Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-11-12 The Sacred Art of Listening 1:14:40

Tara Brach

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Just as presence is the heart of meditation, so deep listening is at the center of all conscious, loving relationships. This talk explores how our wants and fears block listening, ways we can deepen our capacity for listening, and the healing that unfolds when we truly feel heard by another.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-11-05 Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real 1:12:55

Tara Brach

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Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love. Quote from Elizabeth Lesser: "My prayer to god every day: Remove the veils so I might see what is really happening here and not be intoxicated by my stories and my fears."

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-10-26 The Portal of Fear (Retreat Talk) 64:08
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Bringing presence to the contraction of fear is a universal part of spiritual awakening. This talk explores two interrelated pathways of opening to and transforming fear.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-10-12 Transforming Fear Into Freedom 61:44
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Through mindfulness and wisdom (understanding) we can transform fear into freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-18 The Contagion of Goodness 51:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
Just like anger and fear are contagious so is goodness. In fact, that is our true nature and there's a place in us that longs to come home to it. We just have to tune into all the goodness around us to remember.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-08-20 Bringing Awareness to Doing 1:19:07

Tara Brach

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One of the core domains of egoic trance is addictive doing - chronic activity driven by fear and wanting that keeps us from realizing a wholeness of Being. This talk looks at how addictive doing keeps us in the map of time, identified as a separate self, always on our way somewhere else. We then explore ways we undo this conditioning by pausing and opening to the liberating dimension of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-13 The Dhamma of Snow 26:04
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
In the grip of painful feelings such as fear, anger, grief, or despair, we are in danger of allowing these to subdue the mind. Discernment and clear awareness help us to see through our pain to the ending of pain – not only for ourselves, but for all beings. We ascend the highest Everest of the spiritual realm. That might seem impossible from where we sit now. But if we trust this process, just like the sudden vanishing of winter snow, we realize a transcendent interior melting of all sorrow.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT) : 2014 Chapin Mill Retreat

2014-08-11 I Give You My Bread 24:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
There is no final cure for the body, but the mind can be freed. No matter how much craving, anger, sorrow, fear or obsessive negative thoughts keep storming the mind, don’t let discouragement become another hindrance. Every new moment is a chance to see these hindrances for what they are with pure awareness itself. Patient, courageous and wise, we are ready to receive the gift of ‘bread’ and to win back the boundaries of our hearts.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-07-23 Practicing with Challenges 3 - Practicing with Difficult Thoughts and Emotions 2 62:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the basic approach of cultivating responsiveness and working with reactivity, looking more at (1) ways of coming back to balance, (2) cultivating mindfulness, and (3) developing other skillful means with challenging thoughts and emotions. Then we explore in more depth how to practice with fear and anxiety.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-07-19 Speaking of Violence 36:47
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
If we can deal with the craziness of the mind, we can help to decrease the craziness and violence of the world. But we have to be so patient and keep faith with the process of of cleaning up our own violence. Even when the mind is hot, there will be some good will that we can touch - if we lean towards that which is kind and gentle - harmless - this can lead us towards fearlessness and acceptance.
Ottawa Buddhist Society