Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-10-21 Kamma and Intention: A Fresh Start 24:54
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk by Shaila Catherine was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." Action influenced by intention is called kamma in the Pali language or karma in Sanskrit. We condition patterns, habits, and create pleasant or painful results through repeated intentional actions. The key to working with our patterns is not in the past, it is how we relate to present events. We are not condemned to dwell in any mental state. We have the potential to disentangle ourselves from suffering and cease creating causes for suffering. When we are mindful, we can notice the process that occurs between a stimulus and our response. Then, supported by calmness, wisdom, and clear intention, we stop reacting to life through the conditioned force of habit and may experience a truly spontaneous, free response to life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-08-13 The Dhamma of Snow 26:04
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
In the grip of painful feelings such as fear, anger, grief, or despair, we are in danger of allowing these to subdue the mind. Discernment and clear awareness help us to see through our pain to the ending of pain – not only for ourselves, but for all beings. We ascend the highest Everest of the spiritual realm. That might seem impossible from where we sit now. But if we trust this process, just like the sudden vanishing of winter snow, we realize a transcendent interior melting of all sorrow.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) : 2014 Chapin Mill Retreat

2014-07-28 Morning Instruction: Investigating The Present 55:05
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Once we stabilize our attention within the flow of present time experiences, we can investigate certain truths such as pleasant and pain and the prevasive
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2014-07-25 Mindfulness Of Pain Meditation 31:55
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
By intentionally moving our attention from our primary location of meditation( breath, body or sound) we can begin to explore the direct relationship between pain and our own aversion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18–32 Year Olds

2014-06-25 The Power of Compassion 53:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Turning towards the pain of ourselves and the world with a curious open heart is the seed for compassion to arise which brings healing and integration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Facilitators Retreat

2014-04-05 The Path of Freedom 60:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
The Buddha clearly laid out a path that describes the human condition and how to navigate the varieties of suffering and pain with awareness, inquiry, mindfulness and compassion. This talk explains essential aspects of working with our human plight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation for the Curious

2014-04-02 Stress and Our Evolving Consciousness 1:20:04

Tara Brach

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The universal experience of stress (in Buddhism, called dukkha) is a message that we are not realizing, trusting and living from our true nature. Our habitual reactions to stress - grasping, aversion, resistance - deepen emotional pain and lock us in a limiting sense of egoic-self. This talk explores how, with conscious intention and deepened attention, the stressful difficulties we encounter can become the very grounds of healing and spiritual awakening.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-03-17 Disenchantment 45:36
John Travis	Download Listen
All compounded things are fleeting; all tainted states are painful; all phenomena are empty, devoid of self-identity; Nirvana is peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Month Long Retreat

2014-02-26 Connection to Life 57:57
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The habit of believing we're different from others leads to a painful sense of isolation. Both vipassana and metta reveal a deep inter-connectedness to all of life that takes away our feelings of separation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014