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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Episodes
Guy Armstrong: Mindfulness of breathing
June 02, 2022 19:31 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Tara Mulay: The four noble truths and non-conceptual mindfulness
June 02, 2022 19:30 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tara Mulay: Forgiveness practice.
June 01, 2022 15:30 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Sylvia Boorstein: What is the Bliss of Blamelessness?
June 01, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 40.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Winnie Nazarko: The five hindrances.
May 31, 2022 19:31 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) There are five states which may arise in meditation practice that can derail progress. This talk advises how to work with them.
Annie Nugent, Tara Mulay, Winnie Nazarko: Day 3 morning instructions: mindfulness of emotions
May 31, 2022 08:30 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Eugene Cash: Broken Hearts & Right Action
May 30, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Tara Mulay: Metta for a good friend
May 29, 2022 15:31 - 1 hour - 28.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Mark Nunberg: Compassion and Wisdom Working Together – Meditation
May 29, 2022 10:30 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Compassion and Wisdom Working Together – Talk
May 29, 2022 10:30 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on "the now of all time "
May 28, 2022 11:30 - 24 minutes - 11.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Rodney Smith: The now of all time
May 28, 2022 10:14 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) As we distance ourselves from now, the reification of thought, the world, and ourselves manifest - all locked within the forever of time.
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Enoughness: guided meditation
May 27, 2022 11:29 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Narayan Helen Liebenson: Enoughness
May 27, 2022 10:19 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Rodney Smith: Guided meditation on resolving distance
May 26, 2022 11:31 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Rodney Smith: Resolving distance
May 26, 2022 10:17 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) We take distance as a factor of reality when in fact it is a mental concept.
Tara Brach: Nourishing Our Spirit in Times of Collective Fear
May 25, 2022 19:30 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We are living with the threat of increasing, dramatic suffering around the globe. This talk looks at the direct ways our meditation practices, supported by findings of neuroscience, can help us find resilience and an open heart in the face of an uncertain and frightening future. It includes a number of short reflections and meditations.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Whole Body Breathing (21:25 min.)
May 25, 2022 19:30 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided meditation includes a body scan and invites the receptivity and letting-go of whole body breathing. Once we have awakened the vitality and presence throughout the body, we have access to the formless dimension, the awareness that is our source.
Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Fear 3
May 25, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start by acknowledging the mass shooting in Texas that occurred yesterday, in the context of our practicing with fear, following up an earlier guided meditation and sharing (not recorded) related to the shooting. We then look generally at the three core ways of practicing with fear, going into some depth on each: (1) cultivating mindfulness and clear seeing (wisdom), (2) working with the heart practices, and (3) acting skillfully. We then focus on how the pr...
Winnie Nazarko: Equanimity
May 24, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 31 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk addresses the quality of equanimity – what it is and is not – and how to cultivate it
Jaya Rudgard: The Experience of Dukkha
May 24, 2022 19:31 - 48 minutes - 66.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How dukkha is a natural feature of life. When we learn to decondition reactivity, it becomes a gateway to freedom.
Brian Lesage: Wholeheartedly Connecting through Overcoming Ill Will
May 24, 2022 19:00 - 24 minutes - 45 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Rodney Smith: Guided Meditation on "vulnerability as a threshold into awareness"
May 24, 2022 11:30 - 23 minutes - 10.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Susie Harrington: Dancing with the Way Things Are: Impermanence
May 23, 2022 19:29 - 53 minutes - 49.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Impermanence is the nature of things, in our practice we have the opportunity to see it and learn to dance with this fundamental aspect of our experience.
Jill Shepherd: 05 talk: facing up to impermanence, endings, loss
May 22, 2022 15:15 - 15 minutes - 7.31 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Following a reading on the passing of the Buddha, reflecting on the truth of impermanence and how none of us are immune to it; moving into a ritual to acknowledge recent losses, and strengthen inner qualities to be able to navigate change with more ease
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: awakening mutuality
May 22, 2022 13:45 - 16 minutes - 7.53 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring what Awakening or Nibbāna means, then exploring some words by Thomas Hubl to explore how sangha or community can develop mindfulness, mutuality and mirroring as a support for insight
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: introduction to the life of the Buddha
May 22, 2022 10:30 - 7 minutes - 3.52 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Finding points of commonality in our own lives with the life of the Buddha, then moving into relational practice exploring what motivated us to step out of the "palace of delusion"
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: cultivating gratitude
May 22, 2022 09:45 - 22 minutes - 10.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Orienting the heart-mind towards gratitude as a support for muditā, appreciative joy
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: What is Vesak?
May 22, 2022 09:30 - 5 minutes - 2.73 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A brief introduction to what Vesak is, and the structure of this day of practice
Zohar Lavie: Cultivating the Wholesome and Letting Go of the Unwholesome
May 22, 2022 09:24 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB(Gaia House) A Dharma talk, meditation, and questions and responses session, the questions are not recorded, only the responses.
Winnie Nazarko: Metta instructions for the "neutral person"
May 22, 2022 08:32 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Winnie Nazarko: Compassion
May 21, 2022 19:30 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The importance of compassion in the Buddhist path. Discussion of its relationship to Metta, and a description of its near and far enemies. Examples of its applicability including in the situation in Ukraine
Nathan Glyde: Opening Identification
May 21, 2022 18:01 - 1 hour - 87.8 MB(Gaia House) Regarding the aggregates of existence (form; preferences; perceiving; mental activity; knowing) as areas we can open around. Shifting from identification and ownership to just happening activities for greater freedom and well-being.
Jill Shepherd: talk: connecting with the more than human world
May 19, 2022 19:45 - 16 minutes - 23.1 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Investigating how our sense of community can be expanded to include the more than human world, closing with some relational practice in pairs, exploring our kinship with all beings
Matthew Brensilver: Love as the Default Position of the Mind
May 19, 2022 19:32 - 51 minutes - 46.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Cara Lai: Opening to Emotions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 19, 2022 08:31 - 1 hour - 55.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How the middle way of the Buddha can teach us to skillfully navigate emotions.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Awake and Alive (18:27 min.)
May 18, 2022 19:30 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice includes a body scan, and an opening to the awareness that includes all of life. From that wakeful openness we offer a relaxed attentiveness to the changing flow, and close with loving kindness to ourselves and our world.
Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation - Grief and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 18, 2022 16:46 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Fear 2
May 18, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review briefly some of what we covered in the last session (April 27) on practicing with fear. We then explore the various types of fear reported in the group, what we find bringing mindfulness to hear, particularly what's experienced in the body and in the mind, and the importance of having antidotes to fear, when the level of fear is at a high level and our usual practices are not effective. We also point to the way that as we develop and move into new are...
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Resting on the Six Sense Bases
May 18, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MB(Dharma Seed) a guided meditation, part of the Wednesday Morning Meditation series at Dassanāya Buddhist Community
Ayya Dhammadīpā: What Color is the Buddha?
May 17, 2022 19:00 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MB(Dharma Seed) A talk on Vesak, celebrating the Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death, and what it means to take refuge in Buddha. Part of the Tuesday Tune In series at Dassanāya Buddhist Community.
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Resting in the Pauses
May 17, 2022 18:30 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB(Dharma Seed) mindfulness of breathing with particular emphasis on becoming aware of pauses and beginnings
Cara Lai: Metta When Stuff is Hard (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 17, 2022 16:47 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The basics of the Brahma Viharas and some ways to practice Metta when times are tough and you're not really into it.
Matthew Brensilver: Guided Meditation on Body and Affect (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 17, 2022 08:31 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Matthew Brensilver: No escape other than into the heart (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 16, 2022 19:31 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Pascal Auclair: Three Ways to Protect the Mind
May 14, 2022 16:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MB(True North Insight)
Rodney Smith: Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part two
May 14, 2022 10:29 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the nothing of feelings becomes the something of objects and further exploration of the third and fourth foundations. Plus a guided meditation on the third foundation
Rodney Smith: Merging the Heart Sutra with the four foundations of mindfulness - part one
May 14, 2022 09:16 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) These two ancient sutras fuse seamlessly together/explore how the body (form) becomes formless when we don't infuse the body with knowledge or remembrance
Pascal Auclair: How to Balance the Mind, Springs & Seesaws, Instructions and guided meditation
May 14, 2022 09:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB(True North Insight)
Mark Nunberg: Evening Dharma reflection: equanimity
May 13, 2022 19:32 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The flavor of awakening.