Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2017-02-22 Listening to the Song – Part I 49:01
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Listening is more than a communications skill, it is a capacity that awakens our awareness. As we learn to listen inwardly, we begin to understand and care for the life that is here. And as we listen to others, that same intimacy emerges. In this two-part series we examine the blocks to listening and the practices that cultivate this essential domain of human potential. Our focus is both on the transformational power of listening in our personal lives, and also the necessity for deep listening if we are to bring healing to our wider society. "Listening is the forerunner. If we don’t listen to the pain within and around us, we can’t respond."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-02-08 Trusting Our Awakening Heart 50:51
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The more we trust that our awareness and heart are awakening, the more we find ease, grace and true empowerment in our lives. This talk explores two pathways of deepening our sense of belonging and trust: direct presence with the pain of separation, and turning toward the loving presence that is increasingly manifesting through these human forms. ” … we need people who are able to respond from the heart – not from an angry or egoic reactivity, but from real wisdom.”
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-12 The mind, the pain and the promise of mindfulness 1:10:37
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
The nature of the citta – the experience of dukkha & tanhā – dimensions of ignorance – clarifications on sati and the transformation of dukkha through mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2017-01-02 Q&A: Taking Responsibility for our Practice 59:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on sexual energy and fantasies; resistance to pain; feelings, memory and perception; planning and mental rehearsing / fantasizing
Villa St Martin Centre : Montreal New Year 2016-17 Retreat

2016-12-29 Reflection and Meditation on Compassion 42:59
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Compassion has been called ‘the quivering of the heart in response to suffering.' Cultivating a compassionate heart helps us to hold kindly our own painful feelings and emotions, and engage with the suffering of others, near and far.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2016-12-11 Perspectives on pain. 47:54
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
There is the pain of our narrative. The pain of desire, The pain of separation, The pain of the time – all are terminated through our willingness to meet the here and now
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 68:50

Tara Brach

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The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” - the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cynicism that is resisting and opposing life. In this talk we explore how to evolve our consciousness by bringing “yes” - clarity and loving acceptance - to the parts of our being we have been unwilling to feel. This loving “yes” reconnects us to our basic goodness and helps others do the same.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-10-30 Meditation as Medicine (MBSR): An Approach to Stress Reduction, Chronic Pain and Illness 6:59:23
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-10-06 Finding Freedom Through Grief 48:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
How can we process deep pain and turn it into deepening compassion and understanding? Kaye Cleave shares her moving story with James and the community about losing her 18-year old daughter and finding a way to transform her grief into meaningful beneficial action. The talk begins with this video about her trip to Nepal to build a school in honor of her daughter. To view the video: Catherine's Gift, go to Youtube.com at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HILTuvNRXrg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2016-09-22 Pain and Compassion - Reflection Being with Body 59:37
Christiane Wolf	Download Listen
How we perceive the body from the inside and the outside, how mindfulness and compassion helps with physical and emotional pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation