Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks in English

2017-08-09 Meditation: Listening to Life 19:20
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening – a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen to sounds, listen to and feel sensations, and then relax back into the ocean of awareness that includes and perceives the changing waves. In this relaxing back, we realize the peace and freedom of inhabiting our wholeness and essence.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-08-07 The Metta Sutta, Dunkirk and The Last Dalai Lama, they sound like 3 different things but they’re not. Monday Night Meditation (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 57:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia discusses How to Become Like the Dalai Lama
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2017-08-06 Metta - Guided Meditation 62:23
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Oneself, Benefactor, Dear Friend
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-08-04 Awareness, Insight, and Liberation 34:30
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Integrating two Burmese meditation traditions of Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness, Insight and Liberation

2017-08-04 Retreat at Spirit Rock; Say Your Name, Say "I Love You". 62:31
Ofosu Jones-Quartey	Download Listen
A guided meditation and short talk on the power of loving and being kind to oneself.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Family Retreat

2017-08-02 Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:22 min) 19:20
Tara Brach	Download Listen
This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound, sensation and feeling that lives through us. While it’s natural for attention to get distracted, the pathway home is a relaxing back into the awake space that is aware of this changing life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2017-07-31 Monday Night Meditation Talk (Drop-in at Spirit Rock) 1:42:38
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2017-07-30 Morning Meditation Instructions 59:06
Bart van Melik	Download Listen
How to be with challenging mind states.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for 18-32 Year Olds

2017-07-29 11: Walking Meditation 4:14
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
First establish bodily presence. Notice how the leg lifts and moves. Keep the eyes soft. Experience the wave-like motion - it feels good! Allow what’s been difficult or closed to arise and walk it out.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 10: Standing Meditation 2: You Can’t Let Go Without Support 8:22
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Establish support through feet and legs. Process of letting go can seep upwards through the body. Breathing acts as stabilizing quality.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 15: The Root Perception of Change 35:31
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
There are many things one can cultivate in meditation. There is craft, what can be learned. And there is art, what can’t be taught. Follow your nose, where’s your interest? Notice the difference between awareness and consciousness. Place an object in space, experience the object with dispassion.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

2017-07-29 08: Return, Return, Return 8:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery : Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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