Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-06-10 Exploring The Universe Within 55:19
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
How I came to practice – intro; followed by an exploration of the nature of mind, a description of the qualities of mindfulness as a toll for investigation and liberation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-06-07 Relaxation, Curiosity And Mindfulness 58:01
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How relaxation and curiosity support our journey to see the truth of how things are.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2008-05-31 Joy Of Practice 69:45
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the joys and fruits of the practice of Vipassana/mindfulness? This talk elaborates the peace, joy, freedom that arises from meditation; especially in regard to seeing clearly the nature of thought, papanca and disengaging from the delusions of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation for the Curious

2008-05-31 Exploring Mindfulness 60:01
Thanissara	Download Listen
Gaia House : An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-31 Mindfulness and the Indriyas 1:13:03
Thanissara	Download Listen
This talk also includes Mahesi Caplan
Gaia House : An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-30 An Exploration of Mindfulness 44:46
Thanissara	Download Listen
This talk also includes Mahesi Caplan
Gaia House : An Exploration Of Mindfulness

2008-05-21 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 1) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #35 1:13:27
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Reflections on the Buddha's Teaching of Mindful Eating and the Flowering of Wisdom. From the series Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #35.
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center : CIMC Wednesday Talks

2008-05-21 Mindfulness In Relationship To Food 59:54
Pablo Das	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Dharma and Recovery

2008-05-14 Essential Dharma, Class 7 - Wise Mindfulness 54:07
Richard Shankman	Download Listen
Wise Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma 2008 - Session II

2008-05-10 A Little Renunciation 32:45
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
How training the mind in following precepts, such as the rules regarding the use of four monastic requisites - food, robes, shelter, and medicines, can win us greater patience, faith, gratitude, calm, courage, and mindfulness. Such ways of renunciation test our commitment to the path and teach us how to forgive and let go even our fears so that we harvest the riches of joy, compassion and inner peace.
Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)

2008-05-05 Questions And Answers #1 - Evening Dharma Talk 7:30 PM 66:58
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
On self-aversion, on the distinction between mindfulness and insight and on the development of samadi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-05-03 Balancing The Indriya - Evening Dharma Talk 53:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The five indriya: faith, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment merge in the Deathless where they correctly balance each other.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-05-03 Ode To Mindfulness 47:19
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why we practice mindfulness & why we feel such gratitude for this particular teaching. In this talk, the melding of mindfulness and metta become clear thrugh story and poetry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Yucca Valley Spring Insight Retreat

2008-04-26 The Power of Mindfulness to go beyond Reactivity and Coercion 61:48
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Of The Body, III 67:19
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body goes against the grain of our culture yet is fundamental for most of us to bring awareness, compassion and wisdom to daily life. We explore some of the transformation possible through mindfulness of the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2008-04-09 Mindfulness Part 2 44:30
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2008-04-07 Mindfulness Part 1 64:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Hermitage

2008-04-06 King Pasenadi Goes on a Diet (Part 2) also Self Knowing a Quiet Passion #36 1:18:46
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

2008-04-02 A Wise Understanding Of Desire 1:13:30

Tara Brach

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We lose huge swaths of our life when caught in wanting experience to be more and different. Yet if we bring a mindful presence to the thoughts and feelings of wanting, we discover a portal into full aliveness and freedom. This talk explores how to recognize and investigate wanting mind; how by tracing longing back to it's very source we discover that what we long for is already here.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-04-02 The Clarity And Promise Of Mindfulness 63:49
Heather Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 101

2008-03-20 Buddhadharma As A Path Of Happiness - part 2: Mindfulness 54:47
James Baraz	Download Listen
This is the second of a series based on cultivating the wholesome states that I share in my Awakening Joy Class. This first week we’ll explore the theme of Mindfulness as a path for well-being. We will share some practical exercises to use in daily life as well as understand why mindfulness is called by the Buddha “the most direct way to overcome sorrow and despair and realize the highest happiness.”
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-03-15 The Attitude Of Awareness 54:07
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The right attitude for meditation is one free from greed, aversion and delusion. The talk also defines some key terms in practice: consciousness, mindfulness, awareness, and wisdom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : From Awareness to Wisdom: Exploring the Mind

2008-03-12 Papanca - The Unbidden Wandering Of Mind 51:04
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
As mindfulness deepens, we can uncover the 4 root causes of getting lost in our thinking, as well as remembering the aliveness of being when we step aside from thinking.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-Month Retreat

2008-03-06 I Know I'm Stuck And I Still Can't Get Out! 56:08
James Baraz	Download Listen
Mindfulness practice helps us see clearly how we’re creating suffering for ourselves with our insecurities, self-judgments, judgments of others or other conditioned reactions. But often seeing these isn’t enough to release their hold on us. In fact, sometimes it’s more frustrating to see them but still feel as stuck as ever. We’ll explore how to work with this predicament wisely so we 1) don’t have to be at the mercy of our lofty ideals of good practice can use some simple but effective methods for moving to a greater place of well-being.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley

2008-02-27 The Art Of Practice: Mindfulness 1:12:58

Tara Brach

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In the Art of Practice, we explore key techniques in preparing the grounds for true meditation. These include relaxation, identifying a home base, awakening the senses and re-mindfulness. These "skillful means" allow us to arrive Here, and to rest in a natural mindfulness, awake and open awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks