Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2017-01-07 14 Meditation: Metta for Benefactor 27:06
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 13 Instructions: Metta meditation 9:29
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
An overview of how metta works with insight practice, and how to practice it for the category known as the benefactor
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 Closing Talk 68:15
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-07 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 3 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:33
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-07 12 Meditation: Mindfulness of Mind 28:13
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Starting with mindfulness of breathing, opening to physical sensations, sounds, thoughts, and emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-07 11 Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind 13:34
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Bringing awareness to mental activity, and ways of reducing identification with thoughts
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 You Are What You Are Looking For (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 64:02
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-06 10 Talk: The Five Hindrances part 2 43:03
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
The Five Hindrances and some techniques for working with difficult emotions
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 Acting from the courageous heart. 62:55
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Reflections on inner and outer activism: responding to greed, hatred, and delusion in the world from a place of courageous compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-06 Bodhichitta 49:53
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 09 Instructions: Mindfulness of Feeling-tone (Vedana) 9:41
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Learning how to recognise pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tone at the six sense doors, and guidance for exploring this in pairs, naming pleasant and unpleasant feeling-tone out loud
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 5 Elements - Guided 42:57
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 Day 6 Meditation Instructions - Anatta Way of Looking (Not-Self) 57:22
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-06 End of Retreat Reflection 15:40
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-06 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 2 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 38:36
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-06 08 Meditation: Mindfulness of Hearing 25:18
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Opening to sound as a meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 07 Instructions: Mental Noting and Mindfulness of Hearing 12:45
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Different approaches to mindfulness, including the use of mental noting and using sound as the meditation object
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-06 Morning Reflection: 47:07
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
4 Dimensions of Mind-Cultivation (bhavanā) \| Attention and Mindfulness: Stages
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 What Channel Are You Tuned To? 50:52
James Baraz	Download Listen
(Note: This talk has some occasional sound distortion but it's worth it.) As the Buddha said, "We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world." Our minds can go to the the greatest places of fear, anxiety and ill will or understanding, compassion and peace. When we're lost in confusion we have in us the capacity to remember the goodness and wisdom that our hearts long to connect with. This talk is about remembering that possibility and cultivating access to that Buddha right inside, especially when the outside world is giving us very different messages.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2017-01-05 Hatred Never Ceases Through Hatred 33:18
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-05 Desperate Consumerism (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 58:26
Heather Martin	Download Listen
There are two minds
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-05 06 Talk: Three Universal Characteristics and the Five Hindrances 52:00
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
The purpose of insight as seeing clearly into the three universal characteristics of anicca - impermanence, dukkha - unsatisfactoriness, and anatta - not-self, and how the five hindrances of sensual desire, ill will or aversion, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and sceptical doubt get in the way of clear seeing
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Creativity of perception 61:18
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
We are an open system, nothing we do is inconsequential - including the ways we consciously or unconsciously conceive of, and perceive experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Empty of Inherent Existence 57:01
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Practicing Metta with Sensations 42:17
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
Extending the practice of good will which is usually offered to all living beings to all phenomena of living experience
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Guided Metta meditation. 45:20
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 05 Instructions: Refining mindfulness of the body 8:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Instructions for paying closer attention to physical sensations in the body, and guidance on meditating in pairs, naming physical sensations out loud
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Day 5 Meditation Instructions - Dukkha Way of Looking (Unsatisfactoriness) 55:46
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-05 Resting the Monkeymind 23:43
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-05 Instructions and Sitting Meditation Day 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 39:46
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-05 04 Meditation: Mindfulness of breathing in two ways 28:33
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Two ways of working with mindfulness of the breath: to settle the mind and/or refine awareness
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 03 Instructions: Mindfulness of breathing 13:59
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Some definitions of mindfulness, and two ways of working with mindfulness of breathing: for calm and concentration, or to refine mindfulness and clarity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-05 Morning Reflection 49:14
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-05 Staying Present 43:48
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 02 Instructions: Brief overview of insight practice 3:58
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
A very brief introduction to the practice and purpose of insight meditation
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Opening Night Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 1:12:54
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2017-01-04 01 Talk: Retreat opening - refuges and precepts, metta 28:32
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Cultivating supports for the retreat container: taking the refuges and precepts, and developing an attitude of kind curiosity
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : New Year, New Beginnings

2017-01-04 Returning to Simplicity 38:48
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Persistence: The Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith 32:49
George Mumford	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Refuge in Truth, Love and Awareness 1:12:05

Tara Brach

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The three archetypal refuges of truth, love and awareness are interweaving pathways home found in most spiritual traditions. This talk looks at our habitual pursuit of substitutes to feel happy, and reflects on how we awaken through each true refuge. The talk ends with a living ritual anyone can participate in that helps us remember these refuges as we move through our lives.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-01-04 Grasping and Identification (upādāna) 69:59
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Where the heart gets stuck. From the metaphor to its 4 specific applications.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 New Year's Resolutions: Progress not Perfection 1:23:14

Shelly Graf

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2017-01-04 Being Appropriate & Setting Intention 42:23
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Acceptance 51:12
Zohar Lavie	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 The Limits of Concepts -the complete class 1:27:39
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2017-01-04 Guided Meditation On Foregivness 40:14
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2017-01-04 Day 4 Meditation Instructions - Anicca Way of Looking ( Impermanence ) 51:20
Nathan Glyde	Download Listen
SanghaSeva : Somnath Silent Retreat - Anandwan

2017-01-04 Does Real Change of Mind Happen? How? (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 2:04:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-01-04 Limits of Mind and the Limitless 28:54
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2017-01-04 Morning instructions and reflections. 51:49
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Deepening and opening to investigate Citta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat