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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

religion & spirituality buddhism

All Episodes

00:43:34

Renunciation (01-28-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/06

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023Arinna 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

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00:28:46

Guided Meditation (01-28-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/05

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023 Arinna leads a guided meditation: "Whatever we find in this moment becomes the invitation to call in our presence, our kindness, our effort, our compassion, our discernment"

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00:18:02

Guided Metta Meditation (01-28-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/04

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

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00:46:13

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/03

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"

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00:26:06

Beginning Mindfulness & Meditation Instructions...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/02

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:

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00:18:28

The Refuges (01-28-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/07/01

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:

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00:38:40

Patience (01-27-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/30

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:

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00:24:20

Guided Meditation (01-27-23)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/29

Lotus Insight Sangha (Online) - Wildflowers of the Heart: The Paramis, January 27- 28, 2023Arinna 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"

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00:49:56

Equanimity (12-31-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/28

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

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00:36:17

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/27

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,

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00:28:58

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (12-30-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/26

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

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00:41:20

Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation (12-30-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/25

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

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00:46:02

Mindfulness as the Leader (12-29-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/24

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

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00:26:35

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/23

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/

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00:39:22

Interdependence (07-27-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/22

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 4 of 4)Arinna closes out the retreat with an ad-lib dharma talk on the power of intention and our interdependence on each other: "Intentions always bring consequences — and when the intentions are guided by a commitment to freedom and liberation, they will eventually bear consequences, and bear fruit"

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00:36:13

Guided Meditation: Connecting to the Experience...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/21

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"

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00:30:53

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/20

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"

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00:33:23

Faith in Our Capacity to Awaken the Beautiful...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/19

Disentangling from Doubt: A Four Session Online Class with Arinna Weisman and Katy Wiss, July 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, 2022 (day 1 of 4) Arinna opens the first day with a dharma talk on faith: "No matter how often we are lost, there is always this place inside of us that is there alive and enduring"

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00:24:20

Guided Meditation (06-26-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/18

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"

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00:15:44

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/17

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"

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