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Bhante Buddharakkhita's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

Bhante Buddharakkhita

Bhante Buddharakkhita was born and raised in Uganda. Meditating since 1993, he was ordained as a Theravada Buddhist monk in 2002. Now residing at Bhavana Society in WV, he teaches worldwide and in 2005 founded the Uganda Buddhist Centre.

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2017-09-25 Four modes of progress and working with difficult emotions. 62:10	Download Listen
Mindfulness of difficult emotions can lead to a pleasant progress to peace, happiness, and awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2017-09-25 Guided Meditation On Sleepiness and Dullness 50:01	Download Listen
Mindfulness of sloth and torpor can help us in turning the hinderance into opportunities for alertness and awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-19 Mindfulness Of Physical Pain 40:47	Download Listen
Guided meditation on physical pain.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-18 Meeting Physical Pain With Right Mindfulness and Full understanding. 62:36	Download Listen
The practice of right mindfulness and full understanding can help us meet physical pain with openness, compassion, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2014-12-02 A Buddhist Perspective On Spiritual Success 61:58	Download Listen
The four wheels of success
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-25 Guided meditation On Appreciative Joy 60:16	Download Listen
Appreciative joy (mudita) is a quality of the heart and mind that wishes for the success of all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-21 Arousing and Balancing the Five Spiritual Faculities 61:31	Download Listen
When the five spiritual or controlling faculties are aroused and balanced, they serve as the conditions and cause for attaining steadiness of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-06 Freedom From the Four Distorted Preceptions 61:06	Download Listen
The practice of the four foundations of mindfulness can help us to overcome the four distorted perceptions; and lead us to freedom of the heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-30 Equanimity - Bring Balance In Our Life 61:57	Download Listen
Equanimity is a mental quality of the heart and mind which has a balance as regard to beings, situations and mental states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-30 Mindful Of Emotions 48:07	Download Listen
The arising of emotion is beyond our control but mindfulness of emotion can make a difference between freedom and bondage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-21 Guided Metta Meditation 46:22	Download Listen
Expanding our hearts and minds to embrace all beings in the world
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-19 The Third Nobel Truth 61:39	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness of fetters (mental defilements)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-12 Transforming Fear Into Freedom 61:44	Download Listen
Through mindfulness and wisdom (understanding) we can transform fear into freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-05 The How of Happiness 60:51	Download Listen
The Noble Eightfold Path provides and indispensable frame work for cultivating true happiness, inner peace and ultimate liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-28 The Five Aggregates of Clinging 57:01	Download Listen
Understanding the five aggregates of clinging from moment to moment of our experience can open the door to peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-27 Guided meditation 59:32	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body feelings, emotions, thoughts, and hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-26 Guided Meditation On Forgiveness 60:54	Download Listen
Forgiveness does not mean condoning others evil or unskillful behaviors, but it does mean letting go of the emotion connection of feeling hurt and wounded.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06	Download Listen
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-17 Meeting The Five Hindrances With Mindfulness 56:10	Download Listen
Guided Meditation on the five hindrances; sense desires, ill-will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor and doubt
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-22 Five precepts and Forgiveness Practice 67:16	Download Listen
Sharing of merit to all beings and using the five precepts as a foundation for practicing Dhamma daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-18 Anger 101 66:16	Download Listen
Through mindfulness practice, we can cast off the traces of anger and turn it into opportunities for experiencing inner peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-16 Q&A Session 19:33	Download Listen
Questions about Karma - All beings are owners of their kamma; all beings have kamma as their property
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-11 Nibbana: the third noble truth of the cessation of suffering. 62:54	Download Listen
Nibbana or Nirvana is the final goal of meditation practice From the time we begin the practice we begin to experience peace and happiness until we realize final liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-10 Morning Questions and Answers 15:06	Download Listen
How to work with the concept of "self" and "non-self"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

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