Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-12-03 The Embodied Journey 61:00
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Opening to mindfulness of the body is both the beginning of practice and the vehicle that carries you through the practice as the "felt sense." Embodied presence through awareness of the body is one of the fruits of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Three Centers Retreat: Eye of Wisdom; Heart of Compassion; Body of Awakening

2008-11-22 Mindfulness Of Breathing 48:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2008-11-20 Anapanasti 55:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-11-19 Metta - The Practice Of Kindness 58:13
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This talk gives a thorough overview of the practice and application of metta (unconditional love). Also explored is the unity of mindfulness and metta, and how when metta is cultivated it becomes a source of wisdom in our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga

2008-11-16 Mindfulness Of The Body 53:37
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body as a vehicle of awakening - this talk explores what's challenging about being in the body - working with physical pain, difficult emotions, and how mindfulness practice helps bring insight and ease.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga

2008-11-13 Let The Breath Just Be The Breath 56:04
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The way we experience ourselves and the world is highly conditioned by our perceptions , known as sañña in the Buddhist teachings. Through the process of perception we judge and filter our experience, preventing us from seeing things as they really are. The practice of mindfulness offers the possibility of working directly with our perceptions, and even inclining the mind towards more skillful and pleasant ways of experiencing ourselves and the world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-06 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 3) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #37 1:18:27
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching of Mindful Eating and the Flowering of Wisdom.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center : CIMC Wednesday Talks

2008-11-06 A Journey To Now With Mindfulness And Concentration 59:01
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
An overview of the qualities of mindfulness as an expression of the awakening mind and heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Embodied Presence

2008-11-02 An Attitude Of Mindfulness 54:34
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one free of wanting, resistance or delusion. Then we can achieve the intelligent knowing of experience that mindfulness offers.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2008-11-01 Openness Acceptance Intimacy 67:22
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Openness, Acceptance, and Intimacy are qualities of Mindfulness practice that lead to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-10-28 Cycles Of Awakening 59:25
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
There are two great cycles of the Mind on the path of Awakening. Once cycle increases as happiness and freedom through the Four Foundations of Mindfulness. The other is through struggling and rejecting the experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation

2008-10-22 Practicing With Fear - part I 58:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Fear is a very powerful force in our lives- personally, interpersonally and socially. What is fear and how do we work with it? Here we explore the nature of fear and its complex nature as involving intelligence and an urge to action, but also commonly reactivity and delusions. We suggest several main ways of practicing, 1) coming back to balance through antidotes such as metta, beauty and refuges in our deeper values; 2) mindfulness; 3) wisdom and 4) active inquiry and engagement with our own fear.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2008-10-19 Coming Home - The Precious Experience Of Belonging 38:45
Larry Yang	Download Listen
How the sense of belonging is so important to our spiritual practice and our lived lives. A sense of trust and safety supports our mindfulness practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTQ

2008-10-18 The Gift Of Presence And Loving Kindness On Our Paths Of Awakening 48:42
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
The transformative power of mindfulness to all our experiences as described in the four foundations of mindfulness and its companion loving kindness and forgiveness in holding the places of forgetting
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : LGBTQ

2008-10-02 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 4 1:28:14
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-09-25 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 3 1:28:12
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-09-24 Soul Retrieval 1:12:07

Tara Brach

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When we become stressed and reactive, we lose contact with our natural spontaneity, wisdom and openheartedness. This talk investigates the ways we become caught in the stress-trance and the key elements in awakening: pausing and remindfulness. Using the gateway of the senses, we explore both the pathway of presence and the gifts of reconnecting with soul, spirit, essence.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-09-13 The Road Less Travelled 50:57
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Anxiety and Aversion are the proximate causes of disconnection in our lives. This talk explores the ways that mindfulness and investigation take us from a life of impulse and reactivity to a conscious, responsive life.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation

2008-09-12 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation 46:15
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation

2008-09-11 Introduction to Mindfulness - Week 1 1:33:37
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-09-06 Wise Speech And The Path Of Liberation 64:16
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
For this retreat on wise speech, mindfulness, and non-violent communication, we begin with examining the place of wise (or "right") speech in the Eightfold Path, and how it is linked to training and development in wisdom, ethics, and meditation. We then reflect on the importance for this path of speech, and the four ethical guidelines for speech given by the Buddha: (1) truthfulness, (2) helpfulness, (3) warmth/kindness, and (4) appropriateness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness, Wise Speech and Nonviolent Communication

2008-09-04 Wise Speech 53:37
Narayan Helen Liebenson	Download Listen
Learning the four guidelines of mindful speaking which allow us to see with greater clarity
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Engaged Mystic: Meditation for Life

2008-08-25 Bringing The Practice Home 56:49
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
An end of retreat talk: Practice and principles to bring our insights and practice into our lives. Includes wise intention, renunciation, loving kindness and balanced effort and mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2008-08-14 Tranquility And Concentration 63:49
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
The tranquility and concentration factors of enlightenment are the natural outcome of mindfulness and wise attention. With a concentrated mind, one can see things as they really are. This is the path of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : People of Color Retreat

2008-08-13 Four Noble Truths 63:13
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
The bedrock teaching of all Buddhist traditions are discovered through mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight and the Art of Equanimity: Insight Meditation Retreat