Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-08-16 A Good Day to Die - Morning Session 57:37
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Contemplating death as a meditation practice and inquiring together in community encourages us to be more real, clearer about our priorities and more courageous.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-15 The Interplay of Stillness and Movement in Samadhi 56:25
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Developing samma samadhi is in part becoming mindful of the many dimensions of movement and stillness as they interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-15 The Dharma Understanding of Dana and Q&A 62:15
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-15 Unsurpassed Treasure 26:23
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Buddha is our unexcelled guide on the journey of a lifetime – to the end of suffering. We look within and enter the silence of the heart, leaving behind our ideas, fears, attachments, and identities to discover the treasures of pure presence – an unsurpassed happiness and freedom.
Satipaññā Insight Meditation Toronto

2015-08-15 Q&A 39:51
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Q&A with all four teachers
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-15 Taking The Practice Home 63:28
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Comments on coming out of retreat and bring awareness to every day life
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-14 The Pleasure of Samadhi 64:12
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The wise use of pleasure in Buddhism and meditation practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-14 Suffering and the End of Suffering 61:36
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Understanding the path from suffering to the release of greed, anger and delusion through the insights of the Four Nobel Truths
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-14 The Progress Of Insight - Part 1 1:13:59
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
What are the "insights" which Insight Meditation cultivates? This talk, first of three on "The Progress Of Insight" teachings, explains what the practice discovers, and what needs to be in place for these discoveries to be possible. Review of the first three insights.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-08-14 Step 8: A List of Unfinished Business 54:08
Walt Opie	Download Listen
Dharma and Recovery with Walt Opie August 14th, 2015
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-13 Factors of Awakening 58:31
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The seven factors of awakening develop and strengthen naturally as we practice, but knowing this map helps us incline towards them. This talk focuses on developing them in concentration practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-13 "Exploring the 3rd Through 5th Factors of the Noble 8 Fold Path: Wise Speech, Wise Action and Wise Lively Hood" 59:10
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Tonight, at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, I'll be continuing the series on the Noble Eightfold Path. Last week I spoke about the first two path factors, wise view and wise intention. We'll continue this Dharma by exploring the 3rd through 5th factors, wise speech, wise action and wise lively hood. This section of the path is the cultivation of virtuous harmony and is seen as a purification of our body, speech and mind. I'll be relating this to how we interact and communicate with others. We'll do a lot of experiential practice this evening to strengthen our ability to act from a place of wisdom, connection, and harmony. I hope you'll join us!
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-08-13 The Ecology Of Compassion 67:09
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The inter-relationship between our inner and outer self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 5) 1:27:57
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-13 Guided Loving Kindness Meditation 53:54
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
Connecting with the slightly annoying person
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-13 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 4) 1:24:17
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Factors that Hinder and Support Concentration 57:05
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-12 Mindfulness Of Mind 60:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Using the Buddha's map of the mind to understand the essential freedom - here and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-12 Radical Acceptance Revisited 1:15:27

Tara Brach

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One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can’ t feel love and connection with our world. This talk looks at the genesis of the “Trance of Unworthiness” and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness can dissolve the trance and reveal the loving awareness that is our essence Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 3) 1:35:33
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 2) 46:13
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Liberation is the Whole of the Dharma 58:15
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Liberation is the Whole of the Dharma
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-08-12 A Sacred Universe: Insight, Theophany, Cosmopoesis (Part 1) 54:27
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-12 Theophany and Cosmopoesis: Instructions 1:19:37
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The set of talks and meditations from this course outlines the foundations and some of the possibilities for opening up a practice of the imaginal. Please note that this set forms a progressively unfolding series of teachings, so the talks and practices will probably be more fully understood and absorbed if they are taken in order.
Gaia House : Path of the Imaginal (Longer Course)

2015-08-11 Samadhi as a Practice and as Result 60:38
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
There is wisdom in exploring concentration practice as a skilled means which one is intentionally developing. And, there is wisdom in exploring concentration as a phenomenon of a contented mind. This is the distinction of smatha or samadhi.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration