Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2007-11-18 What Is True Compassion? 53:06
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We usually view difficulties in our life as obstacles or inconveniences, but when we turn toward them as our path to awakening, the expression of our understanding is Compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-17 Firming Up Through Positive Breathing 29:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery : November 2007

2007-11-17 Why Did You Come On Retreat 39:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery : November 2007

2007-11-17 Meeting Our Experience - Holding Awareness 37:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery : November 2007

2007-11-17 Cultivating Joy & Equanimity In Engaged Practice 60:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-17 Into the Depths of Silence 59:40
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-16 Introduction 28:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Amaravati Monastery : November 2007

2007-11-16 The Seven Factors Of Enlightenment 57:33
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The seven factors are beautiful qualities of mind that can be developed to support our meditative practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-16 The Abode Of The Body: Mindfulness And The Body 53:15
Ann Masai	Download Listen
Following the Buddha's direction about using the body as a mindfulness tool, we discuss many techniques for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-16 Death the Great Motivator 52:52
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-15 Buddhist Master Series: Sunlun Sayadaw 53:59
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-15 Nature Of Insight 64:25
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Nature of Insight
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-14 Lovingkindness - Living With A Wise Heart 1:19:22

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught that our fear is great, but greater yet is the truth of our connectedness. These two talks examine the often unconscious habits that generate the pain of separation, and the practices that allow us to realize and live from an awake heart.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-11-14 Arising And Passing Away 54:13
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
The liberating wisdom of impermanence.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-14 The Transformative Process In Engaged Practice 43:01
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
It is helpful to identify four broad phases of transformation, whether in the context of intensive meditation practice, everyday life, or engaged practice in the world: (1) building resources (perspectives, tools, methods, the ethical “container”); (2) opening to and honoring our suffering; (3) coming to see in a new way; and (4) the integrative work of stabilizing, grounding, and expressing our insights and learning as we go forth into the world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-14 Who Am I? 51:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the nature of the self? What did the Buddha teach about the self - the suffering that arises from our misperceptions about who we are and the freedom that comes from understanding our true nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice

2007-11-13 Awakening the Heart: The role of trust and devotion in meditation practice 48:30
Thanissara	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2007-11-13 Thoughts Without Suffering 57:34
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
This talk explores some of the ways we get entangled with thought and how to have a wise relationship with this natural function of mind.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-12 Working With Difficult Emotions 61:10
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Emotions are expressed through a mood, body sensation, and thoughts. Mindfulness of these aspects is illustrated in the talk for desire, anger, sadness, and fear.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-12 Compassion 46:28
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
Compassion as a verb. Blocks to compassion and ways through.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Path of Engagement, Retreat 2

2007-11-12 The Four Noble Truths & The Enneagram 55:55
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk elucidates the Buddha's teaching as the 4 Noble Truths and how the teachings of the Enneagram also impact self understanding when seen in the context of mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : The Enneagram in Insight Meditation Practice

2007-11-11 The Four Exertions: Wise Use of Energy 54:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-11-11 Seeing with New Eyes: The Skills and Fruit of Mindfulness 44:45
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-11 Leaving Your Comfort Zone 55:22
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Conditions in our life are always changing and out of our control. We search for peace in the conditions rather than realizing peace comes from accepting that they change and ultimately, we cannot control the way things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-11 What Is Wisdom All About? 48:43
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk address the experience of wisdom as understanding the noble truths and the law of karma which results in a mind/heart that has replaced greed, hatred, and cruelty with non-attachment, kindness and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-11-10 Prejudices And Biases 46:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2007-11-10 What Versus Why 53:58
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
As human beings, we often try to understand our experience by asking the question “why”. But instead exploring “what” is happening, we can come to know the “why” of the present moment which opens to an understanding of the cause and effect nature of experience, and points towards to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-10 Tender Heart Practice 52:12
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Cultivating a gentle and steady meditative attention we can learn to meet difficulty, pain and suffering with kindness and self-forgiveness. With the courage to feel experience deeply, we can embrace our life with a tender heart of love and openness.
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-09 Working With The Judging Mind 55:46
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The voice of the inner critic is a huge source of suffering for many people. Learning to work skillfully with this voice allows us to develop an sense of respect and trust in ourselves that is essential for the deepening of our spiritual practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-09 The Mystery 65:52
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Scientific story of who we are, with dharma lessons
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-08 Buddhist Master Series: Mahasi Sayadaw & Noteing 55:01
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2007-11-08 Anger 45:10
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-08 Habits Of Mind 57:36
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness is like swimming upstream against the habits of mind. We can learn to trust mindfulness rather than the habits.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-08 The Mystery Of Stillness 55:58
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Our daily lives are filled with desire, yet desire leads to suffering. How do we reconcile the paradox between caring love and non-attachment?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-08 A Question of Faith 60:10
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
A probing exploration of the movements of faith in our practice. Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are always placing our faith somewhere. What do we have faith in? What shapes our sense of limitation or possibility? And how do faith and confidence deepen?
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-07 Practicing With Thoughts And Emotions II: Invoking Inquiry, Wisdom, And Antidotes 65:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the second session on practicing with thoughts and emotions, we complement the first session's focus on the more receptive practice of mindfulness. After a review of mindfulness, we explore three more active approaches: (1) deepening mindfulness through inquiry, (2) invoking wisdom through clear comprehension, (3) providing antidotes through invoking lovingkindness, compassion, and other beautiful states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-11-07 You Are Love 48:46
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk explores the relationship of metta to vipassana, how to deepen your metta practice, and how lovingkindness can become the fundamental ground of your being.

2007-11-07 Practising with Thought 39:10
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-06 Ansporn, Inspiration und Motivation für die Praxis 49:08
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Wertvolle Situation, Vergänglichkeit, Karma - die Wirkung unseres Tuns, Zuflucht und altruistische Motivation
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2007-11-06 Four Noble Truths 59:11
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-06 Contemplation of Mind 31:54
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-05 Ordinary Mind States 49:04
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Thinking problems and emotional problems - and how to work with them

2007-11-04 The Brahma Viharas: Joy 47:41
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-11-04 Dharma Punx 41:36
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-11-04 First Noble Truth: Suffering 56:12
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Suffering becomes a noble truth when it is fully understood. Then it is seen as a universal experience that connects us through compassion with all beings.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-04 Meeting the Challenges - Practicing with the Hindrances 62:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
A reflection on how to work with the challenges we all encounter in meditation. by recognising craving, aversion, sloth, restlessness, and sceptical doubt as visitors which obscure our deeper truth, we can free ourselves from their grip, revealing the natural pure radiance of the heart and mind.
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat

2007-11-03 Meeting Life With Awareness 35:46
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2007-11-03 Becoming Unhindered: The Five Difficult Mind States 57:04
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
When we are identified with these five mind states they are called hindrances to seeing the way things actually are. Each one is explored along with skillful antidotes to overcome them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2007-11-03 Awareness In The Body 52:48
Julie Wester	Download Listen
Body awareness as a doorway to resting in our true nature
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-11-03 "A Body At Peace With Itself" 58:18
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Solitary Month Retreat