Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,862 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 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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Ayya Santacitta: On the Threshold ~ The Sacred Is Not a Destination But an Approach!
July 03, 2024 19:59 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Donald Rothberg: Toward Freedom and Awakening--Individually and as a Society: A Fourth of July Talk
July 03, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A day before the Fourth of July and two days after Canada Day, commemorating establishing Canada, we explore the possibility of connecting the vision of individual awakening and freedom and the vision of social freedom and justice. We look at the "shadows" of these visions, of how greed, hatred, and delusion, whether individual or collective, as well as other factors, stand in the way of realizing these visions. We point to the importance of staying connected t...
Brian Lesage: Stepping Out of the Place Where We are Right
July 02, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutes - 34.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jean Esther: How do we know we're alive?
June 28, 2024 19:32 - 49 minutes - 22.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An unexpected love story. When love and wisdom come together from our practice we meet our lives with the courage to live our fullest selves. Knowing how deeply our lives intertwine.
Cara Lai: Mudita instructions and practice
June 27, 2024 18:30 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Cara Lai: The story of the Buddha
June 26, 2024 19:31 - 49 minutes - 22.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A contemporary telling of the story of the Buddha and how we can all relate
Tara Brach: Meditation: Lighting Up Your Energy Body
June 26, 2024 19:30 - 17 minutes - 12.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our being has many frequencies of aliveness and as we attend to the more subtle, we discover a portal to the radiant awareness that is always here. This meditation guides us in using the breath and attention as we scan through the body and awaken an inner luminosity. We then open the attention to rest in the whole field of awake awareness.
Tara Brach: For the Love of Dogs…and All Beings
June 26, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The focus of this conversation is on our relationships with dogs, and more broadly, all beings. We look at what Thich Nhat Hanh called interbeing, and what happens when we shift our attention from self to who are we together. Tara is joined by Mark Drucker, an animal lover who works in digital media and is founder of lovedog.com, and Drew Webster, a dog behavior consultant par excellence. In this recording, Tara is being interviewed for their po...
Ayya Santacitta: There Is a Way to Mature Into ~ a Plug In Practice Ritual
June 26, 2024 17:50 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Diana Winston: Accessing Natural Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 26, 2024 16:34 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What is Natural Awareness? This talk gives context for accessing and playing with a type of mindfulness that is open, spacious, luminous, and boundless. Natural awareness connects us to "awareness of awareness." The talk begins with an explanation of the spectrum of awareness (using some entertaining props) and includes on the spot glimpse practices.
John Travis: Awareness & How it Actually Functions
June 26, 2024 10:00 - 38 minutes - 22.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Dharma Talk (Group Q/A is not included)
JD Doyle: Integral Spirituality
June 26, 2024 01:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Diana Winston: Working with RAIN (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 25, 2024 10:42 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This short meditation describes how we use RAIN to work with our emotions. RAIN includes: Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture, and Not Identify with. We also practice with RAIN on the spot, working with any difficult emotion that is present.
Gullu Singh: Going to Battle or Changing Course: The Five Hindrances (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 24, 2024 16:25 - 57 minutes - 53 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Gullu explores the 5 hindrances (nirvanas) and how to work with them skillfully, allowing them to be teachers rather than enemies.
Amana Brembry Johnson: Reclaiming the Sacredness of Our Being
June 24, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mushim Ikeda: Curious and Creative: Mindfulness Meditation Is Investigation
June 23, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Diana Winston: Morning Instructions and Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 23, 2024 08:42 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Diana Winston: The Basics of Mindfulness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 23, 2024 08:42 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) First day of a retreat. How do we start our practice? Learn how to focus our attention.
Cara Lai: The case for passion
June 21, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 28.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How passion can support us in the search towards dispassion
James Baraz: Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 20, 2024 19:34 - 1 hour - 59 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awareness is not only spacious and wakeful, compassion is also an inherent component. Expressing care to address the suffering in the world is understood to be an essential part of practice. This talk explores the greater implications of this understanding especially at this critical time of global dukkha on so many levels.
JoAnna Hardy: Recognizing delusion
June 20, 2024 19:23 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to see that which is hard to see - delusion and what brings us to wisdom.
Trudy Goodman: Guided Meditation for the Last Day (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 20, 2024 08:33 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation for the last full day of retreat
Ayya Santussika: Retreat Closing
June 20, 2024 08:30 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Closing questions and advice
Ayya Santussika: Q&A 4
June 19, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The final Q&A and the final evening for this retreat.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence
June 19, 2024 19:30 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.
Ayya Santacitta: Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution
June 19, 2024 17:47 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Ayya Santussika: Metta Meditation
June 19, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Lightly guided metta meditation
Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 2
June 19, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a brief reflection on today's holiday, Juneteenth. Then we review last week's initial exploration of practicing with views, including (1) identifying the main teachings on views given by the Buddha, and (2) three basic ways to practice with views, including developing mindfulness of views, inquiring when there is a charge related to another's view, and developing careful listening. This review is followed by bringing in several further ways to und...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Practicing with Views
June 19, 2024 10:00 - 36 minutes - 29 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After initial instructions in developing stability and concentration, and then mindfulness, there are further instructions, given after 10 and after 20 minutes, on developing more mindfulness of views, stories, and narratives (related to the talk given after the meditation). At the end, there is an invitation to reflect on views or stories that have been prominent in the last few days.
Ayya Santussika: Reflections on the Teaching in Brief
June 19, 2024 08:45 - 20 minutes - 27.6 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Are we really practicing? What do we need to use right now?
James Baraz: Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 19, 2024 08:32 - 57 minutes - 52.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This meditation shifts from focusing on objects in our experience to the awareness in which all objects appear and disappear.
Trudy Goodman: Facing Death (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 18, 2024 19:32 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk is about a recent near death experience and the choice to live, exploring how and why dharma practice is essential to facing death without fear.
Ayya Santussika: Observing the Seven Factors of Enlightenment as an Aspect of Dhamma
June 18, 2024 19:30 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) AN 8.63, MN 10 4.1-4.4, SN 46.16, SN 46.3
Ayya Santussika: Three Characteristic
June 18, 2024 14:00 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Lightly guided meditation on dukkha, anicca, anatta.
Ayya Santussika: Observing the Five Hindrances as an Aspect of Dhamma
June 18, 2024 08:45 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) "I'll meditate observing an aspect of Dhamma" from AN 8.63, specifically looking at the five hindrances from the Satipatthana Sutta.
Trudy Goodman: Mindfulness of Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 18, 2024 08:32 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the emotions are sensed in the body and why it's important to learn to feel them.
James Baraz: The Magic of Awareness (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 17, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) By opening to the perspective of everything arising and passing away in the space of awareness we see through the illusion of separation, directly experiencing anatta, the selfless nature of reality. We also let go of identifying with hindrances and and other ways we identify with the natural unfolding of experience. This talk includes an exploration of the Kashmir Shaivism text "Realization of Our True Heart."
Ayya Santussika: Observing an Aspect of Mind
June 17, 2024 19:30 - 46 minutes - 63.3 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) AN 1.21-60
Ayya Santussika: Sayings of the Dhammapada on the Mind
June 17, 2024 19:30 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Dhammapada Verses 33-43
Ayya Santussika: Perceptions, Thoughts, Feelings
June 17, 2024 14:00 - 14 minutes - 20 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Lightly guided meditation on perceptions, thoughts, and feelings.
Ayya Santussika: Guided Mindfulness of Feeling
June 16, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes - 54 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Sweeping the body -- front, back and inside - observing the feeling tone.
Ayya Santussika: Feeling - Morning Reflection
June 16, 2024 08:45 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Three short suttas from the Vedana Samyutta for reflection on Mindfulness of Feeling. SN 36.1, SN 36.12, and SN 36.24
Ayya Santussika: Mindfulness of Feeling
June 15, 2024 19:30 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Using AN 8.63 and MN 10 to investigate the practice of Mindfulness of Feeling as a way into deep meditation.
Ayya Santussika: Disassembling and Reassembling the Body
June 15, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutes - 52.2 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Taking out the parts of the body and putting them back in again - body parts contemplation.
Nathan Glyde: Do You Need A Conceit?
May 18, 2024 18:19 - 40 minutes - 23.2 MB(Gaia House) Exploring the middle way of pride, its positive role, and negative implications in our life and practice. Also, of the benefits and challenges of a comparison-based mind and its necessity in discernment. Apologies for the occasional scratchy sound in the recording: Nathan is wearing a thick scarf due to a persistent cough, and it catches on the microphone. (includes responses to unheard questions)
Ayya Santussika: Wisdom Power
May 18, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 201 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Dhamma talk, Guided Meditation and Q&A was offered on May 18th, 2024 for East Bay Dhamma
Ayya Santussika: The Pāramīs: Energy & Resolution | Ayya Santussikā
May 18, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 158 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on May 18, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” This is the eighth talk in the series on Pāramī or The Ten Perfections. In this talk, Ayya Santussikā discusses two Pāramīs: Viriya (Energy, Effort) & Adhitthana (Resolve, Determination). 00:00 - DHAMMA TALK 10:31 - Q&A 1:15:50 - Closing Announcements Resources discussed in the video: ▸Book: Stillness Flowing https://www.abhayagiri.org/media/books/stillness-flowing%2...
DaRa Williams: Taking refuge in the sangha
May 17, 2024 19:32 - 1 hour - 28.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An invitation to bring the three jewels front and center in our daily life
Rachel Lewis: Morning instruction: directed and undirected attention
May 17, 2024 08:13 - 56 minutes - 26 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)