Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-03-16 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat 1:19:13
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong Retreat

2012-03-15 Zen Quotes 55:20
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-15 Third Foundation: Just This 45:09
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
The Buddha seems to be suggesting to advance ourselves as little as possible in the Third Foundation. When we see what is arising minimally as "just this," we are essentially taking ourselves out of that seeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-03-15 Returning to the Luminous Mind & Heart 55:39
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
A discussion of how the mind is often clouded with unskillful states, the armies of Mara. The Four Powers (Iddhipadas) are ways to develop a more awakened mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-15 08 Mara 56:38
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on the demonic: what rises up and limits us on the path; Mara and Namuci; the parable of the crow and the piece of rock as an alternative metaphor of freedom; the Buddha's response to Mara who appears as a farmer.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Feeling Tone 57:09
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-14 Flowering, From Within, of Self-Blessing 1:21:03

Tara Brach

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This line from poet Galway Kinnell reminds us of the possibility of meeting our inner life with a loving, healing presence. When we do, we loosen the trance of unworthiness and reconnect with our intrinsic goodness. In turn, we can offer our blessings to others--serving as reminders of the awareness and love that can blossom in all beings.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-03-14 Lessons from the Kalama Sutta 28:31
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
The Kalama Sutta is most famous for its encouragement not to place total trust in traditions and texts, but it also encourages you not to place total trust in your sense of reason and preferences. So where can you place your trust? This talk focuses on the dilemma posed by the sutta's recommendations, and the way in proposes out of the dilemma.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2012-03-14 Loving One's Enemies III 65:47
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We bring in further practices and perspectives to help us work with "enemies" or "difficult persons" including various ethical, body, heart, and mind practices. We close by examining how we may sometimes project onto others our fragmented parts and thus use practice with enemies as opportunities to find greater wholeness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-14 The Grace of Connection 58:02
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A Brahma Vihara talk that emphasizes the importance of equanimity as the foundation for metta, compassion and appreciation. Also the relationship of Wisdom and Equanimity as mutually causal, and how wisdom both sustains equanimity and is a reflection of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-14 07 Conditionality and The Four 58:41
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Insight into conditionality as the core of the Buddha's awakening; reading of and reflection on the first discourse; the process of the four: embracing dukkha, letting go of craving, experiencing the stopping of craving, cultivating the path.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Awakening 54:52
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-13 Beyond I, Me, Mine 41:48
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2012-03-13 Insight & Diversity 66:31
Ralph Steele	Download Listen
We will use the Four Foundation of Mindfulness as a frame of reference to support the understanding of our relationship with our inner and outer environment.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-13 06 Dukkha and Tanha 60:27
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Definition of dukkha; dukkha and pleasure; "fully understanding" dukkha; the Buddha and Nagarjuna's understanding of the five bundles as not self; definition of tanha (craving); clinging and narcissism.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-12 Ethics, Compassion and Wisdom 44:56
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-12 Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances - Week 1 1:31:12

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Five Hindrances

2012-03-12 Crows Speak: Seven Factors of Awakening 50:06
John Travis	Download Listen
Through a poem, personal stories, and teachings, the talk explores the seven factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-12 05 Namarupa and Consciousness 61:57
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Meaning of the term "namarupa" in Upanishads and early Buddhism; the Buddha's critique of an unconditioned consciousness; the interdependence of namarupa and consciousness like two sheaves of reeds.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-11 Practice 49:12
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-11 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 47:06
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-11 Transforming the Mind 55:41
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-03-11 Compassion as the Path and Expression of Awakening 59:40
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
A "talk from the heart" blending aspects of wisdom and compassion. Teachings on the five recollections, the three characteristics and how to work with difficulties in cultivating compassion are offered through stories from the life of the Buddha, Dipa Ma, Darlene Cohen, Ruth Denison and His Holiness the Karmapa.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long