Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2019-07-16 Meditation in Hard Times 3:42:31

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with Diana Clark, Misha Merrill, Nikki Mirghafori, Shaila Catherine, Tony Bernhard

An IMSB series dealing with stress, life transitions, traumas, and tragedies.

Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2020-02-11 The Seven Factors of Awakening 1:24:08

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with Kim Allen, Shaila Catherine

The Seven Factors of Awakening offer an effective framework for cultivating the mind, overcoming the hindrances, and balancing the energetic and calming forces that develop through meditation. When these seven factors are well developed, the mind is ripe for awakening. This series will explore each factor to reveal its importance, function, and role in the process of awakening.

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2013-05-21 Developing Our Practice 9:20:03

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with Anushka Fernandopulle, Arinna Weisman, Ayya Anandabodhi, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Carol Wilson, Jack Kornfield, James Baraz, Joseph Goldstein, Kittisaro, Thanissara

2009-05-04 Sila is a Way to Love 0:00
Trudy Goodman	(Recording not available)
3 Kinds of Sila: How to work with the 5 precepts inwardly, to cultivate self/other, compassion and good will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Yucca Valley Spring Retreat

2018-02-20 Wise Intention 0:00
Chas DiCapua	(Recording not available)
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Winter 2018 retreat

2018-04-24 Goals in Meditation 3:05:54

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with Andrea Fella, Dawn Neal, Kim Allen, Shaila Catherine, Tony Bernhard

We invited several local teachers to share both the personal aims that guide their practice and their understanding of the goals of the Buddhist Path. We asked them the following questions: What is the goal of Buddhist practice? What do you personally hope to achieve through your practice? What is a reasonable way to assess our progress – how can we tell if we are on track? How can we work skillfully with goals in the context of mindfulness-based practices that emphasize present moment awareness? This series will explore both the ultimate and relative goals of Buddhist practice. It will address the benefits and limitations of having goals, and explore some related practice issues: comparing, expectations, craving for attainments, inspiration, and the potential for discouragement. Join us for an illuminating look into some aspects of your practice you may never have considered!

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2018-11-28 Stabilizing our caring capacities, Instructions and Guided Meditation 0:00
Pascal Auclair	(Recording not available)
True North Insight

2019-01-31 The Refinement of Mind Part 2 0:00
James Baraz	(Recording not available)
In this teaching the Buddha speaks of three different qualities that need to be in balance for development of the awakened mind and that there is no right way to do the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2019-02-05 Engaged Buddhism 3:44:38

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with Ayya Santussika, Bill Kostura and Phil Goodwin, Jennifer Dungan, Oren Jay Sofer

Meditation instructions are sometimes misinterpreted to imply that one should disengage from activity and suspend all judgment. Buddhist advice on “letting go” can be misunderstood to suggest that problems in the world can or should be ignored. Yet the Pali canon shows that the Buddha taught practical social and economic remedies, and urged monks to travel so they could benefit the largest number of people. Thích Nhất Hạnh coined the term “engaged Buddhism” to describe efforts to respond to the suffering in his country during the Vietnam war, work he saw as part of meditation and mindfulness practice rather than something apart from it. In this series, some local “engaged Buddhists” will share how they personally apply Buddhist wisdom to engage with the suffering around us, in areas such as social action, prison ministry, and environmentalism.

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2020-01-07 Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths 2:46:38

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with Carla Brennan, Lisa Dale Miller, Shaila Catherine, Toni Bernhard

No one wants to suffer, and yet stress is everywhere in our lives. After the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree, the first thing he talked about was how to find true happiness. He described four wise ways you can work with your mind in the midst of ordinary and meditative experiences, popularly known as the Four Noble Truths. You can (1) comprehend your suffering; (2) abandon its causes; (3) realize that it is possible to end suffering; and (4) follow the path that leads to its end. Practicing this path, you will become free—not by avoiding what is unwanted, but by developing a wise relationship to your mind and all the myriad conditions by which it manufactures stress.

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