Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2013-01-01 Questions and Answers 50:19
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Rodney Smith answers questions from the sangha.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society

2013-01-01 Morning Instructions - Getting Caught In The Eddies 49:55
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2013-01-01 How We Meet Experience 41:43
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Insight Retreat Center : New Year's Retreat

2013-01-01 Never Give Up 31:57
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Insight Retreat Center

2013-01-01 Equanimity 60:40
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Equanimity the noble quality of the heart that allows us to meet an unpredictable world, complex relationships and change without being shattered. Also explores the way the Buddha used equanimity as a description of liberation.
Gaia House : New Year Retreat

2012-12-31 Turning Towards The Light - New Year Reflection 60:37
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Reflections on loving kindness, forgiveness and Bodhicitta on New Years Eve.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 Renewal and Reconciliaton 47:14
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight : 2012 New Year's Retreat

2012-12-31 Wholeness and Love 42:11
Max Erdstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-31 Path: Classical and Post-Modern 41:10
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Skilled Meditator 2:01
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Spirit Rock Meditation Center, No Self, No Problem: An Exploration of Self-View 5:20:30
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
On this day of Insight Meditation practice, we will learn how to relate to ourselves wisely, lovingly and skillfully. We will try to weaken the unwise and unkind ways that we often relate to ourselves. Finally, we will understand that everything is marked by non-self. seeing through the illusion of self we can see through the illusion of the so-called "other".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-31 Guided Metta Practice- easy person, self and body 44:45
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 Guided Meditation: Awakening Compassion - Tonglen 29:52
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-31 Big View, Big Mind - Guided Meditation 29:52
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-31 Day#3 - Morning Reflections and Instructions 45:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-31 The Necessity of Fantasy 68:38
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Year Retreat
In collection: One Earth Sangha

2012-12-31 Dharma Talks 28:43
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-12-30 The Nature of Mind 62:19
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Factors of Awakening - Joy 53:18
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
We find joy in sensual pleasure but the true joy comes when we relax into the present moment and let go.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-30 Year End Retreat: Purifying the Mind 57:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-30 Letting Go 47:03
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Suffering & Non-Suffering - Guided Meditation 38:54
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Guided Meditation: The Freedom of a Forgiving Heart 36:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Forgiveness - Guided Meditation 32:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-30 Morning Meditation and Instruction 41:58
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-30 Morning reflection and Guided Meditation 55:25
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Meditation as the science and practice of happiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-30 Living in the Light of Death 49:50
Jenny Wilks	Download Listen
Some reflections on how awareness of the transience of our life helps us to appreciate its preciousness and clarify our priorities.
Gaia House : New Year Retreat

2012-12-29 Dharma Reflections 50:28
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Practice as an entry into the wilderness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-29 The God Whom I Love is Inside 59:15
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our suffering arises from unlived life--the fears and loneliness and hurt that we have been unable to digest and include in our heart. This talk explores our conditioning to become dis-embodied and the blessings of spiritual realization that arise as we inhabit our aliveness fully.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-29 Dharma and the Developmental Tasks of Adolescence 46:40
Matthew Brensilver	Download Listen
This talk examines ways that the dharma can support two key developmental tasks of adolescence: exploring the nature of happiness and developing a healthy sense of self without getting stuck in it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Teen Retreat (Walden West)

2012-12-29 Year End Retreat: Cultivating Wholesome Activities 65:11
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-29 Hindrances - Guided Meditation 41:41
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-29 Meditation: Lovingkindness 42:43
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-29 Feelings/Mind Objects - Guided Meditation 36:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-29 Beginnings and Endings 1:11:33
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Stillness and Motion: The Dance of Life, with Vinn Marti
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-29 Morning Instructions - Reflections and meditation instructions - mindfulness body breathing 1:11:04
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Samatha as a "standing in the stream" and not being "taken by the stream"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2012-12-29 Staying Open 31:03
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Insight Retreat Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-29 Dimensions of Desire 58:45
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
a talk focussing on the desires that are helpful and wholesome and those that lead to the re-creation of pain and distress.
Gaia House : New Year Retreat

2012-12-28 Factors of Awakening - Investigation 57:12
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
How balanced investigation reveals things as they really are, bringing energy to our practice and ways of developing skilful inquiry.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-28 The Transforming Power of Mindfulness 67:49
Hugh Byrne	Download Listen
What we accept we go beyond: when we bring a kind and non-judging awareness to our experience we align ourselves with the truth of how things are and open to liberating insights that lead to release from suffering.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Heart wood of spiritual life 54:00
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Lovingkindness - Instruction and Meditation 33:46
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 No blame/breath - Guided Meditation 29:25
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Metta and body - Guided Meditation 43:41
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Body scan - Guided Meditation 34:17
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-28 Instruction: Walking Practice 7:46
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Instruction/Question/Response 11:09
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Morning Instruction in Meditation 29:48
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2012 IMCW New Year's Retreat: Awakening the Heart of Compassion

2012-12-28 Being With What Is 12:10
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Insight Retreat Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-28 Reflections on Joy and Happiness 52:25
Chris Cullen	Download Listen
Gaia House : New Year Retreat

2012-12-27 Past, Present and Future. 54:44
James Baraz	Download Listen
As 2012 comes to a close, this is a time to reflect on the lessons from the past year, where you are now and what your vision is of the New Year.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-27 Factors of Awakening -- Mindfulness 61:36
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : New Year's Retreat

2012-12-27 Introduction to Meditation Refuges & Precepts 42:33
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : New Year Retreat 2013 - Touching the Earth: Embodiment, Renewal & Letting Go

2012-12-27 Year End Retreat: Throw Nothing from Your Heart 40:21
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Retreat Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-27 Opening Talk for New Year Retreat 35:47
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
This talk also includes Chris Cullen, Jenny Wilks, and Rob Burbea
Gaia House : New Year Retreat

2012-12-26 Balance as Refuge 55:56
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth - pt 2 2:32
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
This is a short wrap up of this talk. A few minutes between parts 1 and 2 were missed.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-26 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness- The Fourth 50:13
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We review the Four Foundations with continued emphasis on the Fourth, including attention to a number of practical situations. Pt 1 of 2. *There are a few minutes missed between pt 1 and 2. Part 2 is the wrap up of the talk.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Introduction to Insight Meditation

2012-12-22 Practice Here And There - Practice Everywhere 67:59
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Exploring what we learned in this retreat and how it translates as good support and protection in out lives in the larger world.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 Practice Instructions 41:01
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-22 What's With All This Meditation Then? 48:30
Paul Burrows	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation: A Path of Freedom

2012-12-21 Dissolving Storyline 51:47
John Travis	Download Listen
In usual fashion, one of John's poems followed a teaching on dissolving the four types of mental fixations and opening to the radiant mystery.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-21 The Buddha's Way to Happiness - Interview 4:52
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-12-21 Challenging Energies: How To Attend and Befriend 42:48
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
In practice we are often beset by challenging energies. Cultivating a skillful relationship to them is key to awakening.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 A Time For Healing 51:58
James Baraz	Download Listen
Dealing with the tragedy of Newtown, Conn.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-20 Metta - The Heart's Release 1:14:58
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
There is tremendous fullness of energy constituted by great confidence, strength and very clear straight forwardness that comes from a loving heart... that comes from the heart of Metta.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-20 The Five Aggregates of Self. Mindfulness, meditation and compassion practices to open up to no-self. 59:06
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
Talk explores many doorways of investigating the te4achings on self and no-self including developing a healthy sense of self. the four S's of self 1. simple sense of self 2. solid sense of self 3. self-interested sense of self 4. social sense of self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-20 Christmas Talk re the Path 47:03
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-12-20 Guided Concentration/Samatha Sit 43:12
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Samadhi: Gateway to Freedom 62:43
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
The cultivation of samadhi is more than just focusing the mind. The tranquility of deep samadhi is the foundation for insight and awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Entering the Dark, Entering the Light 58:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
In the context of the winter solstice, we explore how to open up to different aspects of darkness (stopping and stillness, not knowing and mystery, difficulty and creativity) and how we, in doing so, open to light.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation at the Solstice

2012-12-19 Turning Toward the Light 1:12:34

Tara Brach

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This solstice talk explores how, in the face of darkness - unconsciousness, ignorance, violence - we can call on the light that is within us. The two pathways are to courageously look directly into the places of suffering, and to include in our gaze, the intrinsic goodness in all beings, in life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-12-19 Healing the Mind 56:28
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-19 Morning Meditation Instructions 48:26
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Sitting and Walking Instructions 20:03
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-19 Meditation Instructions: Tranquility 5:56
Pat Coffey	Download Listen
Emphasis in instructions is the cultivation of ease, relaxation and tranquility. Note: power failure interrupted recording
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-18 Opening Talk - Welcome 1:16:47
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Wise Concentration: Steadying the Mind

2012-12-18 Troisième caractérisque libératrice 1:10:13
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2012-12-18 The Divine Abodes - Week 4 - Equanimity (Upekkha) as a Beautiful Emotion 1:29:03
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-17 Winter Solstice; Transforming Darkness 1:15:50
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-16 Doubt 41:03
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
San Francisco Insight Meditation Community

2012-12-16 Determination 35:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look at both a "deep" determination and various ways to practice moment to moment determination, pointing to examples from the Civil Rights movement and Aung San Suu Kyi. We also explore the difference between skillful and unskillful determination.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2012-12-16 Healing and processing the Connecticut Tragedy - Discussion 28:57
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
A guided meditation on healing and processing the tragedy that happened with the shooting in Connecticut, with a discussion after
Shakti Vihara

2012-12-16 Healing and processing the Connecticut Tragedy - Guided Meditation 13:21
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
A guided meditation on healing and processing the tragedy that happened with the shooting in Connecticut, with a discussion after
Shakti Vihara

2012-12-16 Reflections on Compassion and Guided Metta Meditation 50:54
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House : Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-15 Practicing in the Midst of Activity 61:56
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Practice in daily life
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-15 Reflections on Joy 42:44
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-15 Reflections on Loving Kindness 28:54
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House : Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-14 Intimate Mystery 63:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Discovering beginner's mind, not knowing and mystery on the path to awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-14 Opening Talk for Kindness, Joy and Compassion: A Metta Retreat 66:27
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
This talk also includes Yanai Postelnik
Gaia House : Kindness, Joy and Compassion

2012-12-13 Practicing With Difficult Emotions. 61:36
James Baraz	Download Listen
Exploring themes from the current issue (Volume 29/Number 1/Fall 2012) of Inquiring Mind with guest editor of the issue, Kevin Griffin.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-12-13 What, How and Who 56:10
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-13 Workshop: Awakening Compassion, Standing With Suffering 1:54:38
Myoshin Kelley	Download Listen
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-12 The Intimacy of Mindfulness 56:03
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Liberating Intimacy

2012-12-12 Forgiving Our Way to Freedom 1:11:13

Tara Brach

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Living with chronic blame or resentment is a trance that confines us to a limited fragment of what we are. This talk looks at the ways this trance is fueled and the process by which we release the armoring around our hearts.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-12-12 Relating to Sense Experience with Wisdom 54:20
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-12-12 Four Foundations of Mindfulness VII- Fourth Foundation I: Mindfulness of Patterns of Experience 63:05
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of the first three foundations, we look at the general nature of the Fourth Foundation of the specific frameworks used and some ways to practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-12-11 Deuxième caractéristique libératrice 1:14:40
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : TNI Regular Talks

2012-12-11 Mirroring Meditation 50:59
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Working with every image as it arises and shifts form into the formless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation and the Heart

2012-12-11 Skillfully Responding to the Voices of Mara 49:36
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma