Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-10-09 Training for Our Own Unbinding 58:41
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
True North Insight : 11MM Doing What Had to be Done

2011-10-09 Rebel Dharma 34:12
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-10-09 Seeing the Way Things Are 55:43
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Movement:Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-10-09 Guided Meditation - Simple Awareness 49:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Recollecting the Buddha’s awakening, we also sit, firmly, simply. When the forces of thought and feeling come, we sit peacefully, refusing to fight, run away or get involved. Letting it all move through, where is the stillness? Clarity is the mark of awakened ones, knowing exactly what is arising – naming it, sensing it.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-08 The Illusion Of Not Good Enough 66:51
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How this particular form of self identify view comes into being. How it can be worked with, and how it can be a vehicle for awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-08 "Face The Will" 1:17:42
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Are we free? Can we be free? The five aggregates seen in the Samyutta, as empty, unsubstantial and ephemeral. (Anicca, Dukka, Anatta) To be or not to be: Let it be: Act without an agent.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-08 Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith 21:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-08 It All Comes Back To Awareness 39:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-07 Investigating Personality View 63:30
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The sense of self as personality view is a construct of mind that arises and poises like any other phenomena - and we can explore it with intent rather than fear it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-07 Mindfulness Of The Body 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-06 Understanding Sankhara 40:56
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
A practical and wise exploration of ways in which our wanting things to be static and unchanging, especially with regard to our mental and emotional patterns, limits our lives and creates suffering. The evening ends with a discussion.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-10-06 Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness: Part 2 62:01
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk continues the exploration of how the practice cultivates happiness and joy. Five wholesome states that support true well-being are investigated including practices that help us access them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-06 The Wisdom of a Dhamma Lifestyle 61:41
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Universal Beauty and Well Being

2011-10-06 Viriya - Resources And Applications 23:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A reflection on the faculty of energy and how to apply it skillfully. Energy for investigation that leads to wisdom, energy for devotion and aspiration that uplifts the heart, energy for mindfulness of body that results in calm and insight.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-05 Awakening Joy: Dharma Practice as a Path of Happiness 64:59
James Baraz	Download Listen
Please note that first three minutes of the recording are silent.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2011-10-05 Aversion and Insight 61:59
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
We sometimes think that if we are experiencing aversion in our practice, that insight must be out of reach. Yet the Buddha teaches us that the path unfolds through understanding suffering. When we bring mindfulness to aversion itself, the understanding that develops can be very freeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-05 The Divine Abodes: Lovingkindness 1:25:21

Tara Brach

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Love is the most basic expression of who we are, and yet it is often obscured by the trance of separation and fear. This talk explores how we habitually armor our hearts, and the training of attention that awakens us to unconditional, all inclusive love. A classic form of the metta (lovingkindness) meditation is part of the talk.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-10-05 Renunciation, the Happiness of Letting Go 56:15
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Universal Beauty and Well Being

2011-10-05 Questions and Answers 1:10:23
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-05 Understanding Aversion 46:57
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-10-05 Getting Down to Direct Experience 59:47
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The essence of our practice is to learn ever better to respond rather than react to experience. Using the model of the "Ladder of Inference," we see how we, when reactive, move away from more direct experience-personally, inter personally and socially. We then explore practices to help us "get down."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-10-05 The Five Spiritual Faculties 28:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
These 5 faculties when cultivated and developed merge in the deathless. Faith, energy, concentration, mindfulness, wisdom. These are faculties we all have, but they may be poorly developed. Guidance is given for how to touch into these and strengthen them.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-04 The Greatest Love 52:12
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Exploring the defended heart with compassion and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness and Metta: True Liberation LGBTQQI-SGL

2011-10-04 Patience Instruction 8:17
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Universal Beauty and Well Being

2011-10-04 Resolve and Energy 61:47
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Universal Beauty and Well Being