Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-02-05 Obstacles in Practice 60:05
Simon Child	Download Listen
Gaia House : Chan Koan Retreat

2012-02-04 The Path To Living An Awakened Life 55:47
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The Buddha points the way to uncovering our essential goodness, here, exploring the five spiritual powers that turn our mind towards the beautiful; how to become intimate with all of life's experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Living an Awakened Life: Insight Meditation Weekend

2012-02-04 Awareness and Wisdom 56:16
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Wisdom arises naturally when there is a steady momentum of "pure" awareness. That is, when the mind is not colored by views based in greed, aversion or bewilderment. Learning to recognize and trust this natural process is a keystone of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-03 The Wise Attitude in Practice: Relaxed, Interested, Kind Awareness 57:28
James Baraz	Download Listen
If we can remember the skillful attitude of relaxation, interest and kind awareness with our experience the practice unfolds naturally and deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-03 Living The Dash 63:43
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Fully living - working with five hindrances with presence and acceptance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Living an Awakened Life: Insight Meditation Weekend

2012-02-02 Skillful Effort 54:21
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How to make balanced effort, between the extremes of making no effort and striving
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-02-02 What is Mindfulness? 54:27
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Even though we talk a lot about mindfulness, we often don't fully understand what the Buddha meant by "samma sati" or right mindfulness. This talk explores samma sati and also "sati-panna"-mindfulness wisdom: the wisdom that naturally develops when we pay attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-01 Engaged Stillness 63:18
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-02-01 The Body and the Discourse on How to Establish Right Awareness 50:14
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-02-01 Part 2: Three Blessings on the Journey 1:19:25

Tara Brach

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Drawing on a wonderful teaching story from the Upanishads, these two talks explore the role of forgiveness, inner fire and looking at our own minds, in finding freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-02-01 Discerning the Skillfulness or Unskillfulness of Intention 53:36
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-01 Méditation Guidée: Debout et Assise 1:18:12
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
D'orientation principal sur la pratique de la méditation selon Mahasi Sayadaw de Myanmar 2012, date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-02-01 Deepening Daily Life Practice II 64:02
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue to explore a number of ways to deepen practice in daily life, working with challenges difficulties, grounding in the body, working with intention, and practicing with speech and interaction as well as others.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-01-31 Healing into Recovery 30:30
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Practice of Recovery

2012-01-31 Week 4 Metta Meditation Lead 32:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Practice of Recovery

2012-01-31 Monthly Sitting and Inquiry, January 2012 58:55
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Monthly Sitting and Inquiry with NYI Guiding Teacher, Gina Sharpe. These regularly scheduled evenings begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion. Gina Sharpe is the Guiding Teacher of NYI, which she co-founded in 1998. She has been studying and practicing the Dharma for several years in Asia and the United States across many traditions and has been teaching since 1994.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-01-31 Rains Retreat 47:35
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Introduces 60-day Retreat in Daily Life
Mission Dharma

2012-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:29:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-31 Cultivating Liberating Understanding 49:49
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk explores the theme of right view or right understanding through a teaching found in the Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha (MN 43). This sutta lists five factors that assist the development of right understanding when liberation is the aim and fruit of the path. These five supportive conditions include virtue / morality, wide learning / reflection, discussion of what was learned, tranquility / calmness, and insight. The talk considers each of these factors in turn.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-01-30 Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties - Week 4 63:38

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Spiritual Faculties

2012-01-30 A Mind Free 50:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
The Buddha's teaching on Papancha - the proliferating tendency of mind - obscures a natural freedom and peace. This talk explores how proliferation happens conditioned by desire, aversion, views and the sense of personal identity and how awareness is key in understanding this pattern and freeing it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-01-29 All Pervasive Metta 21:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-29 All Pervasive Metta - Q&A 37:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-28 First Talk 35:58
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Teen New Year's Retreat

2012-01-28 Morning Guided Meditation: Grounded and Spacious 31:06
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Way of the Sacred Feminine