Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2007-10-12 Opening Talk for Tranquility, Insight and Awakening - Connection, Curiousity, Care 56:16
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk explores three essential qualities of awareness: the precision and brightness of moment-to-moment connection, the investigation of experience through Curiousity, and the allowing of things to unfold with Care. These aspects, which in free translation correspond with the qualities of Samatha, Vipassana and Metta are shown to be both qualities we can cultivate, and the natural orientation of the truly meditative mind.
Gaia House : Tranquility, Insight and Awakening

2007-10-11 Judgement & Anger 54:40
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-10-11 Exploration Of The Five Aggregates Or "Who I Am Not" 52:01
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Understanding the five aggregates or components of body mind and experience, can help us to see what it is we are clinging to.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2007-10-10 The Three Refuges 1:11:30

Tara Brach

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Dharma, Sangha and Buddha - In Buddhism there are three, interdependent gateways to freedom. Called refuges, they are the expressions of truth that carry us home to the essence of what we are. These two talks investigate the way we take "false refuge"--habitual ways of trying to control experience--and the profound happiness and peace in discovering true refuge.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-10-10 Supporting Awakening with Wise Investigation 55:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-10-10 The Second Foundation Of Mindfulness 59:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-09 Hindrances, Restlesness 44:05
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
The hindrance of restlessness and remorse is a fundamental hindrance out of which the other hindrances can arise. The importance of becoming familiar with restlessness, to see or understand its nature, is discussed. Through having a clear understanding of how it arises in the mind and in the body one can work with its various manifestations in practice.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-10-09 Mindfulness Of Body 52:49
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching on Sattipattana - mindfulness of Body - what is mindfulness, what is its function, and how it illuminates the understanding of suffering, impermanence and selflessness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-09 Breath Meditation 15:30
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
A guided basic meditation on the breath, following coming into the present moment through the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-08 Hell, Death & Other Delights 57:10
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Death, Impermanence, Death Poems, Autumn Melancholy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks