Arinna Weisman

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (03-24-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Vedana - The Feeling Tone of Experience (03-24-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Enlightenment: Our Deepest Inheritance (03-23-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Metta (03-22-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Peace Is in Every Step (03-22-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Compassion Meditation (01-11-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (01-11-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Retreat Opening: The Sacredness of Life (01-11-25)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction: Mind States - The Third Foundation of Mindfulness (04-11-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction: Vedana - The Second Foundation of Mindfulness (04-10-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction: Planting the Seeds of Wholesome Intentions (04-09-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction: Mindfulness (04-08-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Retreat Opening: Trusting Our Capacity to Grow and Hold Reality (04-07-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (03-13-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (03-12-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Karma (03-12-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

The Four Noble Truths (02-19-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (02-18-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 9 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness (02-18-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 8 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 7 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Renunciation (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 6 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 5 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 4 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 3 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Beginning Mindfulness & Meditation Instructions (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 2 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

The Refuges (01-28-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 1 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Patience (01-27-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (01-27-23)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Equanimity (12-31-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (12-31-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (12-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Mindfulness as the Leader (12-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

How to Take Refuge in the Beautiful Qualities (09-25-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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/

Interdependence (07-27-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation: Connecting to the Experience (07-20-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation: Relaxing into How It Is (07-13-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Faith in Our Capacity to Awaken the Beautiful Qualities (07-06-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation (06-26-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

The Refuges: Turning Towards with Kindness (06-26-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Beginning Anew: Arinna on the 20th Anniversary of SFLGBT Sangha (06-18-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation (06-18-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Doubt & Faith (06-04-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta & Gratitude Towards Our Bodies (06-04-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Daylong Retreat Opening: Disentangling from Doubt (06-04-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Katy Wiss) — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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.

Gratitude (06-01-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Taking Leadership in Our Lives: Standing Near to Our Suffering and Awakening on Our Path of Healing and Liberation (05-04-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (04-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 9 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Our Life Journey to Heal What We’ve Been Given to Carry (04-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 8 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (04-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 7 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (04-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 6 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (04-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 5 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Taking Refuge in Our Interconnection (04-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 4 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (04-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 3 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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'"

Guided Metta Meditation (04-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 2 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Forgiveness & Love: Antidotes to the Three Poisons (04-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 1 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation & Morning Instruction: Allowing the Diversity of Our Experiences (04-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 31 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Day of Mindfulness Opening: Taking Refuge (04-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 30 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

The Second Precept: Not Taking What Is Not Freely Offered (03-13-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation (03-13-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 28 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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.

Patience: An Invitation Toward Healing (03-02-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Learning to Love Ourselves: Bearing Witness to Where We Are (02-13-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 26 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Mindful Movement & Guided Meditation (02-13-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 25 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: A Standing Invitation to Lovingkindness (01-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Metta Meditation (01-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 23 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Cultivating Clear Perception, Resilience, and Joy (01-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Becoming Present for the Liberation of Ourselves and the World (01-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Karma (11-14-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-13-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Opening to the Free Flow of Life (11-13-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: In the Seeing, There Is Only the Seen (11-13-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Equanimity Meditation (11-12-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 16 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Liberatory Speech (11-12-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 15 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Bare Attention & General Comprehension (11-12-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-11-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 13 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Antidote to Ownership: Contemplation of Death (11-11-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 12 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Three Characteristics (11-11-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 11 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

Guided Metta (11-10-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 10 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Cultivating Joy (11-10-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 9 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Concentration as Gathering in a Basket (11-10-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 8 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

Guided Appreciation Meditation (11-09-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 7 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (11-09-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 6 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Dependent Origination (11-08-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 5 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (11-07-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 4 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (11-07-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 3 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness (11-06-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 2 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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?"

The Spring of Love (11-05-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 1 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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"

Guided Meditation (11-04-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Placing Ourselves Near (11-03-21)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Orienting Toward an Ongoing Practice of Appreciation (11-12-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0000

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.

The Practice of Gratitude (11-11-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 03:15:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Wholesome and Abandoning the Unwholesome (11-10-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0000

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.

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 04:15:00 +0000

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

I Am Taking a Stand for Love and Liberation (11-09-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 03:15:00 +0000

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.

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Beginning Again (11-08-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 8 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Self-Determination (11-06-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 6 Nov 2022 17:15:00 +0000

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."

Guided Metta Meditation (11-05-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 6 Nov 2022 03:30:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Inquiring Into Our Heart-Mind with Love (11-04-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 4 Nov 2022 16:15:00 +0000

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'"

Guided Compassion Meditation (11-03-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 4 Nov 2022 03:30:00 +0000

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

The Path of the Bodhisattva (11-03-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 4 Nov 2022 02:15:00 +0000

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.

Guided Meditation (11-02-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 2 Nov 2022 21:45:00 +0000

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.

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Impermanence - Who Is the Knower of Our Experience? (11-02-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 2 Nov 2022 16:15:00 +0000

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?"

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (11-01-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 2 Nov 2022 03:30:00 +0000

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

Impermanence, Bliss Supreme (11-01-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 2 Nov 2022 02:15:00 +0000

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."

Refuges & Precepts: Putting Aside Our Worldly Concerns (10-31-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Ian Challis) — Tue, 1 Nov 2022 02:45:00 +0000

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.

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration (10-30-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 16:15:00 +0000

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.”

Guided Metta Meditation (10-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 03:30:00 +0000

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

Holding What the Earth Has Given Us to Heal (10-29-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 02:15:00 +0000

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."

Guided Meditation (10-28-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 21:45:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: The Third Foundation - Mindfulness of Mind-States (10-28-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:15:00 +0000

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."

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (10-27-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:15:00 +0000

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

Mindfulness & Lovingkindness: The Banks That Hold Our Grief (10-27-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:15:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Embodying Our Deepest Vision to Be Free (10-26-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:15:00 +0000

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."

Guided Metta Meditation (10-25-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 03:30:00 +0000

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

Mindfulness as 'Confronting' and as 'Standing By' (10-25-22)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:15:00 +0000

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."

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-27-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:30:00 +0000

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

This Too Can Be Cared for (12-27-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 04:45:00 +0000

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."

Guided Metta (11-06-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 6 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Sit (11-05-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Lifting up Our Relationship to the Experience (11-05-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 5 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

The Truth of the Teachings (11-04-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 4 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

Retreat Opening (11-03-20)

Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation (11-03-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Closing Guided Meditation: Calling in Kindness (10-13-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

Poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye

Morning Instruction & Sit: Opening to Life (10-12-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 2 of 2): Dependent Origination (10-12-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Three Invitations to Liberation (10-11-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Cultivating Joy (10-10-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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."

Morning Instruction & Sit: What is Mindfulness? (10-10-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Morning Instruction & Sit: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (10-09-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Refuges & Precepts, Silent Meditation (10-08-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Mel Coats, Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

The Four Remembrances (10-08-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 8 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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)

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Finding a Home Wherever We Are (10-7-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Mel Coats) — Wed, 7 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Self Forgiveness Metta (10-6-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 6 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Gathering Our Energies (10-6-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 6 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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.

Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 1 of 2): Understanding Ourselves as Part of Nature (10-5-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 5 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Metta (10-4-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (10-04-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 4 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Sit (10-3-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 3 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Truth Seeking (10-3-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 3 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Mel Pak Coats: Guided Sit with Metta (10-03-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Mel Coats) — Sat, 3 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction (10-2-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Mel Coats: Metta (10-02-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Mel Coats) — Fri, 2 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Leslie Booker: Refuges & Precepts (10-1-20)

Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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

Opening up the Field Within Ourselves (08-08-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 9 Aug 2020 03:45:00 +0000

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"

Calling Ourselves Home (05-16-20)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 16 May 2020 16:00:00 +0000

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/

The 7 Factors of Enlightenment (04-29-19)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 29 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

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

Ordinanry Nirvana & the 4 Noble Truths (04-28-19)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 28 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

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

Lovingkindness (04-27-19)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:00:00 +0000

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

Equanimity (10-15-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Bodhisattva Community Working for Past & Future (10-14-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Leslie Booker: Faith (10-13-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Leslie Booker) — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Exploring the Skillful Liberating Energies (10-12-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Overview of the Path to Liberation (10-11-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Gratitude (10-10-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Sit Instructions (10-8-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Impermanence & Vulnerability (10-08-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

The Power of Intention, Motivation (10-07-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Cultivating Our Beautiful Minds (10-06-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 6 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

Mindfulness Opens the World (10-04-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 4 Oct 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Building Strength Through Mindfulness in Difficult Times (07-22-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Remembering Our Beautiful Qualities in Difficult Times (07-19-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:00:00 +0000

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

Supporting the Continuity of Mindfulness, w/ Guided Meditation (02-20-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

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/

Sunday Evening Dharma Talk and Metta (02-18-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

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/

Saturday Evening Dharma Talk (02-17-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

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/

Guided Self Compassion Meditation (02-17-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

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/

Refuges & Precepts (02-16-18)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:00:00 +0000

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/

Gratitude (12-09-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 9 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000

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

Our Ancestral Legacy and Love (12-06-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 6 Dec 2017 17:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction (10-29-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Respecting the Defended Heart (10-28-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Dependent Origination (04-17-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral Feeling Tone (04-17-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Fri, 7 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Renunciation (04-16-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Instruction: Mindfulness, General Comprehension, Bare Attention (04-16-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 6 Apr 2017 16:00:00 +0000

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

Awakening Our Hearts: Exploring White Privilege to Build Authentic Relationships Across Difference with Arinna Weisman, JD Doyle and Baruch Golden (03-11-17)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Baruch Golden, JD Doyle) — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:00:00 +0000

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

Forgiveness Dharma Talk and Meditation (06-11-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:00:00 +0000

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

Sila: Ethical Living (04-27-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:00:00 +0000

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

Stuckness Diversity and Opening our Fields of Kindness (04-24-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 24 Apr 2016 16:00:00 +0000

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

Beautiful Subject of Equanimity (02-16-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation: Balancing 2 Ways of Meditating (02-15-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Cultivating the Wholesome and Abandoning the Unwholesome (02-15-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Focus on Right View and Right Intention (02-14-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Meditation: Pleasant, Unpleasant, Neutral (02-14-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Metta Sutta Dharma Talk (02-13-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Evening Joy Guided Meditation (02-13-16)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:00:00 +0000

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

Morning Meditation and Instructions (10-15-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Metta (10-15-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

What is true and what is not? (10-14-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Magnificent Consent (part 1 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Eric Kolvig, Arinna Weisman, Noliwe Alexander) — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Magnificent Consent (part 3 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Noliwe Alexander, Eric Kolvig, Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Magnificent Consent (part 2 of 3) with Arinna Weisman, Eric Kolvig and Noliwe Alexander (10-10-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Noliwe Alexander, Eric Kolvig) — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

Revealing the Expressions of Ignorance as White Privilege (10-03-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 3 Oct 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Community Conversation on Privilege (08-23-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Workshop: Awakening our Hearts - Exploring Authentic Relationships Across Difference (08-22-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Bringing Wisdom and the Beautiful Qualities into Our Daily Life and Community, with Jean Ester and John Martin (08-04-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman, Jean Ester, John Martin) — Tue, 4 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Guided Metta (08-03-15)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Mon, 3 Aug 2015 16:00:00 +0000

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

Doubt (11-05-14)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:00:00 +0000

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

Relating to Personal & World Suffering: Awareness, the 5 Spiritual Faculties & Healing (05-04-14)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 4 May 2014 16:00:00 +0000

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

Intro to Dharma and New Jim Crow (05-04-14)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Sun, 4 May 2014 16:00:00 +0000

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

Wisdom and Karma (04-30-14)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Arinna Weisman) — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 16:00:00 +0000

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

Lien Shutt: Bhrama Vihara Meditation (01-28-14)

arinnapodcast@gmail.com (Lien Shutt) — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 17:00:00 +0000