Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-05-11 Good Enough. 45:10
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2011-05-11 Non Self/Emptiness (Starts a little late) 49:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Women in Meditation

2011-05-11 The Dharma, the Cosmos, and You - Part 1 55:45
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Questions about identity -- with a reflection on modern science to arouse awe and wonder.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-11 The Dharma, the Cosmos, and You - Part 2 1:07
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Continued: Questions about identity -- with a reflection on modern science to arouse awe and wonder.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-11 Questions & Answers - Wednesday 56:34
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-05-11 The Buddha's Awakening: A Myth for Us All! 1:14:08

Tara Brach

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In this telling of the Buddha's story, we find archetypes that reveal a universal path of awakening and freedom. We explore how each of us has the potential to realize the loving and radiant awareness that is our source.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-05-11 Metta for Self 56:15
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2011-05-11 Equanimity in Action III-Somatic Practices 63:34
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
After a review of our first two sessions, we explore, both through an overview and through experiential exercises, bodily-based practices to help cultivate equanimity.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

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

2011-05-09 Mudita - Joy 55:16
Nina Wise	Download Listen
Joy as a rigorous practice - that changes the world. Ending with a chant by Jennifer Berezan
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-09 Dimensions of Desire 53:18
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Women in Meditation

2011-05-08 This is Just About Walking 66:40
Larry Yang	Download Listen
All about walking meditation as seen through the lens of the Eightfold Path to Freedom. NOTE: There are some audio quality issues for the first 18:36 minutes...clean thereafter.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-08 Questions & Answers - Sunday 51:49
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-05-08 Closing remarks around precepts and spiritual friendships. 1:20:25
Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Jayanto, Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-08 Top Ten Retreatants Questions 64:25
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
An exploration of the ten most frequently raised questions, concerns and issues of Dharma practitioners, in sustaining and deepening practice in their everyday life.
Gaia House : Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out

2011-05-07 Living The Pause 65:56
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The path to the Deathless can be summarized as pausing when a reflex/reaction occurs. checking in with ones wholeness and waiting for a response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-07 Refuge 47:01
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Women in Meditation

2011-05-07 The Hindrances are Mara 45:34
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Working with the hindrances in retreat and in our lives. Kindness as a main antidote.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-07 Selfless Practice 10:40
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2011-05-07 Bring Daily Life Into Practice 58:46
Ajahn Jayanto	Download Listen
Reflections on themes of the retreat in the context of its ending; ways we can use the teachings practically in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-06 Questions and Answers 1:59:43
Ajahn Sucitto, Ajahn Jayanto, Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-06 Working With Mental States 64:58
Gloria Taraniya Ambrosia	Download Listen
Through meditation we become more skilled at identifying mental states - discovering what we are experiencing and learning to relate appropriately.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : May 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-05-06 Things As They Have Come to Be 56:19
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
An introduction to the attitude of mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-06 Summing up 16:01
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-06 20 minutes of meditation and Q&A on becoming, the nature of mind/awareness 63:13
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-06 Freedom From Obsessinig and Rejecting 52:31
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk uses the Buddha's model of the Middle Way to explore our tendencies to get caught either in obsessing about self, others and world, or in trying to reject and deny the same. Martin points to a creative, dynamic engagement with experience which reflects the title of the talk.
Gaia House : Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out

2011-05-05 The Five Aggregates 53:10
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
The Five Aggregates
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-05-05 Death And Awakening 49:53
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Listen deeply to the resonance within where virtue sows fields of goodness, wisdom and compassion, and Death teaches us to let go. At first, we tremble with fear. But out of that fear, we draw strength. Out of anger – a stillness and forgiveness. Out of greed, we draw generosity and gratitude. And from true vulnerability, we awaken to the Deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-05 The Garden of the Heart 57:49
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-05-05 Sankhara Volitional Conditioning 7:38
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-05 Summary Of Practice Instructions 19:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-05 Skillful Inclinations: Parami 64:25
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Through sustained resolve in terms of meditation - a virtue skillful inclination can dissolve aspects of self-view.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-05 Treasures 34:31
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-05-05 Beyond the Shaping of the Mind 53:07
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk links the concerns of our life, the tendencies of our minds, and the practice of meditation. Martin explores the way our conditioning and mental attitudes colour all our perceptions, and explores how dharma practice invites us to see through our acquired mental shaping, beyond our ideas, to meet life as directly, as deeply, as freely as possible.
Gaia House : Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out

2011-05-04 Being With It 69:00
Ajahn Jayanto	Download Listen
Bring kindness to our practice by remembering that we care - and that we practice in relationship to ourselves and others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-04 Healing & Release through Body Awareness 54:44
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-05-04 Sanya Perception & Vedana Feeling 12:39
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-04 Sending and Receiving Metta 56:17
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2011-05-04 Equanimity in Action II 63:07
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
A continued exploration of the nature of equanimity, how we cultivate it in formal practice and in action. with a particular focus in the last part of the talk on "The Eight Worldly Winds"
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-04 Changing Mind From Being "The Mind" 51:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Mind is not an entity but a network of perception, feeling, and inclinations that affect each other. By directing we can bring around the change of release
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-04 Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out - Opening Talk 68:05
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk introduces a way of participating in a silent retreat that leaves room for all aspects of our life. Martin discusses some orientating reflections that run throughout the retreat, beginning with the ongoing questioning of our experience as we settle more deeply into it; 'what is happening now?'
Gaia House : Whole Life, Whole Practice, Nothing Left Out

2011-05-03 Merging In The Deathless 1:10:22
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
The Buddha teaches the way to the deathless; this way is not through one thing, but through a balance, a mandala of spiritual factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-03 A Life of Truth 64:13
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Understanding practice to include deep retreat and the entirety of life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-03 A Wise Relationship with Suffering 44:18
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-05-03 Vedana Feeling 7:29
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-03 An Island Beyond Which We Cannot Go 29:47
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
The Buddha gives us lessons in emptiness. We are compelled to trust so completely to be able to truly receive these teachings, surrendering to the Dhamma, offering everything. We bless each step, harvesting wisdom with a brave heart. And in this remarkable learning, we shall know the unexcelled fragrance of the Dhamma, the island beyond which we cannot go.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-02 The Common Denominator 55:06
Will Kabat-Zinn	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-05-02 Questions 1:42:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Questions included subjects such as bhava/becoming, reflecting on death, short cuts to enlightenment, right effort ...
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-02 The Path of Liberating Insight 64:27
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-05-02 Rupa Corporeality 13:04
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-02 No Carrot, No Stick: Opening to the Center 68:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Feeling attracts and motivates the mind - often heedlessly. The feeling that accompanies skillful intention steers the mind towards release.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-01 Stories of the Tudong Monks pt 1 of 3 61:31
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
Stories of the Tudong Monks. How they can guide our lives today.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-05-01 Remembering Love 54:54
Tara Brach	Download Listen
The habit of self-judgment not only causes emotional pain, it creates a trance that obscures the purity and vastness of our Being. This talk explores how a wakeful and forgiving heart can heal and free us. (Retreat Talk)
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-05-01 Letting go of Disturbance, Deepening Stillness 60:07
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
To deepen our meditation practice we need to work skillfully with whatever is a disturbance -- whether it's the gross forms of the hindrances, or the subtlest manifestations of restlessness. This subtle restlessness often comes from a primal anxiety. We need to recognize this and find the stillness in our experience. Then we can truly be with things as they are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-05-01 Khandha The Aggregates 13:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : Khanda - The Aggregates

2011-05-01 Stories of the Tudong Monks, pt 3 of 3 43:04
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
pt 3 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-05-01 Stories of the Tudong Monks, pt 2 of 3 1:19:03
Ajahn Pasanno	Download Listen
pt 2 of 3
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-05-01 Sensation, Feeling and Energies 11:07
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We can establish mindfulness in the body by tracking sensations, feelings and energies.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-05-01 Coming Out Of The Trance 62:34
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Our energy gets dragged out and fixated by various outflows (asava). Through widening and softening we can stop constructing the alienated "places" of our dukkha
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-30 Noble Friendship, Noble Warming 35:31
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
As we grow in wisdom, our fear of death dissolves. The more we purify from within, the more we abide with a clarity of mind that bestows the ultimate seeing, our cosmic ordination, our unburdening from the sufferings of this realm. The veil of delusion collapses in the sacred footprint of the Dhamma. This will be our noble warming.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-30 Commitment to Intimacy, Equanimity & Continuity 65:39
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
The practice of samadhi requires commitment to wise effort towards concentration. it requires overcoming resistance to concentration, to be willing to feel intimacy with teh object. The fruit of commitment to concentration is one-pointed equanimity. Concentration can be considered om five different qualities from dedication to steadiness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-04-30 Holistic practice - The Body 6:15
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-30 Standing Meditation 19:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-30 Elemental Wholeness 19:21
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-30 Elemental Wholeness -- RECOVERED 53:54
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field. Copy of http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/9/talk/12813 with recovered audio
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-29 An Occasion For Gathering In The Dharma 46:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We form a spiritual company and a shared Dharma body when we commit to a retreat with precepts and refuges.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

2011-04-29 Continuity and Intimacy 59:07
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
Deepening concentration moves on two axis - horizontal and vertical. Continuity, or staying over time, is the horizontal axis. Intimacy, or the movement toward dissolving the subject/object, is the vertical axis. Together concentration deepens.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-04-28 7. Equanimity (upekkha) 54:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
Seventh and final talk in an 8-week series on the 7 Factors of Awakening that began with an overview on March 10, 2011.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-04-28 The Paramis and Generosity 1:24:04
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-27 The Blessings of Embodied Awareness 1:20:13

Tara Brach

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One expression of our suffering is homelessness--feeling cut off from the presence and aliveness that is our source. This talk explores the existential and cultural forces that foster disconnection from our physical and energetic being, the practices that enable us to embrace our unlived life and the gifts of homecoming.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-04-27 Awareness of Body 40:47
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-04-27 Buddhist Instructions on Mindfulness of the Body 55:51
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-27 Two Wolves 54:51
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen

2011-04-27 Equanimity in Action- Part I 61:54
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore how mature equanimity is expressed through wisdom, the open heart, and the body. We examine some of the qualities of equanimity and how we develop it in the midst of action, as well as on the cushion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-04-27 Wisdom 2: Benefits of the Insight Knowledges 1:18:41
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-26 Exploring the Three Dimensions of Concentration 58:25
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Concentration can be explored as a function of mind, as an essential and distinct part of the path of liberation and as a "felt experience" in this very moment. Each exploration deepens understanding and empowers concentration.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2011-04-26 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Shame 59:40
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
While we may have guilt over an incident or a series of mishaps, shame is the accompanying attitude about oneself and can therefore be far more disruptive. Life becomes an uphill battle against our destructive inward narrative. Its variations go from feeling lesser and smaller than to being an obstacle and ultimately better off not existing. Confronting our conclusion around shame is taking on our emotional posture to life itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-04-26 Determination 45:58
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
This talk explores the nature and value of a wise, compassionate determination in our life and our practice.
Gaia House : Work Retreat

2011-04-26 Kamma 57:55
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-25 Touched by Samvega - Spiritual Courage 60:48
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Hollyhock : Metta Vipassana with Mindful Movement

2011-04-24 Equanimity 44:25
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-24 Morning Sit 29:14
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Guided Meditation
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-24 Love and Wisdom - Infused and Permeated 58:33
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Hollyhock : Metta Vipassana with Mindful Movement

2011-04-24 Closing Thoughts 55:34
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
with Wes Nisker and participants
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-24 Closing Thoughts 55:34
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
with Joanna Macy and participants
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-24 Composure and Patience 67:07
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-24 Opening Talk for the Work Retreat 29:21
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Gaia House : Work Retreat

2011-04-23 Decision Making 44:12
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
We make many decisions and choices in our lives. To choose one option, we inevitably sacrifice other possibilities. Beliefs and personal standpoints limit the range of our options. What are your priorities in life? What are your strongest intentions and aspirations? The Kalama Sutta offers recommendations for making decisions—consider what leads to happiness and what leads to harm. The ten unwholesome and ten wholesome actions, and ethical precepts are explored in this talk as guidelines for wise decision making.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Everyday Dhamma—Teachings for the Lay Life

2011-04-23 World as Self 15:52
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-23 Workshop - The seven Factors of Awakening 5:23:41

Steve Armstrong

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Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-23 Joanna and Wes-Networking with participants 46:03
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-23 Gratitude and Emptiness 61:17
Steven Smith	Download Listen
Hollyhock : Metta Vipassana with Mindful Movement

2011-04-23 Buddha Blues and Performance 35:21
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Talk and performance
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-23 The Elements; Q&A 63:46
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Our Bones=earth; Blood, tears, sweat, fluids=water; warmth=fire/sun; breath=air; space=where we are/where it happens
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-23 2 Forms of Power 55:06
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Since the Greeks, Heraclitus-flow and change but Parmenides' view won out: THINGS, matter, stuff, leads to power OVER. But systems view more modern-energy/mind flows, information flows more important view.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-23 Sharpening the Five Faculties 67:53
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Vivekananda

2011-04-22 Two Pathways for Transforming the Judgmental Mind 56:10
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore through stories, teachings and poetry two basic ways of transforming judgments: 1. through mindfulness, reflection, inquiry and other tools we directly investigate judgments and their roots. 2. through developing the awakened mind, heart and body we come to rest more in our deep nature, helping in multiple ways to transform judgments.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2011-04-22 Inner Stability in an Unstable World 1:17:47
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-04-22 Readings and Group Haiku 1:22:37
Wes Nisker	Download Listen
Includes group break-up, sharing haiku and reading of haiku. Periods of silence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self

2011-04-22 World as Lover, continued 42:04
Joanna Macy	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : World as Lover, World as Self