Jaya Rudgard's Dharma Talks
    
    
              
              
 
            
    
        Jaya Rudgard  
 
    
        
                            
      Jaya Karen Rudgard began meditating in the 1980s and practiced for eight years as a nun in the Theravada tradition with Ven. Ajahn Sumedho. A graduate of the IMS/Spirit Rock Teacher Training, she teaches insight meditation and mindfulness in the UK and internationally.
        
    
      
 
    
        
            
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        2018-05-27
            A Map of the Heart - The Four Divine Abidings 
    
        2021-03-03
            A short guided meditation on the opening evening of the retreat. 
    
        2024-11-15
            A well Spent Night 
    
        2018-10-14
            Aging Sickness and Death and the Five Daily Reflections. 
    
        2024-01-01
            Beautiful Questions; Chanting 
    
        2017-07-15
            Being in This World with Dharma Lenses 
    
        2019-05-04
            Bodhicitta - Reflections on Altruistic Intention 
    
        2024-02-12
            Bringing Mindfulness to Thoughts and Thinking (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-01-14
            Celebrating our practice and community 
    
        2021-03-05
            Chanting Practice - Om Mani Padme Hum 
    
        2021-08-07
            Chanting Together 
    
        2024-09-05
            Chanting Together 
    
        2024-12-29
            Chanting, Instructions & Meditation 
    
        2024-12-31
            Chanting, Mantras, Meditation 
    
        2019-04-29
            Chants and Reflections; Brahma Viharas; How Our Happiness Depends on Our Inward… 
    
        2020-07-10
            Closing Session 
    
        2019-10-24
            Community as refuge, community as practice 
    
        2019-02-03
            Cultivating Kindness 
    
        2016-10-15
            Dana Parmi – cultivating generosity 
    
        2017-11-18
            Day One: Opening Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-10-25
            Desire and discontent for the world 
    
        2021-03-05
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2022-06-21
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2022-06-23
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2022-06-25
            Dharma Talk 
    
        2025-03-01
            Dharma Talk - Changing Our Relationship to Dukkha or Suffering 
    
        2022-09-05
            Dharma Talk - Devotion and the Brahma Viharas 
    
        2023-01-08
            Dharma talk - Energy, Effort, Choice and Courage (Viriya Pāramī ) 
    
        2023-02-18
            Dharma Talk - Meeting the 5 Hindrances w Mettā 
    
        2025-03-04
            Dharma Talk - Samadhi - Concentration & Transcendent Dependent Arising 
    
        2023-01-11
            Dharma talk - Wisdom - the Handful of Leaves and Four Noble Truths or Tasks (Pa… 
    
        2022-04-09
            Dharma Talk :  Passivity and Activity 
    
        2022-04-06
            Dharma Talk:  The Experience of "Selfing" - Finding a Middle Way. 
    
        2021-08-07
            Dharma Talk: Karma and Finding a Purpose in the Chaos of Life 
    
        2019-11-13
            Doors To The Deathless 
    
        2017-04-15
            Equanimity Practice 
    
        2019-06-15
            Finding A True Refuge 
    
        2020-07-07
            Freeing the heart: a walk through the awakening factors 
    
        2020-01-15
            From hindrances to awakening factors. 
    
        2018-05-20
            Gardening in the Mind - From Hindrances to Awakening Factors 
    
        2024-11-08
            Generosity 
    
        2016-02-27
            Generosity, Gratitude, Contentment, Equanimity 
    
        2017-11-23
            Gratefulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-05-23
            Gratitude and Generosity 
    
        2022-09-07
            Group Chanting 
    
        2015-05-02
            Guided Compassion Meditation (2) with Standing Meditation in a Circle 
    
        2017-04-16
            Guided Compassion with Equanimity Meditation 
    
        2020-01-11
            Guided meditaation on the five elements in the body. 
    
        2021-03-04
            Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-06-30
            Guided meditation 
    
        2023-01-09
            Guided Meditation - Building Steadiness, Finding Nourishment 
    
        2020-12-30
            Guided Meditation - The Five Elements 
    
        2018-05-19
            Guided Meditation 2 - Mindfulness with Feelings 
    
        2018-05-21
            Guided Meditation 4 - Mindfulness with Contemplation of Impermanence 
    
        2020-07-09
            Guided Meditation on appreciation, compassion and kindness 
    
        2024-07-21
            Guided meditation on big mind 
    
        2024-07-21
            Guided Meditation on Big Mind 
    
        2017-04-16
            Guided Meditation on Sympathetic Joy Pt 2 
    
        2017-04-17
            Guided Meditation on the Four Directions, Above & Below 
    
        2024-12-31
            Guided Mindful Movement, Sitting Meditation 
    
        2024-12-30
            Guided Mindful Movement, Sitting Meditation, Some Music 
    
        2019-10-27
            Guided Morning Meditation: body, breath, sounds and body sensations 
    
        2024-01-08
            Guided Movement & Instructions - Summing Up Instructions So Far; Using Anchor w… 
    
        2024-01-08
            Guided Movement & Meditation - Resting & Aliveness 
    
        2024-01-09
            Guided Movement; Cultivating Mettā with Inner Smile & Sun Imagery 
    
        2019-01-11
            Guided Standing and Breath Meditation 
    
        2024-11-01
            Honeycake among the pumpkins: the Honeyball Sutta 
    
        2017-07-17
            In Praise of the Peaceful Heart 
    
        2025-03-05
            Instructions - Inclining to Samadhi 
    
        2025-03-02
            Instructions - Meeting the Hindrances with our Practice 
    
        2023-02-21
            Instructions - Radiating Mettā in All Directions 
    
        2023-02-19
            Instructions - Steadying Attention, Meeting Physical Discomfort & Hindrances w … 
    
        2019-02-03
            Instructions - The Four Elements 
    
        2022-09-05
            Instructions -Reflections on Finding the Spaciousness of Awareness, & Guided Me… 
    
        2022-04-06
            Instructions & Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-09-05
            Instructions & Guided Meditation - Big Mind 
    
        2024-09-03
            Instructions & Guided Meditation - Placing Thoughts into the Womb of Awareness 
    
        2024-08-31
            Instructions & Guided Meditation - Steadying the Wandering Mind 
    
        2022-09-03
            Instructions & Guided Meditation, Walking Instructions 
    
        2022-04-07
            Instructions & Lightly Guided Meditation 
    
        2025-01-01
            Instructions & Meditation 
    
        2023-01-12
            Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2020-01-13
            Instructions and guided meditation: mindfulness of mindstates. 
    
        2019-01-13
            Instructions On Working With Thoughts And Thinking 
    
        2015-05-02
            Intro to Compassion, Guided Compassion Meditation 
    
        2015-05-03
            Intro to Mudita 
    
        2024-02-16
            Introducing Choiceless Attention (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-07-21
            Introduction to the 2nd foundation of mindfulness: Vedana - feeling tone. 
    
        2021-03-06
            Jaya reads out offerings from retreatants, and then leads a silent meditation. 
    
        2020-07-09
            Joint Reflections on the Brahma Viharas 
    
        2014-05-03
            Karuna - Reflections and Practice 
    
        2025-03-03
            Lightly Guided Med - Suffusing Our Practice w Metta 
    
        2016-02-25
            Loving Kindness 
    
        2021-09-07
            Loving Kindness (Metta) Practice - Radiating to the Ten Directions 
    
        2024-01-10
            Loving Kindness & the Abandoning of Ill Will; The Chant of Mettā 
    
        2018-05-18
            Meditation Instructions 1 - Mindfulness with Breath and Body 
    
        2018-05-20
            Meditation Instructions 3 - Mindfulness with the Mind 
    
        2019-05-04
            Meditation Instructions and Guidance - Imbuing Attention with Kindness 
    
        2019-10-30
            Metta as the practice of non-ill-will 
    
        2016-10-11
            Metta for a  difficult person. 
    
        2024-10-30
            Metta for Neutral Persons 
    
        2023-01-10
            Metta Guidance & Meditation - Establishing a Field of Metta to Receive All Thin… 
    
        2023-01-13
            Mindful Movement and Guided Meditation 
    
        2023-01-08
            Mindful Movement, Guided Meditation on Supports for Resting 
    
        2024-07-17
            Morning guided meditation 
    
        2018-09-23
            Morning Guided Meditation Instructions On Vedana. 
    
        2024-07-15
            Morning instruction 
    
        2017-11-21
            Morning Instruction- Day 4 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2019-02-02
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2022-06-21
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2022-06-23
            Morning Instructions 
    
        2024-10-28
            Morning instructions and guided meditation 
    
        2024-02-06
            Morning Instructions and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-11-22
            Morning Instructions, Day 2 
    
        2015-11-25
            Morning Instructions, Day 5 
    
        2015-11-28
            Morning Instructions, Day 8 
    
        2018-09-17
            Morning Instructions: Guided Four Element Body Scan. 
    
        2021-03-04
            Morning Practice 
    
        2021-03-06
            Morning Practice 
    
        2019-11-14
            Morning Reflection 
    
        2024-01-11
            Movement & Meditation  - Lightly Guided Mettā Practice 
    
        2019-11-22
            Mudita - Appreciative Joy 
    
        2014-05-04
            Mudita - Reflections and Practice 
    
        2024-02-26
            Mudita - Sympathetic or Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2024-03-13
            Mudita (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-12-31
            New Years Eve - Celebrating, Pausing, Silence & the Beauty of Darkness 
    
        2017-10-16
            Non-Identification 
    
        2017-05-20
            Noticing Feeling Tones 
    
        2024-07-16
            Opening evening 
    
        2019-01-10
            Opening Instructions - Mindfulness of the body. 
    
        2018-01-12
            Opening Morning Instructions 
    
        2024-10-23
            Opening morning instructions and guided meditation 
    
        2020-07-06
            Opening Session 
    
        2016-02-13
            Orienting To The Dharma 
    
        2021-08-04
            Practice Instructions and Guided Meditation 
    
        2017-04-15
            Practising the 4 Brahma Viharas, Understanding, Dwelling, Radiating & Cultivati… 
    
        2020-01-10
            Presence, ease, and possibility. 
    
        2016-02-14
            Q&A About Practice 
    
        2023-12-30
            Qi Gong Practice; Walking Meditation Guidance 
    
        2023-12-31
            Qi Gong Session; Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-04-28
            Radiating Mettā - Instructions & Guided Meditation 
    
        2024-01-01
            Radiating the Boundless Qualities; Chanting 
    
        2017-10-14
            Reactivity & Response 
    
        2015-11-21
            Recognizing and Empowering the Five Faculties 
    
        2019-05-06
            Reflection - Equanimity as Seeing with Compassion, Guided Meditation 
    
        2022-06-24
            Reflections and Guided Meditation on Equanimity 
    
        2024-07-20
            Reflections on "don't know mind" 
    
        2021-08-05
            Reflections on Anatta (non-self) 
    
        2022-09-03
            Reflections on Bowing, Chanting & Kuan Yin. 
    
        2024-08-31
            Reflections on Heart Practices 
    
        2020-01-14
            Reflections on Metta for difficult people: guided Metta meditation. 
    
        2023-12-29
            Reflections; Chanting (Resting Deeply) 
    
        2023-10-03
            Refuge and the recollection of the triple gem. 
    
        2018-09-30
            Renunciation - A Gentle Approach. 
    
        2022-09-02
            Retreat Opening 
    
        2024-02-09
            Saddha: Kindling the Flame of Faith (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2015-11-24
            Seeing Through the Net of Illusion 
    
        2019-04-28
            Self Compassion 
    
        2025-03-06
            Short Reflections; Unguided Meditation 
    
        2024-01-07
            Sila Parami - Caring for Self & Other with Ethical Conduct 
    
        2017-04-16
            Sympathetic Joy Practice, Guided Meditation 
    
        2018-09-02
            Taking Care of the Mind 
    
        2016-10-08
            Taking in the good. 
    
        2024-09-02
            Talk - Knowing & Unknowing - The Wisdom of Uncertainty 
    
        2021-08-05
            Teachings and Guided Meditation 
    
        2021-08-06
            Teachings and Guided Meditation 
    
        2015-05-03
            The Brahma Viharas 
    
        2018-05-18
            The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing 
    
        2018-10-07
            The Dance Of Faith And Wisdom 
    
        2019-11-10
            The Doorway Of The Present Moment. 
    
        2018-09-23
            The DukkhaThat Is Craving 
    
        2023-10-24
            The eight worldly winds - on gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain… 
    
        2022-05-24
            The Experience of Dukkha 
    
        2019-07-17
            The Five Khandhas - Undoing Cling 
    
        2024-11-22
            The Five Recollections 
    
        2015-07-03
            The Four Noble Truths 
    
        2024-02-23
            The Four Noble Truths (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2023-10-10
            The four wise efforts. 
    
        2018-10-22
            The Golden Thread Of Equanimity 
    
        2019-11-20
            The Perception Of Not-self 
    
        2019-01-15
            The Responsive Heart 
    
        2024-06-30
            The Unshakeable Heart 
    
        2018-09-16
            Thinking Like A Buddha 
    
        2024-11-02
            Thoughts and thinking: some practice instructions from the suttas 
    
        2023-10-17
            Thoughts and thinking. 
    
        2024-07-24
            Trust in Dhamma 
    
        2019-11-06
            Two Minds On Fire: The Buddha's Fire Sermon. 
    
        2019-01-12
            Vedana, Feeling Tones - What They Are And Why They Matter 
    
        2024-02-28
            What Makes the World Spin? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 
    
        2017-09-25
            Wisdom - Some Reflections 
    
        2024-10-22
            Words of Encouragement 
    
        2019-07-19
            You Are Not Doing This Alone. 
    
 
         
     
    
        
            
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        2014-05-02
            Return to the Boundless Heart 
    
        2015-01-01
            IMS Dana Talks - PRIVATE 
    
        2015-05-01
            Return to the Boundless Heart 
    
        2015-05-22
            The Joy of Awakening 
    
        2015-06-29
            Annual People of Color Retreat-Deepen Your Dharma, Deepen Your Freedom 
    
        2015-11-20
            Thanksgiving Insight Retreat 
    
        2016-02-12
            The Way of Wisdom: Insight Meditation Weekend  
    
        2016-02-23
            Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life 
    
        2016-09-10
            Three-Month Part 1 
    
        2017-01-08
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti… 
    
        2017-04-14
            Freeing Your Heart, Embracing Your Life 
    
        2017-05-19
            Awakening Here and Now 
    
        2017-07-14
            Being in This World 
    
        2017-07-18
            15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat 
    
        2017-09-22
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT & MBSR Foundations 
    
        2017-10-13
            Insight Meditation & Qi Gong 
    
        2017-11-17
            Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat: A Journey into Presence, Peace and Gra… 
    
        2018-01-08
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti… 
    
        2018-05-17
            Awakening, Breath by Breath 
    
        2018-05-25
            Freeing Your Mind, Embracing Your Life 
    
        2018-08-31
            Mindfulness Beyond the Eight Week Course 
    
        2018-09-11
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 1 
    
        2019-01-09
            Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modaliti… 
    
        2019-02-01
            Origins and Applications of Mindfulness - MBCT MBSR Foundations 
    
        2019-04-26
            Self Compassion and the Courageous Heart 
    
        2019-05-03
            Abiding with a Heart Imbued with Love 
    
        2019-06-11
            Finding a True Refuge: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2019-07-14
            Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Exp… 
    
        2019-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2020-01-09
            Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Insight Meditation Retreat 
    
        2020-07-06
            Practising Wisdom and Compassion in Turbulent Times - Online Retreat 
    
        2020-12-29
            New Year's Retreat 2020 
    
        2021-03-03
            Stillness Moving - The Play of Opposites 
    
        2021-08-03
            Inside-outside: the mystery of I, me, mine 
    
        2022-04-04
            Stillness Moving:  The Play of Opposites 
    
        2022-05-22
            Finding Refuge, Finding Home: A Retreat in Nature 
    
        2022-06-20
            Creative, Living Dharma: practising with the similes of the Buddha 
    
        2022-09-02
            Encountering the Practice of the Heart 
    
        2023-01-07
            Rest and Renewal 
    
        2023-02-17
            Liberation Through Loving Awareness 
    
        2023-10-01
            October 2023 
    
        2023-12-28
            New Year Retreat 
    
        2024-01-06
            Rest and Renewal 
    
        2024-02-03
            February Insight Meditation Retreat--1 Month 
    
        2024-03-02
            March Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat 
    
        2024-04-26
            Mettā in Motion - Insight Meditation & Qigong 
    
        2024-06-30
            Jaya Rudgard – The Unshakeable Heart: Buddhist teachings for our own times 
    
        2024-07-16
            The Nature of Awareness: A Retreat for Experienced Students 
    
        2024-08-30
            Practices of the Heart 
    
        2024-10-22
            Three-Month Retreat - Part 2 
    
        2024-12-28
            New Year Retreat 
    
        2025-02-28
            Radical Freedom, Wise Response