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Dharma Talks
2024-09-26 Mindfulness of the Body 56:24
Beth Sternlieb
Big Bear Retreat Center Love and Rest

2024-09-24 The Four Foundations In Nature Dharma 43:19
Mark Coleman
This talk explores how the four foundations of mindfulness can be richly experienced and cultivated in nature meditation retreats. Nature provides in particular a rich arena to cultivate an embodied awareness and to explore vedana, citta and the nature of reality.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Awake in the Wild: September 2024

2024-09-20 Leave Your Shoes at the Door 18:04
Ayya Medhanandi
Let faith be our foundation for a mindfulness that never tires of examining how we are within us. We may eat well, dress well, and look good but what is the real state of the mind? Day by day, finding safety in virtue, aware of the right qualities that direct, protect, and teach us to root out unworthy habits, let us harvest the profound joy and goodness of this life. It’s not how much we work or gain but how well we honour the noble Dhamma as servants of selflessness and human kindness.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2024-09-16 Maranasati 2024 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:42
Eugene Cash
Contemplating our mortality personally as well as learning how Buddhism utilizes Mindfulness of Death as a gateway to Awakening. The Advice to Anathapindika gifts us with the deeper teachings on letting go of attachment; letting go of our identity; letting go of life!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening

2024-09-16 Mindfulness as presence and observation 64:10
Kristina Bare
Reflection and what mindfulness is and how it can be developed
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2024-09-15 This Life Giving Breath (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 53:53
JoAnna Hardy
Day one settling in the first foundation of mindfulness of breath and body sensations.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Aging, Dying, & Awakening

2024-09-10 Discovering the Home of the Breath 22:35
Brian Lesage
This talk offers reflections on the dimensions of mindfulness of breathing that are explored in the Guided Meditation entitled: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2024-09-10 Guided Meditation: A Few Dimensions of Mindfulness of Breathing 26:03
Brian Lesage
Reflections about the dimensions of mindfulness of breathing that are explored in this guided meditation are offered in the dharma talk entitled, Discovering the Home of the Breath.
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community

2024-09-06 Lessening suffering 54:21
Pascal Auclair
Ways mindfulness can help lessen afflictive emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2024-09-05 Guided Meditation: Exploring Reactivity and the Feeling-Tones of Pleasant or Unpleasant 34:51
Donald Rothberg
After settling our attention through concentration and/or mindfulness, there are further instructions in noticing any reactivity (involving grasping or pushing away in a more automatic way at the levels of mind, body, or emotions), then in attending to the feeling-tone (especially a moderate or a little greater sense of pleasant or unpleasant), and lastly in recalling an experience of reactivity in the last few days and exploring it with mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Tucson

2024-09-04 Starting from scratch 47:16
Pascal Auclair
How remarkable it is that mindfulness helps us investigate reality and how we relate to it starting from the Building Blocks of our experience
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTQAI+ Community

2024-09-04 Guided Meditation on Practicing with Mystery 34:13
Donald Rothberg
This is a fairly lightly guided meditation on ways to practice with a sense of mystery, linked with the talk on this theme. After grounding in posture and intentions, basic instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then in mindfulness, are given, with later periodic suggestions on ways to practice with a sense of mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the power of taking care 48:36
Pascal Auclair
Instructions on mental noting, a guided meditation and a 20 minute talk on learning to take care of what's happening now, and now, and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2024-08-31 Mindfulness: the rules of the game 57:57
Pascal Auclair
A few words on mindfulness, a guided meditation, and a few words on walking meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Discovering Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2024-08-29 The Miracle of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 11:13:16
James Baraz
The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the most direct way to overcome suffering and realize the highest happiness. This talk explains power of mindfulness and why it is so liberating.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-22 meditation: Mindfulness of mind 16:49
Jill Shepherd
Bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions (Note: the first five minutes of the meditation with instructions for settling into the body sitting and breathing, were not recorded)
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-22 talk: Introduction to Mindfulness of mind 18:47
Jill Shepherd
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-20 Mindfulness of thoughts 44:11
Devon Hase, Narayan Helen Liebenson
Teaching in a guided meditation on using thoughts as a meditation object
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-18 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of the Body on Forested Land 47:59
Erin Treat
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center Land as Dharma Teacher

2024-08-18 Guided Instructions: Feeling tone (Vedana) 47:41
Matthew Hepburn, Narayan Helen Liebenson
Instructions for bringing the second foundation of mindfulness to secondary objects of attention. Day three of Retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-17 Mindfulness of body, breath, and sound 44:25
Devon Hase
Introduction to Satipatthana practice and a guided meditation on using body, breath, and sound as primary anchors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-15 short talk: Exploring the wheel model of experience 10:26
Jill Shepherd
Based on some teaching by Gil Fronsdal, looking at the role of feeling-tone in driving reactivity, when there's no mindfulness
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-15 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tone 25:09
Jill Shepherd
Bringing mindfulness to pleasant, neutral then unpleasant feeling-tones in relation to seeing, hearing, and physical sensations
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-15 short instructions: Exploring feeling tone 7:50
Jill Shepherd
An introduction to practising with the Second Establishment of Mindfulness, mindfulness of feeling-tone or vedanā
Auckland Insight Meditation Auckland Insight meetings 2024

2024-08-14 Guided Meditation Exploring Several Foundational Practices 35:31
Donald Rothberg
Related to the talk given after the guided meditation on the foundational practices and how we can talk very simply about them, we begin remembering our grounding in ethics, and then develop concentration, then mindfulness and wisdom, and later the kind and compassionate heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

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