Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-12-19 What is Mindfulness ? 58:16
John Peacock	Download Listen
Gaia House : What is Mindfulness ?

2015-12-09 Desire: A Current of Homecoming 1:13:53

Tara Brach

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Desire is intrinsic to our aliveness, yet when we have unmet needs, it can possess us. This talk explores how to relax open the grip of wanting and heal the suffering of addiction. You will learn how to bring mindfulness and compassion to the roots of desire, and be carried home to open loving presence. “Recovery is also about spirit – about dealing with that ‘hole in the soul’ … so how does this hole get filled and become holy space?”

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-12-02 "One Who Set Out to Study Fear" 66:18
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
An exploration of the importance, personally and socially, of practicing with fear. We work especially with these tools: (1) mindfulness and the study of fear (What is fear? How does it manifest in the body, emotions, and thinking); (2) heart practices like metta and compassion; and (3) developing wise and skillful responses.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2015-11-20 Deeply Conditioned Patterns Of Perfectionism 62:38
Rebecca Bradshaw	Download Listen
Discusses untangling "Karmic Knots" - 6 stages of mindfulness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part Two 38:40
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-15 Introduction to Mindfulness - Part One 1:32:09
Howard Cohn	Download Listen
We explore what mindfulness is and how to begin to cultivating a mindfulness practice, as well as begin to understand how we bring this wakeful capacity to everything we do.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-11-09 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 8 62:42

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-11-05 1st Foundation Of Mindfulness - 32 Parts Of Body, Elements, and Mindfulness Of Death 55:30
Erin Treat	Download Listen
This talk explores the 1st Foundation Of Mindfulness, with particular attention to the gift of being with dying
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-11-03 Mindfulness of Body 48:58
Yanai Postelnik	Download Listen
Gaia House : November Solitary

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Four Foundations of Mindfulness 51:30
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Q&A Session 37:16
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Vipassana 38:46
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-31 Mindfulness of Breathing - Developing Samadhi 65:57
Tempel Smith	Download Listen
Practicing the 16 progressive steps described in the Anapanasati Sutta and sharpening our understanding of the path to full liberation through mindfulness of breathing.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center

2015-10-28 First Two Foundations of Mindfulness 43:23
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-27 Awake in the Wild Experience with Mark Coleman, Sara Overton, Tenzin Choegyal 1:24:35
Mark Coleman	Download Listen
Tenzin will offer musical meditations with his transcendent vocals and exquisite lute solos. Mark will talk about meditation in nature and how the natural world is a great support for the cultivating awareness, connection and insight as well as opening the heart to wonder, awe and love. He’ll lead practices that invite us to connect with the nature in the midst of the city. Sara will share the vision of the Awake in the Wild Experience to bring the mindfulness in nature practices to every borough of the city and beyond.
New York Insight Meditation Center

2015-10-25 Mindfulness: Why we Practice 46:34
Bonnie Duran	Download Listen
This talk discusses perceptual distortions and how mindfulness can help us to see clearly
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 2

2015-10-22 A Love Letter to Mindfulness 56:06
Trudy Goodman	Download Listen
We explore the many ways mindfulness is capable of leading to insight and how to relate to practice to foster mindfulness.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Fall Insight Retreat

2015-10-19 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness 57:05
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
The Satipatthana Sutta (usually translated as the Foundations of Mindfulness) offers a complete description of the practice of mindfulness, beginning with the direct awareness of the breath and the body, progressing through mindfulness of vedana or feeling tone, to the more subtle object of the Third Foundation, mindfulness of mind states. The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness represents the culmination of this series of practices, and can be seen as a direct pointing, again and again, to the possibility of freedom through direct awareness of where we get caught, and how to turn the mind towards liberation. This talk is an overview of the practices of the Fourth Foundation, which can be seen as both the last in the sequence of practices, and as a progression in itself. It also covers how the Fourth Foundation can be skillfully interwoven into our practice of the other foundations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-19 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 5 1:27:40

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-10-16 Transformation and Relinquishment of Afflictive States of Mind 1:18:44
Marcia Rose	Download Listen
This talk explores a few of the difficult or afflictive states of mind that arise in our human experience and some effective way to work with them through the powerful tools in our practice of concentration, mindfulness, metta and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : October 2015 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2015-10-12 The Third Foundation of Mindfulness: Mindfulness of States of Mind 59:26
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
In the third foundation of mindfulness, the Buddha instructs us to bring awareness and clear seeing to the contents of mind. In a nonjudgmental way, we are invited to be aware of whether the mind is affected by lust, ill will or delusion, and also when the mind is not affected by the states. Included in this practice are various experiences of concentration, expansion and contraction in the mind. The section ends by including awareness of the liberated mind, even if this is only a temporary experience. The thrust of this section is to notice the wholesome and the unwholesome qualities of the mind, and by that very noticing increase the wholesome and decrease the unwholesome.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-12 Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling - Week 4 66:04

Mark Nunberg

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Common Ground Meditation Center : Buddhist Studies Course - Mindfulness of Feeling

2015-10-11 Freeing Ourselves by Loving Ourselves 64:36
Tara Brach	Download Listen
In this human realm, healing and spiritual realization are rooted in awakening a love for the life that is here. This talk looks at our habit of feeling we should be different than we are, and the ways that mindfulness and self-compassion help enable us to not only embrace our inner life, but bring genuine healing to others.
Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : 2015 IMCW Fall Retreat - Intimacy with Life

2015-10-09 Seven Factors of Enlightenment 61:04
Guy Armstrong	Download Listen
The Buddha pointed to seven meditative factors that when developed lead to liberation. This talk explains how the factors are developed, beginning with mindfulness and continuing through the arousing factors and the pacifying factors.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2015-10-05 The Second Foundation of Mindfulness: Feeling Tone 57:36
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
Vedana, or the feeling tone of pleasant, unpleasant or neither-pleasant-nor-unpleasant that arises with each contact, was considered important enough by the Buddha to be a foundation of mindfulness, one of the five aggregates, and central to the teaching on dependent origination. It is also at the heart of the Dart Sutta in the Samyutta Nikaya, where the Buddha talks about the two common responses to suffering: to bemoan and lament the fact that suffering is happening, but often to try to avoid the unpleasant by chasing after the pleasant. This talk looks at all of these different teachings to help us understand the importance of bringing mindfulness to vedana in our practice and in our lives.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1