Donate  |   Contact


The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Dharma Talks
     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ... 4367 4368 4369 4370
2025-04-07 Opening Talk & Guided Meditation 53:45
Martine Batchelor, Bernat Font
Download Listen
Gaia House :  The Path of Mindfulness : The Fourth Foundation

2025-04-07 Where the heart gets stuck - upādāna and the consequences 69:02
Akincano Marc Weber
Download Listen
Upādāna in different Buddhist Teachings: – Clinging as fuel for renewed becoming (punabbhava) – Clinging in the 5 aggregates (khandha) – Clinging in Dependent Arising (paṭiccasamuppadā) – Clinging as four specific forms: (i) kāmūpādāna – clinging to and identification with sensuality (“Seeking” experiences) (ii) diṭṭhūpādāna – clinging to and identification with views (“Being right, being competent“) (iii) sīlavaṭūpādāna – clinging to and identification with virtue, practices and ritual (“Having the right technique“) (iv) attavādūpādāna – clinging to and identification with doctrines of a self / Self (“Being someone”)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Monday afternoon metta 45:40
Jeanne Corrigal
Download Listen
A short talk and guided practice offer easy doorways to metta, along with guidance with the acronym CARE for the abiding and radiating practices.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Guided Meditation: Equanimity 44:42
Yuka Nakamura
Download Listen
Introduction and guided meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-07 Monday morning instructions 56:33
Jeanne Corrigal
Download Listen
Continuing with the first foundation of the body, and folding in faith - placing our heart on the practices of simplicity and calming. Also includes ways of meeting the hindrances through mindfulness and kindness.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-07 Morning reflections - challenges to contemplation of mind states 48:10
Akincano Marc Weber
Download Listen
Training and understanding the mind happens with the mind already affected by the very states it wishes to understand and transform
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Liberative Dependent Origination: Suffering and Faith 57:49
Jeanne Corrigal
Download Listen
This talk celebrates the conditions that support the move from the Dependent Origination wheel of suffering to Liberative Dependent Arising. Faith can develop naturally, especially as we meet the hindrances with wisdom and begin to see the three insight themes. In this way, we can begin to taste liberation, even at this early stage in the 12 links.
Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community :  Liberative Dependent Origination: Supporting Awakening in the Mind and Heart

2025-04-06 Questions from the basket (three teachers take turns). 1:14:30
Akincano Marc Weber, Thimo Wittich, Yuka Nakamura
Download Listen
Thimo, Yuka and Akincano respond to practitioner's questions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Muditā Practice: Intro followed by Guided Practice to cultivate sympathetic joy. 41:39
Akincano Marc Weber
Download Listen
How wonderful you are in your being! I delight that you are here! I take joy in your good fortune! May your happiness continue and increase! (From a Sinhalese Ms of the 19th century. Monks' and nuns‘ practice upon receiving alms).
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center :  Cultivation – Investigation – Contemplation: Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students – 25AMW

2025-04-06 Overcoming Fear and Dread 13:18:17
Ayya Santussika
Download Listen
This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on April 5, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Karuna Buddhist Vihara

     1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 ... 4367 4368 4369 4370
Creative Commons License Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Dharma Seed is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit organization. email: contact@dharmaseed.org