Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-09-17 The Buddhas Last Teachings 66:08
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The story of awakening and how we can find justice, compassion & wisdom where we are...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-09-12 The Freedom of Yes 1:24:10

Tara Brach

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How do we accept ourselves or others when our actions are causing harm? Does acceptance mean passivity? Does it undermine our efforts towards change? This talk responds to these questions with a simple, illuminating and challenging principle about genuine transformation: Acceptance is the prerequisite of true healing and awakening. Only when we've paused to recognize and allow this moment's experience to be fully as it is, can we respond from our intelligence and compassion to prevent future suffering.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-09-05 Trance of the Unreal Other 1:22:49

Tara Brach

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We are conditioned to perceive people as unreal others- two dimensional characters who lack sentience, vulnerability and goodness. This is often most insidious when we filter people through demeaning culturally driven stereotypes. This talk explores the suffering of living in a trance that separates us from others, and how our practices of mindfulness and compassion enable us to experience what Thoreau calls the "miracle" of seeing through another's eyes, if only for a moment.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-08-29 Compassion and Freedom 52:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-27 Creative Engagement and Vipassana 60:42
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Investigating the process of grasping and its opposite, creative engagement. Looking also at how vipassana helps us to develop wise compassion.
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-20 Meeting Life with Kind Presence 45:23
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores how the qualities of Mindfulness & Kindness are essential ingredients for meeting experience with wisdom, clarity & love...that allows us to hold ourselves, and difficult times with greater ease and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-07-28 How Change Happens On This Path 48:53
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
The change from unhappiness and dissatisfaction to happiness and contentment does not come about by trying to get better but through the cultivation of wisdom and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Investigating Life: Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2012-07-28 Compassion, Cultural Sensitivity and Diversity 23:30
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-27 Cultivating Self-Compassion 53:47
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk explores the three components of self-compassion: 1. mindfulness to deal with self-critical thinking; 2. loving kindness, to increase our sense of love for ourselves; 3. and shared humanity, the recognition that we are not alone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness in Education - A Retreat and Training

2012-07-25 Self and Not-Self III-Three Ways of Practicing 64:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review briefly the last two talks and explore three ways of practicing: 1. Investigating self when it appears; 2. Opening to experiences of not-self; and 3. doing "heart practice" like lovingkindness and compassion to balance our being as we do more deeply.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-07-21 Compassion 53:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-07-12 Compassion and Tonglen Practice 37:13
Lama Palden	Download Listen
Lama Palden discusses compassion and the Tonglen practice of sending and receiving. Please note that the actual practice portion of the talk has been removed since it is important for students to receive direct transmission of the teachings from the teacher.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-07-09 Boundless Compassion Human Love 55:16
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2012-07-05 Short Chanting Session and Guided Meditation on Compassion 43:02
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-07-04 The Bodhisattva and the Second American Revolution: Reflections on the Fourth of July 62:58
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore on this July 4th 1. The beauty and power of the vision of the 4th of democracy, equality, compassion, and happiness, 2. the contemporary problems that imperil the realization of this vision; and 3. a contemporary vision of addressing these problems and their inner and outer roots, inspired by the vision of the "new Bodhisattva."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Annual People of Color Retreat: Deepening Your Dharma

2012-07-04 16. Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 35:17
Thanissara	Download Listen
drawing on themes of the 4 brahma viharas - kindness, compassion, joy & equanimity - infused with the divine bodhicitta of Kuan Yin
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Embodied Dharma

2012-06-30 Short Chanting Session (on Metta, Compassion, Joy), Silent Meditation, Short talk 11:41
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
This recording also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House : Lovingkindness and Insight Meditation

2012-06-26 Causes and Conditions for Wisdom and Compassion 47:27
Matthew Daniell	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2012-06-24 Compassion 44:30
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma

2012-06-12 Compassion 64:19
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

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

2012-06-04 Cultivating the Boundless Mind 60:47
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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

2012-05-30 Intimacy with Life - Awakening Love 67:10

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught about four Divine Abodes--dwelling places of the awakened heart mind: lovingkindness, compassion, joy and equanimity. In this four-part series, we will explore the ways our conditioning blocks us from these expressions of inner freedom, and the understandings and practices that enable us to inhabit our full potential.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-29 Compassion Is A Verb 53:16
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A discussion of empathy, compassion and engaged response in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-01 TuePM-Meditation-RAIN-of-Compassion 37:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW Spring Retreat: Intimacy with Life