Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2010-09-19 Recollections of Ajahn Chah, Part 1 3:03:43
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Recollections of Ajahn Chah
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2010-09-18 Householders' Practice of Paramis: Abandoning Craving 63:45
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-18 Working with the Inner Critic, Part 2 15:15
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How to work with, understand and free oneself from the tyranny of the inner critic (judge).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-09-18 Working with the Inner Critic, Part 1 52:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How to work with, understand and free oneself from the tyranny of the inner critic (judge).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-09-18 Metta Chant 3:36
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-17 The Sources Of Happiness 57:52
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
In the Buddha’s teachings, there are five areas of practice that lead to happiness: sense pleasures (for lay people), wholesome actions (or merit), concentration, insight and awakening. Each of these offers a more complete and reliable happiness than the one before it. The talk outlines the ways each of these areas contributes to our happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-17 Kamma: An Opportunity for the Future 56:25
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-17 Chanting Refuges and Five Retreat Precepts 2:25
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-16 How We Hold Ourselves with Others 45:45
James Baraz	Download Listen
The ability to let go of the past and to forgive depends on how we hold ourselves with others. This talk explores how we affect others and how we can move to a greater connection.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2010-09-16 So You Like to Think! 51:06
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
An exploration of this natural function and how we can use it as a support for our meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-09-16 Awareness Is The Path 52:30
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-16 Four Noble Truths 62:37
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-16 An Autobiography in Five Short Chapters 51:28
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk describes the path of awakening from confusion to liberation.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-15 Foundations Of Practice 59:34
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
An exploration of ardor, clean comprehension and mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-15 Be All That You Are 1:20:16

Tara Brach

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We are conditioned to live in stories that obscure the vastness, goodness and mystery of what we are. This talk explores the ways we construct a limited self-identity and the pathways to realizing and living from a fullness of our Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-09-15 Understanding the Defilements 59:55
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-15 Inner and Outer- Part I 61:10
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
A exploration, with several short exercises, of how we form a separate self, and how we open to interdependence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-09-15 States of Mind: Forming and Transforming the World of Experience 53:33
John Teasdale	Download Listen
Worlds of experience within which we dwell as a variety of 'selfs' are discussed in light of Buddhist teachings and contemporary cognitive perspectives. Insight into the suffering and non-self nature of unwholesome mind-states transforms our relationship to those worlds.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-14 Mindful Living 57:27
Sky Dawson	Download Listen
Developing Sila in practice and on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-14 Satipatthana Sutta, Second Foundation: Feelings Molding Character 61:17
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Feelings are the first conditioned reference we offer the moment. Through our feelings we are prepared to turn away, ignore, or grasp the experience at hand. Feelings set up our attitudes, personal story, and character to carry us forward in a predisposed way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-09-14 Awareness 56:15
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-14 Ordinary 46:43
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
An exploration of ordinary experience and ordinary qualities of mind that are the ground for liberation.
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Mindfulness of Mind

2010-09-14 The Judging Mind 51:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Mindfulness and investigation are doorways to understanding the inner critic as a compound of hindrances and self view.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-13 Preparations for Practice on Retreat (Mahasi Sayadaw Preparations) 58:28
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Santa Rosa : Sacramento Insight Meditation

2010-09-13 Freedom & The Way it is: Part 2 65:19
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The gifts in impermanence and emptiness that can bring beauty & happiness...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-09-13 The Buddhas Instructions on Mindfulness 47:04
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An overview of the 'refrain' of the Satipatthana Sutta and how it can inform our practice.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-12 Starting A Long Retreat 54:46
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
In beginning a long retreat, it’s helpful to reflect on the inspirations that underlie our spiritual life and how they shape our aspiration. Our inner life emerges through the simplicity of the retreat environment in contrast to an increasingly complex outside world. By trusting in silence and presence we develop the key skills we need to live wisely in both retreat and daily life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-12 Why Meditate? 57:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2010-09-12 Selfing and Suffering 55:00
John Teasdale	Download Listen
The First and Second Noble Truths on the nature and origins of Dukkha (suffering) are discussed, with a particular focus on identification and attachment to being (or not being) a particular kind of self.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-11 Sept. 11 - Perception 25:57
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Tava Sangha, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-11 Sept. 11 - Perception - Q&A Session 14:36
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Tava Sangha, Colorado Springs, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-11 Mindfulness and its Allies 55:06
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk describes how mindfulness is in an ongoing dialogue with The Seven Factors of Awakening
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-10 Love, Sex, Awakening 37:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Dharma Punx, Denver, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-10 Love, Sex, Awakening - Q&A Session 33:17
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Dharma Punx, Denver, CO
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-10 Resolving Stress 30:05
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
The Indus Experience - TIE Rockies Group
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-10 Resolving Stress - Discussion 39:52
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
The Indus Experience - TIE Rockies Group
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-10 Resolving Stress - Meditation 22:51
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
The Indus Experience - TIE Rockies Group
Shakti Vihara

2010-09-10 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR 47:18
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes John Teasdale and Jenny Wilks
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/MBSR

2010-09-09 Personal and Global Responsibility 46:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
Personal and Global Responsibility
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2010-09-09 The Open Heart that is Wise 54:16
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Working at how the qualities of Wisdom and Compassion enrich our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2010-09-08 Equanimity 1:14:01

Tara Brach

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Cultivating equanimity means awakening our capacity to meet the winds of life with a non-reactive, open, balanced presence. The gift of this presence is that we can see clearly what is happening within and around us, and respond with wisdom, creativity and compassion. This talk looks at our habits of reacting, and the ways we can come home to equinimity in the midst of life's challenges.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-09-08 Sincerity: Hunger for the Truth 41:41
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Sincerity is the hallmark of awakening.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-09-08 The Third Noble Truth - Nibanna 27:14
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2010-09-07 From Science to Art 44:14
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The journey from the assurance of a method to the wonder of inquiry is the path from the mind to the heart.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-09-06 Freedom & The Way it is... 63:55
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How knowing and acknowledging the way things are leads to freedom and a gracious, compassionate heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-09-06 Meditations 1:52:43
Ruth Denison	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Labor Day Weekend

2010-09-05 Sylvia Boorstein & Lin Jensen: Life Beyond Buddhism, Part 1 of 2 3:00:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Lin Jensen is founder and teacher of the Chico Zen Sangha. He also is Senior Buddhist Chaplin to the High Desert State Prison in Susanville. Lin is also a birder, served seven years as sub-regional editor for American Birds magazine, and has contributed articles to Bird Watcher Digest. He is the author of several books on what might be called "natural Zen."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-09-05 Trusting Your Buddha Knowing 59:45
James Baraz	Download Listen
Working with thoughts including the Buddha's methods for dealing with distracting thoughts. How to discern the voice of wisdom from the voices of confusion and fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2010-09-05 There is Only Mystery 45:36
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
In whatever direction we look, the message we receive is wonder.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-09-05 Sylvia Boorstein & Lin Jensen: Life Beyond Buddhism, Part 2 of 2 2:28:16
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center