|
|
 |
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
|
2020-02-08
How to Sustain an Open Heart
66:54
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
We can notice where we add stress to an already painful, difficult situation. The cause is tanhā and upādāna, craving and clinging. Use meditation to review the craving mind and feel the feeling without closing around it. The duty of the heart is to allow phenomena to arise and pass away.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-07
Q&A
52:06
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Can non-monastics in the west reach enlightenment? Attachment in relationships; How to encourage care for the environment; Qualities that free us from world of senses; Freedom from rage resulting from abusive relationships; Compassionate response to racist remarks
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-06
Mindfulness of Breathing
65:12
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Rather than being about the inhalation and exhalation of breath, mindfulness of breathing is about soothing the life force energy. As energy settles in the body, many disruptive emotive tendencies are cleared, leaving the heart available to meet experience in a balanced and sensitive way.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-06
Kamma and Saṇkhāra
46:33
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
We might experience running down familiar emotional tracks (saṇkhāra). Tracks get laid down by the repeated and habitual reactions to contact (kamma). To clear disturbing and negative tracks, widen attention and check the habitual impulse. The mind naturally seeks harmony and balance. Listen deeply for its response.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-06
3 Channels for Energy
29:57
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
There is a 3-fold system through which energy operates: bodily, conceptual and emotive. As we practice to resolve and release negative energies, we need resources. Bringing together the 3 aspects of body, mind and heart provide a way to open channels to drain and release unresolved energies.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-05
Embodied Presence (Part 2) - Planting our Roots in the Universe
48:22
|
|
Tara Brach
|
|
|
In describing our human predicament and dis-ease, D.H. Lawrence says we are like a great tree with our roots in the air. We need to replant ourselves—in our bodies, hearts and spirit. These two talks are guides to replanting ourselves. In Part 1, we explore how we are so often dissociated from the life of our body, and the pathways home. Part 2 looks at the challenges of pain, fear and trauma, and how we can gradually and skillfully reconnect with a wholeness of being.
|
|
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC
|
|
|
2020-02-05
Firm Centre Open Heart
60:00
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
How to arrive at a grounded centre and undefended heart? Generally, attempts to firm up involve holding on or hardening the exterior that inhibit the heart’s opening. Instead, a shifting of attention and energy is suggested. Three reference points are offered to support this shift: food, work and rest.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-04
Suffering and Its End
46:32
|
|
Shaila Catherine
|
|
|
In this talk, Shaila Catherine addresses the great teaching of the Buddha known as the four noble truths: 1) suffering, 2) the cause of suffering is craving, 3) the end of suffering, and 4) the path leading to the end of suffering. Shaila Catherine explores each of the four truths through inspiring sutta references and daily life examples that show how we can live our daily lives from the perspective of liberating wisdom. Rather than engage in endless philosophical speculations or become attached to views and opinions, the Buddha taught a practical path based on the recognition of the fundamental unsatisfactory characteristic of experience. When we recognize dukkha (suffering), we can realize the end of dukkha (suffering).
|
|
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
|
|
In
collection:
Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths
|
|
|
2020-02-04
Mindfulness of the Body: A Guided Meditation with Sequential Touch Sensations
25:16
|
|
Shaila Catherine
|
|
|
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a practice of mindfulness of the body by observing a sequence of touch sensations. This meditation guides practitioners to gradually move attention through a series of bodily locations where the feet, buttocks, hands, lips, and eye lids touch. At each location we pause to experience the present sensations that are known at that place of touching. After exploring touch points, we broader the field of attention to the whole body sitting. By alternating the focus of attention between precise and clear points of contact, and broad, restful, receptive awareness of the whole body, the meditator nurtures a clear bright balanced mind that can meet the present moment as it is.
|
|
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
|
|
In
collection:
Featured Guided Meditations
|
|
|
2020-01-29
From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 13: Exploring Our Experience of Time 4
64:24
|
|
Donald Rothberg
|
|
|
We focus in this session on four ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment, as in our core practice of mindfulness; (2) exploring impermanence reflectively and experientially in several ways; (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness, and learning to live from this awareness more and more; and (4) noticing and examining our various forms of conditioning around time. The first three ways of practicing correspond to the guided practices in the earlier guided meditation. For the fourth, we look especially in this session at the powerful ways that our cultural and social conditioning operates, comparing some of the main aspects of conditioning in the mainstream U.S., with its emphasis on future planning, productivity, and busyness, among other orientations to time, with how some other cultures experience time.
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
:
Monday and Wednesday Talks
|
|
|
|
|
