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Dharma Talks
2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Talk 39:56
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Meditation 27:48
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-17 Freedom Needs Roots - on Mindfulness of Breathing 44:29
Bernat Font
Gaia House The Liberating Breath

2025-01-17 Module III: Working with The Hindrances 1:47:27
Howard Cohn
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Working with the Hindrances 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-16 Module II: Mindfulness of the Body 1:58:12
Howard Cohn
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Body 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-14 Candy *ss sh*t - Training Mindfulness Teachers at the VA 59:22
Christiane Wolf
Transforming the lives of thousands of vets around the country; McMindfulness; Equanimity vs Indifference as a stress response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-13 Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Feeling Tones. 25:17
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online series)

2025-01-12 Mindfulness and Liberation 64:24
Jeanne Corrigal
This talk offers an overview of the Satipatthana map and an exploration of the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-12 Instructions on Feeling Tones - the 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 66:48
Bob Stahl
Learning abut the importance of this 2nd foundation of mindfulness as a gateway to lessen suffering and as a gateway to greater peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-11 Entering the undifferentiated 50:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Progressive cultivation of mindfulness to maintain presence through the range of states, so that one allows then to pass. Attention is less snagged on different qualities. It opens to simple awareness. Familiar reactions, and with them, identification,subside. Undifferentiated awareness remains. (refers to S.47:42)
Cittaviveka

2025-01-10 Renunciation and Mindfulness Based Dukkha Reduction 63:16
Christiane Wolf
The power of renunciation, my path from Dharma to MBSR and translations of Dukkha
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-10 Wisdom – which mountain and how to climb 48:45
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice is about fostering growth based on wisdom, effort and view. Wisdom is conditioned by a faith that leads on to motivation/desire, energy, heart and discriminative attention (iddhipada). Effort should be wisely moderated - to sustain, restrain, persevere, uplift, calm. Application of citta is fundamental to the Path; but make it relevant to uplifting the heart. Details on application to mindfulness of breathing.
Cittaviveka

2025-01-08 Guided Meditation: Identifying Some of the Ways that We Construct Experience 37:10
Donald Rothberg
After some basic instructions in developing concentration and stability, as well as mindfulness, we practice in silence. After about another ten minutes, there are several periodic brief periods of guided practice, in which we are guided to notice our main patterns of thought and perception of objects. In the latter part of the period, we are guided to drop constructions of experience in two ways.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-01-06 Overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and Reflections on Embodied Mindfulness. 58:00
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online series)

2025-01-05 Mindfulness, Refuge, and the Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:41
Tara Mulay
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Insight Retreat

2025-01-02 Reflections on vedanā (hedonic tone) and guided practice 43:39
Akincano Marc Weber
Hedonic tone (vedanā) as a feature of human experience is the major factor in governing involuntary attention – vedanā rules much of our attention. The reflections unpack the role of feeling tone on attention, intention and the cultivation of mindfulness. Learning to cultivate attention beyond gratification and avoidance and to uncouple attention from pleasant or unpleasant feeling tone.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Kafka – Love, Loss and the Satipaṭṭhāna 68:20
Akincano Marc Weber
Kafka and the girl with a lost doll. Satipaṭṭhāna and Suttas in general – a little history. Satipaṭṭhāna as a cartography of human expericence: the 'raw materials' to establish mindfulness in. (This is not the satipaṭṭhāna as exercise but their use as a map of the somatic, hedonic, affective and discursive aspects of mind.) This orientation helps greatly with the actual practice of satipatthana exercises outline elsewhere.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2025-01-01 Guiding Through the Four Establishments of Mindfulness, and the Four Brahma Viharas (heart qualities). 44:36
Ayya Anandabodhi
An overview of the Satipatthana sutta and the four brahma viharas, with an encouragement to practice with what is accessible and not get lost in a large array of possible meditation practices.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka New Year Retreat 2024 - 2025

2024-12-31 Third Foundation: Mindfulness of Citta (the heart-mind) 48:37
Devon Hase
Teaching and guided meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-12-31 Different kinds of Attention; their role and relationship to Mindfulness 56:54
Akincano Marc Weber
The challenge of attending and being mindful. Mindfulness (sati) and Attention (manasikāra) are different things. Attention comes in two forms: voluntary and involuntary attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2024-12-21 Mindfulness of Citta: Third Foundation 64:00
Devon Hase
Teachings on mindfulness of the heart/mind including guided practice recognizing and allowing our emotions, moods, and mindstates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2024-12-20 How to Work with the Hindrances 57:15
Devon Hase
Stories and teachings on working with Nivaranas - they are not hindrances if we know them with mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Winter Solstice Retreat: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2024-12-18 Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Guided Meditation 40:39
Donald Rothberg
At the time of the Winter Solstice, our practice (for the Wednesday morning gathering) connects our usual grounding in concentration, mindfulness, and lovingkindness with themes related to the later talk on the Winter Solstice, particularly opening to the unknown and mysterious, and to what is difficult, through mindfulness and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-12-17 Mindfulness of Mental Phenomena 1:50:15
Howard Cohn
Day 4, Module I: Mindfulness of Mental Phenomena
One World Mindfulness Opening to Wisdom and Love

2024-12-16 Mindfulness of Feeling Tone 1:27:58
Howard Cohn
Day 3, Module I: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone
One World Mindfulness Opening to Wisdom and Love

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