Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-03-17 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 54:27
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the Body in retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-17 Steps 4 & 5: Searching & Fearless 42:28
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-17 Week 4: Q & A 27:07
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-17 ImpermanenceTsunami 22:16
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-16 Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality 1:22:46

Tara Brach

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Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk explores how our ways of grasping and resisting remove us from the spontaneity and aliveness, the love and wisdom, that is our human potential.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-16 All My Relations -- Kindness as Enlightenment Practice 53:07
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-16 Opening to the Universal 54:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-03-16 Motivated By Feeling 37:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-15 Sama Samadhi: Wise Concentration 51:46
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
What is samadhi? Why is it important for our practice? How do we develop and strengthen this 6th of the 7 Factors of Awakening?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-15 Letting Our Hearts Break 41:36
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-15 Final Reflections and Closing Remarks 43:55
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-14 Compassion and the Awakened Heart 55:31
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-14 'Reflections on Refuge' 51:01
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
What might refuge in Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha mean for us?
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-14 Watching the News Through the Lens of the Dhamma 68:51
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-14 Brahmavihāra: Understanding, translating and embodying the Immeasurables. 1:29:37
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-14 Third Instructions: Attitude, Citta, Emotion and Thought, Practicing with the Wild Heart 59:46
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-13 Wise and Beautiful Effort 50:46
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
How to understand and balance, ease, depth and love, all as expressions of wise effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-13 Loving Kindness at Work - Guided Meditation 32:29
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Discussion/Q&A 30:38
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Walking - Guided Meditation 6:51
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Sitting - Guided Meditation 27:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Introduction 6:55
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Mindfulness at Work

2011-03-13 Forms of Desire and the Hindrances 1:14:25
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-13 Second Instruction: Vedanā, Practice on Attention and Sati 55:46
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-12 A Mindful Way 53:03
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as: training of attention container for transformation, wise discernment way to - the beyond and refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-12 Investigation 57:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is investigation as a factor of awakening? How do we cultivate it, what supports it and how do we apply it to our direct experience in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-12 Impermanence: Surprisingly OK 42:21
Mushim Ikeda	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center

2011-03-12 Natural Contentment 56:28
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Taking in the Good meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Contentment

2011-03-12 Natural Contentment 36:58
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Self-compassion practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Contentment

2011-03-12 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 40:06
Thanissara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-12 First Instructions: Attitude, Posture, Body Awareness 56:04
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight

2011-03-12 A Sphere Of Shared Solitude (Sat. Talk) 52:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-12 Refreshing Center 21:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-11 The Empty Bell 56:52
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Love as a quality of attention. Ethics brings freedom from oppression. Being empty allows authentic resonance.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-11 Exploring Faith 50:40
John Travis	Download Listen
This talk explores faith within the context of the 5 spiritual faculties and also the 3 kinds of faith. Moving stories from the speaker's personal life are shared.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-11 Chanting 5:57
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-11 A Kind Abiding 39:07
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Kindly receiving the unkind. The power of kindness. Wisdom says"I am nothing" compassion says "I am everything"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-10 Buddhism and the 12-Steps, Class 3 (2 of 2) 45:36
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step 3: Turning it Over, Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-10 Buddhism and the 12-Steps, Class 3 15:07
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step Three: Turning it Over, Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-10 Overview of the 7 Factors of Awakening 55:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
The 7 Factors of Awakening are the Buddha’s list of qualities that need to be developed in order to fully awaken. This eight-week series begins with an overview of all 7 Factors followed by a discussion of each individually in greater depth over the coming weeks. Besides exploring them theoretically, James encourages us to take them on as practices as we go through the weeks seeing how we can consciously cultivate them and bring them into our daily lives. The seven factors are: Mindfulness Interest/investigation Energy/effort Joy/rapture Calm/tranquility Concentration Equanimity
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-10 Honoring Our Human Journey 51:33
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a healing container for meeting and transforming our deeper wounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-10 Metta & Self-Love 56:51
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-10 3 Not-self - Recap and Metaphors 19:10
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-10 Without Walls Of The Mind 39:27
Thanissara	Download Listen
Practice and dispassion leading to Nibbana. Methods for opening into the "deathless"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Return to The Deathless 51:03
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Radical reflection. Interdependence. The disappearance of "thing-ness"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1 53:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-09 Trusting Our Secret Beauty 1:20:58

Tara Brach

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When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don't trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt, and the two wings of mindful presence and love that carry us home to our natural wholeness and goodness of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-09 2 Not-self - Impermanence and Suffering 16:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-09 Ice To Water As Dukkha To Peace 33:06
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Working with the four noble truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet