Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-05-19 Ariyan Practice: Refuge in Vulnerability 34:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ariyan realization is of moving beyond the personal identity. This is a step into vulnerability. Through meditation training we learn to ‘touch the ground’ -purity of intention- where the person can’t go.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz	Download Listen
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01

Tara Brach

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These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-18 Handling the Neurotic: The 5 khandha 66:38
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation reveals latent tendencies that can spring to life in 'neurotic' ways. To handle these skillfully we use calming, metta and inquiry. Through this these patterns cease.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Opening Night Talk 63:44
James Baraz, Debra Chamberlin-Taylor, Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-17 Reprendre le pouvoir 54:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Instructions et méditation guidée 26:17
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-05-17 Balancing the Heart and Mind 29:13
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2016-05-17 Q&A on Faith, on Citta, on Viveka 53:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
-The nature of faith in the Triple Gem to replace personality-view. -The nature of citta (pronounced 'chitta')-heart, mind awareness. -The difference between disengagement and unfeeling disconnection.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 9) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part II 54:37
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-17 Meeting dukkha with primary empathy 48:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Resolving dukkha comes through revealing its pain, while having the means to do so. These means are samadhi and primary empathy-these take us beyond the trap of conceiving ourselves.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Five Recollections: Aging, Sickness, Death, Separation and Kamma 23:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Recollecting that these are the planes we get hit by and stuck in. We see the need to resolve old mamma. Meet it with metta-karuna, welcome the dissonances 'home'.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-16 Dharma and Recovery 57:05
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

2016-05-16 Guided Meditation 27:39
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-16 Getting out of the box=rewilding the mind 60:05
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
'Boxes' are our compartmentalized lives& their drives. Drives activated by tanha(craving). In meeting the edges of our boxes as they arise, meeting with metta-karuna etc. these edges can dissolve.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Goodwill- receiving and forming in the domain of metta 48:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 This Is What Should Be Done - Elements of Lovingkindness 57:18
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Metta
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2016-05-15 8) Realize-Abandon-Experience-Develop, Part I 60:51
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-15 Respect for the Triple Gem 22:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Offering myself to bring forth citta – awareness. This prepared the ground for skillfulness and the willingness to meet hindrances.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Cultivating the Measureless leads to release 55:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The ‘measureless’ domains of goodwill are based on disengagement from ill will, fear and desire. Defense against harm changes to protecting the beautiful heart from confused reactions.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-14 How to Cultivate Wisdom 31:55
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-14 Stroking the Dog 41:27
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Learning to train the mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 Mutual Individuality 20:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Becoming a ‘true individual’ occurs when goodwill and sharing take the lead over ‘personal obsession’ and programs based on fear and desire. ‘Sharing blessings’ is a skillful meditation.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-13 Compassion. 53:29
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk points to the power of compassion to heal what is hurt in our hearts and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-05-13 7 ) Walking Meditation - Why Should We Do It 64:27
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-13 Samadhi-A Pleasant Abiding Here and Now 39:24
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 James with a special visitor: Buddhist Nun Ayya Yeshe 39:53
James Baraz, Ayya Yeshe	Download Listen
Ayya Yeshe has developed the Bodhicitta Foundation to support the empowerment of women and children from the previously ‘untouchable’ caste in Central India. The talk started with this YouTube video at ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCOpZ3kpIJU ) of her work. To learn more about her work, go to the Bodhicitta Foundation at ( http://bodhicitta-vihara.com/ ) Bodhicitta Foundation is a socially engaged charity that helps ex-untouchable Indians – a community that was previously enslaved and forced to do the most demeaning kinds of work for little pay. They also help slum people, offer a women’s job training center, sewing, English computer classes and have a children’s study center. In addition they offer counseling for domestic violence, have a malnourished children’s program and offer basic medical and housing assistance.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Gladdening the Mind 18:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-12 Ecology of the Heart 29:20
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Dhamma Reflection
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 The 3 Refuges as Support for Practice 37:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Conscious Prayer - Finding Refuge in Loving Awareness 66:25
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Prayer is a communing with our enlarged being. This talk examines less conscious forms of prayer, and how we can evolve the power of our prayers by opening into the depth of our longing, and reaching toward our true belonging.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-11 6) Thoughts 57:50
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann

2016-05-11 Guided Meditation on the Four Brahma Vihara 52:13
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 Morning Question and Response 16:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Being with the Syrian Refugees in Greece -- A Presentation by John Namkung 1:14:15
Sylvia Boorstein, Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Sylvia and Donald introduce John Namkung, a practitioner of the Wednesday community at Spirit Rock. John reflects on why he decided to help the refugees. He presents photos and videos of his experiences in the accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
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2016-05-11 Meditation: Space of Awareness 35:22
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Awake awareness includes both the foreground of bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings and sounds, and the background of open, still presence. In this meditation we explore discovering interior space and aliveness, and the continuous space that all existence arises and passes in. Resting as a boundless sea of awareness, we are fully open to the changing waves of experience.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2016 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2016-05-11 Taking Refuge in the Way Things Are. 41:03
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Morning Instructions Day Two
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-11 The Process and Development of Spiritual Authorities [ Indriya ] 57:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The 5 indriya arise from the grounded citta – they lead the meditation process. Without these we unnecessarily re-activate samsaric processes: perfectionism, projection, self-criticism. Get on the right track!
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 Reflection on Citta as Responsive Sentiency 20:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our awareness touches and responds. To set it in line with Dhamma, we use the occasion to bring forth, to offer heart – so that it can open. This is Dhamma practice, Sangha is the human individual quality of our subsequent endeavor.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Guided Meditation on Breathing 20:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Get the body grounded, set the spine, sense the balance. Trace the rhythm of breathing, apply some tuning, let its energy spread through the body. Enjoy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-10 Applying the Practice 44:26
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Evening reflection on how we need to apply the practice differently as our path progresses - and a reminder of how we can get caught by the hindrances, and how to get un-caught.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2016-05-10 Becoming Freedom 48:31
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Andrea Fella gave the fifth talk in a seven-week series on lesser known Buddhist teachings titled "Thus Have I Heard." This talk discusses early teachings by the Buddha contained in the Sutta Nipata, wherein the Buddha addressed suffering and its causes, such as clinging to sense pleasures and views.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Thus Have I Heard

2016-05-10 Tuning the Instrument of the Body 58:58
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Guided Meditation Day 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-10 Refuge in Awareness 45:48
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Morning reflection on developing awareness of changing states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Taking Refuge In What Is True

2016-05-10 Path: Kamma and it’s ending – in body and mind 65:44
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Citta moves through Kamma, not through space-time. It is triggered by ‘old Kamma’ – perceptions, attitudes, personality programs. It keeps recreating these unless there is direct insight – the Kamma that ends Kamma.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind