Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-01-31 Week 4 Metta Meditation Lead 32:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Practice of Recovery

2012-01-29 All Pervasive Metta 21:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-29 All Pervasive Metta - Q&A 37:40
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Colorado Springs Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-01-11 Fear and Lovingkindness 55:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature of fear and how metta is a powerful resource to work with and transform fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-01-10 Befriending the Difficult Person 57:11
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Exploring on the levels of mind-heart-body, including teachings on patience, equanimity, compassion and forgiveness. The talk reflects on befriending the 'difficult' person in metta practice, with the underlying intention of reminding us that we are all in this together; that befriending difficult people can be both workable and transformational and that there are practical tools available to assist us on our journey.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-09 Metta Concentration 58:22
Heather Martin	Download Listen
The skill of dropping more fully into the beautiful experience of these wishes, abiding within them, with deeper restfulness. It is through this kind of experience that pure compassion can arise.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-08 Metta Practice as a Path of Awakening 60:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta practice is a training inclining toward the awakened heart. We explore several aspects of this training in terms of the development of a number of capacities, working through what blocks metta, and the integration of metta, mindfulness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-07 In Gladness and in Safety, Omitting None 56:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A presentation of Metta and Mindfulness as integral aspects of each other, using the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's teaching on kindness, as both teh mandate for practice and an overview of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-02 A Few Metta Stories - and a guided meditation. 29:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-01-02 Metta - Guided Meditation 34:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal and Letting Go

2012-01-02 Breathing Metta 40:20
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2011-12-29 Guided Metta Meditation 22:34
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice D 26:27
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice C 20:28
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & Compassion Practice B 23:07
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-17 Metta & compassion Practice A 24:29
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
A day exploring the practice of metta - lovingkindness & compassion - and discussing how to bring these into every part of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Heart as Wide as the World

2011-12-07 Mindfulness and Metta 61:41
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue to look at how mindfulness can be understood in the larger context of connection with ethics, wisdom, and the awakened heart. Here we explore how mindfulness and metta can be sometimes seen as separate, but how both practices point to a mature integration-loving awareness, mindful caring, the mindful and wise heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-10-09 Metta: Tenderness and Connection 61:11
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The practice of lovingkindness makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows of life. It also reveals a deep sense of connection to all sentient existence that overcomes a painful sense of isolation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-05 The Divine Abodes: Lovingkindness 1:25:21

Tara Brach

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Love is the most basic expression of who we are, and yet it is often obscured by the trance of separation and fear. This talk explores how we habitually armor our hearts, and the training of attention that awakens us to unconditional, all inclusive love. A classic form of the metta (lovingkindness) meditation is part of the talk.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-10-02 Mindfulness, Metta, Mystery 45:22
Myo Lahey	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness and Metta: True Liberation LGBTQQI-SGL

2011-09-25 Guided Metta Meditation 38:43
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-09-18 Calming the Formations 54:21
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Learning to calm agitation is a theme that runs through the teaching of metta and insight meditation.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2011-08-31 Metta for Difficult Person 58:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2011-08-30 Guided Metta Meditation 59:02
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Radiating loving kindness towards a dear friend and neutral person can help us to expand out awareness and open our heart to all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2011-08-22 Working with the Inner Critic 55:47
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the pervasiveness of the judging mind and how to work constructively with it through mindfulness, metta, understanding and inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-08-21 Metta Meditation 32:59
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2011-08-13 Working with the Inner Critic Part 1 50:36
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the origins and negative impacts of the judging mind and how to practically understand and use effective procedures based in mindfulness, metta, and inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-08-10 Dhamma Lesson #5 "Metta For The Military" 14:15
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2011-08-09 Metta Instructions Continued 67:46
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2011-08-08 Metta Instructions 67:47
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Oneself, benefactor, dear friend, neutral person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity

2011-08-01 Metta Practice And Stories 41:43
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2011-07-30 Metta For Benefactor And Self 40:46
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2011-07-22 Bringing Metta into the World 1:15:24
James Baraz	Download Listen
Closing talk with all teachers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-21 Metta and Connection 59:52
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows we are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-21 Metta Instructions: All Beings 51:30
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-20 Metta Instructions: The Difficult Person 55:54
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-19 Metta Instructions: The Neutral Person 50:25
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-18 Whose Love is it Anyway? 57:37
James Baraz	Download Listen
Although metta practice can seem dualistic (me sending love to others) it is really an anatta practice that reveals the selfless nature of reality. The love that connects us isn't owned by anyone. This talk includes two guided meditations: 1) metta towards self and 2) seeing ourselves as part of a lineage of benefactors-the love and caring we receive from others passing through us to those we care about and support.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-17 Metta: Near and Far Enemies 59:27
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta (loving kindness) practice leads us into the exploration of all of the heart's responses to life. Especially good grounds for understanding are in the experience of loving kindness, its near enemy of affection with attachment, and its far enemy of ill will.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-17 Metta: Self and Benefactor 51:01
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-16 Relaxing into Kindness 54:40
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Intensive metta practice can be challenging on many levels - body, heart and mind. One of the most supportive things we can do to deepen the intention of love and kindness is to consciously and deliberately relax; truly relax in mind and body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-07-09 Metta - Love 7:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Brahmavihara - Sublime Abodes : The Illimitables

2011-07-08 Papanca Part Three: The Brahma Viharas 52:50
John Peacock	Download Listen
This talk deals with the last of the areas of our obsessional thinking: views. We also examine the Brahma Viharas as distinct forms of mindfulness that lead to liberation. We look closely, in particular, at metta as the necessary soil out of which grows and blooms the beautiful flower of compassion (karuna).
Gaia House : The Path of Mindfulness

2011-07-07 Lovingkindness (Metta) -- Opening to what is beautiful 59:33
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-07-01 Pittsburgh Retreat Talk Two 22:58
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
Talk from retreat at Pittsburgh Buddhist Center, on Metta and meditation instruction

2011-06-30 Lovingkindness (Metta) - Week 2- Meditation 23:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center
In collection: Guided Meditations of the Divine Abodes - Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekkha)

2011-06-30 Lovingkindness (Metta) Practice - Questions & Discussion 41:15
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-06-23 Guided Meditations of the Divine Abodes - Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekkha) 14:48:56

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with Ajahn Jotipalo, Amma Thanasanti, Gail Iverson, Mark Nunberg, Merra Young, Patrice Koelsch, Rebecca Bradshaw, Santikaro

Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-06-23 Four Aspects of Lovingkindness: Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekkha) 57:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-06-23 Lovingkindness (Metta) - Week 1 - Meditation 23:03
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center
In collection: Guided Meditations of the Divine Abodes - Lovingkindness (Metta), Compassion (Karuna), Appreciative Joy (Mudita), and Equanimity (Upekkha)