|
|
 |
Please support Dharma Seed with a 2025 year-end gift.
Your donations allow us to offer these teachings online to all.
|
|
|
|
|
The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
|
|
|
| |
|
Dharma Talks
|
2025-08-21
Anapanasati: The Buddha's Teaching on Mindfulness of Breathing
49:31
|
|
James Baraz
|
|
|
Working with the Anapanasati Sutta in some depth. There are 16 steps in four tetrads that the Buddha lays out regarding how to practice this way. It is more than simply keeping one's attention on the experience of breathing. Some of the steps will likely surprise you. I thought it would be interesting to hear how the Buddha himself practiced using the breath and then practice together as he suggested.
Anapanasati Sutta Majjhima Nikaya #118
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.118.than.html
Anåpånasati- Summary of the Four Tetrads (16 steps)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yE2GiJtr3nnMGR_2YYOEA7eZ9W02ti52PD5abYF_Ius/edit?tab=t.0
Thich Nhat Hanh
Video TNH explaining the 16 steps (28 minutes)
https://youtu.be/inPkOzo_8XQ?si=nKp94lysBPxn4od_
Ven Analayo
Audio guided meditations successively building on the tetrads. Last one includes all four.
Mindfulness of Breathing with Bhikkhu Anālayo
https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/resources/breathing-audio/
Written Overview
Analayo - Understanding and Practicing the Ānāpānasati-sutta
https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?t=30301
Bhikkhu Bodhi's videos going through the sutta in detail.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=49266cf56d93934f&sxsrf=AE3TifMAPbSxpASPFg4H_3u7YewNOi0UgA:1753423263992&q=Bhikkhu+Bodhi+mn+118&udm=7&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIeiAkWG4OlBE2zyCTMjPbGmP8dNHyekGOBzxjAdPhnrqrkFMVvRmyqhKdJnNaG3AkXT9BEIxM7mvWZQG3bFq0xYNXOHnKszVdt00PEHYlRCcNfQMctmXagH2kmQdDS-r99NNUO7KPPqfaJdzNdnznKA2npV8j&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV_KnWqteOAxVFIxAIHdP6MTkQtKgLKAJ6BAgVEAE&biw=1309&bih=738&dpr=2.2
|
|
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
|
|
|
2025-07-23
Guided Meditation Inspired by Joanna Macy's Work
38:17
|
|
Donald Rothberg
|
|
|
We begin with a period of settling, developing greater samadhi or concentration, and then move to mindfulness practice, including giving some attention to noticing moderate or a little greater levels of pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone. When we notice pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tones, is there any tendency toward grasping or pushing away, in habitual or automatic ways? We then explore gratitude as a practice, simply reflecting on ways that we are grateful, first for aspects of our own lives, and then for aspects of the wider world. This is followed by opening with mindfulness to some difficult or painful aspects of our world, whether close to home or farther away, inspired to see and be with what is painful through wisdom and care. We end with a return to mindfulness practice for a short time. (This guided meditation is related to the talk that follows, honoring the life and work of Joanna Macy.)
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
:
Monday and Wednesday Talks
|
|
|
2025-07-11
Body Metta Awareness
67:12
|
|
Devon Hase
|
|
|
Reflections and Guided Meditation on Metta for the Body moving into boundless loving awareness.
|
|
Various
|
|
|
2025-05-23
A Gift for Everyone
26:50
|
|
Ayyā Anuruddhā
|
|
|
Our practice is a unique opportunity to develop our deepest potential for happiness as human beings. We use the skills of interior investigation with patience and courage to study the intimate workings of the mind. Well-guided by the Buddha’s teachings, we gradually learn intuitively how to direct ourselves on this path of wholesomeness and devotion. By trusting our spiritual practice, we are strengthened, growing inwardly as we directly experience freedom from fear and the heart's true compassion.
|
|
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)
|
|
|
|
|
