Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2007-08-17 Coming Home 35:37
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
To come home is to put an end to our dissociation from the world.

2007-08-17 Daily Life - the Ground of Paramita 58:07
Thanissara	Download Listen
this talk also includes Jitindriya
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-16 Introduction to Mindfulness Week 5 1:17:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-08-16 Learning Patience Through Impatience 56:42
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
This talk is an exploration of the qualities and strength of patience. Although a noble quality it is often difficult in the learning. There is also exploration of looking and learning from impatience.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-08-16 On Not Wanting 57:43
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-15 Soul Of The Whole 1:21:25

Tara Brach

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Our incessant inner dialog contracts us into the sense of a small limited self. The practices of presence - noticing and allowing our experience - awakens us from this limiting identity and allows us to realize the loving awareness that is our essence.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-08-15 The Mind and the Way: Chapter 19 A Matter of Life and Death 56:31
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-08-15 Freedom Of The Mind: A Path Towards Healing 58:22
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Five Hindrances and the experience of cultural trauma.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : People of Color Meditation Retreat

2007-08-15 Compassion, Emptiness and Kuan Yin 62:10
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-14 Nibbana - where the World Ends 61:57
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-13 Desire and Aversion 49:27
Ursula Flückiger	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-08-13 Gratitude I 1:29:19
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk describes the quality of gratitude, the blessing of gratitude and how we can cultivate and practice this essential quality on the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-08-13 The Floodstopper 47:57
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-12 Thirty-two Parts of the Body 50:39
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz (Insight Retreat Center)

2007-08-12 Beyond Belief 59:23
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-12 Cultivating the Brahma Viharas In Practice 52:12
Ayya Jitindriya	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-11 Morning Instructions with Q&A 62:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Morning Instructions and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-11 Commentary On The Paramis 61:24
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Encouragement to use the paramis as householders practice. They support the development of liberating insight.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-11 Fulfillment Of Dharma Happiness 58:46
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The happiness of gratitude, generosity, seclusion of mind and wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-11 Archetypel Journey 50:19
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-11 Falling Awake 48:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-10 Masters of Great Compassion 52:27
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Lives and teachings of Asanga, Shantideva and Atisha
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-08-10 Morning Instructions with Q&A 60:48
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Morning Instructions with Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-10 Equanimity Instructions - Day 4 1:15:06
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity Instructions - Day 4
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-10 Understanding Heartfelt Effort 61:43
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Clarifying one’s aspiration and walking the path of dharma relies on the energies of restraint, engagement, initiation and nurturing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-10 Opening Talk for Illuminating the Heart of Awareness 47:52
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness

2007-08-09 Morning Instructions Q&A 64:25
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Morning Instructions Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-09 The Landscape Of Compassion: The Inter-Relationship Of Our Inner And Outer Life 53:55
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Developing the courage to love what is difficult
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-09 Equanimity Instructions - Day Three 1:13:15
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity Instructions - Day Three
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-08 Awakening From The Story Of Self 1:22:23

Tara Brach

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Our life experience is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves and the underlying belief that "something is wrong with me." Meditation allows us to recognize and release the grip of the stories that confine our sense of wholeness, peace and inner freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-08-08 Morning Instructions with Q&A 60:16
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions and Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-08 Equanimity Instructions Day Two 68:51
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity Instructions Day Two
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-08 Understanding The Four Noble Truths 62:49
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
The four noble truths are the essence of the Buddha's liberating wisdom

2007-08-08 Heart 58:58
John Travis	Download Listen
Working with the dark to explore the light.

2007-08-08 The Eight Fold Path 58:27
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
An overview of the Eight Fold Path with emphasis on the ways we practice it on meditation retreats and with a special focus on effort and mindfulness.

2007-08-08 A Holiday At Home - 'knowing' meets 'self' 27:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-07 Morning Instructions / Q&A / Walking Instructions 60:34
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Morning Instructions / Q&A / Walking Instructions

2007-08-07 Equanimity 63:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The balanced, spacious, caring, experienceof resting the mind before it falls into extremes
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-07 Equanimity Instructions Day One 1:13:31
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity Instructions Day One
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Understanding Defilements 61:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Understanding Defilements
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2007-08-06 Morning Instructions / Q&A Monday 8-6-07 60:22
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions / Q&A
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Metta Instructions Forgivemess Day Two 64:00
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions - Forgiveness - Day Two
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-06 Sitting On Your Cushion 50:15
John Travis	Download Listen
Being responsible for our body.

2007-08-05 The Brahma Viharas: Metta 52:40
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-05 Second Morning Instructions with Q&A 61:00
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Relax body, relax mind, recognize present moment
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-05 Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor And Friend 1:13:04
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Metta Instructions, Self, Benefactor and Friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-05 Faith 65:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Faith
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Morning Instructions - First Day 54:43
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions and guided sit
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Further Sitting And Walking Instructions 49:09
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Further guided sitting and walking instructions. Day one 10:00 AM
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Mindfulness: Tranquility, Insight, Understanding 62:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Mindfulness or awareness is the foundation for development of seclusion, liberating insight and peace of mind. The distractions in practice makes the difference.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-04 Compassion 49:13
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-04 Nudging The Spirit 29:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-03 Opening Talk - The Power Of Purification Retreat 44:54
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Opening Talk - The Power of Purification
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Purification: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-03 Rich Beyond Material Wealth - The Seven Treasures Part Two 1:12:34
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-03 Deepening Into Impermanence 44:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-02 Rich Beyond Material Wealth - The Seven Treasures Part One 65:34
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-02 Concentration As A Return To Centre 41:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-08-01 The Art Of Loving 1:29:16

Tara Brach

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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-08-01 The Mind and the Way: Chapter 17 and Reflections on Loss 56:10
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-08-01 Perception 61:30
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
East Bay Insight Meditation Community

2007-08-01 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 4 and the Vow Ceremony 58:09
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the nature of the Bodhisattva, in its archetypal expression, its manifestation in extraordinary and ordinary human exemplars, and in ourselves. We focus on the qualities of wisdom and skillful action especially and end with a short ceremony in which the participants develop their own version of the Bodhisattva, and express some of them publicly.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-08-01 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part Two 58:49
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-08-01 Return To The Mind Itself 22:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : First Vassa Group Retreat

2007-07-31 How Do I Come to Be in Such a Mess? Part One 63:13
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-30 Sacred Journey 57:57
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Initiation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-30 Compassion 64:46
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-07-30 Who Do You Think You Really Are? 62:15
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-29 If It’s In The Way, It Is The Way 49:43
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-07-29 How Do You Want to Be? 62:43
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-28 The Ecology Of Compassion 64:40
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Understanding the terrain of compassion in our inner life in relationship to the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-28 How Do You Want To Live Your Life? 55:00
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Compassion and Understanding

2007-07-27 Impermanence: The Gateway To Freedom 50:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Deepening our understanding of impermanence with implications for our meditation practice and our lives.

2007-07-26 Wisdom And Compassion 51:19
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
An exploration of the power of seeing more deeply as the basis for wisdom and compassion to arise. This is through the understanding of non separation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Family Retreat

2007-07-26 Understanding Insight: Dukkha And Anatta 61:30
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight or the dawning realization of the three common characteristics rests on the continuity of mindful awareness. They offer the understanding of how to live at ease with all conditions and to do well in life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-25 The Mind and the Way: Relationships 54:46
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-25 Practice Dying 46:27
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
The cycles of birth and death in physical life and moment to moment practicing dying during our life as a way to freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Family Retreat

2007-07-25 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 3 56:33
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After an overview of the Bodhisattva path, and of the perfections of vow – intention, patience, and meditations, we look at the perfections of wisdom and skillful action. We end with an experiential exercise designed to a different situation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-24 Courageous Effort 52:01
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
This talk is part of the series on the Satipatthana Sutta on the enlightenment factor of energy – or viriya.

2007-07-24 Taking Practice Home 54:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-23 Resting The Mind Before It Falls Into Extremes 58:55
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Equanimity supports clarity of understanding through a spacious, balanced and calm mind. It leads the way for compassionate action that can be powerfully effective because it is free from aversion and attachment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-23 Liberation 2:18:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-22 Understanding The Defilements 57:31
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Wisdom removes the defilements. Awareness is the foundation for growing wisdom. Defilements are visitors to the mind that cause suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana Retreat

2007-07-22 The Seven Factors of Awakening 40:42
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
A description of the Seven Factors and how they balance each other. The overarching importance of the Factor of Awareness is stressed.
Gaia House : The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-22 Satipatthana 4: The Four Noble Truths 1:27:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-21 Knowing, Awareness And Wisdom 55:12
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Understanding these differences helps deepen our understanding and insights into the nature of this body and mind.

2007-07-21 The Practice as a Whole 36:55
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
The Seven Factors of Awakening are put into the perspective of the practice of Vipassana as a whole.
Gaia House : The Seven Factors of Enlightenment

2007-07-21 Being In The Stream Of Dhamma 35:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Sankhara

2007-07-21 Knowledge of Arising and Passing 2:05:49
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-20 Nibhana 46:31
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The 3rd Nobel Truth the Buddha describes as the heartwood of the path. This talk focuses on the insights and renunciations that liberate the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-07-20 Equanimity 1:24:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-19 The Abundance Of Generosity 42:40
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Opening to the connecting and liberating power of generosity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-07-19 "Calling All Bodhisattvas" 58:39
James Baraz	Download Listen
We are not practicing for ourselves alone. Everyone benefits from the fruits of our practice. This talk explores how to actively and skillfully express our compassion, held with equanimity, in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2007-07-19 The Imperfections of Insight Part 2 1:19:48
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-18 The Mind and the Way: Science of Goodness 55:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Compassion in the Face of Suffering 1:13:52
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2007-07-18 Intimacy, Acceptance And Release 45:25
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
In the path of liberating our hearts we learn to be intimate with all things. This talk focuses upon the power of aversion to create alienation and division and the power of mindfulness to uproot ill will.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation

2007-07-18 Mudita: Practicing Joy And Gratitude 61:01
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Appreciative joy (Mudita) is the third of the divine abidings (Brahma Viharas). When directed to oneself, it enhances the sense of gratefulness. This is an important practice because joy is an integral part of the path to liberation.

2007-07-18 The Path Of The Bodhisattva - part 2 53:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this second session, we first review the path of the Bodhisattva, exploring both the Theravada and Mahayara roots and the qualities (paramis, paramites) developed. We focus on vow – intentions, patience, and meditation, looking at how to make the Bodhisattva training real in our daily lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-07-18 The Imperfections of Insight Part 1 1:36:32
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2007-07-17 The Three Principles Of The Path 39:03
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Cultivating renunciation and letting go, kindness and compassion and insight into the empty nature of things.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Path of Liberation