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2017-01-05 04 Meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in two ways 28:33
Jill Shepherd
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Two ways of working with mindfulness of the breath: to settle the mind and/or refine awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 03 Instructions: Mindfulness of breathing 13:59
Jill Shepherd
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Some definitions of mindfulness, and two ways of working with mindfulness of breathing: for calm and concentration, or to refine mindfulness and clarity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre :  New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-01 Morning Instructions 53:26
Catherine McGee
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Mindfulness Of Body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2016-12-31 Mindfulness and Experiencing a Living Being 58:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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A truly excellent exploration of mindfulness, what it’s about, and how to get our minds around it
Villa St Martin Centre :  Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-30 Meditation: A Liberating Awareness - Embodying Full Presence 30:08
Tara Brach
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This meditation establishes fertile grounds for presence by gladdening the mind, a mindful body scan, collecting the attention and including all that arises in a kind, clear presence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC :  2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-28 First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ Bodyparts 41:26
Ayya Santacitta
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Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2016-12-15 “Make Peace with Your Mind: How Mindfulness and Compassion Can Free You from Your Inner Critic.” 57:52
Mark Coleman
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Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley :  IMCB Regular Talks

2016-12-11 Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration 51:08
Eugene Cash
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-12-10 Spirit Rock, The Buddha's Path of Well-Being and Happiness 6:50:32
Howard Cohn
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The Buddha was called 'the Happy One'. His teachings and path provide a clear and inspiring vision of our capacity to use our life to fulfill our goal of happiness. This talk of Insight Meditation will follow the Buddha's Way of mindfulness, concentration and love, illustrating how each of us, through a gradual process of applying loving awareness to our moment-to-moment experience, can move from clinging and attachment to letting go and freedom, from confusion to clarity, and from tension to ease of well-being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-07 Metta: Sanctuary and Service 58:26
Tempel Smith
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By welcoming beautiful qualities of heart, and becoming mindful of difficult qualities, our hearts become a sanctuary for ourselves. This sanctuary is a gift to the world and is also the place our love comes to serve the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center :  In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2016-12-06 Relationships & Differentiation 63:30
Ajahn Sucitto
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Experience manifests in terms of ‘fields’. Opening and holding a field (such as the bodily field) with mindfulness brings harmony. Conflicts can be relaxed, self-positions abandoned. This is also a model for relationships with other people.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-04 Spirit Rock, Teaching & Guided Practice: 1st Foundation of Mindfulness & Mindfulness of the Nervous System 16:57
Heather Sundberg
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Session #2, Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-03 Samadhi – absorbing the sweet spot 49:52
Ajahn Sucitto
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In mindfulness, body teaches us what mindfulness is. When we steadily incline towards sensitive simplicity and getting comfortable – and absorb that, the result is samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-12-01 Waves and Fields - no self 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
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Dhammas are wave-like qualia rather than things. They are conditionally arisen. With dispassionate mindfulness they can subside. They need not define or belong to anyone.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-29 Relational Fields and Satipatthana 52:07
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of mind is the ability to hold the range of mind states in the field of mind so that dispassionate presence is realized. This ‘holding’ is not grasping any phenomenon as a real thing, more relating to it as a potential citta characteristic.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-27 Consciousness, latent tendencies and true response. 65:35
Ajahn Sucitto
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To respond to what arises is important – how to avoid blind reactions? Citta, core presence, can be accessed through mindfulness. When it is stable, a true response arises.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-24 Deep/wise/careful attention and holistic awareness. 58:16
Ajahn Sucitto
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Deep/wise/careful attention opens holistic awareness. The response to any impression forms a ‘sign’. This guides mindfulness and samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-21 Removal of asava (outflow/taint/leakage) 58:38
Ajahn Sucitto
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The removal of these dynamic forms of ignorance is dependent on deep attention, mindfulness and comprehension, restraint and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-20 Suitable Effort 50:54
Ajahn Sucitto
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The energy of practice has to avoid the pitfalls of tanha (craving) but maintain chanda (motivation). Mindfulness and clear comprehension find what is suitable (sappaya).
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-19 Guided Practice 4 -- Attending to the Aggregates 43:26
Donald Rothberg
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A guided meditation exploring experience increasingly without a sense of self, through mindfulness of the five "aggregates" (khandhas or skandhas): form, feeling-tone, perception, thoughts and emotions (and other "mental formations), and consciousness.
Insight Santa Cruz

2016-11-15 Q & A - Embodiment and its intelligence 64:48
Ajahn Sucitto
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Brief description of talk: Responses on embodiment, safety, right effort, mindfulness. Samadhi and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge :  November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-12 Mindfulness - The Light On Our Path 60:03
Yuka Nakamura
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Mindfulness plays a central role in the cultivation of the mind. The talk discusses the different functions of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Part 2

2016-11-06 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 58:38
Eugene Cash
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San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-10-29 Morning instructions 43:07
Rebecca Bradshaw
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First 16 minutes is guided meditation of mindfulness of emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Part 2

2016-10-28 Morning instructions 58:56
Andrea Fella
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Mindfulness of thought.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Three-Month Part 2

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