Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-09-01 Listening to the Sound of Silence, Part B 58:07
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me" "
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-09-01 Listening to the Sound of Silence, Part C 1:27:07
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-09-01 Listening to the Sounds of Silence, Part A 6:53
Robert K. Hall	Download Listen
From the daylong "THE DHARMA, EGONOMICS and the COMMERCE of the SELF: How to Manage Being a "Me" "
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-09-01 Why Would You Sit Like This For A Whole Weekend? 54:09
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2012-09-01 Meditation Instruction 59:00
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Guided meditation instructions on first day of weekend retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering Innate Freedom: Labor Day Meditation Weekend

2012-09-01 Opening Talk for Touching Heaven and Earth - Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 20:13
Yvonne Weier	Download Listen
This talk also includes Max Weier
Gaia House : Touching Heaven and Earth - Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Q&A on Feeling & Metta 22:22
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Guided Meditation on Feeling 12:57
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Look Around: Wake Up to Reality 61:06
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Real time four noble truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-31 Labor Day Retreat: Talk #2 - Seeing Things As Right View 50:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-31 Foundations of Mindfulness Series - Contemplating Feeling 27:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Foundations of Mindfulness Series

2012-08-31 Mindfulness at Work 1:20:12
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : TiE at Innovation Pavilion

2012-08-30 Labor Day! 44:30
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-08-30 What Am I Doing Here and Why Am I Doing It? 56:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
How mindfulness practice works on retreat, the benefits that it produces and helpful attitudes that support intensive retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2012-08-30 Labor Day Retreat: Talk #1 - It's Already Here 62:04
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-30 Being Ordinary 1:11:41
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-30 Instant Karma 31:29
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Absicht, Handlig, Würkig – Üses Handlä prägt üs sälber
Kalyanamitta Basel

2012-08-29 Intimacy with Our Inner Life 1:18:49

Tara Brach

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Jung wrote that our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can establish a healing presence by recognizing and communicating with the parts of our being that we habitually ignore or judge.

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

2012-08-29 Self and Not-Self VII-Self and Not-Self in the context of Global Crisis. 69:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
With the background of the last weeks exploration of our individual practice to see self and open increasingly to not-self, we connect that practice with our responses to global crisis, particularly global climate disruption. We see its roots in part in individualist models of self, and point to the importance of dharma practice in our responses to crisis.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-28 What's Happening Now? 37:31
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-08-28 Cultivating a Path 49:16
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

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

2012-08-26 The First Foundation of Mindfulness on the Body: Practicing with the Four Elements, the 32 Parts of the Body, and the Charnel Ground Reflections 1:27:48
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Due to mechanical complications, the morning session of this daylong was not recorded. Deep regrets-
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-08-26 Mara and the Hindrances 48:25
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-25 Framing and Discussion 66:32
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Cultivating Joy - Guided Meditation 22:52
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Standing and Big Mind - Guided Meditation 24:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 The Relaxation Of Inner Freedom 46:52
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Relaxation within the Vipassana framework
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Weekend

2012-08-25 Intro and Guided Meditation on Four Noble Truths 28:50
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-25 Samatha and Vipassana Retreat 58:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Exploring the two qualities that are essential to develop creative awareness.
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-24 Opening Talk for Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat 46:13
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk also includes Jake Dartington
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-23 Q&A and Guided Meditation 37:45
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Teaching what we need to learn. 54:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-08-23 Working With Trauma 61:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Questions and Answers 66:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore in this integrative sessions, how a "thick" sense of self appears in various ways, and how we open to experience with progressively "thinner" senses of self. We also look at how anxiety and disorientation may arise at each stage, and how to understand what skillful uses of self are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-22 Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves 1:21:27

Tara Brach

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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-08-22 Effortless Effort 60:32
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-21 Gladdening the Heart, Training the Mind 54:39
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
As we do the practice of samatha (tranquility) meditation, it is important not to strive towards any particular experience but rather to see the practice as a training of the mind that leads to well being and happiness here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-21 Insight into Not Self in everyday life. 48:09
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Seeing into Not Self in everyday life experiences.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-08-21 Generosity and Lovingkindness 37:03
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-08-21 Fundamentals of the Dharma: Surrender 2:00
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Surrender is not something we decide to do. It is what is left after we have tried every way to avoid or surmount a problem. Surrendering is releasing your guard and allowing the experience into you without protection or defense, and therefore it is an activity of faith. Mostly we try to adapt our way through a difficulty, changing strategies according to the results, but surrender is not another response to a problem, it's the ending of time, distance, and separation from the problem itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: Fundamentals of the Dharma

2012-08-21 Morning Instructions Day Eight 54:13
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

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

2012-08-20 How Samadhi Supports Insight 62:05
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
In both the development of Samadhi and the turning toward Insight, wisdom develops to help free the heart and mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-20 Morning Instructions Day Seven 57:16
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Using Concentration to See Things as They Are 66:46
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
The Buddha encouraged us to cultivate concentration for the purpose of seeing into the nature of our experience - as impermanent, unreliable, and not-self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat

2012-08-19 Awakening Creative Intelligence 50:00
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Letting go of habitual thinking.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-08-19 Integrity of Ends and Means 54:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center