Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2017-10-17 Liberation and Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 61:48
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Here and now, how the deepening levels of Mindfulness and Loving Awareness can free the heart and mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Meditation Retreat
In collection: Developing Our Practice

2017-10-17 Understanding Our Defences and How To Work With Them - Part 2 65:33
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
Meeting our defenses with mindfulness and understanding can help us to let go of difficult emotions and attain peace, happiness, and freedom.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-15 Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 59:41
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-14 Workshop: The Discipline and Freedom of Wise Speech 2:42:52

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with Mark Nunberg, Wynn Fricke

The Buddha has much to say about wise speech as a cause for living with integrity and building wholesome community, and as a direct opening to what the Buddha calls the bliss of blamelessness. In this workshop we will look at the Buddha’s teachings on wise speech in terms of all the relationships we navigate in our lives. We will explore the radical question, what does speech look like when it is not being motivated by greed, anger or delusion? The Living the Practice Workshop Series is designed for people who have an ongoing mindfulness practice and want to integrate the practice more thoroughly into all aspects of life.

Common Ground Meditation Center

2017-10-10 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course - Week 5 1:32:13

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course (2017)

2017-10-08 Third foundation of mindfulness 59:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of the mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by these states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion, and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice both the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-06 Meeting Dosa with Mindfulness and Wisdom 62:42
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-03 Maranasati Retreat Normalizing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 49:44
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Great is the matter of Birth-and-Death. Life passed swiftly and is quickly lost Awaken! Awaken! Do not waste your life... Exploring mindfulness of death in Theravada Practice. Looking at the reality of human death in the world today and at the time of the Buddha. The paradox and potential of opening to the reality of death as part of life and Buddhist practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Maranasati: Contemplating Death / Awakening to Life

2017-10-03 Practice As A Path Of Happiness - Part 2 64:11
James Baraz	Download Listen
Continuation of the last talk: using intention, mindfulness, difficulties, and gratitude as supports to greater well being in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2017-10-03 Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course - Week 4 1:33:59

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation Course (2017)