Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-01-10 Befriending the Difficult Person 57:11
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Exploring on the levels of mind-heart-body, including teachings on patience, equanimity, compassion and forgiveness. The talk reflects on befriending the 'difficult' person in metta practice, with the underlying intention of reminding us that we are all in this together; that befriending difficult people can be both workable and transformational and that there are practical tools available to assist us on our journey.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-10 Spiritual Friendships 33:20
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Kalyana mitta, or spiritual friendship, is a foundation of the Buddhist path. Through examining a number of suttas related to friendship, we gain an understanding of the important qualities and ways of relating to wise friends.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-01-09 Metta Concentration 58:22
Heather Martin	Download Listen
The skill of dropping more fully into the beautiful experience of these wishes, abiding within them, with deeper restfulness. It is through this kind of experience that pure compassion can arise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-09 Connected View 29:20
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream Punx, Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-09 Connected View - Q&A Session 11:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream Punx, Denver
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-08 Wise Concentration 38:19
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-08 Metta Practice as a Path of Awakening 60:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta practice is a training inclining toward the awakened heart. We explore several aspects of this training in terms of the development of a number of capacities, working through what blocks metta, and the integration of metta, mindfulness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-08 Aggregates 30:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Denver Insight
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-07 In Gladness and in Safety, Omitting None 56:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A presentation of Metta and Mindfulness as integral aspects of each other, using the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's teaching on kindness, as both teh mandate for practice and an overview of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-07 Compassion and Mindfulness 59:55
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An outline of the relationship between compassion, mindfulness, and insight in Dharma practice and in mindfulness-based therapies.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-06 Turning The Mind Towards The Dharma 60:44
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Supporting our practice with four reflections that highlight the meaning of our life: Precious Human Body, Impermanence and Death, Law of Cause and Effect and the Imperfections of Life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-01-06 Great Renunciation, Great Realization and Great Brave Mind 7:12
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
March 2012 Sangha News interview
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-01-06 Modes of Mind and the Four Noble Truths 45:20
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An introduction to the modes of mind framework which is increasingly used within Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Reflections on how to use this in practice and its deeper relationship with the Four Noble Truths.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-05 Life Is Our Teacher. Life Is Our Practice 46:27
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Looking at what supports and nourishes a healthy engagement with life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-05 Time Travel 46:51
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-01-05 Wise Mindfulness 43:15
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk will explore aspects of the Satipatthana sutta, the root discourse of insight meditation and mindfulness based applications.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-04 Trusting Our Potential For Awakening: Touching The Earth 62:05
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
A reflection on the importance and power of trusting our potential for awakening to the deepest wisdom of truth and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-04 Taking Refuge 1:26:09

Tara Brach

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This class explores the three classic gateways to true refuge - Buddha (awareness); Dharma (path, truth of reality) and Sangha (spiritual friends, loving relatedness). It includes reflections and a ceremony that supports us in remembering the pathway home. (also in video - show tracks)

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-01-04 Aspiring to Happiness 54:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-04 Morning Instructions - Five Aggregates 27:22
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-04 Opening Talk for Origins and Applications of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat 64:35
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk also includes Jenny Wilks
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-03 Kamma Ripens After a Retreat 31:05
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-03 The Mind of Non-Grasping 31:36
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-03 Five Rivers Running Through - The Five Aggregates 60:49
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-03 Join the Dance of Life 43:47
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
What has kept me on the path? Turning towards life instead of away-A radical confrontation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-03 Opening to Life 46:37
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-01-02 The Five Hindrances to Enlightenment 42:50
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-02 The Intelligence Of Patience 46:49
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
The gentle forbearance that keeps us in relationship with life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-02 Be Here Wow Again 58:36
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-02 Mindfulness of Feeling 36:25
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-02 A Few Metta Stories - and a guided meditation. 29:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-02 The New You in the New Year 60:27
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How mindfulness and compassion facilitate change. Change can be external or internal and be of three types.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-01-02 Meditation Lead: Grounding the wind element in the earth element. 42:20
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-01-02 Metta - Guided Meditation 34:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-02 Breathing Metta 40:20
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-01 The Seven Awakening Factors and Renunciation 30:11
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-01 Contemplating Impermanence 55:09
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Recognizing the changing nature of experience and the insecurity of human existence allows us to open to the preciousness of life in this moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-01 Happiness 60:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
date estimated
Satipanya Retreat Centre
Attached Files: Towards Well-Being (PDF)

2012-01-01 Wise Livelihood 52:06
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-01 Question & Answer Session, with Terry Ray 37:48
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-01 When Everyone Wins 37:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-01 Mountain Wind Sky - Guided Meditation 29:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-01 A New Day a New Beginning - Guided Meditation 33:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-01 This Undeniable Intimacy 56:08
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
the middle way between all apparent opposites eg indulgence and denial, or inner and outer, invites us to an intimate meeting with life.
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-31 Immediacy 59:29
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2011-12-31 The Bodhisattva Path: Turning Suffering into Compassion 67:49
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
The path to alleviating the suffering of the world leads through the gateway of meeting our own suffering with compassion. When we open fully to our own suffering, we transmute it into compassion and it can move through us into the world.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-31 Dhamma Dialogue, with Terry Ray 51:20
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2011-12-31 Guided Meditation - Awakening Compassion / Tonglen 37:09
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-31 Playing with Pain - Talk and Guided Meditation 33:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2011-12-31 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 40:54
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-31 This Matter of Emptiness 50:33
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-30 An Invitation To Relax And Be Aware 46:36
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Bring the practice to a place of simplicity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-12-30 Wisdom Through Relaxing Into the Flow of Nature 61:58
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Wisdom is more of a verb than a noun. It is the continual refinement of perspective and understanding. As you practice moment to moment the laws of nature are gradually revealed and freedom is realized.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-30 Wisely Relating to Sense Experience - part 2 57:55
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-30 Guided Heart - Forgiveness and Compassion 28:36
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-30 Breath - Guided Meditation 34:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2011-12-30 Dimensions of Desire 52:49
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
wholesome or noble desires are central to the path of awakening and can be answered, unlike craving which serves only to deepen a sense of insufficiency and has no answer.
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-29 Self Inquiry 55:13
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Self Inquiry
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-12-29 Orienting Towards Freedom 52:37
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Meditation practice is an invitation to let go of the pressure we place on our life and our self to be other than as we are, and to realize the natural inherent freedom that letting go reveals.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-12-29 The Blessings of Embodied Presence 57:27
Tara Brach	Download Listen
All that we cherish - love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness - becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of mindfulness and compassion guide us in the midst of difficulty to our inner sanctuary of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-29 Guided Metta Meditation 22:34
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-29 Wisely Relating to Sense Experience - part 1 65:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-29 Courage in Awakening 44:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2011-12-29 Morning Instruction and Question/Response 14:42
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-29 Morning Guided Meditation 24:07
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-29 Meditation Instructions - Day One 24:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-12-29 Intention, Conditionality and Change 49:13
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Some reflections on whether unhelpful habitual tendencies can be changed and what gets in the way.
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-28 Just Sitting on the Eggs 35:02
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2011-12-28 Reflecting on Non-Harming 59:18
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-28 Guided Heart Meditation 43:37
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-28 Renewing and Revisioning our lives. Talk Guided meditations, and Ritual 48:12
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At this time of earth's stillness, it can be a wonderful time to touch our deeper aspirations, correct with our visions, and set intentions. We do this through reflections, guided meditation and ritual.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-12-28 Refuge 42:11
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Refuge - this talk explores what it means to find refuge inwardly rather than in the world of changing conditions.
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-27 Knowing the Mind, Training the Mind, Freeing the Mind 58:59
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2011-12-27 Opening Talk for New Year's Retreat 54:52
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk also includes Rob Burbea, Jenny Wilks and Catherine McGee
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2011-12-26 Emptiness - Emotions, Expectation & Occupy 29:45
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream Dharma Punx, Ft. Collins CO
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-26 Emptiness - Emotions, Expectation & Occupy - Q&A 11:15
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Against the Stream Dharma Punx, Ft. Collins CO
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-23 Christmas Reflections 26:52
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at Dharma Punx in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-23 Christmas Reflections - Q&A 15:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at Dharma Punx in Denver
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-22 Awakening the Higher Mind 59:50
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-12-22 Gratitude and generosity 52:41
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses gratitude as openhearted receiving and the many blessings of giving
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-12-22 The Outside Perfect: Ease, Luminosity, Spaciousness 56:31
John Travis	Download Listen
This talk describes cultivating and revealing ease of body, luminosity of mind and spaciousness of heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2011-12-21 Dharma: The Musical 7:22
La Sarmiento	View Download Listen
La performs three dharma spoof songs for the 2011 IMCW Solstice Celebration. The first - "Waking Up is Hard to Do" - is about the delusion that suffering is easier than the effort it takes to wake up. The second - "Let it go, Let it go, Let it go" (written by Maureen Brady of the Snowflower Sangha in Madison, WI) - is about the practice of holiday equanimity. And the third - "My Mind's Prison Blues" - is a summary of the dharma and practice in the spirit of Johnny Cash. (Lyrics for 1st and 3rd songs by La Sarmiento).
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks
In collection: No Mud, No Lotus

2011-12-21 No Mud, No Lotus 1:26:06

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with La Sarmiento, Tara Brach

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. This solstice talk explores the light of compassion that blossoms when we honor our difficult times with a deep, mindful attention. This solstice evening includes chanting, singing and a candlelighting ceremony. (see video - show tracks)

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-12-21 How Fear Transforms into Love 57:52
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Through stories and practical instruction,s the talk illuminates the direct experience of fear and other challenging emotions and describes the transformation of fear into love through the practices of naming, mindfulness of the body/nervous system, lovingkindness and letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2011-12-21 Greatness of Heart 53:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-21 The Miracle of Changing One's Mind 1:11:14
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia and Cliff Saran discuss the neuroscience of consciousness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-12-20 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry: December 20, 2011 41:40
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2011-12-20 Entering Darkness, Emerging Light 57:02
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At the Winter Solstice, we explore how our practice is in pat to be with the "dark" -- the still, the unknown, the difficult, the generative and fertile -- and in part to open to light , as it emerges from the dark, as we deliberately invoke qualities of light.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2011-12-18 Quarterly Refuges and Precepts: Beyond Craving 36:16
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-12-18 Wise Effort 52:10
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2011-12-18 Healthy Narcissistic Supplies 1:42:57
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-12-18 Is the self empty? Does the self even exist? 1:16:53
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-12-18 Return of Light 41:12
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
San Diego, CA
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-18 Return of Light - Q&A 20:28
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
San Diego, CA
Shakti Vihara

2011-12-17 A Case of Mistaken Identity 62:26
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice D 26:27
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice C 20:28
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice B 23:07
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & compassion Practice A 24:29
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
A day exploring the practice of metta - lovingkindness & compassion - and discussing how to bring these into every part of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-16 The Wise & Fearless Heart 62:26
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Developing the Brahma Viharas (good will, compassion, gladness and equanimity), to strengthen the heart and meet fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat