2016-05-13 Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now 39:24
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe 39:53
James Baraz, Ayya Yeshe	Download Listen
Ayya Yeshe has developed the Bodhicitta Foundation to support the empowerment of women and children from the previously ‘untouchable’ caste in Central India. The talk started with this YouTube video at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOpZ3kpIJU ) of her work. To learn more about her work, go to the Bodhicitta Foundation at ( http://bodhicitta-vihara.com/ ) Bodhicitta Foundation is a socially engaged charity that helps ex-untouchable Indians – a community that was previously enslaved and forced to do the most demeaning kinds of work for little pay. They also help slum people, offer a women’s job training center, sewing, English computer classes and have a children’s study center. In addition they offer counseling for domestic violence, have a malnourished children’s program and offer basic medical and housing assistance.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 18:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-12 Ecology of the Heart 29:20
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma Reflection
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice 37:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 66:25
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-11 6) Thoughts 57:50
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-11 Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Vihara 52:13
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Morning Question and Response 16:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Being with the Syrian Refugees in Greece -- A Presentation by John Namkung 1:14:15
Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Sylvia and Donald introduce John Namkung, a practitioner of the Wednesday community at Spirit Rock. John reflects on why he decided to help the refugees. He presents photos and videos of his experiences in the accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
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2016-05-11 Meditation: Space of Awareness 35:22
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Awake awareness includes both the foreground of bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds, and the background of open, still presence. In this meditation we explore discovering interior space and aliveness, and the continuous space that all existence arises and passes in. Resting as a boundless sea of awareness, we are fully open to the changing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are. 41:03
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Morning Instructions Day Two
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 The Process and Development of Spiritual Authorities [ Indriya ] 57:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The 5 indriya arise from the grounded citta – they lead the meditation process. Without these we unnecessarily re-activate samsaric processes: perfectionism, projection, self-criticism. Get on the right track!
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 Reflection on Citta as Responsive Sentiency 20:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our awareness touches and responds. To set it in line with Dhamma, we use the occasion to bring forth, to offer heart – so that it can open. This is Dhamma practice, Sangha is the human individual quality of our subsequent endeavor.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Guided Meditation on Breathing 20:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Get the body grounded, set the spine, sense the balance. Trace the rhythm of breathing, apply some tuning, let its energy spread through the body. Enjoy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Applying the Practice 44:26
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True
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2016-05-10 Becoming Freedom 48:31
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Andrea Fella gave the fifth talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk discusses early teachings by the Buddha contained in the Sutta Nipata, wherein the Buddha addressed suffering and its causes, such as clinging to sense pleasures and views.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-10 Tuning the Instrument of the Body 58:58
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided Meditation Day 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-10 Refuge in Awareness 45:48
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Morning reflection on developing awareness of changing states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-10 Path: Kamma and it’s ending – in body and mind 65:44
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta moves through Kamma, not through space-time. It is triggered by ‘old Kamma’ – perceptions, attitudes, personality programs. It keeps recreating these unless there is direct insight – the Kamma that ends Kamma.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Reflection on the Four Noble Truths 47:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Building up the strength to meet dukkha: moving out of habitual support systems, give oneself fully to citta and somatic presence.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Q & A 41:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Pain, drowsiness, ethical integrity (in a non-ethical world), nature as a model for humans.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 5) Sati - What Is Mindfulness 59:36
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-09 Meditation: Guided Heart Forgiveness 28:50
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Tara gives brief instructions on the forgiveness practice, then guides us through a process of forgiveness of ourselves and others. “Forgiving is a movement of your heart not to carry aversive hatred or blame. That you can care about someone and still create boundaries… Each of you has this wisdom, heart, being place that intuits that there really isn’t freedom in the moments that you’re carrying blame and judgment.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Anxiety and Tranquility 58:29
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Audio recording of Monday Night Meditation class with Matthew Brensilver on May 9th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-09 Question and Response from Retreat 12:10
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Question and Response from Retreat ~ After morning meditation, Tara responds to questions on deepening our meditation practice, working with unpleasant and pleasant thoughts, and forgiveness from the IMCW 2016 Spring Residential Retreat.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Meditation: Mystery of Aliveness 27:40
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-09 Rewilding the Wasteland ; the Arising of the Five Indriya 55:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
From the “Wasteland” of samsara, (which is generated by ignorance and craving), a natural arising of spiritual strength can occur – if we ‘touch the ground’ of truth and empathy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Standing Meditation – Finding the Somatic Body 21:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Standing can put us in touch with somatic intelligence as: balance, as cohesion. Gradually the felt sense of body re-forms as a mid-line central stillness and as peripheral sensitivities and openness.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-09 Puja: Participation not Observation 26:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Devotional practice works through including us in bodily, verbal, and heartful actions. Words and concepts are secondary to images and romances. Images of Buddha hands carry deep meaning.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Accessing ‘Ground’ – Unconditional Acceptance 13:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness is often beset with thoughts, emotions, and narratives that cause a ‘jump’ into conceptual proliferation. With unconditional acceptance we hold awareness as a non-reactive ‘pool’ that receives and resonates with mind-stuff but doesn’t react.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Fear as a Pathway to Loving Presence - Night Travelers 62:42
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Shifting our relationship with fear is central to the evolution of consciousness. Our suffering arises when our thoughts, feelings and sense of identity are shaped by fear. As we learn to attend to fear with mindfulness and care, we discover the vast tender presence that has room for the waves, and can fully cherish this life. Life’s waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don’t run from it. Night travelers are full of light, and you are too: don’t leave this companionship… The moon appears for night travelers, be watchful when the moon is full. - rumi
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-08 Citta and a person meet in the body. 61:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is occluded by not knowing its freedom. Citta enters the sensory condition, is ‘born’, develops a person to meet ‘the other’. Here is dukkha and personal responses to that don’t work, but dukkha can be released through citta in the body.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Standing Meditation: Finding Balance 19:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Balance is an important aspect of bodily/somatic intelligence. It is alert, free from pressure and sensitive. Attuning to this can bring these qualities into citta.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-08 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Sunday Morning 2:28:19
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion

2016-05-08 Puja: Devotion as a way of bringing citta into personhood 41:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Use of one’s voice and of giving it to the sacred. Through merging one’s voice and giving into the communal field, citta can rise out of the isolation of personhood.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Compassion Slogans 65:38
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
About how to practice with slogans and a few specific slogans to practice with.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  Developing Compassion: The Fruit of our Practice

2016-05-07 The Bodhisattva Leaves a Retreat 65:49
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Meditation – the gift of natural ease 47:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Find ground in the body as a gift, not worked for. This opens space around the body. Breathing is another given that flows through that, establishing rhythm = natural time.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 4) Instructions for Vipassana Meditation 59:17
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-07 Guided Meditation 24:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 The Nature of Citta 59:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta is awareness, heart and mind. It experiences involuntary and voluntary modes. In the involuntary is release, but the path to that is through intention, disengagement, and discernment.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center :  Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-07 Day 8 Instructions 55:20
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) :  Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-07 Guided meditation instructions and questions and answers 44:56
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center :  Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-07 Meditation: Basic Body Scan and Breath Awareness 12:17
Tara Brach	Download Listen
- from the first morning of the IMCW 2016 Spring weeklong retreat, Tara offers a short introductory meditation with a body scan, bringing focus to the breath, sounds, then resting in awareness.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-07 Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion - Saturday Afternoon 1:14:05
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
Our environmental crisis is generated by an obsession with ownership and individualism that obscures the truth of our inter-dependence within a web of life. In a world divided by inequity, racism, and wars, Dharma practice shatters the illusion of dualistic consciousness, offering a new paradigm. This mini-retreat explores the process which generates divisiveness: papanca or conceptual proliferation in service of delusion. The ending of papanca reveals the unshakeable depth and the undivided nature of reality at the heart of all circumstances, revolutionizing our way of being and living — both personally and globally. The retreat, for contemplatives and activists, is framed within depth teachings of emptiness and merciful compassion embodied by Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, who is a metaphor for our deepest, mysterious heart. It includes Dharma teachings, meditation and inquiry sessions, qi-gong, group process, psycho-spiritual exploration, and the cultivation of inner skills for activists. Besides applying the liberating practices and teaching of mindfulness and insight meditation, we will use chanting and ceremony.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Reclamation of the Sacred Through Insight & Devotion