Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-10-11 Samadhi and the Five Jhana Factors 48:25
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk introduces the quality of Samadhi and briefly describes the five jhana factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-11 Cours du 11 oct 2016 55:20
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-10-11 Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 1:33:05

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Course - Introduction to Mindfulness

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Strategies for Working with Obstacles to Mindfulness by Mark Nunberg (Google Doc)

2016-10-11 Metta for a difficult person. 49:35
Jaya Rudgard	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-11 Se donner à nouveau accès à la réalité 41:27
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-10-10 Practicing with Views and Opinions, Cultivating Empathy 1:25:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the context of the current election campaign as well as the context of our daily lives, we explore how to understand and practice with our views, opinions, and interpretations. We first look at the nature of views, the Buddha’s teachings on views, and three main ways to practice with views, with particular attention to being mindful of reactivity (attachment and aversion) in relation to views. We then examine the nature of empathy and how to cultivate empathy in relationship to others (and ourselves), including those with different views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2016-10-10 Investigation of states 59:53
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk discusses what is meant by the "Enlightenment factor" investigation. How does one use mindfulness to "investigate"? How is this different from psychotherapy?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-10 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 4 56:14

Mark Nunberg

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Please take this week to more clearly discern the gratification & allure of sense experience and the drawbacks & limitations of sense experience. Remember, the practice is to collect honest data. The purification of view that the mind has toward sensuality does happen because we want to shift our view, rather, it happens because the data that the mind collects through being mindful overwhelms older views/beliefs about sensuality and allows for a newer, more refined, wiser view to arise in its place. One theme you might use for your small group sharing is, what if any data has this mind or heart, collected in the recent past that demonstrates the limitations and drawbacks of sense experience? Some Additional Readings for Week 4:

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality

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Mind Like Fire Unbound Chapter III 'Forty cartloads of timber.' by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Link)
What You Take Home With You by Ajahn Sucitto (Google Doc)

2016-10-09 The five aggregates are empty. 61:06
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Our experience, as described by the five aggregates, is empty in two ways. There is no self at the center of them, and every aggregate– Form, feeling, perception, formations and consciousness–is insubstantial.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-09 The Dharma of "Howl" 63:47
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community