Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-12-30 Coming home to an easeful breath. 62:00
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years

2009-12-30 Body Wisdom, Body Dharma 50:36
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk explores establishing a wise and kind relationship with our body. This becomes the basis for discovering that the experience of body has much wisdom to reveal in the dharma of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-12-30 Renunciation 43:54
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2009-12-29 From Noise To Stillness 47:01
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The spiritual journey can be understood as moving from the constricting and confining environment of noise to the free expanse of stillness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-12-29 Pilgrimage To The Unfabricated 50:34
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years

2009-12-29 Suffering and the End of Suffering 68:31
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-29 Schwierige Emotionen 48:54
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Gift oder Futter für die Weisheit
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-12-29 Emptiness and Insight Meditation 62:25
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2009-12-28 An Uncontentious Mind 52:40
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-28 Center of the Cyclone 55:25
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Finding peace within the turbulence of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-28 The Uncontentious Mind 52:40
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
To be mindful of our present experience along with our gentle breath, can allow us to free our grasping and ill will, and allow us to feel the conditions that come and go like ocean waves.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years

2009-12-28 Karma - unser Tun wirkt 51:58
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Die Wirkung unseres Denkens, Redens und Handelns auf uns selbst
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2009-12-28 Impermanence - Gateway to Freedom 51:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-28 Motivation 60:00
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Years Retreat

2009-12-27 No Part Left Out 51:31
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years

2009-12-27 Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat 44:19
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Rob Burbea and Catherine McGee
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - New Years Retreat

2009-12-22 Chant - Sharing Of The Blessing 3:01
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-22 Closing Talk - "Practice Here and There - Practice Everywhere" 61:07
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Taking practice out of the intensive retreat and settling into the larger world of our daily lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-22 Face Paint: Mindfulness, Concentration and Wisdom 44:55
John Travis	Download Listen
The talk explores the aspects of practice of collecting the mind, intuitive insight, non-separation of a single taste, and ordinariness, through sharing stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-22 Morning Instructions 42:57
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Review of instructions given in the last three days. In addition, a reflection on recognizing vitaka, vicara, piti, and sukha. When they are being experienced and to what degree with acknowledgment and appreciation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-21 Practicing with Darkness (and Light) at the Winter Solstice 55:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The winter solstice in our culture sometimes is close to busy and even frenzied times, yet in most cultures has been a time of deepening, stillness, and silence, like the earth. We explore four ways to practice with the darkness of the time: 1) Through stopping and stilling our habituated minds; 2) Through opening to the unknown; 3) Trhough being with what is painful or difficult; 4) Through allowing the light and the creative to emerge from darkness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2009-12-21 Putting Down the Burden of Self 52:43
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Part 3 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of what we cling to when there is a sense of self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-21 The Joy and Healing Capacities of Samadhi. 65:55
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Deepened samadhi onto jhana is described as well as the capacity for samadhi to assist in healing trauma.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-21 Morning Instructions 43:37
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-20 Challenges To Concentration 1:11:01
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Benefits of samadhi, challenges to it's cultivation and practical skilful means to overcome those challenges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-20 Shared Values of Freedom & Clarity 29:47
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-20 Morning Instructions 27:24
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-19 Wise Concentration 67:33
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
An overview of the teaching of sila/virtues, samadhi/concentration and panna/wisdom - insight with a detailed emphasis on the practice and fruits of concentration practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-19 Body Scan 25:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-19 Morning Instructions 54:43
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Emphasizing the cultivation of greater samadhi
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-19 Mind The Gap 49:44
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness, Clarity and Freedom

2009-12-18 Opening Talk with refuges and precepts 1:16:25
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) and Upekkha (Equanimity) Retreat

2009-12-18 "I am a Bad Meditator": Seeing through the Illusion of Self 62:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
How mindfulness works with the construct of self - exploring the dynamic between self and not self.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-18 Opening Talk For Stillness, Clarity and Freedon Retreat 50:01
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness, Clarity and Freedom

2009-12-17 The World Was Made to Be Free In: Mindfulness as the Path to Freedom 44:39
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's path to awakening, his encounters with Mara, and the power of Mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-17 Willing to become vulnerable; willing to become part of the family of life 54:55
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2009-12-16 Awakening from the Trance of Separation 1:15:04

Tara Brach

Listen to tracks Show 2 Tracks

This talk explores both our perception and feelings of separation, and the capacity, through a wise attention, to move from judgment and reactivity to the full flowering of love.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2009-12-16 Footsteps of the Buddha: The Highest Happiness is Peace 60:51
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
The Path of Practice seen through prism of the Buddha's Life; updated but similar to talks on Happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Contemplating Peace: A Holy Day Retreat

2009-12-16 Channeling Energy into the Four Exertions 56:06
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2009-12-16 Closing Remarks and Q&A 56:28
Thanissara	Download Listen
Not being frightened of suffering, daily life, working in relationship and with sickness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-16 Touching Earth 7:04
Thanissara	Download Listen
Centering in the midst of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-16 Practicing With Views II 57:24
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The Buddha's teaching on views and beliefs is radical, pointing to how we might investigate our attachments to and grasping after views and come to hold views much more lightly. How do we practice with views? We offer a number of further perspectives, from the Buddha and Nagarjuna, and practices to work with views.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2009-12-15 The Host and the Guest 27:30
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Wisdom surmounts all conditions. All condition merge in the deathless. A contemplation of the 3rd Noble Truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-15 Ten Paramis: Equanimity (2) 46:18
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
There are a number of ways to incline the mind toward the discovery of equanimity. Each perception of equanimity has a training explored in this discourse.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Ten Paramis

2009-12-15 Take Heart 32:22
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Balance within practice. A compassionate response. From is emptiness, emptiness is form. The gift of fearlessness. The way of generosity, kindness and integrity.
Dharmagiri

2009-12-14 The Rub of Life 51:22
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Part 2 of the 3 Characteristics. Exploration of that which by it's nature is unsatisfactory.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-14 The Four Truths 54:33
Thanissara	Download Listen
The Buddha's journey of awakeningspeaks to our lives here and now. Meeting dukka, illuminating nature of desire, a non-grasping mind and cultivation of the way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-14 Mindfulness; The Flood Stopper 42:07
Thanissara	Download Listen
Centrality of mindfulness in the contemplative process. Khandas as self structure. Transformation within the womb of awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-13 If you understand one thing, you understand everything's journey 45:58
Thanissara	Download Listen
Meeting Ajahn Chah, All that arises passes. Patience and finding your own voice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wings of Awakening: Cultivating the Five Spiritual Faculties

2009-12-13 The Judging Mind 47:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community