Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-06-16 Morning Meditation Instructions 56:57
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
Recognition, mindfulness and wisdom. Working with the hindrances
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-15 Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities 61:08
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
By establishing strong mindfulness and wisdom, we can turn the five hindrances into opportunities for awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-14 Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities 60:56
Bhante Buddharakkhita	Download Listen
By establishing strong mindfulness and wisdom, we can turn the five hindrances into opportunities for awakening
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-14 First Morning Instructions - Mindfulness Of Breathing 65:03
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Using breath as our meditation object to gather energy of mind
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : People of Color Retreat

2012-06-12 On Mindfulness of Body and On Going Bananas 54:35
Pascal Auclair	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in the Body: Meditation with Qigong

2012-06-11 Waking Up Through The Senses 55:56
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Exploring the 5 senses and how these are a vehicle for mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-06-10 Closing Session: Guided Meditation on Activations and Mindfulness of Panic and Dread; Chanting 42:28
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-09 Benefits Of Mindfulness Meditation Meditation 61:25
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Happiness arising due to virtue, concentration, insight knowledge, purification of view, arising due to mindfulness meditation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part C with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:51:17
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein leads meditation, discussion Barbara Bogatin talk 2: Interpreting Bach, Courante from Suite 1 Slifford Saron Talk 2: The Shamatha Project ude from Bach Solo Cello Suite # 1, Barbara Bogatin Talk 1: Practice as Balance Mindfulness Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, the Brain, & Bach, part A with Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin 1:30:08
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Sylvia Boorstein's Introduction, Prelude from Bach Solo Cello Suite #1, Barbara Bogatin talk 1: Practice as Balanced Mindfulness, Sarabande from Cello Suite #1
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Tuning Your Instrument: The Buddha, The Brain, & Bach with Sylvia Boorstein, Clifford Saron & Barbara Bogatin

2012-06-09 Mindfulness of Breathing - the Process 51:03
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Breathing works through body, mental (heart) activation and awareness. With the fullness of settling (samatha), insight releases all aspects of clinging.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-06 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:38
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Into the Depths - Monastic Retreat

2012-06-05 Surfing the Cosmos: Balance and Primal Sympathy 42:27
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Dhamma is the Natural and Holistic Order. To know it we need to be balanced and attuned to what were experiencing, to meet what arises with sympathy and hold it with equanimity. Mindfulness of breathing is a practice which develops this balance.
Gaia House : Holistic Awareness

2012-06-04 Protection for The Heart - Mindfulness For the Emotions 59:04
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-04 Attitudes In Mindfulness Meditation Do Matter 58:26
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Awareness of attitudes in meditation both helpful and unhelpful.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Qualities Of Mindfulness (Sati) 65:47
Sayadaw Vivekananda	Download Listen
Synonyms, definitions, role of Sati in Abhidhamma, illustrations for Sati.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : June 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-06-02 Introduction To Mindfulness Retreat, Sitting and Walking 66:08
Michele McDonald	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : IMS Audio Files

2012-06-01 Mindfulness : Time 63:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma	Download Listen
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Satipanya Retreat Centre

2012-05-29 Guided Six Sense Door Metta Meditation 15:33
Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey	Download Listen
A form of loving kindness integrated with our traditional mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Part 1 – Lovingkindness: Metta Retreat

2012-05-26 Practicing with Difficult Emotions and thoughts 56:56
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We look at several ways to practice when strong, difficult emotions and thoughts are present. 1) Finding antidotes - ways to get unstuck if we are stuck; 2) mindfulness using various tools; and 3) wisdom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Awakening in Service and Action: A Study Retreat on Socially Engaged Buddhism

2012-05-26 The Practice of Recovery: A Buddhist Approach to Healing Addiction 2:46:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
In this daylong retreat we’ll explore the uses of Buddhist practices and teachings in recovery. Blending mindfulness and the12 Steps we will see how fundamental Buddhist teachings like the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path, Lovingkindness, and others can be used as fundamental tools in a program of recovery. The day will include lecture, discussion, and interactive exercises, as well as an introduction to mindfulness meditation.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2012-05-23 Training for Intimacy with Life 69:00

Tara Brach

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"Enlightenment is intimacy with all things" teaches Zen Master Dogen. While we long for this intimacy, we are conditioned to avoid the vulnerability and fear that an intimate presence can arouse. This talk explores how our mindfulness and heart practices cultivate the capacity to be intimate with our sensations of aliveness, our emotions and the beings in our life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-05-22 Instructions: Mindfulness of Dukkha 19:14
Molly Swan	Download Listen
True North Insight : Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-21 Instructions: Continuity of Mindfulness 17:30
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight : Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Instructions:Mindfulness of Pain and Breathing 26:05
Norman Feldman	Download Listen
True North Insight : Celebrating Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

2012-05-20 Mindfulness of Intention 33:22
Jason Murphy	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz

2012-05-11 Talk and Meditation on Mindfulness of Emotions 63:43
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Skillful and unskillful ways to be mindful of emotions. Common misperceptions that make working with emotions difficult in meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-10 Practicing With Feeling 56:37
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the implications of mindfulness. Of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral, and suggestions of concrete ways to practice.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-05-07 Truthfulness and Sila 40:33
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
A talk given at the third retreat of the Mindfulness for Yoga Teachers training in 2012.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training Program (Retreat 3)

2012-05-04 Morning Instructions 21:30
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Women in Meditation

2012-05-01 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 50:45
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Center

2012-04-28 Goodness, Prescence and Wisdom: The Foundations of Happiness 55:36
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Inner transformation arises from a wholehearted engagement with these three primary areas of development. In living our capacity for generosity and non harming, while being mindful of and receptive to our experience in the present moment, we naturally discover the understanding that liberates dissatisfaction and reveals our inherent potential for happiness.
Gaia House : Insight Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-21 Wise Love 38:20
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
When loving-kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity combine with mindfulness, we can meet life with care, sensitivity and wisdom.
Gaia House : Work Retreat

2012-04-20 A Map of Transformation for Judgments 55:41
Heather Sundberg	Download Listen
With a light hearted tone, the talk outlines five key areas of practice in working with the judgmental mind; Mindfulness, Somatic Practices, Heart Practices, Inquiry into habits and the role of wise friends, Spiritual Community.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Transforming the Judgmental Mind

2012-04-19 Being With Emotions With Kind Heartness Awareness. 54:19
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
How to bring mindfulness and kindness to emotions.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Kindhearted Awareness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-04-18 The Benefits of Mindfulness Practice 56:47
Steve Armstrong	Download Listen
Cloud Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness

2012-04-17 Equanimity - "There in the Middleness" 56:51
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
An exploration of the many ways equanimity brings balance to our lives. Groundlessness to the Brahma Viharas, and liberating insight to our mindfulness practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : April 2012 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2012-04-16 The Art of Mindfulness 48:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
What did the Buddha actually teach about mindfulness? How does it differ from a simple attention? This talk explores mindfulness in the context of the Buddhist Path and it leading from pain to peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Body 59:09
Eugene Cash	Download Listen
The purpose and usefulness of embodied meditation: How to stay connected to the body.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : One Path: Unity of Concentration and Mindfulness

2012-04-11 Death, Hindrances, 32 Body Parts 63:45
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Cultivating the mindfulness of death assists in the path of awakening. Working with the challenges/hindrances that come up after the first day of full practice. An introduction to the 32 Parts of the Body meditation.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Finding Freedom in the Body: Mindfulness of the Body as a Gateway to Liberation

2012-04-11 Mindfulness of the Paramitas 63:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-04-10 The Four Stages of Letting Go 58:07
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
'After, during, at the beginning, before': how meditation and mindfulness can help us to let go of grasping at negative patterns.
Gaia House : Zen Retreat

2012-04-08 A Wilderness Traveller 37:26
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
All of us can train our minds. When we are driven by lack of wisdom, ill-will, greed or confusion, we live in a wilderness of the mind. In spiritual community, we hold together to blaze a trail through that wilderness, establishing trust and confidence, and persevering. We are guided by wisdom and mindfulness to purify ourselves; and we are willing to make sacrifices – even to suffer – for the treasures of the Path.
Sati Saraniya Hermitage

2012-04-04 Beyond the Prison of Beliefs 1:13:33

Tara Brach

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Most of us have core fear beliefs that obscure our true nature and bind us in repeating patterns of painful emotions and behavior. This talk looks at the beliefs that limit us and the freedom that is possible when we investigate them with a kind, mindful awareness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-04-03 Intimacy with Reality 45:21
Anna Douglas	Download Listen
Mindfulness, when practiced whole-heartedly, reveals reality beyond name and form.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Meditation and Yoga Retreat

2012-04-03 The Secrets Of Tibetan Mindfulness Practice 52:41
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks—2012

2012-03-31 Mindfulness and the Five Hindrances 63:53
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
An exploration of the practice of mindfulness and hot it helps navigate the hindrances of desire, aversion, doubt, sloth and restlessness in meditation and the path.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Vipassana for the Curious

2012-03-28 Attend and Befriend: Healing the Fear Body 1:25:49

Tara Brach

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Our fear management strategies--versions of fight/flight-- contract our body and mind, and separate us from others. As we learn to pause and contact the bodily fear with a gentle, mindful awareness, our sense of being enlarges. We rediscover our belonging to presence, love and life.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-03-27 Monthly Sitting & Inquiry: March 2012 56:22
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
These regularly scheduled evenings open up to practice questions allowing time to deepen in Sangha through mindful community discussion.
New York Insight Meditation Center : NYI Regular Talks

2012-03-25 Mindfulness of the Body as a Whole 16:53
Rick Hanson	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center