Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-12-13 Instructions and Guided Meditation 59:31
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-13 Questions and Answers 58:35
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-13 Pay attention, soften and widen, include it all 1:11:08
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Three things to bear in mind: Pay attention, soften and widen, include it all
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Remembering Four Kinds of Mutually Supporting Effort 20:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Bringing to mind, to recollect, to bring into your body what is good and upright every time; remembering things in the body; to sustain or protect attention with the breathing; keep pushing away whatever is unskillful or unhelpful; taking care of the baby;
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Saturday Morning Guided Sit 60:05
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-13 Buddha-Dhamma is the direct way - subject and object 45:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Bring our understanding into line with the Dhamma; direct experience rather than what we think we experience; getting a feel for the citta; the experience of something happening to citta; how perceptions are seen as real and the clinging that results; sankhara/ the activities/ the reactions
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-13 Cultivating Samadhi - 26:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Open and Include ; Relaxing the Chitta
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Evening Puja -Coming to the Robe - The Citta - Finding and Cleaning the River 46:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A reference point for the day; coming back to the same place - Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha; acknowledging the citta
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Cultivating Sati 31:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness is like a hand to hold things; how and why and want to hold? The need for correct application, correct object, correct way of holding. The breath and its vitality.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation (Walking) 11:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Moving from sitting to standing; feeling the whole body; walk so you feel the whole body walking; not just the legs - hips, body, shoulders, feet. Feeling the lift, feeling the weight transfer, the fluidity.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation 34:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Using sensation or impressions of the body; watching the energy begin to reveal itself; 30 minute meditation with bell
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Friday Morning Guided Big Sky Meditation 55:11
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-12 Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta 57:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Morning Reflection - How to practice 53:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evolving Together 57:22
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Evolutionary origin of aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-11 Understanding States Of Mind 45:38
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Using boredom as an example, this talk looks at the formation of states of mind and how to quiet their impact.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-11 Wise (or Right) Speech 63:45
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-12-11 Evening - Guided meditation 21:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Review of posture; mixture of alertness in the back and relaxation in the front
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evening - Introductory Explanations 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
How to see and use the retreat; Significance of bowing; refuges and precepts; need to realize the opportunity for practice and its urgency
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Thursday Morning Guided 52:16
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Dissatisfaction: The Great Doorway to the Heart 58:13
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-10 They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds 45:52
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Dharma as nature, why we practice, seeing what is unseen; opening to dukkha and the truth; retreat and social/political activism. Title is from Mexican saying from liberation movement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Gratitude 48:23
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-12-10 Intimacy with Life: Part 1 1:17:47

Tara Brach

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This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-10 Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1 69:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks