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On working directly with difficult emotion as raw material rather than an obstacle.
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Master Gu on what Daoist practice asks of a life as a whole, beyond the hour spent on the mat.
Master Gu
A retreat dharma talk by Simon Child on selected verses from the Hsin Hsin Ming, attributed to Sengcan, the Third Patriarch of Chan.
Western Chan Fellowship
How pain and grief actually feel when the thought that they should not be there is not added.
Springwater Center
A talk connecting somatic practice to beliefs around worthiness and abundance.
A 2004 conversation with the Confucian scholar Tu Weiming, two traditions talking without merging.
Cultural China Foundation
A talk from 1994, on what she called the capacities most people never use.
Theosophical Society
An hour and a half at Harvard on consciousness as the ground of things rather than a product of them.
Harvard Divinity School
A lecture from 1994 on staying present when the world around you is not calm.
Baba Ram Dass
On the Indian traditions as he came to know them from the inside, over ten years of Vedanta practice.
Vedanta Video
A televised interview on Frawley's decades of work in Vedic studies and Ayurveda.
Twenty minutes on what counts as knowledge and who gets to decide.
STEPS Centre
Sarah Powers introducing Insight Yoga, her weaving of yoga, Buddhism and Chinese medicine.
Sangha Live
A live episode of Sounds True founder Tami Simon's long-running interview podcast.
Isira on what comes after an opening, and on the work of letting it reach the rest of a life.
Isira
The full International Womxn's Day lecture delivered at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, followed by audience questions.
Harvard GSD
Half an hour mapping how the schools actually differ on emptiness, without taking sides early.
Lama Jampa Thaye
Solala Towler lays out what Daoism is and is not, for someone meeting it for the first time.
Solala Towler
The first part of his Gates of Prayer series, on the inner mechanics of Jewish prayer.
Yesod Foundation
A long-form presentation of Wilber's integral approach to spirituality, published by his own organisation Integral Life.
Integral Life
An introduction to dhikr and breath-based practice within the Islamic and Sufi contemplative tradition.
A clinically-oriented introduction to mindful awareness practice from UCLA Mindful.
The Mahasi approach of noting, taught step by step: walking, sitting and the rest of the day.
Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu
The opening session of a four-day retreat on the four foundations of mindfulness.
Yayasan Satipatthana Indonesia
Neema Majmudar opens a four-part introductory talk on what we are truly searching for in life, through the equation 'you are that'.
Advaita Academy
An introduction to meditation within the classical Vedic yogic framework.
Noah Samarkand sets out what he means by the Christic path and how the practice he teaches is shaped by it.
Harmony of The Way
The opening session of a teaching on Langri Tangpa's eight verses, the short Tibetan text on turning everyday encounters into practice.
Tushita Mahayana Meditation Centre
The second session, working through the verses on meeting ill-treatment and on seeing others as the source of one's own practice.
A dharma talk by Simon Child on investigating yourself through a Zen koan, given on a Chan retreat.
A Talks at Google session on what proximity to death can teach about how to live.
Lisa Cairns argues that "be present and there is no problem" is not a way to skip grief or pain, but to feel it fully without getting lost in the thinking around it.
Lisa Cairns
A satsang talk on meeting each moment as inherently welcome.
On why Islamic art is not decoration but an argument about reality.
Brigham Young University Museum of Art
Charles Eisenstein explores what it takes for truth to be genuinely spoken and heard between two people.
Charles Eisenstein
A more recent talk on imagination as a key to change, representative of her current voice.
A lecture at Durham on where care, spirituality and research meet, given by a nurse who became a contemplative teacher.
Durham University
Kornfield draws on decades of Buddhist practice and psychology to ask what healing actually requires.
A Dutch-language talk on ending self-rejection as a starting point for inner freedom.
An early, widely watched talk introducing Foster's plain-spoken approach to non-duality.
A dharma talk and led jhana meditation at the San Francisco Dharma Collective.
SF Dharma Collective
Roshi Joan Halifax's widely viewed TED talk distinguishing empathy from compassionate action.
Kabat-Zinn on what mindfulness practice can offer during periods of collective uncertainty.
A recording of one of Isaac Shapiro's regular online satsang meetings.
Tami Simon interviews Connie Zweig on Jungian shadow work.
Couplets of Kabir on love, sung and then unpacked line by line.
Vipul Rikhi
A conversation on karma and rebirth within classical Buddhist cosmology.
An hour on the three subjects people actually ask about, given at the Chinese Institute of Classical Learning.
Khenpo Sodargye's Teachings
A Weekend University lecture built around the themes of Wilber's book Finding Radical Wholeness.
The Weekend University
Rick Hanson in conversation with David Sloan Wilson on personal and global evolution.
Rick Hanson
A public talk given at Lerab Ling in France in October 2010 contrasting the lojong training in compassion with a competitive mindset.
Lerab Ling
An introduction to Dzogchen as the Bön tradition transmits it, recorded during a visit to Argentina.
Bon Dzogchen Argentina
A full hour-long English lecture at Loyola Marymount University on how the Gurbani Sangeet tradition has been carried in memory and in the voice from one generation to the next.
Loyola Marymount University, BCLA Yoga Studies
The first episode of Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann's teaching series, on self-knowledge as the path to inner freedom.
Shaykh Burhanuddin Herrmann (YouTube)
A discourse on udayabbaya ñana, the insight into arising and passing away that opens the middle stretch of the vipassana path.
Saraswathy S
An hour on what a kundalini awakening can set off, and on the difference between a passage and a crisis.
Kundalini Support
Live-streamed dhamma talk by Ajahn Dtun.
BSV Dhamma Talks
A Talks at Google session on working with anger as part of the path, not apart from it.
An introduction to Feeding Your Demons, Allione's method adapted from Chöd practice.
Lessons on living well drawn from years of accompanying people who are dying.
A short talk at Sravasti Abbey on why the classical Indian treatises are studied at all, and what changes in someone who studies them.
Sravasti Abbey
A long lecture on Zen as a way of seeing, given to a university audience.
University of Latvia
A 23-minute talk in which Vasant Swaha invites listeners to begin the inward journey toward their true home.
Vasant Swaha
Yogiraj Siddhanath shares his teaching on consciousness and what happens to the soul after death.
Yogiraj SatGurunath Siddhanath
A 15-minute English discourse urging the listener to stop wasting the limited time of a human life.
Anandmurti Gurumaa
A wide-ranging conversation on Zen practice, kensho and what a genuine teacher offers.
Part of a nature meditation series; reflection on light and darkness as symbolic and spiritual polarities.
A meditative talk on choosing harmony, from Blondin's Live Awake series.
A meditative talk on surrender, from Blondin's Live Awake series.
A two-hour live satsang in which Yogiraj Siddhanath guides participants through Kundalini Kriya Yoga practice and teaching.
A Dutch-language talk on Dzogchen practice as Geurtz teaches it.
A short talk to camera on how fear sustains itself through the mind's rehearsal of the future, and what happens when that rehearsal is seen rather than believed.
Guy Finley
A short talk from the iRest Institute's own channel in which Richard Miller speaks about living enlightenment as an everyday matter.
iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation
A teaching from Blue Throat Yoga, Paul Muller-Ortega's own school.
Blue Throat Yoga
Nicole Baden explores why sitting with an open question, rather than rushing to an answer, is itself a Zen practice.
Tatsudo Nicole Baden
Phakchok Rinpoche teaches on finding a genuine rhythm of happiness in daily life.
Samye Institute
Tenzin Palmo explains the lojong mind-training tradition in a session hosted by Clear Mountain Monastery.
Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo Archive
The opening class of her course on lorig, the Tibetan study of how the mind knows things.
Geshe Kelsang Wangmo
A short satsang teaching on silence as something entered only now, whose effects show up over time.
SeattleKrishna
An hour and a half on whether the Islamic path runs through knowing or through loving, and why that is a false choice.
Rumi Center for Spirituality and the Arts
A talk on holding both love and rage honestly, drawn from Owens's book of the same name.
One of the Lost Lectures found in the Morehouse College archives: three quarters of an hour of him on love as the only workable politics.
Morehouse College Archives
Habib Ali al-Jifri at Yale Divinity School, in a conversation between Muslim and Christian scholars on the two commandments both traditions hold.
Yale Divinity School
He demonstrates the tsalung, tummo and thrulkhor movements and breathing from the Mother Tantra of Yungdrung Bön, alongside a new practice manual.
Foundation for the Preservation of Yungdrung Bön
On keeping a practice going once the retreat is over, and on what bodhicitta looks like in an ordinary week.
Tushita Meditation Centre
A talk on Lama Yeshe's image of a mind wide enough that nothing thrown into it disturbs the whole.
Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom
Nearly two hours at Naropa on treating society as a single body, which is where the bakery and the street retreats came from.
Naropa University
Burch shares mindfulness-based approaches to living with chronic pain.
A talk on working with the mind from within the Gaudiya Vaishnava devotional tradition.
He explains why the sand is where knowledge is shared, and what a song cycle carries that words alone do not.
University of Divinity
A teaching on the Aad Guray Nameh mantra within Kundalini Yoga practice.
An introduction to Dai Family XinYi WuXing internal martial arts by Master Zhongxian Wu.
Master Zhongxian Wu
Sally Kempton on meditation, Tantra, and creative practice.
The Embody Lab
Sat Shree on the three gunas of Samkhya philosophy and how they shape a day from underneath.
Sat Shree & New Dharma
Matt Kahn reflects on where his heart-centred teaching comes from and how it developed.
A long session from Embodied Philosophy's Radical Theology series in which Fox presents creation spirituality and takes questions.
Embodied Philosophy
Hamza Yusuf reflects on meaning and choice on his podcast.
Hamza Yusuf
A long talk on what a feed does to a mind, and what the training offers in its place.
Ajahn Sona
Why he teaches mantra rather than concentration, and what the difference does.
Ishtar Howell
A short talk on the relationship between contemplative practice and physical and mental health.
meditatiowccm
Jeff Carreira opens a daylong meditation retreat with a talk on what he calls the miracle of meditation.
Jeff Carreira
The full recording of Lars Muhl and Naleea Landmann's New Year gathering, closing with a guided meditation.
Lars Muhl
The stages of practice as Trika sets them out, in his own words.
Lakshmanjoo Academy
An hour-long presentation in which Jeff Carreira explores meditation as a practice of falling in love with what is.
Sangye Khadro teaches on meditating on emptiness, a core Buddhist view of how things exist.
Shantideva FPMT-Israel
A teaching on balancing concentration practice with open enquiry.
A short introduction in her own words to how she works and who she works with.
Georgette Star
Connie Zweig, PhD, on Jungian shadow work and spiritual practice.
The former abbot of Namgyal Monastery on how the Tibetan tradition maps mind into its parts, and why that matters in practice.
Maitripa College
How anapanasati is practised in the forest tradition, given at his own monastery in California.
Abhayagiri
A podcast conversation on making mystical texts accessible beyond specialist circles.
A recording of Kornfield's long-running Monday Night Dharma Talk at Spirit Rock.
A teisho on case 17 of the Mumonkan given at Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery, delivered in Japanese with DaiChi Zenni's consecutive English interpretation.
Tahoma One Drop Zen Monastery
A teisho on the first case of the Mumonkan, Joshu's "Mu," given in Japanese with ShoE Zenni's consecutive English interpretation.
From 1996, on owing each other and the world something that can never be settled.
Alabama Men's Conference
A Dharma Sunday teaching that uses fungal networks under the forest floor as a working image for dependent origination and for why a separate self does not hold up.
Natural Dharma Fellowship
A class from her Mythic Yoga Flow series on Ganesha, remover of obstacles.
UDAYA Yoga & Fitness
A class from her Mythic Yoga Flow series, weaving the myth of Lakshmi through practice.
One session of an ongoing teaching on Nagarjuna's Ratnavali, the letter of advice to a king that sets out both worldly conduct and emptiness.
Drepung Loseling Institute of Texas
A Paryushan swadhyay on the Namutthunam, the Jain prayer of homage to the Tirthankaras, given at the ashram in Sayla.
Shree Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal
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