Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks
2014-09-04 The Practice of Concentration Meditation 56:50
Kate Munding
In her talk on concentration meditation, Kate Janke explores different techniques, why it is an essential part of the path to awakening, and what gets in the way of a concentrated mind.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2014-09-03 Morning Instructions 57:14
Anushka Fernandopulle
Posture, meditation instrutions for sitting and walking
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2014-08-31 Guided Meditation on Arriving 44:46
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-31 12 Guided Meditation: Everything Happens within Awareness 4:58
Ajahn Sucitto
First inclination is towards that which is for one’s well-being. Attention settles on the body and breathing. Then make a practice of disconnecting and unplugging, not getting interested in other stuff that comes through. Keep asking, what’s appropriate and helpful now?
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 10 Standing Meditation: There Are No Tyrannies in Space 11:07
Ajahn Sucitto
One feature of programs is they cause contraction. When standing, then, it’s helpful to acknowledge space as an experience. In front of you, behind and above you, let the body experience the lack of intrusion and obstruction – space is open and free. There are no tyrannies in space.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-31 Big Mind Meditation 42:19
Howard Cohn
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2014-08-31 08 Guided Meditation: Internal Happiness 30:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation offers the opportunity to encourage the body to open into a more steady state of pleasure than is normally attainable through sense contact. This internal happiness has to do with the body’s subtle energy. Guidance is given to sense the subtle body and experience this internal happiness.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 Metta - Friendliness 43:00
Pascal Auclair
A few words on this quality of mind, a poem and a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-30 07 Steep Yourself in the Good 49:12
Ajahn Sucitto
When we experience hostility and ill will, rather than simply acknowledging it, we stick it into ourselves, and begin to assume we’re unwelcome or unworthy. We can use meditation to change the flavor of the heart, steeping it in the qualities of the brahmavihara (goodwill, compassion, gladness, equanimity).
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 05 Walking Meditation: Coming Out of Stuck States 38:53
Ajahn Sucitto
In walking meditation, mental patterns are bound to well up. If you don’t go into decisive action around them, they will fade. Give attention instead to the fluidity of the body while walking. Let things work themselves out; it’s not up to us to claim or reject. Come back to the here of breathing and body; realizations occur in that process.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-30 Opening Meditation Instructions and Guided Meditation 67:00
Pascal Auclair
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2014-08-29 02 Standing Meditation: Springing Rhythmic Nature of the Body 15:07
Ajahn Sucitto
Use standing posture to acknowledge the springing rhythmic nature of the body. When the body relaxes, the mind relaxes – the two synchronize. What the body does, the mind picks up.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-29 01 Meditation is Always Present Moment 30:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Direct experience of the body in the present moment provides a mooring in the midst of thoughts and emotions.
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unseating the Inner Tyrant

2014-08-27 Une méditation guidée, un enseignement et une dernière méditation guidée 53:02
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-26 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, August 2014 53:28
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

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Afternoon Part I, Talk on Lovingkindness & Instructions on Metta Walking Meditation 27:24
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-24 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Morning Part I, Intro Talk & Guided Meditation 29:34
Sharon Salzberg
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-23 Power and Purpose of Concentration 56:46
Sally Armstrong
Concentration plays a central role in meditation practice. In this talk I look at the different trajectories in the development of concentration and how to use that form skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-23 Opening Talk - Joyful Living 61:36
Leela Sarti
The practice of embodied mindful meditation opens the possibility to understand and transform our habits of dissatisfaction and distraction, and invites spaciousness and openness in our day-to-day lives. Becoming intimate, moment by moment, with living reality expands our life-perspective and attunes us to what really matters in life. We can invite the practice of mind-heart-body fullness and the reorienting, and inclining of the mind towards the natural capacity for well-being, contentment, delight and kindness.
Gaia House Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Level 3 - Guided Meditation 4NT standing and sitting (Part 3b) 35:31
Amma Thanasanti
Shakti Vihara Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-22 Reflection. Satipaṭṭhāna: Learning the holding skill in meditation 20:32
Akincano Marc Weber
Meditation instructions – between the basic outline and the detailed cut-out: On informed choices, defaulting to wrong options – and learning anyway.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-20 The Variety of Samadhi Experience 65:55
Phillip Moffitt
Multiple suggestions for firming up the practice at this point, riding the momentum of a collected, unified mind. Includes 'Gladdening of the Mind' guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 Morning Instructions Day 5 52:42
Sally Armstrong
Guided Meditation: exploring the effort side of maintaining continuity of the breath; aiming and sustaining
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Concentration Retreat

2014-08-18 Concentration and Purification 62:40
Tempel Smith
From the point of developing the Five Jhana Factors to establishing absorption in meditation, there are processes of purification. Yet as we purify our hearts and minds, a deeper happiness and contentment arises from within.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-08-18 Guided Meditation 56:51
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

Creative Commons License