Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-06-15 Morning Instructions: Body and Vedena 55:57
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-15 The Art of Inquiry 41:55
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This was an off-site Gaia House retreat held at Seale-Hayne, Devon
Gaia House : Training the Mind, Freeing the Heart

2012-06-14 Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point: Concern for the Planet as Dharma Practice 46:36
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is the first of a four-part series inspired by the Spring 2012 issue of Inquiring Mind, entitled 'Earth Now.' In addition to reading this issue, especially the interview with Joanna Macy: Woman on the Edge of Time, James also suggested these readings: Ernest Callenbach’s essay "Epistle to Ecotopians" and Bob Doppelt's book From Me to We: The Five Transformational Commitments Required to Rescue the Planet, Your Organization, and Your Life. The series continues on 6/28, 7/5, and 7/19.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks
In collection: Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point

2012-06-14 Appropriate Response at the Tipping Point 3:32:40

James Baraz

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A four-part series inspired by the Spring 2012 issue of Inquiring Mind, entitled 'Earth Now.'

Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

In collection: One Earth Sangha

2012-06-14 The Wisdom Of Impermanence 55:50
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Exploring how understanding this profound, obvious, but sometimes overlooked truth, transforms out lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-14 Letting Go Through the Body 54:01
Debra Chamberlin-Taylor	Download Listen
Letting go through the body and meditating with strong emotions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-14 The Long Range View 1:15:36
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-14 Thursday Yoga Nidra 45:41
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-14 12 meditazione del biscotto 9:25
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-14 Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities 60:56
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
By establishing strong mindfulness and wisdom, we can turn the five hindrances into opportunities for awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-14 11 riflessioni sul mangiare e psicologia del piacere 13:21
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-14 Guided Meditation: Elemental Awareness 30:28
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Resting in the body as a field of changing energy. Inquiring into an area of strong sensation in the body. Touching into the Nature of Life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-14 First Morning Instructions - Mindfulness Of Breathing 65:03
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Using breath as our meditation object to gather energy of mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-14 Got Freedom 41:45
Vinny Ferraro	Download Listen
This was an off-site Gaia House retreat held at Seale-Hayne, Devon
Gaia House : Training the Mind, Freeing the Heart

2012-06-13 Committing to Joy 69:04

Tara Brach

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What makes joy rare? How do we awaken this beautiful capacity to embrace life? In this talk we explore the obstacles to joy and the attitude and practices that free us to "love what is."

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-06-13 The Intimacy of the Present Moment 48:04
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Coming home to the intimacy of the present moment, Elemental Awareness. Experiencing ourselves as part of the flow of life-made of the same elemental energies.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-13 Investigating the Dhamma 61:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-13 The Joy of Integrity 56:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-06-13 Five Controlling Faculties 57:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Five Controlling Faculties And Balancing Them
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-13 09 riflessioni sulla felicitа 0:00
Bhante Bodhidhamma	(Recording not available)
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-13 08 Paticcasamupada parte 2 48:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-13 Resting in Insight and the Good Heart on Bad Days & Good Days 57:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-12 On Mindfulness of Body and On Going Bananas 54:35
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-12 Compassion 64:19
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-12 Staying Composed and Equanimous In Contemplation 55:38
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Composure, Six factored Equanimity, Clear Comprehension Of Activities
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-12 07 Paticcasamupada parte 1 48:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-11 A Yogi's Job in Working with the Defilements 62:13
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-11 The Hard Stuff 47:51
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-06-11 Patience, Neutrality, Equanimity About Formation 58:43
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Nature and significance of P., N., E., in meditation and outside of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-11 Waking Up Through The Senses 55:56
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Exploring the 5 senses and how these are a vehicle for mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-10 Patience: The Supreme Incinerator 66:44
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-10 Love Dissolves Selfing 47:44
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-06-10 06 i cinque ostacoli 50:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-10 Who Am I Now? - daylong 2:36:44
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
A daylong on aging for those 55 and older.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-06-10 Morning Puja 58:54
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat

2012-06-10 Tethered to Goodness 39:28
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Portland, Oregon
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-10 Tethered to Goodness - Q&A 24:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Portland, Oregon
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-10 Path, Vision and Community 52:33
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Boulder, Colorado
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-10 Closing Session: Guided Meditation on Activations and Mindfulness of Panic and Dread; Chanting 42:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 The Nature Of Insight 59:46
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
This talk examines the unfolding of insight and suggests a couple of ways to bring life to practice and practice to life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-09 A Yogi's Job 51:24
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-09 Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation Meditation 61:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Happiness arising due to virtue, concentration, insight knowledge, purification of view, arising due to mindfulness meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-09 05 la pratica di Metta 29:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 04 brevi istruzioni sul mangiare e att. quotidiane 11:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 03 Metta Guidata 17:39
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Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 Tuning your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part D with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 58:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Clifford Saron - Samatha Project conclusion, Barbara Bogatin - Bach's Arioso Cantata and interpretation Sylvia Boorstein discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part C with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:51:17
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein leads meditation, discussion Barbara Bogatin talk 2: Interpreting Bach, Courante from Suite 1 Slifford Saron Talk 2: The Shamatha Project ude from Bach Solo Cello Suite # 1, Barbara Bogatin Talk 1: Practice as Balance Mindfulness Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part B with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:20:20
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Clifford Saron Talk 1: Holding the Space of the Brain
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part A with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:30:08
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein's Introduction, Prelude from Bach Solo Cello Suite #1, Barbara Bogatin talk 1: Practice as Balanced Mindfulness, Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Reconciliation to Those You've Hurt 28:39
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-06-09 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Mortality; Dhamma Talk: Include it All, Even Separation 1:27:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness of the separate but shared experience of karmic patterning brings primal sympathy, and an ability to forgive and bless each other.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Chanting; QiGong Session 37:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - the Process 51:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Breathing works through body, mental (heart) activation and awareness. With the fullness of settling (samatha), insight releases all aspects of clinging.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-08 Developing Observational Skills 61:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Observing and describing the structures of experience in terms of time, location, characteristics, intensity, continuity, etc.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-08 02 introduzione pratica Mahasi Sila 51:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-08 01 intro pratica Mahasi Sila 51:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-08 Morning Instructions and Q&A 62:11
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-08 Chanting; Question and Answer Session on Right View - Causality and Relationship in all Aspects of Experience 1:12:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-08 QiGong Session 34:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-08 Spiritual Friendship and Deep Attention 58:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The realm of our experience has external and internal aspects - such as society and culture; breath as sensation and breathing as energy; and spiritual friendship and deep/wise attention. In all cases, the skill is to bring the two together.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-07 What do the three refuges mean? 51:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-06-07 Investigation, Disenchantment and Non-Identification 64:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
How the process of simple observation of phenomena leads to a cleaner and clearer understanding of reality ultimately the unconditioned reality of Nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-07 In n Out Dharma 63:19
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Sixteenth Annual Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Being in Presence; QiGong Session 1:15:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Time and Identity: Dhamma Talk on Releasing Stuck Patterns and Vortices; Question and Answer Session 1:27:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Daily life scenarios, disturbances in meditation, or fixed life messages, can be reviewed, touched into and released through holistic awareness.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-07 Respecting Space 59:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
In the balance of embodiment, in the pause between cognition and articulation, between impression and reaction, is the space where true responsiveness can occur. It is here that the Enlightenment Factors arise.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Holy Equanimity 60:06
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-06 Cultivating Compassion 1:15:00

Tara Brach

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We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to include widening circles of beings in our heart.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-06-06 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:38
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat

2012-06-06 Discovering The Nature Of The Mind 58:42
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Contemplation of absence/presence condition, arising and passing, opposites, causal development of mental factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-06 Practicing Peacefulness 50:24
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-06 Chanting; Guided Meditation on the Wave of the Beautiful; QiGong Session 1:28:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Chanting; Learn How to be Stupid and Trust Letting Go 1:17:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The development of wisdom is dependent on disengagement - from affliction, from fixing it, from knowing the answer and from letting go of any such activation ( sankhara). In that pure awareness, release can occur- straight through the heart.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Pointers on Practicing Anapanasati 1:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Right View: Dynamics is (almost) Everything 61:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Right view is of the dynamic interdependency of all experience - except Nibbana. When all is relative and changeable, there is the potential for change for the better, and for release.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Faith 57:43
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
This tlk looks at the way that opening to dukka can lead to the arising of faith and confidence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-05 Trust in Awareness 42:40
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-06-05 Great Vow Practice 57:18
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Sixteenth Annual Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2012-06-05 Contemplation Of Postures 57:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Contemplation of standing, sitting, lying down and walking
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-05 Vipassana Instructions 11:39
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Instructions from the 4th day of a ten day retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-05 Chanting; QiGong Session 42:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Guided Meditation on Access to Breathing and Pausing; Question and Answer Session 1:33:08
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Surfing the Cosmos: Balance and Primal Sympathy 42:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma is the Natural and Holistic Order. To know it we need to be balanced and attuned to what were experiencing, to meet what arises with sympathy and hold it with equanimity. Mindfulness of breathing is a practice which develops this balance.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 The Art of Letting go... 58:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the path to genuine renunciation & release of that all which doesn't serve our happiness or awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-04 Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions 59:04
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-04 Attitudes In Mindfulness Meditation Do Matter 58:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Awareness of attitudes in meditation both helpful and unhelpful.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-04 Morning Instructions 69:07
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-04 Chanting; Guided Meditation; QiGong Session 1:26:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Cultivating the Boundless Mind 60:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity form where sympathetic awareness (anukampa, aka primal sympathy) meets the mind. These are a natural expression of an Awakened heart.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Parami - the Support for Attention 1:40:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Attention and intention carry awareness to an object. They can be trained and nourished. The Ten Parami are a collection of skilful ways to do this, a way that leads to the end of kamma.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Effort, Skill And Grace 56:16
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Wise Kind Awakeness 55:24
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-06-03 Morning Instructions 66:12
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Resonating Positive Sensitivity Through the Body; Dhamma Talk: Meet What Arises 1:28:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through meeting the pattern (not the topic) of what arises, a place and a means for release are established.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Standing Meditation Instructions 12:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Welcome, the Entry to Dynamics 53:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dynamic as distinct from structure, refers to energetic and empathic processes such as breathing, Qi (body);welcoming and acceptance (heart); and assessment (head). Supported by structure, these processes clear and transform obstructions.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-02 Joy in Self, Community & the World 43:45
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Arinna Weisman and Shahara Godfrey
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-02 Closing Remarks 2:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Loving Kindness - Guided Meditation 17:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Discussion on Embodiment 34:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness