Arinna Weisman

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...

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"

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...

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 my...

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...

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

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 experien...

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...

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 he...

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...

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 la...

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...

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 t...

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 actua...

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 w...

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Arinna Weisman gives morning instructions followed by a guided meditation: "these teachings are so clear, that the capacity to discern what's most helpful in healing for us, is by staying in the present moment and connecting with what's happening"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Guided equanimity meditation led by Arinna Weisman: "I wanted to offer the practice of equanimity, which is that capacity that we all have — and can cultivate — to hold through the changing circumstances of our lives"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Dharma talk by Arinna Weisman on liberatory speech, part of the Noble Eight Fold Path: "I want to explore with you tonight [liberatory] speech because it's so important. Really, it's like one of the most powerful tools that we have available to affect transformation within and without ourselves"

Dhamma Dena Meditation Center: Online Queer Self-Retreat with Arinna Weisman, November 2021 (Week 2) Morning instructions on bare attention and general comprehension by Arinna Weisman, followed by a short guided meditation: "in that process of noticing the bare experience [...], that is held in the larger context of general comprehension — the aspect of mindfulness that understands that my intenti...

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