Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-09-22 Insight Into Impermanence 46:01
Brian Lesage	Download Listen
This talk explores the nature of the insight into impermanence and how to support this insight within our meditation practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-16 Finding A Path With Heart 49:05
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Reflections on impermanence and the truth of our own mortality can lead us to a sense of spiritual urgency.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-08-08 The River Of Life / The River Of Change 49:00
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Impermanence
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness and Dhamma Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-16 Sharpening The Controlling Faculties, Part II 55:56
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Impermanence, seeing only destruction of arisen phenomena.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-14 The Wisdom Of Impermanence 55:50
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Exploring how understanding this profound, obvious, but sometimes overlooked truth, transforms out lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-05-18 The River Of Life; the River Of Impermanence 47:01
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Opening to the understanding of impermanence is freeing on many levels.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-05-08 Dynamics of Emotion 44:27
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Meditation can reveal the dynamic process of emotional life. In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores relationships between mind and body, between thoughts and emotions, and between present moment experience and concepts. Emotions are not avoided in meditation, instead we engage in a balanced and wise investigation of emotions and see their changing, impermanent, and empty nature. Transformative insight into impermanence may come through understanding the functioning of mental states, without worry about difficult emotions such as anger, grief, or fear. We will learn to respond, act, and speak with wisdom as we learn to open to the full range of emotional life.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012
In collection: Meditation and the Emotional Landscape

2012-04-18 Curiosity, Impermanence and the Heart of Loving Kindness 58:55
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-07 The Preciousness of Life 63:51
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
All about the Tibetan teaching on the four reminders: preciousness of life, impermanence, karma, and the defects of samsara.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-03-21 The Three Characteristics 61:20
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
An exploration of the Buddha's teaching on the characteristics of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and not-self.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for Scientists and Educators

2012-02-23 Not Two 33:32
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Leaning on circumstances, conditions loss. The importance of disillusionment, seeing impermanence reveals the undying.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-12 Impermanence and Kindness 54:03
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Fella and Scharf

2012-01-06 Turning The Mind Towards The Dharma 60:44
Patricia Genoud-Feldman	Download Listen
Supporting our practice with four reflections that highlight the meaning of our life: Precious Human Body, Impermanence and Death, Law of Cause and Effect and the Imperfections of Life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : January 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-01-01 Contemplating Impermanence 55:09
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Recognizing the changing nature of experience and the insecurity of human existence allows us to open to the preciousness of life in this moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-11-10 The perception of impermanence. 55:58
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The buddha said that the perception of impermanence, when cultivated, leads one to liberation. This talk explores some of the ways that we do not recognize this characteristic of existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-26 Getting Down to Direct Experience III 63:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Building on the last two sessions, we explore three inter-related aspects of ignorance or confusion: 1. How we move away from direct experience, especially because of reactivity. 2. How we develop, personally and collectively, unconscious material;and 3. How we do not fully understand impermanence, the roots of suffering and the nature of the self. We suggest ways to practice with all three forms of ignorance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-09-26 Deeply Reflecting on Impermanence in Our Human Condition 57:36
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The Buddha said, to take what is impermanent as permanent is wrong view. When we contemplate this truth and know it deeply, we will know the dharma as our true protection and refuge and this truth will set us free.
Wood Acres Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-09-24 Freedom Through Letting Go 60:49
Spring Washam	Download Listen
Impermanence and letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-07-20 Freedom in Awareness IV--Deconstructing Ordinary Experience 61:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We focus on how practice includes that of noting impermanence, suffering, and self/not-self, leads to deconstructing the assumptions of "ordinary mind" opening us up to "extraordinary mind".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-06-27 Living in Rental Accomodation - The Reality of Impermanence 61:30
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
All conditioned things turn out to be unreliable and subject to change. Recognising and accepting the truth of impermanence and the insecurity of our fluid existence allows us to let go of holding and resistance, and release our limited sense of self into the flow of life.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2011-04-10 Impermanence 1:18:26
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-03-22 Impermanence of the Aggregates 51:27
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Deepening practice by discerning the aggregates and their impermanent nature.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-21 Impermanence 55:34
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
The liberating power of knowing the truth of change.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-17 ImpermanenceTsunami 22:16
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-16 Impermanence: the Gifts of Facing Reality 1:22:46

Tara Brach

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Only by opening our hearts to change and loss can we live and love fully. Yet much of our life is organized around finding ground-- avoiding the insecurity of change, loss and death. This talk explores how our ways of grasping and resisting remove us from the spontaneity and aliveness, the love and wisdom, that is our human potential.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks