Episodes

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

Jul 18

Lotus Insight Sangha: Taking Refuge in Presence and Love (5-day hybrid retreat online and at St. Andrew's House), Apr 7-12, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions on mind states, The Third Foundation of Mindfulness, on the fifth day of the retreat, followed by a guided meditation of gratitude toward our bodies: "The cultivation of the wholesome in right thinking begins with renouncing — and renouncing whatever doesn't support this embodiment of the possibility of peace, equanimity, and kindness. And we forget. And we get entangled. And then we remember"

Jul 17

Lotus Insight Sangha: Taking Refuge in Presence and Love (5-day hybrid retreat online and at St. Andrew's House), Apr 7-12, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions on vedana (feeling tone) for the fourth day of the retreat, and closes with a guided meditation: "...and that is a different way of talking about what the Buddha is inviting us to — that it is possible to stay connected to that wish, not to be moved by reaction to the pleasant or the unpleasant, so that we might live in a field of non-harming"

Jul 16

Lotus Insight Sangha: Taking Refuge in Presence and Love (5-day hybrid retreat online and at St. Andrew's House), Apr 7-12, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions for the third day of the retreat, and closes with a guided meditation: "Turning towards what is difficult and being willing to feel it does become the strength that in a way holds all those beautiful qualities together in this boat"

Jul 15

Lotus Insight Sangha: Taking Refuge in Presence and Love (5-day hybrid retreat online and at St. Andrew's House), Apr 7-12, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions on mindfulness for the second day of the retreat: "We could say that each of us are here because there has been living inside of us this stream of understanding and of love that knows that we are on a journey to realize, to fully embody our beauty"

Jul 14

Lotus Insight Sangha: Taking Refuge in Presence and Love (5-day hybrid retreat online and at St. Andrew's House), Apr 7-12, 2023 Arinna opens the 5-day retreat with a short talk, then leads the refuges, the precepts, and closes with a guided meditation: "The Buddha's invitation in supporting us to take refuge is in our capacity to actually embody this letting go and surrender to being willing to meet what it is that we find"

Jul 13

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Dharma as a Mirror of Our Own Lives and Possibilities - A Residential Retreat with Dina Aish and Arinna Weisman, Mar 10-13, 2023 Arinna leads a guided loving kindess (metta) meditation: "I was asked to offer different type of metta meditation that actually was first communicated to me by the Dzogchen tradition. In your mind, imagine yourself in one of your sacred spots in nature. Whether it's by the water or in mountain — one of those places where the place invites you"

Jul 12

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Dharma as a Mirror of Our Own Lives and Possibilities - A Residential Retreat with Dina Aish and Arinna Weisman, Mar 10-13, 2023 Arinna leads a guided loving kindess (metta) meditation: "The condition for loving kindness to grow is seeing the goodness in ourselves and others. Not to say there aren't challenges, but for this practice, turning towards our goodness" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ZJ0T7Rdyo

Jul 11

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Dharma as a Mirror of Our Own Lives and Possibilities - A Residential Retreat with Dina Aish and Arinna Weisman, Mar 10-13, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on karma: "Every intention that has an unwholesome energy associated with it will bear the fruit of that unwholesome energy [...] And any intention to be generous will sow the seed of generosity. And because of that law, every wholesome, internal energy that we enact and feed, every wholesome energy will build the movement and power of our transformation" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsOx4aWPo6k

Jul 10

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Sangha - Reclaiming Connection, Reclaiming Community with Arinna Weisman, Ian Challis, and Fresh "Lev" White, Feb 17 - 20, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on The Four Noble Truths: "What the Buddha saw is that every human being is born with these energies, as well as the beautiful energies [...] And that our work is to develop the capacity to discern what's happening, and whether what's happening in our minds, in our speech, in our behavior, in our thoughts, are supporting the opening, or supporting the obstruction"

Jul 9

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Sangha - Reclaiming Connection, Reclaiming Community with Arinna Weisman, Ian Challis, and Fresh "Lev" White, Feb 17 - 20, 2023 Arinna leads a guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "The Buddha said if we were to search the whole wide world, we would find no one more deserving of love than ourselves. No matter what we have felt or thought or said or done. We are always deserving of this love"

Jul 8

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Sangha - Reclaiming Connection, Reclaiming Community with Arinna Weisman, Ian Challis, and Fresh "Lev" White, Feb 17 - 20, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness from the Satipatthana Sutta, then leads a guided meditation: "The foundational teachings of liberation are held in a sutta and teachings called the Satipatthana, the four foundations of mindfulness, and in this description are the practices that create the conditions for the ending of suffering in our lives" Note: The recording cuts short and is missing the conclusion of the guided meditation

Jul 7

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads a guided forgiveness meditation: "Forgiveness is this beautiful energy and quality of the heart that allows for relinquishment and a letting go, frees us from judgment and shame and blame, invites us again onto the path from being lost" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHLRQUf7yX0

Jul 6

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on renunciation: "There's something quite honourable about each of us in our struggle because it is the struggle that becomes the conditions for awakening" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ9DSuiFR5o

Jul 5

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Whatever we find in this moment becomes the invitation to call in our presence, our kindness, our effort, our compassion, our discernment"

Jul 4

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads a guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "We call on the intuition that knows we are always deserving of love, especially when we feel imperfect in our responses to ourself, or to life. It's easy to use the teachings as a way to criticize ourselves or compare ourselves or judge ourselves, and the antidote to this is the practice of metta" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab7imbDrdSs

Jul 3

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "The Buddha said that the root of our suffering is in the dynamic of wanting, not wanting, or confusion. And believing that whatever we are wanting — even in our meditation practice — is the right thing to want. But, if the dynamic or the experience of the meditation is being driven by wanting or not wanting, then that isn't freedom"

Jul 2

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna gives an introduction to practice for new meditators and then leads a guided meditation: "In our own words, how would we like to meet ourselves? Not just as this person in this moment that might feel solid and a little separate, but as a wild and beautiful expression of nature, and of community" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD7zdkcrjyA

Jul 1

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads the refuges: "So maybe for today, it's just the perfect amount of time to come together and connect with each other, and hear each other, and reflect back to each other what is lovely about ourselves. And that is one of the most important refuges that the Buddha talked about" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkkhyWbMrUw

Jun 30

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on patience: "And we could say then how deep patience is rooted in the heart's calling for healing and peace and awakening, because without patience, we're caught in the habitual stream of reactivity — and we know that anytime we are, the consequence of that is always harming" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEYwVDUGnKU

Jun 29

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna opens the two-day retreat with a guided meditation: "We don't have to go anywhere else really, but just to say this hello — 'I’m here'. Acknowledging the different sensations that are being communicated, another form of greeting. Awareness greets the sensations of the life of the body"

Jun 28

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on equanimity and learning to hold what we've been given to heal: "Sometimes when it's one wounding on top of another on top of another, that it feels like — for some of us at least — the fabric is torn enough that it isn't ever fully sewn back together. But, how that torn fabric is held has totally changed. Because often I feel beautiful, even with the torn fabric. And that's where equanimity is — is in that grace of holding what is torn" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfs9iD-KaZg

Jun 27

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives morning instructions, followed by a brief guided meditation: "Here's my question to us: how can we honor ourselves by offering ourselves a vision, without that vision triggering our shame? How can we? Because I know when we think about liberating ourselves from capitalism, changing the structures of homophobia, racism, classism, ableism, xenophobia — just to name a few — there's no shame in that vision of co-creating cultures and structures that are deeply respectful of our beautiful selves" This recording is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsmqSFChn8U

Jun 26

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna leads a guided forgiveness meditation: "Forgiveness is one of the paths for embodying this invitation. It's about unburdening the obstacles to this love, to this homecoming that we are being called to" This meditation is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E6poYxZusE

Jun 25

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna leads a guided appreciative joy meditation: "There is another invitation to practice appreciative joy which comes from recollecting your own virtues — recollecting the beautiful qualities that you have living inside of you. And this is the practice that I'm going to offer" This meditation is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug3QpHcBrgw

Jun 24

New Year's Retreat in Colfax: Entering Our Lives with Awareness and Loving Kindness, with Arinna Weisman and Melissa Coats, Dec 27, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023 Arinna gives a dharma talk on mindfulness: "Mindfulness is the great leader in the energies of our freedom and our liberation" This dharma talk is also available as a video on Arinna's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xjltTTjj0

Jun 23

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Reclaiming our Path of Freedom Through Love, with Arinna Weisman, Noliwe Alexander, Jozen Tamori Gibson and Ian Challis Arinna gives a dharma talk on how to take refuge in the beautiful qualities of mind and to name the tree of ignorance and its branches as invitations for recognition and abandonment. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/73040/

Jun 22

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 4 of 4) Arinna closes out the retreat with an ad-lib dharma talk on the power of intention and our interdependence on each other: "Intentions always bring consequences — and when the intentions are guided by a commitment to freedom and liberation, they will eventually bear consequences, and bear fruit"

Jun 21

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 3 of 4) Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Mindfulness is about building a relationship and knowing 'I'm here'. That here-ness is the beginning of the relationship. I'm here. I'm here with my experience"

Jun 20

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 2 of 4) Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Living inside us is this quality of caring and of presence. And they kind of fuse together — this energy we can call into being that is one of our greatest companions, that is a friend and a witness"

Jun 19

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 1 of 4) Arinna opens the first day with a dharma talk on faith: "No matter how often we are lost, there is always this place inside of us that is there alive and enduring"

Jun 18

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Online) - Growing Equanimity: A Mind That Is Near To All Things, with Arinna Weisman and Alisa Dennis, PhD, June 26th, 2022 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Is it possible to invite kindness into meeting this moment, this body and heart? May I care for you just as you are, however you are"

Jun 17

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Online) - Growing Equanimity: A Mind That Is Near To All Things, with Arinna Weisman and Alisa Dennis, PhD, June 26th, 2022 Arinna opens the daylong by leading the refuges: "Over the years of practice, I have felt so inspired by the capacity that each of us have to orient towards what is unknown, but that we intuit is there — this capacity to heal, to open, to be wise, to be loving, to be kind, to be skillful. This capacity to actually end all our suffering"

Jun 16

San Francisco LGBT Sangha's 20th anniversary daylong hybrid event online and at the SF Buddhist Center, June 18th, 2022 Arinna Weisman gives a brief dharama talk on beginning anew, imperfection, and frienship: "Beginning with that: how often we've internalized perfection, how this culture has lifted up and constructed some aspect of ourselves and the need to be perfect. And how when we don't reach those goals — whether it's in our practice, or whether it's in relationship to our mind, or in our relationships, or in our work, or really in anything — we find ourselves failing. How often that experience of failure — or sometimes even failure and shame and inner self-judgment or blame — can stop us from beginning again"

Jun 15

San Francisco LGBT Sangha's 20th anniversary daylong hybrid event online and at the SF Buddhist Center, June 18th, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a guided meditation: "See if you would like offer an appreciation to the body. How much our body has carried — our hearts, light or heavy, our joy and our grief — all the many, many, many different mind moments"

Jun 14

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman gives a dharma talk on doubt and faith: "Faith understands that we are always deserving of the beautiful qualities of the heart and mind — no matter what happens — that we're always deserving of it"

Jun 13

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a guided loving kindess (metta) and gratitude meditation towards our bodies: "Whether we're young or old, the body has the capacity to be tired, or to get sick — or whatever it is — and we can offer metta as a lovely invitation to bring balance in that way. And it's also a really lovely energy as the grounds for faith — and cultivating faith is this practice, and challenges doubt"

Jun 12

A Time for Healing: Disentangling from Doubt - Daylong Online Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, June 4th, 2022 Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss open the daylong retreat. Katy leads the refuges, then Arinna leads the precepts. Katy and Arinna give an introduction to doubt and faith, and Katy leads a guided meditation. Arinna finishes by leading a guided movement practice.

Jun 11

Online Teaching with Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow Sangha, June 1, 2022 Arinna offers a guided meditation and gives a dharma talk on gratitude as a practice: "Gratitude is one of the antidotes to those mind states, to that heaviness in the heart. Because it turns to our capacity to not only hold what is difficult, to not only hold what is filled with suffering, at the same time to hold in the breadth of our heart what is also beautiful"

Jun 10

Online Teaching with Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow Sangha, May 4th, 2022 Arinna offers a guided meditation and gives a dharma talk on turning toward our beautiful qualities to heal: "We have this capacity, which is called our Buddha nature. We have this inside of us. So although it often isn't acknowledged, we have this capacity to turn to whatever is difficult, and to begin a path of healing. That's miraculous to me. It's miraculous that we have this capacity to heal, and that we don't have to be any different than we are"

Jun 9

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna closes the retreat with a guided forgiveness meditation: "The Buddha said that the practice of forgiveness was the gateway to love — because it clears the heart of judgment, shame and blame"

Jun 8

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna gives a dharma talk on allowing and opening to suffering, and the role of forgiveness in this process: "When the Buddha said in the first noble truth, 'there is suffering,' I so deeply appreciated that because it names a reality that often isn't named culturally. And often we aren't allowed or supported to grieve that, to say this is part of being a human being […] And so we live with this grief and internalize it as though something's wrong with us, judge ourselves, blame ourselves, because we think we should be better"

Jun 7

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna leads a guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "Traditionally we start [metta meditation] with ourselves, but I wanted to offer starting with a person, an animal, a tree, a place — to begin with not ourselves but someone else"

Jun 6

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna gives morning instructions on the power of intention, followed by a guided meditation: "The theme of this day is beginning again and we'll be exploring through the day the different conditions that support us to come back to begin again. And, the very beginning of the beginning — the ground of being for the returning to ourselves — is placing ourselves in the understanding that we are a sacred being always deserving of love; that we have been given Buddha nature, the capacity to heal, to practice the path and to be transformed by the path"

Jun 5

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna leads a brief guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "No matter what we have said or done or felt or thought, in each moment we are deserving of love"

Jun 4

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna gives a dharma talk on taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha: "Part of taking refuge is this understanding that we actually are not solitary individuals. Part of taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is acknowledging that just like trees, there is this energetic root system that connects us all"

Jun 3

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022 Arinna opens the weekend retreat with a guided meditation: "We're practicing beginning again, all together. It might be helpful to connect with your willingness to be open: 'I would like to be open to myself right now, to care, to companion myself, or stand by myself'"

Jun 2

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022 Arinna closes the day-long retreat with guided loving kindness (metta) meditation: "No matter how many times we have acted out of greed, out of hatred or delusion — no matter how many times we have hurt ourselves or others, in this moment and in all moments that come after this moment — we are always deserving of love. And we access this love through the gateway of forgiveness"

Jun 1

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022 Arinna gives a dharma talk on the Three Poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion, and their antidote: forgiveness and love: "But to hold the dynamic in love — to forgive it over and over again — is to create the very opposite of that tightening and fixing, is to begin to open and allow. And in the environment of opening and allowing, things begin to come into balance, heal and integrate"

May 31

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022 Arinna leads a guided meditation and then gives brief morning instructions to open the retreat: "It might be that we find ourselves in the stream where the mind is soft and open and resilient. Or, it might be that we're in a place of struggle and contraction. Neither is better than the other, because the experience is the experience of the river of coming and going. How we relate to it is where the healing happens"

May 30

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022 Arinna opens the day of mindfulness by contextualizing taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha: "So when we take refuge in the Buddha, that's what we're taking refuge in — that like him and other other beings who attained the equivalent of Buddhahood, like Kuan Yin or Tara — we too have that capacity. And, even when there's some doubt as you hear that, your doubt isn't as big as that unworded intuition that it's true. Because otherwise, you wouldn't be in this room. So, we take refuge in that heritage, in that possibility, and in the moments that we have already experienced which indicate something larger than the normal habitual minds that we live with — we take refuge in that."

May 29

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, Mar 13, 2022. The second installment in a series on the Five Training Precepts. Arinna Weisman joins this day to give a dharma talk on The Second Precept: not taking what is not freely given: "Sometimes when we talk about The Precepts, [they] are often framed a little bit like the Ten Commandments traditionally — it's easy to forget that the heart of The Precepts are about this acknowledgement that we have the capacity to be free"

May 28

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, Mar 13, 2022. The second installment in a series on the Five Training Precepts. This day, Arinna joins us to speak to the Second Precept: Not taking what is not freely given. Arinna Weisman leads a guided meditation preceding the dharma talk.

May 27

Online Teaching with Spirit Rock Meditation Center's Rainbow Sangha, March 2, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads into a guided meditation with mindful movement, followed by a dharma talk on patience: "It is difficult, in the midst of this challenging world, to trust that by not reacting and by holding back, we actually create the conditions for the ease and well-being that we want"

May 26

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, February 13, 2022 Arinna Weisman gives a dharma talk on acceptance and renunciation: "For those of you who have heard me in dharma talks recently, that is my go-to over and over again: a deeper and deeper understanding of loving myself where I am"

May 25

Online Teaching with Insight Community of the Desert, February 13, 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a few minutes of mindful movement and closes with a guided meditation: "We have this wish — if you would like to try it on — to communicate with ourselves right at the beginning of the sitting and to say: I would love to be present, or to bear witness, or to stand by myself in being open to this experience — without actually believing any thoughts or wishes that my experience should be different than it is"

May 24

Online Retreat: Cultivating Resilience and Joy as We Experience Uncertainty and Change in our Lives, January 2022 Arinna Weisman gives morning instructions on mindfulness and lovingkindness, followed by a guided meditation: "One of the single most important teachings of the Buddha [is that] for every invitation we offer, there will always be a response. No invitation gets lost ever. That is the law of karma. For every intention, there is a consequence. And we can have a lot of faith in that. That even if it takes months — which it did for me — to access love in the midst of surges of really challenging memories and emotions, something opened. And that's the law not only of loving-kindness, but every invitation that we offer to ourselves in this re-teaching ourselves of our loveliness"

May 23

Online Retreat: Cultivating Resilience and Joy as We Experience Uncertainty and Change in our Lives, January 2022 Arinna Weisman leads a guided metta meditation: "If we were to search the whole wide world, we would find no one more deserving of love than ourselves"

May 22

Online Retreat: Cultivating Resilience and Joy as We Experience Uncertainty and Change in our Lives, January 2022 Dharma talk given by Arinna Weisman on developing clear perception to untangle from the suffering caused by ignorance, and reflecting on one's beautiful qualities to develop joy and resilience: "Mindfulness is the quality of the mind that transforms ignorance and becomes the condition for connection and non-distraction [...] And that connection allows us to not only hold our own misperceptions and the negative impacts of them, but everyone else's as well. But we have to hold ours first before we can hold others" "The Buddha said: don't go for a day without acknowledging the beautiful qualities that are living inside of you"

May 21

Online Retreat: Cultivating Resilience and Joy as We Experience Uncertainty and Change in our Lives, January 2022 Morning instructions given by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation: "Touching into the dynamic of suffering becomes the grounds for a deep compassion for what all of us are doing when there isn't that presencing and love in the mind and heart. And so, we understand then in terms of our liberation — and the world's liberation — how important it is to do the slogging practice of becoming present"

May 20

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna Weisman gives the final morning's instructions on the law of karma, followed by a short guided meditation: "Our actions aren't just happenstance, they don't just fall into a void. Neither do our intentions as happenstances just fall into a void to be floated down the river of time. But actually, there is a lawfulness in the relationship of our intentions and our actions actions through speech, body, and mind"

May 19

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided compassion meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "Compassion is the capacity that we have to turn towards our and others' suffering with caring and love — this trembling of the heart in resonance"

May 18

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna Weisman gives a dharma talk on the inner knowing that guides each of us on our path to liberation, opening to our fullest queer expression, and the importance of patience: "Something pulled us, guided us, without any languaging or cognitive understanding to where we are. And you know, when we take refuge in our capacity for enlightenment — let's name that part that's living in us"

May 17

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna Weisman gives morning instructions followed by a guided meditation: "these teachings are so clear, that the capacity to discern what's most helpful in healing for us, is by staying in the present moment and connecting with what's happening"

May 16

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided equanimity meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "I wanted to offer the practice of equanimity, which is that capacity that we all have — and can cultivate — to hold through the changing circumstances of our lives"

May 15

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on liberatory speech, part of the Noble Eight Fold Path: "I want to explore with you tonight [liberatory] speech because it's so important. Really, it's like one of the most powerful tools that we have available to affect transformation within and without ourselves"

May 14

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions on bare attention and general comprehension by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "in that process of noticing the bare experience [...], that is held in the larger context of general comprehension — the aspect of mindfulness that understands that my intention for healing and for liberation rests on the three refuges — rests on my faith that in any moment I am connecting to this understanding that I have the capacity to do this. Taking refuge in the Buddha, that in any moment, it's not just this one sensation that I'm interested in, but the whole context of the path, the practice of the Dharma."

May 13

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided compassion meditation led by Arinna Weisman

May 12

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on the value of contemplating death as an antidote to ownership in our relationships: "when we move into habitual relationships with our bodies, or our thoughts, or our feelings, or pleasant and unpleasant, any aspect of our life — when it's habitual, we have moved into the relationship of enclosing, of owning [...] and in that ownership — automatically because there's no respect and love — there's a harming done, there's suffering done."

May 11

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions on The Three Characteristics (anicca, dukkha, anatta) by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "knowing these three characteristics and laws of life become the grounds of our liberation and freedom."

May 10

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna leads a guided metta meditation

May 9

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna dances to a music video (Grateful by Nimo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO2o98Zpzg8), then gives a dharma talk on cultivating joy: "It is impossible to hold our sorrow without cultivating our joy"

May 8

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "The mind has that capacity to direct itself towards whatever the experience is. And so that is born in us. And we are building another quality very close to that, which is the mental quality of sustaining that connection."

May 7

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided appreciation meditation led by Arinna Weisman

May 6

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

May 5

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on dependent origination: "One of the things that's been very helpful for me, given some of my own history, is to be really very detailed in the understanding and analysis of what happens when I'm caught in some of the trauma that rises inside of myself or that acts itself out? What is going on? And so, I wanted to take some time to go through a little bit of that and use the teachings of dependent origination as a framework"

May 4

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided appreciative joy meditation by Arinna Weisman

May 3

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

May 2

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness (mind-states), followed by a short guided meditation: "As these energies come up in our mind, hearts, bodies, and we are present, we can discern: ah yes, here you are, anger. Can I disentangle you from the thoughts and allow myself to feel your energy? And that's where the healing is — can I feel you in my body?"

May 1

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman "That's why the Dharma feels such a profound blessing to me — because it gave me a path to heal all those energies and not out of shame and blame, but out of presence and love"

Apr 30

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Guided meditation by Arinna Weisman

Apr 29

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Retreat with Leslie Booker and Ian Challis, November 2021 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation: "Someone who's studied the texts a lot called Analayo, translated the word mindfulness as 'placing near'. And I love that - that we're placing near this knowing and a knowing that's imbued with caring or friendship. I'm placing myself near myself. I haven't split the scene. And even if I have split the scene, or even if I am dissociated, I'm placing myself near that, in any way that I can."

Nov 12, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) As the third week of the queer retreat comes to a close, Arinna offers morning instructions on transition and gratitude, followed by a guided meditation in appreciation for our bodies.

Nov 12, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Arinna offers a dharma talk on gratitude: "Gratitude actually is the movement to appreciate that knows the particular characteristics and qualities of what we're moved to appreciate — and so we're coming to know the experience more accurately just as it is. So, it's a practice that actually brings us into right relationship with whatever we're being grateful for."

Nov 10, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Morning instructions from Arinna on transforming the dynamics of ignorance through our moment-to-moment practice.

Nov 10, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Guided evening compassion meditation offered by Arinna Weisman.

Nov 10, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) How do we know when greed and aversion are operating in our minds? Arinna gives a dharma talk on the transformative power of love.

Nov 8, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Venerable Fred, Nov 2022 (Week 3) Morning instructions from Arinna on mindfulness and beginning again: "So this combination of standing by — bearing witness — knowing — being present — being mindful — includes this wish not to abandon. Not to turn away from — but to be there for. To be there for ourselves. To be there for our lives, in a non-preferential way."

Nov 6, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Morning instructions from Arinna on self-determination: "We talk about this practice as so precious because it's giving us the tools to find a different way than reacting — and that different way is based on the capacity to respond differently."

Nov 6, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided evening metta meditation offered by Arinna Weisman.

Nov 4, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Morning instructions from Arinna: "What is living in my mind-heart right now? [...] The check-in comes from the intention to love: 'I love you honey, I care about you, and so I want to check in how things are'"

Nov 4, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided evening compassion meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Nov 4, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Arinna offers a dharma talk on patience and the path of the Bodhisattva.

Nov 2, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided afternoon meditation by Arinna Weisman, with a body scan technique passed down from Ruth's teacher U Ba Khin.

Nov 2, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, continuing on her previous dharma talk on impermanence: "When we meditate, we turn to whatever the experience is, and then we forget. And then: who remembers? and who forgets? And what happens when we have a pleasant experience and suddently it can change into unpleasant? Who is that happening to?"

Nov 2, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Guided evening appreciative joy meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Nov 2, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Nov 2022 (Week 2) Arinna offers a dharma talk on impermanence: "Clinging, attachment, and ownership obscure reality and create a sense of solidity and continuity."

Nov 1, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 2) Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis offer the refuges and precepts as an opening to week two of the '22 Queer Retreat.

Oct 30, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman on right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration: “There is a context in which we’re practicing of building these energies to free our mind - so that we become the vehicles in an unobstructed flow of support and healing and creating the conditions for freedom, for ourselves and everyone else.”

Oct 30, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Guided evening metta meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Oct 30, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Dharma talk given by Arinna Weisman: "I am alive to heal what I've been given."

Oct 28, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Guided afternoon meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Oct 28, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman on the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, mindfulness of mind-states: "We feel in our bodies what it's like to want something, that contraction, that being pulled away towards the object - we're being invited to know it."

Oct 28, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Guided evening forgiveness meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Oct 28, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Dharma talk given by Arinna Weisman: "The beauty of this practice is that mindfulness and Lovingkindness build the banks that hold our rivers of grief."

Oct 26, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Morning instructions by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation: "It is our capacity to live in freedom, that's the truth. And all the moments that we're not living in freedom are moments of beautiful teaching to us."

Oct 26, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Guided evening metta meditation by Arinna Weisman.

Oct 26, 2022

Dhamma Dena: 2022 Queer Retreat with Arinna Weisman and Ian Challis, Oct & Nov 2022 (Week 1) Dharma talk given by Arinna Weisman on mindfulness: "Mindfulness is not just one thing - it has this capacity to relate through these different qualities that is has to the experience according to the situation."

Dec 28, 2020

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: An Online, One-Day Retreat with the LGBTQGNC Community Guided forgiveness meditation led by Arinna

Dec 28, 2020

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: An Online, One-Day Retreat with the LGBTQGNC Community Dharma talk by Arinna "My deepest commitment is to create this circle, this sacred circle where no one and no thing is left out."

Nov 6, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Evening guided metta, offered by Arinna. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63232

Nov 5, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Guided morning meditation offered by Arinna. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63223

Nov 5, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Morning instruction followed by guided meditation, offered by Arinna. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63229

Nov 4, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Describing part of my personal journey in discovering the truth of the teachings of the Dhamma Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63226

Nov 3, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Retreat opening with the teachers offering the refuges and precepts. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63217

Nov 3, 2020

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Deepening into the Heart of Love and Freedom with Noliwe Alexander, Lama Rod Owens, MA, Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss and Melvin L. Escobar, LCSW, RYT Guided meditation, calling in presence and kindness. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/63219

Oct 13, 2020

Poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Oct 12, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) Our capacity to hold through and stay with our experience as it is, is the grounds of insight. When the mind feels relatively stable, we are invited to open up and allow whatever’s arising to arise. In this guided practice period, we open to and acknowledge the whole of our experience and our relationship to it.

Oct 12, 2020

Poem "For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet" by Joy Harjo

Oct 11, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) By orienting our perception to the three marks of existence — anicca, anatta, and dukkha — our heart and mind begin to open and transform the way we relate to life as it expresses itself. Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.

Oct 10, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) "In these times, where there’s a weighty expression of ignorance and a turning towards an intensification of greed, and of hatred, it sometimes feels like that’s so overwhelming that there is no path. And yet there is. Cultivating joy is a beautiful antidote to that place we come to when we feel like there isn’t a path — and there is."

Oct 10, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) Mindfulness has two aspects. General comprehension understands the purpose and suitability of what we’re doing, while bare attention is the remembering to be present. Talk ends with guided instruction on a mindful movement practice Arinna learned in a Thai monastery.

Oct 9, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) The first three foundations of mindfulness are about knowing the experience as mental objects. Whether it’s a body sensation, thought, feeling, or feeling tone, we are invited to note both when they arise and when they are absent. In the fourth foundation, we are invited to acknowledge our experience in a larger framework through the lenses of: the hindrances, the five aggregates, the six sense spheres, and the four noble truths.

Oct 8, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman - Queer Online Retreat, October 2020 (Week 2) When we take the refuges we acknowledge that we’re entering into the sacred path of remembering — that this living body, our hearts and our minds, are structured and geared towards living in the deepest communion, well-being, peace, and the highest happiness.

Oct 8, 2020

Arinna 25:51: “Why contemplate anicca, anicca, and the vicissitudes of life? Because, in the acknowledgment that everything is changing, and that we can’t hold on […] When we allow nature to be be as it is — ourselves included — then that frees up ourselves from the constriction of ownership into a relationship of seeing ourselves and understanding ourselves as precious and sacred.” Quotes from: Marc Ian Barasch “Field Notes on the Compassionate Life” “Reflections on Impermanence: Life of Chagkar. A Book of Teachings by the 18th Century Wandering Tibetan Yogi” John O'Donohue "Beannacht (Blessing)

Oct 7, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) As we come to the end of the first week of our queer retreat, how can we stay sustained in our practice? Morning instructions offered by Arinna, followed by guided meditation by Mel Pak Coats.

Oct 6, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Metta through forgiveness of the self.

Oct 6, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Gathering our beautiful engergies to sustain our relationship with our experience. Morning instruction followed by guided meditation.

Oct 5, 2020

Ownership obscures the dignity of life, we can't see dignity when we own

Oct 4, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Metta before bed.

Oct 4, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Finding our channel of love.

Oct 3, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Silent morning sit with metta

Oct 3, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Grounding the self in the beautiful qualities of truth

Oct 3, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Guided Afternoon Sit, with Metta led by Mel

Oct 2, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Morning instructions

Oct 2, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Mel Coats: Metta

Oct 1, 2020

Dhamma Dena: Queer Online Retreat with Leslie Booker, Mel Coats, Ian Challis, October 2020 (Week 1) Refuges & Precepts

Aug 9, 2020

Lotus Insight Sangha: August 8th, 2020. Faith and Acceptance Online Retreat Dharma Talk given by Arinna. "The most fundamental wish we have no matter what our spiritual practice is, is the wish not to hurt ourselves and others - and the opposite of that which is the wish to learn how to honor and listen and respect our life and how to listen and honor and respect the life around us"

May 16, 2020

Lotus Insight Sangha - May 16, 2020 Virtual Day of Mindfulness Dharma Talk This half day of practice is dedicated to listening into this calling by cultivating loving kindness and awareness in our family/sangha. Mary Oliver invites us in her poem Wild Geese: Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination calls to you....announcing your place in the family of things Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 29, 2019

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 28, 2019

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 27, 2019

Lotus Insight Sangha 2019 Retreat, Camp Burton, Vashon Island (Apr 26 - 30, 2019) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 15, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 14, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 13, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 12, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 11, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 10, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 2) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 8, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 1) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 8, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 1) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 7, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 1) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 6, 2018

Oct 4, 2018

Dhamma Dena Queer Retreat October 2 to October 16, 2018 (Week 1) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jul 22, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Day of Mindfulness, Seattle July 2018 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jul 19, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Day of Mindfulness, Seattle July 2018 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 20, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seabeck 5 Day Retreat February 2018, Seattle, WA (Feb 16 - 21, 2018) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 18, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seabeck 5 Day Retreat February 2018, Seattle, WA (Feb 16 - 21, 2018) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 17, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seabeck 5 Day Retreat February 2018, Seattle, WA (Feb 16 - 21, 2018) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 17, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seabeck 5 Day Retreat February 2018, Seattle, WA (Feb 16 - 21, 2018) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 16, 2018

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seabeck 5 Day Retreat February 2018, Seattle, WA (Feb 16 - 21, 2018) Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Dec 9, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Day of Mindfulness Dec 9, 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Dec 6, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Wed Evening Sit Dec 6, 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 29, 2017

Retreat at Spirit Rock: Awakening Strength, Courage and Tenderness: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-fluid Community The two aspects of mindfulness, general comprehension and bare attention. General comprehension understands our purpose, the refuge of why we are being attentive contextualizes our attention and knowing with wisdom and caring. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/47306

Oct 28, 2017

Retreat at Spirit Rock: Awakening Strength, Courage and Tenderness: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-fluid Community Honoring the defenses that have kept us alive and offering our love to those spaces that can't open yet. The capacity to offer love can come from contemplating our generosity, the ways we are ethical and the beautiful qualities of awakened beings. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/47305

Apr 7, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Vashon Island 5 Day Retreat April 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 7, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Vashon Island 5 Day Retreat April 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 6, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Vashon Island 5 Day Retreat April 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 6, 2017

Lotus Insight Sangha - Vashon Island 5 Day Retreat April 2017 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Mar 11, 2017

Daylong at Spirit Rock - Awakening Our Hearts: Exploring White Privilege to Build Authentic Relationships Across Difference with Arinna Weisman, JD Doyle and Baruch Golden Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/39769

Jun 11, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Day of Mindfulness Seattle June 11, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 27, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Wednesday Sit & Dharma Talk April 27, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 24, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Day of Mindfulness Seattle April 24, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 16, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 15, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 15, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 14, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 14, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 13, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Feb 13, 2016

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat February 12-17, 2016 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 15, 2015

Spirit Rock: An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community Inviting all visitors arriving at our door into the party. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/29735

Oct 15, 2015

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Compassion for ourselves in our childhood, teenage years, adulthood + aging process. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/30849

Oct 14, 2015

Spirit Rock: An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community How do we tell if something is wise or not, skillful or not? Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/29732

Oct 10, 2015

Spirit Rock Meditation Center How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/30852

Oct 10, 2015

Spirit Rock Meditation Center How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/30855

Oct 10, 2015

Spirit Rock Meditation Center How much can you accept reality as it is, instead of what you want it to be? In your answer to that question lies your happiness or your misery. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/30853

Oct 3, 2015

Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/29448

Aug 23, 2015

Common Ground Meditation Center Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/29754

Aug 22, 2015

Common Ground Meditation Center Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/29756

Aug 4, 2015

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community Building equity and love in our communications and relationsships Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/28977

Aug 3, 2015

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center: An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community Metta for the different stages/ages in our lives. Optional strategies when metta is difficult Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/28955

Nov 5, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Fall 2014 Events With Arinna Weisman Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

May 4, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Summer 2014 Events with Arinna Weisman Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

May 4, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Summer 2014 Events with Arinna Weisman Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Apr 30, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Seattle Spring 2014 Events with Arinna Weisman Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 28, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 28, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 28, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 27, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 27, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 27, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 26, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 26, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 25, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 25, 2014

Lotus Insight Sangha - Whidbey Island Retreat with Arinna Weisman, Lien Shutt - Jan 24-29, 2014 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Dec 14, 2013

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/21793

Dec 13, 2013

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/21777

Dec 11, 2013

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Compassionate Hearts, Joyful Minds LGBTIQ & SGL Retreat Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/21768

Nov 17, 2013

Lotus Insight Sangha - Day of Mindfulness with Bonnie Duran Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 10, 2013

Lotus Insight Sangha - Great Vow Monastery Retreat October 2013 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Oct 9, 2013

Lotus Insight Sangha - Great Vow Monastery Retreat October 2013 Recording provided by Lotus Insight Sangha: https://www.lotusinsightsangha.org/

Jan 8, 2013

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: Essential Dharma: Core Buddhist Teachings, Part 2 Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/20215

Oct 13, 2012

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: LGBTI&GQ Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/17442

Oct 11, 2012

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: LGBTI&GQ Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/17425

Oct 9, 2012

Spirit Rock Meditation Center: LGBTI&GQ Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/17415

Sep 2, 2012

Camp Double Bear Retreat Center: Dharma talk by Arinna “It is incredibly scary to let go of the places where we're holding on so that we might be more vulnerable and open. What's beautiful about that vulnerability is that it's where love lives.”

Aug 2, 2012

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley Equanimity is the mindful presence that neither grasps nor resists experience and is the ground for unconditional love and wise action. Arinna shares a variety of moving stories of deep equanimity and reflects on the position of equanimity as last in several important Buddhist lists. Concludes with a brief Q&A session. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/16951

Jun 2, 2012

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Arinna Weisman and Shahara Godfrey Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/16216

Oct 4, 2011

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Exploring the defended heart with compassion and wisdom. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/14097

Aug 18, 2011

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: IMCB Regular Talks Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/13727

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 6 of 7) Guided Lovingkindness Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12096

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 4 of 7) Working with Shame Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12094

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 5 of 7) Working with Shame, part 2 Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12095

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Pain or Illness (part 1 of 7) Introduction and Refuges Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12091

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 3 of 7) Group Sharing Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12093

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 2 of 7) Loving as the Pathway to Healing Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12092

Mar 5, 2011

Spirit Rock: Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (part 7 of 7) Asking for and Receiving Help Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/12097

Dec 15, 2010

Spirit Rock Retreat - Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community) Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/11444

Oct 30, 2010

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/10532

Aug 5, 2010

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: IMCB Regular Talks Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9724

Jun 3, 2010

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: IMCB Regular Talks Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9408

May 21, 2010

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Treasuring our longing by uncovering the obstructions to happiness. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9037

May 19, 2010

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The eleven practices for cultivating joy and rapture as outlined in the Visudimagga, including contemplating one's own virtue and generosity. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9020

May 19, 2010

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Directing the wishes that our virtues and beautiful qualities continue to strengthen and bless us. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9021

May 17, 2010

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The mechanisms of judgment, shame and blame are misguided attempts to protect ourselves when we have no other resources. We can now see how they are unskillful and connect with our inherent beautiful qualities as a resource to meet these energies and let them go. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/9011

Mar 9, 2010

Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley: Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/23189

Mar 9, 2010

Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Meditating on the Body A Five Week Speaker Series Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/23188

Dec 17, 2009

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: IMCB Regular Talks Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/7519

Nov 10, 2009

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating beautiful qualities of mind and removing the unskillful. The practice of ending suffering. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/7327

Nov 5, 2009

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley: IMCB Regular Talks Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/7311

Jul 18, 2009

Spirit Rock Daylong: Awakening the Heart of Love and Wisdom Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/6573

Oct 20, 2008

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Trusting that abandoning the unwholesome qualities of mind, the stories and identities which keep them in place, we find the love and wisdom of our Buddha nature that never ends. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/4120

Oct 18, 2008

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The transformative power of mindfulness to all our experiences as described in the four foundations of mindfulness and its companion loving kindness and forgiveness in holding the places of forgetting Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/4116

Nov 6, 2005

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The search for and the practice of love. The transformation which occurs when we turn toward that which is most shameful and difficult with friendship and love. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2914

Nov 5, 2005

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Faith is not a romanticized protection of a particular experience or person. It is born from the practice of transforming our defended hearts and minds. Faith is one of the great spiritual powers which sustains love and wisdom. Entrusting ourselves to the beautiful qualities of heart, because they only bring goodness. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2923

Apr 22, 2005

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Delusion seduces us into thinking we are dependent on people, material objects or pleasant experiences for our happiness. Renunciation and the practice of the precepts bring us to the peace we are. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/391

Apr 20, 2005

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Contemplating the blessings of birth as a human being and our capacity to awaken the gates of impermanence, karma and imperfection to wisdom. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/395

Apr 9, 2004

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The ground for wisdom and love is the practice of kindness and the training to refrain from harm. Here are stories to inspire and remind us. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2924

Nov 23, 2003

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha We are often blind to our own generosity, to the gift of our practice and efforts. The Buddha invites us to contemplate this beautiful quality of our minds, and its wholesome results, as part of the practice of growing and sustaining. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2922

Nov 22, 2003

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha Patience is one of the Paramis and gives us the strength to endure through difficult experiences. We can be inspired to practice it through contemplating leaders such as Mandela or the Dalai Lama who have faced extreme challenges in their lives without retribution or revenge, but with kindness and wisdom. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2921

Nov 18, 2003

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha The commitment to truthfulness is a mirror which highlights our deepest intention to bring harmony and peace through kind and useful words. Also it shows us the sneaky seductions of lying, flattery and unkind speech. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2920

Nov 11, 2003

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha We have a tendency to see the world through success-failure, enemy-friend, good-bad. It is also possible to hold, with love, the ambiguity of life and our own ambivalence. Without splitting, we are able to live within the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha’s teachings. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2919

Nov 5, 2003

Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha The Buddha said sangha and spiritual friendship is the holy life. This practice involves learning to experience our own beauty and Buddha nature, and through this, the beauty of others. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2918

Feb 9, 2003

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Using experiences as a child growing up in South Africa, as well as experiences in her daily life, Arinna shares how the practice of patience is an essential part of practice. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2917

Aug 11, 2002

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating an open heart for our changing lives. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/394

Jul 21, 2001

Vipassana Montana Calling on the quality of joy to manifest in our lives. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2915

Jun 10, 2001

Santa Fe The essential practice for freedom. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2913

Apr 15, 2001

Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) How to practice in our daily lives. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2916

Nov 20, 2000

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Not waiting to find ourselves before opening to the possibility of freedom. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2910

Aug 7, 2000

Cloud Mountain Retreat Center Shining light on ourselves through understanding our personality type. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2909

Jul 15, 2000

Spirit Rock Meditation Center There is never cause or reason for anything but love. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2912

Apr 15, 2000

During periods of doubt or difficulty, the understanding of karma can become one of our deepest supports. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/41

Apr 13, 2000

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The possibility of the "highest peace" and the obstacles which cover it. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2911

Aug 15, 1999

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Ways to work with our difficulties and pain in the meditation practice. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2907

Jul 12, 1999

Spirit Rock Meditation Center How is suffering created; a detailed exposition by the Buddha on the moment-to-moment creation of identity. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2906

Apr 15, 1999

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The death of loved ones fires our passion for transformation. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2908

Apr 11, 1999

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Cultivating joy as a practice. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/392

Apr 9, 1999

Spirit Rock Meditation Center Freeing ourselves from clinging. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2902

Nov 1, 1998

Spirit Rock Meditation Center "All things should not be clung to. Whoever hears this hears all Buddhism" Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2901

Jan 1, 1998

Spirit Rock Meditation Center How effort fits into our practice. (Note: Gaps and sounds on recording) Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2903

Jan 1, 1998

Spirit Rock Meditation Center The factors which build our faith in happiness. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2905

Jan 1, 1998

Spirit Rock Meditation Center A talk on the Buddha's inclusive description of the practice of mindfulness in all areas of life. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2904

Sep 28, 1997

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Cultivating the quality of forgiveness through understanding. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2900

Jul 19, 1997

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Living our vision of non-harming by relating to our wounds. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2898

Jul 1, 1997

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Building Sangha: opening our hearts to everything inside of ourselves becomes the foundation for building community. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2899

Jun 9, 1996

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Working with the Four Noble Truths in our intimate relationships. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2897

Jun 2, 1996

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Understanding our spaces of separation and our essential unity with life. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2896

Jun 2, 1996

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34077

Jun 2, 1996

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34078

May 8, 1996

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center How we create myths about ourselves: is freedom in identity? Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2895

Apr 1, 1996

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Speaking of our inherent unity; and how objectification results in separation- of parts of ourselves from ourselves and from each other. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2894

Apr 1, 1996

Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Looking at the pensive poverty we experience by holding on to pleasant experiences and the opening to a mind free of preferences which brings freedom of being. Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/2893

Sep 25, 1993

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34076

Jan 5, 1993

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34075

Jan 1, 1993

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34074

Dec 28, 1992

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34073

Jun 1, 1992

(date estimated) Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/42852

May 23, 1992

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34072

May 23, 1992

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34071

May 22, 1992

Refuges & Precepts Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34070

Dec 31, 1989

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34067

Jan 4, 1989

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34069

Jan 2, 1989

Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34068