Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-12-30 Don’t Concentrate - Absorb 42:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Liberation requires clearing citta of its contracted state. We can learn to care for our citta, to know what lifts and steadies it to bring it out of contraction. In meditation we try to concentrate and feel even more constricted. Opening up the body and accessing the vitality that comes from mindfulness of breathing can have a calming effect.
Uttama Bodhi Vihara : Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto in Uttama Bodhi Vihara (UBV)

2015-12-28 Attitudes that Support Mindful Presence: Acceptance, Kindness, and Curiosity 63:56
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
An essential element of mindfulness practice is to cultivate a willingness to be with our experience just as it is. Consciously cultivating qualities of deep-rooted acceptance, kindness, and interest in our experience supports freeing our minds and opening our hearts.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW New Year Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2015-12-19 What is Mindfulness ? 58:16
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : What is Mindfulness ?

2015-12-09 Desire: A Current of Homecoming 1:13:53

Tara Brach

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Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to bring mindfulness and compassion to the roots of desire, and be carried home to open loving presence. “Recovery is also about spirit – about dealing with that ‘hole in the soul’ … so how does this hole get filled and become holy space?”

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-12-02 "One Who Set Out to Study Fear" 66:18
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the importance, personally and socially, of practicing with fear. We work especially with these tools: (1) mindfulness and the study of fear (What is fear? How does it manifest in the body, emotions, and thinking); (2) heart practices like metta and compassion; and (3) developing wise and skillful responses.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-11-20 Deeply Conditioned Patterns Of Perfectionism 62:38
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses untangling "Karmic Knots" - 6 stages of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part Two 38:40
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part One 1:32:09
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 8 62:42

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-11-05 1st Foundation Of Mindfulness - 32 Parts Of Body, Elements, and Mindfulness Of Death 55:30
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores the 1st Foundation Of Mindfulness, with particular attention to the gift of being with dying
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2