Dharma Seed - Carol Wilson's Dharma Talks

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2017-01-31 Right View: From the Beginning and All Through the Path (Retreat at Spirit Rock) 55:44	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month-long Retreat

2016-10-16 Purifying habits of heart/mind 60:54	Download Listen
All aspects of the Buddhist teaching offer various methods to support purifying our hearts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-11 Wisdom and compassion 62:21	Download Listen
Some reflections on how both wisdom and compassion mutually support each other and naturally grow in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-10-04 Aspiration and courage 58:03	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-27 Cultivating the perception of impermanence 55:41	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-20 The Dart: the Buddhist explanation of the difference between awaken and unawaken people. 61:48	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-19 Morning instructions - Vedana 46:32	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-09-13 Samma Sati - mindfulness and right view 59:55	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Part 1

2016-06-08 Wisdom Shines Through Our Actions: The Buddha 59:56	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-05 Salattha Sutta: The Dart 54:45	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2016-06-02 Introduction to Awareness Practice: 3 Jobs of a Yogi 58:04	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes with Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-11 Purifying Our Minds/Hearts in all aspects of practice 58:52	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-08 Awareness Imbued With Compassion 61:22	Download Listen
Describing how compassion is a natural and normal response of the pure mind to suffering
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-04-05 Simplicity and Honesty of Awareness 56:16	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2015-02-23 Expressions of Freedom: The 3rd Noble Truth 57:25	Download Listen
This talk gives examples of freedom both from intensive practice and how it shows up in life. The mind free of greed, hatred and delusion and chasing sense objects is at peace.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-22 Brahma Vihara Day 22 49:08	Download Listen
Uppekha - Neutral + Self
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-19 Brahma Vihara Day 19 46:19	Download Listen
Mudita-Benefactor, Friend and Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-17 Exploring The Second Noble Truth 61:08	Download Listen
Exploring how tanha (craving) manifests in our own personal experience, and some of the ways it can be a cause of suffering and confusion.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-12 Bhrahma Viharas Day #12 44:43	Download Listen
Metta for All Beings
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-09 Understanding the First Noble Truth 62:23	Download Listen
What is Dukkha? How to work with it skillfully.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-08 Brahma Viharas Day #7 44:48	Download Listen
Metta for Self, Benefactor and Neutral Person
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-03 Extraordinary Seeing: Simplicity, Honesty, and Mindfulness 52:57	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2015-02-02 Brahma Vihara Practice Day 2 47:34	Download Listen
Cultivating the Brahmaviharas and Metta Practice
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Insight Meditation Retreat

2014-10-24 Poems from the first Buddhist Nuns 55:16	Download Listen
Poems as translated by Susan Muscott in The First Buddhist Woman
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-17 Wisdom and Compassion 61:22	Download Listen
Wisdom needs compassion, compassion needs wisdom; mindfulness cultivates both.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-10 Purifying Mind and Heart 62:26	Download Listen
How all aspects of the path are tools to support transforming the habits of our consciousness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-10-03 Concocting sense of Self: An Exploration 58:55	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-26 Understanding Dukkha: The First Noble Truth 58:00	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-19 Faith: Giving Confidence For Our Path 56:04	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-16 Morning Meditation Instructions 44:30	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-09-14 Retreat Opening 49:14	Download Listen
Taking the refuges and precepts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2014-04-15 Day 7 - Morning Instructions 62:08	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-14 Perception of Impermanence 58:46	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-13 Day 5 - Morning Instructions 58:48	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-11 Day 4 - Morning Instructions 57:44	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-10 Perception, thought and Views 58:43	Download Listen
What we feel, we perceive. what we perceive, we think about. But, if the perception is inaccurate, the thoughts are unreliable! Exploring the process of how perception can be influenced by states in the Mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-04-08 Three Jobs of a Yogi 60:41	Download Listen
How to begin our practice: right view: why are we doing this? Develop awareness, and persevere with patience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2014-02-24 Wise Intention 57:28	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-20 Investigating Sense of Self 61:25	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-14 Morning Instructions: Day 13 11:03:39	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-13 Seclusion 60:59	Download Listen
Some reflections on solitude, restraint at the sense doors (kaya viveka) and seclusion of mind, especially in the silence of the non-concocting mind.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-09 Morning Instructions: Day 8 20:53	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-03 Morning Instructions: Day 2 17:57	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2014-02-02 Right View at the Beginning: Why am I Practicing? 49:41	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Month Long Retreat - 2014

2013-10-15 Generosity: Transforming the Heart 59:40	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-08 Wisdom Needs Compassion; Compassion Needs Wisdom 60:10	Download Listen
How being with our own suffering experiences, with mindfulness and a patient heart, is the beginning of compassion for all beings
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-10-01 Exploring Perception and sense Of Self 55:09	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-24 Faith (Saddha) and Determination: Allies Of Mindfulness 63:22	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-17 Meditation: Experiencing the mind and body directly with right understanding. 61:57	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-09-11 Opening Night - 3 Month Retreat 62:35	Download Listen
Refuges and Precepts
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three Month - Part 1

2013-05-21 Developing Our Practice 9:20:03

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with Anushka Fernandopulle, Arinna Weisman, Ayya Anandabodhi, Bhante Buddharakkhita, Carol Wilson, Jack Kornfield, James Baraz, Joseph Goldstein, Kittisaro, Thanissara

2013-04-21 Perception, Papanca and Personality View 59:46	Download Listen
Bringing awareness to the magic show of the creation and dissolution of personality view from moment to moment.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-19 Practice of Generosity: Transformer of Consciousness 55:51	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-17 Dhamma Lesson - Evening Story 4:08	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-17 Awareness of Things as They Have Come to Be 60:40	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-06 Awareness Of Intentions and Purifying Aspirations 58:51	Download Listen
How do we keep our practice going at home
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-04 Compassion: Natural Expression of the Pure Mind 58:26	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-04-02 Five Spiritual Faculities 58:46	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-03-31 Right View: Making Friends With Awareness 57:41	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2013-03-31 Meditation Instructions 59:14	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Through Dhamma Eyes: Training in Awareness and Wisdom

2012-10-19 Unity Of Emptiness And Compassion 61:47	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-12 Resolution/Determination 60:23	Download Listen
One of the ten paramis - which is a fundamental support for the development of mind/heart, in and out of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-09 Guided Meditation: Metta for the "difficult" person 43:15	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-10-05 Exploring Grasping At Views 60:03	Download Listen
One of the areas of grasping that the Buddha spoke of is that of grasping at views: a cause of both internal and external conflict.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-28 Generosity: Foundation Of The Path 62:48	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-09-14 Three Jobs Of The Yogi 61:38	Download Listen
Sayadaw U Tejaniya describes the three jobs of the yogi: begin with right view, be mindful of what is happening now and bring persistent willingness to be aware all day.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2012-06-22 Untitled 60:15	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness and Wisdom: An Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-06-19 Investigating Craving 59:42	Download Listen
Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center : Awareness and Wisdom: An Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-05-10 Morning Instructions 19:47	Download Listen
Reminders about the quality of awareness and commitment that we can, and need, to continue our practice beyond the form of retreat.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-08 Morning Instructions 15:38	Download Listen
How to begin to include speaking and listening as equal objects of awareness with sitting, walking and everything else.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-06 Morning Instructions 20:38	Download Listen
Appreciating that with uncompromising commitment to right view and steady awareness - wisdom is the natural effort.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-05-04 Third Morning Instructions 19:25	Download Listen
Mind, awareness and attitude in awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Dhamma Everywhere: Awareness with Wisdom Retreat

2012-04-25 Working with Wise Thought and Intention 61:45	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Spring Insight Meditation Retreat

2012-02-25 Mindfulness and Full Awareness 62:00	Download Listen
This talk explores the Buddha's teaching on Clear Comprehension also called Full Awareness. The commitment to see our motivation in our mind, moment by moment, without glossing over, leads to happiness and purification. By clarifying our greater aspiration we create a mindful container to see our habitual thinking arise without acting upon it and the result is living of life of non-harming.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-19 Generosity: A Foundational Practice for Awakening 60:57	Download Listen
Similar to previous talks, although some new examples
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-14 Compassion and Mindfulness 60:14	Download Listen
The Dalai Lama has said that compassion develops through a deep insight into and understanding suffering. The difficult times we go through on retreat are a wonderful opportunity to explore the possibility of compassion in relationship to our own experience.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2012-02-04 Awareness and Wisdom 56:16	Download Listen
Wisdom arises naturally when there is a steady momentum of "pure" awareness. That is, when the mind is not colored by views based in greed, aversion or bewilderment. Learning to recognize and trust this natural process is a keystone of the practice.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Insight Meditation Retreat, February Month long

2011-11-24 Anatta: Investigating the Misperception of Self 57:59	Download Listen
As has been said, the self is a ghost that appears to exist only because it is not investigated. In this talk we explore some of the ways that we perceive experience inaccurately and create a view of lasting self. We also mention the advice of Achaan Buddhadasa to generate a contentment with emptiness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-11-17 Understanding Dukkha 58:01	Download Listen
The understanding of Dukkha - the first noble truth, as well as one of the three characteristics of phenomena - opens our hearts and minds into the peace of wisdom and the beauty of compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-11-10 The perception of impermanence. 55:58	Download Listen
The buddha said that the perception of impermanence, when cultivated, leads one to liberation. This talk explores some of the ways that we do not recognize this characteristic of existence.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2011 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2011-10-26 Dharma Talk 49:56	Download Listen
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center

2011-10-21 Stories Of Some Buddhist Nuns: Then and Now 60:18	Download Listen
A brief telling of a few of the first Buddhist nuns, parried with stories of some contemporary Buddhist nuns.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-14 Determination: Support for wise seeing 60:06	Download Listen
Determination one of the ten paramis - is a wonderful support for our practice - learning to recognize this quality in our mind is the subject of this talk.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-10-07 Investigating Personality View 63:30	Download Listen
The sense of self as personality view is a construct of mind that arises and poises like any other phenomena - and we can explore it with intent rather than fear it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-09-29 Emptiness And Wisdom 58:03	Download Listen
Exploring how the wisdom of emptiness manifests as compassion and how both are developed in our practice.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-09-16 Trusting Awareness or Yatha Bhuta (reprise) 62:17	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2011-05-06 Things As They Have Come to Be 56:19	Download Listen
An introduction to the attitude of mindfulness
Spirit Rock Meditation Center (Yucca Valley) : Spring Vipassana Retreat

2011-04-16 Ongoing Awareness and Resolute Aspiration (Steve Armstrong) 64:16	Download Listen
The Resolute Aspiration talk is given by Steve Armstrong
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-04-13 Big Mind Guided Meditation 49:09	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-04-09 An Appreciation Of Awareness 52:42	Download Listen
The elegance of right view: recognizing things as they have come to be (with awaremness) is the condition for wisdom to arise
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Awareness Pure and Simple: Insight Meditation Retreat

2011-03-04 A Wise Person is Known by Her Actions 61:46	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-28 Emptiness and Compassion 61:45	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-23 Exploring the Nature of Craving with Wiusdom 62:15	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-16 The Power of Generosity 62:19	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-11 Reflections on The First Noble Truth 55:34	Download Listen
The First Noble Truth, that of "Dukkha" -- is to be understood, so said The Buddha -- yet often when we think about it, our reactions can tend towards aversion: "life is suffering." I feel this is an inaccurate reflection of the freeing potential of understanding this teaching.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2011-02-06 The Way Things Have Come to Be 50:54	Download Listen
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : February Monthlong Insight Retreat

2010-10-21 Buddha's Advice on Becoming Free from Latent Tendencies 64:10	Download Listen
A brief talk on the 2nd sutta in the Majjhima Nikaya
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-14 Courage and Compassion 63:43	Download Listen
The natural flow of a retreat - of life - is expansion and contraction. We suffer when we identify with any aspect as being mine or me.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-10-08 Simplicity Of Non-Reactive Mind 59:51	Download Listen
Luang Pu Dun defines the second noble truth as the mind that goes out to satisfy its moods, and the result that comes from the mind going out to satisfy its moods is suffering, - the first Noble Truth is the result of this! This talk describes how the mind can get lost in thoughts and create suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

2010-09-30 Metta 63:40	Download Listen
Metta, or loving kindness can develop to a powerful force in out hearts and minds. We only need to start where we are, feeding non-hatred in our minds rather than putting our trust in the habits of fear and ill will.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center : Three-Month Retreat - Part 1

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