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Dharma Talks
2022-02-06 Third Vipallasa 1:13:45
Ayya Santacitta
Seeing what is without a self (anatta) as a self (atta). This recording also includes Laura Bridgman.
Gaia House Penetrating the Veils ~ Exploring the Four Distortions of Perception (Vipallasa)

2022-01-21 Not-Self, Healthy Self, Anatta (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 48:53
Kate Munding
How to understand the Buddha's teachings on Anatta (not-self)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Elements Retreat

2021-11-26 Q&A 31:20
Ajahn Sucitto
00:13 Working with tinnitus; 03:06 ‘sensing a way home to what I am’; 04:42 Becoming more comfortable with non-doing; 06:57 Mention not-self/anattā in the suttas; 11:26 Focusing on one point with breathing; 14:45 Feeling I should be doing something; 16:12 Building more energy in the practice as one ages; 22:32 Feeling angst about ending of the retreat; 23:15 Recollecting one’s virtues as preparation for death; 25:01 Having lost our ability to express open steady presence; 26:13 Refusing to identify with someone or some movement; 27:10 Aches in my shoulder in long sits; 29:06 Arūpa jhānas.
Bodhi College Breathing to Liberation (Ānāpāṇasati)

2021-11-07 Guided Meditation on Anatta 55:39
Devon Hase
Brief overview of insight practice looking through the lens of not-self. Includes investigation of body sensations, emotions, and seeing meditation, using the Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Settling, Seeing, and Luminous Awareness

2021-11-02 Dedicated Practitioners -- The Three Characteristics, Misperceptions, and Perceptions 45:40
Kim Allen
The three "characteristics" of anicca, dukkha, and anatta are perhaps better understood as perceptions.
Insight Santa Cruz

2021-10-18 Week 1, Part 2 35:08
Juha Penttilä
Self, Identification and Anatta
Gaia House Exploring Anatta (online series)

2021-08-05 Reflections on Anatta (non-self) 47:30
Jaya Rudgard
Gaia House Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine

2021-06-09 Allowing Life to Speak for Itself 51:15
Ayya Santacitta
Anatta & Meditation on the Elements
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center

2021-05-21 Anatta and its Blessings 50:07
Matthew Brensilver
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Spring Insight Retreat with Matthew Brensilver, PhD, Tuere Sala and Brian Lesage

2021-04-09 Meditation and Dhamma talk on the three characteristics 1:23:07
Bhante Sujato
Meditation on anicca, dukkha, anatta guided by Bhante Sujato, Dhamma talk by Bhante Sujato on these three characteristics, good method, translation of sankhārā and dhammā, perception and conceptualization in relation to training the mind
Lokanta Vihara

2021-04-08 05 talk: Wise Intention p2 - metta, kindness 22:24
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the second aspect of Wise Intention, metta or kindness, as a support for understanding anatta, not-self
Auckland Insight Meditation Living a life of mutual benefit: Exploring the Noble Eightfold Path

2021-04-02 IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 2 2021 20:48
Chas DiCapua
Anatta/Not Self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center IMS Daily Dharma 2021

2021-03-17 32 talk: working with afflictive thought patterns 52:01
Jill Shepherd
Looking at common afflictive thought patterns such as lack mind and comparing mind, using the wisdom of anicca dukkha anatta to help them release, and the practice of mudita, appreciative joy, to help prevent them from re-arising
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Finding the heart of freedom

2021-03-16 27 talk: anatta / not-self and the five clinging-aggregates 44:10
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Finding the heart of freedom

2021-01-28 Anatta and Self-Forgiveness 49:00
James Baraz
Do you ever give yourself a hard time if you've made an embarrassing mistake or have done something you regret? This talk explores how we can truly forgive ourselves with a thorough understanding of the Buddha's teaching on the selfless nature of who we are, otherwise known as Anatta, the selfless nature of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2020-12-16 Day 5 Instructions - Anattā 61:58
Nathan Glyde
Bringing a not self view as a way to open more mettā and well being into life here and now
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-15 Anattā and Mettā 45:31
Nathan Glyde
The not-self strategy (anattā) is indicated, invited, and supported by kindness (mettā).
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2020-12-09 Q&A 1 16:13
Ajahn Sucitto
Misguided jhāna; how to practice with the three characteristics (anicca, dukkha, anatta); is ānāpānasati enough for liberation?
Bodhi College Citta: Mind, Heart, Spirit

2020-10-08 06 talk: an overview of the five clinging-aggregates 36:08
Jill Shepherd
Continuing the exploration of insight into the three universal characteristics, focusing on anatta or not-self and how the aggregates are aspects of experience that we commonly identify with
Auckland Insight Meditation Deepening Insight - a series of talks for Auckland Insight

2020-09-28 Day 4 Instructions - Seeing Not-Self Anattā 66:34
Nathan Glyde
Meditation instructions exploring the strategy of not-self–how is it to apply the recipe of seeing this is not me, not mine, not my self? Before that a few words sustaining our meditation experience: 1. keeping the balloon of practice alive through all postures, and 2. the idea of taking a victory lap when the bell rings–rather than ending quickly.
SanghaSeva Insights to Live By

2020-09-13 Transcending Distractions 60:11
Nathan Glyde
Invitations to relaxation, energy perceptions, anattā, surrender, and devotion as ways of relating to thoughts and other phenomena that appear as distractions to our steady relaxed attention.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Sept 2020

2020-07-19 Q&A 67:04
Ajahn Sucitto
Clarifying what is citta; what is felt sense; focusing as an alternative to meditation; is citta the same as self; stuck energy in neck and head; causes and conditions and personal responsibility; unbinding vs. education of citta; how to accept our history; advice for approach to conflict; working with separation and loss; how to practice with space around myself; anatta
Sunyata Buddhist Centre :  Unrestricted Awareness

2020-07-10 In This Very Life -- 2020-07-10 57:22
Kim Allen
Finishing up the Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta and continuing with the Fire Sermon
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-07-03 In This Very Life -- 2020-07-03 58:02
Kim Allen
Sutta Study -- Anatta-Lakkhana Sutta SN 22.59
Insight Santa Cruz

2020-05-29 Dharma talk: Finding Peace, Ending the War 45:00
Michele McDonald
Dharma talk on annica, dukkha, anatta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

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