Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-06-08 Chanting; Question and Answer Session on Right View - Causality and Relationship in all Aspects of Experience 1:12:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-08 QiGong Session 34:47
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Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-08 Spiritual Friendship and Deep Attention 58:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The realm of our experience has external and internal aspects - such as society and culture; breath as sensation and breathing as energy; and spiritual friendship and deep/wise attention. In all cases, the skill is to bring the two together.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-07 What do the three refuges mean? 51:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-06-07 Investigation, Disenchantment and Non-Identification 64:20
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
How the process of simple observation of phenomena leads to a cleaner and clearer understanding of reality ultimately the unconditioned reality of Nibbana.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-07 In n Out Dharma 63:19
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Sixteenth Annual Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Being in Presence; QiGong Session 1:15:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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2012-06-07 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Time and Identity: Dhamma Talk on Releasing Stuck Patterns and Vortices; Question and Answer Session 1:27:58
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Daily life scenarios, disturbances in meditation, or fixed life messages, can be reviewed, touched into and released through holistic awareness.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-07 Respecting Space 59:05
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In the balance of embodiment, in the pause between cognition and articulation, between impression and reaction, is the space where true responsiveness can occur. It is here that the Enlightenment Factors arise.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Holy Equanimity 60:06
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-06 Cultivating Compassion 1:15:00

Tara Brach

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We each have the potential to live with a compassionate, open heart. In this talk we explore the conditioning that closes us off to authentic caring, and the ways of deepening our attention that help us live to include widening circles of beings in our heart.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-06-06 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:38
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat

2012-06-06 Discovering The Nature Of The Mind 58:42
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Contemplation of absence/presence condition, arising and passing, opposites, causal development of mental factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-06 Practicing Peacefulness 50:24
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-06 Chanting; Guided Meditation on the Wave of the Beautiful; QiGong Session 1:28:24
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Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Chanting; Learn How to be Stupid and Trust Letting Go 1:17:04
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The development of wisdom is dependent on disengagement - from affliction, from fixing it, from knowing the answer and from letting go of any such activation ( sankhara). In that pure awareness, release can occur- straight through the heart.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Pointers on Practicing Anapanasati 1:14
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Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Right View: Dynamics is (almost) Everything 61:26
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Right view is of the dynamic interdependency of all experience - except Nibbana. When all is relative and changeable, there is the potential for change for the better, and for release.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Faith 57:43
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
This tlk looks at the way that opening to dukka can lead to the arising of faith and confidence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-05 Trust in Awareness 42:40
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-06-05 Great Vow Practice 57:18
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Sixteenth Annual Meditation Retreat for People of Color

2012-06-05 Contemplation Of Postures 57:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Contemplation of standing, sitting, lying down and walking
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-05 Vipassana Instructions 11:39
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Instructions from the 4th day of a ten day retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-05 Chanting; QiGong Session 42:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Guided Meditation on Access to Breathing and Pausing; Question and Answer Session 1:33:08
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Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-05 Surfing the Cosmos: Balance and Primal Sympathy 42:27
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Dhamma is the Natural and Holistic Order. To know it we need to be balanced and attuned to what were experiencing, to meet what arises with sympathy and hold it with equanimity. Mindfulness of breathing is a practice which develops this balance.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 The Art of Letting go... 58:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the path to genuine renunciation & release of that all which doesn't serve our happiness or awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-04 Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions 59:04
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-04 Attitudes In Mindfulness Meditation Do Matter 58:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Awareness of attitudes in meditation both helpful and unhelpful.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-04 Morning Instructions 69:07
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-04 Chanting; Guided Meditation; QiGong Session 1:26:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Cultivating the Boundless Mind 60:47
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Kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity form where sympathetic awareness (anukampa, aka primal sympathy) meets the mind. These are a natural expression of an Awakened heart.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Parami - the Support for Attention 1:40:34
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Attention and intention carry awareness to an object. They can be trained and nourished. The Ten Parami are a collection of skilful ways to do this, a way that leads to the end of kamma.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Effort, Skill And Grace 56:16
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Wise Kind Awakeness 55:24
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-06-03 Morning Instructions 66:12
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-03 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Resonating Positive Sensitivity Through the Body; Dhamma Talk: Meet What Arises 1:28:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through meeting the pattern (not the topic) of what arises, a place and a means for release are established.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Standing Meditation Instructions 12:34
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Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-03 Welcome, the Entry to Dynamics 53:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dynamic as distinct from structure, refers to energetic and empathic processes such as breathing, Qi (body);welcoming and acceptance (heart); and assessment (head). Supported by structure, these processes clear and transform obstructions.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-02 Joy in Self, Community & the World 43:45
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Arinna Weisman and Shahara Godfrey
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-02 Closing Remarks 2:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Loving Kindness - Guided Meditation 17:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Discussion on Embodiment 34:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Embodiment as a Path to Peace and Kindness

2012-06-02 Qualities Of Mindfulness (Sati) 65:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Synonyms, definitions, role of Sati in Abhidhamma, illustrations for Sati.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Additional Meditation Instructions 58:30
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Detailed meditation instructions regarding sitting, walking practice, general activities, instructions and interviews.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Introduction To Mindfulness Retreat, Sitting and Walking 66:08
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-02 Basic Structures of Holistic Awareness 67:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Holistic awareness is the synchronicity of the bodily, heart and conceptual intelligences. To begin with we look into the structural aspects of these three.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-02 Chanting; Guided Meditation; QiGong Session 1:26:00
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-01 Introduction To Vipassana Retreat 1:13:27
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-01 Mindfulness : Time 63:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre