Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-01-25 The Sense of Self 60:39
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)

2009-01-24 For The Love Of Earth - part 1 2:30:30
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Daylong at Spirit Rock: Joanna Macy, Jennifer Berezan, Matthew Fox, Julie Wester
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : For the Love of Earth

2009-01-24 For The Love Of Earth - part 2 1:40:00
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : For the Love of Earth

2009-01-24 For The Love Of Earth - part 3 33:01
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
A Daylong Event at Spirit Rock with Joanna Macy, Jennifer Berezan, Mattehw Fox, Julie Wester.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : For the Love of Earth

2009-01-24 Bringing The Donkey Home 51:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Training the mind involves restraint, steadying and gladdening. Then it isn’t so mesmerized by its stories. Several specific practices are described for such training.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2009-01-24 Emptiness 60:52
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)

2009-01-24 Samadhi in the Practice of Emptiness 44:40
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)

2009-01-23 Turning Into The Skid 60:06
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Waking up to aging, illness and death. Turning into emotional pain. How to grow a meditation practice that holds it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma

2009-01-23 The Heroic Human Heart 31:55
Thanissara	Download Listen
An abandoned old lady Bearing reality of being human With patience obstruction drop away Like walking into the mist The more the suffering, the more the bliss Indestructible Heart
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-22 Barack Obama's Inauguration In The Context Of Dharma Practice 50:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2009-01-22 Where Letting Go and Embracing the World Meet 39:18
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Compassion says ‘I am Everything’ - Wisdom ‘I am Nothing’ Where emptiness leans into aversion and compassion into grasping Ajahn Chah’s reflection on teachings as way of providing balance Metta and the attendant blessings of metta Meeting English football hooligans
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-22 Intention 39:22
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2009-01-21 The Courage To Awaken 1:17:43

Tara Brach

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Courage is the greatness of heart that allows us, in the face of fear, to be true to what matters. This talk is a reflection on how we can become increasingly courageous in those parts of our lives where we have held back from living and loving fully.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-01-21 Starting with Right View 53:37
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-01-21 Gentling The Mind 36:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cultivating a softer happier state of being is valuable in its own right, and also has a profound purpose – to release mental programs that bind us and restrict us, so we can experience a greater sense of ease and freedom.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2009-01-20 Practice Q and A 58:13
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2009-01-20 Emptying the Boulders of the Mind 43:10
Thanissara	Download Listen
Using the breath to steady the mind, to reflect on impermanence and to see ‘non ownership’ The boulder is not heavy if you don’t pick it up This is ‘how it is’ – methods to access the third noble truth Replacing reactivity with mindfulness – the flood stopper
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-19 The First Noble Truth 53:48
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
How a skillful engagement with suffering leads to greater ease.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-01-19 Through the Gateway of Dukkha 40:19
Kittisaro	Download Listen
The 4 truths that en-noble as we grow through them The 8 kinds of Dukkha – Anando, ex marine & monk, bowing through anger Death is also impermanent, seeing through impermanence, one touches peace. When the causes of dukkha break up, it ceases - revealing the timeless dharma.
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-19 The End of Mark Making 37:39
Kittisaro	Download Listen
The tendency of the proliferating mind to designate permanence to the transitory through the process of thought Papanca – conceptual proliferation creates the billion fragments of the world The Diamond Sutra – The Guest and the Host What remains? Kappa’s question to the Buddha
Dharmagiri

2009-01-18 Suffering as Opportunity 37:19
Thanissara	Download Listen
The Buddha’s reluctance to teach The first turning of the Dhamma wheel The Four Noble truths and accompanying practices Contemplating desire – resolving dukkha – the primary split.
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-18 The Four Noble Truths 41:33
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2009-01-18 The Centrality of Minfulness 37:16
Thanissara	Download Listen
Replacing reactivity of mind with mindfulness Mindfulness as container & as that which reveals & discerns what is Citta conditioned by perception & sankhara Healing the citta through mindful awareness Finding balanced energy as a support for mindfulness
Dharmagiri : Original Brightness Retreat

2009-01-17 Presentations In Neuroscience #3 29:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Melissa Rosenkranz-U. Wisconsin; Praveen Chopra-private; Paula Sigafus-Kaiser; Sarah Bowen-U. Washington; Jim Saveland-US Forest Service; Michael Warren-Claremont Graduate U.; Francis Haberli-U. Wisconsin;Charlie Thompson-U. Washington
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Scientists Retreat

2009-01-17 Presentations In Neuroscience #2 31:43
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Koren Wright- Argosy U., Phoenix, AZ;Chad Johnson-U. Oklahoma; Kendra Markle-Kaiser: Daniel Levinson-U.Wisconsin; Larry Greischar-U. Wisconsin; Michael Haggerty-UC Davis
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Scientists Retreat