Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,769 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 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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Nathan Glyde: Don't Just Sit There
April 20, 2024 18:21 - 1 hour - 41.2 MB(Gaia House) The teachings of dependent origination encourage us to meet inner and outer dukkha with creativity and courage. This session includes a guided practice and Dharma reflection.
Jill Shepherd: 24 talk: The three universal characteristics and anattā
April 19, 2024 19:30 - 6 minutes - 2.96 MB(Te Moata Retreat Center) Exploring how the three characteristics can be used to help soften afflictive mind-states, with a focus on anattā or not-self
Jill Shepherd: 21 talk: An overview of the brahmavihāra with an emphasis on muditā or appreciative joy
April 17, 2024 19:30 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MB(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Dawn Scott: The Wholesome Joy of Mudita
April 17, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Untangle the Tangle & Ask the Earth How to Serve
April 17, 2024 18:01 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings Aloka Earth Room
Ayya Santacitta: Untangle the Tangle & Ask Earth How to Serve
April 17, 2024 18:01 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings Aloka Earth Room
Brian Lesage: Stepping Out of Human-Centric Perception
April 16, 2024 19:00 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: 14 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for sense pleasures, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming
April 15, 2024 19:30 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 15 talk: Second Noble Truth; craving for sense pleasures, craving for becoming, craving for non-becoming
April 15, 2024 19:30 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB(Te Moata Retreat Center)
Ayya Medhanandi: There Is An Oasis
April 15, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB(Portland Friends of the Dhamma) Too long we have been caught in the grip of anxiety, anger, and clinging that lead nowhere. But there is an oasis in the depths of our native humanity. To understand what is true, we must empty all that is untrue. This is ultimate care of the mind: disentangling the knots in the heart that obstruct the moral-ethical fabric of our true nature. So we set our inner compass beyond all these blinding mental habits to witness that inner radiance. In the mirror of pu...
Gullu Singh: Make a Vow to Pop the Bubble of Thought
April 14, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 79.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 06 talk: Right View
April 13, 2024 19:30 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MB(Te Moata Retreat Center) Exploring conditionality as an aspect of Right View; understanding what conditions support freedom and what conditions get in the way; includes a brief exploration of the five hindrances
Ayya Santussika: The Pāramī of Sacca: The Real Truth | Ayya Santussikā
April 13, 2024 10:00 - 1 hour - 176 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Ayya Santussika: Medicines for the Mind
April 13, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 181 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Dhamma talk, Q&A and Guided Meditation was offered on April 13th, 2024 for East Bay Dhamma
Kevin Griffin: Investigation of States
April 12, 2024 19:57 - 1 hour - 80.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: short talk: Tasting freedom
April 11, 2024 19:45 - 13 minutes - 6.05 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at some classical definitions of Nibbāna, then relational practice exploring how you taste or touch freedom in your own life
Ayya Santacitta: How to Ground Ourselves in Crisis?
April 10, 2024 20:26 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Donald Rothberg: Ten Ways of Deepening Practice
April 10, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue with the main ways of deepening practice identified in the talk from the week before, based on ways of deepening experienced in Donald's March four weeks of retreat. We go into more depth on each of the ten, inviting listeners to choose one or two ways of deepening for the next period of time. The talk is followed by discussion, and there's a downloadable pdf listing the ten ways of deepening practice (see below).
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless Benevolence in relationship to the difficult
April 09, 2024 14:14 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Accessing unconditional joy
April 08, 2024 19:30 - 53 minutes - 24.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Guided meditation – boundless self and benefactor
April 07, 2024 14:04 - 1 second - 17.4 KB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 6: Brahmavihara Meditation, Practice Q&A, Refuges and Precepts
April 07, 2024 09:14 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 6: Chanting and Meditation
April 07, 2024 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Nathan Glyde: Remembering To Recollect
April 06, 2024 19:59 - 1 hour - 38.1 MB(Gaia House) A commentary and practice on the Five Daily Recollections or Remembrances. Here phrased by Caroline Jones: Breathing gently, I lovingly remember… this body is ageing; this body is vulnerable to illness; this body will die; loss is part of life; to meet this moment with wisdom. This session includes a guided practice, Dharma reflection, and the answers to (unrecorded) questions from participants.
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Boundless benevolence
April 06, 2024 19:30 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Ayya Santussika: Evening Day 5: Cankisutta Practice Q&A
April 06, 2024 18:55 - 2 hours - 98.4 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Afternoon Day 5: Transcendent Dependent Arising
April 06, 2024 13:58 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 5: Q&A Meditation Instruction and Everything Else
April 06, 2024 09:57 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 5: Anapanasati Meditation with Guidance
April 06, 2024 09:02 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Evening Chanting Day 4: May I Abide in Well-being
April 05, 2024 20:56 - 3 minutes - 2.68 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Evening Day 4: Seeing the Un-beautiful as Beautiful
April 05, 2024 18:58 - 1 hour - 47.9 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Evening Day 4: Seeing the Unbeautiful as Beautiful
Ayya Santussika: Afternoon Day 4: Kamma, 4 Powers vs. 5 Fears
April 05, 2024 13:59 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 4: Meditation / Contemplation of Non-Self
April 05, 2024 08:57 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Chanting and Meditation Day 4
April 05, 2024 07:04 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Evening Chanting Day 3: 5 Subjects for Frequent Recollection
April 04, 2024 20:54 - 3 minutes - 2.47 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Evening Day 3: Seeing Not-Self as Self, Discussion on Rebirth
April 04, 2024 18:57 - 1 hour - 48.1 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Afternoon Day 3: Q&A on Meditation (Jhanas, Precepts, Insight, Meditation, Objects, Hindrances)
April 04, 2024 14:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santussika: Morning Day 3: Guided Meditation - Breath and Metta in 4 Quarters
April 04, 2024 08:59 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Tara Brach: Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: A Conversation between Tara and Lee C. Camp
April 03, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Relating Wisely to our Inner Life: In this conversation, recorded for the acclaimed podcast, No Small Endeavor, award winning theologian, Lee C. Camp, interviews Tara about radically accepting and loving our being, just as we are. The conversation includes an unpacking of the RAIN meditation, and stories of navigating difficulty from Tara’s life. No Small Endeavor, produced by Great Feeling Studios and PRX, brings you thoughtful conversations w...
Tara Brach: Meditation: A Present Heart
April 03, 2024 19:30 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) One translation of mindfulness, in Chinese, is “present heart.” In this guided meditation we begin by awakening through the body and the senses, and then open the attention to the changing flow of experience. The intention is to meet whatever arises with a wakeful and kind presence. It’s so helpful to say, “What’s happening inside me right now?” Then, “Can I meet this with kindness, with a present heart?”
Ayya Santacitta: Polishing the Gems We Already Have
April 03, 2024 17:56 - 56 minutes - 26 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Donald Rothberg: Ways of Deepening Practice and Taking One's Next Steps: Reflections on a Four-Week Retreat
April 03, 2024 11:00 - 51 minutes - 58.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Following four weeks of Donald's personal retreat, he identifies a number of ways of deepening practice that he experienced and that we might bring into our lives. The invitation is to see what one or two or three ways of deepening resonate and seem to call us to our "next steps." Among the ways of deepening are going on retreats (understood as periods of intensive training), staying in touch with and periodically remembering one's deeper intentions, pausing an...
Ayya Santussika: Vipallāsa Sutta
April 02, 2024 19:35 - 1 hour - 65.5 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Gullu Singh: All Things Coverage on Vedana
April 01, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 47.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Howard Cohn: Guided meditation on the self-like nature of mind
April 01, 2024 08:28 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Howard Cohn: Stepping out of a view of self
March 31, 2024 19:29 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our practice creates a beautiful opportunity to know what we are in real time and the difference between that real time experience and the view of ourselves that plays in our minds
Ayya Santussika: Nekkhama Within Intention
March 31, 2024 19:15 - 58 minutes - 106 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Part 1 dhamma talk for the Daylong Retreat and Q&A was offered on the 30th of March, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
Kamala Masters: 06 talk: Compassion
March 31, 2024 14:45 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Kamala Masters: 05 meditation: Compassion
March 31, 2024 14:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)