Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

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

2008-04-10 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 4: Gratitude 52:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is number four in a ten-part series on Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness. This series covers the ten principles discussed in James' Awakening Joy Course from a dharma perspective.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-09 Guided Meditation on Gratitude and Compassion 47:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House : Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2007-12-03 Loving-Kindness And Gratitude 61:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The four divine abidings show us a way to hold all the joys and sorrows of life. This talk focuses principally on the qualities of loving-kindness, which overcomes isolation and connects us to all of life; and gratitude, as a form of appreciative joy that leads to greater contentment and well-being.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2