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Dharma Talks
2022-09-02 Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 63:15
James Baraz
Opening the meditation filed to include breath, sensations and sounds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-01 Five Spiritual Faculties (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:06
James Baraz
A description of how the meditation practice unfolds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Labor Day Insight Meditation Retreat

2022-09-01 28 meditation: compassion and self-compassion 21:45
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with compassion for a good friend, then oneself
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-31 Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts 17:33
Tara Brach
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come alive in the gap between thoughts—the presence that is our true home.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-31 Survival of the Nurtured – Our Path to Belonging 54:54
Tara Brach
We flourish when nurtured with love and understanding. Yet for so many, the violence of our society and lack of attuned caretakers has severed trust and belonging. This talk explores how meditation and conscious relating with each other can restore the connections so vital to healing and spiritual freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-08-31 Guided Meditation Exploring Reactivity and Feeling-Tone 35:00
Donald Rothberg
After brief basic meditation instructions related to stabilizing attention with an anchor, and then being present to the anchor or whatever else is predominant, there is an 8-minute or so period of settling and stabilizing. Then there is guidance to notice and be mindful of any kinds of reactivity (manifesting in the body, emotions, and thoughts), if in the workable range. After another 10 minutes or, there is guidance to notice a moderate or greater level of the pleasant or unpleasant (as long as it is workable), staying with the sense of pleasant or unpleasant, noticing any tendencies to reactivity (wanting and grasping, or not wanting and pushing away, at the levels of body, emotions, and/or thoughts).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Monday and Wednesday Talks

2022-08-31 23 meditation: mindfulness of mind 28:55
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with mindfulness of breathing, physical sensations and sounds, then bringing awareness to mental activity
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-30 Keeping the Practice Simple - Talk and short Meditation 60:53
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Labor Day Retreat

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 55:53
Jenny Wilks
A Deeper Calm, Based on Insight.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 45:51
Jenny Wilks
Seeing Clearly.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 Reflections and Guided Meditation 55:11
Jenny Wilks
Calming the Body and Mind.
Gaia House Meditation Day: A Deeper Calm than Stillness

2022-08-30 17 meditation: mindfulness of hearing 29:55
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 14 meditation: standing, noticing feeling-tones 24:23
Jill Shepherd
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-29 Awareness Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:12
Mark Coleman
Exploring Open awareness, nature of awareness in this 'Big Mind' meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-28 Realization & Actualization = Resilienz or the Capacity to Stay in Relationship with our Experience 55:26
Ayya Santacitta
Talk & Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-08-28 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 7:33
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-28 Compassion in the Midst of a Culture of Dominance 59:09
Leslie Booker
Talk on Compassion and Guided Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Loving Awareness: Meeting Reality with Wisdom and Kindness

2022-08-28 The Joy of Renunciation - Meditation 41:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2022-08-28 07 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 27:24
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying awareness on the simple rhythm of breathing, then refining mindfulness on the details of the breath
Te Moata Retreat Center :  Healing the heart, refining the mind, finding freedom

2022-08-28 The Six Elements & Emergent Response 29:55
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2022-08-28 We can train our minds to go deeper 37:29
Ayya Santacitta
Guided Meditation
Sacramento Insight Meditation

2022-08-27 Short Guided Metta Meditation 6:57
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-27 Opening to Appreciation 64:23
Zohar Lavie
Online Dharma Hall session including guided meditation and Dharma talk on the theme of the interwinding co-creating aspects of appreciation, gratitude, and joy.
Gaia House Online Dharma Hall - Aug 2022

2022-08-26 Short Guided Mettā Meditation 7:56
Leigh Brasington
Gaia House Jhanas, Insight, and Dependent Origination

2022-08-26 Guided meditation on the breath, Dhamma talk on the 'dark sage' 1:30:47
Bhante Sujato
Guided meditation on the breath; peace of mind as a natural state. Dhamma talk on the disruptive and mysterious figure of the 'dark sage' with reference to three people in the suttas: Nālaka, Asito Devala, Ambaṭṭha. Discussion of this archetype, racism in the suttas, the three figures and their attempts to problematise caste.
Lokanta Vihara
Attached Files:
  • Nālakasutta (Snp 3.1) by suttacentral.net (Link)
  • Ambaṭṭhasutta (DN 3) by suttacentral.net (Link)
  • Assalāyanasutta (MN 93) by suttacentral.net (Link)
  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.2.3 by suttacentral.net (Link)

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