Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-01-12 Mini-Nirvana 36:24
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2016-01-12 Awakening Joy in Practice as a Path of Happioness 1:12:16
James Baraz	Download Listen
Holding practice as more than just working with suffering but as a cultivation of wholsesome states that open the heart and create the conditions for the highest happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-12 Introduction to Mindfulness Course - 2016 7:12:01

Mark Nunberg

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Mindfulness meditation leads to insight into the nature of our hearts and minds, revealing an inherent clarity, openness, and ease. This course includes exploration of the intention behind practice, an introduction to insight (vipassana) meditation techniques, instructions for working with common obstacles, an overview of the practices of lovingkindness, and a discussion on how mindfulness can be part of one’s daily life.

Common Ground Meditation Center

2016-01-12 Time, Timeless and Intention in 2016 49:33
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2016-01-12 This Fleeting Life 40:35
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Every moment is unique - an invitation to deeper seeing
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-12 Brahma Vihara Practices 13:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Morning Instructions: Metta Overview (Day One) 37:43
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : January Metta Retreat

2016-01-12 Morning Meditation Instructions On Concentration 41:51
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-11 Mudita Guided Meditation 40:57
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Sympathetic Joy - wishing that others may appreciate their goodness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-11 Can Joy & Sorrow Live Together? 49:25
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-11 Time is Short: Aligning Our Life with our Intentions 49:45
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Monday Night Meditation Class with Nikki Mirghafori
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-01-11 Morning Meditation Instructions 44:26
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Including all experiences in awareness including the goodness in life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-11 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities - Week 1 1:22:50

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of the Mind and Mental Qualities

2016-01-10 Guided Meditation - Creating A Field Of Friendliness 34:18
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-10 Parami - The Ten Perfections - Truthfulness, Week 1 53:39
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - Parami - The Ten Perfections

2016-01-10 Joy and Gladdening 47:01
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
How opening the heart is a basis for joy - taking in the good.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-10 Morning Instructions 42:23
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-10 Closing Talk 52:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
moving out of the retreat form; honouring others; unresponsive cittas and microphones; recognizing and using the underlying foundation with confidence; empathy and sympathy for ourselves and others from a confident citta; connections to others; story of the calm and loving peace activist; recommending skillful means: using the 5 precepts to bear the welfare of others in mind and to cultivate respect for oneself; offering value to each other; cultural themes – intention and convention; using the pause; top down morality; guilt and confession, unskillfulness of some religious forms ; sila - being clear about intention to help the citta; finding balance and clarity; skillful use of the restful aspects of meditation; common social behaviours, gossip and fuzziness of intention; ongoing attunement of attention to what really counts; your citta has the capacity for great well being and clarity; respecting and gladdening the citta and spending time each day listening to the citta; reflection on the triangular mural in the hall; the earth touching mudra; dealing with mundane busyness in life; using the 10 second pause to touch your own earth element and call on the earth mother

2016-01-10 Morning Chanting in Pali and leading to guided meditation 50:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen

2016-01-09 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings – Pali chanting 4:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen

2016-01-09 Introduction talk, first night of the retreat 58:22
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Joy on the Path: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-01-09 Q and A 44:55
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Please give examples of how to cultivate right view within and outside meditation

2016-01-09 The Flowering of Compassion 62:35
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Compassion is a central quality in life and practice - and is a beautiful expression of an awakened life. This talk explores what compassion is and how it can be developed and integrated into mindful awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2016-01-09 Evening guided meditation on death 42:08
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Using citta to cultivate citta with experience; using the imagination / the world of the citta to help steer the citta; using the Five Subjects of Frequent Recollection; taking it up at least at the end of each day; cleaning up at the end of the day

2016-01-09 Group D Interview 2 33:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
1. On good will as an object; 2. On moving away from the breath; barriers or obstacles 3. On being more “extroverted” 4. On mudita, energy and tension in the head 5. On cultivating blamelessness, in a busy life 6. On planning for the end of the retreat and post-retreat practice 7. On feeling not good enough, and self doubt. 8. On reacting very strongly to other people’s noise and movement 9. On recollections and daily life practice.