Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-06-04 The Ten Imperfections Of Insight - Part I 53:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Illumination, knowledge, joy, calmness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 15 - June 30, 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-06-04 The Flame Of Love And Longing 60:03
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2014-06-04 The Roots of Our Practice 3 - The Thai Forest Tradition, I 67:09
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore briefly the history of Thai Buddhism, and thus focus especially on the lives, practice, and core teachings of Ajahn Mun and Ajahn Chah and the Thai "forest Tradition" more generally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks
Attached Files: Thai Roots by Donald Rothberg (PDF)

2014-06-04 Nuns' Tea and the First Noble Truth 39:40
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Using a simple example of stress in every day life, this talk examines the Buddha’s teaching on the first noble truth – particularly, “having to associate with things we don’t like, be separated from things we like, and not get what we want.” It considers the insights that accompany opening to this truth.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies : Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)

2014-06-03 Contentment 50:37
Ayya Tathaloka	Download Listen
Dhammadharini

2014-06-03 A Dharma View of Aging 46:05
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity

2014-06-03 Walking The Path 55:39
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An exploration of the unfolding of our practice using the Nobel 8 fold path as a frame of reference.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-06-03 Opening to Freedom 32:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2014-06-03 Silent Thunder 18:05
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Dhamma is deep, subtle yet powerful enough to teach us how to stop, how to listen, how to see the truth of things. For what we thought we knew, we may have not really understood. So how can we transcend our social, cultural, psychological, and environmental conditioning? By uprooting greed, ill-will, and ignorance, the mind sees the truth of impermanence, suffering and emptiness. Like silent thunder, it grows pure, fearless, awake, and free.
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community

2014-06-03 Contemplating Impermanence 53:07
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Opening to the uncertainty of life and learning to stop expecting things to be any way other than the way they are.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies : Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)

2014-06-02 What changes us in Spiritual Life 61:32
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The long and winding road and how the unexpected offers profound teachings...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks
In collection: Introduction to Meditation

2014-06-02 Right Understanding and Right Intention 52:54
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk examines the classical teaching on the wisdom section of the eightfold path—right understanding/view and right intention/attitude.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies : Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)

2014-06-02 The Controlling Faculty Of Wisdom, Part II 53:55
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Developing wisdom by abandoning ignorance
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 15 - June 30, 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-06-01 No Inherent Being 51:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2014-06-01 Seeing The World In Its Integrity 33:00
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
We habitually see the world dislocated into fragments, ignoring that all its aspects are profoundly intertwined. Let's see it all of one piece. Let's join the world.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-05-31 Aligning Ourselves 17:49
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2014-05-31 Divesting Of Me 31:39
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
This talk is a sequel of the previous one ("Searching For Me"). It invites us to forget our own press-releases, and to empty the screen of our mind.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-05-31 When is Enough, Enough? 23:09
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2014-05-31 Bullsh** to compost - Kalama 23:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara

2014-05-30 Sila, Samadhi, Panna 55:26
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
A discussion of the path of the insights it it nurtured through ethics, concentration and wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-30 Searching For Me 31:43
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
We spend much effort trying to define who we are. At times we even use our DNA for that. This search brings only suffering. Let's drop it.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-05-30 The controlling Faculty Of Wisdom, Part I 62:09
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Nature of wisdom, factors contributing to the arising of wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 15 - June 30, 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-05-29 Devotion in Dharma Practice 52:41
James Baraz	Download Listen
Although devotion plays a significant role in Monastic Communities and Tibetan practices it's not something that's often discussed in lay communities. Yet devotion can be a major source of inspiration which can fuel our practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-05-28 Survol de l'enseignement et de la pratique des dernières semaines 40:52
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-05-28 Humility 1:18:29

Tara Brach

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In Buddhism and most faiths, humility - feeling that we all share common ground, feeling neither superior or inferior to others - is both a prerequisite to awakening and an expression of mature spirituality. This talk explores how our conditioning and culture reinforce a swing from ego-inflation (self-importance, feeling special, better than others) to ego-deflation (feeling unworthy). We then look at how a wise and kind attention opens us to who we are beyond these confining egoic states, and enables us to live with humility and grace.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks