Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-03-26 The Protection of Mindfulness 57:48
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Te Moata Retreat Center : Meditation and Inquiry

2011-03-26 Going Against the Stream 49:01
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat

2011-03-26 Instructions: Walking and Sitting Meditation 52:22
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat

2011-03-26 Simple Reflections 53:20
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-26 Tuning Into Diversity (Sat.Talk) 53:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-25 Sweet Joy of the Way 48:30
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Joy is an essential factor of awakening and every step of the Buddhist path supports an opening to happiness, joy and peace -- all the way to Nibbana -- the greatest happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-25 Opening Talk for A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat 69:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Kirsten Kratz
Gaia House : A Path of Peace and Happiness - Dana Retreat

2011-03-24 2. Interest/investigation (dhamma vicaya) 56:36
James Baraz	Download Listen
Third talk in an 8-week series on the 7 Factors of Awakening that began with an overview on March 10, 2011.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-24 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 55:19
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
How to relate to feelings in the heart of silence
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-24 Progress of Knowledge: Arising and Passing Away, Equanimity, Nibbana 58:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : The Progression of Insight Knowledge

2011-03-24 Questions and Answers 57:25
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Probing some of the transitional dharma points.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2011-03-24 Steps 6 & 7: How Do We Change? 40:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-24 The Mind Set 37:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-23 Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion 1:18:30

Tara Brach

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Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ourselves and the pathway to freeing our hearts. Music at end is Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone?"

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-23 Enlightenments 59:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Awakening to mystery and the many forms of liberated consciousness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-23 Opening To The Personal 61:23
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-03-23 Everything is a Mindfulness Bell 43:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-22 Impermanence of the Aggregates 51:27
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Deepening practice by discerning the aggregates and their impermanent nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-22 Progress of Knowledge: Conditionality, Three Characteristics 54:12
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : The Progression of Insight Knowledge

2011-03-22 Q&A - The Road Less Traveled 25:26
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-22 Secrets Of The Mind 47:52
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
When the mind is no longer divided, it reveals its secrets.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2011-03-22 Karma 10:55
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-22 Two Guided Qi Gong Sessions and a Short Talk 1:19:27
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-22 Gateways for Liberation 54:30
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
A deconstruction of the conditions that give rise to clinging and dukkha, and an exploration of how the three characteristics become gateways for liberation.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-22 Reflections On The Lions Roar-Part 2 31:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-21 Sweetness of Equanimity 57:04
John Travis	Download Listen
This talk is about the importance and central place of equanimity, in the Buddhist path towards emptyness and awakening
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-21 Impermanence 55:34
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
The liberating power of knowing the truth of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-21 Awakening Body, Heart and Mind 47:07
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Exploring how we can wake up in relationship with the life of body, heart and mind, cultivating a friendly and steady awareness to what is.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-21 Reflections On The Lions Roar-Part 1 35:18
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-20 The Two Truths 50:48
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Personal experience as a doorway to Big Mind and transforming suffering into awakening factors.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-20 Distortions Of Mind 48:27
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The mind configures reality into distorted images. It is our job to sort it out.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2011-03-20 Progress of Knowledge: Discerning Mind and Materiality 59:36
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : The Progression of Insight Knowledge

2011-03-20 The Four Noble Truths 48:25
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
An exploration of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths, giving the meditation practice a context and intention. the relationship between dukkha, clinging and liberation is discussed.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-19 Grounded and Sleepy 51:46
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Arriving on retreat, settling in and becoming more connected and grounded. Exploring sleepiness and restlessness.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-19 The Gravity Of Skilful Intentions (Sat.Talk) 54:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-18 Turning Towards Suffering with Heartfulness 57:07
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we turn towards and open to the inevitable pain and suffering in life? This talk explores how to meet our difficulty with a kind loving presence and patience and in doing so create a freedom, peace and ease in our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-18 Commentary on Mahasi Sayadaw's Admonition 25:27
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : The Progression of Insight Knowledge

2011-03-18 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:24:43
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Brad Richecouer
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2011-03-17 1. Mindfulness (sati) 51:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
Second talk in an 8-week series on the 7 Factors of Awakening that began with an overview March 10. James highly recommended the booklet The Power of Mindfulness by Nyanaponika Thera as a precise and concise guide for "tidying the mental household." The talk ends with a homework assignment for the week.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-17 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 54:27
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the Body in retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-17 Steps 4 & 5: Searching & Fearless 42:28
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-17 Week 4: Q & A 27:07
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-17 ImpermanenceTsunami 22:16
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-16 Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality 1:22:46

