Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks in English

2012-08-26 Mara and the Hindrances 48:25
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-25 Framing and Discussion 66:32
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Cultivating Joy - Guided Meditation 22:52
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Standing and Big Mind - Guided Meditation 24:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom 46:52
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Relaxation within the Vipassana framework
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Weekend

2012-08-25 Intro and Guided Meditation on Four Noble Truths 28:50
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Samatha and Vipassana Retreat 58:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Exploring the two qualities that are essential to develop creative awareness.
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-24 Opening Talk for Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat 46:13
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk also includes Jake Dartington
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-23 Q&A and Guided Meditation 37:45
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Teaching what we need to learn. 54:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-08-23 Working With Trauma 61:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Questions and Answers 66:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore in this integrative sessions, how a "thick" sense of self appears in various ways, and how we open to experience with progressively "thinner" senses of self. We also look at how anxiety and disorientation may arise at each stage, and how to understand what skillful uses of self are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-22 Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves 1:21:27

Tara Brach

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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-08-22 Effortless Effort 60:32
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-21 Gladdening the Heart, Training the Mind 54:39
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
As we do the practice of samatha (tranquility) meditation, it is important not to strive towards any particular experience but rather to see the practice as a training of the mind that leads to well being and happiness here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-21 Insight into Not Self in everyday life. 48:09
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Seeing into Not Self in everyday life experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-08-21 Generosity and Lovingkindness 37:03
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-08-21 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Surrender 2:00
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Surrender is not something we decide to do. It is what is left after we have tried every way to avoid or surmount a problem. Surrendering is releasing your guard and allowing the experience into you without protection or defense, and therefore it is an activity of faith. Mostly we try to adapt our way through a difficulty, changing strategies according to the results, but surrender is not another response to a problem, it's the ending of time, distance, and separation from the problem itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-08-21 Morning Instructions Day Eight 54:13
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-20 How Samadhi Supports Insight 62:05
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
In both the development of Samadhi and the turning toward Insight, wisdom develops to help free the heart and mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Morning Instructions Day Seven 57:16
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Using Concentration to See Things as They Are 66:46
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
The Buddha encouraged us to cultivate concentration for the purpose of seeing into the nature of our experience - as impermanent, unreliable, and not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Awakening Creative Intelligence 50:00
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Letting go of habitual thinking.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat