Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-12-04 The Divine Abodes - Week 2 - Compassion (Karuna) Letting Life In 1:34:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
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Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-04 Compassion is Empty 26:33
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
There are two great proximate causes for compassion: suffering and wisdom. Suffering opens the heart and wisdom lets us see the fragile impermanent nature of all things. Q&A at end of talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-12-04 Guided Compassion Meditation 43:21
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The near enemy of compassion is pity; the far energy is cruelty. But more often the obstacles to true compassion are wanting to fix rather than be with suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: a Meditation and Study Retreat

2012-11-20 Compassion and Metta 56:33
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2012-11-19 Guided Meditation - Mental States and Compassion 31:54
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
17 minute guided meditation on finding peace in the body and opening to states of mind and thinking as support for awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Thanksgiving Insight Retreat

2012-11-17 Compassion 38:58
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
this talk explores the need for compassion and considers what helps and hinders its arising.
Gaia House : November Solitary

2012-11-08 Empathy: The Key that Unlocks the Heart 49:19
James Baraz	Download Listen
The ability to put oneself in someone else's shoes is the doorway to compassion. Once there is compassion then forgiveness, connection and genuine metta naturally follow. This talk includes a teaching from Thai master, Ajahn Maha Boowa, on the power of empathy.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-11-04 Vedana 36:36
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk explores the world of feeling and the Buddha's encouragement to bring compassion and wisdom to our experience of pleasure and pain.
Gaia House : November Solitary

2012-11-03 Applied Compassion 1:17:47
Bhikkhu Bodhi	Download Listen
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

2012-10-30 Introduction to Compassion Meditation 47:05
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Contains a 15 minute introduction to the Brahmavihara of Compassion and a half hour guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Compassion and Lovingkindness Practice 18:07
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-27 NeuroDharma of Love: Inner Strength, including Self Compassion Practice 16:38
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

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

2012-10-15 Trauma and Freedom 66:23
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Using the cloak of mindfulness and compassion to heal trauma and awaken freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Self-Compassion 57:18
Susie Harrington	Download Listen
Neither building ourselves up nor taking ourselves down, self-compassion is the art of being with the truth of our experience with care and kindness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-27 The Courage to Feel 42:44
Spring Washam	Download Listen
How courageous compassion supports our healing process.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Way of the Sacred Feminine

2012-09-20 In Praise of Loving Kindness 53:52
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
This talks explores how the cultivation of qualities like Loving Kindness, Compassion, Generosity can support, nurture and bring about transformation, ease and healing on a personal level, and how, extending beyond the purely personal, these qualities can support us in responding skilfully to the issues of our times
Gaia House : Cultivating Loving Kindness

2012-09-19 Loving Kindness and the Brahma Viharas 54:53
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An introductory overview of how the cultivation of metta relates to the other sublime abidings compassion, appreciative joy, and equanimity.
Gaia House : Cultivating Loving Kindness

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