Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-10-08 Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith 21:36
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-07 Mindfulness Of The Body 33:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-06 Viriya - Resources And Applications 23:04
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
A reflection on the faculty of energy and how to apply it skillfully. Energy for investigation that leads to wisdom, energy for devotion and aspiration that uplifts the heart, energy for mindfulness of body that results in calm and insight.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-05 Aversion and Insight 61:59
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
We sometimes think that if we are experiencing aversion in our practice, that insight must be out of reach. Yet the Buddha teaches us that the path unfolds through understanding suffering. When we bring mindfulness to aversion itself, the understanding that develops can be very freeing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-05 The Five Spiritual Faculties 28:32
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
These 5 faculties when cultivated and developed merge in the deathless. Faith, energy, concentration, mindfulness, wisdom. These are faculties we all have, but they may be poorly developed. Guidance is given for how to touch into these and strengthen them.
Cittaviveka : Vassa Group Retreat

2011-10-02 Mindfulness, Metta, Mystery 45:22
Myo Lahey	Download Listen
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2011-09-28 The Wandering Mind 63:09
Andrea Fella	Download Listen
Practicing meditation, we inevitably encounter the wandering mind. Rather than considering this experience to be a "problem", if we explore this phenomenon with mindfulness, we can learn a lot about our minds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-09-28 Causing No Harm 1:22:35

Tara Brach

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The mindstates behind violence--anger and fear--are universal and natural. If they possess us and drive our actions, we suffer. If we learn to meet them with a mindful awareness--if we step out of judgment and angry reactivity--we serve our own freedom and the possibility of peace on earth as well.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-09-27 Developing Samadhi 62:26
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Through mindfulness of the breath and body we can develop the Five Jhana Factors, leading to deeper states of absorption.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Unifying the Practice of Concentration, Mindfulness and Insight

2011-09-25 Where is the problem? Exploring A Wise Relationship to Things 57:00
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
The mind of a Buddha is at peace because of the absence of reactivity. Can we discover that place of rest in our own minds? Mindfulness of vedana, the feeling tone of experience, exposes the ways we try to control our experiences from our likes and dislikes. What does it mean to open to the way things are?
Wood Acres Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat