Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-10-16 Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources 2:37:12
Bhikkhu Analayo	Download Listen
"The aim of my presentation will be to investigate what mindfulness practice is about according to the early Buddhist discourses. These discourses have been preserved in the Pali Nikayas, in the Chinese Agamas, and at times also in Sanskrit fragments and sutra quotations preserved in Tibetan. From a historical viewpoint, these discourses represent the earliest layer of Buddhist textual material and thus take us back as close as possible to the original instructions delivered by the Buddha. In these texts, we find two basic expositions: 1) the fourfold establishment of mindfulness taught in general; 2) the threefold establishment of mindfulness associated with the Buddha himself. First, I will examine the fourfold establishment of mindfulness, based on the way it is depicted in the different extant versions of the Discourse on Mindfulness and the Discourse on Mindfulness of Breathing. Then, I will compare these to the threefold establishment of mindfulness. Through such comparison, I hope to arrive at key aspects of Buddhist mindfulness practice according to the earliest available textual sources at our disposition."
Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Attached Files: Mindfulness According to Early Buddhist Sources by Bhikkhu Analayo (PDF)

2011-10-16 Developing Mindfulness with Children - A Workshop for Adults Morning Session 2:14:34
Sharon Salzberg	Download Listen
with Susan Kaiser-Greenland
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular 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
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness and Metta: True Liberation LGBTQQI-SGL

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