Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-10-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness - Sublime Abodes - Guided Meditation 25:15
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
at the ATS/Denver Dharma Punx
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-12 Opening Talk for The Heart of Mindfulness Retreat 57:19
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Heart of Mindfulness

2012-10-11 Metta (friends/difficult person) 28:48
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Coming Home to Refuges and Precepts 50:38
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Morning Instructions (includes RAIN) 41:08
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-11 Emotional Chaos to Clarity 64:40
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-10-10 Guided Metta; Self, Benefactor, All Beings 25:03
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-10 Refraining From Ten Unwholesome Actions - Ill Will and Wrong View 59:25
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-10 Part 2: Wise Intention: Living in Truth 1:19:16

Tara Brach

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Evolution has conditioned us to identify as an egoic self and to protect that identity. A key strategy is trying to control how others perceive us through pretense and deception. This talk explores the ways we disarm though dedicating ourselves to truthfulness, forgiving our defenses and taking a chance to name and make room for the vulnerability we have been armoring.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-10 The Teachings of Ajahn Chah 55:33
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-10 To Know the 42:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 To know the truth only cease to cherish opinions. 0:00
Sylvia Boorstein	(Recording not available)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-10 Morning Instructions Day 2: Remembering, Futuring 37:43
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Metta for Self 22:37
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:42
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The Buddha offers us the recipe of cultivating a strong and clear concentration, mindfulness and investigation rooted in kindness that allows us to learn to experience the extremes and the subtleties of difficult emotions without getting caught by them. It's as though we learn to see them so clearly that we see through them and see their nature, just like we see through the colors of a rainbow.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-09 Sharing Ideas on Practice 44:40
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-09 Faith 43:22
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-10-09 Reverence and Our Ambivalence in Being Quiet 61:38
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
True North Insight : Freedom Through Understanding

2012-10-09 Guided Meditation: Metta for the "difficult" person 43:15
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-09 Morning Instructions 56:39
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTI&GQ

2012-10-08 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma - Week 4 66:19

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Karma

2012-10-08 Freeing The Mind 64:20
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
With ethics as a foundation and some access to samadhi, we can begin to work with the mental patterns that bind us. We can learn to investigate and handle these forces without being pushed and pulled around by them, and we learn through clear seeing how they come to arise and what lets them cease.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-10-07 Patience 50:31
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
The poet John Ciardi described patience as the art of caring slowly. This talk examines the quality of patience in terms of its essential role in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-07 Wise Investigation 61:35
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
True North Insight : Freedom Through Understanding

2012-10-07 S.O.S. - Sitting on Sundays: Oct 7, 2012 1:28:04
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2012-10-07 Cultivating Qualities of Heart and Mind 60:07
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

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

2012-10-06 The Misconception of Self 42:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Non self is one of the most challenging teachings for many people to understand. This is a radical teaching that offers liberation from the narrative based self-at times the story that imprisons us. What we can see through the separate self, the conditioned self, we may taste the unconditioned.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 7: Further Tools and Guidance for Daily Life Practice of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 58:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 6: Guided Meditation: Review of the Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 13:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 4: Guided Meditation Further Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 5: Further Exploration of the Third Foundation of Mindfulness, with Guided Meditation on Mindfulness of Difficult States at End 1:23:00
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 3: The Third Foundation of Mindfulness 66:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 2: Guided Meditation: Instructions for the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 19:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 1: Review of the Nature of Mindfulness and the First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-10-06 Karma 31:25
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-06 Karma - Q&A 28:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara

2012-10-06 Coming Back to Earth 53:44
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Using mindfulness of body as a way to cultivate samadhi, and provide a firm anchor in the sea of all that life brings.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-10-05 Exploring Grasping At Views 60:03
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
One of the areas of grasping that the Buddha spoke of is that of grasping at views: a cause of both internal and external conflict.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-05 Metta & Reconciliation 27:43
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
As we come into the last chapters of our life, can we balance the ledgers of our hearts to make reconciliation with ourselves, to those we've hurt and to those who have hurt us?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-05 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 66:34
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
This talk also includes Brad Richecouer
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-10-04 Oh,The Places You'll Go 32:46
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Working with hindrances and obstacles in meditation practice, as a gateway towards freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Dharma of Aging

2012-10-04 No Credit, No Blame. 56:40
James Baraz	Download Listen
"In this world no one escapes from blame," said the Buddha. How can we deal with blame from others skillfully without getting crushed by criticism or react to it in a way that causes more suffering for ourselves and other? The key to not being lost in Praise or Blame is non-identification, not taking ownership of your experience. This includes not identifying with your body or mind. We can appreciate the gifts we've been given as well as our shortcomings without taking them personally. This is the natural by-product of understanding anatta, the selfless nature of existence.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-10-03 Évaluer sa pratique 57:35
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2012-10-03 Part 1: Wise Intention: the Compass of our Hearts 67:42

Tara Brach

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One of the most powerful spiritual practices in the world is to reflect on your heart's deepest intention. These two talks look at the way that ego-based intentions perpetuate thoughts, feelings and actions that keep us imprisoned in feeling separate and limited. In contrast, remembering our deeper intentions call us home to the freedom of our true nature.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-10-03 Practice in Daily Life 51:32
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-10-03 The Foundations of Mindfulness-An Overview 62:26
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
What is mindfulness? Why is it important? How does its practice bring us toward freedom? We look generally at mindfulness and then at how we practice mindfulness of 1. the body 2. feeling tone 3. thoughts and emotions (citta) and 4. larger patterns of experience (dhammas).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-10-02 Wise Concentration 66:00
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Taking a look at the active force of samadhi/concentration... the unperturbed, peaceful and lucid state of mind attained by the practice and process of mental concentration.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-10-02 Connecting Lovingly with Yourself and Others 42:06
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-10-02 Guided Metta - Neutral Person 44:09
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Ten minute talk followed by a guided Metta practice - much silence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1