Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-10-19 Bahiya Sutta - The Art of Pure Observation 64:58
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2011-10-19 Crossing the Flood 58:30
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
The Buddha often taught the Dhamma through the use of analogy, which can be a powerful way for the teachings to resonate. This talk explores two famous analogies from the Pali Canon, and how we can understand our practice thorugh the imagery of these analogies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-19 The Divine Abodes: Compassion 1:20:56

Tara Brach

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We cultivate compassion by letting ourselves be touched by the suffering within and around us. Because our conditioning is to avoid vulnerability, the path of compassion requires courage and purposefulness. As we awaken to the truth of our connectedness, our hearts become increasingly tender and our actions serve the healing of our world.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-10-19 Questions And Answers 1:20:06
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-19 Transforming Anger through Understanding Pain 54:31
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-10-19 Getting Down to more Direct Experience II 57:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look further at the mechanisms by which we move away from direct experience. unskillfully, driven by reactivity and papanca (conceptual proliferation). We point to practices of tracking thoughts, emotions, reactivity-that help us ground in more direct experience, leading to greater freedom and responsiveness-personally interpersonally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-10-18 Inclusion and Exclusion 42:05
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-10-18 Understanding Dukkha 43:50
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Dukkha – variously rendered as suffering, unsatisfactoriness, stress, or struggle – is one of the three marks of existence. According to the teaching on the First Noble Truth, the task related to dukkha is to understand it. This talk examines what dukkha is and is not, and offers guidelines for exploring it deeply.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2011

2011-10-17 Practicing Patience 55:54
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Patience, one of the paramis, is a quality that we don’t often appreciate, even though it is tremendously important in our practice and our lives. To be patient is to be fully present for what is, to be with difficulty and challenge without resistance. Patience allows mindfulness and wisdom to deepen, as we meet our experience without agendas or expectations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-17 Causal Relationship - continued 1:27:57
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge