Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2017-07-28 07: Standing Meditation 1: Balance – the Place of Least Stress & Most Harmony 6:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The single most important quality of standing meditation is balance. This is the place of least stress, of most harmony. Guidance is provided to sense into this balance where it’s just the muscular alignment that’s holding you up. Locking places can then relax and release.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-28 04: Walking without Headism 12:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-28 02: Standing meditation - Elements and Directions 13:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
What tells you you have a body? Guidance provided to sense the particular signals that tell us we have a body in the forms of elements and directions.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-28 01: A Harmony of Body and Mind 27:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-27 Guided Meditation on Appreciative Joy 38:35
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House : Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-26 Meditation – Relaxing into Sleep (no bell at end) 14:27
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This meditation can help us to access a relaxed attentiveness, or alternately, serve as a pathway to ease-filled sleep.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-07-26 Meditation: Living Presence – Awakening with a Smile 18:45
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This practice uses the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, include sound and relax back into the awareness that is the source of all experience. By letting life be just as it is, we become pure living presence – wakeful, open and tender.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-07-26 Meditation, Enlightenment and God 42:18
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2017-07-25 Secular Samadhi 55:12
Stephen Batchelor	Download Listen
Reflections on the practice of the jhanas, a personal account of the role of meditation in my life.
Gaia House : Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-23 Kindness as a Wise View 2:46:16

Mark Nunberg

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For the Five Subjects for Frequent Recollection Chant please see page 26 of Common Ground Meditation Center Chant Book.

Common Ground Meditation Center

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2017-07-23 Introduction to Meditation Practice 25:08
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Gaia House : Secular Buddhist Meditation Retreat

2017-07-23 Seven Factors Of Awakening - Guided Meditation 61:46
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Guidance with the enlivening and calming factors
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : 15th Anniversary People of Color Retreat

2017-07-22 Concentration Meditation and the Jhanas 6:15:06
Stephen Snyder	Download Listen
Taught by Stephen Snyder, this daylong returns our awareness to one object of meditation, thereby collecting and unifying the mind stream.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-07-22 Meditation: Karuna/Compassion 31:42
Ruth King	Download Listen
In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2017-07-22 Introduction to Meditation (Daylong at Spirit Rock) part 2 2:55:11
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-07-22 Introduction to Meditation (Daylong at Spirit Rock) part 1 3:03:07
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-07-22 Meditation: Six Senses 44:46
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2017-07-21 Meditation: Metta/Lovingkindness 31:05
Mary Aubry	Download Listen
During this 5-day silent retreat we will explore the Brahma Viharas, or Divine Abodes–four practices that open and nurture the heart. In the Buddhist teachings, these four practices–loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity–are considered the highest qualities of heart and emotional wellbeing.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : Opening the Heart in the Divine Abodes

2017-07-18 Fourth Day Morning Instructions-The Sixth Sense Door: Working with Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 50:58
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
Guided meditation on working with mind-objects. Morning Instructions, Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-07-17 Monday Night Meditation - Part 2 51:26
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Wes Nisker dharma talk at Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-07-17 Monday Night Meditation - Part 1 36:46
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Wes Nisker introduction and meditation at Monday Night Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-07-16 Introduction to Metta Meditation and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 46:36
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-07-15 06 Meditation is a process not a technique 23:06
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
Moulin de Chaves : Awakening in Stillness and in Movement

2017-07-15 First Day Morning Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 44:41
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Explaining four aspects of meditation practice: "sit and know you're sitting"; "there is a body"; "simply begin again"; "relaxed but not casual."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : July Insight Meditation Retreat

2017-07-13 Question How did Trauma affect your meditation Practice? 2:50
Amita Schmidt	Download Listen
Suggestions for meditators who have trauma.
Yellow Springs Dharma Center