Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-10-07 Caring for the earth. 50:12
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk is offered as part of earth care week. It explores some of the ways our Dharma practice can strengthen our willingness and capacity to respond to the current environmental crisis.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-07 Thoughts on Practice 39:07
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : Coming Back to Our Senses

2016-10-07 Emotions & Moods 59:54
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : Coming Back to Our Senses

2016-10-06 Second Noble Truth 40:09
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Shaila Catherine gave the second talk in the five-week series "Four Noble Truths." This talk explores the causes of suffering (in Pali dukkha), and explains how conditioned mental and sensory experiences are unsatisfactory and stressful. Craving causes suffering when our perceptions are accompanied by delight and lust. Practicing mindfulness reduces suffering, because when we are present we experience things as they actually are, and do not crave something different.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Four Noble Truths

2016-10-06 Vipallasa: Distortions of the Mind 50:06
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-06 Finding Freedom Through Grief 48:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
How can we process deep pain and turn it into deepening compassion and understanding? Kaye Cleave shares her moving story with James and the community about losing her 18-year old daughter and finding a way to transform her grief into meaningful beneficial action. The talk begins with this video about her trip to Nepal to build a school in honor of her daughter. To view the video: Catherine's Gift, go to Youtube.com at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HILTuvNRXrg
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2016-10-06 What Sensory Awareness Can Lead To 51:18
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : Coming Back to Our Senses

2016-10-06 Three Sources of Wisdom 21:25
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Three sources of wisdom: wisdom acquired through direct experience and mental development, wisdom acquired by thinking and reasoning, and wisdom acquired through study of the Buddhas teachings.
Gaia House : Relationality as Such: an Insight Dialogue Retreat

2016-10-06 First morning instructions 59:10
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : Coming Back to Our Senses

2016-10-05 Mindfulness of Breathing Week 4 55:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2016-10-05 Creating a concept of self– Part one 57:17
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-05 Seeking What’s True – Within Ourselves, Beyond Our Self, With Each Other – (Part 1 of 3) 1:11:31

Tara Brach

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The ground of the spiritual path is realizing the nature of reality and living our lives from this awakened heart and mind. The first of this three-part series examines the process of radical self-honesty – the non-judgmental recognition of what’s going on inside us, and especially what has been outside of our conscious awareness. The second talk deepens this process with the practices of self-inquiry, looking directly into the one who is seeking truth. The third part explores the challenges and blessings of honesty in our relationships.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-10-05 Consolidating Equanimity as the Basis of Wisdom 2:03:47
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-10-05 Morning reflection: abandoning the unwholesome 15:42
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This morning reflection explores the practice that leads to abandoning the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-04 Aspiration and courage 58:03
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-04 What You Are Feeling Is Just Right 34:38
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2016-10-04 Stopper la spirale descendante des pensées 50:56
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-10-04 Inside the Great Heart 44:00
Erin Treat	Download Listen
Mindfulness and compassionate action as they relate to our theme, "Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas: A Women's Retreat

2016-10-04 Bodhicitta 47:56
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the aspiration to practice for the benefit of all beings while on retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 1 to November 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-10-04 Course - Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:26:48

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Course - Introduction to Mindfulness

Attached Files:

Instructions for Walking Meditation by Gil Fronsdal (Google Doc)
What is the Right Attitude for Meditation? by Sayadaw U Tejaniya (Google Doc)

2016-10-04 L’expérience vécu plutôt que celle décrite 61:00
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2016-10-03 2016 Metta Retreat : "Karaniya Metta Sutta" : Bhante Pannaratana 67:18
Bhante Henepola Gunaratana	Download Listen
Bhavana Society of West Virginia : 2016 Metta Retreat

2016-10-03 The truth of Dukka 48:01
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk was call by a retreatant "an evenings tour through Dukkha" "Dukkha" has many meanings and implications: this talk explores these.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-03 Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality - Week 3 1:27:31

Mark Nunberg

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After spending the first several weeks looking more closely at the experience of gratification of sense experiences, starting with week 3 we will bring into view a more honest reflection on the drawbacks and limitations of sense experience. Below are study materials for Week 3:

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Understanding Sensuality

Attached Files:

Drawbacks (The Buddha's teachings on the drawbacks of sensuality), Translated by Thanissaro Bikkhu (Google Doc)
Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (The Dart), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (Google Doc)
Five Remembrances (Google Doc)
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2016-10-03 Cours sur la pleine conscience 1:22:08
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks