|
|
 |
Please support Dharma Seed with a 2025 year-end gift.
Your donations allow us to offer these teachings online to all.
|
|
|
|
|
The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
|
|
|
| |
|
Dharma Talks
|
2020-03-11
Letting Go - Release - Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
60:35
|
|
Eugene Cash
|
|
|
Satipatthana - Four Foundations of Mindfulness offers us specific meditation practices with the body, breath, in four postures, in all activities, with the elements, with death, vedana, the heart/mind and the dharmas including hindrances and the seven factors of awakenings. Each of these practices includes a through line: One abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world. The not clinging to body, heart, mind or any experience is both the foundation of the Buddha's teaching and the doorway to freedom. It's the experience of coming into alignment with ' he way things are.'
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
:
March Monthlong
|
|
|
2020-03-02
Calm Clarity Compassion | Monday Night talk
1:10:51
|
|
Jack Kornfield,
Paul Hawken
|
|
|
How can we navigate through hard times? This is an excerpt of a talk Jack Kornfield gave with environmentalist Paul Hawken on March 2, 2020 at Spirit Rock Meditation Center on how to stay grounded and steady as we navigate the spread of the Coronavirus and other challenges.
The need for the Dharma is stronger than ever. We can choose to live in our fears, confusion, and worries, or to stay in the essence of our practice, center ourselves, and be the ones that demonstrate patience, compassion, mindfulness, and mutual care.
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
|
|
|
2020-02-24
Engaged Receptivity
51:29
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
The essence of meditation is engaged receptivity. This is the skill of pausing for a minute and witnessing the flow of dhammas. It becomes fully established by strong mindfulness, so that ‘full knowing’ (sampajañña) gives the view of the causal web: that dhammas arise from causes and are not self.
|
|
Emoyeni Retreat Centre
:
Clearing and Renewal
|
|
|
2020-02-23
Q&A
55:48
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
What is mindfulness; What is investigation; Unusual images arising in meditation; Death and afterlife; How to deal with vulnerability of heart?
|
|
Emoyeni Retreat Centre
:
Clearing and Renewal
|
|
|
2020-02-23
Mindfulness of Breathing
11:37
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Mindfulness of breathing is the gathering of attention around a process that is flowing and fluid. The steady and suffusive quality of breathing eases tensions in the heart and mind. The thinking process quietens down and external sights and sounds don’t impinge allowing the natural qualities of the heart become more apparent.
|
|
Emoyeni Retreat Centre
:
Clearing and Renewal
|
|
|
2020-02-22
Whatever the Content, Establish the Container
35:19
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Mindfulness replaces self as the container and arbiter if experience. Self finds it difficult to be with the disagreeable, the crazy, the chaotic, the out of control. Self searches for success, and dreads failure. Mindfulness can handle real life: no success, no failure.
|
|
Emoyeni Retreat Centre
:
Clearing and Renewal
|
|
|
2020-02-06
Mindfulness of Breathing
65:12
|
|
Ajahn Sucitto
|
|
|
Rather than being about the inhalation and exhalation of breath, mindfulness of breathing is about soothing the life force energy. As energy settles in the body, many disruptive emotive tendencies are cleared, leaving the heart available to meet experience in a balanced and sensitive way.
|
|
Dharmagiri
:
Firm Center, Open Heart
|
|
|
2020-02-04
Mindfulness of the Body: A Guided Meditation with Sequential Touch Sensations
25:16
|
|
Shaila Catherine
|
|
|
In this guided meditation, Shaila Catherine introduces a practice of mindfulness of the body by observing a sequence of touch sensations. This meditation guides practitioners to gradually move attention through a series of bodily locations where the feet, buttocks, hands, lips, and eye lids touch. At each location we pause to experience the present sensations that are known at that place of touching. After exploring touch points, we broader the field of attention to the whole body sitting. By alternating the focus of attention between precise and clear points of contact, and broad, restful, receptive awareness of the whole body, the meditator nurtures a clear bright balanced mind that can meet the present moment as it is.
|
|
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
|
|
In
collection:
Featured Guided Meditations
|
|
|
2020-01-29
From the Ordinary Habitual Mind to the Buddha Mind 13: Exploring Our Experience of Time 4
64:24
|
|
Donald Rothberg
|
|
|
We focus in this session on four ways of practicing that help us to transform our conditioning in relationship to time: (1) opening to the present moment, as in our core practice of mindfulness; (2) exploring impermanence reflectively and experientially in several ways; (3) accessing, at least briefly, a timeless awareness, and learning to live from this awareness more and more; and (4) noticing and examining our various forms of conditioning around time. The first three ways of practicing correspond to the guided practices in the earlier guided meditation. For the fourth, we look especially in this session at the powerful ways that our cultural and social conditioning operates, comparing some of the main aspects of conditioning in the mainstream U.S., with its emphasis on future planning, productivity, and busyness, among other orientations to time, with how some other cultures experience time.
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
:
Monday and Wednesday Talks
|
|
|
2020-01-14
The Transformative Power of Metta Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
56:21
|
|
Donald Rothberg
|
|
|
Guided by a recent translation of a poem about metta practice by an early Buddhist nun, from The First Free Women, we contemplate the simple yet radical and profound spirit of metta practice. The author tells us: "I have followed this Path of friendship to its end. And I can say with absolute certainty—it will lead you home.” We look at how metta cuts through fear, how it deepens concentration, how we work with the challenges of metta practice, how we navigate the “purification process” linked with metta practice, and how we integrate the kind heart, mindfulness, wisdom, and skillful action.
|
|
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
:
January Metta Retreat
|
|
|
|
|
