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"

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."

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"

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.

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"

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"