Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-08-12 Seeing The World With Quiet Eyes 62:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The value of developing the courage and care of compassion for our practice on the cushion and in the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-08-09 The Landscape Of Compassion 62:25
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Concerning the interrelationship of our inner world to our outer world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Weekend Retreat

2008-07-31 Bodhisattva's Way Of Life - part 1: Benefits Of Bodhicitta 59:54
James Baraz	Download Listen
I just received teachings with the Dalai Lama last week on the topic, I'm going to start a series on Shantideva's Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life. This is one of the Dalai Lama's central teachings. As he says, "If I have any understanding of compassion and the practice of the bodhisattva path, it is entirely on the basis of this text that I possess it."
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-07-18 Opening Talk for Affection, Compassion and Joy Retreat 67:58
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Affection Compassion And Joy

2008-07-17 Compassion: The Heart Of Awakening Compassion Is Unconditional And Rests Upon A Profound Understanding Of Selflessness 52:21
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The heart of awakening compassion is unconditional and rests upon a profound understanding of selflessness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-07-09 Evolution, Tradition, Ethics and Compassion 47:46
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House : Meditation And Study Retreat

2008-06-25 The Science Of Meditation 58:57
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk discusses the current research in mindfulness, including the areas of physical health, attention, mental health, self-compassion, and brain research.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers

2008-06-11 Question/Answer: Working With The Difficult Weather 1:19:31

Tara Brach

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In this talk Tara responds to questions from participants on how to bring a healing attention to anger, sleepiness, great loss and the wounds of our world. She grounds the teachings in the two wings of clear recognition (of what is happening) and an allowing presence, one that is full with compassion.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-06-06 At the Shrine of the Awakened - Unfathomable Love 35:51
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
What is spiritual beauty? Kindness, forgiveness, unconditional love? Can we sustain a hallowed inner space that will not be degraded by unkind thoughts? When noble virtue protects the heart at its innermost core, we repair and train the mind to go beyond all brokenness. Relinquishing the burden of endless struggle, we harness awakened wisdom and compassion to free ourselves. We are a pure clear vessel of unfathomable love.
Ottawa Buddhist Society

2008-06-04 Practicing in Daily Life: Compassion and Presence 57:43
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-06-04 Compassion 56:07
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Opening the heart to caring about suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2008-05-28 Practicing in Daily Life: Compassionate Action Flowing from Stillness 55:59
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-05-21 Practicing in Daily Life: Obstacles to Compassion 56:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-05-14 Practicing in Daily Life: Responding to Difficulty with Compassion 52:42
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-05-14 Self And Not Self III 57:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Transformation Beyond the Constricted Self After a review of teachings about not-self, and an exploration of the ways that the self appears as an overlay on, or constriction of, the flow of experience, we look in this final talk at what si there when a constrictive self is absent: 1) individuality without identification, 2) awareness, 3) wmptiness of phenomena and self, and 4) compassion and responsiveness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-05-10 A Little Renunciation 32:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2008-05-07 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 8: How Compassion Awakens Joy (includes reflections on the cyclone in Burma) 49:05
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is number eight in a ten-part series on Buddhadharma as a Path of Happiness. This series covers the ten principles discussed in James' Awakening Joy Course from a dharma perspective.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-05-02 Introduction To The Sacred 44:09
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The sacred as the “deathless”: the path as how we enter it. The vision of mutuality which includes morality and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-04-21 Compassion Part 2 52:21
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2008-04-20 Compassion Part 2 50:03
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Of The Body, III 67:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-04 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and QiGong 37:00
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Opening Talk for a retreat where the silence, sitting and walking of Insight Meditation and the movement of QiGong are seamlessly woven together into a form that invites us to gently explore the ways in which we define and limit ourselves, allowing insight into our true nature to arise, freeing us to live in a woser and more compassionate relationship with ourselves and the world.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation And QiGong

2008-03-23 The four Vows 52:07
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
What is it that we dedicate and aspire to when we enter the path of practice? An exploration of compassion, afflictions, learning and awakening.
Gaia House : Zen Retreat

2008-03-14 Brahmavihara Retreat 12:39:57
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
The brahmaviharas are four mental states that the Buddha encouraged for the practice of meditation. They are loving -friendliness (metta), compassion, sympathetic joy (rejoicing in the happiness of others), and equanimity. Through these practices we develop a loving heart, concentration, self-acceptance, fearlessness and happiness. These practices also establish our fundamental connectedness to all life.
Bhavana Society of West Virginia : Brahmavihara Retreat

2008-03-13 Compassion 51:43
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discussed compassion as a Brahmavihara practice and the cultivation of compassion in our vipassana practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge