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Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma Seed)

Nikki is of Persian heritage, and was introduced to contemplative practices and yoga in the early 1980"s, to meditation in 1991, and to Theravada Buddhism in 2003. She has studied with various Western and Eastern teachers, with a keen interest in intensive silent retreats. She studied jhanas and detailed analytical vipassana with the renowned meditation master Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw who instructed her to teach. She is also a Spirit Rock authorized retreat teacher, a Stanford trained compassion

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44:09

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #20:...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/24

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) After a silent period, a guided reflection on inconstancy focusing on the five aggragates, and steadily seeing change gently.

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44:45

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #17:...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/20

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided practice to center, calm and collect the mind by abiding with clear comprehension and mindfulness, without desire and grief for the world.

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45:21

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #15: Gladdening...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/18

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation through previous steps up to gladdening the mind with different methods, with insight, awareness of mind, with metta and other serenity practices.

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56:59

Nikki Mirghafori: Talk #7: Third Tetrad (Steps 8 & 9)

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/17

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Overview of the third tetrad, emphasis on the first two steps whith three approaches to experiencing the mind, and a samadhi and insight wasy to gladdening it.

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40:15

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #13: Calming...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/15

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Letting go of mental formations by letting sanna (perceptions) and vedana (feeling tones) simply be. Selfing, (as contraction & craving), is distinguished from wholesome subjectivity.

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38:26

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #11: Mental...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/13

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided reflections to experience mental formations and knowing the inconstancy of perceptions (sahna or recognition) and feeling tones (vedana)

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40:56

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #9: Piti (Step 5)

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/11

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections of various renditions of Piti from the Patisambhidamagga. And the natural cascade of arising of piti through the Seven Factors of Awakening, as outlined in the Anapanasati Sutta.

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59:43

Nikki Mirghafori: Talk #5: Second Tetrad and Step 5

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/10

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Overview of the second tetrad, with emphasis on step five (piti); five kinds of piti presented and five jhanic factors as preparation for jhanas and antidotes to hinderances.

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40:47

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #7: Anapanasati...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/08

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided instructions for calming bodily formations

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46:31

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #5: The Whole...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/06

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on experiencing the whole body of the breath, (step 3), the temporal and spatial dimension in the eight-part breath

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50:30

Nikki Mirghafori: Overview of Anapanasti: 16 Steps

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/04

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discussion of the sixteen steps; the letting go of each tetrad, and how each one achieves the Four Establishments of Mindfulness. Focus on the first tetrad about the body.

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41:03

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Reflections #3: Introducing...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/04

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Having clear comprehension of the breath with ease and good-will

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44:48

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Instructions: #1 Metta &...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/07/02

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) To arrive at every moment with metta in this body, imbuing the in and out breath with gentle care & good will.

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56:30

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Instructions: seeing...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/12

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

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60:17

Nikki Mirghafori: The three marks of existence and...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/11

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The three characteristics of anicca (impermanence), dukkha (unsatisfactoriness,) and anatta (not self) are discussed

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55:10

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning Instructions: flowing and...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/10

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The last two characteristics of flowing and cohesion of the water element complete the instructions on the 12 characteristics of the four elements meditation.

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59:50

Nikki Mirghafori: Modern science and the four...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/09

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) At first glance, the four elements meditation practice may appear as an archaic understanding of the world. However, they reveal how we construct and perceive our world from a phenomenological perspective that connects to the Copenhagen interpretation of the quantum theory.

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51:44

Nikki Mirghafori: Morning instructions: supporting...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/08

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

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54:35

Nikki Mirghafori: Hindrances as energies moving...

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/06/07

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What if we consider the five hindrances not as obstacles, but as veils, coverings, or energies moving through the body?

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1:58:45

Nikki Mirghafori: Happiness and the Path of Practice

Nikki Mirghafori"s most recent Dharma talks (Dharma... ·

2023/04/03

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

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