Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-03-02 Vedana and the second arrow 54:01
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
This talk explores the second foundation of mindfulness, the feeling tone (vedana -- pleasant, unpleasant, neither pleasant nor unpleasant) and the teachings in the Sallatha Sutta (SN 36.6) on the second arrow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong

2016-03-01 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 8 - The Seven Factors of Awakening 63:58

Mark Nunberg

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Tonight we will review the Buddha's teaching on the Seven Factors of Awakening. There are the inherent qualities of mind that when recognized and developed in balance with each other inevitably lead onward to awakening. They include mindfulness, investigation, energy/persistence, joy, tranquility, concentration/steadiness and equanimity. Joseph Goldstein calls these factors, "The sap that runs through the Buddha's tree of liberation; a powerful healing medicine that we must actually develop in our own minds." In the Buddhist tradition, it is thought that just to be reminded of these inherent qualities, to bring them to mind, is considered to be deeply healing and protecting. Are we willing to learn to recognize them, and learn how to feed or strengthen these aspects of the mind. Here is a link to the Ahara Sutta, a discourse of the Buddha's where he describes how to strengthen and weaken the factors of awakening This discourse also describes how to feed and weaken the five hindrances

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

Attached Files:

Ahara Sutta by Thanissaro Bikkhu (PDF)
Seven Factors of Awakening by Insight Meditation Center (Link)

2016-02-29 Mindfulness Directed to the Body 52:01
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong

2016-02-28 Satipatthana and Mindfulness 54:13
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong

2016-02-25 Mindfulness and Compassion: Protecting Oneself and Others 41:53
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This is the 4th talk in a 5-part speaker series titled "Balanced Practice." Shaila Catherine explores the compassion of protecting others and the wisdom of protecting oneself through the practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness guards the mind and protects the mind from sliding into actions based upon unwholesome tendencies. Mindfulness also protects us from the unmindful actions that could easily cause harm. Mindfulness has a capacity of naturally drawing everything into balance, so the mind progresses with a balance of effort and ease, of tranquility and investigation, and of calm concentrated state and engaged state.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Balanced Practice

2016-02-24 Caring and Careful Mindfulness 59:55
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness in Daily Life

2016-02-24 Mindfulness of Emotions 47:24
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-02-22 Karma 61:55
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The teaching, relevancy and understanding of Karma, which is one of Buddhism's central themes, is really quite accessible and even quite ordinary. It's not something to be believed in, but rather it is to be understood as we come to see and know it in operation. Karma is 'action' or 'deed'. In the context of the Dharma it is defined as "action based on intention". This talk explores how through clarifying and purifying our intentions via mindfulness based Buddhist meditation practice we can free ourself from the actions that repeatedly throw is into suffering……free ourself from repeatedly being re-born into the realm of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-02-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 7 - The Five Hindrances 1:18:39

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

Attached Files:

Sutta Studies: Understanding the Hindrances by Andrew Olendzki (Link)
The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest: Selected Texts from the Pali Canon by Nyanaponika Thera (Link)

2016-02-21 How To Establish Presence 21:00
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A description of what embodied mindful presence actually looks like, and how one can cultivate this presence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Establishing Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat