Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2011-04-02 Mindfulness, Compassion, Liberation 53:00
Noah Levine	Download Listen
Gaia House : Awakening the Heart Through Training the Mind

2011-03-31 Bringing The World Into Your Practice 58:25
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we take the wisdom, clarity and insight and the depth of meditative experience into our lives, relationships and all that we do. At the same time, knowing that it is all a seamless continuity of mindful awareness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-30 The Power of Mindfulness 55:58
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-03-28 How to Fully Receive Experience 65:50
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Fully receiving experience is a key component in mindfulness that leads to insite.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-26 The Protection of Mindfulness 57:48
Sharda Rogell	Download Listen
Te Moata Retreat Center : Meditation and Inquiry

2011-03-24 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness 55:19
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
How to relate to feelings in the heart of silence
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-23 Everything is a Mindfulness Bell 43:04
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-03-17 1. Mindfulness (sati) 51:30
James Baraz	Download Listen
Second talk in an 8-week series on the 7 Factors of Awakening that began with an overview March 10. James highly recommended the booklet The Power of Mindfulness by Nyanaponika Thera as a precise and concise guide for "tidying the mental household." The talk ends with a homework assignment for the week.
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2011-03-17 The First Foundation of Mindfulness 54:27
Marie Mannschatz	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the Body in retreat practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : March Monthlong Retereat

2011-03-12 A Mindful Way 53:03
Thanissara	Download Listen
Mindfulness as: training of attention container for transformation, wise discernment way to - the beyond and refuge.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Mysterious Way of the Heart: Where Wisdom and Compassion Meet

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

2011-03-09 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

2011-03-08 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 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 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

2011-03-05 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

2011-02-28 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

2011-02-23 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

2011-02-16 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 2 1:16:14

Tara Brach

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Our longing is to realize and embody loving presence, yet we each have deeply conditioned habits that bind our hearts. This talk reflects on these habits, and explores how we can free ourselves by bringing a mindful, compassionate attention to places where we are most trapped in feeling separate, fearful and unworthy.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-10 Practicing With Compassion In The World 52:46
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Going home with practices of metta, compassion and mindfulness
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-02-09 The Sure Heart's Release - Part 1 1:23:46

Tara Brach

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Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-02-08 Introduction to Mindfulness Week 4 - Working With Obstacles 1:18:46
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Class
Common Ground Meditation Center

2011-02-05 Relationship Between Metta And Mindfulness 49:01
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do the qualities of love (metta) and mindfulness relate,support and compliment each other and what happens as we practice these as meditations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Metta (Lovingkindness) Retreat

2011-01-28 Unconditional Mindfulness 60:01
Lila Kate Wheeler	Download Listen
Mindfulness and compassion deepen our experience of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : The Buddha’s Way to Happiness: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-01-22 The Significance of Kindness and Care 48:55
John Teasdale	Download Listen
Loving Kindness is seen as central in the Buddha's path of practice and increasingly in mindfulness-based applications. This talk considers the reasons for this.
Gaia House : An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat

2011-01-19 Opening Talk for An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat 58:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Opening Talk for a retreat that offers the opportunity for those teaching or training in the field of mindfulness-based interventions to deepen their own experience and understanding of mindfulness practice.
Gaia House : An Exploration of Mindfulness: MBCT/MBSR Retreat

2011-01-15 Union of Love & Awareness, Part 2 31:18
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-15 Union of Love and Awareness, Part 1 34:49
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
This 2 part series explores how mindfulness and metta, though distinct practices, in a mature practice become unified as a loving, kind presence.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2011-01-12 Evolving Consciousness--Beyond limiting Identities 1:19:36

Tara Brach

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The flag of trance is identifying as a separate, deficient self. This talk explores how developmentally we can get fixated on fears and unmet needs and cut off from the wholeness of Being that is our true nature. We explore the power of mindfulness --seeking not to change but to understand--and the expression of that understanding as love. The talk includes guided reflections that can help us recognize and awaken from the confines of trance.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2011-01-11 Satipatthana Sutta, Third Foundation: Awareness of the Mind 66:46
Rodney Smith	Download Listen
Mindfulness of the body gave us stability of focus and mindfulness of feelings gave us the mechanism for how we project ourselves onto the world. Now we are sufficiently prepared to look at the mind itself.
Seattle Insight Meditation Society
In collection: The Satipatthana Sutta

2011-01-11 Metta as the Heart of Mindfulness 53:31
Sylvia Boorstein	Download Listen
The "Introduction to Metta" talk positions metta as the particular form of mindfulness that reflects the third foundation of mindfulness, attention to the contents of mind. It also is presented as the practice that follows the Buddha's instructions for Wise Effort, the purposeful cultivation in the mind of wholesome states.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Metta Retreat

2011-01-10 Meeting What is with Love & Awareness 58:54
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
How do we bring a loving presence to all of our experience- especially to our humanness, failed intentions. Cultivating mindfulness & kindness with our own experience becomes the template for living a wise life.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-05 The Mirror of Mindfulness 52:33
Adrianne Ross	Download Listen
The mirror of minfulness shows us things as they are. Mindfulness grounded in the body brings the stability to know this.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Essential Dharma

2011-01-03 Mindfulness When It Matters 61:40
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Rather than making New Year’s resolutions that often end in a sense of failure, it is more helpful to look at our life and practice in terms of aspirations, and to ask what do we need to cultivate and what can we let go of in order to support those aspirations? Using mindfulness, we can become more in tune with what really matters to us and also begin to notice the many subtle and even unconscious influences on our choices and behavior.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2011-01-01 Stitching Our Life Into Wholeness. 47:42
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
This talk explores the definitions power and impact of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Embodying the Heart of Wisdom: New Year’s Retreat

2011-01-01 Instructions on the Mindfulness of Thought 25:30
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
Gaia House : The New Years Retreat

2010-12-27 Mindfulness of Dhammas 34:45
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Angela Center) : New Year's Retreat

2010-12-14 Holding Life Tenderly 51:31
Larry Yang	Download Listen
The path of mindfulness and metta towards freedom.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Forgiveness: the Wisdom of Our Hearts (A Retreat for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex & Same-Gender Loving Community)

2010-12-02 Barking, Barking, Barking: Mindfulness as Respectful Listening 50:09
Pamela Weiss	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-12-01 Investigating the Dharma: Refuges, Hindrances, Mindfulness 59:33
Anushka Fernandopulle	Download Listen
First night talk on what we are doing on retreat, working with hindrances, mindfulness, connection to refuges and precepts.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Discovering Presence in Each Moment

2010-11-12 Guided Morning Instructions 42:55
Gil Fronsdal	Download Listen
Mindfulness of what is happening and how we relate to it.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Emptiness: A Meditation and Study Retreat

2010-11-10 Releasing Karmic Patterns 1:20:15

Tara Brach

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We all have conditioned patterns of thinking and behaving that keep us identified as a separate, deficient self. This talk investigates the roots of this conditioning and ways that pausing and awakening mindfulness can free us to live from our inherent love and wisdom.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-10 Mindfulness Part 2 61:05
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-09 Mindfulness Part 1 1:25:12
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Self No Self and the Creative Process

2010-11-08 The World Led by Mind 32:37
Christina Feldman	Download Listen
Cultivating mindfulness of thought and how it shapes the world.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-07 Seasons of the Heart: the Third Foundation of Mindfulness 49:49
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
This talk reflects on ways of practicing skillfully with mind states and emotions. These sometimes challenging areas of experience are a gateway to deepening clarity and opening the heart, when met in the present moment with understanding, acceptance and kindness.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-06 The Mystery of Vedana: A Key to Liberation 69:19
Rob Burbea	Download Listen
The contemplation of vedana, the Second Foundation of Mindfulness, provides a powerful tool to dismantle suffering; it can also reveal surprising and profoundly liberating truths about the nature of reality.
Gaia House : November Solitary Retreat

2010-11-03 Part 4 - Living from Presence - Introductory Series 1:23:00
Tara Brach	Download Listen
Our human potential is to express the wings of presence--mindfulness and lovingkindness--through all facets of daiy living. This talk explores the practices that enable us to both serve and savor this precious life.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2010-11-02 The Fathom Long Body 57:03
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
An introduction to mindfulness of the body with the 32 Parts of the Body meditation and elements.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Mindfulness of the Body