Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2013-06-06 Evening Dharma Teaching - Day 4 - Satipaññā and Refuge to the Rescue 48:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How can we avoid the pitfalls that Mara sets for us on the path? Develop Sati (mindfulness) to act as a gatekeeper that can recognize the earliest signs of delusion, ill will, and greed. At the same time, cultivate paññā, wisdom and sharp discernment to protect against unskillful speech, conduct, and intention or thought. These foundational practices will be both refuge and rescue from the snares of Mara!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Beware the Mindfulness Industrial Complex 61:00
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-06-05 Keep Your Wits about You 62:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We use a meditation theme like mindfulness of breathing to bring about the factors of awakening. These factors are not things we can do, they come about under the right conditions. Tend to the heart and body energies, bringing them together to hold your ground against the hinderances and make way for the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-04 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 63:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Breathing gets conditioned by how we live our lives – energy can be mottled and unbalanced. It is a signifier of the heart. We can take time during retreat to take samādhi as a way of life, unifying body, heart and mind to bring into fruition the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-05-30 Morning Instruction - Mindfulness of emotion 45:02
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-29 Life's redemption from ignorance. 59:46
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
The difference levels of how we misperceive reality and how mindfulness redeems that misperception.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-29 The Foundations of Mindfulness: Why we Practice 51:05
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-05-28 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 37:53
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2013-05-27 Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 53:58
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An introduction to the Satipatthana Sutta followed by an investigation of mindfulness of the body with a fixed focus on the four elements
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-25 A Heart as Wide as the World - The Practice of Metta and its Relationship to Mindfulness 33:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2013-05-23 Retreat - Mindfulness of the Body 60:46
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-22 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 20:28
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2013-05-20 An Introduction to Awakening in the Body 24:08
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Exploration of mindfulness of the body. The Buddha's First Foundation of satipatthana offers many opportunities for insight. As the Buddha said, if we master the body (in meditation) we can master the mind!
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body Retreat

2013-05-18 Equanimity – Introduction to Equanimity Meditation 22:52
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Equanimity relinquishes the subtle attachment in the other Brahma Viharas. It is the culminating divine abode. Equanimity as an aspect of mindfulness and consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-17 Birth & Death 64:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Marana Sati, Mindfulness of life and death, is an inherent aspect of Buddhist teachings and practice. Both life and death are doorways to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Aging as Spiritual Opportunity: A retreat for those 55 and older

2013-05-17 Introduction to Loving kindness Meditation with Benefactors 2:38
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Recognition of the wholesome states of mind is important in their cultivation. Mindfulness of the body is encouraged as a support.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Flavors of Kindness: A Retreat on the Divine Abodes

2013-05-15 Releasing the Barriers to Unconditional Love 1:23:24

Tara Brach

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We long for love and habitually armor our hearts. This talk explores the aggression and clinging that protect our wound of feeling unlovable, and the ways that mindfulness can dissolve our defenses and reveal our inner refuge of pure loving presence.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-11 Buddha Positioning System - BPS 25:13
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Buddha gives us a flawless positioning system that will guide us to the coordinates of Truth. That ultimate refuge and peace is not to be known anywhere but in the sanctuary of our own heart. To find our spiritual bearings, we explore our true nature and the real origin of our sufferings. Step by step, our wise friends and daily practice of virtue, mindfulness, heroic forbearance, and faith will reinforce and steady us as we navigate the tempests of life. But this is a journey of great joys as well as trials. Like the hollow reed that becomes a flute, we empty ourselves of fear to be the true love we seek
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-08 Remembering Being 1:14:51

Tara Brach

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Our fear-based doings block us from realizing the formless dimension of our Being, and living from that source of wisdom and love. This talk explores the habitual control strategies that keep us from presence; and the role of mindfulness and lovingkindness in reconnecting with the ground of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-08 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness: Here & Now or There & Then 57:53
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-07 Clarifying Terms 58:02
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
In Pali - terms for consciousness, perception, mindfulness and wisdom - have some very specific meanings. In English, however there are often multiple meanings for each one of these words. This talk will help to clarify their meanings, particularly as they apply to our meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-05-06 Bodiness: First Foundation of Mindfulness 44:08
John Travis	Download Listen
This talk explores the vertical and horizontal paths of practice, revealed through adventure stories, poetry and teachings.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : May Insight Meditation Retreat

2013-05-05 Guardian Of The Mind 56:09
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Parenting ourselves with mindfulness, wisdom and compassion
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-05-04 When the Canoe Starts to Tip 30:22
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Right mindfulness developed with meticulous appreciative attention on the breath enables us to tame the wilderness of the mind. If we are careening off course – just when the canoe starts to tip – we notice and immediately rebalance, regaining awareness and sustaining it as best we can. We continue to polish the mirror of the mind each moment, discovering the joy of seeing its true nature: impermanent, imperfect and empty. With nothing to hold onto in the world, we are free to enter the shrine of Truth.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Waking Up to the Peace in Our Hearts: Monastic Retreat

2013-04-28 From Mindfulness to Liberation 40:54
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Gaia House : From Mindfulness to Liberation