Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-03-26 Kind Awareness 54:44
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is a three part series of talks on James’ basic meditation instructions: “Receive the moment with a relaxed, interested and kind awareness. What does a kind awareness mean? How can we meet each moment—including moments of fear or physical discomfort—with this attitude? This is a key issue for deepening our practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2009-03-26 Ritual in Soto Zen 27:54
Tanto Meiya Wender	Download Listen
Gaia House : Soto Zen Forms and Ceremonies - The Practice of Deep Intimacy

2009-03-25 Part 2 - The Body as a Gateway to Full Presence 1:20:28

Tara Brach

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We have strong conditioning to take false refuge in our mind, and disconnect from our senses. These two talks explore the pathways and gifts of coming home to embodied awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-03-25 Aloneness and Interconnectedness 43:57
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
These are the two pillars of freedom and compassion cultivated moment to moment in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 25th Anniversary of the Women’s Retreat

2009-03-25 Bodhisattva Path 60:48
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2009-03-25 Cultivating Mudita (Appreciative Joy) pt I 49:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the practice of Mudita in the context of the other three Brahmaviharaas; seeing how it goes again both self-centered joy and tendencies to focus on problems or what is "wrong" in a situation. There is some guidance in the formal mudita practice, as well as more general cultivation of joy.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-03-25 Touch The Earth, Find Your Ground 49:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Learning to stay with the flow of experience in a non-conflicting way is quite difficult. Recollecting how the Buddha called on the Earth for support when confronted by the host of mara, we too can find support in the ground of our presence and virtue.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2009-03-24 Wise Intention II 59:34
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How moment-to-moment awareness of the 3 wise intentions leads to wise action and happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation March Month Long

2009-03-24 Ten Paramis: Renunciation (1) 57:49
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Pausing to see what is important, and appreciating the space the pause offers.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-03-24 Getting Impermanence 29:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The Buddha’s last words were: ‘All sankhārā are impermanent; make an effort with diligence.’ Is there a place where self, other, past, future don’t happen? That’s what we meditate for. It takes us under the froth to the root of where the turbulence is coming from. These formative patterns have energy, but through bearing presence, they gradually lose their intensity and dissolve.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat