Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

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

2014-05-28 More of the Third Zen Patriarch 55:03
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-05-27 Mindfulness Sacred or Secular? 26:58
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Shaila Catherine gave this concluding talk in a guest speaker series that was organized to stimulate critical inquiry about mindfulness and how the teachings about mindfulness are manifesting in western cultures. This talk presents critical thinking, reflection, and discussion as integral elements of Buddhist practice. It refers to the early Buddhist custom of reciting teachings, sharing the Dhamma, and inviting correction and criticism about how the Dhamma was presented and taught. As mindfulness practices become mainstreamed, and applied in corporations and therapeutic contexts, some concern arises that the deep and liberating teachings of emptiness might be ignored as non-Buddhists, and sometimes non-practitioners, assert their own definitions of mindfulness in the media. This brief talk concludes with reflection questions about: 1. the meaning and definition of mindfulness—how is mindfulness different from attention? 2. how are ethics taught in Buddhist and secular applications of mindfulness? 3. how are secular interests affecting the development of western lay Buddhism?
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks

2014-05-27 The Rivers and Oceans Of the Mind 57:53
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
A discussion of various aspects of the practice through metaphors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-27 Practicing in Difficult Times 36:35
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2014-05-27 The synergy of meditation, wisdom and relationship 16:25
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Insight Dialogue Community (Lake Doniphan) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2014-05-27 Vipassana Instructions 7:50
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Guided meditation instructions encouraging a balance of energy and relaxation as well as investigation and kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2014-05-26 Memorial Day & Tibetan Monks chanting 66:21
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks