Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-04-08 Concentration 67:09
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2012-04-07 The Five Nivaranas 38:00
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Explanation of the five Nivasanas (five hindrances)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat

2012-04-07 The Preciousness of Life 63:51
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
All about the Tibetan teaching on the four reminders: preciousness of life, impermanence, karma, and the defects of samsara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-07 Life-Saving Treasure 38:04
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
A reflection on the Upaddha Sutta (Half of the Holy Life) about the importance of good friends, companions, and comrades on the Eightfold Noble Path. Good friends encourage and share in developing seclusion of mind, dispassion towards the sense pleasures of the world, and, ultimately, the cessation of suffering that leads to a lasting freedom and peace.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2012-04-07 Preparation For Insight 49:40
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wisdom and Compassion Are the Gifts of Mindfulness: Monastic Retreat

2012-04-07 The Phenomenology of Meditation (Part One) 59:36
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Buddhist meditation is the refinement of a sensibility rather the gaining of proficiency in a technique. This sensibility is founded on "embracing dukkha", i.e. the totality of one's existential condition, and then cultivating meditation as (a) embodiment, (b) receptivity and (c) wonderment. Such a sensibility can then be further developed through stillness (samatha) and insight (vipassana).
Gaia House : Zen Retreat

2012-04-06 Equanimity 55:36
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery

2012-04-06 Papanca 61:14
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Lost in thought? How can we identify and work with the four root causes of getting entangled in our thoughts?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-05 When bad things happen to good people. 53:06
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-04-05 Hindrances as Opportunities in Yoga & Meditation 53:22
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-05 Finding the Balance 49:26
Ayya Tathaloka	Download Listen
Evening talk on Finding the Balance.
Wellington Insight Meditation Community

2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 1:13:33

Tara Brach

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Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible when we investigate them with a kind, mindful awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-04-04 4 Noble Truths in Real Time 53:37
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-04 Removing Distracting Thoughts 57:46
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-04-03 Monet's Haystack: The Art And Science Of The Meditative Journey 56:52
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A discussion of the creativity and methodology of insight meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : April 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-04-03 Intimacy with Reality 45:21
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Mindfulness, when practiced whole-heartedly, reveals reality beyond name and form.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-03 Dying to Ideas of the Self and Practicing Resurrection 38:40
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-04-03 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Staying Within Yourself 2:02
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
In the West we have little preparation for dharma practice because our lives have not been tuned to staying within ourselves. We have been taught to look outside for approval and to compare ourselves to others. How can we possibly find ourselves within any comparison? All we will ever find is a sense of lacking. Leaning toward the world does not allow us to find our own stability, and yet we cannot question the sense of self without inward evenness and dependability.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-04-03 The Secrets Of Tibetan Mindfulness Practice 52:41
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-04-02 The Beauty of Retreat 59:04
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The unfolding of the inner life, body, heart and mind. The blessings of retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-02 Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances - Week 4 - Talk 42:27
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances

2012-04-01 Right Relationship 42:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-31 Understanding the Way Things Are 56:37
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : A Path of Peace and Happiness

2012-03-30 Evening Chanting 4:12
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Women in Meditation: Insight Meditation Retreat