Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-06-10 The Gifts of Practice 35:04
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2014-06-09 Mindful Happiness 59:02
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-06-09 Impermanence 64:52
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Understanding the nature of impermanence - textual and in practice
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 15 - June 30, 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-06-07 The Endless End 58:51
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Maranasati , Mindfulness of Death, reveals the potential for awakening as we live our life and open to the normalcy of death.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity

2014-06-07 The Bricks and Mortar of Forgiveness 11:29
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
A short reflection on forgiveness - what we can do when we just can't forgive. How do we deal with difficult past relationships when forgiveness seems impossible? Examining our expectations in relationship and our capacity to forgive when others have let us down - without judgment of anyone including ourselves - we start to open into compassion. Let's give ourselves and others a second chance.
Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community

2014-06-06 Compassion Repairs the World 55:12
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity

2014-06-06 The Ten Imperfections Of Insight - Part II 62:14
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 15 - June 30, 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-06-05 Devotion in Dharma Practice, Part 2 48:14
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

2014-06-05 Developing a Wise Relationship to the Flow of Change 51:36
Grove Burnett	Download Listen
Or -- It is not what we are faced with in life that is really important but how we handle it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity

2014-06-05 Moving Into Meditation: Week 4 1:54:42
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Moving Into Meditation

2014-06-05 The Threefold Bliss 50:18
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
The talk explores worldly or human happiness, celestial or heavenly happiness and transcendent happiness or Nibbana.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies : Integrated Study and Practice Program, Session 3 (ISPP3)

2014-06-04 Quand la conscience s'intéresse à la conscience 51:19
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-06-04 Lions At The Temple Gates: Protecting The Integrity Of Our Practice 57:49
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
A discussion of appropriate conditions that support our practice and retreat in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-06-04 Awakening from Virtual Reality 1:22:24

Tara Brach

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This talk looks at the power our virtual reality of thoughts can hold over our lives. We then explore how bringing mindful awareness to thinking enables us to heal historical wounding and discover who we are beyond the self-story in our mind. We don’t have to believe our thoughts - they are "real but not true!"

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-06-04 Paradox of Dharma 61:32
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Things are not what they seem Nor are they otherwise - Buddha This talk explored the role and dynamic of paradox in Buddhist teaching and practice. We looked at the paradox inherent in the experience of the three characteristics -- anicca (impermanence), dukkha (suffering) and anatta (self and not self). As we relax with the paradoxical experience the three characteristics become portals to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity

2014-06-04 Wise Reflection and Right Thinking 44:56
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

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