Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-01-15 Lovingkindness, Compassion, and Forgiveness 65:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, we explore how to extend the awakened heart of Metta when there is pain or distress or difficulty. In particular, we examine the practices of compassion and forgiveness, with Dr. King's work and life as a reference point.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2015-01-15 Attitude of Kindness & Great Compassion Ceremony 33:44
Thanissara	Download Listen
Explanation (in brief) of Kuan Yin Great Compassion & Renewal Ceremony - Cultivating kindness in relationship to our experience.
Dharmagiri : Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

2015-01-15 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
Thanissara	Download Listen
Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"
Dharmagiri : Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

2015-01-14 Compassionate Transformation 43:57
Thanissara	Download Listen
Journey through shadow, understanding sankhara - patterning, and the patient and challenging process of compassionate relationship. Mr Mandela's journey into "I love you all"
Dharmagiri : Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

2014-12-31 The Bodhisattva Path: "If you knew me, and truly knew yourself, you would not have killed me." 60:42
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
The bodhisattva path involves a training of our hearts to abandon unskillful states and cultivate qualities of love, compassion, and forgiveness--and envision actions to transform the suffering of others and the world. In the Rwandan genocide and the triumph of freedom and democracy in South Africa we see the suffering that comes from cultivating fear and hatred, and the potential for freedom and peace that results from cultivating forgiveness, compassion, and love. These recent events remind us how much our actions matter, and invite us to become bodhisattvas, committed to the awakening and freedom of all beings.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2014-12-31 Compassionate Approaches to Practice 47:11
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Year's Retreat

2014-12-19 The Heart of Mindfulness: The Four Foundations and The Divine Abodes 63:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk brings together the awakened states of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity into our Four Foundations of Mindfulness practice. Filled with stories, laughter and song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-10 Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1 69:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-06 Méditation guidée : Petite visite de l’équanimité, de la compassion et de la joie 32:34
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : La sagesse incarnée

2014-12-01 Compassion 57:59
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-11-28 A Compassionate Training for Our Times 53:36
Thanissara	Download Listen
Quickening awakening to meet the urgency of our times. Moving from Love and Equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-11-26 Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant, Ceaselessly Responsive 59:53
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Emptiness, Awareness and Compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-19 Awakening Through Change and Loss 1:19:42

Tara Brach

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Our capacity to live and love fully is entirely related to how we open to the truth of impermanence. This talk examines how our ways of trying to control life solidify our perception of being separate and threatened. We then look at the wings of mindful presence and compassion that open us to loss and grief, and reveal the loving awareness that is beyond birth and death.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-11-18 Guided Compassion Meditation 54:50
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk takes the "self" or yogi as the recipient of compassion from a benefactor
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-11 Guided Compassion Practice 59:56
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk gives a basic introduction to the practice of compassion and then includes a guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-11-07 Metta and Compassion in our Vipassana Practice 59:18
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-10-29 Meditation - Compassion Practice - Tonglen 29:41
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2014 IMCW Fall Retreat: Intimacy with Life

2014-10-17 Wisdom and Compassion 61:22
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Wisdom needs compassion, compassion needs wisdom; mindfulness cultivates both.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-17 Five subjects for frequent recollection: what the Buddha encouraged us to think about. 57:29
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The five subjects or themes that the Buddha considered important for frequent recollection are: 1. I am of the nature to age; I have not gone beyond ageing 2. I am of the nature to sicken; I have not gone beyond sickness 3. I am of the nature to die; I have not gone beyond dying 4. All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me 5. I am the owner of my kamma, heir to my kamma, born of my kamma. Whatever kamma I shall do, for good or for ill, of that I will be the heir. To contemplate these themes brings us in direct contact with the truth of things, especially the truth of dukkha, or suffering. Fully understanding these truths allows us to open to the reality of our life, and every life, and deepens our capacity for compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-10-15 Meditation: It IS what you think! 52:42
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Cultivating the habit of a mind that responds with wisdom and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-10-09 Compassion and Not-Self 48:54
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A discussion of the truth of Not-Self and how we can see it in our own direct experience. How this seeing comes out of compassion and supports it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-05 Mind and Emotions 61:35
Dori Langevin	Download Listen
Clearly knowing our mind states and relating with wisdom and compassion opens the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-10-03 Guided Metta: Self Compassion 32:08
Christiane Wolf	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-09-24 Awakening from the Landlocked Self 1:22:22

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught that our suffering arises from forgetting who we are. This talk explores the trance of identifying as Somebody, and the compassionate witnessing that allows us to discover the freedom of our natural being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-31 Bringing Your Practice into the World 61:59
James Baraz	Download Listen
How your practice can unfold as yhou 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