Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-08-31 Big Sky Meditation With Bells 41:03
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-30 The Root of the Root of Yourself 45:37
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-08-30 Jhana Skills with Q&A #2 16:31
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-30 Jhana Skills with Q&A #1 1:18:55
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-30 Skills Of Meditation And The Five Hindrances 58:30
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Labor Day Weekend

2008-08-30 Seeing Through The Self Illusion 61:51
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Opening to our experience moment-to-moment brightens our awareness, illuminating the difference between our direct experience and the virtual version of ourselves that plays through our minds.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-29 Opening Talk 54:12
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Labor Day Weekend

2008-08-29 Eighth Talk from the Teaching of Totality 32:30
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
The second half of the daily recordings from this retreat has been removed to protect the privacy of the retreatants, due to the sometimes personal nature of their conversations with Reb.
Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-28 Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 4: Using Our Intelligence 53:55
James Baraz	Download Listen
The chapter we'll be exploring is Awareness, what Pema Chodron calls Using Our Intelligence. It has also been translated as Carefulness. The theme is how we can use wise attention to prevent us from getting caught in afflictive emotions (kilesas or kleshas). Even when we know better we may still find ourselves going down a road of action we will later regret. This chapter is how as bodhisattvas we deepen our commitment to refrain from unskillful action.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-08-28 What Kind Of Effort? 51:31
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Exploring the place of effort in practice and how we need different kinds of effort at different stages; includes stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2008-08-28 Seventh Talk from the Teaching of Totality 47:04
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
The second half of the daily recordings from this retreat has been removed to protect the privacy of the retreatants, due to the sometimes personal nature of their conversations with Reb.
Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-27 Listening To Our Life 1:21:28

Tara Brach

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Listening in a full and open way allows us to come home to our natural state--awake, vast awareness. In an immediate way, a listening attention dissolves the tangles of fear and craving that obscure our wholeness. This class includes both a talk and guided meditations on deep listening to our inner experience and with others.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-08-27 Life as an Unfolding Process Week 2 54:50
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-08-27 Sixth Talk from the Teaching of Totality 48:33
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
The second half of the daily recordings from this retreat has been removed to protect the privacy of the retreatants, due to the sometimes personal nature of their conversations with Reb.
Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-26 Practicing with Vedena 38:45
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2008-08-26 Fifth Talk from the Teaching of Totality 49:00
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
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Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-25 Bringing The Practice Home 56:49
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
An end of retreat talk: Practice and principles to bring our insights and practice into our lives. Includes wise intention, renunciation, loving kindness and balanced effort and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-25 Fourth Talk from the Teaching of Totality 44:57
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
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Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-24 Third Talk from the Teaching of Totality 41:19
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
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Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-23 Practice And Theory with Q&A - part 1 68:22
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-23 Practice And Theory with Q&A - part 2 25:31
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : September 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-23 Vipassana Jhanas 62:07
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight knowledge unfolds with increasing maturity of the jhanic factors of mind. Stability of mind enables increasing depth of liberating knowledge.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-23 Second Talk from the Teaching of Totality 33:32
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
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Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-22 Why Exchange Sukkha For Dukkha 65:37
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Once you learn to find a calm abiding of the mind there are many kinds of joy and bliss that may arise. Yet, you are asked to turn your calm mind to the practice of insight in order to experience the dukkha the Buddha describes in the First Noble Truth. Why give bliss (sukkha) for dukkha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-22 Opening Talk for the Teaching of Totality 31:09
Reb Anderson	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Teaching Of Totality

2008-08-21 Graduated Path 49:31
John Travis	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2008-08-21 Wes Nisker Reflects... 50:13
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Wes talks about his new book, "The Best of Inquiring Mind: 25 Years of Dharma, Drama, & Uncommon Insights". He reads a really wonderful poem right at the end of the talk (reviewer's comment).
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-08-21 Falling In Love With The Breath 57:45
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Though the teachings on dukkha (suffering) are an important part of the Buddhist path, a skillful relationship to sukha (pleasure) actually played a significant part in the Buddha's awakening. This talk explores the wise use of pleasure and the cultivation of beautiful qualities of mind, especially in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-20 Behind The Mask 1:16:13

Tara Brach

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We each develop and become identified with masks that express a false or narrowed sense of self. Whether it's the helper mask or addict mask, the controller mask or loser mask, the beliefs and emotions creating the mask prevent us from realizing our natural wholeness and beauty. This talk explores how, in the face of inevitable change and loss, we can remember the presence and love that is peering through the mask.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-08-20 Life as an Unfolding Process Week 1 52:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-08-20 Being Dharma 46:01
Kittisaro	Download Listen
From hearing to study to practice to being the Dharma
Dharmagiri

2008-08-20 Arousing And Tranquilizing Factors Of Concentration 64:16
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-19 Here We Are - Standing Meditation 3:19
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Hospice
Sati Saraniya Hermitage : Hospice Talks and Guided Meditations

2008-08-19 Development Of Five Jhanic Factors And Antidotes To Hindrances 57:25
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Development of the five jhanic factors to support concentration practice and explanation of their use as antidotes to the hindrances.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-18 The Yak Enamoured by its Tail 46:40
Kittisaro	Download Listen
An exploration of papanca (conceptual poliferation) and nipapanca - the root of birth and death.
Dharmagiri

2008-08-18 Big Problem 54:48
Norman Fischer	Download Listen
The human problem and what to do about it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-08-18 Kind Grandmother 31:22
Yvonne Weier	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Touch of Life

2008-08-17 Buddha's Life 35:13
Yvonne Weier	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Touch of Life

2008-08-16 The Five Groups of Existence (Khandha) and the Five Buddha Wisdoms 49:02
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Understanding, purifying and transforming who we are
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2008-08-16 Kamma Junkies And Dhamma Heroes 53:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A certain quality of heroism is called for in this practice. Not just as an act of bravado, but where one comes into their full potential for awakening; and not in a way of becoming anything – it’s overcoming any wish to become anything. Through overcoming this powerful drive, we shake the addiction of becoming.
Cittaviveka : 2008 Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat

2008-08-16 Why We Practice - part 2 30:04
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-16 Why We Practice - part 1 1:19:57
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-16 Why We Practice with Q&A - part 2 30:04
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-08-16 Opening Talk 45:25
Yvonne Weier	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Touch of Life

2008-08-16 The Touch of Life 42:55
Yvonne Weier	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Touch of Life

2008-08-15 Morning Instructions 58:58
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Letting go of technique
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-08-15 Renunciation And Paramis 62:28
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-08-15 The Ocean Of Our Experience - The Practice Of Equanimity 51:07
Larry Yang	Download Listen
How does the practice of Equanimity apply to our meditation practice and our lives in the householder world?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : People of Color Retreat

2008-08-14 Practice Q and A 51:33
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-08-14 What About 55:13
John Travis	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz