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  • Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Tina Rasmussen 13 July 2024 28 min

    Talk 3 - Day 2 Morning - Guided Metta meditation

    A 28-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Tina Rasmussen, from Cloud Mountain Retreat Center.
    Loving-kindness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 10 July 2024 20 min

    Meditation: A Listening Presence

    The receptivity of listening awakens us to the living stream of life. This meditation guides us in listening to sounds, and then listening to and feeling the aliveness of our bodies and the movement of the breath. We close with a simple offering of lovingkindness to our inner life and our world. “Resting with the breath as a raft might rest and move with the waves…” ~ Tara
    Breath Loving-kindness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 3 July 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Portal to Sacred Presence

    This meditation includes a full body scan, and then opens the senses to all experience, allowing life to be just as it is. Awakening to the life of our body reveals the mysterious formless presence that is our source. We close with a poem from Danna Faulds.
    Body scan
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  • London Insight Meditation Jaya Rudgard 30 June 2024 30 min

    Guided meditation

    A 30-minute guided practice led by Jaya Rudgard, from London Insight Meditation.
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 26 June 2024 18 min

    Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body

    Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.
    Breath Open awareness
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  • Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery 19 June 2024 26 min

    Ayya Niyyānikā: Body as Teacher: Embodiment of Hindrances with Focus on Investigation of Doubt - Meditation

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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 19 June 2024 22 min

    Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence

    The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.
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  • London Insight Meditation John Peacock 14 June 2024 18 min

    Meditation and ethics cannot be separated

    A 18-minute guided practice led by John Peacock, from London Insight Meditation.
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  • Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Kamala Masters 13 June 2024 1 hr

    Metta guided meditation 3

    A 1-hour guided loving-kindness practice led by Kamala Masters, from Twin Cities Vipassana Collective.
    Loving-kindness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 12 June 2024 22 min

    Meditation: Awareness is Our Home

    This guided practice helps us come into our senses through a body scan. We then rest in the awareness that is listening to and feeling the changing flow of experience. When the mind drifts, the return is a relaxing back to our senses, and to the sea of awareness that includes and experiences the waves of life. From the meditation closing: As part of closing this meditation, sensing whatever wish or blessing you’d like to offer to yourself right now. What would bring healing happiness your life? Widening that heart…
    Body scan
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  • Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Kamala Masters 11 June 2024 53 min

    Metta guided meditation2

    A 53-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Kamala Masters, from Twin Cities Vipassana Collective.
    Loving-kindness
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  • Twin Cities Vipassana Collective Kamala Masters 10 June 2024 53 min

    Guided Metta meditation

    A 53-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Kamala Masters, from Twin Cities Vipassana Collective.
    Loving-kindness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 5 June 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Body and Spirit

    As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary Oliver.
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  • London Insight Meditation Zohar Lavie 1 June 2024 40 min

    Guided elements practice (with introduction)

    A 40-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from London Insight Meditation.
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  • London Insight Meditation Zohar Lavie 1 June 2024 25 min

    Guided compassion meditation

    A 25-minute guided compassion practice led by Zohar Lavie, from London Insight Meditation.
    Compassion
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 29 May 2024 18 min

    Meditation: Listening to Life

    The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.
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  • Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Ajahn Sucitto 29 May 2024 44 min

    Receptive attention - body-breathing-meditation.

    A 44-minute guided breath practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Meditationszentrum Beatenberg.
    Breath
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  • Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Ajahn Sucitto 28 May 2024 29 min

    Guided Standing Meditation

    A 29-minute guided walking practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Meditationszentrum Beatenberg.
    Walking
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  • Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Ajahn Sucitto 26 May 2024 43 min

    Guided and silent meditation

    A 43-minute guided practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Meditationszentrum Beatenberg.
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  • Meditationszentrum Beatenberg Ajahn Sucitto 25 May 2024 22 min

    Opening talk and standing meditation

    A 22-minute guided walking practice led by Ajahn Sucitto, from Meditationszentrum Beatenberg.
    Walking
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 22 May 2024 19 min

    Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence

    Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norris, “Sharing Silence.”
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  • London Insight Meditation Bhante Bodhidhamma 18 May 2024 43 min

    Guided metta practice

    A 43-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Bhante Bodhidhamma, from London Insight Meditation.
    Loving-kindness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 15 May 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Living Presence – Experiencing Aliveness and Openheartedness

    The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing a rhythmic inflow and outflow of the breath, in order to calm and collect the mind. Then continuing with the conscious breathing, we are guided through the body – bringing attention to sensations and space. This attention becomes a very vibrant living presence, and we end by experiencing that living presence as a natural openheartedness that includes all of life.
    Breath
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  • Karuna Buddhist Vihara Ayya Santussika 11 May 2024 13 min

