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Dharma Talks
2019-05-07 The Brahman Viharas 58:00
Mary Aubry
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Jhanas and Insight Retreat

2019-05-06 Storing Up the Good 55:54
Ajahn Sucitto
Notice what one’s citta stores and brings out at potent moments. We tend to store the negative, and that which is most familiar becomes myself. Why not store the good? Store up qualities of the brahmavihāras – goodwill, compassion, gladness & equanimity – as energy in the body. These energetic effects are a resource for your long-lasting welfare.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Brahma Viharas, Reflections, Chanting 57:20
Catherine McGee
Gaia House Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love

2019-04-29 Chants and Reflections; Brahma Viharas; How Our Happiness Depends on Our Inward and Outward Actions 66:29
Jaya Rudgard
In this recording Jaya Rudgard and Yanai Postelnik both offer their own reflections. JAYA RUDGARD (00:00 - 30:18) Chant: "May I abide in wellbeing" (call and response and unison). Reflections on sustaining practice and intention after leaving retreat, chanting practice, Brahma Viharas and personal responsibility. YANAI POSTELNIK (30:50 - 66:36) Reflections on how our deeper happiness depends on our relationship to action, and on how consciously we are able to engage inwardly and outwardly in thought and deed in the world.
Gaia House Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart

2019-04-17 Determined to be Free/ Brahma Viharas & Tiger Woods 1:55:20
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-04-14 The Brahma Viharas for Insight and Wisdom 45:54
Jill Shepherd
Two wings of awakening--Wisdom and Compassion.
Bellingham Insight Meditation Society :  Finding the Heart of Wisdom

2019-04-14 Befriending Your Life : The Liberating Practice of the Brahma-Viharas - Day 2 of 2 6:12:22
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-04-13 Befriending Your Life : The Liberating Practice of the Brahma-Viharas - Day 1 of 2 6:19:49
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-04-05 The Four Brahma Viharas. 48:01
Caroline Jones
An introduction and guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge April 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-02-13 Brahma Viharas & Happiness 2:07:20
Sylvia Boorstein
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2019-02-12 The Four Brahmaviharas – To Have a Good Heart 56:58
Ariya B. Baumann
Metta must be cultivated and developed; the Four Brahmaviharas, metta means to have a good heart
Chanmyay Myaing Meditation Centre 5th Annual Metta Retreat: 2nd Session

2019-02-05 Engaged Brahmaviharas 48:55
Ayya Santussika
Ayya Santussika presents the first talk in a speaker series on The Engaged Buddhist. Here she speaks on the role that each of the four Brahmaviharas play to help and guide us in our engaged actions, whatever they be, to promote wholesome and beneficial outcomes. She discusses lovingkindness, joy in the good fortune of others, compassion and equanimity as well as the near and far enemies of these qualities.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Engaged Buddhism

2019-02-05 Meditating on the Brahmaviharas 29:05
Ayya Santussika
A guided meditation on practicing the Brahmaviharas.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Engaged Buddhism

2019-01-15 The Responsive Heart 58:45
Jaya Rudgard
The four Brahma viharas as an expression of the responsive heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2018-12-30 Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas 57:40
Pamela Weiss, Devon Hase, Eugene Cash, Shinmu Tamori Gibson
Collective Dharma Talk on the Brahmaviharas (Retreat at Spirit Rock Pamela Weiss: Metta-Loving-Kindness Jozen Gibson: Karuna-Compassion Devon Hase: Mudita - Joy Eugene Cash: Upekkha - Equanimity
Spirit Rock Meditation Center New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2018-12-03 40 Guided Meditation: Brahmavihāras 56:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivation of the brahmavihāras is based upon generating perceptions and felt senses through various bases. This guided meditation refers to the bodily and mental bases, in addition to primary sympathy – anukampa – as the underlying basis, to bring these boundless qualities into fullness. They then can serve as soothing orientations within the tribulations of this human realm.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-18 Dhamma Talks 05 - A Complete Training in Mindfulness with Refuge, Sila and Four Brahma Viharas 51:59
Ajahn Achalo
Melbourne Buddhist Center

2018-11-04 An Overview Of The Four Brahmaviharas. 50:30
Jill Shepherd
An exploration of the Metta/Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity and the interrelationships between them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2018-10-06 The Brahma Viharas 56:12
Rebecca Bradshaw
Madison Insight Meditation Group :  Developing Our Steady and Graceful Heart

2018-10-01 "Playground of the Mind: Exploring Bhikkhu Analayo's Brahma Vihara and Emptiness Practices" 54:29
James Baraz
"This is a talk given at James Baraz's Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley." James recently sat with Ven. Bhikkhu Analayo, an extraordinary Buddhist scholar and meditation teacher. He shares some of the teachings and practices that he learned on the Brahma Viharas and how they can help lead to deeper perceptions of emptiness including infinite space and infinite consciousness. The talk gives a glimpse of the value of experimenting and playing with the mind. With Ven. Analayo's permission, James' takes us on a quick journey through some rather profound terrain. So let whatever your experience or non-experience be okay. For a deeper dive into the material the listener is referred to Ven. Analayo's book: Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation: Compassion and Emptiness in Early Buddhist Meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2018-09-22 Creativity with the Brahma Viharas - Finding a way to access the heart qualities and letting them transform your life 39:31
Ayya Anandabodhi
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2018-08-08 28 talk: an overview of the brahmaviharas with a focus on compassion 42:17
Jill Shepherd
Exploring how all four brahmavihara practices strengthen and support each other, then focusing on compassion and self-compassion as antidotes to afflictive mental states
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Strengthening the two wings of Awakening: Wisdom and Compassion

2018-08-05 Metta as a Brahmavihara 51:05
Ariya B. Baumann
Metta and the other Brahmaviharas are skilful and wholesome responses to whatever happens in our life.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2018-06-01 Four Brahma Viharas In All Directions (instructions) 39:17
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey
Moving through love, compassion, appreciation, and equanimity for beings in all directions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2018-05-20 Four Brahma Viharas 57:26
Sharon Salzberg
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

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