Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-03-10 Overview of the 7 Factors of Awakening 55:53
James Baraz	Download Listen
The 7 Factors of Awakening are the Buddha’s list of qualities that need to be developed in order to fully awaken. This eight-week series begins with an overview of all 7 Factors followed by a discussion of each individually in greater depth over the coming weeks. Besides exploring them theoretically, James encourages us to take them on as practices as we go through the weeks seeing how we can consciously cultivate them and bring them into our daily lives. The seven factors are: Mindfulness Interest/investigation Energy/effort Joy/rapture Calm/tranquility Concentration Equanimity
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-10 Honoring Our Human Journey 51:33
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as a healing container for meeting and transforming our deeper wounds.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-10 Metta & Self-Love 56:51
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-10 3 Not-self - Recap and Metaphors 19:10
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-10 Without Walls Of The Mind 39:27
Thanissara	Download Listen
Practice and dispassion leading to Nibbana. Methods for opening into the "deathless"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Return to The Deathless 51:03
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Radical reflection. Interdependence. The disappearance of "thing-ness"
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Nothing That The Wise Would Later Reprove, Part 1 53:07
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-09 Trusting Our Secret Beauty 1:20:58

Tara Brach

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When caught in emotional suffering, we sense that we are living from a reactive, contracted place, and don't trust or like ourselves. This talk explores the severed belonging that is the genesis of that doubt, and the two wings of mindful presence and love that carry us home to our natural wholeness and goodness of Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-09 CALM 49:28
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
Why calm is important in practice and practical ways to calm down and develop tranquility, as a factor of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-09 2 Not-self - Impermanence and Suffering 16:07
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-09 Ice To Water As Dukkha To Peace 33:06
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Working with the four noble truths.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-09 Cultivating The Empty Field 41:12
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-08 4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening 37:39
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the seven factors of awakening? How do these qualities support the journey of unfoldment?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : 4th Foundations of Mindfulness/7 Factors of Awakening

2011-03-08 Sujata's Gift 53:04
Thanissara	Download Listen
The Buddha's journey and the four truths. The unknowing of knowing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-08 Thank Yourself/Mindfulness 55:07
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Mindfulness-various aspects useful in practice and for facing the dilemma of our lives.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-08 Love - The Reason we Practice 38:03
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-08 1 Not-self - Control 16:59
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The Second Discourse on Not-Self

2011-03-08 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Division Through Fear 68:19
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Fear divides the mind by convincing us that the present is in the crosshairs of an approaching disaster. We therefore need to harness the power of our thinking and take flight physically and mentally away from now. If presence is maintained, fear has no way to access the moment except by projecting into the future.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-03-08 The River Of The Self 45:01
Thanissara	Download Listen
Calm and insight as a base for exploration of the five khandas; replacing reactivity with mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-07 Sacred Gateway 53:22
Kittisaro	Download Listen
What comes, goes, contemplation of impermanence. Letting go and peace.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-07 'Concentration is Possible' 52:58
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
Looking at the possibility of non-distractedness
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-07 The Awakened Heart 54:42
Jack Kornfield	Download Listen
How to invite the deity of awakening in an intensive retreat.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-07 7. The Buddha's Enlightenment becomes universal 13:24
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-07 Reading The Book Of The Heart 37:16
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Two great oxen: samatha - calming and vipassana - insight- meditation; each supports the other . Hindrances as teachers.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-07 A Compassionate Response 52:39
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
True compassion is founded on recognising that we are not separate from others, and expresses itself as a heartfelt responsiveness, wishing to heal sufferings and contribute to the welfare and liberation of all beings.
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-07 Instructions And Guided Meditation On Cultivating Appreciative Joy 48:06
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-07 G.M-Elemental Body 53:35
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-06 The Prisoner 44:43
Thanissara	Download Listen
The light awareness illuminates the dark. Working with hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-06 Integrating the Universal and Personal 57:17
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-03-06 6. The Fourth Noble Truth The Eightfold Path 14:26
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-06 Discussion/Q&A 23:47
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Contact and the Aggregates

2011-03-06 Reflection 17:50
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Contact and the Aggregates

2011-03-06 Independent Abiding 41:31
Thanissara	Download Listen
Supports for the cultivation of samadhi; fruits of samadhi.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-06 an Exploration of Joy 48:55
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Joy in our life and in our practices expresses itself in many different ways. Its manifestation can vary from the very subtle to the ecstatic. The talk explores how we can open, recognise and support the existence of joy and use its presence as a pointer to a deeper understanding.
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-06 Loving Kindness Instructions And Guided Meditation On Working With The Benefactor 43:30
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-06 The Domain Of Emptiness 35:16
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain, Part 7 of 7 53:06
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Asking for and receiving help
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain, Part 6 of 7 13:40
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Guided Lovingkindness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 5 of 7) 18:22
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Living with Shame, Part 2
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 4 of 7) 14:34
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Working with Shame
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 3 of 7) 7:54
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Group Sharing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Illness or Pain (Part 2 of 7) 33:49
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Loving as the Pathway to Healing
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Living with Chronic Pain or Illness (Part 1 of 7) 14:58
Arinna Weisman	Download Listen
Introduction and Refuges
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Living with Chronic Illness or Pain

2011-03-05 Unification Of Body, Mind And Heart 56:34
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Cultivation of samadhi and shana factors. Healing aspects of path; being present
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-05 5. The Third Noble Truth:The End of Suffering 12:16
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-05 Q&A SELF and self 35:56
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Contact and the Aggregates

2011-03-05 Forgiveness 61:47
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : 11PA1 A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2011-03-05 Vedana (Feelings) - Guided Meditation 46:24
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Contact and the Aggregates

2011-03-05 Balance and Awareness - Guided Meditation 44:58
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Contact and the Aggregates

2011-03-05 Mindfulness: Feet Touching The Ground 41:54
Kittisaro	Download Listen
Mindfulness: Guide to true nature. Bring the light of awareness to body and breath
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

2011-03-05 Guided Meditation on Forgiveness 42:51
Kirsten Kratz	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-05 Guided Meditation: Loving Kindness for Ourselves 41:28
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-05 Loving Kindness and Forgiveness 51:18
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk looks at how we can cultivate our hearts capacity for kindness and forgiveness, as we open into a deepening friendliness towards ourselves and others.
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-05 Loving Kindness Instructions 53:03
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : Loving Kindness and Joy: A Metta Retreat

2011-03-05 The Sphere Of Relinquishment (Sat.Talk) 54:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-03-04 Heartwood 57:04
Kittisaro, Thanissara	Download Listen
Entering the retreat vehicle; not stopping at the initial benefits of practice; journey to the innermost heart.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-04 A Wise Person is Known by Her Actions 61:46
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-04 4. Second Noble Truth:The Cause of Suffering 14:45
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-04 Metta-Friendliness--& Refuges too! 62:52
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
True North Insight : 11PA1 A Soft and Radical Transformation of the Heart

2011-03-04 Wisdom and Compassion 46:32
Ursula Flückiger	Download Listen
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg

2011-03-03 Right View and Intention: The Heart of the Path 59:49
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-03 3. The First Noble Truth of Suffering 12:28
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-03 Step 2: The End of Delusion 37:33
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-03 Living the Brahma Viharas 58:49
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
A discussion of the Four Divine Abodes: meditative states, thoughts, and actions to be cultivated in Buddhist meditation: Loving-kindness (Metta) Compassion (Karuna) Sympathetic joy, joy with others (Mudita) Equanimity (Upekkha)
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-03 Step 2: Q&A 30:22
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-03-03 Lovingkindness 25:22
Mary Grace Orr	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2011-03-02 Healing into Life and Death 1:18:34

Tara Brach

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Given the universal truth that these bodies get sick and they die, what allows us to find freedom, happiness and peace in the midst? This talk explores how, when we get caught in the suffering that arises from physical sickness, we can take refuge in presence and love.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-03-02 Opening to the Moment 61:49
James Baraz	Download Listen
Open9ing to the moment and being with things as they are is easier said than done. This talk explores what gets in the way and the qualities and attitudes that support opening to the moment including forgiveness, patience, contentment and a sense of humor.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-02 2. Self-Mortification 14:35
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-03-02 Through the Eyes of the Dharma 49:46
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-01 What Are We Doing Here? 47:21
Susan O'Brien	Download Listen
An invitation to explore the areas and the ways that our practice is alive, fresh, engaged - and where and how it isn't
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : March 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-03-01 The Potential of the Conditioned World 52:13
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Each of us is an open-ended process, matrixed with everything else. The very open-endedness of our nature allows for transformation in the direction of happiness, once we understand the lawfulness of things and act on that understanding. The fact that we are matrixed with other beinigs/things means our individual development has positive effects on others, beyond what we can directly observe/know.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-03-01 Forgetting and Remembering 42:26
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-03-01 1. Indulgence 17:48
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre : The First Discourse: The Turning of the Wheel of the Law

2011-02-28 Mindfulness, Technology & Social Media 53:01
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we stay mindful in the world of technology, email and internet? How Buddhist teachings on mindfulness and intention help give us presence in the midst of it all.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-28 Emptiness and Compassion 61:45
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-28 Buddhist Studies Course - 7 Factors of Awakening - Week 8 - (2011) (Note: An updated course offered in 2017) 63:39

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - (2011) 7 Factors of Awakening (Note: an updated course was offered in 2017)

2011-02-27 Unentangled Knowing 59:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
"Unentangled knowing" is an approach to meditation in which we are aware of things coming and going at the sense doors without becoming caught in them. Supported by tranquility and insight, we can rest in the knowing while being fully awake to life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-27 Questions and Answers 55:25
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-26 Resting The Weary Heart And Mind 54:54
Chas DiCapua	Download Listen
What are the reasons for our hearts and minds not being at rest? How can we bring our hearts and minds into a state of rest and ease?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Resting the Weary Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation Weekend

2011-02-26 We Live in Illusion and the Appearance of Things 58:19
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Delusion, one of the three kilesas, is in some ways the fundamental cause of our suffering -- because we don't see clearly the way things truly are. Our experience of ourselves and the world is distorted by our conditioned views and perceptions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-26 Reasonable Devotion (Sat.Talk) 54:19
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-25 Working with Thoughts & Skillful Discernment 56:42
James Baraz	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Purification of Motivation 43:43
Winnie Nazarko	Download Listen
Our minds have many mixed motivations, and they can be at play in meditation practice. This talk discusses some of the common "ulterior motives" which can be present, how to recognize them and how to re-frame them to make them into skillful supports-not distractions.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-24 Introduction to the class series 10:15
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-24 Step One: Powerlessness 34:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Buddhism and the Twelve Steps

2011-02-23 When We are Lost 1:19:30

Tara Brach

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It's part of our make up to get lost in the trance of thinking-- to believe our thoughts to be real and to live in the story of a separate, endangered self. It is also our capacity to recognize our trance and choose presence. This talk explores how the practice of pausing and arriving in the aliveness of our senses opens us to our natural compassion and wisdom, and enables us to experience the great mystery we are part of.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-23 Exploring the Nature of Craving with Wiusdom 62:15
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-23 How Effort, Mindfulness and Concentration Are Interwoven 56:55
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We step back to look at how we develop the three meditative path factors separately, and how, as practice deepens, the factors become interwoven, and we move forward a kind of mindful, concentrated, effortless effort.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-02-23 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 3) 49:49
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-22 Nature of Awareness 56:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha clearly described consciousness as an impermanent part of the mind. Yet many people feel that awareness has some kind of lasting or ongoing nature. How can we understand this seeming contradiction? How can we make awareness itself part of our meditation?
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-22 You are Indescribable 39:43
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
Mission Dharma

2011-02-22 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Dividing the Mind Through Aversion 57:47
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Aversion and desire work together to entrap the mind within its own projections and divide the whole into parts. The opposite of what I desire is feared and visa versa. Because the mind is a single whole, when we pit what we like against what we do not, repetitive aversive and desiring images noisily dance through the mind in opposition to the contentment of the abiding wholeness.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-02-22 Guided Meditation - The Play of Appearances 37:22
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)

2011-02-22 Its Empty-Be Empty 46:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-21 The Joy of Wholesome States 61:04
James Baraz	Download Listen
How the practice is a path of real happiness through cultivating wholesome states and being present for them.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-21 Retreats And A Thriving Daily Life Practices (Part 2) 50:45
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
A new attitude towards intensive meditation retreats so that our practice in daily life is enhanced.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Art of Mindful Living: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-02-21 Four Levels Of Insight 51:52
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka : Winter Retreat

2011-02-20 The Five Aggregates & the Search for Self 61:01
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-20 Guided Meditation: form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form 60:28
Catherine McGee	Download Listen
Gaia House : Metta and Emptiness (Level 1)