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2015-10-05 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 3 1:27:05

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-09-28 Satipatthana Series - The first foundation of mindfulness: the body 59:36
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
In the Satipatthana sutta on the foundations of mindfulness, the first area of practice is the body. The Buddha gives us many different practices and ways to investigate the body. This talk explores these practices, beginning with the breath, but going on to other practices that we don't often teach, such as the four elements, the 32 parts of the body, and corpse contemplations. Each of these practices can be a powerful doorway to wise seeing and freedom. This talk is the first of a series of four on each foundation of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-28 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 2 63:40

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Intro to Mindfulness and Vipassana 44:41
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment to moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-24 Morning Instructions 47:02
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An investigation of the Buddha's Teaching of mindfulness of the mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-22 On dukkha & dukkha nana 1:25:19
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We explore how the ordinary experience of dukkha becomes dukkha ñāṇa, understanding of the universal characteristic (samañña lakkhaṇa) of dukkha. We look at the how the perception of impermanence (anicca-saññā) creates anxiety when the heart intuits the groundless of experience, and how the unfolding of this anxiety is mapped by the dukkha ñāṇas of classical Theravāda Buddhism. Finally, we see how the experience of dukkha gives way to that of not-self (anattā), when the heart stabilises through the maturity of mindfulness (sati) and equanimity (upekkhā).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-21 Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind 59:30
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. they then no longer dominate our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 1 62:03

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-09-21 Mindfulness, hindrances and development 46:21
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Overview of the foundations of mindfulness. The hindrances are observed as part of the 4th foundation. Understanding the hindrances both in terms of how they need to be kept in balance as as expressions of development.
Shakti Vihara : Portal to Pure Presence

2015-09-17 Four Stages in the Transformation of the Judgmental Mind 61:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We first cover an overview of the two main inter-related ways that transformation of the judgmental mind occurs: (1) mindfulness and investigation of judgments; and (2) cultivating awakened states, particularly through "heart practices." In this talk, we examine four stages of the first way: investigating and transforming judgments by first noticing them and becoming more mindful of them in terms of the body, core narratives, emotional energy, etc., and then going beneath the surface of judgments, revealing and transforming the underlying habitual tendencies and core limiting beliefs, often initially unconscious.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2015-09-14 What is Mindfulness? 55:38
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Mindfulness is becoming very popular in many areas of modern life: as a stress reduction, in schools, prisons, hospitals, in the workplace and so on. But what is mindfulness, and what was the Buddha talking about when he encouraged us to practice it? Right mindfulness, or Samma Sati, develops wisdom and understanding, decreasing unwholesome states of mind, increasing wholesome ones and leading us to more freedom and clarity.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 1:11:49

Tara Brach

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If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-09 Mindfulness immersed in body - Kāyagatā sati 1:27:48
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We explore the role of the body in our meditation practice, using the Buddha’s practice of kāyagatā sati (mindfulness immersed in body) as our guide. We forget we are bodies, fooled by our mind’s ability to create realities that are separate from the bodies we are. We explore the practice of mindfulness immersed in body using the Buddha’s instructions to Mahā Kassapa as our guide: “You should train yourself in this way: “I will not abandon mindfulness immersed in body associated with joy.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-07 The three satipatthanas 1:18:37
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We survey the first three of the four satipaṭṭhānas, here translated as “foundations of mindfulness” or “domains of mindfulness” – the places where we station our mindfulness. These are body (kāya), feeling (vedanā) and heart/mind (citta). We see these domains represent a linear progression from less to greater ethical sensitivity; and we also see how feeling holds the practice together.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 The insight chorus - Part 1 - Impermanence & emptiness 67:17
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the first three sentences of the chorus of Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, where the Buddha explains the arising of insight (vipassanā). We examine “tracking body as body internally and externally,” where the assumed boundary between self and other begins to dissolve. Then we look at how the practitioner opens into the perception of impermanence – “tracking the nature of arising and ceasing as body.” Finally, we examine the entry into emptiness, where the practitioner is mindful that “body is,” for understanding (ñāṇa) and continuous mindfulness (paṭisati).
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-05 Letting Go of Judgment (retreat talk) 53:14
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The scales of judgment confine us in a limited sense of self, they restrict the depth and fullness of our loving. This talk explores the genesis of projecting badness on to parts of ourselves and others, and how we can use mindfulness and self-compassion practices to evolve our consciousness and free our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Labor Day Weekend Retreat

2015-09-04 Mindfulness, memory & wisdom 62:33
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
Tonight we return to the fundamental meaning of sati as indicating memory, and look at the relationship of memory to wisdom. Our connection with the past allows us to learn from the patterns of experience as they flow over time. Mindfulness allows access to an experienced present that includes everything we have learned through the course of our lives.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-03 How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties 58:06
James Baraz	Download Listen
One way to understand how the process of mindfulness meditation leads to awakening is seeing how these five qualities of mind work together.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-29 Introducing mindfulness 31:45
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce the concept of “mindfulness,” which is the standard translation of the Pāli word sati. Sati literally means “memory,” and mindfulness refers to the act of remembering the present. We find the same meaning in railway station signs that exhort us to “Mind the gap,” to remember to be aware, now. The practice of mindfulness is associated with the felt continuity of awareness, and this is what we are aiming for in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 1:15:02

Tara Brach

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When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance - we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, intelligence and capacity to love. This talk explores how this dissociation shows up in our lives and a powerful way that mindfulness enables us to integrate cut-off parts of our being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-25 Mindfulness In Action 51:20
George Mumford	Download Listen
Sati - Sampajanna with bare attention and mindfulness of four postures
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-24 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 36:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria