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Dharma Talks
given at New York Insight Meditation Center
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2019-01-11
The Art of Mindful Communication: guided meditation
40:20
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Oren Jay Sofer
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Mindfulness practice provides a powerful support for clear, kind, and effective conversations. Join author and meditation teacher Oren Jay Sofer for this exploration of how our contemplative practice provides a foundation for bringing more compassion, clarity, and connection into our speech and relationships. In these polarized times, how can we speak and listen in a way that is aligned with our values? How can we hear others with divergent views?
Oren will be offering teachings from his new book, Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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NYI Regular Talks
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2018-10-31
The Dharma of #MeToo: A Conversation on Ethical Misconduct, Boundaries and the Teacher-Student Relationship - Insight OUT
66:07
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Lama Rod Owens
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A note on the recording:
Approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens talk, he begun a guided meditation practice. This approx. 36 minutes guided practice was extracted from this recording and was made a stand alone track which you can freely access. Once Lama Rod announces start of guided practice, a bell is heard, which marks the End of extracted guided practice.
Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October.
Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome.
We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2018-10-31
The Dharma of #MeToo - guided meditation - INSIDE OUT
35:59
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Lama Rod Owens
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A note on the recording:
This guided meditation recording took place during Lama Rod talk for Insight OUT sangha.
It was extracted from the main reocrindg of this talk to be a stand alone recording.
It begun approx. 32 minutes into Lama Rod Owens' talk.
Insight OUT Refuge welcomes Lama Rod Owens for this special gathering on the 5th Wednesday of October.
Our community is open to students of all Buddhist traditions, as well as those who are in the beginning stages of exploring their meditation practice and have an interest in the Dharma. All those who identify as LGBTQI are welcome.
We gather to form a multicultural community in which we can support each other in our practice with a commitment toward social change.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2018-10-30
The Dharma of Consent, Finding a Common Language
1:24:38
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Lama Rod Owens
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This is the main track of lama rod dharma talk. During this talk, after thirty two minutes, an approx. 25 minutes guided meditation practice took place. the guided practice was extracted and was made a standalone track which you can access as well. A short small bell sound was inserted to mark the point in which the talk was paused. It then continues seamlessly. However, after the guided meditation, a five minute break in which sangha members were offered to submit written questions, and it is that which lama rod refers to after the short bell sound.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2018-10-26
Effortless Mindfulness Embodied with Loch Kelly - TBIF
1:44:04
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Loch Kelly
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With wisdom, clarity and care, Loch Kelly offers teachings and practices that directly evolve consciousness and liberate the heart.”
―Tara Brach, Ph.D. Author of Radical Acceptance
In the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition, meditation is taught in two stages. The first is deliberate mindfulness, which includes one-pointed focus and insight meditation. The second practice is called effortless mindfulness, not because no initial effort is made, but because of the discovery of an awareness that is already awake and has natural compassion.
Effortless mindfulness is an advanced, yet simple form of mindfulness. Rather than concentrating to calm and focus your mind, we will learn to intentionally shift into our awake aware mind, which is already calm, intelligent, and able to effortlessly focus. This is an important practice to learn for your journey of awakening.
Loch’s Award-Winning Book, Shift Into Freedom, and Audio, Effortless Mindfulness Now, can be found HERE.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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2018-10-14
18 Day 5 Guided Meditation Intention – a Softer Effort
46:47
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Using intention in practice means there is a wish, a prayer, an aspiration – subtle movements of energy rather than the push of effort. If we use intention too forcefully we block receptivity. It’s up to us to determine what’s skillful at this time. Perhaps it’s the intention to relax, set aside, widen, soften. Wisdom is our guide, and effort is just to use wisdom to arrive at deeper wisdom. [8:15 Begin Standing Meditation Instructions] Translating Anatomical Descriptions into Felt Sense: We all use anatomical descriptions of the body as a sketch, but the encouragement in this meditation is to translate them into energetic or felt experiences. Beginning with physical experience, guidance is provided to sense into subtler energies and felt tones and meanings.
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2018-10-13
16 Day 4 Evening Puja: Q&A
67:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Different ways of presenting Dhamma in Theravada Buddhism (single-pointed, ‘dry insight’; Thai forest). Are there certain thought patterns that are related to nervous energy in the body? How do you do discharge? Metta practice as cultivating non-aversive, non-contractive state rather than a doing/sending out. Clarifying the term ‘fields’. Qi Gong questions (is it normal to get so hot while practicing Qi Gong? Is it good to use wu qi for standing meditation?); Responding to sexual awareness in the presence of others. Skillfully handling trauma that are still alive. Distinction between perception and consciousness. How feelings and emotions are experienced in Samadhi. Reclining meditation
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New York Insight Meditation Center
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Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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