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Dharma Talks
2025-02-09 Teachings on Second and Third Foundations of Mindfulness 58:55
Devon Hase
Short talk followed by a guided meditation on working with vedana in the mind. How to practice with thoughts and their machinations in the third foundation of mindfulness from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-08 Peace in the Presence of the 5 Hindrances 1:46:10
Jean Esther
When we bring mindfulness and non-identification to difficult mind states such as the hindrances they become less of an obstacle and more of doorway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Creating a Suitable Home for the Heart - 25CDC

2025-02-08 Stay in your boat 31:11
Ajahn Sucitto
Retreat is an occasion in which to repair, reset. In terms of life and meditation practice. In this process, mindfulness is accompanied by atapi - ardour, keeping things fresh - and various forms of clear comprehension (sampajano): to sense what is appropriate and fitting. Through referring to what arises in terms of objects one cultivates comprehension of purpose: to know objects as they are, and not self. This is comprehension in terms of non-delusion. There is also comprehension in terms of context (gocara), both internal and. external. This cultivation brings stillness in the midst of conditions, and if we keep this going results build up. Through sustaining clear comprehension one realizes an openness that is stable, alert and all-encompassing
Cittaviveka

2025-02-06 Intro to Mindfulness Week 4: Thinking 1:30:59
Dawn Neal, Mei Elliott
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2025-02-06 Intro to Mindfulness, week 4: Thinking 1:30:59
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-02-06 Morning Reflections - Seven Awakening Factors: Sati/Mindfulness 14:52
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge February 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2025-02-05 Mindful Awareness the Threefold Way 19:41
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz

2025-02-05 Guided Meditation: Exploring Some Further Ways We Construct Experience 35:51
Donald Rothberg
We start with basic instructions in developing (1) concentration and stability, and (2) mindfulness, and then practice developing these two qualities. With mindfulness practice, we notice the main patterns of thoughts, emotions, and bodily experience. In the second half of the session, we work with being aware of the feeling-tone (linked with the Second Foundation of Mindfulness), noticing moderate (or somewhat greater) pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, and what occurs after we notice them. We also attend for a short period of two minutes to the moment-to-moment feeling tones of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, and then go back to basic mindfulness practice for the last part of the session.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2025-02-05 Instructions on Noting (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:18
Devon Hase
A brief overview of noting practice as done using sounds, body, or breath as our primary anchor. Description of how to use perception (sañña) as the proximate cause for a moment of mindfulness to arise, followed by a silent 30 min meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center 2025 February Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2025-02-03 3rd Foundation of mindfulness w guided 58:38
Vinny Ferraro
This talk explores our capacity to know the quality of awareness itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-02-02 Morning instructions, hindrances and vedana 64:54
JoAnna Hardy
Short talk and 30 min. guided meditation on the first foundation of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Peace in Presence: A Four-Night Retreat for All - 25JH

2025-02-01 Reflections on Kindness as Part of Mindfulness Practice; Guided Meditation : Breathing In and Out Compassion. 58:00
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online weekend retreat)

2025-01-30 Intro to Mindfulness Week 3: Emotions 1:26:49
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Talk 39:56
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-26 Liberation through Non-Clinging - Meditation 27:48
Mark Nunberg
The weekly practice groups are designed to be a cornerstone for one's practice by providing ongoing instruction and teachings that help illuminate the simple but challenging practice of mindfulness. The Buddha taught that mindfulness is the way to go beyond habits of distraction and grasping. To walk this path of wisdom and compassion, we need the support of a community that shares this intention. Each session includes a guided meditation, dharma talk, and discussion. Both experienced and beginning meditators are welcome.
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2025-01-23 Intro to Mindfulness Week 2:Body 1:28:46
Mei Elliott
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2025-01-17 Freedom Needs Roots - on Mindfulness of Breathing 44:29
Bernat Font
Gaia House The Liberating Breath

2025-01-17 Module III: Working with The Hindrances 1:47:27
Howard Cohn
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Working with the Hindrances 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-17 Intro to Mindfulness Week 1: Breathing 63:22
Dawn Neal
Insight Santa Cruz Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation

2025-01-16 Module II: Mindfulness of the Body 1:58:12
Howard Cohn
The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of the Body 2-hour practice period ('module'); includes instruction and guided and silent practice. One of four modules each day on the daily retreat theme, with Howard Cohn, Carla Brennan or Genevieve Tregor.
One World Mindfulness Freeing the Heart, Awakening Insight

2025-01-14 Candy *ss sh*t - Training Mindfulness Teachers at the VA 59:22
Christiane Wolf
Transforming the lives of thousands of vets around the country; McMindfulness; Equanimity vs Indifference as a stress response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-13 Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Feeling Tones. 25:17
Jenny Wilks
Gaia House Freedom in Daily Life (online series)

2025-01-12 Mindfulness and Liberation 64:24
Jeanne Corrigal
This talk offers an overview of the Satipatthana map and an exploration of the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-12 Instructions on Feeling Tones - the 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 66:48
Bob Stahl
Learning abut the importance of this 2nd foundation of mindfulness as a gateway to lessen suffering and as a gateway to greater peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Mindfulness and Liberation – Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat

2025-01-11 Entering the undifferentiated 50:09
Ajahn Sucitto
Progressive cultivation of mindfulness to maintain presence through the range of states, so that one allows then to pass. Attention is less snagged on different qualities. It opens to simple awareness. Familiar reactions, and with them, identification,subside. Undifferentiated awareness remains. (refers to S.47:42)
Cittaviveka

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