Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-12-09 Studying and Practicing with Fear 2 62:38
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We continue the investigation of the nature of fear, and the skillful ways to work with fear, both internally and externally, bringing in further emphasis on compassion, empathy, understanding and learning from those who have faced fear deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-05 Loving Kindness and Compassion 50:02
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Compassion

2015-12-03 The Fierce Heart 56:54
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Stories to awaken the heart of Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : In the Presence of Love: Metta and Qigong Retreat

2015-12-02 "One Who Set Out to Study Fear" 66:18
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the importance, personally and socially, of practicing with fear. We work especially with these tools: (1) mindfulness and the study of fear (What is fear? How does it manifest in the body, emotions, and thinking); (2) heart practices like metta and compassion; and (3) developing wise and skillful responses.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-11-28 The Path in a Finger Snap 63:18
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Cultivating agility in practice. Calming, focusing on change, letting go into emptiness. Welcoming all conditions, kindness and compassion. The balance of letting go and embracing. Opening to the mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2015-11-20 Moral Integrity, Courage, and Peace 30:08
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The real path to peace lies in developing moral integrity. Our spiritual strength depends on purity of heart and action. We learn to identify unwholesome habits that obstruct our well-being and practice courageous compassion to discover the joy of harmlessness. These are the qualities that take us the way of the Noble Ones - to the summit of our human potential.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2015-11-18 Hands and Eyes of Compassion 51:18
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-11-09 Introduction and Guided Compassion Practice 46:29
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk introduces the practice of compassion and offers a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-04 Compass of Our Heart 50:26
Tara Brach	Download Listen
All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, we can discover the deep aspiration that guides and energizes our awakening hearts and minds. This talk explores the movement from egoic intention to liberating intention…the movement from “my will” to “my hearts will."
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-23 This is Suffering, This is Compassion 38:23
Beth Sternlieb	Download Listen
Compassion and wise inner speech as a bridge back to the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-16 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
This talk explores a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience and some effective way to work with them through the powerful tools in our practice of concentration, mindfulness, metta and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-15 Day Two: Guided Metta 25:07
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Compassion for ourselves in our childhood, teenage years, adulthood + aging process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : An Undefended Heart and Mind: A Retreat for the LGBTQI Gender-Queer Community

2015-10-15 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:33
James Baraz	Download Listen
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-13 It's Not Easy Being Me: The Journey to Loving Myself 56:56
La Sarmiento	Download Listen
La shares their journey of acceptance and love through the practices and teachings of self-compassion.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach	Download Listen
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Compassion and the Law 1:27:20
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
A talk for lawyers about the possibilities of the profession and the necessity of developing compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Effective Lawyering: The Meditative Perspective Retreat

2015-10-05 Awakening the Heart - Practicing the "Divine Abodes" 43:40
Donald Rothberg, Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The Divine Abodes of loving-kindness, compassion, joy and equanimity are the places of the awakened heart. Practicing to cultivate these four abodes helps us to access these wonderful and transformative qualities of the open heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-04 Sustained by Sangha 24:24
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
It is through taking action together that we wield power and experience relief, especially as we expand our notion of sangha beyond the usual boundaries, to all faiths, to all people taking action in accordance with our shared values of compassion, justice and peace. And we bring our own quintessential flavor, our Buddhist practice, our confidence in the Dharma and our commitment to face the way things actually are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : A Day of Connection: Sustainable Practice for a Sustainable World

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Relating to Experience with Wisdom 32:16
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment-to-moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-27 Vipassana 101 - Intro to Mindfulness and Vipassana 44:41
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
When we cultivate this kind, curious presence to our moment to moment experience then clarity, joy, wisdom and compassion can arise in the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-23 Contemplations On Compassion 54:58
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Bringing wisdom and compassion to the judging mind 59:30
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Many of us have a tendency to be critical and judgmental of ourselves and others. In meditation, this habit can seem quite strong and can create a lot of suffering. But mindfulness is a wonderful tool to enable us to see these thoughts for what they are, so we can begin to bring wisdom and understanding to them. they then no longer dominate our heart and mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-21 Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis with Empathy and Compassion 51:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 1:11:49

Tara Brach

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If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-06 Bringing Your Practice into the World 59:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
How your practice can unfold as you leave retreat includes seeing it as a path of happiness; value of opening to suffering; learning to listen to the truth inside and expressing your caring as compassionate action.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat