Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2013-03-04 What's Up With Change? 58:26
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How come we forget about impermanence or try to deny the reality of change, aging and death. What happens when we turn toward this fact - so it supports life, freedom and well being and we use it as a inspiration to practice and experience the preciousness of the moment
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-01-24 It Might Of Been Otherwise 50:31
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Reflection on impermanence and how to work with challenges/hindrances that come up in practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Steadying the Mind: Opening to Insight

2012-11-14 Hands Off the Controls 1:16:18

Tara Brach

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We are deeply conditioned to respond to impermanence and inevitable loss by trying to control our experience. Our egoic reactivity prevents us from responding wisely to our life, and living the moments fully. This talk looks at how we can let go of controlling, open to the groundlessness we run from, and reconnect with the deep intelligence and love that flows through our being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-11-08 The Greatest Disappointment... Or Anicca and Letting Go. 60:50
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discussion the truth of impermanence and all its implication for life and letting go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2012-10-25 The Reality of Impermanence 62:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Embodying the Awakened Heart

2012-10-20 To Be With Life 41:19
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Much of our daily life is make-believe. To be with the real we have to withdraw from this charade and embrace our actual experience, including the perception of impermanence.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-10-16 The Liberating Embrace Of Anicca/Impermanence 1:18:12
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
The only thing that we can know for sure is the constancy of chance. It's the most basic fact of our existence. Realization of the truth of impermanence is a gateway out of feeling the separateness - the suffering of self-centered existence. We begin to understand that we are intimately woven into endlessly changing, reflective web of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-09-26 Touching Nibbana 60:44
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Mula Sutta - impermanence as gateway - the unmoving - you wont find the wise one "out there."
Gaia House : Touching the Earth

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