Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-01-25 Opening Talk for Loving Kindness Weekend Retreat 59:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness Weekend

2008-01-24 Buddhist Master Series: Mogok Sayadaw 54:32
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

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

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, dharna and sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well being born of mindfulness that is free and open
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-01-24 Going For Refuge 54:51
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
What is it we are taking refuge from? Where do we find refuge? What is our relationship to taking refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, Sangha? The investigation of these questions is a practice in and of itself.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-24 Finding A Reliable Refuge 67:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Turning toward the Dharma by reflecting on the refuge of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha and the possibility of a kind of happiness and well-being born of mindfulness that is free and open.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-01-24 Stillness In Movement - Walking Meditation 22:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Within the movement of walking, the mind becomes still. There is a lovely quality of movement and stillness. That’s where a centre that begins to occur, a centre of awareness. Not held through fixation or obsession, it arises with the factor of ease, factor of repeated process, just going through it again and again, and clearing out the obstacles.
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat
In collection: A Moving Balance

2008-01-23 Fourth Noble Truth 60:58
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This is the last of four lectures on the Four Noble Truth. It has a lot of group sharing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-20 The Five Indriya Or Spiritual Faculties 65:13
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk defines what constitutes the five spiritual faculties and what it takes to develop them. It offers a hands-on understanding of how faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration, and wisdom, when developed, lead to freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-01-19 The Self Thing - A Personal Approach 51:22
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-18 Patience - The Way Out Of Heartbreak Hotel 38:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-16 Mindfulness Practice: Recognizing the Difference Between Distraction and Non-distraction 50:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-01-16 The 3Rd Noble Truth - The Pleasure Of Sufficiency 1:10:22
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The Third Noble Truth - Third lecture in a four part series emphasizing the joy of "not needing" - the difference between wanting and needing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-01-16 Harmony With Deathlessness 46:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-14 Wisdom, Equanimity And Kindness 56:52
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk makes the point that mindfulness and lovingkindness are integral to each other, not separate and that they both lead to wisdom and are supported by wisdom. It includes poetry by Billy Collins and many stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-01-14 Meditation Instructions 4:36
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Meditation Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-14 Closing Talk - Sharon Salzburg And Susan O'brien 56:04
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Closing Talk - Sharon Salzburg and Susan O'Brien
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-14 Cultivate, Don't Meditate 29:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-13 On Relationship 42:04
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2008-01-13 Wholeness, Fear And Grief 41:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-12 Meditation Instructions 14:52
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2008-01-12 The Five Aggregates 62:40
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
This traditional list of the five categories, such as form and consciousness, describes the range of our experience. This talk follows a sutta in viewing the aggregates as an avenue to see emptiness

2008-01-11 Endurance-Eat-Speak-Sleep-Little-Practices and Work 41:30
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
19 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2008-01-11 Role of Teacher and Sangha 35:04
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
20 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2008-01-11 Meditation 41:24
Ajahn Sumedho	Download Listen
22 of 43 from Luang Por Sumedho - CD: Talks from Thailand (2008-2014)

2008-01-11 Meditation Instructions 4:36
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Meditation Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-10 Buddhist Master Series: Taungpulu Sayadaw 51:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-01-10 Sea Turtle 44:52
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

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

2008-01-10 Five Hindrances 51:40
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
Description of the five hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-10 Handling Emotive Awareness 41:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2008-01-09 Touching Enlightenment With Our Body 1:12:33

Tara Brach

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We realize and inhabit the fullness of what we are through the gateway of our senses. This reflection includes how we dissociate from our bodies (hearts, each other, earth) and the pathways of belonging. The evening is dedicated to John O'Donahue, a teacher of the divine longing that carries us to belonging.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening 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

2008-01-09 How Metta And Equanimity Lived Happily Ever After Together 61:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta is a powerful practice that helps us lead with our hearts, develop concentration, and "purify" our bodies, hearts and minds, working through obstacles to metta and touching our deep luminosity. Yet metta sometimes seems opposed to wisdom and mindfulness practice, and particularly to equanimity. We explore the qualities of equanimity and then how mature metta requires equanimity and mature equanimity requires metta.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2008-01-09 Knowing, Mindfulness, And Wisdom 54:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
A discussion of these important terms exploring their application in the meditative journey.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Scientists Retreat

2008-01-09 Coming Out Of Contraction 18:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

2008-01-03 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

2008-01-02 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