Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-09-10 Transforming Unhealthy Habits through Mindfulness 1:24:50

Hugh Byrne

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When harmful or unhealthy habits form, they can cause us much suffering and they can be hard to change because they are carried out automatically and without conscious awareness. Mindfulness is a key to changing harmful or unwanted habits as it provides skillful methods and practices to bring them into the light of awareness. Three elements of mindfulness are particularly important in changing unhealthy or unwanted habits - Intention, Attention, and Attitude. The talk explores these three elements with a focus on Intention.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-08-24 Mindfulness and the Six Sense Spheres 54:18
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series

2014-08-22 The meeting of Dukkha and Sati - a transformative encounter. 60:29
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
On dukkha and what it means, on sati and its seed quality in the development of stillness, wisdom, brahmavihāra and ethics. 3 specific ways in which mindfulness transforms the experience of dukkha.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-21 The Secret Instruction To Open Your heart And Deepen Your Mindfulness Practice 48:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
You're probably very familiar with the power of mindfulness. But as powerful as it is to just see things clearly, we can include a perspective that will bring richness and depth to our dharma practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2014-08-19 Mindfulness in Close Relationships 41:37
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
This talk was given as a part of the series "Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living." A real place for us to check our practice is in our relationships. After all, we are deeply relational beings. Sometimes, our deepest grooves in our minds are only stimulated in relationships. Defilements and habits of mind, such as greed, anger, and delusion, arise in ways that they don't in other situations. In other words, forces of suffering that are latent in other situations can arise in the context of close relationships. Fortunately, this is actually not bad news. Rather, it offers us opportunity to practice, to see ourselves more clearly, to become more free, and to see how we can untangle the love from clinging.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Where Rubber Meets the Road: A Series on Mindful Living

2014-08-17 How Mindfulness informs the Dhamma 65:43
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Finland

2014-08-16 Reflection. Follow-up on Clear Comprehension: Relating to the meditational process. 44:19
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Description: We don’t approach our meditation practice neutrally. Understanding need, bias, inclination in our approach to practice. About labeling as a sampajañña practice; Practical suggestions on questioning the breath and a glimpse on commentarial suggestions on how to go about mindfulness of breathing (Vism)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-14 Train for Nibbana 29:03
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
On the path to freedom, every moment in every life situation is an opportunity for training the mind. We plant seeds of virtue, watering them with renunciation, respect, contentment, generosity and valiant effort. We clear the cobwebs of lifetimes from the mind with wisdom and mindfulness guarding us from the eight worldly winds, while forgiveness, love and compassion hasten the heart's awakening to Nibbana.
Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)

2014-08-09 Reflection: Two dimensions of attentional training. Some similes" 21:17
Akincano Marc Weber	Download Listen
Descriptions: Temporal continuity and spatial stability as the two ways of practicing attentional focus across Buddhist Traditions. Four commentarial similes for mindfulness of breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : August 2014 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2014-08-06 Metta, Wisdom and Mindfulness 60:51
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Loving kindness is an important support for the work of wisdom and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat