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

Tara Mulay: Belonging and Compassion

April 13, 2022 19:30 - 36 minutes - 21.1 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Tara Brach: Meditation: Present Heart

April 13, 2022 19:30 - 14 minutes - 9.81 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We awaken a present heart by relaxing with the breath, and bringing the kindness of a smile into our bodily experience. This meditation ends with offering blessings to our inner life and all beings.

Rebecca Bradshaw: Metta for self and easy people.

April 13, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An introduction plus a guided meta meditation

Sylvia Boorstein: Cultivating a Wonderful Mind

April 13, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 38.2 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation & Dharma Talk

Tara Mulay: Compassion and Belonging

April 13, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Rebecca Bradshaw: Intimacy with all things.

April 12, 2022 16:16 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Commentary on Dogen's statement: "awakening is intimacy with all things"

Caroline Jones: Reflections on Vedana/feeling tone.

April 11, 2022 08:30 - 14 minutes - 6.73 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Pamela Weiss: We Were Made For These Times-Interview with Kaira Jewel Lingo

April 10, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 126 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Jill Shepherd: meditation: mindfulness of mindfulness

April 10, 2022 15:30 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to the quality of mindfulness itself, and as needed, infusing it with kindness, compassion, appreciation or equanimity

Zohar Lavie: The Sister Selā Discourse

April 10, 2022 11:10 - 1 hour - 108 MB

(Gaia House) This session starts with a guided meditation (30 mins). Followed by a reflection on the Sister Sela sutta. The latter part is a questions and response session. For privacy, the questions have not been recorded, but it should still make sense.

Mark Nunberg: Meeting and Healing the Unresolved Pain in the Heart – Talk

April 10, 2022 10:30 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Meeting and Healing the Unresolved Pain in the Heart – Meditation

April 10, 2022 10:30 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation exploring mindfulness and investigation

April 09, 2022 08:30 - 17 minutes - 7.99 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Short instructions and guidance for investigating mindfulness of mindfulness itself

Jill Shepherd: The awakening factors of mindfulness and investigation

April 08, 2022 19:04 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring how these two work together to strengthen discernment about what's skillful, and what's skillful. Includes some ways of working with more entrenched or intense afflictive mental states, bringing wisdom and compassion to them to help them release.

Oren Jay Sofer: Guided Meditation: Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

April 07, 2022 08:46 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation beginning with a reflection on gratitude, opening to joy, and then cultivating Mudita - joy in the happiness of others.

Jill Shepherd: Guided meditation exploring generosity

April 07, 2022 08:30 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A brief introduction to generosity as the foundation of this path of practice, then exploring generosity as support for skillful mental qualities to arise

Tara Brach: Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart

April 06, 2022 19:30 - 22 minutes - 15.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through our bodies, and then meet changing waves of experience with a sea of awareness that is intrinsically allowing and tender.

Tara Brach: Relationships – from Reactivity to Rechoosing Love

April 06, 2022 19:30 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Most of us have habitual ways we create separation from others. This talk takes a look at the roots of our emotional reactivity and ways our meditation practice can foster more loving connection in our lives.

Caroline Jones: Reflections on the metta sutta.

April 06, 2022 08:30 - 23 minutes - 11 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Caroline Jones: Guided Metta (loving-kindness) practice

April 05, 2022 19:06 - 50 minutes - 23.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 4 – Talk

April 04, 2022 19:30 - 41 minutes - 19 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 4 – Meditation

April 04, 2022 19:30 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Donald Rothberg: The Nature of Contemporary Awakening and the Transformation of Racism

April 04, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

(Louisville Vipassana Community) On this 54th anniversary of the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 55th anniversary of his talk, "Beyond Vietnam," at the Riverside Church in New York, we explore the nature of Buddhist practice to transform racism, in the context of examining the nature of awakening in the contemporary world. We start by asking whether we may be undergoing a kind of "Fourth Turning," in which there is emerging an expanded contemporary sense of awakening, which in...

Oren Jay Sofer: Our Best Home and the Path of Awakening (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

April 03, 2022 19:31 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on the path of awakening, the Brahma Viharas, and advice for retreat.

Nathan Glyde: Bodhisattva Perspective

April 03, 2022 10:58 - 1 hour - 118 MB

(Gaia House) How does our concept of for whom we're practising shape our practice? Including our energy and enthusiasm, what we might do in the practice, and more…

Mark Nunberg: The Cultivation of Samadhi, Week 1 – Talk

April 03, 2022 10:30 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: The Cultivation of Samadhi, Week 1 – Meditation

April 03, 2022 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Ayya Santacitta: Die fünf Indriya & Karuna

April 01, 2022 19:46 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom

Ayya Santacitta: Die 10 Fesseln oder Geistestrübungen stufenweise entfernen

April 01, 2022 19:42 - 21 minutes - 12.1 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom

Mark Nunberg: Guided Lovingkindness Practice – Introductory thoughts and guided meditation

April 01, 2022 19:30 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Guided Lovingkindness Practice – Talk and discussion

April 01, 2022 19:30 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: Seven Factors of Awakening

April 01, 2022 19:04 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An introduction and overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening

Jill Shepherd: talk: Seven Factors of Awakening

April 01, 2022 19:04 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) An introduction and overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening

Tara Brach: Meditation: Entrusting Yourself to the Waves

March 30, 2022 19:30 - 20 minutes - 14.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) By not resisting, by letting the waves wash through us, we began to relax. Rather than fighting the stormy surges, we rest in an ocean of awareness that embraces all the moving waves. We arrive in a sanctuary that feels large enough to hold whatever was going on.

Konda Mason, Tara Brach: Compassion toward Non-Human Animals - A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach

March 30, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 47 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is crucial that this include all living beings. Our societal conditioning blinds us to the horror of suffering experienced by non-human animals through our cruel system of factory farming. This conversation looks at how facing and responding to this suffering is necessary for the freedom of our own hearts, and the healing of the world.

Donald Rothberg: Reflections after Returning from Four Weeks on Retreat

March 30, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A few days after returning from four weeks on retreat at Spirit Rock, Donald reflects on a number of themes related to his retreat, including: the importance of retreat (as well as short periods of meditation) and getting away, if possible, from everyday demands and busyness; the centrality of noticing habitual tendencies and patterns; opening to the unknown and the mysterious; attending to what surfaces, including difficult material, deep aspirations, and insi...

Diana Winston: Guided Sit--Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 29, 2022 20:15 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Mark Coleman: Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 29, 2022 16:50 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Mark Coleman: Meeting Life with Awareness and Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 29, 2022 16:50 - 55 minutes - 51.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to practically Meet Life with Awareness and Wisdom through mindfulness practice

Diana Winston: Morning sit with Instruction (Retreat at Sprit Rock)

March 29, 2022 08:47 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Mark Coleman: Guided Sit--Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 28, 2022 20:18 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Jack Kornfield: Peace is Possible | Monday Night Talk

March 28, 2022 18:00 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are in a time of great transition. The climate crisis, the pandemic, war, injustice, racism: they're all pressing on us to live in a different way. And if you live with a peaceful heart, the point is not to let your heart get hardened. Don't turn your gaze away. But see another possibility—see with the great heart of compassion. My teacher Ajahn Chah said, "We human beings are constantly in combat, at war to escape the fact of being so limited by so many c...

Jack Kornfield: Open, Spacious Awareness Meditation | Monday Night

March 28, 2022 18:00 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflect on the value of a peaceful heart. What is it like to have a peaceful heart among the worldly winds of praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, fame and disrepute. These are the worldly winds that constantly change. It's important to stop, take a pause, and feel that we are part of something so much greater than the individual life that we live. Our awareness is big enough to hold all of this, because we are awareness itself.