Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2014-04-09 Loving and Losing 1:21:00

Tara Brach

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The way that we relate to impermanence and loss shapes our capacity to live and love fully. This talk, drawing on Mary Oliver’s poem “In Blackwater Woods,” explores three elements in our response to this fleeting, precious life that are integral to our healing and freedom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2014-04-02 Reflections On A Month Retreat 59:39
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
Just returned from a month of retreat practice, i offer various reflections on retreat theme, including impermanence and death, working with inner guidance, and taking all experiences in a learning context, and on core practices, (concentration, insight, metta, and open spacious awareness), ending with a brief song.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2014-03-15 The Unsurpassed Happiness of Insight and Liberation 49:11
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
This talk explores insight practice (vipassana) as a profound approach to the unsurpassed happiness of liberation. Awakening (realization of nibbana) arises through the clear seeing of mind and matter as they actually are. Insight into the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and empty nature of things leads to a profound disenchantment and dispassion toward what was previously clung to. Mind and matter will never the a reliable basis for lasting happiness. Seeing this, the mind releases its habits of craving temporary pleasures, and clinging to things that change. The insight into impermanence is the spark for the most profound state of peace and joy, and creates a pleasant dwelling in this very life, even for the Arahant. The talk is followed by a guided meditation that encourages the observation of changing feelings, formations, mental states and emotions—seeing the impermanent nature of all experiences.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2014-03-02 On Fluidity, Uncertainty and Inconceivability 44:06
Martin Aylward	Download Listen
This talk explores bringing the fundamental truth of lifes fluidity, and the familiarity of teachings on impermanence, right into the heart of every-moment practice.
Gaia House : The Dynamics of Freedom

2013-12-04 Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence 32:39
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence, Part 2 46:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-12-01 Guided Meditation: Cultivating the Perception of Impermanence, Part 1 48:51
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2013-11-20 Impermanence and Contingency 1:14:03
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2013-11-02 Evening Chanting 35:47
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Chanting of: Invitation to the Devas; Karaniya Metta Sutta - followed by sitting meditation. Period ends with short chant in Pali - impermanence and death reflection.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 2

2013-10-18 Impermanence and the Illusion of Self (and Q&A) 61:58
Leigh Brasington	Download Listen
Gaia House : Leigh Brasington