Tara Brach

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Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk explores how our ways of grasping and resisting remove us from the spontaneity and aliveness, the love and wisdom, that is our human potential.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-16 All My Relations -- Kindness as Enlightenment Practice 53:07
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-16 Opening to the Universal 54:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-03-16 Motivated By Feeling 37:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-15 Sama Samadhi: Wise Concentration 51:46
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
What is samadhi? Why is it important for our practice? How do we develop and strengthen this 6th of the 7 Factors of Awakening?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-15 Letting Our Hearts Break 41:36
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-15 Final Reflections and Closing Remarks 43:55
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-14 Compassion and the Awakened Heart 55:31
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-14 'Reflections on Refuge' 51:01
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
What might refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha mean for us?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-14 Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma 68:51
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-14 Brahmavihāra: Understanding, translating and embodying the Immeasurables. 1:29:37
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-14 Third Instructions: Attitude, Citta, Emotion and Thought, Practicing with the Wild Heart 59:46
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-13 Wise and Beautiful Effort 50:46
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
How to understand and balance, ease, depth and love, all as expressions of wise effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-13 Loving Kindness at Work - Guided Meditation 32:29
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Discussion/Q&A 30:38
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Walking - Guided Meditation 6:51
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Sitting - Guided Meditation 27:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Introduction 6:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Forms of Desire and the Hindrances 1:14:25
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-13 Second Instruction: Vedanā, Practice on Attention and Sati 55:46
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-12 A Mindful Way 53:03
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as: training of attention container for transformation, wise discernment way to - the beyond and refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-12 Investigation 57:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is investigation as a factor of awakening? How do we cultivate it, what supports it and how do we apply it to our direct experience in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-12 Impermanence: Surprisingly OK 42:21
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-03-12 Natural Contentment 56:28
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Taking in the Good meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Contentment

2011-03-12 Natural Contentment 36:58
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Self-compassion practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Contentment

2011-03-12 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 40:06
Thanissara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-12 First Instructions: Attitude, Posture, Body Awareness 56:04
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-12 A Sphere Of Shared Solitude (Sat. Talk) 52:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-12 Refreshing Center 21:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-11 The Empty Bell 56:52
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Love as a quality of attention. Ethics brings freedom from oppression. Being empty allows authentic resonance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-11 Exploring Faith 50:40
John Travis	Download Listen
This talk explores faith within the context of the 5 spiritual faculties and also the 3 kinds of faith. Moving stories from the speaker's personal life are shared.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-11 Chanting 5:57
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-11 A Kind Abiding 39:07
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Kindly receiving the unkind. The power of kindness. Wisdom says"I am nothing" compassion says "I am everything"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-10 Buddhism and the 12-Steps, Class 3 (2 of 2) 45:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step 3: Turning it Over, Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-10 Buddhism and the 12-Steps, Class 3 15:07
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step Three: Turning it Over, Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-10 Overview of the 7 Factors of Awakening 55:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
The 7 Factors of Awakening are the Buddha’s list of qualities that need to be developed in order to fully awaken. This eight-week series begins with an overview of all 7 Factors followed by a discussion of each individually in greater depth over the coming weeks. Besides exploring them theoretically, James encourages us to take them on as practices as we go through the weeks seeing how we can consciously cultivate them and bring them into our daily lives. The seven factors are: Mindfulness Interest/investigation Energy/effort Joy/rapture Calm/tranquility Concentration Equanimity
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-10 Honoring Our Human Journey 51:33
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a healing container for meeting and transforming our deeper wounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-10 Metta & Self-Love 56:51
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-10 3 Not-self - Recap and Metaphors 19:10
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-10 Without Walls Of The Mind 39:27
Thanissara	Download Listen
Practice and dispassion leading to Nibbana. Methods for opening into the "deathless"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Return to The Deathless 51:03
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Radical reflection. Interdependence. The disappearance of "thing-ness"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1 53:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-09 Trusting Our Secret Beauty 1:20:58

Tara Brach

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When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don't trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt, and the two wings of mindful presence and love that carry us home to our natural wholeness and goodness of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-09 2 Not-self - Impermanence and Suffering 16:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-09 Ice To Water As Dukkha To Peace 33:06
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Working with the four noble truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Cultivating The Empty Field 41:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-08 4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening 37:39
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the seven factors of awakening? How do these qualities support the journey of unfoldment?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : 4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening

2011-03-08 Sujata's Gift 53:04
Thanissara	Download Listen
The Buddha's journey and the four truths. The unknowing of knowing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-08 Thank Yourself/Mindfulness 55:07
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Mindfulness-various aspects useful in practice and for facing the dilemma of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-08 Love - The Reason we Practice 38:03
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-08 1 Not-self - Control 16:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Fear 68:19
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Fear divides the mind by convincing us that the present is in the crosshairs of an approaching disaster. We therefore need to harness the power of our thinking and take flight physically and mentally away from now. If presence is maintained, fear has no way to access the moment except by projecting into the future.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-03-08 The River Of The Self 45:01
Thanissara	Download Listen
Calm and insight as a base for exploration of the five khandas; replacing reactivity with mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-07 Sacred Gateway 53:22
Kittisaro	Download Listen
What comes, goes, contemplation of impermanence. Letting go and peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-07 'Concentration is Possible' 52:58
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
Looking at the possibility of non-distractedness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-07 The Awakened Heart 54:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How to invite the deity of awakening in an intensive retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat