Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-12-12 Cultivating Sati 31:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness is like a hand to hold things; how and why and want to hold? The need for correct application, correct object, correct way of holding. The breath and its vitality.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation (Walking) 11:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Moving from sitting to standing; feeling the whole body; walk so you feel the whole body walking; not just the legs - hips, body, shoulders, feet. Feeling the lift, feeling the weight transfer, the fluidity.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Guided Meditation 34:24
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Using sensation or impressions of the body; watching the energy begin to reveal itself; 30 minute meditation with bell
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Friday Morning Guided Big Sky Meditation 55:11
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-12 Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta 57:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-12 Morning Reflection - How to practice 53:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evolving Together 57:22
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Evolutionary origin of aggregates.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-11 Understanding States Of Mind 45:38
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Using boredom as an example, this talk looks at the formation of states of mind and how to quiet their impact.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-11 Wise (or Right) Speech 63:45
Kate Munding	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-12-11 Evening - Guided meditation 21:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Review of posture; mixture of alertness in the back and relaxation in the front
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Evening - Introductory Explanations 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
How to see and use the retreat; Significance of bowing; refuges and precepts; need to realize the opportunity for practice and its urgency
Young Buddhists Association of Thailand : Ajahn Sucitto YBAT Silent Retreat

2014-12-11 Thursday Morning Guided 52:16
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Dissatisfaction: The Great Doorway to the Heart 58:13
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-10 They Tried to Bury Us, But They Didn't Know We Were Seeds 45:52
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Dharma as nature, why we practice, seeing what is unseen; opening to dukkha and the truth; retreat and social/political activism. Title is from Mexican saying from liberation movement.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-10 Gratitude 48:23
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2014-12-10 Intimacy with Life: Part 1 1:17:47

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

2014-12-10 Race, Racism, and Spiritual Practice 1 69:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine, in the context of contemporary concerns about racism, how we relate teachings about suffering, compassion, transforming ignorance, courage, and skillful action to our responses to racism. We also look briefly at the history of race and racism, and suggest ways of responding to racism individually, relationally, and collectively.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-12-09 Enseignement et méditation guidée, 2e partie 52:41
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-09 Cultivation and the End of Craving 54:35
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Craving causes suffering-but what causes craving? This talk explores how craving is caused by an underlying sense of deficit or disturbance-and how repeatedly internalizing experiences of core needs being met helps "de-fuel" the fires of craving.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Evolving Together: Mindfulness Meditation and Modern Science

2014-12-09 The Counter Intuitive Ground Of Spiritual Practice 45:34
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2014-12-09 Instructions et méditation guidée, 1e partie 28:42
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2014-12-09 Perception: Remembering the Past 49:07
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
What goes on in the mind when we remember things we have sensed, felt or thought in the past. It is through this activity of perception, and our attachment to it, that we have a very real sense of the past.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-12-09 Transforming Suffering into Happiness (Non-Greed, Non-Hatred and Non-Delusion) 68:09
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley (Casa Pallotti) : Casa Pallotti Melbourne Retreat

2014-12-09 Reflections On Race And Diversity 35:31
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
During the closing transition days of IMS's Three-Month Retreat, there were some group discussions about IMS's diversity initiatives. Bonnie Duran led a group for people of color (POC) meditators, and Joseph Goldstein spoke to and led a discussion with the non-POC group. His intention was to provide an introduction to the work IMS is undertaking in undoing racism and other diversity issues, and to describe his own personal exploration in this area.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2014-12-08 Equanimity 62:05
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks