Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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Dharma 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

Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta: Chanting and questions and response

April 28, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 42.7 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: Seven Factors of Awakening p5: Equanimity

April 28, 2022 19:03 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at the final awakening factor, what gets in the way, what helps it to arise and strengthen, and the insights into anicca - dukkha - anatta that it supports

Ayya Santacitta: Seven factors of awakening in emptiness (announcements initially)

April 28, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided Meditation

Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation equanimity P1

April 28, 2022 08:30 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Based on the Buddha's instructions to Rahula, using the earth's elemental quality to orient to steadiness and non-reactivity

Ayya Anandabodhi: Poems of "Another Sama", Dhira, and "Another Tissa"

April 28, 2022 08:19 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the poems of these three Theris and offering encouragement and guidance on taking the practice from retreat into one daily life

Roxanne Dault: Body and nature: doorways to freedom

April 27, 2022 19:30 - 50 minutes - 29.2 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Ayya Santacitta: Working ourselves out of Dukkha.

April 27, 2022 19:15 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Chanting followed by silence and then a Dharma talk on the four stages of awakening and the 10 fetters

Ayya Anandabodhi: Guided mudita meditation.

April 27, 2022 14:01 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Fear 1

April 27, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of last week's exploration of the relationship of Buddhist practice to Passover, Easter, and Ramadan, we explore a theme that is part of those holidays, and central to our practice--how we work with fear and anxiety. We look at the centrality of such practice, and the different types of fear, distinguishing the unskillful aspects (such as confusion, reactivity, and the continual repetition of negative narratives) from the at times skillful ...

Phillip Moffitt: Knowing that know that you know--awareness being known here and now (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

April 27, 2022 08:31 - 1 hour - 55.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Fully established mindfulness that is aligned with the dharma allows the mind to become so still that an intuitive felt sense of awareness can arises that knows it knows awareness is like this...

Ayya Santacitta: Realization and actualization equals wisdom and confidence

April 27, 2022 08:19 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sometimes the most direct path isn't a straight line

Phillip Moffitt: Stillness and Movement, Awareness and Mind Moments (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

April 26, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 56.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Discovering the Stillness of the Mind that illuminates the ever changing individualized moments of consciousness

Ayya Santacitta: The heart of Buddhism

April 26, 2022 08:17 - 57 minutes - 26.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Nothing whatsoever should be clung to

Ayya Santacitta: Not willfully changing anything, but seeing with increasing clarity.

April 25, 2022 19:18 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The three characteristics and letting go.

Ayya Santacitta: The body is fragile. Give it back to nature

April 25, 2022 14:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on body parts and emptiness

Ayya Anandabodhi: Poems and stories of the enlightened nuns.

April 25, 2022 08:16 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Ayya Anandabodhi: Mahapajapati Gotami

April 24, 2022 19:16 - 1 hour - 39 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the enlightenment poem and story of Mahapajapati, the aunt and adopted mother of the Buddha, and neither of the Bhikkhuni order (starts at 43 minutes 20 seconds into talk)

Phillip Moffitt: Guided Meditation for Experiencing Boundless Space (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

April 24, 2022 16:02 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A step by step practice for directly experiencing boundless space

Amita Schmidt: The One Unchanging Thing

April 24, 2022 14:30 - 46 minutes - 85.2 MB

(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) In times of difficulty and change, it is important to orient to what doesn't change, what is deathless. This talk gives you some tools/reminders on how to access the one unchanging thing. The talk also offers ways to unhook from your story and the mind's constant narrative.

Ayya Anandabodhi: Radiant Metta meditation.

April 24, 2022 14:00 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Introducing the radiant practice of Metta, a guided meditation

Nathan Glyde: A Boundless Passion

April 24, 2022 10:27 - 1 hour - 121 MB

(Gaia House) A guided meditation sending mettā and compassion to phenomena (rather than beings). Then a reflection and discussion about what insights, wisdom, and well-being, we feel from this kind of practice. Plus, where further can this practice take us. For more, see my upcoming course at Gaia House: https://gaiahouse.co.uk/programme-2022/wisdom-of-compassion/

Ayya Santacitta: Recognition and probing

April 24, 2022 08:17 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five hindrances are fuel for developing the seven factors of awakening

Ayya Santacitta: Fine-tuning and strengthening the mind

April 23, 2022 14:01 - 42 minutes - 19.3 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Connected, yet spacious and balanced. Guided meditation on the seven factors of awakening

Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation: samādhi

April 23, 2022 08:30 - 45 minutes - 21 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Inviting the knowing of pleasant bodily sensations to uplift the heart-mind into appreciation or even joy, which might settle into tranquility then samādhi

Ayya Anandabodhi: Dhammadinna - foremost in teaching Dhamma

April 23, 2022 08:21 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Dhammadinna and reflecting on skillful effort.

Ayya Santacitta: Hidden in plain sight.

April 22, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 37.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Strengthening and sensitizing the mind through cultivating the seven factors of awakening.

Jill Shepherd: Seven Factors of Awakening p4: Tranquility and Samādhi

April 22, 2022 19:03 - 54 minutes - 25 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking at how tranquility can support a less effortful settling into samādhi, mental absorption

Ayya Santacitta: The elements are empty of a self.

April 22, 2022 14:11 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on the six elements.

Ayya Anandabodhi: Patacara's 30 disciples.

April 22, 2022 08:15 - 52 minutes - 24.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Allowing the practice to break us out of the old conditioning of me and mine.

Ayya Anandabodhi: Patacara Theri - overcoming grief.

April 21, 2022 19:16 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Patacara who lost her whole family, then lost her mind. On hearing that Dharma, she awakened and came to be a great teacher and leader of women.

Ayya Anandabodhi: Patacara - going beyond grief.

April 21, 2022 19:16 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sharing the story of Patacara who lost her whole family, within a few hours, then lost her mind. Meeting the Buddha, she regains her senses and breaks through to stream entry, and later - Nibbana

Amita Schmidt: Collapsing Into the Now

April 21, 2022 09:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

(Heart Mind Way) A podcast interview by Todd McLeod where we talk about Adyashanti, the root guru, pure zen, collapsing into the now, THIS IS IT, everything is one thing, dropping the illusion of the individual self, the survival instinct and evolution, you are the infinite, impermanence, and realizing exponential love.

Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation: tranquility

April 21, 2022 08:30 - 15 minutes - 7.25 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An invitation to incline the body, heart and mind towards tranquility

Ayya Anandabodhi, Ayya Santacitta: Fill yourself with the Dharma

April 21, 2022 08:15 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A Therigatha overview (the first five minutes are announcements. The talk ends with a silent meditation)

Jill Shepherd: Sangha as Refuge

April 20, 2022 19:30 - 35 minutes - 20.5 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) In the context of the Buddha’s teachings, sangha or community is known as one of the three jewels and we’re invited to “take refuge” in sangha as an aspect of the path to freedom. This talk will offer some reflections on what this might mean, and explore what conditions support the establishing and maintaining of healthy practice communities.

Tara Brach: Meditation: Path of Love

April 20, 2022 19:30 - 18 minutes - 12.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart practice opens with the intention to bring a kind presence to whatever arises. After arriving with a body scan, we are guided to meet all experience with an open tender awareness. The practice ends with a poem by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer called “Is this the Path of Love?”

Donald Rothberg: Awakening and Liberation: Buddhist Practice, Passover, Easter, and Ramadan

April 20, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At this time of the confluence of Passover, Eastern, and Ramadan, we look at their core messages of liberation, going beyond death, and spiritual purification, and the links of such messages to Buddhist practice, with the aid of images and music.