Listen to Dharma Talks – Orlando Insight Meditation Group

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  1. 2 jul

    July 2026 Dharma Questions

    During this talk, Peter responds to questions regarding the practice of integrating mindfulness of breathing with a body scanning protocol.  The characteristics of craving as the antithesis of Right Intention and clinging as the antithesis of Right Understanding is reviewed.  He also emphasizes the value of daily meditation practice and recommends the immersive experience of a residential retreat for developing the path towards Awakening.

    51 min.

  2. 25 jun

    Cultivating Equanimity

    This talk provided by Lezlie Laws completes a series of talks reviewing the four Divine Abidings: Lovingkindness, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy, and Equanimity.  She describes how Equanimity brings balance to the expression of the other three qualities of consciousness.

    56 min.

  3. 18 jun

    Understanding Sympathetic Joy

    During this talk, Susan Baxter continues a review of the Four Divine Abidings, focusing on Mudita, translated as Sympathetic Joy.  This quality of the mind and heart celebrates the success and happiness of others and is the antidote for jealousy and envy.  Susan provides a brief contemplation to support the ability to notice jealousy and envy and transform the heart and mind in positive ways.

    1 u 7 m

  4. 11 jun

    Integrating Mindfulness With Compassion

    During this talk Peter describes his practice of combining mindfulness of breathing meditation with a lovingkindness mantra and then developing compassion from this process.  He also suggests focusing attention on the center of the chest during the practice to enhance effective functioning of the vagus nerve, which integrates what happens in the torso with what the mind creates as a personality.  This integrative process increases introspective sensitivity and supports the manifestation of compassion for oneself and others. Prior to this talk, Peter provides a recording entitled “Contemplation Integrating Mindfulness With Compassion”, which can be accessed through the Audio page of this site. Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Working With Compassion

    58 min.

  5. 11 jun

    Contemplation Integrating Mindfulness And Compassion

    During this guided meditation, Peter provides suggestions for combining mindfulness of breathing meditation with a contemplation for cultivating an empathetic and compassionate relationship with oneself and others.  This contemplation is intended to be associated with the Dharma talk of the same night entitled “Integrating Mindfulness With Compassion”, posted in the archive.

    45 min.

  6. 4 jun

    Lovingkindness and Wisdom

    During this talk, Peter provides an overview of the four Brahma Viharas, with focus on how lovingkindness mantra repetition can be integrated with mindfulness of breathing meditation, adding additional attention to the middle of the chest as part of the practice.  He describes how the vagus nerve connects the brain with various organs in the body, including the heart, linking what happens emotionally with the selfing story.  He also describes how contemporary integrative research regarding the interactions between mindfulness and lovingkindness is beneficial for well-being. Here are the notes accompanying the talk:  Reviewing The Brahma Viharas This talk can be associated with a guided meditation that preceded the presentation entitled “Guided Wisdom of Lovingkindness Meditation”, found in the audio archive.

    55 min.

  7. 4 jun

    Guided Lovingkindness and Wisdom Meditation

    During this contemplation, Peter makes meditation practice suggestions that are intended to integrate the two components of the Wisdom Aggregate of the Noble Eightfold Path, Right Understanding and Right Intention.  Right Understanding uses mindfulness of breathing meditation to investigate what the mind creates and Right Intention focuses through the lens of lovingkindness to support the cultivation of Wisdom.  This meditation is intended to support the topic reviewed during the Dharma talk that occurred after the meditation:  “Lovingkindness and Wisdom”.

    45 min.

  8. 21 mei

    Awakening With Joy And Tranquility

    As a review of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness Discourse continues, Susan Baxter focuses on two of the Seven Awakening Factors, Joy and Tranquility.  She describes the characteristics of each factor and the various ways they can be cultivated and brought to the highest potential for Awakening.

    1 u 9 m

  9. 14 mei

    Overview of the Seven Awakening Factors

    During this talk, Peter provides his perspective on the function of the Seven Awakening Factors, which culminate in the full realization potential of the Four Noble Truths.  He describes three categories within the seven:  Mindfulness, Investigation of Mental Phenomena, and Energy, the persistent ability to maintain a flow of attention and self-regulation that fosters Awakening,  The remaining four factors develop as the result of how skillfully the first three are matured.  Next week’s talk will further the review with a focus on the Awakening Factors of Joy and Tranquility, and the following week will review the final two factors, Concentration and Equanimity. Here are the notes Peter used during the talk:  mindfulness investigation and energy are drivers of awakening factors Here are notes prepared prior to the talk:  Reviewing The Seven Awakening Factor System

    1 u 7 m

  10. 7 mei

    Reviewing The Six Sense Doors and the Fetters

    During this talk, Peter reviews a section of the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, focusing on how the brain takes in sensory stimulation and integrates the various areas where senses are processed with areas of the brain that formulate self identity and and behavior, transforming the initial stimuli into the experience of “selfing”.  The fetters are what binds these processes, which is described during the talk.  How this works is presented from both a classical Theravada Buddhist perspective and contemporary neuroscientific research that demonstrates how the brain “binds” the various neural processes in different areas into a coherent self-experience multiple times per second. Here are the notes prepared for this talk:  Understanding the Sense Doors and the Fetters

    57 min.
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