Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-10-25 Mindfulness: Why we Practice 46:34
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-25 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Wisdom - Week 3 59:35
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2015-10-24 2015-10-24 The Magic of Awareness with James Baraz and Anam Thupten 5:06:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
This daylong explores the magic of awareness as well as how to access it in meditation and outside formal meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-24 Morning Reflection: 'In Praise of Mortality' by Rainer Maria Rilke 40:19
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Offering a beautiful earth centered excerpt from Rainer Maria Rilke's magnificent poem, The Ninth Duino Elegy
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-23 Joy and Happiness 58:51
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The importance of developing wholesome uplifting states of mind through sympathetic joy, concentration, insight and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-23 This is Suffering, This is Compassion 38:23
Beth Sternlieb	Download Listen
Compassion and wise inner speech as a bridge back to the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-23 Equanimity 1:13:55
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
In this talk we explore Equanimity as one of the Factors of Awakening; as one of the Brahma Viharas (Divine Abidings) and as one of the two Jhana Factors in the 4th Anapana Jhana.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-22 Crossing The Flood 54:47
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-22 "I Didn't Know I Had It In Me: A Talk on Courage" 54:29
James Baraz	Download Listen
This talk is about the importance of courage in our practice. In stretch ourselves beyond our comfort zone, we discover an inner strength and confidence that allows us to transform fear into aliveness, realizing our full potential.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-10-22 A Love Letter to Mindfulness 56:06
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
We explore the many ways mindfulness is capable of leading to insight and how to relate to practice to foster mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-22 The Responsive Capacity of the Heart 51:50
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-22 with Alexis Santos Home Practice, Qs and As, Legacy of Dana 66:40
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness

2015-10-22 Archeology of Heart: Exploring the Layers of Conditioning 52:46
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness

2015-10-22 Morning Reflection: One Unfortunate Attachment - Perfection 50:59
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Do you live your life from a conditioned idealized concept of perfection and endlessly strive to attain this…or from the other side of the coin of habitual self-judgment? Offering another view of perfection in this brief reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-21 Dharma Talk 26:47
Doug Phillips	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-10-21 Planting Beautiful Seeds 57:20
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Tending the Garden of the Heart, overcoming obstacles, timeless awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-21 Awakening Beyond Self 1:25:45

Tara Brach

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Suffering is our call to deepen attention and discover the truth of who we are beyond the identity of a separate, deficient self. This talk examines how thoughts, beliefs and emotions keep us trapped in a confining identity, and two pathways of practice that serve awakening and freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-10-21 Noble Silence 55:18
Leela Sarti	Download Listen
"There is so much everything that nothing is hidden quite nicely" - Wizlawa Szymborska. It is easy to create an idea of emptiness, but how can we be present and come to know groundlessness? How do we practice this truth? For starters we need to be quiet, still and open.
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-21 Happiness, Hunger, Giving & God 51:41
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-10-21 Awareness: Five Spiritual Faculties in Balance 64:03
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness

2015-10-21 Dharma Wisdom Part 2 of 3 64:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Reviewing the faith verses of the Third Zen Patriarch
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-10-20 Sure Heart's Release - Part 3 : Bhavana 64:58
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The cultivation of mind/heart through the practices of samatha (concentration) and vipassana (insight) meditations
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-20 Trusting in Your Human Goodness 58:25
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2015-10-20 Death – Our Close Friend 57:59
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
The reflection on death helps us prepare for this unavoidable fact, makes us look at our priorities, and brings much gratitude, joy, and lightness into our life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-20 Continua of Practice: Alienation to Belonging 58:53
Rodney Smith	View Download Listen
This continuum speaks to the need to belong that is deeply rooted in our social and biological makeup. This need may well be one of the driving forces in our yearning for spiritual completion. Even when we group like-minded people around us, most of us still feel a subtle sense of alienation that we cannot overcome. We seem to be outside observing life rather than embedded within it.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society : Continua of Practice Series
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