Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-12-30 Don’t Concentrate - Absorb 42:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Liberation requires clearing citta of its contracted state. We can learn to care for our citta, to know what lifts and steadies it to bring it out of contraction. In meditation we try to concentrate and feel even more constricted. Opening up the body and accessing the vitality that comes from mindfulness of breathing can have a calming effect.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-30 Not a Technique – Direct Experience 27:17
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation is not a set of techniques; it is authentic, direct access to your inner heart/felt subjective experiences. Many times what’s found there is dukkha. Much of it can be resolved just by developing the inner body and clearing the hindrances.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 What Is Dukkha? 45:59
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-29 What Can I Control, What Can't I Control? 48:06
JoAnna Hardy	Download Listen
A teen relevant 4 Noble Truths talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-29 Opening Talk 1:11:12
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-12-29 Mental Feeling Always Surpasses Physical Feeling 56:41
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Bear this in mind when meditating. With unpleasant or painful mental feeling, the tendency is to contract. Try opening up instead. It stops the cycle of agitation and resistance that keeps the pain there. Use the body to do this, as a source of strength and energy to stop the mind spinning out into story. In order to withdraw and stand back, we must have a place to stand back into. That’s what the body is for.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Heart Meditation: The RAIN of Compassion 35:04
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This new version of the acronym RAIN is a powerful way of bringing compassion to the life within you, and to attuning and deepening compassion for others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-29 Three Kinds of Feeling - Guided Meditation 19:24
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-29 Recollection – A Skillful Use of Thought 50:40
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The practice of recollection involves picking up a particular line of thought that triggers a particular mood or realization. Just saying ‘stop thinking’ or ‘don’t worry’ won’t work to calm and steady the mind. Those are commands. Through recollection the mind can find a degree of stability and comfort, providing refuge under unpleasant and uncomfortable conditions.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Das Offensichtliche begreifen 53:52
Fred Von Allmen	Download Listen
Mit Vergänglichkeit und Tod umgehen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2015-12-29 Chanting 19:23
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-29 Beautiful, Gentle Quality of Awareness 26:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Viveka, stepping back, is about adjusting attention and energizing in a different way. Morning chanting, for example, is a beautiful way to bring up energy. It’s not about doing or making something happen. Rather, it’s very much towards stillness. Most cittas will benefit from the inner stability of the body, where the nervous system is awake but not firing, stirring, agitated.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-28 Developing Awareness 48:15
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-28 It's all Part of the Process: Inspiration, Aspiration, and Orientation 47:20
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
A first night of retreat talk, providing an orientation and overview of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-12-28 Day One, Metta Instructions 29:28
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Teen Retreat

2015-12-28 Attitudes that Support Mindful Presence: Acceptance, Kindness, and Curiosity 63:56
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
An essential element of mindfulness practice is to cultivate a willingness to be with our experience just as it is. Consciously cultivating qualities of deep-rooted acceptance, kindness, and interest in our experience supports freeing our minds and opening our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-28 Meditation: Metta - Technology for Conditioning 40:07
Ruth King	Download Listen
In this guided offering, we explore Metta as a technology — a software upgrade we put into the hardwiring of our conditioning that requires a learning curve AKA practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-28 The Thinning of the Self 2:06:57
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-28 Bodycontemplation - Guided Meditation 51:04
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-28 Counting Our Blessings - Guided Meditation 34:05
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
New Year's Retreat
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center)

2015-12-27 Guided End of Year Reflection 2015 15:12
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
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2015-12-26 2015 Year End Retreat 3:26:24

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : 2015 Year End Retreat

2015-12-24 Renunciation 30:46
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
How does renunciation naturally arise? It is a conditioned phenomena like everything else and will naturally arise when the conditions are supportive. What are those conditions and how to bring them about - is the theme of this talk.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-12-23 From Fear to Courage 47:29
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2015-12-23 Secret Beauty - Solstice Talk 65:07

Tara Brach

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This solstice talk explores two pathways to realizing the Secret Beauty that is our essence. One is through the compassion that arises when we stay with vulnerability and suffering, and the other is through love that arises as we learn to see the goodness that shines through all beings.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks