Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-06-21 Sending and Receiving Compassion 58:38
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2011-06-01 Compassion 56:49
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2011-05-05 Death And Awakening 49:53
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Listen deeply to the resonance within where virtue sows fields of goodness, wisdom and compassion, and Death teaches us to let go. At first, we tremble with fear. But out of that fear, we draw strength. Out of anger – a stillness and forgiveness. Out of greed, we draw generosity and gratitude. And from true vulnerability, we awaken to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-26 Determination 45:58
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk explores the nature and value of a wise, compassionate determination in our life and our practice.
Gaia House : Work Retreat

2011-04-22 Ethics and Compassion 67:45
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the three trainings of ethics, meditation and wisdom and their application in daily life with the help of ethics and compassion.
Gaia House : The Zen Retreat

2011-04-15 Cast Your Votes for Dancing 57:39
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Bringing the light of awareness and compassion to our self views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2011-04-14 Wisdom and Compassion 45:52
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Inherent in mindful awareness are qualities of love and clarity which over time grow into compassion and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2011-04-09 Nuclear Free 25:57
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
We have a nuclear reactor within us and a nuclear accident may be taking place inside right now. It’s urgent for us to understand how to heal and free ourselves from this toxicity, and from every form of violence. Meditate, live wisely, and practice kindness. Begin to reconcile the contamination in our minds with compassion, serenity and joy. What a magnificent offering of peace for our troubled world.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2011-04-02 Mindfulness, Compassion, Liberation 53:00
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Gaia House : Awakening the Heart Through Training the Mind

2011-03-30 Part 2: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion 1:16:07

Tara Brach

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Learning to hold our own lives with a gentle compassion is a key element in all emotional healing and spiritual awakening. This two part series explores the suffering of being at war with ourselves and the pathway to freeing our hearts. Music at end is Libby Roderick, "How Could Anyone?"

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-23 Part 1: The Healing Power of Self-Compassion 1:18:30

Tara Brach

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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

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

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

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

2011-03-07 A Compassionate Response 52:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
True compassion is founded on recognising that we are not separate from others, and expresses itself as a heartfelt responsiveness, wishing to heal sufferings and contribute to the welfare and liberation of all beings.
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-04 Wisdom and Compassion 46:32
Ursula Flückiger	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

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

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

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

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

2011-02-16 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 2 1:16:14

Tara Brach

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Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-10 Practicing With Compassion In The World 52:46
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Going home with practices of metta, compassion and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-09 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 1:23:46

Tara Brach

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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-08 compassion 50:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Compassion is a beautiful quality of the heart that allows us to meet our humanness and all of our struggles and pain with a kind and embracing love.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-01-29 Spaciousness and Contraction 48:30
Alan Lewis	Download Listen
How our practice of connecting with and feeling our own stress strengthens our capacity to contain it. When we can contain it without contracting, we can access creative intelligence and compassion.
Gaia House : Uncertainty