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Dharma Talks
2018-05-10 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda 31:01
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 3 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Seelananda
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-09 Meditation: Intimacy with Life 21:15
Tara Brach
This guided meditation begins with a body scan, bringing the friendliness of a smile into the body, and waking up our awareness of aliveness. We widen the attention to include sound and then sense and rest in the awareness that holds all experience. Our reminders are to wake up from trance by reopening to our senses, allowing for a true intimacy with the life that lives through us.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-09 Eating Addiction: How Meditation Helps Free Us 54:01
Tara Brach
Buddhist psychology views clinging as the source of suffering, and one of the great domains of clinging is compulsive overeating. For most of us the causes and conditions for compulsive overeating existed before we were born, during our early childhood, and in our surrounding society. We begin to release shame and self-aversion by realizing we are not alone in this suffering; and eating addiction is not “our fault.” The talk includes an exploration of how, through RAIN, we can bring mindfulness and self-compassion to compulsive eating, giving us more choice in our behavior. Ultimately we discover that this deep prison of suffering can become a portal to realizing the freedom our true nature.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2018-05-09 Instructions & Guided Meditation, Montreal 24:33
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-05-09 A Meditation for Difficult Conversations: Guidance from the Suttas 2:37:27
Oren Jay Sofer
Closing Session - part 1. In this short teaching and guided meditation, we explore how to use the meditation instructions in the Simile of the Saw (Kakchupama Sutta, MN. 21) as preparation and cultivation for difficult conversations.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies Relational Dharma: Waking up Together

2018-05-09 2018 Metta Retreat - Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Jayasara 34:26
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
2018 Metta Retreat - Day 2 - Meditation Instructions - Bhante Jayasara
Bhavana Society of West Virginia 2018 Metta Retreat

2018-05-08 Cooling the Fire 43:32
Andrea Fella
Andrea Fella gave the third talk in a speaker series titled "Goals in Meditation." Andrea pointed out that the Pali word that the Buddha used to describe his awakening is "nibbana." This word literally means "cooling." In other words, awakening is not about gaining something; rather it's about cooling the fire of greed, hatred, and delusion in our minds. indeed, we can experience nibbana in this life time, when we let go of greed, hatred, and delusion.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Goals in Meditation

2018-05-08 Instructions et méditation guidée, Montréal 26:41
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2018-05-08 This Could Be My Last Breath 27:37
Nikki Mirghafori
Guided meditation from the Maranasati Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating Death/Awakening to Life (Maranasati Retreat)

2018-05-08 Guided Meditation Instruction and Q&A 63:46
Mark Nunberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Natural Awareness Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

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