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2020-02-11 Four Noble Truths & Mindfulness of Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 52:15
John Martin
This talk provides an overview of the Four Noble Truths, with primary focus on the Noble Truth of Dukkha and the Noble Truth of the Cause of Dukkha. Mindfulness of death is reviewed as a support for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-11 Cultivation 52:16
Winnie Nazarko
The idea of cultivation (Bhavana) is the key to Buddhism. This talk relates this concept to the development of the four foundations of mindfulness, especially the first.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2020

2020-02-11 Mindfulness 35:38
Shaila Catherine
Mindfulness (Sati in Pali) is a whole-hearted observation of the present moment with a quality of mind free of desire/aversion. It forms the basis for cultivating all the Awakening Factors.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: The Seven Factors of Awakening

2020-02-10 Instructions: Listening, and Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 27:28
Martine Batchelor
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2020-02-09 Practice as a Path of Happiness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 60:47
James Baraz
Sometimes we can misunderstand practice as mainly overcoming suffering. The Buddha spoke of cultivating and increasing wholesome states and being mindful of the "gladness of the wholesome."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-09 Instructions: Mindfulness of Body & Working with the Hindrances 40:05
Chris Cullen
Gaia House Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2020-02-07 Steps in Developing Mindfulness of Breathing (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 67:06
Tempel Smith
The Buddha described detailed steps we can take when developing and deepening our practice of mindful breathing. This talk covers steps 1-8 out of 16 classical steps given in discourses on this meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-07 Day Six Morning Instructions - Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:03
Beth Sternlieb
Meeting hindrances with mindfulness & compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-02-06 Mindfulness of Breathing 65:12
Ajahn Sucitto
Rather than being about the inhalation and exhalation of breath, mindfulness of breathing is about soothing the life force energy. As energy settles in the body, many disruptive emotive tendencies are cleared, leaving the heart available to meet experience in a balanced and sensitive way.
Dharmagiri Firm Center, Open Heart

2020-02-04 Mindfulness of the Body: A Guided Meditation with Sequential Touch Sensations 25:16
Shaila Catherine
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a practice of mindfulness of the body by observing a sequence of touch sensations. This meditation guides practitioners to gradually move attention through a series of bodily locations where the feet, buttocks, hands, lips, and eye lids touch. At each location we pause to experience the present sensations that are known at that place of touching. After exploring touch points, we broader the field of attention to the whole body sitting. By alternating the focus of attention between precise and clear points of contact, and broad, restful, receptive awareness of the whole body, the meditator nurtures a clear bright balanced mind that can meet the present moment as it is.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Featured Guided Meditations

2020-02-03 Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:50
James Baraz
The Five 'Spiritual Faculties describe the unfolding of our practice. From Faith through Wise Effort, cultivating Mindfulness, deepening Concentration, flowering as Wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center February Monthlong

2020-01-29 From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 13: Exploring Our Experience of Time 4 64:24
Donald Rothberg
We focus in this session on four ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment, as in our core practice of mindfulness; (2) exploring impermanence reflectively and experientially in several ways; (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness, and learning to live from this awareness more and more; and (4) noticing and examining our various forms of conditioning around time. The first three ways of practicing correspond to the guided practices in the earlier guided meditation. For the fourth, we look especially in this session at the powerful ways that our cultural and social conditioning operates, comparing some of the main aspects of conditioning in the mainstream U.S., with its emphasis on future planning, productivity, and busyness, among other orientations to time, with how some other cultures experience time.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-29 A Guided Meditation Exploring Our Experience of Time through Three Practices 41:06
Donald Rothberg
After starting with the foundational mindfulness instructions for settling, becoming less distracted, and then seeing clearly whatever is predominant in experience, we explore three ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment; (2) exploring impermanence, particularly the arising, staying, changing, and passing away of experiential phenomena; and (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2020-01-27 Descending into the Heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:10
Sharda Rogell
Mindfulness encourages releasing the hold of the discursive mind, and frees the attention to drop[ into the heart and body, revealing the source of true happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Insight Meditation Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Joy

2020-01-21 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Week 2 1:31:58
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation, Jan-Feb 2020

2020-01-20 Mindfulness of the Mind States 30:37
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 3
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-19 Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 39:30
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 2
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-18 14 instructions: mindfulness of feeling-tone 12:58
Jill Shepherd
A brief introduction to the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedana: recognising pleasant, unpleasant or neutral experiences
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-18 Mindfulness of the Body 47:37
Bob Stahl
Morning Meditation Instructions Day 1
Emmaus Retreat Center :  7-Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2020-01-18 13 meditation: mindfulness of mind 27:06
Jill Shepherd
Steadying awareness on the breath and physical sensations, then opening to include sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-18 12 instructions: mindfulness of mind 9:37
Jill Shepherd
A short introduction to exploring mindfulness of the mind, including thoughts, emotions, moods, and mind-states
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-18 First Morning Instructions. Breath and Body 64:53
JoAnna Hardy
Settling and stabilizing in the first foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Wisdom and Compassion for Our Time: Insight Meditation Weekend

2020-01-17 07 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualities 13:21
Jill Shepherd
Exploring mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualities of earth, water, fire and air
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-16 04 meditation: body scan and mindfulness of breathing 25:12
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with a body scan inviting tension to soften and relax, then bringing awareness to the breath, starting with the simple knowing of breathing in and breathing out
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

2020-01-16 03 instructions: sati and samadhi 14:15
Jill Shepherd
A short exploration of mindfulness (sati) in the context of insight meditation, and how it is supported by clear comprehension (sampajanno) and stability of mind or non-distractability (samadhi)
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre New Year, New Beginnings

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