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(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharmna Talk on Danā. (Group discussion has been omitted).

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Parayana Vihara) In an online 4th Sunday Dhamma talk, Ayya Anandabodhi guides an exploration of how to expand the heart-mind to its fullest extent of wisdom and compassion.

(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi discusses how deep awareness and exploration of inner and outer phenomena leads to insight into selflessness.

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on September 26, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - 34:08 DHAMMA TALK 34:08 - 52:29 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Choiceless Attention instructions as a natural process we all know and practice when we are in nature - gazing at the sunset, watching the ocean.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers the Niramisa Sutta and explores the 3 sources of joy and the possbiility of living in joy and being sustained by it to support engagement in these challenging times. The talk includes the song This Joy, as inspired by the Resistance Revival Chorus, and closes with the story of Jim Settee.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) Anatta, or non-self, is a core teaching of the Buddha, and yet can be confusing and bewildering. Sometimes the sense of self loves trying to get rid of itself, all the while maintaining itself on subtle levels. Yet, anatta is our true nature, and we release and relax into non-separation and unity. Qualities of compassion and the heart often support this understanding more than our intellect. This talk will explore anatta from a practical and experiential perspective.

(Buddha-Haus) Einsicht führt uns zu einer inneren Freiheit. Sobald wir sie erleben, entsteht ein tiefes Gefühl der Dankbarkeit für den Weg. Andererseits ist Dankbarkeit eine herzöffnende Qualität, die viele Tugenden nach sich zieht. Sie können wir kultivieren.

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)

(Buddha-Haus) Die Ursachen von Leiden, dukkha, sind manigfach. Zum einen werden Formen des Verlangens und des Ablehnens, die Triebe, die Ausflüsse - asavas - genannt. Zum anderen die Unwissenheit, die Täuschung über das Wesen aller Personen und Erscheinungen. Unsere falschen Annahmen und unser greifendes Verhalten führt zu Verstrickung und Leid. Unsere Aufgabe besteht darin, die Täuschung zu durchschauen und unsere Triebe lenken zu können oder loslassen zu können.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk brings in Thanissaro Bikkhu's guidance for offering "Goodwill for the Real World" and self compassion as an inner nourishment and sustainer. A dharmette followed by a 15 minute guided self compassion practice.

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)

(Buddha-Haus) Dukkha ist Teil der Welt. Es braucht eine Antwort darauf. Weisheit bringt uns Gelassenheit, Liebe - metta - und Mitgefühl - karuna - spenden Trost. Weisheit und Metta gehören wie zwei Seiten einer Münzen untrennbar zu unserer Praxis der inneren Befreiung. Lieben wird gehindert durch Erwartungen. Weisheit befreit uns von solchen.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Gaia House)

(Buddha-Haus) Meditation, Retreat kann weit von unserem Leben entfernt erscheinen. Doch hier können wir wichtige Fragen klären wie, was will ich, wie will ich leben. Achtsamkeit enthüllt wo wir stehen, die Lehre des Buddha verspricht eine Freiheit und Herzensöffenheit, in die wir uns hinein entwickeln können. Trotz aller guten Absichten sind wir dennoch immer wieder konfrontiert mit Hindernissen. Sie zu erkennen, ist notwendig, um mit ihnen umgehen zu lernen.

(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi discussing skillful ways to respond when life doesn’t unfold according to our wishes or plans.

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Buddha-Haus) Praktizieren bedeutet die erste Wahrheit des Buddhas, die Gegebenheit von dukkha, zu verstehen. Dukkha zieht Reaktivitäten nach sich, die weiteres Leid verursachen. Wir kreisen so endlos in dukkha, angeheizt durch die Reaktionen von Verlangen oder Abwehr, je nachdem ob das, was ist, angenehm oder unangenehm ist. Getrieben ist die Reaktivität von Täuschung, einer tief integrierten Verzerrung des Wahrgenommenen. Diese wollen erkennen, denn dann erkennen wir eine Möglichkeit, wie wir dem, was geschieht, in einer Weise begegnen können, die nicht zu weiterem Leiden, sondern zu Frieden führt.

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on September 19, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 32:22 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem from the Sioux Nation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review the importance of giving attention to ethical practice, and how it has often been marginalized in Western Buddhism, with meditation typically being at the center (as is evident in speaking of “meditation centers” and “meditation groups”). Wise Speech, as one of the three aspects of ethical practice named in the Noble Eightfold Path, is particularly important in contemporary Western practice; we can have an opportunity for many hours a day of spiritual practice if we bring Wise Speech practice into our lives! The Buddha’s four guidelines for Wise Speech were truthfulness, helpfulness, care and kindness, and appropriateness (especially good timing). We focus, in this second talk on the first guideline of truthfulness, on how we understand and practice being truthful in our relational and social lives, with reference also to how truthfulness is understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. We see how truthfulness is crucial in communities and societies, what the consequences are of a lack of truthfulness, and how one dimension of our Wise Speech practice is helping to develop more truthfulness in our communities and societies. The talk is followed by discussion.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First, there are basic instructions in developing concentration offered, including the optional "three-part breath" technique which can help with avoiding controlling the breath and with developing more continuity. Then basic mindfulness instructions are given. The last minutes bring in reflection and inquiry questions related to our practice of wise speech, including the guideline of truthfulness, related to the talk that follows the guided practice. This is followed by discussion about different aspects of our practice.

(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi explains how taking refuge in the Three Jewels and practicing ethical conduct creates the causes for happiness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk on muditā, the joy that isn't ours alone. After days steadying the heart through warmth, tenderness, and spaciousness, we turn toward the brahma vihara most easily overlooked: the capacity to feel glad simply because someone else is. Through stories of borrowed delight, dancing tigers, and the quiet gladness of showing up to practice, we look at what gets in the way (envy, and its louder cousin, toxic cheer) and what it might mean to let another's happiness warm us too.

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This guided meditation, dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on the 12th of September, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00:19 - GUIDED MEDITATION 0:17:22 - DHAMMA TALK 0:59:24 - COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This meditation, dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on September 12, 2026 for “Eastbay Dhamma” 00:00 - 5 PRECEPTS 07:12 - MEDITATION 27:50 - SUTTA STUDY AND DISCUSSION Sutta link: https://suttacentral.net/dhp179-196/en/buddharakkhita?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false

(Tisarana Buddhist Monastery) The theme of this Sunday talk: Right effort, cultivating the skillful, and abandoning the unskillful. Luang Por reflects on right effort, and effort as a skill, rather than wholesome and un-wholesome, as it is sometimes referred to. Everything that arises, is natural, even a "murderous impulse". But whether we follow and cultivate it, is what is important. When the skillful is cultivated, we experience benefit for ourselves, and others, when the unskillful is followed and cultivated, it leads to harm, for ourselves and others. The practice of right effort then, lies, in first recognising fully, and discerning what is arising, and secondly, knowing how to follow the skillful, and abandon the unskillful.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on compassion, 20 minute guided meditation exploring various methods of compassion, followed by Q&A

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Pain is unavoidable; suffering is what we add by resisting it. This talk traces that distinction through a rage-filled retreat, an ongoing war with invasive shrubs, and the near enemies — pity, overwhelm, "fierce compassion" — that masquerade as care while keeping suffering at arm's length.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings and Guided Practice on practicing loving-kindness for oneself.

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) For many, wishing well and extending metta to others can come relatively naturally. The hard part is not sending out love, but letting it in. This is one of the most supportive practices for counteracting self-judgment and developing kindness and metta for ourselves. This talk will explore this topic and practice together.

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An introduction to the Brahma Vihāras and to metta as the atmosphere of practice — exploring how kindness gathers us, heals the places where the heart has closed, and liberates.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha taught four guidelines for Wise Speech (as a core aspect of ethical practice): truthfulness, helpfulness, care and kindness, and appropriateness (especially good timing). We explore the first guideline, partly in connection with the other three guidelines, in four dimensions of practice. First and most basically, we explore how we practice with truthfulness in our individual practice with others. Secondly, we look at how truthfulness is also a central ethical guideline in our communities, organizations, and societies, making possible trust and safety; yet often this guideline is not followed. Thirdly, we look at our contemporary society in terms of truthfulness and the lack of truthfulness. Fourthly, we ask how we might respond, as part of our ethical practice, to develop more truthfulness in the society: What can help? The talk is followed by discussion.