Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2013-09-30 Faith: Obstacles and Supports 56:07
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
We confront many obstacles in practice—our karmic conditioning, cultural conditioning, and resistance to the realities of anicca, dukkha, anatta. In order to surmount these obstacles, anyone who wishes to progress along the path, must act on faith and the factors that support that.
Barre Center for Buddhist Studies : Integrated Study & Practice Program Week 1 - 13/14ISPP1

2013-09-30 Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness - Week 3 1:28:42

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness

2013-09-30 Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness - Week 5 1:30:20

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness

2013-09-30 Forgiveness Practice 59:35
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Forgiveness practice is a process of letting go of the emotion of feeling being hurt or wounded
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-29 Metta Meditation #1 41:10
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-29 The Wisdom of Metta 57:24
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-29 Still Flowing Water - part 1 59:38
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-09-29 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness - Part 4 - Taking the practice home 52:32
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-29 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness - Part 3 - Abiding and contemplating within the mind 1:13:49
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-29 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness - Part 2 - The language within the satipatthana sutta 37:53
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-29 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness - Part 1 - Introduction of mindfulness of mind 1:19:29
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-29 Contentment with Voidness 39:14
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk explores the concepts of self and not-self, and how we conceive of a self by clinging to sensory experiences. How do you construct the sense of being a someone, and the notion that you possess something? The process of selfing is addressed as a form of thought. We can intentionally investigate how the identification forms, what it depends upon, and liberate the mind from it's hold. Restless thinking often fuels self concepts with thoughts about me, what I desire, or the projects I am planning. The formation of identity is seductive, and even jhana states and meditative attainments can become the basis for clinging if the meditator is not watchful. As we awaken to the empty nature of mind, we might ask: will nothing be enough? Do you experience in seeing, only seeing; in hearing, only the hearing; in sensing, only sensing; in cognizing, only the cognizing? Or does the habit of conceiving of a self in experience complicate perception and cause discontent with the basic truth of emptiness?
Insight Meditation Center of the Mid-Peninsula

2013-09-28 Cravings and its Manisfestations 48:36
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk offers reflections on the nature of craving bot individually and socially.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-28 Compassion, Equanimity and the Joy of Simply Being 62:29
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : Awakening Joy Retreat

2013-09-28 Right Views in Practice 57:25
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-28 Morning Questions and Answers 15:37
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The difference between equanimity and acceptance; the application of wise action and choice-less awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-27 Faith and Power 46:31
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Women awakening the Feminine Power
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Power of Presence: A Women's Meditation Retreat

2013-09-27 Equinimity 63:31
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Equanimity is a mental quality of the heart and mind that can be cultivated in order to gain a balanced view as regards to mental states and beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-27 Seeing Who You Really Are Beyond the Comparing Mind 63:55
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : Awakening Joy Retreat

2013-09-27 Preparation for Practice (Opening Talk) 35:01
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes, Awareness with Wisdom

2013-09-27 Through The Looking Glass-The Reality of No-Self 59:24
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Through the looking-glass of the Dharma – looking in the mirror at myself, looking at myself looking in the mirror at myself…seeing the truth of ‘self’ – looking at myself in the mirror. Only by training oneself again and again in sensing, seeing and knowing the presently arisen thoughts, sense door experiences, feelings, mind states and perceptions as mere impersonal processes, can the power of deeply-rooted egocentric thoughts, habits and self-centered inclinations be loosened and relinquished. It’s through the actual direct experiential confrontation with the fact of ‘impersonality’ that we come to know ‘not-self’…’no-self’. And then for a moment or two, it’s not all about ME. For a moment the heart/the mind is free.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-09-27 Guided Metta Practice - Self, Friend and Benefactor 47:07
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-27 The Judging Mind 51:44
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-26 Dukkha Along With the Three Poisons: Greed, Aversion and Delusion 60:56
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2013-09-26 Awareness Of Awareness 59:58
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
In doing mindfulness practice we often neglect to observe mindfulness itself. We can lean a lot about our minds by watching the coming and going of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-26 Opening to Suffering as a Path to Happiness 60:31
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : Awakening Joy Retreat

2013-09-26 Not-Self 62:59
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-25 Part 2 - Entering the Wilderness 1:13:50

Tara Brach

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On all spiritual paths, we journey into the inner wilderness to discover the nature of nature - the truth of who we are. The entry is through bringing a kind and full presence to the life of our bodies. These two talks explore the conditioning that leads us to dissociation, and the blessings of full aliveness, open heartedness and wisdom that arise when we come home to embodied presence.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-09-25 The Power of Intention 61:27
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Angela Center) : Awakening Joy Retreat

2013-09-25 The Anatomy of Ignorance 1 - An Overview 57:45
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine the centrality of ignorance as a root of suffering and three main inter-related forms of ignorance - (1) Personal and psychological (2) Social and (3) Universal
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-09-25 Ardent, Clearly Knowing and Mindful 65:14
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-24 Women's Wisdom/Story of Inanna 45:19
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Recognizing the innate wisdom of women. The story of Inanna's Descent reminds us of the possibility of bringing compassionate presence to all the cycles of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Power of Presence: A Women's Meditation Retreat

2013-09-24 Faith (Saddha) and Determination: Allies Of Mindfulness 63:22
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-24 Cultivating Harmlessness 39:49
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2013-09-24 Mindful Yoga - Day 1 1:40:09
Anne Cushman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Power of Presence: A Women's Meditation Retreat

2013-09-24 Swimming Against the Tide 61:35
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-23 Metta First Expression In The World 58:38
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The "back-story" to Buddha's teaching metta (goodwill)to a community of monks. A chanting (in English) of the Buddha's instructions. Discussion of objections to metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-23 Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness - Week 2 59:38

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Dukkha - Unsatisfactoriness

2013-09-23 Metta Practice: Working with difficulty 58:39
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-23 The Broader Context of Mindfulness 57:25
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Mindfulness is so much more that attention. Supporting wholesome qualities like patience and equanimity, Right Mindfulness specifically develops wise action in our lives and in the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2013-09-23 Review Of Meditation Instructions 58:42
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
A comprehensive review of two weeks of progressive insight meditation instructions. A reminder of the various techniques which can be used to establish presence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-23 Four Distortions of Perception 60:51
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-22 The Five Aggregates Are Not Self 57:24
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This talk explores the five aggregates as a way to understand the Buddha's teaching on anatta or not-self. This insight helps us gain a small glimpse into the mystery of death.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-22 The Integrity of Buddha Knowing Dhamma 58:01
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2013-09-22 Mindfulness and Innovation: Awareness of Thought 9:29
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Dealing with criticism and staying open to creative ideas. Avoiding the traps that shut down innovation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-22 Mindfulness and Innovation 10:46
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Intro to daylong on mindfulness and innovation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-09-22 Opening Talk 51:58
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Chris Cullen and John Peacock
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: the Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2013-09-21 Rubbing Up Against Dukkha 55:43
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk is about the three types of dukkha and how we might realize them on the cushion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-21 Talk at Almsgiving Ceremony 19:16
Ayya Tathaloka	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Mindfulness Care Center)

2013-09-21 Choice-less/Open Awareness 60:51
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The practice of choice-less awareness allows us to expand our awareness whenever the mind is over active or restless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1