Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-10-19 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 3 68:37
Thanissara, Catherine McGee, Chris Cullen, James Baraz	Download Listen
Thanissara with James Baraz, Catherine McGee and Chris Cullen.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-17 Wisdom and Compassion 61:22
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Wisdom needs compassion, compassion needs wisdom; mindfulness cultivates both.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-14 Many Kinds of Thoughts 41:01
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk was given by Shaila Catherine as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." Mindful of the thinking process, we explore how thoughts function in our lives. Unwholesome mental patterns can reinforce obsessive desires, identification, rigid opinions, and attachment to belief systems. What patterns are most common for you—planning, rumination, fantasy, rehearsing, daydreaming, judging, comparing, fixing, instructing? We observe the types of thoughts that arise, and reflect on whether those thoughts support our values and purpose. We learn to let go of unskillful thoughts and then focus our attention so that we use the mind skillfully. Buddhist tradition identifies three sources for proliferating thought: craving, conceit, and views. By examining the sources of conceptual proliferation, we can curb the wandering tendencies of mind.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-10-12 Transforming Fear Into Freedom 61:44
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Through mindfulness and wisdom (understanding) we can transform fear into freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-12 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 2 69:28
Thanissara, Ayya Anandabodhi, Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Susie Harrington	Download Listen
Thanissara with Rev. angel Kyodo williams, Ayya Anandabodhi Bhikkhuni and Susie Harrington. In this conversation, Susie Harrington mentioned two sources: Kerry Nelson’s offering of online workshops at A Place for Peace as well as Vinit Allen’s Sustainable World Sourcebook. Both offer ways to engage individually but also at the community level.Rev angel Kyodo williams mentioned the site What Is Missing? from Maya Lin offering an interactive experience of all that has been and continues to be lost to which you can add your own accounting.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-06 Investigating Mindfulness itself 59:44
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-06 Guided Meditation on the Factors of Awakening 38:58
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
After practicing dhammanupassana in Insight Dialogue, attending to the first four factors of sati (mindfulness), investigation of phenomena, energy and joy, this 40 minutes guided meditation takes us, in silence, through these four and onwards to the three calming factors of tranquility, concentration and equanimity.
Gaia House : Insight Dialogue and Bhava - Becoming and Identification

2014-10-05 Mindfulness: A Reverent Attention to Being 62:49
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
True North Insight : Freedom Through Understanding

2014-10-05 Mindfulness and Climate Action 5:46:13

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This series of five conversations with dharma teachers was held October 5 through November 3, 2014.

Attached Files:

Mindfulness and Climate Action Background Paper by Kritee Kanko and Lou Leonard (PDF)

In collections: Engaged Buddhism, One Earth Sangha

2014-10-05 Mindfulness and Climate Action : 1 1:13:52
Thanissara, Jack Kornfield, Ruth King, Tara Brach	Download Listen
Thanissara with Tara Brach, Ruth King and Jack Kornfield.
In collection: Mindfulness and Climate Action

2014-10-03 Speaking the Truth in Meditation. Listening Deeply 44:49
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
In meditation, the truth is the truth of experience. To speak the truth, mindfulness is essential; its the only way experience can be known. This talk tracks the act of speaking from the wordless beginnings, through the tension behind the urge to speak (even innocuous speech), an onto the physical act. When the thread of sati is maintained, there is a natural authenticity, a coherence between experience and its symbolization in words. The deep of Listen Deeply is likewise traced, with mindfulness and concentration making possible a continuity of awareness. When such listening and speaking meet, the mind-to-mind transmission is of a different order from ordinary speech.
Gaia House : Insight Dialogue and Bhava - Becoming and Identification

2014-09-29 The 16 Steps of Mindfulness of Breathing (Anapana-sati Sutta) 61:04
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-29 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 41:18
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-09-27 Guided meditation 59:32
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body feelings, emotions, thoughts, and hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-23 Body: A Matter of Life 47:34
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." This talk focuses on "Four Elements." It is a traditional practice of mindfulness of the body. In ancient India, the materiality of the body was thought to be composed of four elements—earth, fire, wind and water. These four elements, in turn, have twelve characteristics—(earth) heaviness and lightness, hardness and softness, roughness and smoothness; (fire) heat and coolness; (wind) pushing and supporting; (water) fluidity and cohesion. All of these characteristics can be known with our mind and in our body. Discerning the characteristics of material elements will lead to a profound contemplation of impermanence and death. Seeing the impermanence of the body, we know we cannot control it. The body is not-self, it is not possessable, not I, and not eternally me. Understanding the impermanence of material elements and this body composed of elements, we learn to let go. This talk concludes with a guided meditation of body scans, with emphasis on the four elements and their respective characteristics.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-22 Guided Meditation On Pain 60:06
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Meeting pain with mindfulness is a very skilful way of understanding the true nature of unpleasant physical sensation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-21 Mindfulness Of the Five Hinderances 59:23
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The practice of mindfulness of the five hindrances can help to understand their impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and impersonal nature and thereby experience freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-18 The Wisdom of the Body 57:38
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
This talk discusses why we bring mindfulness to the body. What are the various insights we can have through these practices and how they can help us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2014-09-17 Meeting The Five Hindrances With Mindfulness 56:10
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Guided Meditation on the five hindrances; sense desires, ill-will, restlessness and worry, sloth and torpor and doubt
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-16 Breath: An Intimate Focus for Attention 45:06
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk was given as a part of the series "Enhancing Mindfulness Skills: A Seven-Week Series Dedicated to Cultivating Transformative Insight." How do we approach the breath? The breath can be used in a variety of ways to enhance mindfulness and to cultivate the insight into impermanence. Observing the breath calms the mind and allows us to tune into present moment experience. By observing the changes in breathing we can assess our feelings, emotions, and moods. Realizing the impermanent, conditioned, changing nature of the breath supports a skillful and powerful recollection of death. Let this contemplation of death be poignant enough to stir a sense of urgency. Reflect on what is really important in life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2014-09-16 Introduction to Mindfulness Course - 2014 7:51:06

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center

2014-09-15 Unpacking Right Mindfulness 56:08
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-13 Mindfulness and the Recollection of Being 57:24
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation - The Foundations of MBCT & MBSR

2014-09-10 Transforming Unhealthy Habits through Mindfulness 1:24:50

Hugh Byrne

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When harmful or unhealthy habits form, they can cause us much suffering and they can be hard to change because they are carried out automatically and without conscious awareness. Mindfulness is a key to changing harmful or unwanted habits as it provides skillful methods and practices to bring them into the light of awareness. Three elements of mindfulness are particularly important in changing unhealthy or unwanted habits - Intention, Attention, and Attitude. The talk explores these three elements with a focus on Intention.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-26 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, August 2014 53:28
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks