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2012-04-19 Metta Meditation Introduction. Guided Meditation 30:59
Rebecca Bradshaw
Short introduction to metta and instructions on sending metta to self and "easy person"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-13 32 Parts Continued and 4 Noble Truths 66:24
Bob Stahl
More on how to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation. Then an exploration of why we practice and the story of the Buddha's awakening and the 4 Noble Truths and 3 marks of existence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Body 59:09
Eugene Cash
The purpose and usefulness of embodied meditation: How to stay connected to the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center One Path: Unity of Concentration and Mindfulness

2012-04-11 Death, Hindrances, 32 Body Parts 63:45
Bob Stahl
Cultivating the mindfulness of death assists in the path of awakening. Working with the challenges/hindrances that come up after the first day of full practice. An introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Guided Meditation - How We Create Our World 55:11
Ayya Santacitta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat

2012-04-10 The Four Stages of Letting Go 58:07
Martine Batchelor
'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2012-04-09 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part Two) 62:09
Stephen Batchelor
Reflections on "an ordinary person's life," as understood in a passage by the 9th century Chan master Teshan. This idea is related to the Buddha's phenomenological analysis of human experience (the "all") into namarupa and consciousness, a vision of life where there is no transcendent awareness or consciousness "outside" ordinary experience, thereby revealing a common thread between the Pali Canon and early Chan.
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2012-04-08 Opening To An New Day 49:35
Ayya Anandabodhi
Early morning meditation guidance
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat

2012-04-08 To Self of Not to Self? 49:19
Martine Batchelor
Exploring selfing and not- selfing through three symbols of awakening. Looking at how we grasp and identify and how meditation can help us to release.
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2012-04-07 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One) 59:36
Stephen Batchelor
Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
Gaia House Zen Retreat

2012-04-05 Hindrances as Opportunities in Yoga & Meditation 53:22
Anne Cushman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-03 Monet's Haystack: The Art And Science Of The Meditative Journey 56:52
Joseph Goldstein
A discussion of the creativity and methodology of insight meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-24 Brahma Vihara Milling Meditation 23:41
Mark Coleman
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-03-20 The Paramitas as the Path 55:37
Sylvia Boorstein
Cultivation of morality (in the ten permutations called Perfections (Paramitas) is presented as the path to rather than simply a preparation for meditation. Stories illustrate how the practice of each paramita leads to insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-18 Istruzioni per la Pratica di Metta Meditazione guidata n. 2 - Metta Instruction, Guided Meditation #2 48:50
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  Insight and Wisdom

2012-03-16 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:19:13
Norman Feldman
Gaia House Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-10 Meditations on Mind: Learning to Recognize, Accept, Investigate, and Not-Identify with Mental States 15:32
Shaila Catherine
This 15-minute recording by Shaila Catherine offers strategies and techniques for meditating on the mind. The acronym RAIN (Recognize, Accept, Investigate, Not-identify) can help us work skillfully with mental states.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2012-03-06 Take the First Step 58:06
Larry Yang
On walking meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-25 Cultivating A Heart Of Kindness 37:51
Kittisaro
Being with all things with kindness. Guided Metta meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-24 Morning meditation continued - Sky Like Mind 5:01
Thanissara
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-21 Higher Training Of The Mind 37:48
Kittisaro
Guided meditation on Samma Samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-17 Patterns of Becoming 3: Unentangled Knowing 63:18
Guy Armstrong
This third in a series of talks explores the formation of self through the chain of dependent origination, a detailed description of how we suffer. It then outlines approaches in meditation that let us step out of the chain of suffering and into a state of "unentangled knowing" in which we discover the possibility of freedom here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-14 What Must Be Known 34:58
Shaila Catherine
What do we need to know, understand, investigate, and realize through our meditation practice? In the Anguttara Nikaya. VI, 63, the Buddha described six things that should be known in six ways. The six things to be known include desires, feelings, perceptions, taints, kamma (actions of body speech and mind), and suffering. Each can be known through their presence, conditioned origin, diversity, outcome, cessation, and way to cessation. This talk explores the structure and details of this brief sutta teaching, and proposes a practical approach to investigating the mind and our relationship with life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-02-13 Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 6 - Meditation 26:15
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties

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