Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-05-26 The Practice of Recovery: A Buddhist Approach to Healing Addiction 2:46:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
In this daylong retreat we’ll explore the uses of Buddhist practices and teachings in recovery. Blending mindfulness and the12 Steps we will see how fundamental Buddhist teachings like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Lovingkindness, and others can be used as fundamental tools in a program of recovery. The day will include lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises, as well as an introduction to mindfulness meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-26 Why We Love War 30:16
David Loy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 Renunciation as Right Intention 3:16:53
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Of the three forms of right intention, renunciation helps overcome greed, craving and clinging. Renunciation also helps with cultivating simplicity and ease, and allows us to taste the deep contentment born out of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-26 What's Happening 58:20
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering 27:49
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Ending Suffering - Q&A 33:27
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the Shakti Vihara hermitage , Against the Stream, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2012-05-26 Instructions 1 Part Dieu 2012 10:42
Charles Genoud	Download Listen
Introduction à l'attitude méditative
Centre Bouddhiste Vimalakirti : Retraite Vipassana Part-Dieu 2012

2012-05-26 On Wanting: Demands, Defences and Distractions 47:20
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin explores the mechanism of wanting, the felt sense of different types of desire, and 3 ways of contemplating wanting in order to understand it more fully, and to free our relationship with desire.
Gaia House : Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-25 The Unshakable Deliverance of Mind 65:57
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The clear message of the Buddha is that this holy life has as its end the unshakable deliverance of mind. (The Simile of the Heartwood, MN 29 and 30). This talk is about what is to be cultivated in our lives so that this deliverance is actualized. The cultivation of dana (generosity), sila (living a virtuous life), and bhavana (developing the mind through concentration and insight)….these three lead one securely in the direction of nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-25 What is Non-Duality? 55:53
David Loy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 The Five Hindrances or Obstacles to Meditation Practice 49:44
Grove Burnett	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-05-25 Right Action2 - Morning Session 63:22
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Buddhism and Ecology 43:32
David Loy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-25 Right Action 1 - Morning Session 22:45
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-25 Letting Go - Three Practices for Heart, Body and Mind 29:59
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Anupadana, meaning non-clinging (often translated as letting go), is the very essence of Dharma practice. This introductory talk looks at the specifics of cultivating a non-clinging attitude with respect our physical, emotional, and mental experience.
Gaia House : Live and Let Go: Unburdening the Heart

2012-05-24 Institutions and Poisons 1:10:17
David Loy	Download Listen
Our economic system institutionalizes greed; our militarism institutionalizes aggression; the media institutionalizes delusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-24 Right View and Dependent Origination 1:34:51
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The teaching on Dependent Origination shows us how craving and suffering arise from wrong understanding and a lawful process of cause and effect. By bringing wisdom and awareness to each step in this chain reaction, we uproot craving and bring an end to suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00

Tara Brach

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"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-23 Right Speech and Listening 1:25:29
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path

2012-05-23 Practicing with Views and Judgments in the Context of Service and Social Action 53:50
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
For many Western Buddhists, it is challenging and often confusing to know how to work with views, theories (whether spiritual or social) and the judgmental mind. We explore the nature of views and judgements and how to practice with them, especially in the context of service and social action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-23 Sangha as Refuge 52:21
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight : Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-23 The "Lack" of Self 54:02
David Loy	Download Listen
Our most problematic dukkha is due to our sense of a separate self, a dukkha usually experienced as a sense of lack.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Engaged Buddhism - Vignettes, Challenges, Possibilities 45:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
A second overview of socially engaged Buddhism is offered, through vignettes and stories of engaged practices, a discussion of some of the challenges of connecting inner and outer transformation, and a sense of the great creative possibilities of such an approach. With Q&A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-22 Dhamma as Refuge, the Aggregates 1:10:53
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight : Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-22 Tuesday Evening Dharma Talk, May 22nd, 2012 1:20:58
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks