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2016-12-07 Metta: Sanctuary and Service 58:26
Tempel Smith
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
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
Session #2, Awakening through the Body
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-12-03 Samadhi – absorbing the sweet spot 49:52
Ajahn Sucitto
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-10-29 Morning instructions 43:07
Rebecca Bradshaw
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
Mindfulness of thought.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 2

2016-10-27 "How to Bring Wisdom and Compassion to our Communication" 61:56
Kate Munding
I’ll be giving a talk on wise and compassionate communication. Taking our practice into our relationships and everyday interactions is often where the “rubber meets the road”. It’s not easy to stay mindful when we interact with others. It’s even harder when we are in conflict, overcome with emotions, or trigger by circumstance. Can we stay present and committed to speech that is honest, timely, and kind? We’ll explore it all.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2016-10-26 Morning Reflection - Guided Meditation on Being Mindful of Thinking 17:12
Brian Lesage
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-25 Pt.1 Recognizing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment in Your Own Practice: Mindful Awareness, Investigation and Energy/Effort 63:23
Kamala Masters
Monastero di Camaldoli :  The Integration of Love and Wisdom

2016-10-25 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry - October 2016 49:45
Gina Sharpe
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center NYI Regular Talks

2016-10-20 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 59:51
Sally Armstrong
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-18 Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 5 1:32:08
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Course - Introduction to Mindfulness
Attached Files:
  • The Practices of the Divine Abodes: Kindness, Compassion, Appreciative Joy and Equanimity by Mark Nunberg (Google Doc)

2016-10-14 Living with Loving Awareness 55:00
Mark Coleman
This talk explores the fusion of mindful-awareness and love and how the integrating of these essential qualities is essential in life and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-14 Day 3- Morning Instructions- Meditation Instructions-Mindfulness of Emotion 61:30
Mark Coleman
Bringing Awareness to emotions and Q & A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

2016-10-13 Day 2- Morning Instructions- Embodied Awareness 58:32
Mark Coleman
Mini-talk on the importance of cultivating an embodied mindful attention in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Natural Radiance-The Freedom of Awareness

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