Arinna Weisman
Arinna Weisman
Arinna Weisman
Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers. Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others. About Arinna Weisman Arinna has been studying insight meditation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Ba Khin. Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight meditation retreats for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-queer community. She is co-author of the book A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik. Her practice and teachings are infused with her political and environmental activism. She leads "Uncovering the Heart" retreats which integrate the awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation. Arinna's website and schedule www.arinnaweisman.org To give Dana to Arinna www.arinnaweisman.org/donate/ Affiliated Sanghas Dhamma Dena (Joshua Tree, CA): www.dhammadena.org Lotus Insight Sangha (Seattle, WA): www.lotusinsightsangha.org Blessings and gratitude to all of those who have recorded Arinna's teachings over the years. Particular gratitude to Lotus Insight Sangha and Dharma Seed, who have provided many of the recordings compiled here.
Jul 26
Lotus Insight Sangha: Returning to Our True Refuge, 5-day hybrid retreat at Camp Samish, Bow, Washington, with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, March 2025 Guided forgiveness meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "Like loving-kindness, [forgiveness] doesn't insist on total absolution or absolute forgiveness, but is a journey held in our intention to free ourselves of the constrictions and the contraction of living in that small space of self-judgment" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCEe_hy2aak
Jul 25
Lotus Insight Sangha: Returning to Our True Refuge, 5-day hybrid retreat at Camp Samish, Bow, Washington, with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, March 2025 Morning instructions on vedana (feeling tone) by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation: "Why is noticing feeling so important? This feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral? It actually is the direct link between whether we go on to suffering, or not. And why is that? Because [...] the habitual response when we go to pleasant feeling is for the mind to forget [...] The mind forgets and moves out and says — I want more of this." This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVlK7EqF6Ng
Jul 24
Lotus Insight Sangha: Returning to Our True Refuge, 5-day hybrid retreat at Camp Samish, Bow, Washington, with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, March 2025 Dharma talk on enlightenment by Arinna Weisman: "In the present — moment to moment — we begin the healing process of disentangling, of dismembering, of dismantling again and again those energies [that harm], so that they become less and less of a force in our lives. And so, it's said that the simple description of this path is: don't cling to anything, don't hate anything. That is the path. Because when they're not present, the mind is freed, the heart is freed." This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKo_gTB-yGA
Jul 23
Lotus Insight Sangha: Returning to Our True Refuge, 5-day hybrid retreat at Camp Samish, Bow, Washington, with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, March 2025 Guided lovingkindness (metta) meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "Lovingkindness — or metta — is our heart's wish to find itself in friendship. It is our heart calling us back into a connection of friendship and caring, or kindness" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4vi0PptCPE
Jul 22
Lotus Insight Sangha: Returning to Our True Refuge, 5-day hybrid retreat at Camp Samish, Bow, Washington, with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, March 2025 Morning instructions on reclaiming our beauty and love, and resisting through peace, given by Arinna Weisman. Instructions followed by short guided meditation: "We are in this retreat to reclaim what is beautiful about ourselves — what is liberatory [...] We're growing through this practice into the capacity to be resilient, and to feel our beauty and our vision of what is healing, not just for ourselves, but our communities and for all of life" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIbzDEjnWaQ
Jul 21
Lotus Insight Sangha (Online): Online Day of Mindfulness with Arinna Weisman - How Do We Care for Ourselves and the Outer World in this Political Climate? Jan 11, 2025 Arinna leads a guided compassion meditation: "A really very important part of compassion practice is making a distinction between allowing for the feeling, and also being able to drop the storyline. If we don't drop the storyline, we can't actually hold the feeling empathically, and with compassion and friendship" This meditation is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlcwfTmx-KE
Jul 20
Lotus Insight Sangha (Online): Online Day of Mindfulness with Arinna Weisman - How Do We Care for Ourselves and the Outer World in this Political Climate? Jan 11, 2025 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Before we go into the meditation, contemplate maybe a couple of the energies living inside of you right now that you really appreciate — just naming that for yourself and greeting those energies — thank you" This meditation is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWwmrDlU4c0
Jul 19
Lotus Insight Sangha (Online): Online Day of Mindfulness with Arinna Weisman - How Do We Care for Ourselves and the Outer World in this Political Climate? Jan 11, 2025 Arinna opens the daylong retreat with a talk on cultivating the beautiful energies, then leads the refuges and precepts: "And so part of today is acknowledging the beautiful, the beautiful energies that live inside of us that have sustained our life. And then part of the theme of today is also exploring the obstacles to this" This talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOoV0kd9Km8
