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Dharma Talks
2016-06-28 Instructions et méditation guidée 28:30
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-25 Introduction to Insight Meditation 5:43:22
Howard Cohn
Imagine feeling at home wherever you are. Imagine feeling that your life is so complete - right here, right now - that you do not wish to be anywhere else. This daylong talk will provide the tools to experience this meditative presence wherever you are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-25 Morning instructions 58:23
Joseph Goldstein
Review of meditation instructions and working with thoughts and emotions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-23 The Fourth Noble Truth- The path 54:38
Sally Armstrong
The fourth noble truth describes the whole path of practice from how we live our lives, develop our meditation practice and deepen wisdom.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-23 Conventional truth an ultimate truth 61:22
Bhante Khippapanno
Noting the intention is one of the ways to develop the insight knowledge of cause and effect. The importance of the wholeheartedness and devotion in Vipassana meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-23 Welcome home– breath and body meditation instructions 60:55
DaRa Williams
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center People of Color Retreat

2016-06-21 Instructions et méditations guidées 29:50
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Third Noble Truth & NIbbana 57:49
Guy Armstrong
Explores the relationship of the Third Noble Truth to Nibbana. Describes the traditional understanding of Nibbana in Theravada and the stages of enlightenment. Suggests some classical approaches on meditation practice.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-21 The The 3 Facets of Practice, in Meditation and in Life 45:38
Martin Aylward
This talk was given on the Summer solstice, and the teachings were held outside under the large Plane tree in the Gaia House gardens. Martin explores 3 facets of awareness practice, seeing how they can be applied in any moment, both within the formality of meditation and moment by moment in our wider lives. The 3 are Embodied Presence, Exploration and Inquiry, and Openness to the Nature of experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-21 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry - June 2016 64:42
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Day 2: Morning Instructions - Working with Pain (REVISED 7/7) Retreat at Spirit Rock 61:42
Diana Winston
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness to work with pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-20 Examining reality through Vipassana and Q/A 63:15
Nikki Mirghafori
Vipassana as process (vs. content) meditation. Lucid dreaming practice as a method to examine our waking reality. Seeing the three characteristics of existence as the aspects of ultimate reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-20 Monday Night Meditation Class with Larry Yang 59:15
Larry Yang
Dharma talk from our Monday Night Meditation Class on Monday, June 20th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-19 Guided Meditation 53:22
Nikki Mirghafori
Instructions on practicing metta as friendliness. Investigating the mind and the mental factors. Followed by Q/A.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-18 Meditation instructions on Metta 55:10
Sayadaw U Jagara
A brief description "process versus content" - Followed by a few questions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-17 Guided meditation: The Twelve Characteristics of the Four Elements and Q/A 42:32
Nikki Mirghafori
12 characteristics of the four elements and Q/A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-16 The benefits of the Vipannana meditation 62:08
Bhante Khippapanno
1. Seeing the mind clearly 2. Keeping the mind in balance 3. Curing ordinary illness 4. Understanding the Dhamma teachings easily, deeply, and thoroughly 5. Not being reborn in the four woeful states...stream entry
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-15 Approaches to meditation 53:33
Sayadaw U Jagara
The way we approach life will determine much the outcome… same with meditation practice. How to adopt the proper distance towards objects and situations
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-15 Guided meditation day one - arriving and settling 55:46
Nikki Mirghafori
Guided meditation for settling the mind, walking meditation instructions and Q/A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-13 Monday Night Meditation Class with Jack Kornfield 55:45
Jack Kornfield
Dharma talk from Monday, June 13th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-13 Open awareness nature meditation 35:05
Mark Coleman
Meditation in nature and discussion.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake In The Wild

2016-06-12 Evening Q&A - Livelihood, Meditation, Striving, Tracing Somatic Experience 52:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Beyond Time and Space

2016-06-12 Metta Talk: Guided Meditation, Q&A with metta for the difficult person 61:38
Mark Coleman
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake In The Wild

2016-06-12 Guided Meditation on Equanimity 45:43
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

2016-06-12 Meditation Instructions 66:16
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Living with Illness and Loss

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