Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-08-22 Why Exchange Sukkha For Dukkha 65:37
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-20 Behind The Mask 1:16:13

Tara Brach

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We each develop and become identified with masks that express a false or narrowed sense of self. Whether it's the helper mask or addict mask, the controller mask or loser mask, the beliefs and emotions creating the mask prevent us from realizing our natural wholeness and beauty. This talk explores how, in the face of inevitable change and loss, we can remember the presence and love that is peering through the mask.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-08-13 Seven Factors Of Enlightenment: Energy And Rapture 58:21
Michele Benzamin Miki	Download Listen
Cutting through strong habit energy and cultivating energy and rapture on the cushion and in your daily life, as well as seeing the roots of courageous collective energy and rapture as a movement for great acts of change in these times.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : People of Color Retreat

2008-08-07 Accepting Experience While Wanting Change 58:33
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
We use methods in mindfulness meditation to develop a number of highly valued qualities of mind including concentration, experiential inquiry, kindness, shared joy, and equanimity. At the same time we maintain from the beginning a basic attitude of radical acceptance; we respect self-acceptance as an element of each of the methods. Wait a minute. Is this coherent? Is it a joke? If we are practicing a method to improve the mind, can we really practice radical acceptance at the same time? Put abstractly it can be made to seem paradoxical. Yet the paradox can be resolved. And more important than conceptual resolution is the fact that in practice we find that the methods are transformative when practiced skillfully in a framework of radical acceptance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Young Adult Retreat

2008-08-05 The Dharma of Global Climate Change 52:52
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2008-07-30 The Family Dharma Of Change 57:48
Betsy Rose	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Family Retreat

2008-06-11 Impermanence And Equanimity 56:48
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
This talk discusses how a deep understanding of change can lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-02-22 The Four Reminders 69:07
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We have the opportunity to make something of this precious life, that has such fortunate conditions that can also quickly change. The seeds we plant have results. Orienting ourselves toward the Dharma can free us from the samsaric loop.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-04 Finding True Refuge 47:04
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
This talk explores what we can look to for refuge amidst as life in a sea of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-05 Resolving To Change And Accepting Who We Are 48:34
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk explains the skillful use of resolve and restraint. It also examines the open-hearted acceptance of who we are and what arises within us.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge