Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-29 Introducing mindfulness 31:45
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce the concept of “mindfulness,” which is the standard translation of the Pāli word sati. Sati literally means “memory,” and mindfulness refers to the act of remembering the present. We find the same meaning in railway station signs that exhort us to “Mind the gap,” to remember to be aware, now. The practice of mindfulness is associated with the felt continuity of awareness, and this is what we are aiming for in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 1:15:02

Tara Brach

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When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance - we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, intelligence and capacity to love. This talk explores how this dissociation shows up in our lives and a powerful way that mindfulness enables us to integrate cut-off parts of our being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-25 Mindfulness In Action 51:20
George Mumford	Download Listen
Sati - Sampajanna with bare attention and mindfulness of four postures
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-24 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 36:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-23 The Power Of Mindfulness 53:03
George Mumford	Download Listen
Mindfulness as the heart of Buddhist meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-23 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 24:22
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-22 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada 42:00
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat