Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-03-03 3. The First Noble Truth of Suffering 12:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-03 Step 2: The End of Delusion 37:33
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-03 Living the Brahma Viharas 58:49
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
A discussion of the Four Divine Abodes: meditative states, thoughts, and actions to be cultivated in Buddhist meditation: Loving-kindness (Metta) Compassion (Karuna) Sympathetic joy, joy with others (Mudita) Equanimity (Upekkha)
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-03 Step 2: Q&A 30:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-03 Lovingkindness 25:22
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-02 Healing into Life and Death 1:18:34

Tara Brach

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Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from physical sickness, we can take refuge in presence and love.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-02 Opening to the Moment 61:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
Open9ing to the moment and being with things as they are is easier said than done. This talk explores what gets in the way and the qualities and attitudes that support opening to the moment including forgiveness, patience, contentment and a sense of humor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-02 2. Self-Mortification 14:35
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-02 Through the Eyes of the Dharma 49:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-01 What Are We Doing Here? 47:21
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
An invitation to explore the areas and the ways that our practice is alive, fresh, engaged - and where and how it isn't
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-01 The Potential of the Conditioned World 52:13
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Each of us is an open-ended process, matrixed with everything else. The very open-endedness of our nature allows for transformation in the direction of happiness, once we understand the lawfulness of things and act on that understanding. The fact that we are matrixed with other beinigs/things means our individual development has positive effects on others, beyond what we can directly observe/know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-01 Forgetting and Remembering 42:26
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-01 1. Indulgence 17:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-02-28 Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media 53:01
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-28 Emptiness and Compassion 61:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-28 Buddhist Studies Course - 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 63:39

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - (2011) 7 Factors of Awakening (Note: an updated course was offered in 2017)

2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-27 Questions and Answers 55:25
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-26 Resting The Weary Heart And Mind 54:54
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
What are the reasons for our hearts and minds not being at rest? How can we bring our hearts and minds into a state of rest and ease?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resting the Weary Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Weekend

2011-02-26 We Live in Illusion and the Appearance of Things 58:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Delusion, one of the three kilesas, is in some ways the fundamental cause of our suffering -- because we don't see clearly the way things truly are. Our experience of ourselves and the world is distorted by our conditioned views and perceptions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-26 Reasonable Devotion (Sat.Talk) 54:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-25 Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment 56:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Purification of Motivation 43:43
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our minds have many mixed motivations, and they can be at play in meditation practice. This talk discusses some of the common "ulterior motives" which can be present, how to recognize them and how to re-frame them to make them into skillful supports-not distractions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Introduction to the class series 10:15
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-24 Step One: Powerlessness 34:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-23 When We are Lost 1:19:30

Tara Brach

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It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also our capacity to recognize our trance and choose presence. This talk explores how the practice of pausing and arriving in the aliveness of our senses opens us to our natural compassion and wisdom, and enables us to experience the great mystery we are part of.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-23 Exploring the Nature of Craving with Wiusdom 62:15
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-23 How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven 56:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We step back to look at how we develop the three meditative path factors separately, and how, as practice deepens, the factors become interwoven, and we move forward a kind of mindful, concentrated, effortless effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-23 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 3) 49:49
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-22 You are Indescribable 39:43
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-02-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Aversion 57:47
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Aversion and desire work together to entrap the mind within its own projections and divide the whole into parts. The opposite of what I desire is feared and visa versa. Because the mind is a single whole, when we pit what we like against what we do not, repetitive aversive and desiring images noisily dance through the mind in opposition to the contentment of the abiding wholeness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-22 Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances 37:22
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-22 Its Empty-Be Empty 46:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-21 The Joy of Wholesome States 61:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
How the practice is a path of real happiness through cultivating wholesome states and being present for them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-21 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 2) 50:45
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-21 Four Levels Of Insight 51:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-20 The Five Aggregates & the Search for Self 61:01
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-20 Guided Meditation: form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form 60:28
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-20 Joy 57:00
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-19 Metta: Tenderness & Connection 62:07
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Metta practice makes the heart more sensitive to the joys and sorrows that sentient beings are subject to. This tenderness becomes the avenue for us to discover our deep connection to all of life and end a sense of isolation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-19 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part1) 47:31
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-19 Questioning Reality (Question and Answer Session 5) 1:28:18
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-19 Generous Cultivation (Sat. Talk) 41:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-19 Ethics, Meditation and Wisdom 43:53
Jake Dartington	Download Listen
Gaia House : Young Person's Retreat - Ethics, Meditative Calm and Wise Understanding

2011-02-18 The Truth in Ordinary Things 54:39
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our lives are the raw material for liberating insight to arise. Even outside of meditation, the three characteristics of conditioned things -- impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self -- are present in all experience. Understanding this directly and continuously, in the context of the Buddha's core teachings, leads to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-18 Contentment Gratitude 27:21
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
02 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2011-02-18 Happiness No Matter What 40:59
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Center

2011-02-18 Not Me, Not Mine as Compassion 56:48
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-18 Honouring The Ceased-(Magha Puja) 58:50
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat