Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2008-02-07 Heart Of Kindness 47:46
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Compassion is the deepest motivation of spiritual practice. Resting upon our understanding of interconnectioness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-07 Morning Instructions 53:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-07 Inspiration For Practice: The Four Heavenly Messengers 61:22
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
The talk explores the story of Prince Siddartha's encounters with the Four Heavenly Messengers - old age, sickness, death and those who have 'gone forth' in search of the highest happiness. Woven with personal stories and the examples of contemporary masters, the talk also offers practical advice on how to use the experience of the Four Messengers as our teachers and inspiration in practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-06 Gateways To Happiness 1:12:45

Tara Brach

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While we all want to be happy, our habitual ways of pursuing happiness leave us dissatisfied. What prevents us from being happy? What is true happiness? How do we relax and open to the blessings of our life that are always and already here? Though these reflections we explore together our potential to live from a profound place of inner freedom, peace and happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2008-02-06 Self Knowing: A Quiet Passion Part 32 1:18:52
Larry Rosenberg	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2008-02-06 Four Noble Truths 60:40
Carol Wilson	Download Listen
The Buddha said that our path of awakening is like swimming upstream - in relationship to the habits of society and the habits of our own minds. So our deep motivation needs to be supported by accurate information. The 4 Noble Truths is a basic context/description of life, suffering and freedom that serves to support and inform all our various methods of practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation 1-month Retreat

2008-02-06 Dependent Origination 1:27:27
John Peacock	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House : Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)

2008-02-05 The Taste Of Freedom 47:58
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
The Four foundations of mindfulness are the doorway in which we can discover a taste of freedom
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-05 Morning Instructions 48:12
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Morning Instructions
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Insight Meditation Retreat for MBSR & MBCT Professionals

2008-02-05 Compassion Part Two (Compassion for Ourselves) 18:19
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
This series of talks and guided meditations explores the development of the practices of both Lovingkindness and Compassion, with particular emphasis on the radical possibilities of Awakening that they bring. Through these practices we come to develop deep and beautiful qualities of heart as a real resource both for ourselves and the world, and also open ourselves to the profound and liberating understandings that can emerge from this path of love.
Gaia House : Lovingkindness And Compassion As A Path To Awakening (2008)