AudioDharma: Nikki Mirghafori's most recent dharma talks
Dharma talks given by Gil Fronsdal and various guest speakers at the Insight Meditation Center. Each talk illuminates aspects of the Buddha's teachings. The purpose is the same that the Buddha had for his teachings, to guide us toward the end of suffering and the attainment of freedom. To learn more about the Insight Meditation Center, visit our website at https://www.insightmeditationcenter.org/.
Dharmette: Time (4 of 5) The Days and Nights Are Relentlessly Passing
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Guided Meditation: Awareness of My Limited Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.21 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Dharmette: Time (2 of 5) Frozen in Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Guided Meditation: Who Am I Across Time?
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.19 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: From Grumpy to Gladness and Gratitude
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Dharmette: Time (1 of 5): Rushing Through a Fleeting World
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Guided Meditation: How Do I Live Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Playfully Seeing the Insubstantiality of Gripping Thoughts through Cowboy Dharma
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Perceiving this Moment's Experience as a Drop in the River of All Human Experience
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.05.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Not Defined by the Mind’s Harsh Story
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.27 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Breathing In, I Receive This Gift With A Smile; Breathing Out, I Share the Goodness With Others
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.22 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Ennobling Mettā — The Love That Calls Forth Our Best
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.20 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Karaniya Metta Sutta (notice “upright”): https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/snp/snp.1.08.amar.html Moth Radio Hour Story: https://themoth.org/story-transcripts/to-catch-a-teef-transcript
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Happy Hour: To Recognize Everyday Acts of Care as Enacted and Embodied Metta
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.15 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Simply Smiling, Simple Metta
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.13 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Being Peace Practice
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.08 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
“Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” “You are not an observer, you are a participant.” “Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.” ― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Being Peace
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Happy Hour: To Call Myself Beloved on the Earth
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.06 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
Inspired by the poem “Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. “Late Fragment” by Raymond Carver From A New Path to the Waterfall, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989.
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Happy Hour: Awe and Gratitude for What Might Have Been Otherwise
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.04.01 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: the Intimacy of the Breath and the Beauty of All Things
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.30 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The corrected numbers, referred to at the end: 10^80 is the number of all the atoms in the universe. and 1/10^2,685,000 is the probability of each of us being born as we are.
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Happy Hour: Deep Listening as Immeasurable Kindness
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.23 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Wishing Ourselves Well in the Crowd
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Taking Responsibility through Love
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Loving Oneself as if a Beloved Other
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: The Relief of Momentary Release into Being the River of Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: May My Life Be of Benefit
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: You Might As Well Love
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
The poem read is https://onbeing.org/poetry/the-facts-of-life/
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Happy Hour: Rejoicing in Refuge
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Tender & Fierce (Mama Bear) Compassion
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.03.02 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Begin Again
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.25 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: May I Meet this Body/Mind/Moment with Kindness/Non-Judment/Whatever Quality is Needed
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.24 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Infusing the Body with Kind Awareness with No Strings of Expectation Attached
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.23 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Metta from an Astronaut's-Eye View
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.18 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: "How Can the Shape of This Breath Be Kind?" Koan
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.16 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Being Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.11 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Breathing Compassion for Ourselves and the World
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.09 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Deep Time
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.09 at the Insight Retreat Center in Santa Cruz, CA.
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Happy Hour: Opening to (vs. Desperately Seeking) What's Pleasant
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2026.02.04 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: How Well Am I Living, Loving, and Learning to Let Go? (In Light of Impermanence)
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.11.12 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Taking Another Person's Embodied Perspective
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.11.10 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: Spacious Stable Caring as Equanimity
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.10.29 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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Happy Hour: "Is That So?" Smiling with Curiosity at Our Assumptions
This talk was given by Nikki Mirghafori on 2025.10.22 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA.
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