Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

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

2015-12-23 Integrity is the Cause of Happiness:Precepts Practice 1:55:38
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
35 minute break after initial talk for meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-12-23 Morning Qigong Guided Practice 27:31
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-22 Integrating Insights into Daily Life 58:58
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
the process of integrating insights; things to look out for, things to cultivate, and how to develop a daily practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2015-12-22 Impermanence 48:49
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk offers some ways of reflecting on impermanence and also touches on the importance of perceiving it directly.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-12-21 An Ecology of Love (Part 4) 64:52
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
A talk about love, eros, metta, and the Dharma; about our sense of the Earth, and a sense of the sacred.
Gaia House : An Ecology of Love

2015-12-21 Dukkha and the end of Dukkha 59:44
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brie account of the nature and centrality of "insight" in our practice, we focus on one core area of insight-studying and practicing with dukkha, interpreted as reactivity. Ten ways of such study and practice with reactivity are offered, leading to a deepening of non-reactivity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat