Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

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

2010-02-05 Five Faculties - Mindfulness 2 43:46
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
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2010-02-04 Five Faculties - Mindfulness 1 5:48
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
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2010-02-02 Integrating Practice into Your Life 40:43
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Reflecting on our deepest aspirations. Bringing mindfulness into our life is where the rubber meets the road. The moment you realize you are not present, you are! There may come a time when you come to know that all that comes up in your life is the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-02-02 Satipatthana Sutta, Introduction: Selfless Application 59:10
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Let the application of the teaching be informed by the root principle of selflessness and each mindful exercise manifest that selflessness through bare attention and total acceptance.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2010-01-31 Mindfulness of the Body as the Doorway Into The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 52:49
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Description: This talk begins with an explanation of the goal of Buddhist practice, liberation through non-clinging. Then it discusses that insight is what leads to liberation and the four foundations of mindfulness is the practice leading to insight. We discuss how the first foundation of mindfulness, mindfulness of the body, is a doorway opening to and integrating with the entire four foundations of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-01-30 32 Parts of the Body 56:34
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Brief overview of Siddhartha becoming a Buddha. What he realized - 4 Noble Truths and 3 characteristics of existence with foundations of mindfulness to the 32 parts of the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Uncovering the First Foundation of Mindfulness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2010-01-20 Essential Mindfulness 45:19
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma

2010-01-19 The Satipatthana Sutta 37:55:23

Rodney Smith

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The Satipatthana sutta is the fundamental teaching by the Buddha, revered by all Buddhist traditions, on the application of mindfulness. Mindulness is the the basic teaching that connects the isolated individual to his/her internal and external environments. Through a steady integration of mindfulness our unconscious tendencies become conscious, and we discover a preexisting awareness and interconnectedness to life that changes everything. The four applications of mindfulness (body, feelings, mind, and mind objects), as well as the underlying principles behind it, are explored thoroughly through talks, discussions, dyads, and homework.

Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2010-01-08 Mindful of the Climate of the Heart 26:51
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
This introduction to a week of lovingkindness practice presents metta as a specific subset of mindfulness practice: paying attention to the presence or absence of good will in the mind. It includes an explanation of how the practice of continual blessing, “praying without ceasing” cultivates concentration of the mind. Concentration is presented as the antidote to all afflictive energies and the ground out of which our natural good will manifests.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2010-01-08 Sati - Mindfulness 45:28
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2010 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2009-12-31 Metta as Mindfulness 42:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Brahma Vihara Retreat