Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-06-10 Love Dissolves Selfing 47:44
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2012-06-10 06 i cinque ostacoli 50:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-10 Who Am I Now? - daylong 2:36:44
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
A daylong on aging for those 55 and older.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-06-10 Morning Puja 58:54
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat

2012-06-10 Closing Session: Guided Meditation on Activations and Mindfulness of Panic and Dread; Chanting 42:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-10 Tethered to Goodness 39:28
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Portland, Oregon
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-10 Tethered to Goodness - Q&A 24:35
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Portland, Oregon
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-10 Path, Vision and Community 52:33
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Boulder, Colorado
Shakti Vihara

2012-06-09 The Nature Of Insight 59:46
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
This talk examines the unfolding of insight and suggests a couple of ways to bring life to practice and practice to life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-09 A Yogi's Job 51:24
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom

2012-06-09 Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation Meditation 61:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Happiness arising due to virtue, concentration, insight knowledge, purification of view, arising due to mindfulness meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-09 05 la pratica di Metta 29:02
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 04 brevi istruzioni sul mangiare e att. quotidiane 11:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 03 Metta Guidata 17:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-09 Tuning your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part D with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 58:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Clifford Saron - Samatha Project conclusion, Barbara Bogatin - Bach's Arioso Cantata and interpretation Sylvia Boorstein discussion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part C with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:51:17
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein leads meditation, discussion Barbara Bogatin talk 2: Interpreting Bach, Courante from Suite 1 Slifford Saron Talk 2: The Shamatha Project ude from Bach Solo Cello Suite # 1, Barbara Bogatin Talk 1: Practice as Balance Mindfulness Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part B with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:20:20
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Clifford Saron Talk 1: Holding the Space of the Brain
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part A with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:30:08
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein's Introduction, Prelude from Bach Solo Cello Suite #1, Barbara Bogatin talk 1: Practice as Balanced Mindfulness, Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Chanting; Guided Meditation on Mortality; Dhamma Talk: Include it All, Even Separation 1:27:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness of the separate but shared experience of karmic patterning brings primal sympathy, and an ability to forgive and bless each other.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Chanting; QiGong Session 37:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - the Process 51:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Breathing works through body, mental (heart) activation and awareness. With the fullness of settling (samatha), insight releases all aspects of clinging.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Reconciliation to Those You've Hurt 28:39
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-06-08 Developing Observational Skills 61:19
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Observing and describing the structures of experience in terms of time, location, characteristics, intensity, continuity, etc.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-08 02 introduzione pratica Mahasi Sila 51:23
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-08 01 intro pratica Mahasi Sila 51:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
Associazione Pian dei Ciliegi : Bhante Bodhidhamma ritiro vipassana giugno 2012

2012-06-08 Morning Instructions and Q&A 62:11
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 2 – Liberation of Mind and Heart: Insight Meditation Retreat

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
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

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
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Chanting; Learn How to be Stupid and Trust Letting Go 1:17:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 Right View: Dynamics is (almost) Everything 61:26
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
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