Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2013-06-05 Keep Your Wits about You 62:11
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
We use a meditation theme like mindfulness of breathing to bring about the factors of awakening. These factors are not things we can do, they come about under the right conditions. Tend to the heart and body energies, bringing them together to hold your ground against the hinderances and make way for the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-05 Be the Knower of the Worlds 34:02
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
As we begin our meditation, establish a reference that helps us to be with rather than be in. Be the ‘knower of the worlds’, aware of the danger and getting stuck. Body can be that reference, it gives a sense of here-ness. Widen awareness and be choosy with attention.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-04 Guided Meditation: Mindfulness of Breathing 63:59
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Breathing gets conditioned by how we live our lives – energy can be mottled and unbalanced. It is a signifier of the heart. We can take time during retreat to take samādhi as a way of life, unifying body, heart and mind to bring into fruition the factors of awakening.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-03 What Feels Better, Clinging or Not Clinging? 58:45
Ajahn Sucitto	Download Listen
Meditation is a time to crystalize the training, to deeply take in and feel the teachings. In these pause moments we take heed, look deeply into the heart, come to know the experience of what stirs it up – clinging, aversion, becoming. We begin to prefer relinquishment, finding it a freer more livable options.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-03 A Generosity of Presence: Guided Meditation 24:08
Ayya Medhanandi	Download Listen
When we remember to empty out all the distraction, all the movement, all the roughness of life, nameless, formless, without identity - we touch the shore of truth as waves touch the shores of the ocean, reaching our true home in the fullness of this moment exactly as it is.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Holistic Awareness: A Monastic Dana Retreat

2013-06-02 Guided Meditation - Introduction To Compassion 44:01
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-29 Practicing Meditation: "Getting Out Of Your Own Way" 1:16:31

Tara Brach

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The depth and vitality of a meditation practice depends on our sincerity, and an attitude of curiosity and friendliness. With this as the grounds, our practice will cultivate the clear seeing and openheartedness that expresses our deepest nature. This talk covers basic ingredients in a meditation practice, and includes a half hour of questions and responses.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2013-05-28 Guided Metta Meditation - Receiving From Benefactors 41:17
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat

2013-05-28 I-Making & Mine-Making Constructing Self 39:21
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
How is a sense of self constructed? What is the concept of not-self in Buddhist practice? How do we construct identity? This talk explores the traditional model of the five aggregates affected by clinging and explains how clinging occurs in contact with sensory experience. The five aggregates—materiality, feeling, perception, mental formations, and consciousness—represent an early Buddhist model for understanding how suffering forms through misperception. Clinging to misperceptions produces a sense of continuity in experience that we conventionally call "I", and a relationship to experience the we conventionally call "mine". This model clarifies the precise objects contemplated in vipassana (insight) meditation practice. This talk explains each aggregate so that insight may liberate the mind from this subtle type of attachment.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley : Tuesday Talks

2013-05-27 Morning Instructions and Reflection 14:52
Greg Scharf	Download Listen
Guided Meditation/Instructions and reflection on the hindrances.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Liberation of Heart and Mind: Insight Meditation and Lovingkindness Retreat