Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2007-10-05 Questions & Answers On Ultimate & Relative Understanding 53:52
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
The questions and answers address the balance of concentration and inquiry, the three characteristics of experience, and enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-05 Dealing With Craving And Attachment 55:28
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
We need to see and understand the true nature of craving and attachment in order to abandon them. However, besides mindful observation there are other ways to deal with craving and attachment.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-10-04 Closing Session 62:03
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-04 Gelehrte Meister des sanften Herzens 51:59
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Asanga, Shantideva, Atisha
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-10-04 Big Mind Guided Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Guided meditation, meditation instructions
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Featured Guided Meditations

2007-10-04 Brahma Vihara - Guided Metta Sitting 47:48
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Self, benefactor and dear friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-04 Investigating The Nature Of Mind 51:49
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk explores various approaches to investigating the nature of knowing, emptiness, and self-construction.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-04 Guided Big Mind Meditation 45:42
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This guided meditation explores the vast spacious clarity of awareness. It includes sounds and silence, bells and gongs, intertwined with inquiry into the nature of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-03 Path Of Peace 1:12:35

Tara Brach

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Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to respond with compassion to life. The practices of presence allow us to recognize this conditioning and awaken to the truth of our connectedness, to the wisdom and love that make peace possible.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-10-03 Non-Confusion with Feeling 55:17
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-10-03 Body Sweep 48:46
Ruth Denison	Download Listen

2007-10-03 Sitting Instructions Using Investigation and Allowing Metta Practice 56:50
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Tape 1

2007-10-03 Relationship As Spiritual Practice II 62:54
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue our exploration, with a review of why, in the contemporary west, it’s important to develop a fuller sense of relationship as practice, and what the prerequisites for this practice are, in terms of Buddhist resources. Then we explore how in relationship there can be a full sense of inner awareness and roundedness (the “I”), awareness of and xxx toward the other (the “you”), and a third “body” (the feid of the “we”. We use experiential exercises to explore this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-10-03 Ten Unwholesome Actions 64:10
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Ten Unwholesome Actions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-03 Instructional Sit with Body Sweep 57:43
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
A guided instructional sit, beginning with Metta meditation and expanding into the purposes of reflection. Instructions continuing the practice of attending, investigation with allowance and deep appreciation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-03 Truth And Duality 61:06
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
We believe that the now is more important than past and future, there is an essence behind personality and we have to work through our stuff to get to our Buddha nature. Truth dissolves these dualities.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-02 Suffering 16:43
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-10-02 Impermanence: The Great Teacher 62:31
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Teachings of impermanence continually surround us. As we open our eyes to this great truth, it becomes the means of whithering away the tendency to grasp and cling.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-02 Body Sweeping With Annica 65:01
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Teaching on Annica through a guided body sweep.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-02 Love And Non-Self 64:54
Christopher Titmuss	Download Listen
We are preoccupied with self and other. Love needs to be liberated from self and other, popular culture and religion. Authentic love is a liberating force in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Actualities 16:12
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-10-01 Vipassana Meditation The Science Of Mindfulness 60:07
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Instructional overview of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, focusing on intentional investigation, your attention with an allowing attitude. Vipassana, clear seeing, as outcome to this practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Guided Movement Meditation 63:04
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Cultivating skiils to live closely with this bodily process through sense experience. Practice in lying down, sitting, standing, and moving or walking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana: Awareness of the Nature of Life

2007-10-01 Effort + Ease = What Needs To Be Done 52:55
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk explores the range of skillful effort, from ardent and zealous practice to spacious relaxation. Shaila points to a nondual realization that reveals our freedom in both action and in ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation, Inquiry and the Nondual

2007-10-01 Facing Aggression 54:03
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
Turning away is so natural to us but we must turn toward the aggression within us if we want to overcome it. Our practice is to do this, be patient with what we find, and learn to let it come and go rather than fix it. Then we will be able to act with kindness, and to change this world inside and out.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks