Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-07-01 Gratitude 62:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Giving away fixed views as the path to peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-06-27 Service as a Path of Practice 45:25
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
How do we take our service as a path of practice? Most basically, we take helping others as the center (or a major part) of our lives, and we examine, in our service, what helps develop “selfless” service and the barriers to such service, especially a sense of duality between self and other. We explore how a connection between “inner” and “outer” practice structures a life of service, and how such practice can also be understood as the development of particular qualities—we focus on the development of (1) clarity of intentions, (2) generosity, (3) gratitude, and (4) compassion, and on some of the challenges that arise when cultivating such qualities, and in service generally.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Volunteer Appreciation

2009-02-16 Practice As A Path Of Happiness 64:28
James Baraz	Download Listen
One aspect of Wise Effort is maintaining and increasing wholesome states that have arisen. This is supported by being present for the wholesome state without clinging. How to integrate wholesome states such as sincere intention, gratitude, being compassionate with suffering, and others into our practice is explored.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation February

2008-11-27 Practicing Gratitude And Joy 56:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
On this day of thanksgiving, it is important to remember what we are actually celebrating: the generosity of Native Americans to the early settlers, and all that they have given us. It is also a day to be grateful for all the blessings in our lives, and to bring a sense of appreciation to the beauty and joy that is all around us. As we incline the mind towards noticing what we are grateful for, we find an increased sense of well-being and happiness in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-26 Thanksgiving 2008 - Living The Life Fully - Gratitude And Generosity 1:19:19

Tara Brach

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While generosity and gratitude are natural capacities, our conditioning to want life different can often keep us from living from a free and open heart. This talk explores three gateways to awakening and expressing love in our daily life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-11-22 Dana - The Practice Of Generosity 51:40
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Cultivating generosity a foundation for insight and liberation - including discussions of merit and the practice of gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-06-14 Mirror, Mirror... 1:13:34
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
Developing gratitude, contentment, and joy plus more reflections on the fetters.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2008-06-12 Generosity - Cultivating Inner Abundance 51:22
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Cultivating the wholesome as a foundation and force for liberation – Focusing on the practices of generosity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-05-10 A Little Renunciation 32:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat