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Arinna Weisman
by 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 WeismanArinna 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 wh
Episodes
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Gratitude (12-31-89)
Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34067
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Non-Harming (01-04-89)
Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34069
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Guided Metta (01-02-89)
Recording provided by Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/teacher/26/talk/34068
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Guided Forgiveness Meditation (03-24-25)
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 Guided forgiveness meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "Like loving-kindness, [forgiveness] doesn't insist on total absolution or absolute...
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Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Vedana - The Feeling Tone of Experience (03-24-25)
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...
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Enlightenment: Our Deepest Inheritance (03-23-25)
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 Dharma talk on enlightenment by Arinna Weisman: "In the present — moment to moment — we begin the healing process of disentangling, of...
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Guided Metta (03-22-25)
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 Guided lovingkindness (metta) meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "Lovingkindness — or metta — is our heart's wish to find itself in friendship.…
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Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Peace Is in Every Step (03-22-25)
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 reclaiming our beauty and love, and resisting through peace, given by Arinna Weisman. Instructions followed by short...
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Guided Compassion Meditation (01-11-25)
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...
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Guided Meditation (01-11-25)
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...
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Retreat Opening: The Sacredness of Life (01-11-25)
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...
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Morning Instruction: Mind States - The Third Foundation of Mindfulness (04-11-23)
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...
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Morning Instruction: Vedana - The Second Foundation of Mindfulness (04-10-23)
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...
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Morning Instruction: Planting the Seeds of Wholesome Intentions (04-09-23)
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...
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Morning Instruction: Mindfulness (04-08-23)
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…
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Retreat Opening: Trusting Our Capacity to Grow and Hold Reality (04-07-23)
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…
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Guided Metta Meditation (03-13-23)
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...
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Guided Metta Meditation (03-12-23)
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…
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Karma (03-12-23)
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...
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The Four Noble Truths (02-19-23)
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…
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Guided Metta Meditation (02-18-23)
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...
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Morning Instruction: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (02-18-23)
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...
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Guided Forgiveness Meditation (01-28-23)
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,...
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Renunciation (01-28-23)
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…
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Guided Meditation (01-28-23)
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"
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Guided Metta Meditation (01-28-23)
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.…
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Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (01-28-23)
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…
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Beginning Mindfulness & Meditation Instructions (01-28-23)
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…
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The Refuges (01-28-23)
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...
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Patience (01-27-23)
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...
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Guided Meditation (01-27-23)
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...
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Equanimity (12-31-22)
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…
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Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (12-31-22)
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...
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Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-30-22)
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...
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Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (12-30-22)
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…
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Mindfulness as the Leader (12-29-22)
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...
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How to Take Refuge in the Beautiful Qualities (09-25-22)
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...
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Interdependence (07-27-22)
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 —...
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Guided Meditation: Connecting to the Experience (07-20-22)
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...
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Guided Meditation: Relaxing into How It Is (07-13-22)
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...
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Faith in Our Capacity to Awaken the Beautiful Qualities (07-06-22)
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"
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Guided Meditation (06-26-22)
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...
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The Refuges: Turning Towards with Kindness (06-26-22)
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...
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Beginning Anew: Arinna on the 20th Anniversary of SFLGBT Sangha (06-18-22)
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...
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Guided Meditation (06-18-22)
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...
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Doubt & Faith (06-04-22)
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…
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Guided Metta & Gratitude Towards Our Bodies (06-04-22)
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...
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Daylong Retreat Opening: Disentangling from Doubt (06-04-22)
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...
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Gratitude (06-01-22)
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...
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Taking Leadership in Our Lives: Standing Near to Our Suffering and Awakening on Our Path of Healing and Liberation (05-04-22)
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…
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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 WeismanArinna 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 wh
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