    The Mettā Pāramī--Guided Meditation | Ayya Santussikā

    This guided meditation was offered on May 11, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 8 May 2024 22 min

    Guided Meditation: Letting Life Be As It Is

    When we learn to listen to our inner life without interference, we open to a tender and full experience of presence. This meditation guides us in awakening an intimate quality of listening, as we attend to sensations, moods, sounds and the entire dance of life.
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 1 May 2024 19 min

    Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence

    This guided meditation practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into presence – the awake space that is aware of this changing life.
    Open awareness
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  • Karuna Buddhist Vihara Ayya Santussika 27 April 2024 58 min

    Sila Pāramī - Guided Meditation Part 2 of 3 Daylong Retreat l Ayya Santussikā

    A 58-minute guided practice led by Ayya Santussika, from Karuna Buddhist Vihara.
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 24 April 2024 22 min

    Meditation: Awakening through the Inner Body

    When we attune to the inner body, we discover a field of energy and aliveness that is the portal to pure presence. This meditation guides our attention to the inner body, opens to the play of sound and invites us to rest in the awake awareness that includes and is the grounds of this living world.
    Open awareness
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 17 April 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Inner Refuge of Calm

    In times of stress, it’s crucial that we have pathways to quiet our minds, relax our bodies and rest in a calm, steady presence. This meditation guides us in using the breath, body scan, and a home base of presence to find that inner refuge that can carry us through difficult times.
    Body scan Breath
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 10 April 2024 18 min

    Meditation: Listening to Life

    The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 3 April 2024 17 min

    Meditation: A Present Heart

    One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence. It’s so helpful to say, “What’s happening inside me right now?” Then, “Can I meet this with kindness, with a present heart?”
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  • Auckland Insight Meditation Kamala Masters 31 March 2024 34 min

    Meditation: Compassion

    A 34-minute guided compassion practice led by Kamala Masters, from Auckland Insight Meditation.
    Compassion
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  • Auckland Insight Meditation Jill Shepherd 31 March 2024 21 min

    Meditation: Settling in, arriving, introduction of Jill

    A 21-minute guided practice led by Jill Shepherd, from Auckland Insight Meditation.
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  • Auckland Insight Meditation Jill Shepherd 31 March 2024 28 min

    Meditation: Exploring our relationship to unpleasantness or unsatisfactoriness, dukkha

    A 28-minute guided practice led by Jill Shepherd, from Auckland Insight Meditation.
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 27 March 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Widening Rings of Being – Awakening the Senses

    If we can recognize thoughts as thoughts, it becomes possible to open from virtual to living reality. This meditation guides us in awakening the senses and discovering the freedom – the awake space of Being that is beyond the confines of thoughts. “Relaxing back into the space between thoughts. Relaxing with what’s right here…” The poet Rumi writes, “Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought. Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking, live in silence, flow…
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 20 March 2024 22 min

    Meditation: Openhearted Presence

    This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. “Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are actually profoundly transformational. If you notice thinking and then plant the seeds of kindness, that becomes the habit of the heart.” ~Tara We close with a beautiful blessing-poem from John O’Donohue, from Beauty – The Invisible Embrace.
    Body scan
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 13 March 2024 19 min

    Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention

    This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. “Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we are relating to it. See if you can relate with the spirit of ‘yes,’ allowing whatever arises to be here. And if it feels difficult, painful, then bringing some real kindness – a ‘yes’ with gentleness and kindness.” ~ Tara
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 6 March 2024 56 min

    Part 2: Healing Depression with Meditation

    Most people get depressed at times, and many suffer greatly from bouts of major depression. At the heart of the suffering is the experience of severed belonging—of being imprisoned in the pain of separation, unworthiness, unlovability and hopelessness. These two talks explore several meditation practices that reconnect us with our natural aliveness, openheartedness and awareness. They empower us to develop our inner resources, energize us to awaken, free us from rumination and remind us that we are not our depressive thoughts and feelings. The growing realization of the loving awareness…
    Difficult emotions
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  • Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC Tara Brach 6 March 2024 21 min

    Meditation: Letting Go of Doing

    Meditation becomes truly freeing in the moments when there is no controlling whatsoever; when nothing is resisted or grasped after. This guided meditation begins with a simple body scan, relaxing and awakening to sensations in the body and then including the play of sound. We then let go of any doing, and simply notice and allow the changing flow of experience, letting life be just as it is. In this pure allowing presence we become aware of the background silence that is listening. The invitation is to relax and be…
    Body scan
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  • Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Jill Shepherd 4 March 2024 20 min

    Meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā

    A 20-minute guided practice led by Jill Shepherd, from Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre.
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