Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-09-24 Deepening concentration, developing happiness 56:14
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Any time we practice mindfulness and wise attention, we are weakening the impact of the hindrances, and strengthening what are known as the five jhanic factors: meditative qualities that support the continuity and deepening of our meditation. Each of the jhanic factors actually balances and acts as an antidote to one of the hindrances. This talk looks at how to strengthen the jhanic factors, and use them skillfully as antidotes to the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-23 Mindfulness Of The Body - The Four Elements 53:58
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
An exploration of the 1st foundation of mindfulness with an empahasis on the four elements. Includes a short guided meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-19 Mindfulness and Non-Attachment 56:52
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-09-16 The Practice of Mindfulness 58:38
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-09-13 Titrating our Dukkha. 54:40
James Baraz	Download Listen
Though mindfulness meditation instructions generally suggest paying attention to what is predominant, focusing on overwhelming emotions especially those rooted in trauma is often not beneficial. This talk, which includes the Buddha's teachings on working with difficult emotions as well as theory from Somatic Experiencing (SE)—an approach to working with trauma—explores how to work with intense emotions by touching them a little at a time.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-09-13 Four Foundations of Mindfulness 53:18
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-10 Mindfulness Of The body 56:24
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Developing a wise relationship to our body is an important part of our meditation practice. We often have a distorted, even aversive attitude to the body.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-08 Embodiment 47:21
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Using the metaphor of the two darts, this talk explores how mindfulness of the body is an antidote to the second dart of reactivity.
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-07 Opening Talk for Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR Retreat 48:45
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Opening Talk for an Insight Meditation retreat that is particularly relevant to those teaching or training in mindfulness-based applications. This retreat explores the Four Foundations of Mindfulness as taught in the Satipatthana discourse given by the Buddha. This talk also includes John Teasdale and John Peacock
Gaia House : Mindfulness, Insight, Liberation: The Foundations of MBCT/SR

2012-09-05 Trance of the Unreal Other 1:22:49

Tara Brach

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We are conditioned to perceive people as unreal others- two dimensional characters who lack sentience, vulnerability and goodness. This is often most insidious when we filter people through demeaning culturally driven stereotypes. This talk explores the suffering of living in a trance that separates us from others, and how our practices of mindfulness and compassion enable us to experience what Thoreau calls the "miracle" of seeing through another's eyes, if only for a moment.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks