Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-06-21 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry - June 2016 64:42
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2016-06-21 Day 2: Morning Instructions - Working with Pain (REVISED 7/7) Retreat at Spirit Rock 61:42
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This guided meditation focuses on using mindfulness to work with pain.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-20 The Second Noble Truth: The origin of suffering is craving 51:45
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-20 Consideration of Compassion and Wisdom 68:31
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : TCVC June 2016

2016-06-20 The Ambiguity of Self and World 37:04
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
We rely on a sense of certainty and familiarity with how things are, yet when we look closely our experience is uncertain and always presenting anew. Martin looks at the big reference points for our experience; Life, Death, Self and World, pointing to a liberating way of understanding and relating to them that is free of the narrowness of certainty.
Gaia House : Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-20 Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity - Week 1 1:24:34

Mark Nunberg

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Here are some resources to begin our study of the Buddha's teachings on Integrity, Ethical Conduct and the practices of non harming. A friend, Lynn Kelly, has an excellent blog that discusses all the issues of ethical conduct for Lay people from the perspective of the Buddha's teachings

Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Practice of Integrity

Attached Files:

The Buddha's Advice to Laypeople by Lynn Kelly (Link)
Five Mindfulness Trainings by Thich Nhat Hanh (Link)
Mindfulness, Intention and the Precepts by Ajahn Jayasaro (Google Doc)

2016-06-20 The benefits of mindfulness of breathing and the importance of morality 61:06
Bhante Khippapanno	Download Listen
There are five benefits 1. having a peaceful mind 2. subtle and refined breathing 3. not being thirsty, no need of drinking water 4. having happy mind states 5. overcoming unwholesome mental state easily Morality is the foundation of concentration and wisdom
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2016-06-20 Examining reality through Vipassana and Q/A 63:15
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Vipassana as process (vs. content) meditation. Lucid dreaming practice as a method to examine our waking reality. Seeing the three characteristics of existence as the aspects of ultimate reality.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-20 Three Wholesome Roots: Generosity 69:23
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-20 Monday Night Meditation Class with Larry Yang 59:15
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Dharma talk from our Monday Night Meditation Class on Monday, June 20th, 2016
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-06-19 Spaciously & Graciously 43:00
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
Gaia House : Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-19 Spaciously and Graciously 43:00
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin explores the twin aspects of Wisdom and Love, as they are expressed in relating to our experience. He looks at the compulsions that easily takes up space in our consciousness, and shows how we can soften around them, and at the tendency to be intolerant, both of ourselves and others, and how we can be forgiving and gracious with our own humanness.
Gaia House : Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-19 Questions and Answers with Thanissara and Eugene Cash 59:25
Eugene Cash, Thanissara	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-06-19 Time/Kala 63:09
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Various aspects of the manifestation and reality of the time, in life etc.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-19 Concentration 67:58
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : 2016 Summer Sayadaw Vivekananda & Marcia Rose Retreat

2016-06-19 Guided Meditation 53:22
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Instructions on practicing metta as friendliness. Investigating the mind and the mental factors. Followed by Q/A.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-18 True Happiness 67:07
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Buddha's map of discovering meditative happiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Invitation to Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-06-18 Four Noble Truths: An Overview 55:56
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Based on the Buddha's first discourse, the talk examines the twelve aspects of the truths with an emphasis on the call to action for each one.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : The Four Noble Truths: A Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-18 Understanding the Refuges and Precepts 60:51
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Twin Cities Vipassana Collective : TCVC June 2016

2016-06-18 Human Experience Under the Microscope of Awareness 55:39
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Martin looks at the constructs of human experience (Nama-Pupa or the aggregates) and explores the transformative insights available to us in looking closely at our moment to moment sense of ourselves and the world around us.
Gaia House : Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-18 Investigating the mind (nama) and Q/A 1:11:32
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
A review of instructions on the four elements, followed by investigation of the mind and mental factors. Followed by open Q/A.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-18 Meditation instructions on Metta 55:10
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
A brief description "process versus content" - Followed by a few questions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2016-06-17 Deepening Into Presence 52:47
Erin Treat	Download Listen
A basic mindfulness talk for many new to retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Invitation to Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-06-17 The Art of Non Doing 66:30
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
In this introductory talk to the retreat, Martin invites us to practice by doing nothing, not in terms of the retreat format, but in the midst of all activity. He explores how we can speak, move and direct our attention and intention, from a place of profound rest, allowing and inviting everything to happen naturally.
Gaia House : Awakening in Stillness and Movement

2016-06-17 Attempt to describe reality 67:53
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Clearing the mind from obstacles brings you to a clarity that makes you understand the games of perception
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Examining Reality as a Path to Freedom: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students