Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-11-02 Getting Down to Direct Experience IV: How Can We Relate Skillfully to Thinking? 58:49
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After reviewing the emphasis on grounding in more direct experience, we explore how to be skillful as we move away from indirect experience with our thinking, focusing on (1) having our thinking connected with direct experience and (2) using "views" wisely. Includes Q and A.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-09-24 Get Out of Your Head! Jump in. Get Wet. 59:16
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Meditation practice invites us to enter the dharma stream. Stop thinking and creating imaginary worlds. Experience life directly, here, now.
Wood Acres Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-08-03 Learning to Respond, Not React 1:11:08

Tara Brach

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When life doesn't go our way, we often launch into a chain reaction of obsessive thinking, blaming and unpleasant emotions. This talk explores how we can use meditative practices to step out of reactive patterns and respond to life's challenges from our naturally wise heart.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-07-16 Good Friendship and How To Calm Down The Thinking Mind. 65:50
Sayadaw U Jagara	Download Listen
Friendship is necessary in life for the support of psychological and educational growth. It can equal the Dhamma or eight fold path. How to make our mind our friend, tentative exploration owith " Vitaka SanThona Sutta" MN -19 + MN -20
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July through October 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-07-08 Papanca Part Three: The Brahma Viharas 52:50
John Peacock	Download Listen
This talk deals with the last of the areas of our obsessional thinking: views. We also examine the Brahma Viharas as distinct forms of mindfulness that lead to liberation. We look closely, in particular, at metta as the necessary soil out of which grows and blooms the beautiful flower of compassion (karuna).
Gaia House : The Path of Mindfulness

2011-07-06 Papanca Part Two: The Tyranny of the Self 46:09
John Peacock	Download Listen
In this talk we examine what the Buddha means by the 'self', which is the second of the three poles around which thinking contracts and fixates. We look closely at the five processes that constitute the self not as a static phenomena, but as an unfolding and dynamic development.
Gaia House : The Path of Mindfulness

2011-07-04 Papanca Part One: The Unquenchable Thirst 48:36
John Peacock	Download Listen
In this talk we examine what the Buddha means by the 'self', which is the second of the three poles around which thinking contracts and fixates. We look closely at the five processes that constitute the self not as a static phenomena, but as an unfolding and dynamic development.
Gaia House : The Path of Mindfulness

2011-06-13 Guided Meditation - Responsibility and Thinking 51:07
Björn Natthiko Lindeblad	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation: Awakening Love and Wisdom

2011-05-10 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Judgment 58:55
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Judgment is seeing the world in quantifiable terms. There a holistic way of seeing that is not partial and comparative but becomes inaccessible when we believe in judgment. Let the presence of judgment remind you that your thinking and emoting is arising from an incomplete perception. Quiet yourself to the inward narrative and allow the whole mind, undivided by judgment, to arise.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-04-22 Thoughts about Thinking 1:31:07
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Also Big Sky Meditation; Q&A-including reflections on Ancestor Walk and Truth Mandala from day before
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self