Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-02-21 Danger of Fixation 36:05
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
How does suffering manifest in attachment to views? This talk explores right view and addresses the danger of attaching to a position, philosophy, belief, or opinion. Primary sources are the teachings from the Middle Length discourses numbers 72 and 74. Recognizing the dangers of attachment and clinging to beliefs and opinions, we directly investigate what can be known in the mind and body. This is a pragmatic path of mindful awareness that results in actions that are immediately liberating.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2011-10-19 Transforming Anger through Understanding Pain 54:31
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
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Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-09-28 Causing No Harm 1:22:35

Tara Brach

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The mindstates behind violence--anger and fear--are universal and natural. If they possess us and drive our actions, we suffer. If we learn to meet them with a mindful awareness--if we step out of judgment and angry reactivity--we serve our own freedom and the possibility of peace on earth as well.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-09-18 Working with Difficult Emotions 62:43
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
We can come to a greater freedom in life by investigating the nature strong emotions and our relation to them. This talk explores working with four emotions in particular: desire, sadness, anger and fear. Publishable online for the general public
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-08-31 Befriending Irene 1:19:42

Tara Brach

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Whether you face chronic anxiety or more violent storms of fear and anger, you can cultivate the wings of freedom--the mindfulness and compassion--that free you. This talk explores how the habit of being reactive causes us suffering and the ways these tools of meditation can be applied to the inner weather systems that most challenge us.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-07-24 Working with Difficult Emotions 63:29
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
By developing a more accepting attitude toward difficult emotions and by understanding their nature, we can come to a greater sense of freedom in life. This talk explores five strong emotions (desire, anger, fear, sadness and self-judgment) and how to work with them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-07-19 A Raft to Nibbana 29:08
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
What else is there to do in this life but know the truth of what we are and deepen in wisdom and compassion. Our spiritual map leads us out of the darkness to a purity and clarity of understanding. Here we are, secure in the raft of the heart, braving the tempestuous currents of the world. Yet we are forever tuned to awareness of our true nature. We carefully examine our attachments and let go, guided to freedom from the poisons and dangers of the world. At last, we shall know the irreversible and liberating joys of the Way.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2011-05-21 Habits, Action and Personality 46:13
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Underlying tendencies (toward greed, hate, and delusion) fuel habits that obstruct our freedom. Tendencies toward irritation, anger, craving, and ignorance may arise in times of stress when our mindfulness is weak, and they distort our perception of things. But tendencies arise in both luxurious and modest environments, in situations of comfort as well as pain. How we relate to experience reinforces patterns and conditioning. Greed, hate, and delusion are causes for the arising of kamma (karma). The simile of the two darts describes the difference between simply enduring bodily feelings of pain, and proliferating reactions of anger and aversion that add suffering to our pain. This talk explores the primary tendencies of sensual desire, anger, and ignorance, and shows how we can free the mind from their influence in our everyday life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life

2011-05-05 Death And Awakening 49:53
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Listen deeply to the resonance within where virtue sows fields of goodness, wisdom and compassion, and Death teaches us to let go. At first, we tremble with fear. But out of that fear, we draw strength. Out of anger – a stillness and forgiveness. Out of greed, we draw generosity and gratitude. And from true vulnerability, we awaken to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-12 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Anger 0:14
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Anger is often unconsciously encouraged because it clears away the doubting mind. "I know why I feel this way, and I am right," says anger. Spiritually we can only approach and understand anger from humility, the opposite direction of righteousness. Anger usually arises as a component of grief where something you cared about was blocked or diverted away from you. If we can see anger as grief, humility is more easily accessed.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta