Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-01-09 "I Shall Not Want" 52:22
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The second of four talks on the Four Noble Truths, with emphasis on the Second Truth.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-08 Sila, Samadhi, Panna 44:38
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2008-01-08 Feeling Good 25:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-08 The Union Of Metta, Compassion & Awareness 60:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk discusses the qualities of metta, and the unity of mindfulness and metta -- and how compassion arises as a natural turning of the loving heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Attention And Awareness 21:42
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-07 Everyday Metta - What It Is & What It Is Not 55:15
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How the loveliness of a pure heart is so readily accessible; how Metta infuses mindfulness, and the dangers of misunderstanding "love."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-07 Faith, Intention & The Precepts: Three Steps To Deepen Your Practice 59:07
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
The training precepts can be utilized for living the dharma in daily life, but to be most effective they need a foundation of faith and intention. Also, by stating the precepts positively and in an expanded fashion, we can find new opportunities for mindfulness and insight.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-06 Right Intention, Aspiration, Resolve 51:23
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-01-06 Guided Meditation - Balancing Attention 44:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-05 Descent Into Emptiness 51:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-05 Resolving To Change And Accepting Who We Are 48:34
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk explains the skillful use of resolve and restraint. It also examines the open-hearted acceptance of who we are and what arises within us.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-05 Questions And Answers 64:46
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Questions and Answers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2008-01-03 To Gladden The Heart 45:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
How uplifting our hearts with enthusiasm, trust, appreciation, enjoyments leads directly to calm, clarity and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2008-01-03 Avoiding Bitter-Ocity 63:18
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein is sharing her wonderful wisdom and reflecting from her new book "Happiness is an Inside Job".
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-01-02 The Three Refuges 1:21:31

Tara Brach

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This talk reflects on the three gateways to liberating presence-- Buddha nature (our awakened heartmind); Dharma (the living moment, truth, nature of things) and Sangha (spiritual community.) The evening includes a ritual of "taking refuge" that invites our dedication to each domain of awakening and freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-01-02 Mindfulness Practice: Motivation and Working Ground 56:01
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-02 Recovering The Primary Intention 46:24
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Confused by what we want we pursue what we don’t really want.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2008-01-02 The Path Of Dukkha Or The Path Of Sukha 50:31
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-01-02 The First Noble Truth - part 1 of 4 63:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The first of four lectures on the Four Noble Truths, including poetry from Jane Kenyon, Judith Viorst, and Wislawa Szymborska. Emphasizing the First Noble Truth of Suffering.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-01 How Vipassana relates to Daily Life 57:40
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2008-01-01 Vulnerability And Freedom 47:52
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Recognizing the insecurity of our life can compel us to endlessly seek control, or invite us to learn to be at ease with our vulnerability and enter it consciously as a gateway to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2007-12-31 New Years Eve 50:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2007-12-31 The Alchemy Of Release 47:48
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The Buddha describes how the intoxication with youth, health and life fell away. What allows for our intoxications to fall away? How does letting go happen? How do we cultivate awareness, kindness, presence and understanding that allow for the alchemy of release?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-31 The Wisdom Of Body Awareness 57:43
Heather Martin	Download Listen
The 1st foundation of mindfullness – How and why it is so beneficial as we turn to the truth of each moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2007-12-31 Joy 65:12
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The Buddha placed great emphasis on joy (mudita) and Happiness (sukkha) as part of the path. This talk explores the place of these beautiful and precious qualities in our practice, and life. What are the foundations of happiness? What is it that allows the heart to open to joy?
Gaia House : The New Years Retreat Insight Meditation

2007-12-31 32 Parts of the Body 38:24
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-12-30 The Alchemy of Letting Go 53:15
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-30 Forgiveness 59:37
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Letting go of resentment and anger – developing the open heart of forgiveness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-30 In Alignment With Zero 51:54
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Aligning our practice to the truth of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2007-12-29 Leaving Your Comfort Zone 53:10
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-29 What Matters 52:19
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
A reflection on the importance, the challenges, and the transformative power of being present.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resolutions of the Heart: New Year's Retreat

2007-12-29 What is Insight? 59:58
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This talk presents a map and overview of the path of Insight Meditation, exploring the different kinds and levels of insight available to us, the possible avenues for its development and deepening, and some of the many ways we can nurture and strengthen its unfolding.
Gaia House : The New Years Retreat Insight Meditation

2007-12-28 Present Moment: The Point That Includes Everything 54:57
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-12-28 The Wisdom of Boredom 45:22
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Boredom stimulates agitation and discontent and is most often perceived as a state to be avoided. Seen wisely, boredom is a rich and fertile ground of understanding.
Gaia House : The New Years Retreat Insight Meditation

2007-12-28 How And The Quality Of Mind 58:40
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
By knowing oneself through how we relate to experience shows us how to develop the freedom of mind
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-27 Don't Underestimate The Breath 52:37
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body has the breath at the center and includes all four postures, movement, speaking, listening, feelings and all activity. We can practice mindfulness of the breath and also mindfulness with the breath - developing an enlarged awareness. This practice can take us all the way to enlightenment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-12-27 7 Factors Of Awakening - part 2 55:31
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Continuing the exploration with calm, concentration and equimity
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-26 The Awakening Factor of Equanimity - Week 2 57:02
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-12-23 Holiday Talk 41:03
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-22 Sitting In Amazement 51:24
John Travis	Download Listen
Dealing with personal and collective shadow.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2007-12-21 Darkness & Light, Suffering & The End Of Suffering 57:19
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
After sharing a personal story about suffering and the end of suffering, the talk outlines working with "the darkness" and cultivating the light in terms of working with hindrances, physical pain, strong emotions, & cultivating happiness & compassion; the talk concludes with an introduction of Prajnaparamita.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light

2007-12-20 7 Factors Of Awakening - part 1 55:31
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
An exploration of the allies of the mind, cultivating mindfulness, investigation, energy, and rapture.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-12-20 32 Parts of the Body 45:27
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2007-12-19 The True Revolution 68:30

Tara Brach

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In Buddhism, lovingkindness is considered a divine abode, our true home. This talk explores how we can recognize the mask that covers insecurity, inhabit our essential goodness of Being, and let ourselves touch and be touched by love. This awakening into wholeheartedness is the true revolution.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-12-19 The Awakening Factor of Equanimity 56:40
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2007-12-19 Practicing With Darkness And Light At The Winter Solstice 59:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The earth at the winter solstice invites us to embrace the darkness - as a stopping and stilling, an entry into the unknown, a being with difficulty, a fertile and generative source - and invite the light that comes out of the dark. We connect these themes with our practice and suggest particular further ways to practice at the solstice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-12-19 Practicing With Darkness And Light At The Winter Solstice 60:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
The earth at the winter solstice invites us to embrace the darkness -- as a stopping and stilling, an entry into the unknown, a being with difficulty, a fertile and generative source -- and invite the light that comes out of the dark. We connect these themes with our practice and suggest particular further ways to practice at the solstice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2007-12-16 Mindfulness: Presence and Participation 41:57
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-12-15 Gladdening the Mind 49:30
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Buddha taught that in a mind of happiness, deep attention finds root. This talk explores the ways of gladdening the mind through appreciative joy and the cultivation of spaciousness.
Gaia House : Gladdening The Mind

2007-12-15 Don't Get Caught! 44:01
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
We often get caught in repetitive patterns of behavior that leads to suffering. How can we begin to see clearly and to find freedom?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat