Donate  |   Contact

Please support Dharma Seed with a 2025 year-end gift.

Your donations allow us to offer these teachings online to all.


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks in English
2017-09-15 Meditating in the Chitta Field 1:17:51
Martin Aylward
These morning meditation instructions explore the expanding of attention, to including the various elements of emotional experience and mental states that colour consciousness.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-15 On Happiness, Joy, Fulfillment and Freeness 45:30
Martin Aylward
Martin explores resources for wellbeing, noting the importance of being nourished and uplifted by our practice, in order for it to be sustainable. He looks at the nature of happiness and our relationship to pleasure; the practice of opening up to joy, and points to ways in which dharma practice is fulfilling and freeing.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-15 Morning Instructions 43:42
Guy Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-14 "Loving Kindness" 53:20
Kevin Griffin
An attempt to look at how this practice known as loving kindness can really apply in a broader way than just a meditation.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley IMCB Regular Talks

2017-09-14 Healing Layers of Dukkha 47:12
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the layers of Basic Dukkha, Reactive Dukkha and Judgemental Dukkha; exploring how they show up in different areas of our experience and pointing to different ways of meeting, exploring and healing our relationship with painful experience.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-14 Mindfulness of Breathing 58:06
Guy Armstrong
Explores mindfulness of breathing in the context of mindfulness of the body, which is in the context of right mindfulness. Describes connecting and sustaining.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-09-14 Guided meditation: equanimity for different phases of our lives 38:00
Jill Shepherd
Equanimity for our own lives, in different phases from birth to adulthood
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-14 Short instructions: equanimity and the eight worldly winds 6:54
Jill Shepherd
Cultivating equanimity at the end of a retreat, and a brief introduction of equanimity in relation to the eight worldly winds
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-14 Dhamma Discussion 1:48:20
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  2017 Vassa

2017-09-14 Morning Teachings - Meditating with Physical Discomfort 1:11:12
Martin Aylward
Some advice on working with physical and postural discomfort, as well as with meditative discomfort, the heat and tensions that show up when we meditate, as we process the unwinding of various somatized patterns and emotional residue.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-13 Ecodharma: Buddhism in a Time of Crisis 62:44
David Loy
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-09-13 Meditation: Arriving in Stillness 15:36
Ruth King
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-09-13 The Racial Awareness Rubik - What we forget but must remember 44:52
Ruth King
This talk explores six hindrances to racial harmony and six principles that support a culture of care, as well as the Buddha’s teachings on the Two Truth Doctrine and Misperception. Enjoy a blog written by Aryenish Birdie after attending the talk: "Why People of Color and White Folks Think About Race Differently." http://encompassmovement.org/why-people-of-color-and-white-folks-think-about-race-differently/
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-09-13 An Embodied Look at Consciousness 39:25
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the two pali terms for consciousness - Vinnyana and Chitta. He looks at their functioning in experience, and how we can inhabit our conscious experience to as to meet, explore and understand it better.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-13 Talk: anatta not-self and the five aggregates subject to clinging 51:34
Jill Shepherd
Not-self or anatta and an overview of the five aggregates subject to clinging
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-13 On being, part 2 51:40
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-09-13 On being, part 1, Instructions and guided meditation 36:49
Pascal Auclair
True North Insight TNI Regular Talks

2017-09-13 The Two Arrows 2 66:08
Donald Rothberg
We review the core teaching of the Two Arrows in terms of individual practice, and then understand its application in the social context as exemplified by Dr. King's nonviolence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-13 Morning Teachings - Meditation is Right Here 53:19
Martin Aylward
Martin explores the ground of meditation practice as the right-here-ness of experience and awareness. He points to an embodied practice, opening ourselves up to an availability to whatever presents itself.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-12 Angulimala: An Ethical Transformation 27:30
Shaila Catherine
In this first talk in a lecture series on the Great Disciples, the speaker, Shaila Catherine, tells the life story of Angulimala and his transformation from notorious robber and murdered to a peaceful, compassionate, truthful, and awakened monk. It is an inspiring example of the power of restraint, and the potential for redemption. Habits and dispositions do not need to control our lives. We can stop unwholesome, unhealthy, and harmful courses of conduct. We can purify our minds.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community

2017-09-12 The Great Disciples: People and Personalities in the Buddha's Community 3:50:04
with Ayya Santussika, Ed Haertel, Margaret Gainer, Shaila Catherine, Thanissaro Bhikkhu
The early Buddhist sangha included some accomplished and intriguing disciples--lay and monastic, male and female. By searching the literature of the Pali Canon, contemporary scholars have been able to compile biographical information, infer personality traits, and gain a vivid sense of the human relationships and life-stories that formed the earliest Buddhist community. This speaker series will explore the lives, practice, and teachings of several of the great disciples of the Buddha. The series will illuminate both the ordinary and extraordinary contributions of some of the most interesting personalities whose questions, challenges, and life situations shaped the teachings that we cherish today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2017-09-12 Redemption Song 33:15
Howard Cohn
Mission Dharma

2017-09-12 Giving it Back to Nature - Opening Talk 28:12
Martin Aylward
Martin speaks about Ajahn Buddhadasa and his description of practice as giving back to nature what we have wrongly appropriated from her.
Gaia House Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2017-09-12 Talk: karma 52:31
Greg Scharf
Karma and forgiveness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-12 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course - Week 1 1:28:24
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course (2017)

2017-09-12 Guided meditation: equanimity for difficult person 23:19
Jill Shepherd
Exploring equanimity in relation to a difficult or "sticky" person, someone whom we have an agenda for, then in relation to ourselves
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-12 Instructions: equanimity for difficult person 10:48
Jill Shepherd
Exploring equanimity in relation to a "difficult" person
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-11 Talk: Seven Factors of Awakening 40:43
Jill Shepherd
An overview of the seven factors of awakening and how to work skilfully with more refined states of mind
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-11 Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges - Week 1 1:29:27
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Buddhist Studies Course - The Three Refuges

2017-09-10 Mind Being Aware of Mind 1:29:05
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2017-09-10 What is consciousness? 49:34
Eugene Cash
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-09-10 Talk: equanimity 48:42
Greg Scharf
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-10 Guided meditation: mudita for oneself and a good friend 22:17
Jill Shepherd
Guided meditation appreciation one's own good qualities and good fortune, then those of a good friend
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-10 Instructions: mudita for oneself 11:03
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the Buddha's instructions to Mahanama to contemplate his own generosity and virtues, as a basis for practising mudita for oneself
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-10 Heaven and Hell have Doors in Perception 54:55
Nathan Glyde
Not about Aldous Huxley's great books, but an exploration of the proximity of those disparate states of being; heavenly moments and hellish ones. Exploring how our reactions to the unfolding experience of life in a wise and kind manner shape what we see. Not offered as a panacea but as a compassionate response that brings intimacy and potential to all of our lives.
SanghaSeva One Day Frome

2017-09-10 Introducing a Full and Easy Breath 44:15
Nathan Glyde
Is it possible to breath into, through, and with all aspects of our experience?
SanghaSeva One Day Frome

2017-09-09 Talk: mudita - appreciative joy 44:18
Jill Shepherd
Exploring the brahma vihara practice of mudita, the obstacles that get in the way of it, and suggestions for beginning to develop the quality of joy as a support for insight practice
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-09 Noble Eightfold Path, Right View Part 2 35:53
Ayya Santussika
First of a series of 9 day-longs, offered by Eastbay Dhamma. This is the afternoon session on the theme of Right View.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2017-09-09 Noble Eightfold Path, Right View Part 1 41:44
Ayya Santussika
First of a series of 9 day-longs, offered by Eastbay Dhamma. This is the morning session on the theme of Right View.
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2017-09-09 Guided meditation: refining mindfulness of breathing, using mental noting 39:16
Jill Shepherd
Beginning with the instruction to calm the bodily formations, then refining attention on the specific characteristics of each breath
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-09 Very short instructions for refining mindfulness of breathing 4:34
Jill Shepherd
Maintaining relaxed awareness while bringing more precision to mindfulness of breathing, using the tool of mental noting when helpful
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-09 Instructions On Feeling Tone (Vedana) 40:40
Anushka Fernandopulle
Guided meditation and explanation of feeling tone (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-08 The five spiritual faculties: energy and mindfulness. 43:00
Caroline Jones
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge September 2017 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2017-09-08 Friday Night Dharma and Recovery with Kevin Griffin 1:58:57
Kevin Griffin
Angulimala and Forgiveness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-09-08 Talk: the ten parami and patience 53:30
Greg Scharf
An overview of the ten parami (perfections) with an emphasis on patience
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Loving The Body 25:37
Pascal Auclair
A guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

2017-09-08 Guided meditation: exploring difficult emotions 13:42
Jill Shepherd
Short guided meditation offering some techniques for exploring difficult emotions, including self-compassion
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Instructions: exploring difficult emotions 17:14
Jill Shepherd
Short talk exploring some approaches to working with difficult emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre Awakening our Natural Wisdom

2017-09-08 Dhamma Discussion 1:30:56
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Shwe Oo Min DhammaDayada Meditation Centre :  2017 Vassa

2017-09-08 Morning Instructions 57:47
Jean Esther
Working with thoughts as a sense door.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Freedom and Ease of Being: A Meditation Retreat for Our LGBTIQ Community

Creative Commons License