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2021-09-01 Meditation: Relaxing Back and Saying Yes to the Moment 18:51
Tara Brach
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When we are stressed, our conditioning is to tighten our body. We tense against our moment-to-moment experience. This meditation is a powerful practice of de-conditioning this reactivity by learning to relax back into presence, and to respond to difficulty by saying “yes.” Through relaxing back and saying “yes,” we discover our heart’s capacity for unconditional love.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2021-09-01 Guided Meditation: Settling, Tracking Reactivity and Awakened Qualities 36:10
Donald Rothberg
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We start with the intention to cultivate awakened qualities, then have a period of settling, followed by opening up experience and particularly noticing any reactivity (habitual grasping and pushing away) and awakened qualities, such as mindfulness, concentration, equanimity, joy, etc.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-08-28 41 meditation: compassion for a good friend then oneself 24:50
Jill Shepherd
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Beginning by settling the body, before orienting to compassion for a good friend, then extending that compassion to oneself, closing with compassion for all beings
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Connecting through silence, solitude, stillness: cultivating the heart of freedom

2021-08-27 Breath meditation, Dhamma talk 1:25:59
Bhante Sujato, Bhante Akāliko
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Breath meditation guided by Bhante Sujato. Simile of the cops chasing kids in stolen cars. Dhamma talk by Bhante Akāliko: how to listen to the Dhamma, and its benefits (Dhammassavana Sutta, AN 5.202). Q+A: Bhante Sujato on today's epistemological crisis.
Lokanta Vihara

2021-08-25 (Lightly) Guided Meditation: Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences and Tendencies toward Reactivity. 38:13
Donald Rothberg
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-08-25 Morning meditation on the 6 sense bases 40:48
Dhammadīpā
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2021-08-24 Brama Vihara Meditation: Karuna (Compassion) 46:24
Sally Armstrong
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Concentration and Awareness

2021-08-24 Exploring Meditation as a Gateway to Transcendent Awareness, Part2 53:12
Rodney Smith
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There is a direct line through mindfulness to formless awareness. Simply release the “self” associated with mindfulness and awareness reveals itself in its full expanse.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Practitioners

2021-08-23 Loving Witness Meditation | Monday Night 27:51
Jack Kornfield
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Notice as you feel the breath, that who you are is not this breath, or this body, but you are loving awareness, the loving witness. You are consciousness itself—open, spacious, letting the breath breathe itself. Experiences can rise and fall in a field of loving awareness. Notice how emotions, feelings and thoughts rise and fall like the waves of the ocean; you are the loving witness to them all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

2021-08-23 Loving Witness 45:27
Jack Kornfield
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In any moment you can become the loving witness—it’s why we sit in meditation. We learn to sit with both heartbreak and love—with whatever arises. We become the loving witness of it all. What channel do you turn to amidst the joy and sorrows? With mindful loving awareness we can see it all anew. When we see with amazement, with loving awareness, we also see with the heart. As Mary Oliver writes: “And therefore I look upon everything as a brotherhood and a sisterhood…. and I think of each life as a flower, as common as a field daisy, and as singular…. and each body a lion of courage, and something precious to the earth. When it’s over, I want to say all my life I was a bride married to amazement….”
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Monday and Wednesday Talks

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