Arinna Weisman

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"

Online Retreat: Cultivating Resilience and Joy as We Experience Uncertainty and Change in our Lives, January 2022

Morning instructions given by Arinna Weisman, followed by a guided meditation:

"Touching into the dynamic of suffering becomes the grounds for a deep compassion for what all of us are doing when there isn't that presencing and love in the mind and heart. And so, we understand then in terms of our liberation — and the world's liberation — how important it is to do the slogging practice of becoming present"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2)

Arinna Weisman gives the final morning's instructions on the law of karma, followed by a short guided meditation:

"Our actions aren't just happenstance, they don't just fall into a void. Neither do our intentions as happenstances just fall into a void to be floated down the river of time. But actually, there is a lawfulness in the relationship of our intentions and our actions actions through speech, body, and mind"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2)

Guided compassion meditation led by Arinna Weisman:

"Compassion is the capacity that we have to turn towards our and others' suffering with caring and love — this trembling of the heart in resonance"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2)

Arinna Weisman gives a dharma talk on the inner knowing that guides each of us on our path to liberation, opening to our fullest queer expression, and the importance of patience:

"Something pulled us, guided us, without any languaging or cognitive understanding to where we are. And you know, when we take refuge in our capacity for enlightenment — let's name that part that's living in us"