Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-08-19 Practicing the Middle Way 65:27
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the balance of active and receptive effort and letting go and other expressions of the middle way--as a general principle in concentration and insight practice in everyday action and in accessing the depths of our being.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-19 Maranasati - Contemplation on Dying, Death, and Impermanence 29:30
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-18 A Life of Practice 58:37
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Storying, practicing and realizing the Dharma, erasing the line between retreat and everyday life practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-18 Go For It 33:02
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-08-18 Continua of Practice: Blame to Accountability 59:12
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
There are three central reasons we get lost in our spiritual journey despite the rigor with which we practice and the sincerity of our purpose. The first is that we do not know the direction the journey takes and we get lost in the sideshows and entertainment of the process. The second is we attempt to move forward using motivations lurking in the shadows of our unconscious. The third reason we easily go astray is because our stated objective and our dharma intention are at cross-purposes.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society : Continua of Practice Series
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2015-08-18 Devotion 37:10
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) Retreat, Chapin Mill, Batavia, N.Y.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2015-08-18 1st Foundation of Mindfulness - Body 43:53
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-18 Metta #1 - Self 36:53
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-17 Learning from Retreats 43:58
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-17 Ignorance and Delusion 28:12
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Shaila Catherine discusses how ignorance (sometimes referred to as delusion) is the root of all unwholesome activities. Ignorance is present any time that we fail to see the three characteristics of experience: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and non-self. The wisdom that develops through insight meditation practice can overcome and uproot even deeply conditioned ignorance. Wisdom helps us to understand suffering and the cause of suffering, and awaken compassion for ourselves and others who suffer due to ignorance.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-08-17 Concentration and the Path of Practice 56:33
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Concentration is an important part of any meditation practice, but not an end in itself. We can use the steady attentive mind to turn to the nature of reality, revealing the essential truths that can free us from confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-17 Take Your Medicine 39:21
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) Retreat
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2015-08-17 Buddhist Studies Course - Lovingkindness - Week 1 1:32:46

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Practices of Lovingkindness and Compassion

2015-08-16 Concentration in the Service of Liberation 61:29
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-16 Sanctity Deep Within Us: Guided Metta Meditation: 30:00
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Satipanna Insight Meditation Toronto (SIMT) Retreat
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2015-08-16 A Good Day to Die - Afternoon Session 25:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Contemplating death as a meditation practice and inquiring together in community encourages us to be more real, clearer about our priorities, and more courageous.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-16 A Good Day to Die - Morning Session 57:37
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Contemplating death as a meditation practice and inquiring together in community encourages us to be more real, clearer about our priorities and more courageous.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-15 The Interplay of Stillness and Movement in Samadhi 56:25
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Developing samma samadhi is in part becoming mindful of the many dimensions of movement and stillness as they interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-15 The Dharma Understanding of Dana and Q&A 62:15
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-15 Unsurpassed Treasure 26:23
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Buddha is our unexcelled guide on the journey of a lifetime – to the end of suffering. We look within and enter the silence of the heart, leaving behind our ideas, fears, attachments, and identities to discover the treasures of pure presence – an unsurpassed happiness and freedom.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2015-08-15 Q&A 39:51
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Q&A with all four teachers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-15 Taking The Practice Home 63:28
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Comments on coming out of retreat and bring awareness to every day life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-14 The Pleasure of Samadhi 64:12
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The wise use of pleasure in Buddhism and meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-14 Suffering and the End of Suffering 61:36
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Understanding the path from suffering to the release of greed, anger and delusion through the insights of the Four Nobel Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-14 The Progress Of Insight - Part 1 1:13:59
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
What are the "insights" which Insight Meditation cultivates? This talk, first of three on "The Progress Of Insight" teachings, explains what the practice discovers, and what needs to be in place for these discoveries to be possible. Review of the first three insights.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-08-14 Step 8: A List of Unfinished Business 54:08
Walt Opie	Download Listen
Dharma and Recovery with Walt Opie August 14th, 2015
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-13 Factors of Awakening 58:31
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The seven factors of awakening develop and strengthen naturally as we practice, but knowing this map helps us incline towards them. This talk focuses on developing them in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-13 "Exploring the 3rd Through 5th Factors of the Noble 8 Fold Path: Wise Speech, Wise Action and Wise Lively Hood" 59:10
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Tonight, at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, I'll be continuing the series on the Noble Eightfold Path. Last week I spoke about the first two path factors, wise view and wise intention. We'll continue this Dharma by exploring the 3rd through 5th factors, wise speech, wise action and wise lively hood. This section of the path is the cultivation of virtuous harmony and is seen as a purification of our body, speech and mind. I'll be relating this to how we interact and communicate with others. We'll do a lot of experiential practice this evening to strengthen our ability to act from a place of wisdom, connection, and harmony. I hope you'll join us!
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-08-13 The Ecology Of Compassion 67:09
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The inter-relationship between our inner and outer self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5) 1:27:57
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-13 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 53:54
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Connecting with the slightly annoying person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) 1:24:17
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 57:05
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-12 Mindfulness Of Mind 60:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Using the Buddha's map of the mind to understand the essential freedom - here and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-12 Radical Acceptance Revisited 1:15:27

Tara Brach

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One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can’ t feel love and connection with our world. This talk looks at the genesis of the “Trance of Unworthiness” and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness can dissolve the trance and reveal the loving awareness that is our essence Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) 1:35:33
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) 46:13
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Liberation is the Whole of the Dharma 58:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Liberation is the Whole of the Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) 54:27
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions 1:19:37
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-11 Samadhi as a Practice and as Result 60:38
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
There is wisdom in exploring concentration practice as a skilled means which one is intentionally developing. And, there is wisdom in exploring concentration as a phenomenon of a contented mind. This is the distinction of smatha or samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-11 A Bubble In The Stream 56:39
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
What are the three universal characteristics of experience and how do we see them in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-11 You Are The Earth 25:15
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-08-11 The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 2) 65:12
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-11 The Love and Demands of the Imaginal (Part 1) 62:18
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-11 Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (3) 69:44
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-10 Soulmaking (Part 2) 1:13:29
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-10 Faith 63:03
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Faith - in our potential for transformation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-10 Soulmaking (Part 1) 1:15:46
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-10 Opening, Tuning, and Relating to the Imaginal: Instructions (2) 1:15:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)