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Dharma Talks
2022-01-19 Week 2 - Dharma Talk: Exploring Friendliness & Well-Wishing - Metta 64:33
Kirsten Kratz
Includes Guided Meditation and Instructions for Inquiry Practice
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-19 Week 2 - Guided Meditation 47:25
Kirsten Kratz
Metta - Kindness to Self, Benefactor, and Neutral Person
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-19 16 meditation: equanimity 25:43
Jill Shepherd
Orienting to spaciousness and ease as supports for the steadiness of equanimity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-19 Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element 54:12
Bonnie Duran
Guided meditations on body scan for Earth Element.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-19 Four Elements Instructions: Mindfulness of Earth Element 27:42
Bonnie Duran
Guided meditations on body scan for Earth Element.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center The Four Elements Retreat

2022-01-18 Q&A 41:11
Ajahn Sucitto
00:06 Mind in body or body in mind; 01:31 Citta voice and thinking mind voice – how to bring them together; 03:12 Mind storm leads to confusion, compulsive thoughts; 05:51 Sleeplessness, especially accompanied with anxiety; 08:02 how to ensure qualities like love are not coming from self-centeredness or craving; 11:09 Fear around upcoming surgery; 13:34 Losing the balance of mind when overcome with pain; 20:22 Others means of practice in addition to meditation; 21:59 Practicing meditation with the aim of attaining jhānas; 27:04 Getting a sense of pīti during meditation; 34:55 If there's no self who inherits the karmic residues from past lives; 36:51 discernment vs judgment.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart

2022-01-18 13 meditation: compassion 21:56
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by steadying the body, heart and mind, then cultivating kindness and care in relation to pain
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-17 Q&A 57:31
Ajahn Sucitto
00:30 Questions about meditation; 16:01 What is awareness of awareness? Difference in mano, manas, citta and viññāṇa; 26:00 How to deal with impatience and restlessness; 30:27 How to know if I’m cultivating well; 31:37 Obsessive compulsive disorder; 36:47 Meditation on the 32 parts of the body; 39:54 When thoughts stop and fade away; 41:10 How to deal with death and loss; 43:20 Standing meditation; 45:02 Easier to recognize some feelings but not others; 48:42 Conditionality, saṇkhāra and the aggregates.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart

2022-01-17 09 meditation: mindfulness of mind and awakening factors 29:59
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by establishing stillness and spaciousness in the body and mind, allowing thoughts to come and go, then tuning in to the underlying qualities of the mind, including the seven factors of awakening
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-16 06 meditation: spaciousness and mettā 21:52
Jill Shepherd
Orienting to the energy of mettā / kindness as a support for more openness and ease in the body, heart and mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-16 Instructions and Guided Meditation - Opening to Peacefulness 53:54
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Expanding Joy on the Path of Peace

2022-01-15 Q&A 36:36
Ajahn Sucitto
00:40 Guidance on the reclining position; 08:48 Managing energy, not overexerting but staying diligent; 15:06 Samādhi process as a settling “downwards” of the citta; 16:17 How can we meditate on space in the body; 22:08 How to distinguish cultivation from craving to become; 24:27 What weakens resolve; 26:29 Feelings of disappointment and resentment; 31:25 Feeling like the “I” was inclining to drop but felt stuck in recent meditation.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart

2022-01-15 Guided Meditation - Metta to Sensations 44:54
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Expanding Joy on the Path of Peace

2022-01-15 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing 26:17
Jill Shepherd
Beginning by establishing awareness of the body sitting, and simply receiving the experience of breathing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Deepening into stillness, opening to peace

2022-01-15 Instructions and Guided Meditation - Slowly Gathering in Kindness 56:29
Nathan Glyde
Gaia House Expanding Joy on the Path of Peace

2022-01-14 Week 1 - Guided Meditation 34:20
Kirsten Kratz
Being Received in Kindness
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-12 How to Meet Obstacles in Metta Meditation--(Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:42
Kaira Jewel Lingo
We begin with metta as heart training, a practice of awakening and growing our heart and explore how our practice of metta can also support and help to transform others. Then we move into obstacles to metta meditation and how to practice with them, covering when metta feels mechanical, distractions, grief, doubt, anger, and struggling to offer metta to ourselves. We close looking at how metta can be a protection and also how the Earth can be a source and inspiration for metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center Metta Retreat: Cultivating the Wise, Awakened, and Responsive Heart

2022-01-12 Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.) 20:03
Tara Brach
When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs – no bell at end).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC

2022-01-12 Introduction to Buddhist Awareness Practice, Week1 - Meditation 29:10
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Buddhist Awareness Practice: 3-week course

2022-01-12 Week 1 - Guided Meditation 18:30
Kirsten Kratz
Arriving and grounding.
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-12 Guided Meditation: Nourishing the Heart 54:06
Oren Jay Sofer
Guided meditation on noticing and dwelling on what's uplifting in the heart.
Various

2022-01-12 Week 1 - The 4 Immeasurables - An Overview 1:18:50
Kirsten Kratz
Introduction, Guided Meditation, Instructions for Inquiry Practice.
Gaia House Transforming Self - Transforming World (online series)

2022-01-12 32 Parts of the Body Meditation: Discovering Freedom within the Body—Week 1 Introduction 45:38
Bob Stahl
Please join us for this 8-week “32 Parts of the Body” meditation class that has rarely been taught in the West. This practice will cultivate deeper insight into the true nature of the body and most importantly to help see through the identifications, conditionings, beliefs, and narratives – the erroneous view of self. It has also been used for healing illness. Various methods will be taught to strengthen mindfulness of the body and to explore the mind/body connection. Each class will consist of silent and guided meditation, chanting of the body parts and small and large group discussion. These teachings and practices will help develop greater clarity, wisdom, and compassion; and foster the depth of practice.
Insight Santa Cruz

2022-01-09 Wise Older Self Meditation (Short Version) 10:55
Amita Schmidt
This is a guided meditation that can help you with concerns about the future. It accesses your Wisdom Self. There is a short version (this one) and a longer version (25 min).
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

2022-01-09 Wise Older Self Meditation Longer Version 25:18
Amita Schmidt
If you have concerns about the future this is a meditation to access your Wisdom Self. This is a longer version (25 min) and there is a shorter version available as well (10 min). Many people find this meditation very helpful and do it regularly.
Insight Meditation of Cleveland

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