Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2010-05-19 Desire and Spiritual Freedom 1:18:31

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught that becoming identified with "wanting mind" obscures our true nature and binds us in suffering. This talk explores a wise attitude in relating to desire, and offers three pathways towards freedom: Mindfulness of "wanting mind," trancing back desire to its source, and radical non-clinging.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-12 Relating Wisely to "Wanting Mind" 1:20:19

Tara Brach

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While desire is intrinsic to life, it can contract into the craving that traps us in suffering. This talk explores how we seek happiness yet become habituated to false refuges--substitutes like over- consuming food, dependent relationships, approval, achieving--that can never bring happiness. Our freedom becomes possible when we forgive the ways we get hooked, and offer a deep, mindful attention to the energies of craving and clinging.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-05-03 Freedom from suffering - The Buddha's 3rd Noble Truth 56:22
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Understanding how mindful awareness supports acceptance, letting go and finding peace amidst all conditions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-05-01 Mindfulness Of The Body 51:42
Ajahn Amaro	Download Listen
Morning Reflection
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Monastic Retreat

2010-04-28 Embodied Spirit 1:12:55

Tara Brach

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The Buddha taught that mindfulness of the body is a direct path to the realization of truth, to peace and freedom. This talk explores how we leave a present-centered awareness of our body, and the pathways of homecoming.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-04-28 The Healing Power of the Dharma 60:28
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Mindfulness, the four noble truths, and freedom
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-27 Awareness as Love 59:31
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do the practices of mindfulness, metta and compassion weave together and support our journey in wholeness, healing and the end of suffering. This talk also relates how these practices support the work of psychotherapists and healers.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Retreat for Therapists and Healing Professions

2010-04-21 Mindfulness Is It! 48:49
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Power of Presence: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-04-19 Mindfulness - A True Homecoming 20:11
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Hollyhock : Metta Vipassana Retreat with Mindful Movement

2010-04-16 Mindfulness Part 2 54:35
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2010-04-14 Mindfulness Part 1 1:18:26
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2010-04-08 Resources from the Teachings and Practice of the Buddha for Transforming Distressing States of Body, Heart and Mind 63:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We examine the twin tracks of transformation - (1) going into what is difficult, into our suffering and wounds; and (2) cultivating awakened states. We explore the resources of (1) wisdom, through examining the the Four Truths and the arrows; (2) mindfulness as a central tool leading to wisdom; and (3) heart practices such as lovingkindness - all with an eye to their roles in helping us to transform distress.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Transforming Distressing States of Mind, Heart, and Body-For Ourselves and Our World

2010-04-07 Deepening Our Practice II: Deepening in Three Domains of Our Life 58:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We build from last week's identification of four broad ways of deepening formal practice: 1) developing simplicity, focus and a sense of clear priorities in one's life; 2) developing a strong support structure in various ways; 3) cultivating, in practice, qualities like mindfulness, metta, wisdom etc.; 4) developing a wise and compassionate sense of the path. We explore what these also mean in two other domains- everyday life (work relationships, family, community, the flow of our days); and our service and action in the larger world.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-04-05 Healing 66:35
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How the power of mindfulness brings healing, freedom, joy, and understanding.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2010-03-31 Deepening Our Formal Meditation Practice 55:42
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Through reflection on just having taught a month-long retreat and several poems, we explore a number of ways to deepen our formal meditation practice through simplicity, focus, building a strong "container", developing mindfulness and lovingkindness in relation to what happens, and increased invocation of the "wise parent" (or grandparent...aka "discipline").
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-30 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: From Mindfulness to Awareness 3:50
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Mindfulness is the tool, awareness is the result. All we need to do to convert the tool into the result is get out of the way.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-03-16 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Understanding Mindfulness 60:14
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Mindfulness is at the heart of the Buddha's teaching, but few people understand how it evolves from the simple practice of being mindful into a mature, full-embodied awareness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-03-10 "Wisdom is Wisdom"- Mindfulness Part 1 67:03
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-03-03 Mindfulness of the Body and Why It Is So Important 60:28
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body is absolutely fundamental for our practice and was for the Buddha, both a starting point and an end point. We explore (1) why mindfulness of the body is crucial both in the Buddha's teaching and especially in our highly mental culture; (2) how we practice mindfulness of breathing and mindfulness of postures and activities; and (3) how mindfulness of the body works to transform us.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March 2010 Month Long

2010-03-02 Why We Need Mindfulness 54:31
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Why our dear doomed attempts to be well need revising, and how nourishing our spirits while Staying, Loving, Opening and Wondering are the strategies that actually bring wellbeing by clearing the dust away.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March 2010 Month Long

2010-02-23 Investigation and Insight 46:58
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Sati-Panna - The merging of mindfulness and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-18 The Awakening of Equanimity 1:10:49
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Describes the development of equanimity through the vehicle of mindful attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February 2010 Month Long

2010-02-10 Practicing with the Body- Part 2 65:15
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review and expand the themes from last time- the importance of body practices for our times and lives, exploring our attitudes toward the body and developing basic body practices. Then we focus on mindfulness of the body, outlining several further practices and emphasizing especially how body practices help us practice more fully and critically in the flow of the daily life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2010-02-09 Transforming Hindrances Through Love 64:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk explores the unity of mindfulness and metta and how we work with obstacles to meditation that arise doing metta (loving Kindness) practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2010-02-07 No Part Left Out 56:25
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
As we deepen our practice of mindfulness, we are able to see our experience more directly and clearly. Metta practice helps to bring a kind, accepting attitude to this process, allowing us to open to some of the difficult emotional experiences that can arise in intensive retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February 2010 Month Long