Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-11-09 Anything Can Happen: Faith & Confidence in Awareness 56:22
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-11-08 Dana: Generosity As The Foundation Of Practice 61:30
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
One description the path of practice is as the ripening of the 10 paramis. This ties directly to the 3 trainings in Dana, Sila and Bahavana. This talk explains the practice of generosity as the foundation for out practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-08 The Eightfold Path: Right Concentration 47:05
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-11-07 Joining Our Practice With Others 60:15
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
We are deeply connected with others and experience their pain as well as own own. Learning to relate to out own difficulty strengthens our capacity for compassionate presence with others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-07 No-Self in the Brain 44:01
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Insights from Neuroscience about Not Taking Life Personally
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2009-11-07 Entering the Stream 59:49
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A reflection on the meaning of "stream entry" (sotapatti), based upon Pali canonical sources. The "stream" refers to the eightfold path and the "stream entrant" is one who has made that path their own. The talk explores the meaning of the three fetters that are "abandoned" on entering the stream as well as how stream entry is related to the three refuges.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-06 Dukka - Three Kinds Of Suffering 59:52
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
The first Noble Truth of Dukkha is to be understood deeply on out journey to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-06 Awakening Buddhahood and Compassion 56:37
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Explanation of de-grasping wisdom and compassion and meditative experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-06 The Mature Heart - the Integration of the Four Brahmaviharas 1:12:48
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Preceded by a short chant by Rebekkah La Dyne, our yoga teacher for the retreat, we explore two main modes of transformation - one going into suffering, one involving beautiful states. We then focus on the latter, as expressed in the practice of the Brahmaviharas, the cultivation of lovingkindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity - examining their near and far enemies, and how the four interpret each other in the mature heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-11-06 Experiencing the Unconditioned 59:39
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A reflection on the Buddha's understanding of his awakening as an engagement with the phenomenal world from a radically new perspective rather than the gaining of insight into a higher, absolute truth, no matter whether we call that "God", "Consciousness" or the "Unconditioned".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-06 Contemplating Thought and the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 48:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2009-11-05 The Rest of Renunciation 53:55
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Find the joy in renunciation as we relinquish the grasping mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-11-05 Five Aggregates 59:22
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Given during the two month retreat at IMS, 2009
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Two-Month Retreat

2009-11-05 Buddha's Teaching on Cultivating the Mind 52:49
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
A useful talk to help us understand the play of creative and destructive thoughts that explores one discourse the Buddha gave on cultivating our mind. He shows how we can interrupt patterns of mind that lead to pain and encourage wholesome and positive states to arise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-05 Wisdom 66:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine how mindfulness is distinguished from, yet leads to wisdom. We explore wisdom especially through the life story of the Buddha, moving from comfort and and illusion to deep wisdom and compassion, and through his first teaching of the Four Noble Truths - the most basic expression of wisdom in the tradition.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-11-05 The Middle Way 59:01
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A reflection on the Middle Way, i.e., the whole eightfold path, as avoiding two "dead ends." This is followed by further thoughts on the Four Noble Truths as tasks that culminate in the eightfold path itself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-05 Patience 60:22
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2009-11-05 Emotions and Freedom 65:50
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2009-11-04 Four Great Efforts 63:34
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Explaining the four great efforts in connection to practice and daily life including tools of awareness and the three characteristics.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-04 Intimacy with Life 1:24:03

Tara Brach

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Zen mast Dogen taught that "...to study the Buddhist way is to be Intimate with all Things." This talk reviews the often unconscious ways that we habitually block intimacy and two trainings of attention that foster a natural sense of belonging to this living world and to timeless presence.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-11-04 What the Buddha Really Taught: The Metta Sutta 54:51
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-11-04 Awakening to Life 59:33
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A reflection on the metaphor of "awakening" as a process rather than a "state" of "enlightenment", which is followed by a reading of the Buddha's First Sermon (Turning the Wheel of Dhamma) in which he presents this awakening as being concerned with the living process of the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2009-11-04 Vedana 45:28
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2009-11-03 The Secret Beauty of Hearts: Transformations Through Metta 62:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Transformation in practice, whether in mindfulness or metta practice, occurs through repetition, patience, understanding and faith, in a sometimes mysterious way. Using poems and stories, we explore the nature of lovingkindness (metta) and the kinds of transformation that occur as we practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2009-11-03 The Poisoned Arrow 60:43
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
A reflection on the Buddha's parable of the "poisoned arrow" (Malunkyaputta Sutta M63). This key text illustrates how the Dhamma is therapeutic, pragmatic and not concerned with metaphysical questions, which the Buddha regards as irrelevant and refuses to comment upon. What he does comment upon is the Four Noble Truths. The talk concludes with a reflection on the Buddha's account of his awakening as an insight into conditioned arising.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat