Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2015-09-02 Tracking experience 1:11:54
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We examine the central activity of satipaṭṭhāna, that of anupassanā, or “tracking” experience over time. We do this by unpacking the sentence, “Here a bhikkhu, surrendering longing and sorrow for the world, lives tracking body as body … feeling as feeling … heart/mind as heart/mind … phenomena as phenomena, ardent, clearly understanding and mindful.”
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-09-01 Make Me One with Everything 59:50
Lama Surya Das	Download Listen
Lama Surya Das speaks about his most recent book, “Make Me One with Everything, Buddhist Meditations to Awaken from the Illusion of Separation.” Becoming one with everything, by seeing through separateness, is the heart of what Lama Surya Das calls “co-meditation.” “Co” means with. So, co-meditating is not just meditating with other people, but with everything that arises. This opens the door to what Buddhists call “everyday Dharma,” which integrates mindful Dharma into daily life. Everything is the object of our meditation; there are no distractions. When we co-meditate, we are being one with everything, not against it nor apart from it. This is the meaning of “inter-being.” This is also the answer to our great loneliness and the alienation that we feel today.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley

2015-08-31 Mindfulness of breathing 1:13:47
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We look at the section in Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta where the Buddha speaks of mindfulness of breathing (ānāpāna-sati). We look at the development of the practice from natural awareness to mindfulness to understanding to training to sensing to calming, and we see how the nature of breathing itself transforms as our relationship to it develops.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-31 Tracking breathing 57:08
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
This morning we experiment in using breathing as a meditation object. How do we know we are breathing? We find movement in the body, air element (vayo dhātu). We practise precision in our mindfulness of breathing by tracking its location, its length, its shape or form, its clarity, its beginnings and ends. This opens up issues regarding both the nature of breathing and our relationship to breathing.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-30 The one-way street & nibbana - Introducing satipatthana 64:43
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce satipaṭṭhāna, the way of mindfulness. More than just a meditation technique, satipaṭṭhāna represents a way of practice that is a “one-way street” (ekāyana magga) leading direct to nibbāna. We examine the meaning of nibbāna, looking at it both cognitively and affectively. And we discuss the relationship between the practice of tracking experience over time, and nibbāna itself.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-29 Introducing mindfulness 31:45
Patrick Kearney	Download Listen
We introduce the concept of “mindfulness,” which is the standard translation of the Pāli word sati. Sati literally means “memory,” and mindfulness refers to the act of remembering the present. We find the same meaning in railway station signs that exhort us to “Mind the gap,” to remember to be aware, now. The practice of mindfulness is associated with the felt continuity of awareness, and this is what we are aiming for in our practice.
Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre : Month Long Retreat led by Patrick Kearney

2015-08-26 Awakening from Trance - Embracing Unlived Life 1:15:02

Tara Brach

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When physical or emotional pain is too much, our conditioning is to pull away and avoid direct contact with raw feelings. The result is a trance - we are split off from the wholeness of our aliveness, intelligence and capacity to love. This talk explores how this dissociation shows up in our lives and a powerful way that mindfulness enables us to integrate cut-off parts of our being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-25 Mindfulness In Action 51:20
George Mumford	Download Listen
Sati - Sampajanna with bare attention and mindfulness of four postures
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-24 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States 36:51
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-23 The Power Of Mindfulness 53:03
George Mumford	Download Listen
Mindfulness as the heart of Buddhist meditation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Your Life Is Your Practice: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-23 Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Feeling Tones 24:22
Bob Stahl	Download Listen
Insight Santa Cruz : Insight Meditation Retreat in Austria

2015-08-22 The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness and the Four Iddhipada 42:00
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2015-08-22 3rd Foundation of Mindfulness (Mind- Heart, Thoughts and Emotions) 47:38
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-22 The Simplicity of the First Three Foundations of Mindfulness 44:52
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2015-08-22 Mindfulness of Mind 23:03
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2015-08-21 Mindfulness of Body and Feelings 49:59
Ayya Anandabodhi	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2015-08-21 The Four Foundations of Mindfulness: An Overview 24:20
Ayya Santacitta	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monastic Retreat

2015-08-20 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness (Vedana) 13:01
Gina Sharpe	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-19 Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO 1:13:31

Tara Brach

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There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential - fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness. Note: This talk is dedicated to Tim Ferriss, who turned me on to the phrase FOMO. Tim exemplifies the creative aliveness of FOMO energy when it’s living through someone who’s dedicated to being awake, caring and real. (check out his podcasts, http://fourhourworkweek.com/podcast/)

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-18 1st Foundation of Mindfulness - Body 43:53
Larry Yang	Download Listen
Mountain Hermitage : Manifesting Spiritual Aspiration by Deepening Practice: People of Color Retreat for Experienced Students with Gina Sharpe and Larry Yang

2015-08-15 The Interplay of Stillness and Movement in Samadhi 56:25
Phillip Moffitt	Download Listen
Developing samma samadhi is in part becoming mindful of the many dimensions of movement and stillness as they interplay.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration

2015-08-12 Mindfulness Of Mind 60:45
Mark Nunberg	Download Listen
Using the Buddha's map of the mind to understand the essential freedom - here and now.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-12 Radical Acceptance Revisited 1:15:27

Tara Brach

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One of the truths we most regularly forget is that if we are at war with ourselves, we can’ t feel love and connection with our world. This talk looks at the genesis of the “Trance of Unworthiness” and how the wings of mindfulness and heartfulness can dissolve the trance and reveal the loving awareness that is our essence Being.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2015-08-09 What Makes A Meditation? 54:46
Deborah Ratner Helzer	Download Listen
What mindfulness is and five things it is not.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness with Wisdom: Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-08-05 The Sacred Art of Listening 68:42

Tara Brach

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Deep listening - the kind of listening that brings intimacy and understanding - takes intentional practice. This talk looks at the societal and inner obstacles to an undistracted presence, and the mindfulness strategies that nourish our capacity to listen in a way that heals and connects.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks