Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-10-08 Morning Reflection: Feelings - Vedana 11:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Feeling of pleasant, unpleasant or neither pleasant nor unpleasant/neutral arise in response to every contact that comes through each of our sense doors. Feelings are what conditions our mind to try to hold on to the pleasant or push away,avoid or ignore the unpleasant. Mindfully observing feelings with more equanimity is a very helpful door to open our door way out of suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-08 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:20
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Trusting Ourselves, Trusting Life 1:12:33

Tara Brach

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How can we trust in basic goodness when we encounter so much greed and violence within and around us? This talk explores three pathways of practice that enable us to bring a healing attention to our primitive survival conditioning, and cultivate the heart and awareness that express our full potential and deepest essence. "Who would you be if you trusted the basic goodness and beauty that lives through you?"

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-07 Guided Metta 45:18
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Oneself, benefactor, dear friend and neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-07 Afternoon Teachings - Freedom and Stimulus 45:40
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin points out the 3 different kinds of stimulation (vedana) and explores skilful ways of exploring and responding to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral experience. Emphasis is given to somatic practice, recognizing the physical contractions that form around the 3 types.
Gaia House : Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-07 The Urgency of Now - Connecting Inner and Outer Transformation 66:23
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
As we face multiple crises, yet also open to new transformations - inner and outer- a new type of spiritual practitioner is needed, who is able to connect inner and outer transformation. Echoing the Buddhist bodhisattvas, Jewish prophets, Jesus, many indigenous leaders, Gandhi, King, and Dorothy Day, among others, the "new bodhisattva" follows a new kind of training which is outlined.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-07 Day One - Morning Instructions 39:08
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Grounding meditation in bodily experience. Activating qualities of awareness through the posture: Grounded - steady, upright - bright, open - receptive, relaxed - gentle.
Gaia House : Awake in Our Bones

2015-10-06 Don't Go Down The Rabbit Hole 35:32
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-10-06 A Thousand Thoughts 40:16
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Thoughts are part of our existence as human beings. With the practice of meditation, the nature of the thought processes in particular and the nature of the mind can be understood by closely observing these thoughts whenever they arise.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-06 Continua of Practice: Shadow to Light 59:54
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
The more defined and clear our individuation, the more isolated we feel. We gain our selfhood from creating physical and psychological boundaries upon our surround. Our self-definition is created by our physical, mental, emotional, psychological, and spiritual definitions. Freedom is coming out of these shadowy images created by our imposed boundaries and accepting the clear light of our humanity.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society : Continua of Practice Series
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