Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-07-21 The Wise Compassionate Heart 58:06
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
In this talk Heather discusses the wisdom aspects of compassion, such as the three characteristics of existence (change, stress, impersonality), explores obstacles to experiencing the compassionate heart, and presents daily life practices of compassion in action. The evening concludes with shares from the sangha on their personal compassion practices.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-06-27 Living in Rental Accomodation - The Reality of Impermanence 61:30
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
All conditioned things turn out to be unreliable and subject to change. Recognising and accepting the truth of impermanence and the insecurity of our fluid existence allows us to let go of holding and resistance, and release our limited sense of self into the flow of life.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2011-05-09 Mudita - Joy 55:16
Nina Wise	Download Listen
Joy as a rigorous practice - that changes the world. Ending with a chant by Jennifer Berezan
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-04 Changing Mind From Being "The Mind" 51:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mind is not an entity but a network of perception, feeling, and inclinations that affect each other. By directing we can bring around the change of release
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-23 2 Forms of Power 55:06
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Since the Greeks, Heraclitus-flow and change but Parmenides' view won out: THINGS, matter, stuff, leads to power OVER. But systems view more modern-energy/mind flows, information flows more important view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-03-24 Steps 6 & 7: How Do We Change? 40:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-21 Impermanence 55:34
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
The liberating power of knowing the truth of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-16 Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality 1:22:46

Tara Brach

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Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk explores how our ways of grasping and resisting remove us from the spontaneity and aliveness, the love and wisdom, that is our human potential.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-14 The Striving Mind 47:34
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The Buddha took effort to its far point, bringing himself close to death in the pursuit of awakening. Then he had a change of understanding, let go of self-punishment and awoke. We too need to discern when our effort is skillful, and when we are out of balance in striving. How to recognize and let go of unskillful striving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-01-29 Some Thoughts on Major Life Change 49:04
Alan Lewis	Download Listen
The story of my own disrobing from the monkhood, and a few pointers on how to navigate through major change.
Gaia House : Uncertainty

2011-01-12 Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities 1:19:36

Tara Brach

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The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mindfulness --seeking not to change but to understand--and the expression of that understanding as love. The talk includes guided reflections that can help us recognize and awaken from the confines of trance.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-10-26 Desire and the Sacred Impulse 46:04
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
There is more to desire than suffering. Can we make a gradual change in how we relate to desire, without rejecting our vitality but with a capacity to tolerate the inevitable failure of all grasping?
Gaia House : Awakening the Heart

2010-10-24 Patience and Determination Make Change Possible 64:30
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Patience and Persistence (Determination) are the paramis that can bring change to our practices and to our lives. They are the perfect twins-they support and empower one another. Each is to be developed separately but needs the other for fruition. Together they create possibility unto-fore unimagined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-23 Joyous Equanimity 61:48
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Freedom and equanimity in the midst of challenges and change. The Buddha's teachings on equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-10-07 What Changes As We Practice 62:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2010-08-22 The Beauty of Change, The Change of Beauty 61:06
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Maui, Hi : Daylong Meditation, Maui Hawaii

2010-07-07 Beauty of Change, Change of Beauty 62:30
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom

2010-07-04 River of Change 58:45
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom

2010-06-26 What Changes as we Practice 54:49
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga

2010-06-21 Turning of the Seasons 61:16
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How to live wisely in the changes of life. How to honor the individual and universal perspective of our life with understanding and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-25 The Beauty of Change and the Change of Beauty 63:46
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The possibility of transformation, and aging, sickness and death
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-03-18 The River of Change 65:03
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-02-28 Nourishment, Challenge, and Change 51:39
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-16 Impermanence 61:04
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Everyone knows that "things change". Yet as the Mahabarata points out "only the surface-mind understands, the actual sense never goes into our heads". Exploring our experience deeply, we can move past the surface understanding to deeply recognize this truth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February 2010 Month Long

2010-01-19 The Satipatthana Sutta 37:55:23

Rodney Smith

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The Satipatthana sutta is the fundamental teaching by the Buddha, revered by all Buddhist traditions, on the application of mindfulness. Mindulness is the the basic teaching that connects the isolated individual to his/her internal and external environments. Through a steady integration of mindfulness our unconscious tendencies become conscious, and we discover a preexisting awareness and interconnectedness to life that changes everything. The four applications of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects), as well as the underlying principles behind it, are explored thoroughly through talks, discussions, dyads, and homework.

Seattle Insight Meditation Society