Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2016-05-24 The Factors of Samadhi- to be trained in and enjoyed 61:06
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Use pointing (vitakka) and “tasting/feeling” (vicara). Energy comes with enthusiasm. Use the imaginative faculty to generate useful perceptions and images. Firm up mindfulness to supervise and protect the heart.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-20 The Centrality of Feeling 67:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As all dharmas converge on feeling, mindful handling of feeling is crucial for happiness and liberation. Revealing mental feeling through inquiry and handling it skillfully is a thorough practice
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-18 Intention and Mindfulness as Supports for Joy 55:23
James Baraz	Download Listen
The process of awakening joy starts with the intention to place well-being at the center of your life. Mindfulness is then utilized as the basic tool of a joyful life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening Joy Retreat

2016-05-18 Happy for No Reason - Part 1 1:11:01

Tara Brach

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These two talks explore the two different kinds of happiness, the blocks to happiness, and the ways that mindful presence and intentional gladdening the heart (positive neuroplasticity) can open us to our full potential for true happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2016-05-18 Transforming the Judgmental Mind 3 - Two ways of Transformation 66:46
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a brief account of the nature of the judgmental mind, we explore (1) a more direct way of working with judgment through mindfulness, inquiry, reflection, etc.; and (2) a more indirect way of working with judgment, through cultivating awakened states and resources.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths 65:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-11 Aligning mindfulness, attitude, and effort 44:44
Michael Grady	Download Listen
Unifying attitude, effort with mindfulness practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindfulness, Kindness and Discovery: Insight Meditation Retreat

2016-05-09 5) Sati - What Is Mindfulness 59:36
Ariya B. Baumann	Download Listen
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month-long retreat with Ariya Baumann