Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-01-28 The Discussion Of The Wisdom Dakini 1:14:52
Lama Palden	Download Listen
Dakinis are activity aspects of awakened mind. Outwardly the dakini can support, nurture and protect us. She also can show up to cut through conceptuality. Ultimately dakini is the wisdom aspect of our own minds; the openness aspect that is the space for and is inseparable with everything that is. When this aspect is realized all phenomena, all experience become workable, eventually blissful. True nature is wisdom, openness, compassion and love.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-27 Opening Talk for the Metta Retreat - LovingKindness and Compassion as a Path to Awakening 60:21
John Peacock	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House : Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-01-24 Vast Sky Visited By Clouds 55:01
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
After sharing a personal story, th talk explores working with some of the challenging states of mind and body, followed by a teaching on the essence of Prajnaparamita, emphasizing the qualities of vast space, bliss and compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Coming Home: A Retreat for Experienced Women Practitioners

2008-01-10 Drafting On The Happiness Of Others 60:34
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Mudita and the other Brahma Viharas. How wisdom protects equanimity -- and how equanimity if the birthplace of Metta, Compassion and Joy
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta 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

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

2007-11-18 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

2007-11-12 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

2007-11-11 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

2007-11-07 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

2007-11-04 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

2007-10-30 Compassion 59:00
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The understanding of emptiness manifests in our experience as the intention of compassion. One way that compassion develops is through meeting our own physical and mental suffering with kind awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2007 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2007-10-29 Quiet The Mind, Open The Heart 69:27
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
The essence of meditation is a shift of identity and awakening of compassion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-10-26 The Tenderness Of Compassion 49:25
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
What is compassion and how do we open to our compassionate heart? And as we let GO OF our self interest AND demands ON LIFE TO BE THE WAY WE WANT IT TO BE and turn toward our own pain and other's pain, compassion can awaken in our hearts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Study Retreat

2007-10-24 Wisdom 56:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
How do we live and act wisely, whether in our meditation practice or in the rest of our lives? The core of our practice is to come back to wisdom moment-to-moment. The main teaching on wisdom that can guide us is the Four Noble Truths. We explore this teaching as a practical guide, requiring an understanding of causes and conditions. Yet wisdom ultimately must also be connected to to two further qualities to be whole - to compassion, and to courage.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Cultivating Clear Seeing, Opening the Heart

2007-10-20 Opening Talk for the Heart of Wisdom and Compassion Retreat 45:07
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion

2007-10-20 Opening Talk for the Heart of Wisdom and Compassion 45:07
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
this talk also includes Leela Sarti
Gaia House : The Heart Of Wisdom And Compassion

2007-10-14 Metta And Compassion 61:04
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is the role of loving kindness in Dharma practice. How do we cultivate it, what are the obstacles, and what is the full expression of the heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers, Retreat 1

2007-10-03 Path Of Peace 1:12:35

Tara Brach

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Awakening from the Trance of Separation - We all have conditioning that can keep us at war with our inner life, and fuel violence in the world. These universal tendencies can block our natural attunement and capacity to respond with compassion to life. The practices of presence allow us to recognize this conditioning and awaken to the truth of our connectedness, to the wisdom and love that make peace possible.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2007-09-22 The Brahma Viharas: Karuna (Compassion) 55:01
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2007-09-21 Compassion 50:57
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Deepening in Wisdom

2007-09-15 The Wilderness of Anger 69:48
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Why does anger cause us so much misery? As long as we feed it, anger insidiously undermines our spiritual work. Mindful and aware, we learn to refrain from feeding that angry dog and we loosen its foothold within the mind. By the power of loving-kindness and compassion, we disarm anger's toxicity and restore peace. These are the supreme medicines that will guide us through the wilderness of anger.
National University of Singapore Buddhhist Society

2007-09-03 Take The One Seat 60:10
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How to find the great heart of compassion and freedom in the midst of it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2007-08-23 Compassion 49:48
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2007-08-15 Compassion, Emptiness and Kuan Yin 62:10
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : Illuminating the Heart of Awareness