Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-02-26 Part 3: A Forgiving Heart 1:21:23

Tara Brach

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Anger is an intelligent emotion, a natural part of our evolutionary design that lets us know when we are endangered or impeded in our progress. But when it locks into ongoing resentment and blame, our heart becomes armored and we lose access to a wholeness of being. This talk explores forgiving as a process of relaxing our armoring and awakening a healing compassion for ourselves and others.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-11-21 Climate Change, Capitalism, and Buddhadharma 57:26
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
An impassioned talk that includes a little known story from the suttas about the dangers of and suffering caused by the notion of private property. During the talk, winds of 45 mph buffeted the monastery, emergency sirens sounded in the distance, and three power outages occurred. Ends with a lively discussion with the sangha.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-10-21 Working with Anger 53:58
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
How to practice mindfulness & use practice slogans specifically to work with anger...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-10-18 Anger 101 66:16
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Through mindfulness practice, we can cast off the traces of anger and turn it into opportunities for experiencing inner peace, happiness and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-01 Investigating Aversion and Anger 38:15
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This recording begins with approximately 20 minutes of teachings on anger, followed by a little less than 20 minutes of a guided meditative reflection. The talk examines the force of aversion, anger, hatred, and hostility as manifestations of what in Pali are called dose-rooted states. Rather than criticize and judge ourselves when anger arises, we extract ourselves from the story of anger, and practice seeing it as an experience of suffering—as dukkha. Anger does not happen to us; we actively engage in the process. Therefore, through clear seeing and wise inquiry, we can change the conditions that perpetuate anger in our lives. Often anger arises when there is unwise attention to an unpleasant sensory or mental contact. We can learn to work mindfully with these deeply conditioned tendencies and feeling how it manifests in the body, become aware of the feeling tone (vedana), recognize the mental state, and discern how it functions—its origin, cessation, and way leading to its cessation. The primary antidote is mindfulness.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks

2013-09-18 Spiritual Urgency – Samvega 58:53
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
What brings us to spiritual practice? What has moved, inspired and urged you to find a clear and wholesome ‘other way’ than feeling overrun with old reactive habit patterns of sadness, fear, attachment, anger, and confusion.? Samvega is the movement of the heart/an inner response towards an urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2013-09-13 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive Emotions 1:10:18
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience...fear, anger, unwholesome desire and attachment; also exploring some of the ways the Buddha encourages us to work with them in our practice, in the light of purification and the liberation of the mind and heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-09-06 Samvega - Spiritual Urgency 58:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
What brings us to spiritual practice? What has moved, inspired and urged you to find a clear and wholesome "other way" than feeling overrun with old reactive habit patterns of sadness, fear, attachment, anger and confusion? Samvega is the movement of the heart - an inner response towards an urgency to practice and an urgency to awaken!
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-07-06 The True Strength of the Heart and the Transforming of Shame 56:52
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
All central issues of our life are located in the heart. Having explored the heart-capacities of compassion and joy in the previous evening's talk, this talk turns to another facet of heart-presence: true strength and life zest - to be turned on to be in life, turned on to the truth. How does distorted strength, expressed as inner hardness and anger, and the flip side of strength, weakness and helplessness, relate to authentic strength? How can we harness and and make alive the lions roar of the heart? One particular area where we need some courage and guts is in the exploration and work with shame, guilt and self-judgement. What do you feel guilty about? What is unforgivable in your life? What does guilt and shame do to you, and what is a wise and skillful approach to deal with this "inner swamp-land"? How can we make our heart and mind a good place to live, free from shame and self-harm?
Gaia House : The Liberating Intimacy of Being Who You Are

2013-06-05 Be the Knower of the Worlds 34:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As we begin our meditation, establish a reference that helps us to be with rather than be in. Be the ‘knower of the worlds’, aware of the danger and getting stuck. Body can be that reference, it gives a sense of here-ness. Widen awareness and be choosy with attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat