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The Science of HappinessHappiness Break: A Meditation for When Others Are SufferingWitnessing the suffering of others can be deeply painful. In this guided meditation, Anushka Fernandopulle helps you cultivate both compassion and the ability to soothe yourself in the face of that pain.How to Do This Practice:
Find somewhere peaceful, sit down and get comfortable. Once you’re ready, gently close or soften your eyes.
Start taking deep breaths and relax your body. Part by part, release tension in different areas of your body.
Think of someone or a group of people you know or have heard of who may be having a hard time. Bring to...
2025-08-0708 min
The Science of HappinessHappiness Break: Tap into the Joy that Surrounds You, With Anushka FernandopulleBeyond just feeling good, studies show experiencing other people's joy makes us more compassionate and satisfied with life.Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/kycnk4caHow to Do This Practice:
Find a comfortable position to begin this practice, focusing on your breath.
Visualize a person or situation that brings you a sense of joy or happiness. It might be a child laughing, the success of a friend, or even a dog wagging its tail.
Connect with their joy and happiness, wishing them well.
Expand your focus to larger groups of people, like...
2024-03-2104 min
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersLovingkindness Meditation with Anushka FernandopulleA short, but lovingly offered, meditation from Anushka Fernandopulle. Originally offered on Dharma Seed. Anushka Fernandopulle (she/they) is on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and has trained for over 30 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India, and Sri Lanka. Anushka lives in San Francisco and teaches retreats and workshops around the world. They also works as a leadership coach and management consultant, influenced by a BA in anthropology and religion from Harvard and an MBA from Yale. Her teaching is informed by nature, creative arts, political engagement and modern urban...
2023-08-1511 min
Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers & PractitionersThe Nature of Practice & Teaching with Anushka FernandopulleGUESTAnushka Fernandopulle (she/they) is on the Spirit Rock Teacher's Council and has trained for over 30 years in the Theravada Buddhist tradition in the U.S., India, and Sri Lanka. Anushka lives in San Francisco and teaches retreats and workshops around the world. They also works as a leadership coach and management consultant, influenced by a BA in anthropology and religion from Harvard and an MBA from Yale. Her teaching is informed by nature, creative arts, political engagement and modern urban life.Connect with Anushka at:https...
2023-08-0134 min
AudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksMindfulness of ThinkingThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2023.07.13 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.Insight Retreat with Diana Clark and Anushka Fernandopulle (2023-07-09 00:00:00 -0700)For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2023-07-1349 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksDhamma Cultivation: Skillful and Unskillful IntentionsThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2023.07.12 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.Insight Retreat with Diana Clark and Anushka Fernandopulle (2023-07-09 00:00:00 -0700)For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2023-07-1352 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksMindfulness of Bodily ExperienceThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2023.07.11 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.Insight Retreat with Diana Clark and Anushka Fernandopulle (2023-07-09 00:00:00 -0700)For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2023-07-1124 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksDharma as NatureThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2023.07.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.Insight Retreat with Diana Clark and Anushka Fernandopulle (2023-07-09 00:00:00 -0700)For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2023-07-1154 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksNotes on mindfulness of eatingThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2023.07.10 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.Insight Retreat with Diana Clark and Anushka Fernandopulle (2023-07-09 00:00:00 -0700)For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2023-07-1008 min
The Science of HappinessHappiness Break: Wishing Others Well, With Anushka FernandopulleCultivate a sense of compassion for yourself and others by trying a meditation rooted in loving kindness, called "Metta."
Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/jrkewjs8
How to Do This Practice:
Find a comfortable place to start this meditation.
Start taking deep breaths, focusing your attention on what you feel around your heart and chest.
Turn your attention to someone who immediately brings a smile to your face. Try to sincerely wish that person well. Some phrases you can mention include, “May you be peaceful and happy. May yo...
2023-06-1508 min
The Science of HappinessHappiness Break: A Meditation for When Others are Suffering, with Anushka FernandopulleSeeing others suffering is painful. Learn to practice both compassion and self-soothing in this guided meditation led by Anushka Fernandopulle.
Link to episode transcript: https://tinyurl.com/mwxee3uw
How to Do This Practice:
Find somewhere peaceful, sit down and get comfortable. Once you’re ready, gently close your eyes.
Start taking deep breaths and relax your body. Part by part, release tension in different areas of your body.
Think of someone or a group of people you know or have heard of who may be having a hard ti...
2023-02-0908 min
Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Death(True North Insight)
2021-06-1332 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Refreshing the Heart, Living with Wisdom(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
2020-05-2045 min
Spirit RockAnushka Fernandopulle - Metta For One's BodyAnushka Fernandopulle - Metta For One's Body by Spirit Rock
2020-03-1942 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: The Dharma(Mission Dharma)
2020-01-2834 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Finding True Refuge(Common Ground Meditation Center) Guided meditation followed by dharma talk (begins at 29 minute mark) and question and answer session (begins at 1 hour mark).
2019-09-271h 38AudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksThirteen ways of looking at Dhamma practiceThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2018.12.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2018-12-1639 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Three Characteristics of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the three characteristics or marks of existence - anatta, anicca, dukkha. How learning to perceive these can help free us from suffering.
2018-10-1240 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Cracking the Code on Suffering: Vedana(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploration of feeling tone and our habitual reactivity. Guided practice and explanation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
2018-10-1152 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Thoughts are not the enemy of meditation (Exploring the field of the mind) (Retreat at Spirit Rock(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing awareness of thoughts. Explanation of the relationship we can have to mind objects. Befriending the mind.
2018-10-1036 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning about what is true about our loves. Practicing on retreat and what we can learn.
2018-10-1047 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Attention to the Body: Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Anchoring attention in the field of the body--day 1 instructions
2018-10-091h 09Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Metta For One's Body(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on cultivating goodwill or lovingkindness.
2018-09-0741 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Working With Mindfulness Of Mind(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recognizing thoughts as an object of meditation. Guided meditation and Q&A
2018-09-0758 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Freedom and Ease Of Being(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dharma talk on LGBTQ retreat: Six senses, six animals leashed together, Amsterdam pride as a metaphor for your mind, retraining the mind and heart for freedom.
2018-09-0643 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Meditation Instructions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practice instructions for the first day of a LGBTQISGL retreat at IMS. Cell phone ceremony of renunciation, sitting, walking
2018-09-051h 00Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Recognizing Awareness(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided practice in recognizing the knowing factor of experience, which is not me or mine, or in my control.
2018-09-0241 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Soundtrack Of The Mind(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Starting to notice mindstates that influence how we see life, including the five hinderances.
2018-09-0140 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Meditation Instructions - Day 1(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation, posture, opening morning thoughts, walking instructions.
2018-09-011h 05Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Perception and Dukkha(Gaia House) Understanding the ways that the body, as part of nature, is subject to the same laws, and can be perceived to be dynamic and unstable. The importance of training perception.
2018-08-1340 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Your Body is Part of Nature(Gaia House) Dharma as Nature. Exploring Anatta in relation to one's body. You are not the owner of your body!
2018-08-1146 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Your Body, Buddha's Body(Gaia House) Orienting to our retreat practice and around awareness of the body.
2018-08-0957 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Metta: Car Wash of the Heart (Retreat st Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Perspective on retreat, metta in Buddhist path, clearing out unhelpful habit patterns of the heart/mind, training in love.
2018-07-1557 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle, Will Kabat-Zinn: Questions and Answers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-04-141h 02Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Knowing the Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Further reflections on being an animal body and mind. Reflections on precepts, compassion and the fellowship of suffering. You are not alone, no matter what your trouble.
2018-04-1344 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day Four: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-04-1353 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day Three: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-04-1250 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: This Animal Body (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What we are doing on retreat, connecting with our animal existence as part of practice.
2018-04-1142 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day Two: AM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-04-1153 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day One: PM Instructional Sit (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2018-04-1054 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Multiple Choice Vipassana Practice(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Morning Instructions, Bahiya sutta, Q&A
2018-01-0657 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Instructions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided Meditation practice instructions and working with a review of resistance.
2018-01-0349 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Dharma For The New Years Eve(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Advice for retreat - what is dharma?
2017-12-3144 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Instructions - Guided Meditation(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Body and body discomfort
2017-12-3142 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: First Morning Instructions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sitting and walking instructions and cell phone renunciation ceremony.
2017-12-3053 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Elements of Nature, elements of the body(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation and reflection on earth, air, fire, water as experienced in our human body
2017-09-2340 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: 32 Parts of the Body - Guided Meditation 5 - Bile ,Phlegm, Pus, Blood, Sweat, Fat(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the liquid aspects of the body. Fifth of six guided practices. Recognizing the body as not me or mine.
2017-09-2241 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Full Awareness of the Body(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Understanding meditation practice in the context of dharma. Reflections on how the body (and our dinner) is created from conditions. Exploration of impermanence (anicca) and not-self (anatta) teachings in reference to the body, soup & spoons.
2017-09-2148 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: 32 Parts of the Body: Guided Meditation 2 - Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Marrow, Kidney (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflection and guided meditation on the second set of the 32 parts of the body
2017-09-2036 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Instructions On Feeling Tone (Vedana)(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation and explanation of feeling tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral)
2017-09-0940 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Guided Meditation On Four Wholesome States(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Metta (kindness), compassion, joy, equanimity, Brahma viharas. Explanation and guided practice.
2017-09-0732 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Meditation Instructions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) First day instructions for sitting and walking meditation
2017-09-0646 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Deconstructing Our Life: Instructional Sit(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring feeling tone(vedana) and the mind as a sense door. What causes tension in the mind. Morning instructions
2017-09-031h 02Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Obstacle Course Of The Mind.(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Working with and through the top challenges to meditation. Approaching them with curiosity and enthusiasm.
2017-09-0243 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Instructions: Things are as they are (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Bahia Sutta: Multiple choice Vipassana
2017-07-2244 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Cultivating Goodwill towards All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Metta to all beings in different ways: in earth, air, ground, water; in all directions.
2017-07-2138 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Shifting Perspective towards Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sakkayaditthi: (identity view) and five aggregates. Understanding how our experience as humans gets created. Exploring the illusion of continuity of self.
2017-07-1954 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation on working with mind-objects.
Morning Instructions, Q&A
2017-07-1850 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Entering Retreat: Dharma as Nature (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Advice on entering retreat, and dharma practice as recognizing yourself as part of nature.
2017-07-1557 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Transition Into Modern Life(Gaia House) This recording also includes Catherine McGee
2017-07-0133 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Guided Meditation on Skilful & Unskilful Intentions(Gaia House)
2017-06-3036 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Happiness, Wellbeing and Non Self(Gaia House)
2017-06-2942 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Cracking the Code - Meditation Instructions on Vedana or Feeling Tone(Gaia House)
2017-06-2934 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Your Body as Nature - Guided Meditation on Earth, Air, Fire, Water(Gaia House)
2017-06-2843 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Dukkha & Refuge - Strain, Stress, Difficulty, Unreliability(Gaia House)
2017-06-2748 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Guided Meditation on Awareness of Emotions(Gaia House)
2017-06-2633 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Guided Meditation on Metta Towards the Body(Gaia House)
2017-06-2635 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Reflections on Mindful Eating.(Gaia House)
2017-06-2613 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Finding Refuge in the Truth(Gaia House)
2017-06-2540 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Meditation Instructions (Retreat Day 1)(Gaia House) This recording also includes Catherine McGee
2017-06-2556 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Loving the Stranger - Talk(Common Ground Meditation Center) Anushka Fernandopulle leads Friday night Metta Practice Group at Common Ground Meditation Center.
2017-05-0552 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Loving the Stranger - Meditation(Common Ground Meditation Center) Anushka Fernandopulle leads Friday night Metta Practice Group at Common Ground Meditation Center.
2017-05-0531 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Open Awareness Instructions & Q&A(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Day 4 instructions morning practice period, plus questions and answers. Last full day of retreat.
2017-03-3154 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Some Different Ways of Looking at Dharma Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Different perspectives on dharma and retreat. Practice as an act of devotion, purification, lab experiment and more.
2017-03-3047 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day Three: Afternoon Instructions- Unstoppable Friendliness(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Metta-well wishing (Q&A). Loving kindness to benefactor, friend, neutral person, self.
2017-03-3059 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day Two: Afternoon Instructions-Working with Thoughts(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided practice in investigating thought in practice.
2017-03-2946 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: The Keys to Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma talk on day one of retreat. Working with challenges. Investigating experience. Happiness beyond changing circumstances.
2017-03-2844 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Morning Guided Instructions: Breath and Body(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
2017-03-2834 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Put it down, it's unreliable! That's better.(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploration of dukkha (strain, stress, suffering, unreliability) on day two of the retreat
2017-02-2649 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Meditation instructions - investigation of pain and emotions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on morning of day two.
2017-02-2618 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Returning Home From Retreat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on taking meditation practice and spiritual path into the world of non-retreat life.
2017-01-2659 minMission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Working with Vedana: Tonal Quality of Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Pleasant, unpleasant and neutral tonal quality of experience and our habitual reactions. Guided meditation and Q&A. Feeling tone.
2017-01-251h 00Mission Dharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent Dharma talksAnushka Fernandopulle: Day 4: Evening Instructions & Sitting Meditation(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sharing experiences with the precepts in daily life.
Anushka Fernandopulle, JoAnna Harper, Bonnie Duran and Vance Pryor (trainee)
2016-07-0342 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksTraining the Mind in Daily LifeThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2014.05.11 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.The Dharma of shopping at big box storesFor more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2014-05-1142 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksHumility and DelusionThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2012.06.17 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.Humility requires a lot of honesty and truthfulness which is a piece highlighted
in the path. And it requires Mindfulness, this ability to be present to see things
just as they are.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2012-06-1744 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksDharma and the Magic InternetThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.10.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-10-1451 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksThe Dharma of Time TravelThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.10.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-10-0751 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksDharma of ResurrectionThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.09.29 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-09-3049 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksThe Dharma of Harry PotterThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.09.22 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-09-2351 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksNavigating Your LifeThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.08.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-08-0740 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksDhamma Of SportsThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2011.04.11 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2011-04-1145 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: UpekkhaThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-2852 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: MuditaThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-2155 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: Karuna - Guided MeditationThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-1426 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: KarunaThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.14 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-1452 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: MettaThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-071h 00AudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksBrahma-Vihara Series: Metta - Guided MeditationThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2010.01.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2010-01-0727 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksFour ElementsThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2009.05.07 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2009-05-0756 min
The Gay Buddhist Forum by GBFAnushka FernandopulleAnushka Fernandopulle has practiced dharma in the Theravada Buddhist tradition for over 15 years in meditation centers and monasteries in the USA, India, and Sri Lanka. Anushka is a longtime LGBT activist, has worked in HIV prevention and education, was the director of the Boston Gay and Lesbian Helpline, and was cochair of the board of Trikone (South Asian queer group). Anushka currently works as an organizational development consultant, helping nonprofits function more effectively. Her work is informed by a B.A. in social anthropology/comparative religions from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management...
2007-04-1559 minAudioDharma: Anushka Fernandopulle's most recent dharma talksPerception of ChangeThis talk was given by Anushka Fernandopulle on 2007.03.08 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.orgIf you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/.This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
2007-03-0857 min