Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-02-06 Investigation 68:43
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Mindfulness used investigatively leads to insight. Insight leads to liberation/freedom of mind and heart. this talk describes how to "investigate" in meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : February 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-02-06 Talk #4: Equanimity 52:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the challenges of connecting our mindfulness and heart practices, of how equanimity practice interpenetrates with the other three brahmavihara, of the nature of equanimity, and of some of the "near opposites" (or near enemies) of equanimity.
Tucson Community Meditation Center : Awakening the Heart: Practicing the "Divine Abodes"--Lovingkindness, Compassion, Joy, and Equanimity

2015-02-05 The Five Spiritual Faculties 64:54
James Baraz	Download Listen
The practice can be seen in terms of balance and an unfolding process. The Five Spiritual Faculties - Faith, Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration & Wisdom - describe both of these perspectives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-04 Sangha - Exploring our belonging and kinship 63:33

Ruth King

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In this talk we explore the "relative" reality of kinship - patterns that harm (blindness, silence, and sameness) and mindful practices that heal and bridge separation.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-02-04 The Transformative Power Of Mindfulness 52:16
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Liberating our hearts and minds from habitual suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-03 Extraordinary Seeing: Simplicity, Honesty, and Mindfulness 52:57
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-01 Mindfulness includes everything 52:08
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-01-28 Compassionate Awareness 56:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Integrating the qualities of kindness and mindfulness provides the capacity to be with a range of experience in ourselves and others with wisdom and ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Natural Radiance: The Liberating Power of Awareness

2015-01-25 Mindfulness As Recollection Of Being 67:36
John Peacock	Download Listen
A description of the different terms of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of Mindfulness-Based Modalities and Research

2015-01-21 Listening to the Calling of Our Hearts 1:21:46

Tara Brach

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In any moment, our intention - what we are energetically wanting - shapes our life experience. While our deepest intention may be to realize and live from loving awareness, we are often driven by egoic fear and grasping. This talk explores how mindfulness can recognize our prevailing intention, and by staying present, kind and accepting, we can reconnect with the deeper longings that carry us to awakening and freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-01-20 Mindfulness and Clear Comprehension 44:52
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-01-19 The Perfect Gift: On Mindfulness & Metta 58:11
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-01-18 Lovingkindness, Equanimity, and Daily Life Practice 67:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In our practice, we aspire toward a kind of wholeness, with no part of our life left out. In this talk, we explore two ways of developing more of such wholeness - (1) through connecting metta with mindfulness and wisdom, here examined especially in connecting metta and equanimity; and (2) through connecting formal metta retreat practice to everyday life practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2015-01-16 Embodied Mindfulness 53:27
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Origins and Applications of Mindfulness (MBCT/MBSR Retreat)

2015-01-11 Mindfulness of Breathing - Talk 54:54
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2015-01-09 Renunciation2 - Practice of the First Foundation of Mindfulness 45:16
Thanissara	Download Listen
Moving from reliance on sense bases to immediate practice, here and now, of mindfulness of body/breath - Aspects of attention.
Dharmagiri : Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

2015-01-08 Leaving Behind Apartheid of the Heart 37:58
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Introduction to Mindfulness and Satipatthana Sutta as a training in freedom. Sakka's question to the Buddha about conflict.
Dharmagiri : Being Dharma Month Long at Dharmagiri, South Africa

2015-01-07 Four Domains for Mindfulness 57:39
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma Meditation Retreat

2015-01-05 Maps and Overview: Stages Of Attention 49:38
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Where mindfulness can get lost, dimensions of meditative practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-01-02 Satipaṭṭhāna - minimalist overview 58:53
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Four establishments of mindfulness in a nutshell
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-01-01 Daily Guidance - Mindfulness of Vedana - 2nd foundation 52:05
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Discernment of Vedana as a key to healing and insight. (Sitting and walking instruction at the end)
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2015-01-01 Mindfulness of Mind 28:00
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk by Shaila Catherine explores the third establishment of mindfulness (satipaṭṭhāna)—mindfulness of mind—with emphasis on comprehending mental states as wholesome or unwholesome, developed or undeveloped. We learn to examine the condition of our own minds with discernment and non-identification. We develop the ability to clearly know what is present and what is absent. It is through an honest recognition of the state of our minds that we can purify the mind, nurture deep concentration, and realize liberation.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-12-30 Mindfulness Of The Body (kāyānupassanā) 40:15
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
A) thoughts on practicing embodiment B) Guided Meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2014-12-29 Why Meditate? 45:08
Marvin Belzer	Download Listen
Discussing the basics of mindfulness meditation and why we do it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's TEEN Retreat

2014-12-27 Deep Peace 27:11
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Everyone seems to wish for world peace and inner peace, yet stress, agitation, and struggle may still dominate our lives. Are you seeking peace in ways that it can realistically be found? Satisfaction cannot be gained in the world of conditioned things, possessions, and identities. Enduring happiness and peace are found when we turn our attention inward, and let go of the causes of suffering and conflict. This talk by Shaila Catherine explores a number of Buddhist approaches to santisukha, peace and happiness, including 1) virtue, 2) guarding the sense doors with mindfulness, 3) concentration and jhana practices, 4) formless or immaterial attainments, and 5) the ultimate peace brought by insight, letting go, release, and final knowledge. The path of peace develops the mind and enables the adept practitioner to live joyfully, without clinging to anything in this world.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley