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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

2024-08-16 The Confluence of Freedom and Love 49:33
Greg Scharf
A short reflection on the interconnected nature of freedom and love on the Buddha's path of awakening, followed by a guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-16 Metta for the body 29:05
Devon Hase
Short teaching and guided metta meditation cultivating appreciation for the body
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2024-08-14 We Are Worked Upon & Need to Allow It to Happen 54:38
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-14 Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta in All Directions 42:54
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

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

2024-08-13 Guided Meditation - Expanding Metta to the Challenging Through Appreciation & Compassion 44:42
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

2024-08-12 Guided Meditation - Metta Radiant All Around 42:50
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Empowering Kindness

2024-08-11 The Qualities That Bring Joy, Happiness and Awakening 58:19
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 10, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-08-10 Guided meditation 37:43
Ajahn Amaro
London Insight Meditation Ajahn Amaro – Wising Up

2024-08-07 As Old Barriers Are Melting Away ~ Precision as an Expression of Love 53:07
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-08-06 Week 6, Part 2 - Guided Meditation, Short Teachings 63:04
Zohar Lavie
Mettā and insight.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2024-08-03 The Me in Mettā Matters 1:16:18
Nathan Glyde
Exploring the contradistinctions between the not-self strategy and radiant goodwill to all beings. And how we can put more of our personal care into the practice. Based on an insight from Thānissaro Bhikku in Good Mind, Good Heart. This Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - August 2024

2024-08-03 Kindness, Fearlessness and Stillness 68:53
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on August 03, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-08-02 Mudita Talk and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 42:56
John Martin
With Mudita we celebrate the happiness of others and wish it to continue.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Spirit of Insight, Dharma & Awakening

2024-07-31 Realignment ~ Let the Alchemy Take Place 55:03
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-31 A Guided Meditation Supporting "Living from Our Depths" (related to the Talk Today): Developing Concentration, Exploring Mindfulness (including of Impermanence and Reactivity), and Practicing Lovingkindness 35:55
Donald Rothberg
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-07-30 Week 5, Part 2 - Teachings, Guided Meditation 1:16:24
Zohar Lavie
Mettā to phenomena.
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2024-07-28 The More-Than-Human World Has Our Back Every Moment 47:24
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on Engaging with a Plant Ally and Exploring a Question from within the Web of Life. Please sit outside or near a window or have a potted plant close to you.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-28 Guided Meditation on the Four Divine Abidings 43:53
Ayya Anandabodhi
A Guided meditation through metta, karuna, mudita, upekkha.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-28 Transformation of the Heart 50:13
Ayya Anandabodhi
A guided meditation on transforming the patterns of the heart through cultivating metta.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-27 Teaching on Emotions and Guided Meditation on RAIN 47:17
Devon Hase
How to offer respect and dignity to our emotions. How the practice of RAIN can lead to liberating insight into the nature of being human.
Various

2024-07-27 Feeling Our Way Through 61:37
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 27, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 21:53 - DHAMMA TALK 43:50 - Q&A
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-26 The Body - a Field of Blessings & Challenges 28:54
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the Four Elements
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-26 Guided Meditation on Six Sense Spheres 51:47
Devon Hase
Teaching on working with the six senses and guided meditation based on Bahia Sutta.
Various

2024-07-26 Introduction to Metta and Caring Moment Practice 35:59
Devon Hase
Short teaching and stories about accompaniment on the path, followed by guided Caring Moment practice
Various

2024-07-25 Precision & Opening to What We Need to Know 42:13
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation on the 7 Factors of Awakening
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-25 A Detailed Guided Meditation: Developing Joy (mudita) by Rejoicing in the Good Fortune of Others 34:49
Shaila Catherine
In this recording, Shaila Catherine offers detailed instructions in the form of a guided meditation for systematically cultivating sympathetic joy (mudita). The method involves directing attention to beings who occupy a variety of categories, while the meditator reflects on phrases that stimulate an attitude of rejoicing. Mudita is a powerful quality that uproots envy, ends jealously, and overcomes aversion, chronic comparing, and excessive competitiveness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-24 Meditation: Embodied Awareness (17:23 min.) 17:22
Tara Brach
This guided meditation includes a full body scan, and the recognition of the formless awareness that includes and is the source of all experience. By recognizing that awareness we discover the silence and stillness that is the ground of all experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-24 Emergence Happens as We Enter Sensorial Presence 53:34
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-24 Untangling the Tangles 43:59
Ayya Anandabodhi
A guided meditation on 'breathing through the limbs and torso". This practice can help to disentangle energy blocks in the body and bring about great physical well being and body awareness.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-24 Guided Meditation Exploring Mindfulness, Impermanence, Reactivity, and Lovingkindness 0:00
Donald Rothberg
(Recording not available) 
A guided meditation connected with the talk on "Living from Our Depths," touching on exploring two of the three areas of liberating insight (impermanence and reactivity--or Dukkha) connected with developing wisdom, and practicing lovingkindness (or another heart practice), connected with developing the "awakened heart."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2024-07-24 Breathing Metta 55:25
Ayya Anandabodhi
After an intro - a guided meditation, breathing in the metta that is being generated in the world, and letting go on the out-breath.
Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara :  Saranaloka Online Summer Retreat Creating a Supportive Container in Times of Great Challenge

2024-07-23 Week 4, Part 2 - Teachings, Guided Meditation 1:11:18
Zohar Lavie
Mettā expanded, boundless and immeasurable: to all beings including self and including challenging relationship
Gaia House Mettā and Insight

2024-07-23 Mudita - reflections and a guided meditation 44:36
Kristina Bare
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-21 Guided Meditation on Big Mind 58:01
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-21 Guided meditation on big mind 58:05
Jaya Rudgard
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-20 Asalha Puja - Practice | Part 3 of 3 65:30
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 Guided meditation on compassion 51:43
Sally Armstrong
Compassion for self and all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-20 Meeting Experience with Care and Tenderness (Guided practice) 44:43
Zohar Lavie
Gaia House Living With Illness and Loss (online)

2024-07-20 Asalha Puja - Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta | Part 2 of 3 49:13
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-20 AsalhaPuja - Adhitthana | Part 1 of 3 52:52
Ayya Santussika
This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 20, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2024-07-19 Guided Meditation: Building All the Awakening Factors with Emphasis on Concentration 16:47
Shaila Catherine
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine highlights the powerful role that concentration plays as we cultivate the awakening factors. The instructions slowly walk through the sequence of Awakening Factors demonstrating how they create the conditions for the next factor in the sequence, and then explores various qualities of the collected mind and choices the meditator may make to further develop the mind once samadhi has been established.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Cultivating Loving Kindness (Metta) and Compassion (Karuna) 45:51
Shaila Catherine
This is a long guided meditation in which Shaila Catherine offers systematic instruction for cultivating loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna) through the use of intention filled phrases directed toward beings in various categories.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Forest Refuge -July 2024

2024-07-18 Guided Meditation: Metta, Friendliness 42:05
Yuka Nakamura
Metta for self and all directions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-17 Not Going Back But Coming Full Circle 55:30
Ayya Santacitta
Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Aloka Earth Room

2024-07-17 Meditation: Awareness and Flow (20:17 min.) 20:16
Tara Brach
This guided practice awakens all the senses with an embodied presence, allowing an opening to the moment-to-moment changing flow of experience. We then relax back, resting as the changeless open awareness that is conscious of the flow, and includes all life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2024-07-17 Morning guided meditation 56:50
Jaya Rudgard
Gathering and steading attention with body, breath, and sounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2024-07-17 Talk 11 - Day 6 Morning - Guided Forgiveness meditation - Practice for day 46:06
Tina Rasmussen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center The Heart Practices: Purification of the Heart

2024-07-16 Where's This Thought Headed ? 52:09
River Wolton
Reflections on skilful engagement with thoughts; unguided practice session; short reflection on walking and general practice with Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House The Heart of Wisdom & Compassion

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