Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-03-18 Path, View, Concentration 56:18
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-18 "The Doors to the Deathless are Open!: Cycles of Awakening". 59:15
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
"The spiritual path moves through cycles. The key is balance." The talk journeys from the ground of ethical conduct through developing concentration, working with doubt, developing insight, working with dukkha of many types, to stabilizing in equanimity and opening to and integrating awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-18 Metta Instructions - Self and Benefactor 56:45
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for Scientists and Educators

2012-03-18 Dukkha and the End of Dukkha 54:31
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
an exploration of ways of finding happiness, including temporarily through sense pleasure and more lasting by inquiry and insight into the nature of the "self" that experiences dukkha.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-17 Il Dhamma in un Covone di Fieno - The Dharma in a Haystack 59:44
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Insight and Wisdom

2012-03-17 The Great Rain 44:52
John Travis	Download Listen
The talk outlines the Three Characteristics (change - suffering - not self) and the Three Subtle Characteristics (emptiness - suchness - not with the object). Teachings on the 4 Seals and the 5 Aggregates are also offered.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-17 Qi Gong: The Feelgood Factor? 46:01
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Exploring how Qi Gong can help cultivate 'the wholesome' aspects of practice, supporting us to investigate the feeling tones of the body.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-16 Encouraging Counsel - Opening Talk 49:02
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Insight and Wisdom

2012-03-16 Concentration and it's Development in Practice 60:51
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore (1) the nature of concentration: (2)the qualities developed in concentration practice; (3) how concentration practice (and practice in general) engenders a powerful process of purification of body, heart and mind; (4) the nature of wise effort in concentration practice (balancing active and receptive effort); and (5) the relationship of concentration and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-16 09 Stream Entry 63:06
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Negative capability; the ambiguous nature of self; self as process; foundations of ethics; Buddha and the sick monk; definitions of stream entry: as lucid confidence, as freedom from perplexity, as abandoning three fetters; the lay sangha.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-16 Choices around suffering 35:37
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream - Dharma Punx group in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-03-16 Choices around suffering - Q&A Session 26:39
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream - Dharma Punx group in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-03-16 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:19:13
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-15 Zen Quotes 55:20
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-15 Third Foundation: Just This 45:09
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Buddha seems to be suggesting to advance ourselves as little as possible in the Third Foundation. When we see what is arising minimally as "just this," we are essentially taking ourselves out of that seeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-15 Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart 55:39
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
A discussion of how the mind is often clouded with unskillful states, the armies of Mara. The Four Powers (Iddhipadas) are ways to develop a more awakened mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-15 08 Mara 56:38
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on the demonic: what rises up and limits us on the path; Mara and Namuci; the parable of the crow and the piece of rock as an alternative metaphor of freedom; the Buddha's response to Mara who appears as a farmer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Lessons from the Kalama Sutta 28:31
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
The Kalama Sutta is most famous for its encouragement not to place total trust in traditions and texts, but it also encourages you not to place total trust in your sense of reason and preferences. So where can you place your trust? This talk focuses on the dilemma posed by the sutta's recommendations, and the way in proposes out of the dilemma.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-03-14 Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing 1:21:03

Tara Brach

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This line from poet Galway Kinnell reminds us of the possibility of meeting our inner life with a loving, healing presence. When we do, we loosen the trance of unworthiness and reconnect with our intrinsic goodness. In turn, we can offer our blessings to others--serving as reminders of the awareness and love that can blossom in all beings.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-03-14 Feeling Tone 57:09
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Loving One's Enemies III 65:47
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We bring in further practices and perspectives to help us work with "enemies" or "difficult persons" including various ethical, body, heart, and mind practices. We close by examining how we may sometimes project onto others our fragmented parts and thus use practice with enemies as opportunities to find greater wholeness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-14 The Grace of Connection 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-14 07 Conditionality and The Four 58:41
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Insight into conditionality as the core of the Buddha's awakening; reading of and reflection on the first discourse; the process of the four: embracing dukkha, letting go of craving, experiencing the stopping of craving, cultivating the path.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Awakening 54:52
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Beyond I, Me, Mine 41:48
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma