Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks in English

2014-08-23 Power and Purpose of Concentration 56:46
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Concentration plays a central role in meditation practice. In this talk I look at the different trajectories in the development of concentration and how to use that form skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-23 Opening Talk - Joyful Living 61:36
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
The practice of embodied mindful meditation opens the possibility to understand and transform our habits of dissatisfaction and distraction, and invites spaciousness and openness in our day-to-day lives. Becoming intimate, moment by moment, with living reality expands our life-perspective and attunes us to what really matters in life. We can invite the practice of mind-heart-body fullness and the reorienting, and inclining of the mind towards the natural capacity for well-being, contentment, delight and kindness.
Gaia House : Joyful Living

2014-08-23 Real Happiness: at Work and in Life: Evening Talk 1:59:18
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-08-23 Level 3 - Guided Meditation 4NT standing and sitting (Part 3b) 35:31
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Level 3 - (Part 3a) 16:21
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Class on Three Levels of Meditation

2014-08-23 Reflection. Follow-up on 3 transformations of dukkha through sati. About the recurring statement of „supported by seclusion, dispassion, cessation and maturing in surrender“. 22:11
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Last night’s talk in a nutshell with a few added practical reflections. A brief interpretation of a somewhat enigmatic passage that occurs many times in the Suttas together with the Awakening-Factors and the 8-fold Path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Seven Factors of Awakening 61:25
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How the seven factors of awakening develop in our practice and bring balance, ease, joy and liberating insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 The meeting of Dukkha and Sati - a transformative encounter. 60:29
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
On dukkha and what it means, on sati and its seed quality in the development of stillness, wisdom, brahmavihāra and ethics. 3 specific ways in which mindfulness transforms the experience of dukkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Metta practice, Day 7 43:29
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Radiating in 4 directions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 Reflection. Satipaṭṭhāna: Learning the holding skill in meditation 20:32
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Meditation instructions – between the basic outline and the detailed cut-out: On informed choices, defaulting to wrong options – and learning anyway.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-22 Morning Instructions, Day 7 54:06
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Reflections on the 3 characteristics
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-22 How to meditate when you can't meditate 25:49
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara (Against The Stream / Dharma Punx Denver, CO)

2014-08-21 Wisdom Growing Out of Samadhi 62:17
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
After developing some degree of Samadhi with the breath, we can use the stability of mind to explore impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 The Secret Instruction To Open Your heart And Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice 48:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
You're probably very familiar with the power of mindfulness. But as powerful as it is to just see things clearly, we can include a perspective that will bring richness and depth to our dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-08-21 Body Scan 42:06
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Finland

2014-08-21 Metta Practice, Day 6 57:43
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
friendly creature/self/sangha/places
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-21 Reflection. Cittānupassanā continued. Sati as relationship; the construction of relationship in analogy to our senses. Ways in: Three practical entry points into the contemplation of mind. 26:32
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Follow-up on Contemplation of mind from previous week. Need to clarify the "how“ of being mindful rather than habitually resort to a – possibly unconscious – way of doing so. (Examples) How to find an entry to Contemplations of mind-states and learning to understand them rather than marinate in them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-21 Morning Instructions: Gladdening the Mind 51:57
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 As Dawn before Sunrise: 7 conditions for the arising of the 8-fold Path 53:00
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Exposition of S 45, 49-62 / S v 29-32: Seven keys to the arising of the Eightfold Path. A teaching outside of the famous Buddhist charts and yet more than pertinent to the development of the Gradual Path.
Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley

2014-08-20 The Variety of Samadhi Experience 65:55
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Multiple suggestions for firming up the practice at this point, riding the momentum of a collected, unified mind. Includes 'Gladdening of the Mind' guided meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2014-08-20 Bringing Awareness to Doing 1:19:07

Tara Brach

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One of the core domains of egoic trance is addictive doing - chronic activity driven by fear and wanting that keeps us from realizing a wholeness of Being. This talk looks at how addictive doing keeps us in the map of time, identified as a separate self, always on our way somewhere else. We then explore ways we undo this conditioning by pausing and opening to the liberating dimension of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-20 Wise View - Illusion and Delusion 54:10
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2014-08-20 Kindness and Love 48:39
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Finland

2014-08-20 Practicing with Challenges 4 - Working with Conflict 60:11
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore a more relational way of practicing with challenges, looking at practicing with conflict. We examine some of the personal and cultural conditioning about conflict, as well as ways to bring wisdom, empathy, compassion and skillful action into conflicts, whether inner, interpersonal or social. Conflict is defined more neutrally and simply as a difference in objectives, goals or values.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks
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2014-08-20 Metta Practice, Day 5 63:48
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Radiating Metta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat