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Meditation on presence of mind, Dhamma talk Part 1 on Satipaṭṭhāna: The Body
Meditation on presence of mind. Beginning of dhamma talks on Satipaṭṭhāna. Part 1: The Body. The meanings of Satipaṭṭhāna; explicitly means meditation. The four Satipaṭṭhāna meditations are body (kāyānupassī), feelings (vedanānupassī), mind (cittānupassī), principles (dhammānupassī). The body as something simple to ground oneself on. Mindfulness as "presence of mind", related to time, to keep on remembering and being conscious with firmness and steadiness.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Chanting, Guided meditation on the breath, Q&A
Chanting. Guided meditation on the breath as a simple kind of abiding; Audience Q&A: Q: How to overcome the body restricting the breath? ~A: 1. Patience. 2. Slight shift to focus on the out-breath 4. Contemplate non-self 5. Focus on pleasure in the breath. Q: How to let go of worry? ~A: Uddhacca-kukkucha one place to look, 'like conditions like' so to be happy tomorrow, do something good now. Q: Is mindfulness different to concentration? ~A: 'Concentration' term can convey controlling solutionism but concentration fine as a word. Q: Technique…Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Chanting, Guided meditation on the breath, Dhamma talk on leadership
Chanting. Guided meditation on the breath; ways to avoid instrumentalising meditation. Dhamma talk on leadership. Comparing the Queen and the Buddha, qualities of leadership the Buddha promoted, as well as leadership in the sāngha.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Chanting, Guided meditation, Dhamma talk on the Dvayatānupassanāsutta
Chanting. Guided meditation focused on pairs of contrasting ideas to encourage contemplation on wholesome and unwholesome qualities in the mind. Dhamma talk on the Dvayatānupassanāsutta from Sutta Nipāta 3.12 (Contemplating Pairs). Detailed analysis of this sutta of contrasting pairs with correlation to dependent origination; of which one pair aspect leads to the origination of suffering, and the other pair aspect leads to the cessation of suffering. Brief discussion on the history, organization, and grouping of numbers in the suttas.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided meditation on the breath, Dhamma talk on the 'dark sage'
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.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 6: Upekkhā
A 59-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 5: Muditā
A 59-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Upekkhā to Phenomena
Offering a peaceful tour around the body and opening all the senses out in equanimity, to meet all things free from preference.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 4: Compassion
A 1-hour 1-minute guided compassion practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Opening to Appreciation and Joy
A 46-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 3: Metta Continued to Include the Neutral Relationships
A 1-hour 1-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Mettā and Karuṇā to Subtilise Sensations
Offering a wide, welcoming, and interested, good will or care to more challenging or more neutral sensations, and seeing what unfolds from that way of relating.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Mettā to Oneself, Easy Relationship, Another, and All Beings
A 45-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 2: Metta
A 1-hour guided loving-kindness practice led by Zohar Lavie, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation Instructions 1: Attending Well
A 55-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation: Welcoming, Allowing, Opening
A guided metta meditation based on Rob Burbea's Dukkha Ways of Looking practice.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: accepting, allowing, opening to how it is right now
Settling in and making space for whatever our experience is in this moment, meeting it with acceptance and kindnessShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided meditation on death, Dhamma talk on death
Guided meditation on death: 'Life is uncertain, death is certain'. Dhamma talk on death; how the Buddha talked about death as something knowable, and what happens after death.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided meditation on the five khandas, Dhamma talk on the five khandas
Guided meditation on the five khandas (constituents / groups). Dhamma talk on the five khandas: rupa (body / appearance), vedana (feeling / experience), saññā (perception), saṅkhāra (choices), citta (consciousness). Discussion of how in the EBTs, the 5 khandas were often what people already identified with, and their impermanence was what the Buddha emphasized. Discussion of how other disciplines and near-death-experiences implicitly invoke the five khandas.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation and dhamma talk on the four iddhipādas
Meditation and dhamma talk on the four iddhipādas (feet/powers): enthusiasm (chanda), energy (viriya), awareness (citta), inquiry (vīmaṁsā). Discussion on the four iddhipādas and vibhava-tanhā (the desire to not exist) and its antidote, the wish to know. The basis of psychic powers as expansions of things we know already. Ideas on how to develop the iddhipādas.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided mettā meditation, Dhamma talk on war
Guided mettā meditation for a loved one with focus on feelings, noticing and sensations inside the body. Dhamma talk on war, with discussion of the first precept, 'just war theory' and peace. Discussion of peace and the work people do to maintain peace.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation talk and guided meditation on sense of self, Dhamma talk on hopelessness
Meditation talk on reducing a sense of self. Guided meditation on sense of self and gentle awareness of mood. Dhamma talk on hopelessness. Losing hope/living without hope, and how we can commit without a sense of emotional investment to something in the future. Differences between hope, faith (sadha) and enthusiasm (chanda).Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided meditation on letting go, Talk about the rains retreat
Guided meditation on letting go and meditating in the present. Talk about the rains retreat tradition and its origin stories, various traditions, events and rules around the rains period, possible commitments laypeople can make.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Meditation
A 46-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from SanghaSeva.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Bhante Akāliko: Ceremony, Creating space for meditation, Breath meditation and letting go, Update
From Harris Park. Why there's a ceremony at the beginning of a meeting. Creating space for meditation. Breath meditation and letting go. Bhante is now a "Middle Monk", time to move on and go out into the world, and the letting go that's involved in that.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Guided Mettā, Gratitude, Anattā Practice
A 40-minute guided gratitude & joy practice led by Nathan Glyde, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 6 Meditation instructions: Anattā
A 58-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 5 Meditation instructions: Unsatisfactory Dukkha
A 56-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Mettā to Easy & Neutral Relationships (Sparsely Guided)
A 44-minute guided loving-kindness practice led by Nathan Glyde, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 4 Meditation instructions: Inconstancy Anicca
A 58-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 3 Meditation instructions: Attending to Vedanā
A 58-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 2 Meditation Instructions: Skilful with the Difficult
A 53-minute guided practice led by Zohar Lavie, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Day 1 Meditation instructions: Listening with Spacious Intimacy
A 1-hour 3-minute guided practice led by Nathan Glyde, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Long and Pleasant Breath: Guided Meditation
A 40-minute guided breath practice led by Zohar Lavie, from Nirodha Insight Meditation in Finland.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: equanimity
A 30-minute guided equanimity practice led by Jill Shepherd, from Southern Insight Meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Bhante Akāliko: Dhamma talk about meditation.
From Harris Park. Dhamma talk about meditation.Shared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: spaciousness
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Tuning in to space as a support for experiencing spaciousness in the mindShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: self-soothing compassion
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Using physical touch to self-soothe and support self-compassionShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Meditation: mindfulness of mind
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Beginning by establishing mindfulness of the body and breathing, then opening to sounds and the experience of thinkingShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Instructions and guided meditation: hearing
(Southern Insight Meditation (Staveley Camp)) Opening up the field of awareness to include the experience of hearingShared under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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