Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-02-07 Opinions and Truth 41:14
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Our views, beliefs, and opinions affect our perception of events. To what extent do we assume that we are right and become attached to our opinions? With attachment to views we solidify a sense of self. Mindfulness meditation invites us to observe our relationship to views and opinions and see how it might be distorting perception by reinforcing a fixed sense of self. The term "right view" does not imply a more accurate or factual perspective; rather, right view describes a perspective beyond all attachment to views and opinions.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-02-07 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 24:14
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-02-02 What is Mindfulness? 54:27
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Even though we talk a lot about mindfulness, we often don't fully understand what the Buddha meant by "samma sati" or right mindfulness. This talk explores samma sati and also "sati-panna"-mindfulness wisdom: the wisdom that naturally develops when we pay attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-01-31 Monthly Sitting and Inquiry, January 2012 58:55
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Monthly Sitting and Inquiry with NYI Guiding Teacher, Gina Sharpe. These regularly scheduled evenings begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion. Gina Sharpe is the Guiding Teacher of NYI, which she co-founded in 1998. She has been studying and practicing the Dharma for several years in Asia and the United States across many traditions and has been teaching since 1994.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-01-31 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:29:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-25 Deepening Daily Life Practice, I 67:38
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore how our practice can come alive in the flow of daily life, focusing on some of the challenges as well as three areas: (1) Various supports for daily life practice, (2) the centrality of mindfulness of the body, and (3) taking difficulties and even suffering as opportunities for practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-01-24 What is Right View 41:01
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Right view is an approach to life that leads to awakening, to enlightenment. As mindfulness becomes mainstreamed in western culture, serious practitioners should take care that the framework of virtue, the integrated eight-fold path, and the liberating potential of meditation practice are not lost. Both mundane and supramundane right view are examined in this talk. Ultimately, right view implies a direct realization of the four noble truths and of the model of dependent arising.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks
In collection: Buddhist Perspectives on Right View

2012-01-24 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 2 1:27:07
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-17 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Week 1 1:26:05
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-01-15 Wise Mindfulness 54:29
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-01-14 The Path Of Awareness 60:38
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What is mindfulness - how can we develop it in our meditation and lives and how does awareness reveal freedom and its obstacles - i.e. the hindrances to meditate and how to to overcome them.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Living a Mindful and Compassionate Life: Insight and Metta Weekend

2012-01-13 Opening Talk For Mindfulness Retreat 34:11
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Living a Mindful and Compassionate Life: Insight and Metta Weekend

2012-01-12 Seven Factors of Enlightenment Part 1 56:19
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Mindfulness
Vipassana Hawai'i (Kyaswa Monastery) : 2012 Kyaswa Monastery, Burma

2012-01-08 Metta Practice as a Path of Awakening 60:08
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Metta practice is a training inclining toward the awakened heart. We explore several aspects of this training in terms of the development of a number of capacities, working through what blocks metta, and the integration of metta, mindfulness and wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-07 In Gladness and in Safety, Omitting None 56:21
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
A presentation of Metta and Mindfulness as integral aspects of each other, using the Metta Sutta, the Buddha's teaching on kindness, as both teh mandate for practice and an overview of the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta

2012-01-07 Compassion and Mindfulness 59:55
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
An outline of the relationship between compassion, mindfulness, and insight in Dharma practice and in mindfulness-based therapies.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-06 Modes of Mind and the Four Noble Truths 45:20
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
An introduction to the modes of mind framework which is increasingly used within Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. Reflections on how to use this in practice and its deeper relationship with the Four Noble Truths.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-05 Wise Mindfulness 43:15
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk will explore aspects of the Satipatthana sutta, the root discourse of insight meditation and mindfulness based applications.
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-04 Opening Talk for Origins and Applications of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat 64:35
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
this talk also includes Jenny Wilks
Gaia House : Origins And Applications Of Mindfulness MBCT MBSR Retreat

2012-01-02 Mindfulness of Feeling 36:25
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2012-01-02 The New You in the New Year 60:27
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
How mindfulness and compassion facilitate change. Change can be external or internal and be of three types.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-12-29 The Blessings of Embodied Presence 57:27
Tara Brach	Download Listen
All that we cherish - love, creativity, wisdom and aliveness - becomes available when we come home to an embodied presence. This talk looks at how the two wings of mindfulness and compassion guide us in the midst of difficulty to our inner sanctuary of freedom.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2011 - IMCW New Year's Retreat - Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2011-12-21 No Mud, No Lotus 1:26:06

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with La Sarmiento, Tara Brach

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. This solstice talk explores the light of compassion that blossoms when we honor our difficult times with a deep, mindful attention. This solstice evening includes chanting, singing and a candlelighting ceremony. (see video - show tracks)

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-12-21 How Fear Transforms into Love 57:52
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Through stories and practical instruction,s the talk illuminates the direct experience of fear and other challenging emotions and describes the transformation of fear into love through the practices of naming, mindfulness of the body/nervous system, lovingkindness and letting go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Solstice Retreat

2011-12-14 Mindfulness and Wisdom 60:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
(There is a long pause at the beginning) We complete our exploration of "mature" (or "right") mindfulness, focusing on how mindfulness may be disconnected from wisdom, how it can lead to wisdom, and how "mature" mindfulness is integrated with wisdom (as well as ethics and the awakened heart)
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks