Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-04-11 Death, Hindrances, 32 Body Parts 63:45
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Cultivating the mindfulness of death assists in the path of awakening. Working with the challenges/hindrances that come up after the first day of full practice. An introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Paramitas 63:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-10 The Four Stages of Letting Go 58:07
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.
Gaia House : Zen Retreat

2012-04-08 A Wilderness Traveller 37:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 1:13:33

Tara Brach

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Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible when we investigate them with a kind, mindful awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-04-03 Intimacy with Reality 45:21
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Mindfulness, when practiced whole-heartedly, reveals reality beyond name and form.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-03 The Secrets Of Tibetan Mindfulness Practice 52:41
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-28 Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 1:25:49

Tara Brach

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Our fear management strategies--versions of fight/flight-- contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-03-27 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry: March 2012 56:22
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings open up to practice questions allowing time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-25 Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole 16:53
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-03-25 Neural Factors of Mindfulness 29:15
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-03-23 03 A Culture of Awakening 55:13
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
The four P's: principle of conditionality, process of the four tasks, practice of mindfulness, power of self-reliance; ELSA as a framework for living; the city as a key metaphor of Secular Buddhism; emergence of a secular sangha based on friendships that support self-reliance.
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-20 Right Mindfulness, Right Intention 55:48
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Australian Insight Meditation Network (Sine Cera Retreat Center) : An Introduction to Secular Buddhism

2012-03-19 The Path of Joy 48:24
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How to awaken joy through mindfulness, awareness and inclining the mind to that which uplifts the heart...
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-13 Insight & Diversity 66:31
Ralph Steele	Download Listen
We will use the Four Foundation of Mindfulness as a frame of reference to support the understanding of our relationship with our inner and outer environment.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-13 Freedom of Mind and Heart 57:34
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The Third Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-12 Maranasati 54:11
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Mindfulness of Life & Death
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-03-11 Maranasati: Mindfulness of Death 47:06
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-03-09 Feeling-Tone and Its Importance for our Practice 58:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the pivotal practice of mindfulness of feeling-tone (vedana), by 1) understanding feeling-tone in the context of the teaching of dependent arising; 2) examining the nature of pleasant, unpleasant and neutral; and 3) suggesting a number of ways of practicing with feeling-tone.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-05 Body as Teacher: First Foundation of Mindfulness 58:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The central theme of this talk is the Body is the Teacher. Based on the Satipatthana Sutta with First Foundation emphasis, the talk outlines Mindfulness of Breathing, of the four postures, and of full awareness in the continuity of all activities. Offers practical instructions, personal stories, and stories from the time of the Buddha.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-04 Suffering and Freedom from Suffering 54:04
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore the nature and roots of suffering, using in part the teaching of the Two Arrows to help distinguish "pain" and "suffering" linking the latter with reactivity. Being mindful of suffering and reactivity, and learning to experience pain without suffering opens us to greater freedom. We also explore further the nature of freedom and other ways that freedom may be experienced.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-03-03 Metta and Mindfulness as Aspects of One Another 50:10
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This talk focuses on mindfulness being about 1) clear seeing - i.e. What do you really want to see? What insight leads to liberation? and 2) progressively cultivating the capacity for unconditional kindness. Metta and mindfulness as inherent in each other.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, March Month Long

2012-02-26 Guided Mindfulness of Breath 14:40
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-02-26 Intro to Mindfulness 55:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
On this daylong, Mark gives an overview of Mindfulness teachings and practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center