Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-05-25 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 4 - 4 Steps of Transformation 67:58
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review briefly the nature of the judgmental mind and how to work with it, then focusing on the first two of four steps in transforming judgments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-25 Alive or Dead? How Would You Know 30:35
Doug Phillips	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 1 52:10
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Introduction and Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibanna Part 2 37:27
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Talk and Discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-25 The Third Noble Truth and Nibbana Part 3 57:44
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Moving Towards Nibbana
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-25 Pañña: Understanding Conditionality 59:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Recognizing that our lives and practice depend on conditions-not self- how do such conditions arise? Placing citta within the Refuge allows for intuitive commitments.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-25 C 3 Group Interview 2:28:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-25 B 3 Group Interview 2:29:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-24 Comment continuer quand la pratique est difficile, Version I 43:50
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-24 Comment continuer quand la pratique est difficile, Version II 60:14
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-24 Buddha's Practical Advice for Maintaining Material Gains and Wealth 27:23
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Shaila Catherine gave the seventh talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk revolves around a teaching in the Anuttara Nikaya (AN 4:255) that expresses the Buddha's very practical advice for protecting one's material goods and wealth. He recommends that people 1) look for things that are lost, 2) repair things that are broken, 3) be moderate in consuming food and drink, and 4) place a virtuous person in the position of authority.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-24 Instructions et méditation guidée de 15 minutes 20:55
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-24 Embracing it all: taking the practice home with gratitude 58:53
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
What is the role of metta meditation in relationship to the Vipassana practice? How do we take the practice home? On the cushion? Daily he practice? What's the role of gratitude in embracing all of life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-24 Q&A: Human Needs; Conditionality; Mutuality; Kamma; Play; Energy 61:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-24 Meditation Instructions 30:14
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-24 D 2 Group Interviews 1:50:50
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-24 The Factors of Samadhi- to be trained in and enjoyed 61:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Use pointing (vitakka) and “tasting/feeling” (vicara). Energy comes with enthusiasm. Use the imaginative faculty to generate useful perceptions and images. Firm up mindfulness to supervise and protect the heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 Les joies 67:47
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-23 Considering forgiveness 68:16
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
What forgiveness means, Why it's valuable, And how to go about considering it. At end of talk discussion racism and reconciliation on the collective level
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-23 Guided Meditation: Cultivating Samadhi 59:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Key points- ground, safety; resonate with body as textures until breathing becomes apparent. Sample the feelings of breathing and enjoy it. Absorb the ‘sigh’, the felt impression
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 Q&A 56:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Wide ranging discussion of questions from meditators
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-23 Four Noble Truths 46:15
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : DPP5 at Angela Center May 2016

2016-05-23 12) The Defilements & the Three Trainings, Part I 62:39
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-23 Questions & Answers 60:12
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 Guided instructions - Metta for the person with whom we have difficulty. Q/A 56:55
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-23 Monday Night Meditation class with Jack Kornfield and Mark Coleman 1:10:29
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Jack and Mark reflect on over two decades of teachings and events in the Community Meditation Hall as the old hall closes and Spirit Rock prepares to open the doors to its new Community Meditation Center.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-23 Meditation Instructions 32:00
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 Cultivating Enlightenment- beyond the person 56:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The 7 factors of enlightenment present a trajectory that begins in the personal domain but moves beyond self. This is because it is based on disengagement (viveka) ripened beyond self.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-23 C 2 Group Interview 2:10:57
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-23 B 2 Group Interview 1:57:28
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Reflections on the Day's Practice 6:40
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Meditation Instructions 28:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 D 1 Group Interview 2:02:26
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-22 Morning instructions: metta for the neutral person and Q/A 55:20
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-22 Returning to the Nature of awareness (citta) 62:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The constant factor that accompanies all mental states and activities is awareness- the ground of citta. Citta gets conditioned by sankhara of intention, attention and contact. Widening past these we return to awareness.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-22 Guided Meditation: Being with Dying 39:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
An imaginative recollection of the process of mind/citta when in the presence of a dying friend.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-21 Reflections on the Day's Practice 11:24
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 Heart Practices for Awakening Joy 63:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
Opening our hearts to ourselves to others with loving-kindness and compassion are central to awakening the joy that's right inside us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 The heavenly abodes compassion 60:51
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
This talk introduces the four heavenly abodes (Brahma Viharas), their relationship to one another, they're near and far enemies and a range of motivations for practice. The second half of the talk is dedicated to the practice of compassion, the second of the four Brahma Viharas
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-21 11) Vesak Talk 54:52
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-21 Meditation Instructions 26:08
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 Day 4 Sitting/Instructions 58:40
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-21 C 1 Group Interview 2:05:56
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-21 B 1 Group Interview 1:56:33
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Reflections on the Day's Practice 7:43
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Recollection: touching the sacred 64:57
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Conscious recollection (eg of Buddha and of death) uses the doing thinking mind to touch and enter the citta as heart. This shifts us out of our personal mindset into the mind-tone of the sacred.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-20 The Joy of Awakening 65:34
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Following the Buddha's journey through sense pleasures to concentration, to equanimity, to freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 Hindrances in metta practice 52:18
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
On retreat you don't control what you experience, But you can develop skill in working with what would otherwise derail your practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-20 Strange Happiness. 47:36
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk describes some of the different kinds of happiness available to us through Dhamma practice. All of them are strange in that they do not involve having, getting or getting rid of anything.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-20 Kinds of meditation practices and how they fit in together 51:30
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-20 Opening to Suffering, Integrity and Forgiveness 1:11:48
James Baraz	Download Listen
In order to cultivate true well-being we need to learn to open to all the suffering in our lives. Living with integrity and learning how to forgive ourselves and others are essential supports in this process as well.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 What is Meditation 1:11:58
Sayadaw U Tejaniya	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-20 Day 3 Sitting/Instructions 61:39
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-20 The Centrality of Feeling 67:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As all dharmas converge on feeling, mindful handling of feeling is crucial for happiness and liberation. Revealing mental feeling through inquiry and handling it skillfully is a thorough practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Late Evening Sitting 13:30
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Introduction into Method and Format of Sayadaw U Tejaniya's Retreat 52:15
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg : Sayadaw U Tejaniya

2016-05-19 Letting Go Into Joy and Love 50:28
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
How a friend's death reminds us of the freedom and joy possible as we let go. Specific suggestions that keep us open and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Guided Meditation 36:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Skillful inquiry reveals the factor of feeling in all experience. By resonating empathetically within as it is there is clarity, inspiration and release.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Love and Buddhism (Valentine's day talk) 39:24
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-19 Impermanence and youth 57:18
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-05-19 10) Diligence-Apamada 58:30
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-19 Guided meditation– First day and Q/A 44:23
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta: Lovingkindness Retreat

2016-05-19 Opening to Nature- around and within 66:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The world of Nature touches us & teaches us how to relate to ourselves as humans rather than socialized citizens. Integrating this can take us beyond our relations and stuck states to hold our lives in the light of Truth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-19 Day 2 Sitting/Instructions 58:36
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-19 Ariyan Practice: Refuge in Vulnerability 34:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ariyan realization is of moving beyond the personal identity. This is a step into vulnerability. Through meditation training we learn to ‘touch the ground’ -purity of intention- where the person can’t go.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz	Download Listen
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01

Tara Brach

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These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-18 Handling the Neurotic: The 5 khandha 66:38
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation reveals latent tendencies that can spring to life in 'neurotic' ways. To handle these skillfully we use calming, metta and inquiry. Through this these patterns cease.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Opening Night Talk 63:44
James Baraz, Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-17 Reprendre le pouvoir 54:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:17
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Balancing the Heart and Mind 29:13
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2016-05-17 Q&A on Faith, on Citta, on Viveka 53:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
-The nature of faith in the Triple Gem to replace personality-view. -The nature of citta (pronounced 'chitta')-heart, mind awareness. -The difference between disengagement and unfeeling disconnection.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 9) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part II 54:37
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-17 Meeting dukkha with primary empathy 48:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Resolving dukkha comes through revealing its pain, while having the means to do so. These means are samadhi and primary empathy-these take us beyond the trap of conceiving ourselves.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Five Recollections: Aging, Sickness, Death, Separation and Kamma 23:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Recollecting that these are the planes we get hit by and stuck in. We see the need to resolve old mamma. Meet it with metta-karuna, welcome the dissonances 'home'.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-16 Dharma and Recovery 57:05
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

2016-05-16 Guided Meditation 27:39
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-16 Getting out of the box=rewilding the mind 60:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
'Boxes' are our compartmentalized lives& their drives. Drives activated by tanha(craving). In meeting the edges of our boxes as they arise, meeting with metta-karuna etc. these edges can dissolve.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Goodwill- receiving and forming in the domain of metta 48:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 This Is What Should Be Done - Elements of Lovingkindness 57:18
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-15 8) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part I 60:51
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-15 Respect for the Triple Gem 22:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Offering myself to bring forth citta – awareness. This prepared the ground for skillfulness and the willingness to meet hindrances.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Cultivating the Measureless leads to release 55:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The ‘measureless’ domains of goodwill are based on disengagement from ill will, fear and desire. Defense against harm changes to protecting the beautiful heart from confused reactions.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-14 How to Cultivate Wisdom 31:55
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-14 Stroking the Dog 41:27
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Learning to train the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 Mutual Individuality 20:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Becoming a ‘true individual’ occurs when goodwill and sharing take the lead over ‘personal obsession’ and programs based on fear and desire. ‘Sharing blessings’ is a skillful meditation.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-13 Compassion. 53:29
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk points to the power of compassion to heal what is hurt in our hearts and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-13 7 ) Walking Meditation - Why Should We Do It 64:27
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-13 Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now 39:24
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe 39:53
James Baraz, Ayya Yeshe	Download Listen
Ayya Yeshe has developed the Bodhicitta Foundation to support the empowerment of women and children from the previously ‘untouchable’ caste in Central India. The talk started with this YouTube video at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOpZ3kpIJU ) of her work. To learn more about her work, go to the Bodhicitta Foundation at ( http://bodhicitta-vihara.com/ ) Bodhicitta Foundation is a socially engaged charity that helps ex-untouchable Indians – a community that was previously enslaved and forced to do the most demeaning kinds of work for little pay. They also help slum people, offer a women’s job training center, sewing, English computer classes and have a children’s study center. In addition they offer counseling for domestic violence, have a malnourished children’s program and offer basic medical and housing assistance.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 18:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-12 Ecology of the Heart 29:20
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma Reflection
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice 37:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 66:25
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat