Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Love and the Brain 22:45
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 The End of Separation 64:33
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-26 Morning Instructions - Working with Thoughts 45:39
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-26 No Self and the Great Way 61:49
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
This talk explores the fixation of identity, and the isolating limitation of being an "I" and how, when we become less engaged in the constructed, defended and fabricated, the great way of practice opens up. As we align with reality of the three characteristics of existence, we sense a different belonging and the vibrant intimacy of living an embodied life.
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-25 The Reality of Impermanence 62:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-24 Renunciation - The Wisdom Of No 58:27
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice and power of abandoning the unskillful.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-24 Wise Investigation: Dissolving the Trance 1:20:25

Tara Brach

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If we are suffering, it is because we are believing something that is not true and caught in emotional reactivity. A key tool in meditation is investigation--actively inquiring into what is happening inside us. When we investigate with sincere interest and care, the light of our attention untangles difficult emotions and nourishes intimate relationships. As this light is turned toward awareness itself, it reveals the radiance and emptiness of our true nature.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-24 Love, Revolution and Idea of Self 55:45
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
An exploration of how we construct identity, truth of interconnection, and the power of love. What we learn about dharma from the city, wooly mammoths, and the axial age.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-24 Relating to Sense Contact and Feeling 56:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-24 Four Foundations of Mindfulness II- Mindfulness of the Body 60:23
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Using the Satipatthana Sutta as a guide, we explore the first three practices of mindfulness of the body. We point to the great traditional and contemporary importance of mindfulness of the body, and suggest a number of ways to practice in daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-24 Morning Instruction - Body, Mind-states and Q&A 44:55
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-24 Self Judgement, Inner Hardness, and Being Free 58:17
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
A talk on the real possibility of transforming self hate, self loathing and the force of ill-will, by making it a conscious part of your insight meditation practice.
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-23 The Four Great Elements 59:10
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
How intimately and mindfully connected are you too these most basic and universal experiences?... This body in its elemental nature... A composite of the earth, water, Fire and air elements? This talk is an exploration of the Buddha's primary teaching and a guided meditation in conjunction with this teaching.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-23 When We Have No Preferences 39:53
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-10-23 Loving Kindness Meditation 42:55
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Description of the practice of loving-kindness (Metta) meditation. Brief guided meditation, questions and answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-23 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Love 61:12
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Love throws many of us off a little. Some of us would like our path free oftenderness and caring because love involves a part of us that is not logical orrational. Love puts the world together in a way that can't be calculated orreasoned. The mind wants everything organized and direct, nothing cloudy orconfused, but the spiritual journey is intuitive and not mentally derived. Atsome point we must leave the crisp edges and clear surfaces of the mind and moveinto the wonders and mysteries of the heart, and love is the path that does justthat.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-10-23 Dependent Origination et Kamma 58:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-23 Body Wisdom 59:15
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-22 What Are We Doing Here 57:03
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-22 Dharma Rain: Working with Difficult Emotions 56:16
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
RAIN: an acronym for a 4 - step process for using one's particular personal experience as a doorway to connect with the fullness of our awakened humanity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-22 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma - Week 6 60:26

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma

2012-10-22 Spiritual Bypassing 23:01
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
It is possible to use our practice to keep away difficult emotions that we think are "bad" or "wrong" and this causes a split in our way of being in the world. When we practice a meditative approach to our emotions, we begin to wake up all parts of ourselves, and reclaim our humanity and our aliveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)

2012-10-22 L'Esprit Concevoir et les Empêches 53:19
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-22 Clear Understanding and Responding with Love 53:29
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
Every moment of true mindfulness is kind. This talk explores the possibility of cultivating a mind that can be with the reality of life. When we turn to experience with openness, we also become more open to insights, and our confidence in ourselves and our capacity for awakening becomes grounded in life.
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-22 Instructions, and Guided Meditation on Awareness of Breathing, plus Walking Meditation Instructions 38:38
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-21 Who Are We? 51:23
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
How meditation can shift our sense of identity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-21 Bonheur 47:50
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Lausanne and Paris 2012 October

2012-10-21 Empowering the Inner Teacher 43:34
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
The primary role of the outer teacher is to empower the inner one. And in order to let this empowerment in, we need to drop our shields and embrace freedom.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-21 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 3) 62:21
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center : Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-21 All Pervasive Awareness 68:05
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Eight Fold Path in Our World 63:38
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Practice in Our Daily Life 60:54
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group, Sacramento CA
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-21 Opening Talk for Embodying the Awakened Heart Retreat 52:35
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Leela Sarti.
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-20 Listening and Loving 47:49
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
A talk about Mindfulness as respectful looking and loving listening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-20 To Be With Life 41:19
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Much of our daily life is make-believe. To be with the real we have to withdraw from this charade and embrace our actual experience, including the perception of impermanence.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-20 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 2 of 3) 2:39:36
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center : Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-19 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 61:47
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-19 Mindfulness, Identity and Incarnation 60:30
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The beauty and paradox revealed by attention to human incarnation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-19 Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together (Part 1) 1:22:28
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Humans are relational beings -- pack animals, born and raised in families, working and living together. Much of our suffering is people-suffering. We meditate to be free from suffering, yet sometimes a gap arises when interpersonal suffering is being addressed in intrapersonal meditation. We perpetuate the "island universe" of the individual self even as we seek freedom. Insight Dialogue is a fully relational meditation practice based on Buddhist Vipassana Insight meditation and a relational understanding of the Dhamma. The mind is invited to stillness and keen mindfulness even as we remain in dialogue with others. Here we meet the shared human experience that transcends our very real differences in genetics, background, and worldly circumstances.
New York Insight Meditation Center : Insight Dialogue: The Power, Challenges and Joy of Meditating Together

2012-10-18 The Practice of Surrender: Path and Paradox 67:06
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-18 The Practice of Surrender: Path and Paradox:Guest Dharma Talk 27:06
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-18 A Simple Twist of Fate 50:46
James Baraz	Download Listen
Our lives are filled with turning points that can steer us in different directions. To have found the Dharma and be facing in the direction of greater consciousness is extraordinarily good karma that can powerfully fuel and inspire our practice with sincerity and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-10-17 Se sentir inadéquat, être insatisfait 55:26
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2012-10-17 Questions and Answers 61:38
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-17 Question and Response with Tara 1:15:58

Tara Brach

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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-17 Nature of the Mind 59:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem: III 27:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Trauma and Mindfulness: Continuing Class (5-week class series)

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem:II 17:34
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-17 Don't Make Your Mind a Problem 12:45
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-16 The Liberating Embrace Of Anicca/Impermanence 1:18:12
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The only thing that we can know for sure is the constancy of chance. It's the most basic fact of our existence. Realization of the truth of impermanence is a gateway out of feeling the separateness - the suffering of self-centered existence. We begin to understand that we are intimately woven into endlessly changing, reflective web of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge