Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2009-01-06 Pull Your Foot Out Of The Stirrup 45:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-06 Themes of meditation 30:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through referencing the parable of the cook (S.47:8), we are encouraged to get to know the mind in order to choose the meditation theme that suits it best. There are a range of themes you can use to counteract hindrances: such as death contemplation, unattractiveness of the body, lovingkindness, Buddha and breathing. Through trial and error, find out what is needed.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2009-01-05 Are You Brave Enough To Be Transformed By Lovingkindness? 59:58
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Lovingkindness is presented as a "subset" of mindfulness: Attention to the third foundation of mindfulness, specifically the presence (or absence) of good will in the mind. Meditation is presented as a technique for letting go of all limiting stories (fixed views) that inhibit us from becoming the fully loving (and tolerant) people we could be.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2009-01-05 Reflections On Tudong 48:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-04 The Heart Of Dharma 49:52
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
The liberating heart of the dharma is revealed when we come to rest, in the realization that what we are looking for has been here all along.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-01-04 The Beauty Of Right Intention 35:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-03 The One Thing You Can Do 49:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-02 Being In The Ocean Of Life 49:31
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Learning to let go asks us to trust in the uncontrollable fluidity of life as a medium which holds us, and in which we can open to our deepest nature, which is indestructible.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year’s Retreat

2009-01-02 Big Mind Meditation 40:07
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2009-01-02 Ready Or Not 62:58
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2009-01-02 Tidying Up 34:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-02 Journey to a Bow 48:22
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk explores the conceit of self-superiority, inferiority and equality. The conceit of self impacts upon our lives - the understanding of it liberates the heart.
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2009-01-01 Dignity and the Qualities of a Ruler 48:56
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2009-01-01 Giving & Receiving-The Seamless Circle Of Generosity 1:11:31
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
An inner wealth of generosity is a powerful medicine. As our heart heals and opens the wholesome energies of giving and receiving grow and flow within us. We begin to live this seemless circle quite naturally as who we are.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2009 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-01-01 Knowing Limitless Freedom 54:58
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
What is left when we let go of the mental activity of objectifying, and solidifying our reality? What happens when we see into the empty nature of conditioned phenomenon?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2009-01-01 Hindrances 42:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2009-01-01 Intimacy and Stillness 41:10
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-31 Stilling The Constructions Of Mind 48:16
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2008-12-31 Beyond Impermanence 59:16
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-30 Generosity 58:31
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
The beautiful gifts of pure presence, acceptance and relinquishing as antidotes to greed, aversion and delusion as a pathway to liberation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2008-12-30 A Taste of Freedom 51:22
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Buddha encourages us to find a taste of freedom in the contemplation of the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. It is a teaching that encourages the deepening of insight in the classroom of our lives.
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-29 Lost In Flight - Heart, Faith 62:15
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2008-12-29 Dukkha 57:37
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-28 Seeing Through The Storyteller 55:52
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
There is a storyteller in our minds that thinks it knows who and what we are suppose to be and do. We stay very busy trying to mold ourselves into that person believing something is wrong with the way we are. Through the practice of sensitive attunement, we rediscover our intrinsic nature as we enter a path of healing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2008-12-28 The Meaning of Refuge 55:25
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-27 Seven Factors Of Awakening 57:49
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Years Retreat

2008-12-27 Opening Talk for Stillness and Insight Retreat 56:46
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Catherine McGee, and Rob Burbea
Gaia House : Stillness and Insight - The New Year's Retreat

2008-12-26 Mudita - Sympathetic, Empathetic, Contagious Joy 66:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring and recognizing the joy that has no 'self' at the center of it... the momentary joy of the pure heart for/with another's happiness, another's success.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-12-24 Renewal In Our Practice And Lives 57:58
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In this time of darkness between Solstice and the New Year, it is a wonderful time for reflection, quiet and renewal - in our practice and in our lives generally. We explore a number of factors and practices that support renewal and post three questions at the end to help open us up to what renewal means for each of us
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-12-19 The Four Domains Of Mindfulness - Part 2 53:46
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Are you looking in the right place and in the right way for the happiness that you are seeking? Mindfulness of feelings: pleasant, unpleasant or neutral feeling tone Mindfulness of the mind: mental factors/the colorations of consciousness Mindfulness of Dhammas: seeing & knowing experience through the doors of the truth/the way of things
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-12-19 Solstice Heart 34:24
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
With the advent of the Winter Solstice - the shortest day of the year - comes the promise that the light will return. We can honour this principle in our practice by turning towards the light that is revealed in our own minds. The goodness and purity of this light can connect us to unconditional peace and love. A talk given at the Ottawa Buddhist Society in 2008.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2008-12-18 James' Son, Adam's, First Dharma Talk 57:34
James Baraz	Download Listen
Reflections on the 3 months Adam has just spent sitting at IMS.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-12-17 The Undefended Heart 1:21:40

Tara Brach

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Our dedication to not pushing anyone--or any part of ourselves--out of our hearts, serves the healing of our world. This talk includes a short guided meditation on opening to our human vulnerability and forgiving another person.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-12-17 Peace Offering 14:54
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Hospice
Sati Saraniya Hermitage : Hospice Talks and Guided Meditations

2008-12-16 Parami Series #10 Equanimity: The Unshakable Heart 53:46
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Finding a balance of mind that can include all aspects of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-12-14 Realizing Freedom in Our Lives 55:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-12-14 Collaborative Talk: Students & Eugene Cash 43:54
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-12-13 Six Places To Rest The Mind 54:24
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
The Buddha gives 6 places for the mind to dwell, 6 protections for our practice: Buddha, Dharma, Sangha, our virtue, our generosity and the devas. This talk explores how we can use them in our everyday lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation

2008-12-13 Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness 52:10
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness

2008-12-12 Constructions And Their Fading 56:18
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
A core part of Dharma practice is bringing to peace our mental construction, the talk discusses this in context of three aspects of the present experience: what is happening, our relationship to what is happening, and the subject who experiences all of this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation

2008-12-12 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness Retreat 69:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Peace and Happiness

2008-12-11 Against The Stream 56:42
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Distraction, "swimming" against our habit of distraction, our practice helps us open to the truth of dukkha, let go of its causes, realize its end and cultivate the the path of liberation, a version of the Four Noble Truths.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation

2008-12-10 Relaxed Attentiveness 1:14:34

Tara Brach

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While the heart of meditation is resting in open awareness, our conditioning to be distracted and reactive can keep us on the wheel of suffering. We awaken from trace by developing skillful ways of paying attention that create the environment for natural presence. This natural awareness, while sometimes hidden, is always here: It is our true home.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-12-10 Practicing With Fear - part III 58:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of four guidelines for practicing with fear, we explore more deeply the nature of fear, including many of the more unconscious ways that we carry fear, as well as the biological basis of fear. We also examine the relationship of fear to a sense of self, and of opening into fearlessness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-12-09 Practice Q and A 44:27
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-12-08 Parami Series 9 Metta; The Heart That Is Inclusive" 56:51
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Breaking down the barriers of separation to live a life recognizing the interconnection of all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-12-07 The Three Centers 41:40
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-12-07 The Retreat Never Ends 35:36
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Going home, we take the understanding of that the Dharma is our lives. We enter through various Dharma Gates, Sangha, Service, Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening

2008-12-07 Karma And The End Of Karma 59:31
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Understanding how karma works gives us clear guidelines to find simple human happiness or the highest happiness of liberation, which is described as the end of karma. The talk also describes how the working of karma depends on the truth of not-self (anatta).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-12-06 Integrating The Three Centers: Wholeness 50:22
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
As we access and begin to integrate the qualities of head, heart and belly (shimmering awareness, warmth and contactfulness and grounded presence), we remember and return to our innate wholeness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening