Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,922 episodes - English - Latest episode: 20 days ago - ★★★★ - 242 ratingsDharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.
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Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: Uppalavanna & Mahamogallano: A talk for Astrid
March 29, 2024 19:00 - 11 minutes - 5.06 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: The Triple Gem
March 28, 2024 19:00 - 16 minutes - 7.41 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: The Three Major Schools of Buddhism
March 27, 2024 19:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: If I Say 'Yes' to What Is, I Can Drop Deeper
March 27, 2024 18:20 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Ayya Santussika: Patience—Developing the Pāramīs as a Way to Work with Aversion | Ayya Santussikā
March 24, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 121 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on March 23, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” *Please note, some participant questions have been omitted from the Q&A portion of the recording, however Ayya Satussikā's answers to their questions have remained.
Jill Shepherd: talk: Exploring the Second Noble Truth - craving for sense pleasures, craving for becoming and craving for non-becoming
March 21, 2024 19:30 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the social aspects of craving: desire to be seen or to be invisible, for example, and the common phenomenon of comparing mind or mana
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Changing our relationship to dukkha
March 21, 2024 19:30 - 13 minutes - 30.1 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
James Baraz: Great Female Disciples of the Buddha
March 21, 2024 07:30 - 50 minutes - 46 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Most of the Buddha's disciples whose names we are familiar with, such as Ananda and Sariputta, are men. The Buddha also had women disciples who were wise and profound practitioners like Mahapajapati, the Buddha's aunt/foster mother, responsible for the establishment of the order of nuns or Patacara, revered teacher, who tragically lost her family and eventually became fully enlightened. “If the measure of a human life is a chance to have signific...
James Baraz: Women in Buddhism
March 21, 2024 07:30 - 50 minutes - 46 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
Tara Brach: Meditation: Openhearted Presence
March 20, 2024 19:30 - 21 minutes - 15 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us in embodying loving presence through a body scan, and then meeting whatever arises with a tender heart. “Resting in the awareness that includes this changing life, regarding the changing waves with care, moment-to-moment. The moments of waking up out of thought are actually profoundly transformational. If you notice thinking and then plant the seeds of kindness, that becomes the habit of the heart.” ~Tara We close wit...
Tara Brach: Do You Feel Overwhelmed? Turning Stress into a Gateway of Awakening
March 20, 2024 19:30 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Stress and overwhelm are spiking around the globe. This talk explores how we can practice with the arising of stress in ways that calm our body and tap our capacity for full presence, wisdom and love.
Ayya Santacitta: Engaging with a Plant Ally & Exploring a Question from Within the Web of Life
March 20, 2024 18:12 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Please have a potted plant with you or sit at a window for this session. Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: Story of the Pregnant Bhikkhuni
March 19, 2024 19:00 - 8 minutes - 7.88 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Brian Lesage: The Ordinary Becoming Extraordinary
March 18, 2024 19:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Ajahn Sucitto: GM - Starting the day
March 18, 2024 05:30 - 31 minutes - 18 MB(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa)
Ajahn Sucitto: Right view and intention are the basis for the satipatthāna
March 17, 2024 19:30 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)
Ayya Santussika: What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Part 3
March 16, 2024 20:21 - 49 minutes - 90.5 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Ayya Santussika: What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Part 2
March 16, 2024 20:18 - 55 minutes - 103 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) Some of the hardest times to come up with the right words and the right attitude are when the topic at hand is really hot. Maybe it is when we feel there is something very important at stake. Maybe it is when something seems very wrong in the world: war, political strife, corruption, injustice. How can we use Right Speech in such circumstances? How can we express ourselves in ways that are truthful but do not widen the divide. How can we promote peace and mutual respe...
Ayya Santussika: What Would the Buddha Say? Peaceful Communication Skills for Difficult Times Part 1
March 16, 2024 20:16 - 1 hour - 150 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) Some of the hardest times to come up with the right words and the right attitude are when the topic at hand is really hot. Maybe it is when we feel there is something very important at stake. Maybe it is when something seems very wrong in the world: war, political strife, corruption, injustice. How can we use Right Speech in such circumstances? How can we express ourselves in ways that are truthful but do not widen the divide. How can we promote peace and mutual respe...
Susie Harrington: Morning instructions: Radiating Metta for All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 16, 2024 08:13 - 54 minutes - 49.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A
March 14, 2024 19:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) 00:13 Q1 How can I cope with repeating pain in the shoulders or back and strong surging of energy? Should one change position? 06:27 Q2 What is the purpose of being alive if not to experience the senses? Trying to dull out the senses to be mindful makes me wonder if we miss the true beauty of life. 19:20 Q3 I'm wondering about the effects of tension on the citta/ sensitivity. I'm aware of deep tension in my body which could have been there since ...
Tara Brach: Navigating the Dark Ages
March 13, 2024 19:30 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) How do we process and respond to increasing societal oppression and violence? What helps us transform the energies of fear, hatred and delusion? This talk offers ways we can draw on our spiritual path to steady our heart and engage with presence, wisdom and care.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention
March 13, 2024 19:30 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing flow of life. “Our freedom comes not from what is happening, but from how we are relating to it. See if you can relate with the spirit of ‘yes,’ allowing whatever arises to be here. And if it feels difficult, painful, then bringing some real kindness – a ‘yes’ with gentle...
Ayya Santacitta: Coming Down to Earth & Re-Membering
March 13, 2024 17:53 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Online Wednesday-Mornings | 38
Pawan Bareja: Gratitude and Realistic Optimism
March 11, 2024 23:11 - 1 hour - 48 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: The Buddha and the White Cloth, history of the Monk's Bowl
March 11, 2024 19:00 - 16 minutes - 7.54 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Amana Brembry Johnson: The Power of Intention
March 10, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santussika: The Strength & Power of Our Intentions and Actions
March 09, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 114 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on March 9, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Devon Hase: Miguel's Dignity
March 09, 2024 08:31 - 7 minutes - 3.23 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reading from Father Gregory Boyle's "Tattoos on the Heart." Learning our own loveliness.
Devon Hase: Karaniya Metta Sutta
March 08, 2024 19:01 - 11 minutes - 5.44 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short intro and chanting of Karaniya Metta Sutta in Pali and in English
Devon Hase: More Reflections on Beauty
March 08, 2024 08:29 - 12 minutes - 5.52 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short reading from college essay exploring spiritual beauty. Discovering the dhamma that is beautiful in the beginning, beautiful in the middle, and beautiful in the end.
Devon Hase: Live Wire of Authenticity
March 07, 2024 19:04 - 50 minutes - 23 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A talk exploring the second refuge of the Dhamma. Possible frames for the practice: path as authenticity, path as truth, path as secure attachment, path as beauty.
Tuere Sala: Morning Sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 07, 2024 08:15 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Carol Wilson: Morning Instructions
March 07, 2024 08:14 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise attitude
James Baraz: Groundlessness: A Doorway to Liberation
March 07, 2024 07:30 - 1 hour - 82.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Pema Chödrön writes: "It's not impermanence per se, or even knowing we're going to die, that is the cause of our suffering, the Buddha taught. Rather, it's our resistance to the fundamental uncertainty of our situation. Our discomfort arises from all of our efforts to put ground under our feet, to realize our dream of constant okayness. When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when w...
Ayya Santacitta: Separation is Getting More & More Difficult to Sustain as a Cultural Myth
March 06, 2024 21:12 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Online Wednesday-Mornings | 37
Tuere Sala: Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock) - Making Friends with the Hindrances
March 06, 2024 19:29 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: The Goal of Buddhism
March 05, 2024 19:00 - 11 minutes - 5.06 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Alexis Santos: guided meditation – exploring hindrances
March 05, 2024 08:13 - 1 hour - 30.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Cara Lai: Awakening is for everyone
March 04, 2024 19:29 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How doubt can manifest as the belief that one is not fully on the path if they have chosen the life of the householder. Using nature as affirmation and support.
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā
March 04, 2024 14:45 - 20 minutes - 9.23 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Nathan Glyde: Dāna Talk: Generosity, Participation, and Contribution as a Liberating View
March 03, 2024 17:03 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB(Gaia House)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 5
March 03, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 4
March 03, 2024 13:49 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 3
March 03, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 2
March 03, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: Anattā: The Liberating View of Non-identification
March 03, 2024 10:37 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB(Gaia House) Meditation Instruction and Practice
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 1
March 03, 2024 09:22 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Devon Hase: Effortless Effort
March 03, 2024 08:31 - 14 minutes - 6.74 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.
Nathan Glyde: Truly Useful View of Neither Self Nor Not-Self
March 02, 2024 20:16 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB(Gaia House) Exploring anatta, the not-self strategy, from the foundation of our experience of the liberating insight lenses of anicca and dukkha ways of conceiving, perceiving, and relating.