Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-12-20 Kindness as an Act of Recollection 58:40
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : The Practice of Befriending - A Gentle Turning Towards

2014-12-20 Nothing That Ever Happens Is Wrong!! Everything is Dharma 60:46
Alexis Santos	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Living the Buddha’s Teachings: Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-12-19 The Heart of Mindfulness: The Four Foundations and The Divine Abodes 63:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk brings together the awakened states of metta, compassion, joy and equanimity into our Four Foundations of Mindfulness practice. Filled with stories, laughter and song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Practicing with Darkness and Light 57:27
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
At the time of the winter solstice, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poetry, how we can embrace the dark - in stopping and being still, in opening to the unknown and to mystery, in being with difficulties, and in creativity and the coming of what is new - and open to the light, as it emerges from the dark.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-18 Change Is Possible 53:22
James Baraz	Download Listen
A talk focusing on the possibility of changing the direction of our lives and the importance of giving people an opportunity to thrive. This talk includes excerpts from Sean Kyler, one of the graduates give his moving valedictorian speech through a program that supports prison inmates getting their college degree.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-12-17 Bodyness 40:33
John Travis	Download Listen
Knowing the body without stories.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2014-12-17 Protecting Oneself and Others 64:08
Matthew Daniell	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2014-12-17 Intimacy with Life: Part 2 58:50

Tara Brach

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This season is one of celebrating the light and love that is our unifying source. And yet at these times our society is being forced to face its deep patterning of racial oppression, amongst other expressions of violence. These two talks investigate the process of turning against ourselves and others, and how intentional and deep presence can heal the suffering of separation.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-12-17 Recollections of Small Acts of Kindness 53:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-16 Turning the Wheel of the Dharma 48:12
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2014-12-16 Perception: Naming, Associating and Relating 47:20
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
This talk examines how the mind names or assigns qualities or characteristics to the things we contact. How it relates and draws associations to similar things we have known...and what it is like to attach to that.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-16 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, December 2014 39:17
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
New York Insight Meditation Center : Buddha & Bill W. Sangha

2014-12-15 The Jewel of Community 59:18
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2014-12-15 Closing Talk 19:33
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Listening to the unique but common struggles of others; Ajahn Sucitto on a 40 year retreat; some personal history of how Ajahn came to meditation and his early struggles; thank you to all participants; coming from a place of gratitude; being firm with all the reasons that we throw up not to practice; take a little time every day to sit and breathe; it's as important as eating or bathing every day; the citta goes one way - it does not go down, it goes up. “Thank you for your determination and your company and your honesty in the practice. May you all progress and develop and may your cittas rise to happiness and peace.”
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-15 Some points to notice about the Mind 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Review thoroughly how your mind works; the world is created by the mind in this very body; seeing uncertainty; using the body to receive and allow the citta to calm; see how the citta sits on its worry and flies on its desire and is carried along by its fear; the citta sankhara never stops creating reasons why it has to keep going just a little bit further; watch how craving paints the world with beautiful but very thin paint. You can do it, you can see it. Pause, check, be aware.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 9 of 9 14:38
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 8 of 9 68:24
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 7 of 9 1:15:35
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 6 of 9 10:23
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 5 of 9 48:00
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 4 of 9 31:33
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 3 of 9 48:22
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 2 of 9 14:22
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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2014-12-14 Dependent Origination 1 of 9 19:52
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
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Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dependent Origination Daylong

2014-12-14 Evening - Finding rhythms and structures you need and taking them home with you - 3 characteristics 55:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
What can you take with you from the retreat? Using the occasion of retreat to develop wisdom of understanding - the 4 satipatannas / foundations of mindfulness; the transient nature of satisfaction; the rich man and the Porche; things are never finished; this is “mine”; seeing how conditions give rise to certain kinds of thinking; the release of the citta from clinging generally happens a little bit at a time; training the wisdom element.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat