resonance

2024-06-14 Mindfulness of the Body Techniques 43:44
Ayya Santussika
Based on Majjhima Nikaya 119
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Cooling the Mind, Warming the Heart

2024-06-14 Wise effort and the inquiring mind 42:37
Michael Grady
Cultivating an attitude of open-hearted inquiry
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living Dharma: Practicing with a Spirit of Inquiry

2024-06-14 The Felt Experience 63:07
Kevin Griffin
Begins with a 30m meditation and is followed by a Dharma Talk. (The Q/A has been removed)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Dharma and Recovery

2024-06-14 Exploring awareness of thought 54:54
Carol Wilson
Brief description of some of the ways we experience and can bring awareness to thoughts
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2024

2024-06-14 Meditation and ethics cannot be separated 17:49
John Peacock
London Insight Meditation John Peacock – The Cultivation of Awareness and Ethics

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