Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2010-12-21 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Equanimity 52:20
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Equanimity does not empower feelings to drive thoughts. It holds a feeling as a feeling and does not extend the feeling into a narrative on why this feeling is important. It does not add anything to the moment, allowing the moment to bloom on its own.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-12-20 Winter Solstice 35:19
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Finding the amazing joy of living, renewed in mystery...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-20 The Unconditioned 29:29
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
01 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2010-12-20 Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light. 58:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At this time of Winter Solstice we explore a number of ways that our practice is to open to the dark (as nature's stillness and silence, as the unknown, as the difficult and as fertile and generative) and to evoke the light, learning better how to hold both.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Solstice Retreat

2010-12-19 Taking Refuge 20:36
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-12-19 Simplicity and Transcendence 2:37:49
Ajahn Yatiko	Download Listen
Excerpt from a Monastic Daylong at Spirit Rock that he co-taught with Ajahn Karunadhammo, also of Abhayagiri Buddhist Monastery (abhayagiri.org).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-18 Gradual Path and Trauma Tools 32:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara

2010-12-18 Gifts of Practice 50:22
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House : Young Persons Retreat The Four Noble Truths

2010-12-17 Beauty in the Midst of Adversity: The Practice of Forgiveness 48:22
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-17 Medicine Heart Metta: Guided Forgiveness 41:09
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
May you be well, happy, and peaceful. Learn how to connect with the radiant, loving energy in your heart. Dissolve your opinions and unwholesome attitudes and deepen a quintessential quality for the Path - forgiveness. It is the key to greater loving-kindness for all beings.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2010-12-17 Contemplating Asubha 29:12
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
11 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2010-12-17 Love Sex and Awakening Part 2 35:09
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2010-12-17 Opening Talk for the Young Person's Retreat - The Four Noble Truths 68:52
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
This is the opening talk for a retreat that welcomes young people (aged 16 - 25) to explore meditation and the Buddha's teaching on the four noble truths, and how this teaching sheds light on our own difficulties and opens up the possibility of deep freedom. This talk also includes Caroline Jones.
Gaia House : Young Persons Retreat The Four Noble Truths

2010-12-16 Making Peace with Samsara 46:36
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-16 Gifts of Darkness and Letting Go 55:12
Betsy Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2010-12-15 A Personal Journey of Suffering and Finding Compassion 42:54
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-15 Seeing Beyond the Veil 1:15:45

Tara Brach

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The source of our suffering is that we become identified with egoic roles and defenses that separate us from the truth of what we are. This talk explores some of the constricting identities that we take on, and the process of compassionate presence that reconnects us with our natural vitality, openheartedness and wisdom. We then enlarge our focus to seeing past the veil that obscures the sacred presence that shines through all beings.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-12-15 Gradual and Immediate Awakening, II 60:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look in more depth at the path of gradual awakening and its complimentary path and practice of immediate awakening, suggesting a variety of ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-14 We are the Ones we are Looking for 48:55
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2010-12-14 Holding Life Tenderly 51:31
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The path of mindfulness and metta towards freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-14 Recollection of the Sangha-part of a three part series on the Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice 38:10
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
The Triple Gem: Recollection of the Sangha—Community As Refuge. This is the third installment in the three part series on the triple refuge or three jewels. This talk introduces the contemplation of the virtues of the Sangha (sanghanusati) as a support for inspiration, trust, and gratitude for community. The liberating sangha is considered worthy of gifts and offerings; a field of merit; a community people who have made the effort to practice diligently, energetically; and who are cultivating a direct and liberating path.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Triple Gem: As Refuge, Inspiration, and Meditation Practice

2010-12-13 The 1906 Earth Quake 50:57
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
How to work with suffering & fear - How people in the Earthquake experienced it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-13 The Five Hindrances 54:22
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
A discussion of the difficulties we encounter in our practice and some suggestions for how to work with them skillfully.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-12-12 "I Teach One Thing Only" 48:07
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
This "one thing" the Buddha taught and forms a continuum of practice that informs our motivation all along the way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2010-12-12 Closing Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend 43:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2010-12-12 Metta Practice for Forgiveness of a Difficult Person 41:34
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2010-12-11 You are the Buddha 65:01
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The Buddha is not so far away and your practice can allow you to recognize this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-11 No-Self In The Brain 49:10
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Neuroscience and the teachings of Anatta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-11 No Self in the Brain 1:59:12
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Neuroscience and the teachings of Anatta
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-12-11 Going Forth 35:29
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Anagarika ceremony - Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-12-11 Opening to Kindness 57:37
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
The cultivation of loving kindness enables us to connect more and more to the kindness, openness and courage in our hearts, transforming how we relate to life.
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2010-12-11 Loving Kindness Meditation Instructions 55:10
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
These instructions also include Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2010-12-10 Melting the Judgmental Heart 48:55
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
The judgmental mind is painful and difficult. We can bring the practicies of the Brahma Viharas to it, to melt away the judgment and to develop a kind and spacious heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-10 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend 48:16
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2010-12-09 Let Your Difficulties Become the Path 61:22
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Letting the uniquely human experience of our struggles and pain become the cause for healing, tenderness and well being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-08 Ask the Friend for Love 1:18:56

Tara Brach

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Prayer, when cultivated consciously, energizes and guides us on the spiritual path. This talk investigates the difference between wanting, with it's narrow fixation, and the prayer that arises out of our deep heart's longing. We explore how living prayer, the prayer that arises from consciously inhabiting longing, can carry us home to loving presence. As John O'Donahue writes, prayer is the bridge between longing and belonging.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-12-08 The Surprise of Unfolding 48:57
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
We come to retreat seeking refuge. Developing curiosity, confidence and contentment and in resting in the surprises of our unfoldment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-12-08 Gradual and Immediate Awakening, I 63:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the complementarity of gradual and immediate (or sudden) ways of practicing, with some experiential exercises.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-12-07 Reflecting on Sacredness 38:42
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2010-12-05 Ease in an Imperfect World 56:13
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-12-04 Householders' Practices of Letting Go 56:55
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (3) 35:12
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Ending the Inner Critic

2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (2) 46:27
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Ending the Inner Critic

2010-12-04 Ending the Inner Critic (1) 34:44
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Ending the Inner Critic

2010-12-04 Right Speech, Right Conflict 31:08
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-12-03 The World of Dew: A Talk on The Two Truths 59:03
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Dhamma practice opens us to the world of paradox and mystery. The Buddha's teachings on relative and ultimate truth reveal to us the seamless nature of the Path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-03 Understanding Vipassana 1:10:06
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-12-02 A New Story: Was the World Made for Man? 56:35
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
An insightful and humorous exploration of the place of humans in the universe. Includes a reading of Mark Twain's essay "Was the World Made for Man." The evening ends with a discussion with sangha members.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2010-12-02 Barking, Barking, Barking: Mindfulness as Respectful Listening 50:09
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-02 Compassion and Courage 57:06
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-12-01 The Karma Concerning Liberation 44:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-01 Four Noble Truths 60:24
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-12-01 Opening to what is Beautiful and Good 59:08
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-30 Connecting with this Very Moment 55:58
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2010-11-30 Making Your Mind a Refuge: Seven Factors of Awakening 59:58
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-11-29 Meditation, Awareness and Understanding 60:18
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-11-29 Lovingkindness 63:03
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-28 Equanimity 62:03
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
The quality of equanimity develops in our practice by studying what gets in the way of equanimity, and by cultivating the conditions that support it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-28 Resting in the Clear Mind of Non Reactivity 53:49
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-11-27 Identity and Identification 57:10
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-27 Understanding the Defilements 60:45
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-11-26 Taking Refuges as Practice 37:48
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Perth, Australia : Mindfulness of Mind/Insight

2010-11-26 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 3 - Dimensions of the Personal Journey) 66:52
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
With wisdom and sensitivity, we can learn to use both the view of emptiness and the view of self to bring a completeness to our unfolding liberation and to know the joy and openness of ongoing discovery.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-24 Loving Life: Gratitude and Generosity 1:16:36

Tara Brach

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Love is innate, and blossoms as we intentionally cultivate it. This talk on two natural expressions of loving life--gratitude and generosity--includes several guided reflections that awaken the heart.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-24 Cultivating Generosity and Gratitude 60:30
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine the nature of generosity and gratitude and both how to cultivate them , and what stands in the way of their expression through stories and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-24 Investigation 32:31
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Investigation is the willingness to probe beneath assumption to discover what is true.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-23 Rest in Natural Great Peace 49:18
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2010-11-23 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Feelings Unleashing Thoughts 4:41
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Feelings move quickly into a narrative that captures our attention and promotes further images, all with their own feelings and further story. The sense of "I" arises, and we are surrounded by feelings and reactions to feelings, giving us a sense of ourselves in time and space. We call this life.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-11-22 Compassionate Presence 57:48
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Transformation happens in the realm or context of compassionate presence. How do we learn to offer compassionate, loving attention to ourselves, each other, and our world?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Retreat

2010-11-22 Guided Meditation - Clearing Dukkha 44:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2010-11-21 Dependent Origination 60:33
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
A practical discussion on the Buddha's teaching of dependent origination.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-21 Hindrances and Such 56:19
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-21 Inspiration to Train the Mind 56:53
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-11-21 Thanksgiving Talk 45:38
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2010-11-21 Gratitude - Full Moon Vigil 21:59
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-11-21 Practice Here, There and Everywhere 61:31
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-20 Three Kinds Of Craving 56:31
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-20 Spiritual Allegory: The Chilean Miners 49:55
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
Acceptance, Surrender, the human condition and the amazing story of the Chilean miners entrapment and rescue.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Retreat

2010-11-20 The Psychodynamics in Meditation (Part 2) 59:27
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Through the development of various skillful means, we can unlock the innately liberating dynamism at the heart of our emotional life, allowing deep healing, freedom, and the natural unfolding of our full potential.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-19 Gratitude and Generosity 60:39
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How these qualities acknowledge interdependency and release the heart from clinging.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-19 Reflection: The Power of the Mind 5:47
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-18 Reflections on Bhikkhunis 51:27
James Baraz	Download Listen
James examines some of the recent history surrounding Bhikkhunis and Western Buddhist practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2010-11-18 Patience - The Art Of Caring Slowly 57:27
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
The poet John Ciardi defined patience as the art of caring slowly. This talk explores the qualities of this powerful and essential parami.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2010-11-18 De Sache ufe ä Grund gaa: Weises Ergründe aus Üebig (yoniso manasikāra) 1:10:20
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Über verschiedeni Forme vo Ergründe i dr Lehr vom Buddha u was me dermit cha afa.
Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern

2010-11-18 Closing Morning Talk on Emptiness 46:06
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Brief overview of emptiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-18 Reflections on Compassion 44:48
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
A look into the power of the tender open heart.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-18 Through The Looking Glass: The Reality of Not Self 1:11:06
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-17 A Listening Presence - Three Domains of Training 1:15:43

Tara Brach

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Cultivating the capacity for listening is essential to loving well and to realizing the truth of who we are. This talk focuses on three key facets of deep listening--non-distractedness, not-controlling and seeking to understand-- that can awaken an intimacy with our inner life and others. Guided meditations on listening precede and are included within the body of the talk.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-17 Emptiness and Karma 60:13
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
At first glance it might seem the teaching of karma, in which our actions bring results to ourselves, might be in contradiction to the understanding that our experience is empty of a self. However, the two teachings on emptiness and karma actually need each other for liberation to be possible.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Teachings on the Practice of Reflection 20:33
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Teachings on the practice of reflections, and duided reflections on what inspired and challenged you in the Emptiness Retreat, and what you will take home with you.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Practicing with Intentions 46:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore 1) The nature of intentions, 2) The importance of intentions in our practice, 3) karma and intentions, and 4) how to practice with intentions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-17 Reflections on Compassion 33:52
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Guided reflective meditations on compassion for someone who is suffering, for oneself, and for the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-11-17 Compassion Needs Emptiness 47:03
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
True compassion needs space to function. The less self-obsessed we are, the more responsive and connected our hearts can be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-17 Investigation, Noble Uncertainty, Spiritual Inquiry 56:51
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
The awakening factor of investigation moves us to look deeply into our experience, acknowledging that there is always more to understand in the simplicity and mystery of being alive here and now. As we learn to bring a deep and open-hearted curiousity to our each moment and to our very existence itself, without taking any position on our self or this world, life can open to reveal the deepest truth of freedom.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-17 Reflection: Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 16:27
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-16 Emptiness in the Mahayana 64:19
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-16 The Empty Nature of Awareness 68:12
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
We can be aware of many objects in meditation. It's also possible to turn our attention to awareness itself. The talk explores what happens when we do this. Is awareness findable? Does it come and go? Is it conditioned? And what is the value of meditating like this?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-16 Big Mind Guided Meditation 44:15
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-15 Joy & its Causes 65:46
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How Joy can be found, nourished and brought alive in the very circumstances of our life. Shifting from our loyalty to suffering, to a deeper freedom of heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks