Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-07-12 Creative Engagement with People 44:13
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at the eight worldly winds and exploring how meditation can help us to creatively engage with people we know and love.
Gaia House : Meditation And Study Retreat

2008-07-08 Working with Emotional Habits 49:15
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Looking at pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling tones and exploring the emotional habits of fear and anger in the context of awareness meditation.
Gaia House : Meditation And Study Retreat

2008-07-06 Question and Answers: Meditation and Awakening - Session 2 53:18
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-07-06 Tools of Awareness 48:49
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
A step by step presentation of awareness meditations on breath, sensations, sounds etc and how they can become tools that can help us in our daily life.
Gaia House : Meditation And Study Retreat

2008-07-05 The Four Elements Practice; The Buddha As Our Role Model 61:22
Tina Rasmussen	Download Listen
This talk given by Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder includes: overview of the Four Elements meditation practice; the history of the practice over the eons; the Buddha as our role model; inspiration for the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-07-05 The Four Elements Practice; The Buddha As Our Role Model 61:22
Stephen Snyder	Download Listen
This talk given by Tina Rasmussen and Stephen Snyder includes: overview of the Four Elements meditation practice; the history of the practice over the eons; the Buddha as our role model; inspiration for the practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : July 2008 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2008-07-05 Opening Talk for the Meditation and Study Retreat 38:25
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This is the opening talk for a retreat that aims to integrate the practice of meditation with the ideas and doctrines that support and illuminate such practice. This talk also includes Stephen Batchelor.
Gaia House : Meditation And Study Retreat

2008-07-03 Why Do Intensive Retreat Practice? 55:52
James Baraz	Download Listen
Why would you do a silent meditation retreat? This talk explores the value and experience of silent retreat practice. Along with James, Kate Janke, who returned from sitting a month at the Forest Refuge in Barre, Massachusetts, a few days before this was recorded, shares her thoughts and personal experience of retreat practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2008-07-02 Conscious Activity 1:19:34

Tara Brach

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Most meditation guidance is aimed at formal sitting practice. Yet we spend much of our lives "doing" activities and often, in a way that lacks presence. This talk explores the practical ways that we can transform ego-based doing into activity that is aligned with our heart and expresses our natural creativity, joy and wisdom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-07-02 Question and Answers: Meditation and Awakening - Session 1 36:02
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2008-06-28 Releasing, Receiving and Awakening Our Life - A Dana Retreat 48:48
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This is the opening talk for a retreat that aims to integrate the practice of meditation with the ideas and doctrines that support and illuminate such practice. This talk also includes Stephen Batchelor.
Gaia House : Releasing Receiving And Awakening Our Life A Dana Retreat

2008-06-28 Releasing, Receiving and Awakening Our Life - A Dana Retreat 54:55
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Through meditation practice we can learn to release the pressure and demands we place on our experience to be different, and receive life just as it is. Unconditionally engaging with each moment we can awaken to innate peace and freedom.
Gaia House : Releasing Receiving And Awakening Our Life A Dana Retreat

2008-06-25 The Science Of Meditation 58:57
Diana Winston	Download Listen
This talk discusses the current research in mindfulness, including the areas of physical health, attention, mental health, self-compassion, and brain research.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Training for Yoga Teachers

2008-06-21 Refuges And Precepts 52:13
Matthew Daniell	Download Listen
Opening talk by Mathew Daniell with comments by Doug Phillips and meditation instruction by Larry Rosenberg.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for Experienced Students

2008-06-18 Smiling Moon - Guided Meditation 17:58
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
Hospice
Sati Saraniya Hermitage : Hospice Talks and Guided Meditations

2008-06-17 Guided Meditation on Equanimity 31:00
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Gaia House : Insight Meditation And Contemplative Inquiry

2008-06-15 Guided Meditation - Cultivating Appreciation 39:30
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2008-06-13 Opening Talk for Insight Meditation and Contemplative Inquiry 1:10:13
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
This talk also includes Catherine McGee
Gaia House : Insight Meditation And Contemplative Inquiry

2008-06-08 Guided Meditation - The Four Elements 36:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Cittaviveka

2008-06-06 Opening Talk for the Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat 53:19
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk also includes Helen Stephenson
Gaia House : Insight Meditation And Yoga

2008-05-31 Joy Of Practice 69:45
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What are the joys and fruits of the practice of Vipassana/mindfulness? This talk elaborates the peace, joy, freedom that arises from meditation; especially in regard to seeing clearly the nature of thought, papanca and disengaging from the delusions of mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation for the Curious

2008-05-31 An Introduction To Metta 56:06
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
An introduction to and description of Metta Meditation – the qualities of Metta
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Loving Friendliness: Metta Retreat

2008-05-07 Morning Meditation 8:30 AM 62:37
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Entering the Sacred: Monastic Retreat

2008-05-05 Morning Meditation 8:30 AM Sucitto 5-5-08 58:43
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2008-05-05 Early Morning Meditation 62:49
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center