Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-03-22 Brahma Vihara Day 22 Equanimity 21:06
John Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-22 Abiding in Emptiness 34:00
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Dropping our self-centeredness is a requirement for becoming partners with the world. And true partnership requires also that we, eventually, dismantle our sense of inhabiting a separate life.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-22 Morning Instructions Day 21 2:12
John Martin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Presence and Understanding 53:40
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Yoga

2015-03-21 Seven Factors of Awakening 38:39
John Martin	Download Listen
These seven treasures of the practice are to be known, cultivated and brought into balance.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Brahma Vihara Day 21 Equanimity 38:07
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-21 Seeing the World Afresh 21:50
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
Our practice is meant to capture the flow of the real. The practice of "choiceless awareness" is most helpful for that.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-20 From the Valley to the Mountain 64:25
John Travis	Download Listen
Using metaphors and imagery talk outlines Dependent Origination and Transcendental Dependent Arising.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-20 Being Dharma - Destined to Wake Up 61:14
Kittisaro	Download Listen
A gradual awakening with the "here and now" Dharma. "Suchness" Power of giving. Have you hugged your monsters today?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-20 The Compulsion to Compartmentalize 26:19
Jose Reissig	Download Listen
We tend to deal with the world by fragmenting it and stowing each fragment into a separate compartment of our mind. In so doing, we distance ourselves from the flow of life.
Dominican Sisters center at Saugerties : Rhinebeck Sitting Group Retreat

2015-03-20 Dwelling With The Divine 36:56
Thanissara	Download Listen
Guided meditation on loving benevolence. Integration of divine into human dimensions of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-19 Berkeley Community's Own New Green Committee 57:02
James Baraz	Download Listen
James along with Kerry Nelson, who is with Spirit Rock's Green Group and Sean Munding, from our community, are the speakers. Sean will be enthusiastically heading our Berkeley Community's own new Green Committee. We will be exploring using our practice to meaningfully address the issue of climate change.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-03-19 The Prototype Turning 37:00
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Turning point on the path, seeing patterns with clarity
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-19 Mindfulness, Great Mindfulness, Wisdom and Release 60:46
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
In this talk Heather shares some of her personal connection with the Thai Forest Tradition, followed by offering a map of practice from the tradition. Sati (Mindfulness) - MahaSati (Pure Awareness) - SatiPanna (Mindfulness- Wisdom) - PannaVimudhi (Wisdom Leading to Release).
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-19 Path of Transformation 60:36
Thanissara	Download Listen
Living from an authentic human heart through the journey of the shadow
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-19 Brahma Vihara Day 19 44:04
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-19 The Unobstructed Heart 40:26
Kittisaro	Download Listen
The inter-relationship of wisdom and compassion. How the power of kindness can melt the walls of the mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-18 How Practice Creates Happiness 52:50
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Buddhism describes conditioned experience as being dukkha (unsatisfying/suffering) in the First Noble Truth. Yet practice leads to happiness - how does this paradox resolve? This talk describes how happiness arises in/through the Eightfold Path of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-18 Freedom from Fear-Based Beliefs 1:13:28

Tara Brach

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This talk looks at how we get imprisoned in fear based, limiting beliefs. We then explore key meditative steps that help release these veils and reveal the fullness and goodness of our essential being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-03-18 The Art and Study of Practice 1:17:25
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-18 Mindfulness of the breathing body 44:30
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Anapanasati 1. In silence, guided: Int, Ext, Both; 2. Internal�A-B-AB; 3. External--A-B-AB; 4, Int + Ext�B-A-AB; 5. Open awareness; 6. How was practice
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-18 An Integrated Awareness: Reflections on Taking Refuges and the Three Jewels 46:08
DaRa Williams	Download Listen
A further reflection on the three refuges and what it is to engage with taking refuge in a conscious present refuge - as practice
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-18 Brahma Vihara Day 18 Mudita 37:30
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-18 Development of Moral Courage 56:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-03-18 Becoming Nobody Part II 1:28:34
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-18 Orginal Mind - Guided meditation 38:38
Thanissara	Download Listen
Noticing peace, Nature of awareness, Knowing the patterns of self
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-17 You Who are the Richest 33:43
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-03-17 Support for Waking Up in Daily Life 35:31
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-17 Cours du méditation du mardi soir 1:19:10
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-17 Equanimity 56:52
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
With poems, stories, haikus, and teachings, we explore the nature of equanimity, how to practice to cultivate equanimity, and some of the challenges of in our development of equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-17 Taste Of Peace 59:39
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Opening the Dharma Eye, radical reflection. Realization of Nibbana
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-17 Brahma Vihara Day 17 Mudita 36:12
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-17 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry, March 2015 1:11:06
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings will begin with a guided meditation and then open up to our practice questions allowing us time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2015-03-17 Cours du méditation du mardi midi 63:46
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2015-03-17 Opening To Reality 38:50
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Knowing Dukkha. Working the balance of calm and insight. Noticing change and peace
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-16 Staying in Your Seat 40:34
John Travis	Download Listen
One seat in the center of the room - the windows of the sense doors - the door of the mind. "Your only job is to stay in your seat." Ajahn Chah
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-16 Qualities of Practice 49:20
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-16 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 2 56:57

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-16 Establishment Of Right View. 57:07
Thanissara	Download Listen
This Practice is an Integrated Awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-16 Brahma Vihara Day 16 - Mudita 37:06
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-16 How To Deal With The Inner Critic 60:59
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-16 Morning Instructions Day 17 3:55
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Brief Comments on Paying Attention
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-16 Fruits Of the Path 39:06
Thanissara	Download Listen
A practice that enables the meeting of difficulty
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-15 The Potentials of Body, Heart and Mind 47:21
Brad Richecoeur	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-15 The Four Noble Truths: The Path - Part 3 54:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center : Weekly Dharma Series
In collection: Dharma Series - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-15 Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered 55:55
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-15 Take Heart 53:09
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Cultivating presence in the midst of challenge. Bestoring courage
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-15 Brahma Vihara Day 15 Compassion 41:51
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-15 The Value Of Moments Of Mindful Presence 38:58
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Moving out of automatic pilot
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-14 Simplicity 41:23
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Qi Gong

2015-03-14 Workshop: Working with Anxiety 3:00:16

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center

2015-03-14 Introduction into Listen Deeply & Speak the Truth 17:15
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-14 Sharing the Happiness of Others 46:48
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
The practice of cultivating mudita (empathetic joy) helps us share in the happiness and well-being of others. It counteracts envy, jealousy and the tendency to compare self to others. This moves us away from resentment and feelings of scarcity towards gratitude and generosity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-14 Surrender and Grace 57:14
Thanissara	Download Listen
Relinquishment and trust. Death as an advisor.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-14 Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke 1:36:12
James Baraz	Download Listen
Closing talk, Meditation and Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-14 Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke 65:33
James Baraz	Download Listen
Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke Mid day Movement & Meditation Q&A
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-14 Intro to Insight Meditation with James Baraz & Kate Janke 0:00
James Baraz	(Recording not available)
Introduction & Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-14 Brahma Vihara Day 14 - Compassion 40:01
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-14 Mindfulness: Step by step 46:22
Thanissara	Download Listen
The power of the path activity. Graduated process of mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-13 Ox and Cart. Blessing Chant 67:16
Kittisaro	Download Listen
A path that leads inward. Ajahn Chah's simile of the ox and cart
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : An Integrated Awakening: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-13 The Noble Truths 61:04
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk on the Noble Truths includes the 3 types of dukkha, the 3 types of craving, and the multiple doorways into cessation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-13 How New Discoveries Are Made 48:39
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
The purpose of tranquility (samatha) and of insight. The way we look at things can give us new perspective and deeper knowledge of them.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-03-13 Brahma Vihara Day 13 Compassion 44:52
John Travis	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-13 Morning Instructions Day 12 3:45
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-12 La Ricerca della Felicità (The Pursuit of Happiness) 57:47
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-12 “What Lineage Will You Choose?” or "Choose Your Lineage" 57:17
James Baraz	Download Listen
Many influences shape the thoughts and perceptions of how we view ourselves and the world. Some result in a fear-based perspective that leads to suffering. Others create more clarity and love in our mind and heart. Can we consciously choose which ones will determine how we lead our lives and is it possible to not be run by deeply ingrained habits that no longer serve us?
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2015-03-12 Cultivating Concentration (Samadhi) 59:45
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An overview of (1) the nature and importance of concentration in our practice; (2) some suggestions on how to strengthen concentration; (3) some of the challenges of cultivating concentration, including striving, spiritual bypassing, and attachment to states of concentration; and, briefly, (4) the relationship of concentration and insight practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-12 Brahma Vihara Day 12 30:17
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Introduction to Insight Meditation Class Series - Spring 2015

2015-03-11 Vedere il Mondo con Occhi Tranquilli - Equanimità (Seeing the World with Quiet Eyes - Equanimity) 1:14:03
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-11 'Free and Easy' A Dharma Poem, and Practice Discussion 1:15:58
Matthew Daniell	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2015-03-11 Buddhism & 12 Steps Class 1:59:03
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Week 4- Step 4
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-11 Buddhism & 12 Steps Class Series 18:52
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step 3 - Part 1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-11 The Carrot and the Stick 22:03
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Introduction to Insight Dialogue
Insight Dialogue Community (Bella Rakha Retreat Centre) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-11 Buddhism & 12 Steps Class Series 56:31
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step 2 - Dharma Talk
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-11 Buddhism & 12 Steps Class Series 58:39
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Step 2 Meditation
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-03-11 What is Going On? 53:38
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Exploring the Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness, in particular the aggregates. What is this event I call "me".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-11 Upekkha (Equanimità) Meditazione Guidata (Guided Upekkha) 54:11
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-11 Introduction to Compassion 33:46
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Compassion
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-11 The Centrality of Kindness 56:19
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-03-11 Morning Instructions Day 11 4:58
John Travis	Download Listen
Morning Instructions on the 'Marks of Existence'
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-10 La Pazienza è la Suprema Virtù (Patience is the Supreme Virtue) 66:09
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-10 Eight Great Thoughts 3:58:45

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with Ines Freedman, Janetti Marotta, Jason Murphy, Misha Merrill, Nona Olivia

This series is inspired by a delightful discourse that identifies eight thoughts of a great person (Anguttara Nikaya 8:30).

Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-03-10 The New Normal 37:56
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2015-03-10 Marks of Existence 57:27
John Travis	Download Listen
After a 'laugh out loud' introductory teaching, the talk deeply explores the Three Characteristics of change, suffering, and not self; and the Three Subtle Characteristics of emptiness, suchness, and 'not there with the object'.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-10 Three Instructions for Life 50:30
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
The path in brief, a tour of other realms, practicing to support the erosion of racism and Islamohobia in our society
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-10 Medicine, Diet and the Five Hinderances 1:11:53
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Origin of herbal medicine and similar causal principles applied to dealing with mental unbalance and more, especially, the five hinderances
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-03-10 Mudita (Simpatico Gioia) Meditazione Guidata (Guided Mudita) 50:34
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-10 Brahma Vihara Day 10: Metta for All Beings 43:20
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-10 Choiceless Awareness 10:58
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-10 Morning Instructions 65:52
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Several body meditations including death
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-09 L'Ecologia della Compassione (The Ecology of Compassion) 65:09
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
The Interrelationship between our inner world and the outer world
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-09 Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths - Week 1 1:27:43

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - The Four Noble Truths

2015-03-09 Compassion: Cultivation and Fruition 64:12
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
This talk explores Compassion through the following aspects: Cultivation Aspects: How to Practice and the Near Misses Wisdom Aspects: The Three Characteristics (change, suffering, not self) Fruition Aspects: Stories from ancient and modern meditators and activists
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-09 Death 49:18
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Mindful of the Body: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-03-09 Karuna (Compassione) Meditazione Guidata (Guided Karuna) 46:27
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-09 Death contemplation: an opening to an awakened life 53:20
Nikki Mirghafori	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-03-09 Morning Instructions Day 9 Third Foundation of Mindfulness 6:50
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat

2015-03-08 Compassione e le Quattro Nobili Verità (Compassion and the Four Noble Truths) 45:52
Kamala Masters	Download Listen
Monastero di Camaldoli : Awareness with Wisdom

2015-03-08 What is Insight Dialogue? 28:37
Gregory Kramer	Download Listen
Three Bases of Insight Dialogue: meditative qualities, wisdom and relationship
Insight Dialogue Community (Home of Compassion, Island Bay) : Insight Dialogue Retreat

2015-03-08 The Third Foundation: Knowing theMind 63:32
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
This talk discusses how to apply mindfulness to the mind and body. Clarifies what kind of attention is called for in working with thoughts/emotions. Distinguishes mindfulness meditation from psychotherapy, and discusses the relationship between them. Explores "which tool is right for the task."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Insight 1 Month Retreat