Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-12-11 More Suggestions for Practicing Tonglen 40:22
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) : Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-12-10 Guided Meditation on Spacious Compassionate Awareness 44:25
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
These recordings are part of a ten month course entitled Living Fearlessly with Change - Exploring Ageing, Illness and Death Through Buddhist Practice and Service.
Gaia House (Bala Brook) : Living Fearlessly with Change

2016-11-20 Redemption 30:51
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How can we be free of anger? To cross a river, walk over it. From a burning house, escape. So too, when your heart is on fire, stay present, forgiving and compassionate. Balance and cleanse the mind to stop it from spinning with fear, to see deeply, to heal. We direct the mind to what is great – the very source of unsurpassed joy arising as we awaken to the blessed Dhamma.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-18 Change for the Good 33:51
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Are we ready to stop clinging, let go and trust? If we live with gratitude and change for the good; if we learn to really see, we will be able to listen from within and notice the true condition of the mind, going from a state of fear to non-fear, from suffering to non-suffering, from trauma to trust and the truth of the Unconditioned. Putting out the fires of greed, hatred and delusion, we forgive, set our burdens down and embrace kindness. We make wise choices and we live and die with joy, peace, and blessing.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2016-11-09 Morning Reflection: Navigating Uncertainty and Fear 9:56
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-08 Navigating Uncertainty and Fear 47:48
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on the dynamics of uncertainty and fear in our lives and on retreat and how to navigate them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-11-08 Chant, Breathe, Trust - Bless the Rain 16:21
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
One way animals restore themselves after an attack and regain equilibrium is through the trembling of the body. We too, as human beings, can create an inner rhythmic chant to resonate vibrational waves that help us move out of fear and clear traumas from our nervous system. All the senses converge and soak in the sound of the breath itself. Trusting the heart's innate goodness, we feel uplifted. Bless the rain.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2016-11-02 Awakening Consciousness in Shadowy Times - Part 2 68:50

Tara Brach

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The shadow is the unfaced, unlived fears and emotional pain in our individual and collective psyche. When not brought into awareness it expresses as “no” - the anger, aggression, hopelessness and cynicism that is resisting and opposing life. In this talk we explore how to evolve our consciousness by bringing “yes” - clarity and loving acceptance - to the parts of our being we have been unwilling to feel. This loving “yes” reconnects us to our basic goodness and helps others do the same.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-10-25 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 6 63:17

Mark Nunberg

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Tonight we will finish our discussion regarding the drawbacks and limitations of sensual experience. Please be prepared to share with your small group your own direct experience how the habits of fear, attachment, craving... create a sense of weight and suffering around our sense experiences. We'll spend the last two weeks looking at the "Escape" from the stress related to sense experience. Here is a good article to read written by a senior Buddhist nun in the Western Ajahn Chah lineage, Sister Siripann

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality

Attached Files:

Renunciation: The Highest Happiness by Sister Siripanna (Google Doc)

2016-09-22 "The Issue of Othering" 58:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
Dedicated to the memory of Bob Kaneko, a dharma friend who recently passed away. As a child Bob spent years 4-8 in a Japanese Internment camp in California,1942-1946. This talk explores how easily we humans can unfairly treat and oppress those different from us. We see this daily in the media with hateful rhetoric stirring fears in many. How can we use practice to skillfully respond?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks