Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-02-05 Merit 35:33
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-02-05 The Pattern of Experience - Dependent Origination Part Two 1:19:55
John Peacock	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-02-04 Part 2 - True Refuge In The Face Of Fear 1:19:24

Tara Brach

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One understanding of the spiritual path is relating wisely to fear. Our conditioned reaction is to feel aversion to fear and do anything but simply experience it. We discover freedom when instead of reacting, we recognize and open to fear with a kind, committed presence. While fear might or might not remain, with awareness, the suffering of being identified as a fearful self dissolves. In Part I of this talk, we look at how to recognize the physical, mental, emotional and behavioral facets of the body of fear. In Part II we explore a range of pathways for cultivating a healing and freeing presence in the midst of fear.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-02-04 The Grace Of Suffering 60:00
James Baraz	Download Listen
Suffering is often what brings people to the Dharma as well as opening us up to resources inside we didn't know were there. Looking at hindrances and difficulties in this way allows us to relate to them wisely and realize the gifts that they bring and the ways they help us grow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-02-04 On Being Certain 54:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Discussion of book of this name by Robert Burton
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-02-04 Opening Talk for the Work Retreat - Working and Awakening 36:30
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Work Retreat - Working and Awakening

2009-02-03 The Five Hindrances And Metta 58:42
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2009-02-03 Pure Consciousness 35:34
Kittisaro	Download Listen
The Shurangama Sutra, Matangi’s daughter & Ananda’s enlightement Sky Like Mind Those who delight in mental proliferation (papanca) never know Nibbana The end of birth and death Apartheid of the mind Nisagardatta’s method What Remains - What doesn’t move
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-02-03 The Pattern of Experience - Dependent Origination Part One 1:19:45
John Peacock	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-02-03 Two Talks: 1- Mindfulness and Emptiness - The Foundations; 2 - The Ending of the World 1:14:07
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-02-02 Paradox Of Desire 58:07
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-02-02 Patience 56:55
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
The cultivation and practice of patience as an important support and powerful ally.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-02-02 Principles And Practices Of Metta (Loving Kindness) 53:19
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Overview of loving kindness practice,metta practice - supports,obstacles and fruits.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2009-02-02 May I Meet This Moment Fully As A Friend 60:28
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This is an opening night talk for a month long mindfulness retreat which presents the rationale for practicing in the form that we do. It includes readings from the Foundations of Mindfulness Sutta. It also makes the connection between mindfulness and metta practice and the rationale for practicing both simultaneously.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2009-02-02 Ekayana - The Way to One 46:45
Kittisaro	Download Listen
All practices converge in mindfulness, all practices emerge from mindfulness - mindfulness is the royal way to the One
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-02-02 Cittamatra 61:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-02-02 Guided Meditation - Cittamatra 44:34
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-02-01 Samatha-Vipassana 51:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2009-02-01 Opening Talk 62:21
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2009-02-01 IMS Turns 33 11:08
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2009-02-01 THe Naked Heart 40:22
Thanissara	Download Listen
The mind like a rabbit in the head lights of the Hua T’ou The swoon of the bardo’s and present time effects Not using meditation like a lawyer but understanding what gets us obstructed The story of Hui Neng & the world speaking the Diamond Sutra Jatukanni’s question to the Buddha
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-02-01 Integrity and the Poetics of Unknowing 69:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Please note that these talks are from a 4 week retreat for experienced meditators. The talks and meditations can be listened to in any order or individually, but as they progressively unfold different levels of understanding of Emptiness, they will probably be more fully understood and the practices more easily developed if taken in series
Gaia House : Meditation on Emptiness (2009)

2009-01-31 The Empty Bell 37:07
Kittisaro	Download Listen
The chipmunk, the donkey and the dew drops Aspiration, despair, depression & Ajahn Chah’s encouragement Suffering for the sake of ending suffering Touching obstructions patience & kindness Giving credit for practice already done & the highest merit Like an empty bell
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-31 Change of Lineage 44:43
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Direct knowing of emptiness Between existence and nihilism Emptiness isn’t empty, wonderful existence doesn’t exist Grasping & papanca is the root of birth and death Surface & depth of ocean is all water Change of lineage from reliance on papanca to pure knowing Angulimala and original hua t’ou – STOP
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-31 Patience With Views and All Else 51:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In meditation, rather than getting involved with liking and disliking, we practise letting things just pass through. The movements are just shifts in energy. Learn how to move with the changes rather than reacting with sorrow, resistance or craving. Cultivate patience with your mind as it rattles on, and with a life that isn’t going the way you want, until the mind becomes big enough to hold it all.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat