Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talks

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of Personality View, which can be seen through in the first stage of awakening, The sense of self arises and passes away, is not yours, and does not need to be clung to.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of Brahma Vihara of Equanimity or balance of mind. Guided practice and suggestion

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Instructions on letting go of the anchor in meditation on day 10 of monthlong retreat.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to bring the energy of the mind and heart together in unification or concentration. What are the causes for samadhi. How we can live with nondistractedness and what are its benefits.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to discern pleasant, unpleasant, neutral in sense experience. Developing awareness of our habitual reactivity to each, which is unnecessary and stressful.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dhamma as nature and learning to align ourself with what is true. Taking refuge and our path to liberation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Establishing mindfulness in the body with gentle continuity. Finding an anchor for attention to support the development of collectedness.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta Chanting and Practice

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on our body as nature and subject to the conditions of nature, including change and death. Reflections on the mind as also part of nature. Wishing well for all can come naturally when we recognize we are all in the same fragile situation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing a quality of metta or goodwill to your Insight Meditation or mindfulness practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wishing well for all beings through using categories of beings

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bringing a tone of compassion to one's metta practice when encountering suffering in oneself or others

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Beginning the practice of metta with establishing well-wishing for yourself and someone easy to send goodwill towards.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The past and future are only thoughts in the present. But even the present moment is constructed, concocted, conditioned and may not exist absolutely as we believe it to be. Our experience of the senses is dependent on our sense organs thus animals have different eyes and experience the world very differently. Different human cultures experience and interpret sense experience differently as well. Plus practice tips on week 3 of a monthlong retreat.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Developing awareness of Vedana or Feeling Tone, that each moment has a valence of pleasant, unpleasant or neutral. Guided meditation on this theme and the habitual reactivity that accompanies each.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Introduction to Brahma Vihara practices and Guided Metta practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided practice of tuning into mindfulness of the body with breath as a possible anchor.

(Big Bear Retreat Center) This talk explores the skillful view of Not Self. What we call our self is actually a conglomerate of many aspects, all of which are changing. None of the things that we identify with as ourselves have an essential "me" in them. This can be investigated in different domains of experience, from the body to emotions to the mind.

(Big Bear Retreat Center) Reflections on training our hearts to skillfully respond to Dukkha, as it inevitably arises in ourselves and others.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning about "vedana" pleasant, unpleasant, neutral our habitual reactivity to each, and practices to be free.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing "vedana" or feeling tone - of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral and habitual reactions

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Developing awareness of mine states, and the field of mental objects, plus a Q&A

(Gaia House)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Wishing well for all beings in a variety of ways

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Seeing through how suffering can be created through inattention to pleasant, unpleasant, neutral, valence.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Gaia House)

(True North Insight)

(Gaia House) This recording also includes Bonnie Duran

(Gaia House) This recording also includes Bonnie Duran

(Gaia House) This recording also includes Bonnie Duran

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Mission Dharma)

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Guided meditation followed by dharma talk (begins at 29 minute mark) and question and answer session (begins at 1 hour mark).

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the three characteristics or marks of existence - anatta, anicca, dukkha. How learning to perceive these can help free us from suffering.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of feeling tone and our habitual reactivity. Guided practice and explanation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing awareness of thoughts. Explanation of the relationship we can have to mind objects. Befriending the mind.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning about what is true about our loves. Practicing on retreat and what we can learn.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Anchoring attention in the field of the body. Retreat day 1 instructions.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on cultivating goodwill or lovingkindness.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing thoughts as an object of meditation. Guided meditation and Q&A

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dharma talk on LGBTQ retreat: Six senses, six animals leashed together, Amsterdam pride as a metaphor for your mind, retraining the mind and heart for freedom.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practice instructions for the first day of a LGBTQISGL retreat at IMS. Cell phone ceremony of renunciation, sitting, walking

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided practice in recognizing the knowing factor of experience, which is not me or mine, or in my control.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Starting to notice mindstates that influence how we see life, including the five hinderances.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation, posture, opening morning thoughts, walking instructions.

(Gaia House) Understanding the ways that the body, as part of nature, is subject to the same laws, and can be perceived to be dynamic and unstable. The importance of training perception.

(Gaia House) Dharma as Nature. Exploring Anatta in relation to one's body. You are not the owner of your body!