|
|
 |
Please support Dharma Seed with a 2025 year-end gift.
Your donations allow us to offer these teachings online to all.
|
|
|
|
|
The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
|
|
|
| |
|
Dharma Talks
|
2020-10-25
Coming out of detail
30:39
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Making the shift from the activities of daily life into something much quieter, we learn to recognize and encourage the qualities of citta – knowingness, sensitivity, resonance. Smooth out the wrinkles of details that catch our attention and sustain a wide, open focus that includes the range of circumstances and emotions that arise. This is a blessing and a refuge, our true home.
|
|
Teach na Tuisceana
:
Teach na Tuisceana Weekend Retreat (*pronounced Tjuck na Tooshana)
|
|
|
2020-10-20
Real Wealth
28:28
|
|
Kim Allen
|
|
|
What kinds of wealth are most sustainable in times of loss? The Buddha defined five kinds of wealth that are especially appropriate for lay practitioners to develop: confidence, ethical conduct, learning, generosity, and wisdom. The inclusion of “learning” is interesting and not often emphasized. We will explore these five qualities in the context of our current times, considering how they can serve both ourselves and others.
|
|
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
|
|
|
2020-10-19
Loving No Matter What
1:13:41
|
|
Dawn Scott
|
|
|
The turbulence of our times is asking us to discover for ourselves how to love. The word love has many associations. However, the love of compassion and equanimity is vigorous and peaceful, open to pain yet free of suffering, urgent with a vision of freedom yet patient. It reveals a vast and immense heart that can look on and immediately be in touch with beauty and horror and stay steady, loving no matter what. During our time together--respecting our reactivity, overwhelm, and other afflictive states--we'll explore the heart's wide and deep capacity for compassion and equanimity.
|
|
Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community
:
FIMC Monday Night Talks
|
|
|
2020-10-18
Kathina as the Occasion for Social Harmony
32:39
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
This event of Kathina encapsulates the skillful qualities associated with social harmony and cohesion – qualities of generosity and sharing, precepts and virtue, gentle speech and service. Recollecting the goodness of such actions, the heart grows and is strengthened.
|
|
Cittaviveka
|
|
|
2020-10-17
Contemplation: A Special Friend of Mindfulness
16:58
|
|
Ayya Medhanandi
|
|
|
Practice deepens when we are present here and now, able to intuitively understand and contemplate our experience rather than knowing it through concepts. We refine mindfulness with wisdom, receive the moment humbly and offer our full attention and devotion to know what is before us. When Truth rushes in, we forgive more and we grieve less.
|
|
Ottawa Buddhist Society
:
Day of Mindfulness
|
|
|
2020-10-17
Mind Like A Satellite - Respect, Extraordinary Mindfulness and Wisdom
38:29
|
|
Ayya Medhanandi
|
|
|
A mind weeded of impurities is a field of stillness and wisdom where our suffering melts away. How does this happen? We study the mind and apply four facets of an extraordinary proactive mindfulness: exerted effort, penetrating focus on the object of awareness, heroic diligence, and contemplative devotion. In the silence of the undistracted mind, wisdom and a true and sustainable happiness arise.
|
|
Ottawa Buddhist Society
|
|
|
2020-10-17
In Our Own LIfeboat
14:08
|
|
Ayya Medhanandi
|
|
|
Intuitive knowing is the lens that connects us to the heart through our meditation. Leave the world behind and tap into that energy to enter the realm of pure receptivity, not known through the senses but fully known in complete Awareness that is a safe and liberating refuge. It leads us inward, beyond all wanting, to the ending of suffering, to an emptiness that surpasses all experience, all knowledge.
|
|
Ottawa Buddhist Society
:
Day of Mindfulness
|
|
|
2020-10-16
This Is Where the Mind is Liberated
30:02
|
|
Ayya Medhanandi
|
|
|
Human beings have that special ability to deeply see and fathom things as they truly are. But we are so impatient. We resist letting go. Clinging, we harm unknowingly and stray from truth, gaining no peace. How can we recover and free ourselves from fear, anger, and mental distress? Purify the mind and directly know the larger truth of impermanence. See blessings where there was darkness. And in the heart’s core, touch the Unconditioned.
|
|
Ottawa Buddhist Society
:
Day of Mindfulness
|
|
|
2020-10-15
Choosing Earth Pt. 1 with Duane Elgin and Friends
62:34
|
|
James Baraz
|
|
|
The second of two talks with wisdom teacher Duane Elgin and friends sharing Elgin's realistic, sobering but ultimately hopeful vision of where we could be heading the next fifty years. His book Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transformation to a Mature Planetary Civilization discusses the possibilities that lie ahead and the vision for how we can use this time to wake up as a species. A brief recap of previous talk with additional comments, Then an exploration of how to hold the unfolding from a psychological and Dharma perspective.
|
|
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
|
|
|
2020-10-14
32 Parts of the Body—Skin, Teeth, Nails, Body Hair, Head Hair
32:44
|
|
Bob Stahl
|
|
|
We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity).
This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation can build immense levels of concentration, potentialities for healing, and experience the taste of deep freedom and peace.
This is the 15th year of offering this class at Insight Santa Cruz and it has been truly wonderful. People have frequently reported developing a whole new relationship to their bodies with greater wisdom and compassion. We will also be hopefully doing a tour of the Cabrillo Anatomy lab to get a deeper experience of the body.
|
|
Insight Santa Cruz
|
|
|
2020-10-11
Awakening in a Time of Crisis
65:21
|
|
Donald Rothberg
|
|
|
What does our practice look like at a time of multiple crises? We explore the great contemporary need for many of us to deepen in our path of awakening, and deepen in or sustain our ways of responding to the needs of our world. We look at the nature of awakening, both in its traditional and contemporary forms, and ask: How might I bring my practice of awakening up a notch or two? We look at how we can integrate this awakening process with our responsive action, pointing to what we might call a contemporary curriculum for those integrating inner and outer transformation. Following the talk, we have a discussion covering many aspects of our theme of awakening in a time of crisis.
|
|
Marin Sangha
|
|
|
2020-10-11
Q&A
35:13
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Advice for young people experiencing panic attacks, lack of motivation, depression; how to locate tension and contraction in the body; feeling restless about others’ difficulties and wanting to share Dhamma; working with disconnects in society; working with external sounds in meditation; how to get more steadiness in meditation when body is so uncomfortable.
|
|
London Insight Meditation
:
Finding and Using the Missing Piece
|
|
|
2020-10-11
Mettā Samādhi or Samādhi Mettā
55:38
|
|
Nathan Glyde
|
|
|
Exploring what happens when we offer mettā phrases that resonate with and radiate the felt sense of samādhi. Apologies: there are a lot of environmental noises from the sonic-cityscape I sat in to offer this online session. Hopefully the inimitable delight of Dharma overcomes the occasional annoyance of a horn, alarm, or call of a city dwellers.
|
|
Gaia House
:
Online Dharma Hall - Oct 2020
|
|
|
2020-10-11
Q&A
36:28
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
How does release come about; working with regret/results of unskillful actions; how to sense into spine and other internal body parts; how to hold good heartedness towards seemingly evil behaviors; wanting to meet aggression with aggression; working with drowsiness; waning interest in events around me.
|
|
London Insight Meditation
:
Finding and Using the Missing Piece
|
|
|
2020-10-10
Q&A
26:35
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Working with past traumas; relationship between meditation and right livelihood; clarification around embodied presence; please elaborate on contracted and anxious modes; sequence of the 4 elements – earth, air, fire, water; recollecting teachers and use of Buddho in meditation; clarify the meaning of purification or cleaning of citta.
|
|
London Insight Meditation
:
Finding and Using the Missing Piece
|
|
|
2020-10-08
"Choosing Earth" with Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin
64:28
|
|
James Baraz
|
|
|
James' special guests are wisdom teacher Duane Elgin (author of the classic Voluntary Simplicity) and his partner, Coleen LeDrew Elgin, share his realistic but hopeful vision of where we could be heading the next fifty years. His new book Choosing Earth: Humanity's Great Transformation to a Mature Planetary Civilization discusses the possibilities that lie ahead and the vision for how we can use this time to wake up as a species.
|
|
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley
|
|
|
|
|
