Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-05-25 Part 1: Stress and Meditation 1:22:13

Tara Brach

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When we are suffering from stress, we are paying attention to our world in a narrow and rigid way. Through meditations that cultivate a wakeful and open attention, we can dramatically transform the feelings of anxiety and aloneness that underlie all stress.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-05-25 Equanimity in Action IV - Committed Action, Non-Attachment to Outcome. 50:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After considering how cultivating equanimity helps us to release and find balance with our conditioned patterns, we explore the powerful principle expressed by T.S. Elliot as "Ours is in the trying, the rest is not our business."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-24 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Worry 59:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Worry attempts to protect us from every contingency. It becomes a pattern and view of life where I am the guardian and protector of my security. Worry is actually a process of self-affirmation because we keep affirming our power over what life brings forth. If I let down my guard, life would be chaotic and out of control, and therefore I need to worry to have everything turn out as I wish. Worry and planning elevates us to the status of a god while we are actually being controlled by fear.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-05-24 Questions 11:36
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-05-23 Your Buddha Nature 62:36
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
On the 10 perfections of Buddha Nature
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-23 Four Noble Truths 52:55
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Marriage of Being and Doing, Nuns' Monastic Retreat

2011-05-22 John Peacock & Christina Feldman 53:36
John Peacock	Download Listen
Karuna Workshops : The Foundation of Mindfulness

2011-05-22 Wisely Relating to Feeling States 58:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-05-22 Rebel Buddha 28:52
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-05-21 Habits, Action and Personality 46:13
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Underlying tendencies (toward greed, hate, and delusion) fuel habits that obstruct our freedom. Tendencies toward irritation, anger, craving, and ignorance may arise in times of stress when our mindfulness is weak, and they distort our perception of things. But tendencies arise in both luxurious and modest environments, in situations of comfort as well as pain. How we relate to experience reinforces patterns and conditioning. Greed, hate, and delusion are causes for the arising of kamma (karma). The simile of the two darts describes the difference between simply enduring bodily feelings of pain, and proliferating reactions of anger and aversion that add suffering to our pain. This talk explores the primary tendencies of sensual desire, anger, and ignorance, and shows how we can free the mind from their influence in our everyday life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life