Arinna Weisman
Dharma talks and guided meditation offered by Arinna Weisman and co-teachers.
Recordings were made during Vipassana insight meditation retreats, and have been graciously provided by Lotus Insight Sangha of Seattle, Dhamma Dena of Joshua Tree, Dharma Seed, and others.
About Arinna Weisman
Arinna has been studying insight meditation since 1979 and teaching since 1989. Her root teacher is Ruth Denison, who was empowered to teach by meditation master U Ba Khin.
Arinna founded the Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts and, with Eric Kolvig, was the first to lead insight meditation retreats for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, gender-queer community.
She is co-author of the book A Beginners Guide to Insight Meditation and a contributor to Women Practicing Buddhism: American Experiences, edited by Peter Gregory and Susanne Mrozik.
Her practice and teachings are infused with her political and environmental activism. She leads "Uncovering the Heart" retreats which integrate the awareness of the social dynamics of inequity with the dharma practice of liberation.
Arinna's website and schedule
www.arinnaweisman.org
To give Dana to Arinna
www.arinnaweisman.org/donate/
Affiliated Sanghas
Dhamma Dena (Joshua Tree, CA): www.dhammadena.org
Lotus Insight Sangha (Seattle, WA): www.lotusinsightsangha.org
Blessings and gratitude to all of those who have recorded Arinna's teachings over the years. Particular gratitude to Lotus Insight Sangha and Dharma Seed, who have provided many of the recordings compiled here.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 299
- Years Active
- 2004 - 2025
The Truth of the Teachings (11-04-20)
Guided Meditation (11-03-20)
Retreat Opening (11-03-20)
Morning Instruction & Closing Guided Meditation: Calling in Kindness (10-13-20)
Poem "Kindness" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Morning Instruction & Sit: Opening to Life (10-12-20)
Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 2 of 2): Dependent Origination (10-12-20)
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)
Cultivating Joy (10-10-20)
Morning Instruction & Sit: What is Mindfulness? (10-10-20)
Morning Instruction & Sit: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness (10-09-20)
Refuges & Precepts, Silent Meditation (10-08-20)
The Four Remembrances (10-08-20)
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…
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Finding a Home Wherever We Are (10-7-20)
Self Forgiveness Metta (10-6-20)
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation: Gathering Our Energies (10-6-20)
Loss of Dignity Through Ownership (part 1 of 2): Understanding Ourselves as Part of Nature (10-5-20)
Ownership obscures the dignity of life, we can't see dignity when we own
Metta (10-4-20)
Morning Instruction & Guided Meditation (10-04-20)
Morning Sit (10-3-20)