Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-09-13 Day One Instructions For the Three Month Retreat 39:56
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-09-12 The Skill of Remembering 61:58
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - MBCT/SR Foundations

2015-09-12 The four truths 1:16:26
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
Having opened the hearts of his five companions with his teaching of the middle way, the Buddha now teaches the four truths of the noble ones (cattāro ariya-saccāni). These are: dukkha; its arising; its cessation; and the path leading to its cessation. This discourse centres on dukkha and craving (taṇhā), because the Buddha is concerned here with what coloured his own practice before his awakening – his sense of drivenness, of trying to get in the future something missing now.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-12 Reflections on Sujātā 22:23
Ayya Tathaloka	Download Listen
It was Sujata who offered rice milk to the Buddha after his extreme austerities which included living on one grain of rice a day. Sujata, a laywoman, is remembered and commemorated in the Theravada tradition as ‘The First Disciple of the Buddha,’ there even directly before his awakening. Talk given at Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery’s International Bhikkhuni Day celebration in 2015.
Dhammadharini

2015-09-11 The middle way 63:58
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
After his awakening at Bodh Gayā, the Buddha walks to Isipatana, north of Bārāṇasī, where he finds his five former companions and delivers his first teaching, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (Turning the dharma wheel), on the full moon of Āsāḷha (July). Here he introduces the principle of the middle way (majjhima paṭipadā), the dynamic centre between extremes, or the place of no fixed position.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-10 Dharma and Making Decisions 60:43
Oren Jay Sofer	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-09-09 Dharma Talk 1:31:50
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-09-09 Releasing Limiting Beliefs 1:11:49

Tara Brach

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If we investigate patterns of emotional suffering or “stuckness,” we’ll discover that under our pain is a fear based belief. Until these beliefs are brought into the light of compassionate awareness, they control and confine our lives. This talk reviews key steps of inquiry and mindfulness that help us realize the freedom that comes with awakening from the grip of beliefs.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-09-09 Mindfulness immersed in body - Kāyagatā sati 1:27:48
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We explore the role of the body in our meditation practice, using the Buddha’s practice of kāyagatā sati (mindfulness immersed in body) as our guide. We forget we are bodies, fooled by our mind’s ability to create realities that are separate from the bodies we are. We explore the practice of mindfulness immersed in body using the Buddha’s instructions to Mahā Kassapa as our guide: “You should train yourself in this way: “I will not abandon mindfulness immersed in body associated with joy.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-09 Continuity of Mindful Awareness 56:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series