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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

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00:13:52

Beginning Anew: Arinna on the 20th Anniversary of...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/16

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

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00:15:08

Guided Meditation (06-18-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/15

San Francisco LGBT Sangha's 20th anniversary daylong hybrid event online and at the SF Buddhist Center, June 18th, 2022Arinna 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"

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00:39:52

Doubt & Faith (06-04-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/14

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"

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00:31:02

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/13

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,

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01:03:04

Daylong Retreat Opening: Disentangling from Doubt...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/12

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.

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01:06:50

Gratitude (06-01-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/11

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"

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01:07:54

Taking Leadership in Our Lives: Standing Near to Our...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/10

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

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00:13:26

Guided Forgiveness Meditation (04-30-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/09

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"

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00:48:35

Our Life Journey to Heal What We’ve Been Given to...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/08

The Present Moment and the Doorway to Clarity, Love and Joy: Weekend Online Meditation Retreat - Tucson Community Meditation Center, April 29th - 30th, 2022Arinna 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

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00:22:34

Guided Metta Meditation (04-30-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/07

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"

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00:47:02

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/06

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

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00:11:31

Guided Metta Meditation (04-29-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/05

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"

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00:37:39

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/04

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"

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00:22:16

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/03

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'"

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00:15:33

Guided Metta Meditation (04-09-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/02

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"

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00:49:13

Forgiveness & Love: Antidotes to the Three Poisons...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/06/01

Lotus Insight Sangha - Online Day of Mindfulness: Learning to Let Go, April 9th, 2022Arinna 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"

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00:40:11

Guided Meditation & Morning Instruction: Allowing the...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/05/31

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

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00:14:32

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

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/05/30

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

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00:43:25

The Second Precept: Not Taking What Is Not Freely...

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/05/29

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"

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00:23:31

Guided Meditation (03-13-22)

Arinna Weisman ·

2025/05/28

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.

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