Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-09-04 Tracking choice 52:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
The Buddha has a number of terms that express intention, choice, decision, determination, resolution. Here we look at cetanā, usually translated as “intention,” but perhaps better translated as “choice.” We examine the role of our choices, both habitual and conscious, in our practice and how we might learn to become sensitive to their workings.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-03 How the Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties 58:06
James Baraz	Download Listen
One way to understand how the process of mindfulness meditation leads to awakening is seeing how these five qualities of mind work together.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Labor Day Retreat

2015-09-03 "Long Time Sufferer" 57:16
Noliwe Alexander	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-09-03 Dukkha and More Dukkha 62:13
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Friendliness, Mindfulness and Liberation

2015-09-03 Meditation Instructions of Mindstates 68:15
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-09-03 The Causes of Suffering 57:33
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-09-02 Learning to Respond, Not React 1:19:00

Tara Brach

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When stressed, we often react with looping fear-thoughts, feelings and behaviors that cause harm to ourselves and/or others. This talk offers three interrelated strategies that can serve us when we’re triggered by stress, and help us find our way back to our natural wisdom, empathy and wholeness of being. By de-conditioning habitual reactivity, we are increasingly able to respond to our life circumstances in ways that serve healing and awakening.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-02 The Inexhaustible Spring of Wisdom and Compassion Within 61:04
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
True North Insight : Freedom Through Understanding

2015-09-02 Meditation Instructions on Feeling Tones 37:41
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-09-02 The 7 Factors or Awakening 68:15
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-02 The Story of Bahiya Part 1 54:13
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2015-09-02 Tracking the thought-stream 65:19
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
A fundamental principle of satipaṭṭhāna practice is to take what distracts us, what prevents us from practising, and make it our meditation object. Here we look at using the thought-stream as meditation object. We learn how to attend to the process of thinking rather than get caught up in the contents of our thoughts.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-01 Make Me One with Everything 59:50
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Lama Surya Das speaks about his most recent book, “Make Me One with Everything, Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation.” Becoming one with everything, by seeing through separateness, is the heart of what Lama Surya Das calls “co-meditation.” “Co” means with. So, co-meditating is not just meditating with other people, but with everything that arises. This opens the door to what Buddhists call “everyday Dharma,” which integrates mindful Dharma into daily life. Everything is the object of our meditation; there are no distractions. When we co-meditate, we are being one with everything, not against it nor apart from it. This is the meaning of “inter-being.” This is also the answer to our great loneliness and the alienation that we feel today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-09-01 Enseignements 59:42
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2015-09-01 Working with the Hindrances 53:21
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-09-01 On vedana 68:34
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
Here we explore the Buddha’s concept of vedanā, or feeling, more thoroughly. We see the intimate link between contact (phassa), the immediacy of experience, and feeling. All experience is already accompanied by feeling; or, we can say that we are already moved by this experience. We are moved toward holding by pleasant feeling (sukha vedanā), toward rejection by painful feeling (dukkha vedanā), or toward delusion by neither-painful-nor-pleasant feeling (a-dukkha-(m)a-sukha vedanā). Feeling presents us with a world that we have already assessed as requiring response, and have already responded to.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-01 Tracking feeling 65:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we look at what the Buddha means by vedanā, or “feeling.” We begin with a meditation experiment and go on to explore what the role of affect in the Buddha’s teaching, and in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Meditation Instruction on the Body 31:15
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-08-31 Meeting the Heavenly Messengers 65:41
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Germany

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Growing in Wisdom and Compassion through Embracing Adversity 51:44
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 Non-Self 62:39
Alex Haley	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series