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
Mark Nunberg: Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 2 – Meditation
March 27, 2022 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Understanding the Whirlpools of This Heart
March 24, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 45.3 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) The Buddha taught that we are all spinning due to our habits of greed, hatred, and delusion, long enough to have become wise and dispassionate about how we keep getting hooked into these stressful cycles. What is it that we are not seeing clearly enough that keeps this spin spinning? The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to stabilize present-moment awareness so that we can begin to see how impersonal and lawful all this inner and outer activity actually is....
Kaira Jewel Lingo: Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 2 (Dharma Talk & Guided Meditation)
March 24, 2022 10:10 - 1 hour - 33.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Kaira Jewel Lingo: Embracing Strong Emotions, Part 1 (6 Step Vagal Nurturing Sequence)
March 24, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 3.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Credit for Polyvagal Nurturing based on Dr. Marti Glenn's work & research. Kaira Jewel also offers this video as an aid for Vagal Nurturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0ozoPNTqig
Mark Nunberg: Freedom with the Whirlpools of the Mind – Talk
March 23, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 30 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Andrea Fella: Guided Meditation: Equanimity Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 22, 2022 14:01 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 2 – Talk
March 21, 2022 19:30 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 2 – Meditation
March 21, 2022 19:30 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Greg Scharf: Liberation Through Non-Clinging (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 20, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 1 – Meditation
March 20, 2022 10:30 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Refuge in the Teachings of the Buddha, Part 1 – Talk
March 20, 2022 10:30 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Andrea Fella: Disenchantment and Dispassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 18, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 58.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Metta for Myanmar and Ukraine
March 18, 2022 19:00 - 46 minutes - 21.2 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Sylvia Boorstein: The Prelude to Compassion is the Willingness to See
March 17, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 31.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Meditation: Embodied Spirit
March 16, 2022 19:30 - 16 minutes - 11.6 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our deepest wisdom and purest actions arise out of open-hearted presence. This meditation, a compassion practice or tonglen, is drawn from the Tibetan tradition and carries us home to the vastness of loving presence (re-mastered from the 2013 IMCW fall 7-day silent retreat).
Tara Brach: Being Embodied: Gateway to Aliveness and Spirit – Part 1
March 16, 2022 19:30 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path (re-mastered talk from 2021).
JD Doyle: Cultivating a Loving Heart in a Hostile World
March 16, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Language, the Sacred, & the Dharma
March 15, 2022 19:00 - 30 minutes - 55.8 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Santussika: When meditation and life are not going as planned
March 15, 2022 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) Meditation isn't always peaceful, happy and blissful. This talk addresses how to work with difficult feelings, memories, and experiences on and off the cushion as part of the path to awakening.
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 1 – Meditation
March 14, 2022 19:30 - 27 minutes - 12.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Sensuality, Craving, Contentment and Dispassion, Week 1 – Talk
March 14, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Erin Treat: Path, acceptance, descent, and return: Story of Inanna
March 13, 2022 19:31 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Mark Nunberg: Freedom to Practice - Part-2 - Talk
March 13, 2022 19:30 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Greg Scharf: Reflections on the Heavenly Messengers (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 13, 2022 19:29 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Eugene Cash: War and Peace
March 13, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 132 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Zohar Lavie: Transformational Attitudes
March 13, 2022 16:43 - 1 hour - 98 MB(Gaia House) Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Zohar Lavie: Transformational Attitudes
March 13, 2022 16:30 - 1 hour - 98 MB(Gaia House) Exploring metta, friendliness; karuna, compassion; and other transformative ways of relating to ourselves and the world. Guided meditation, Dharma reflection, in the Online Dharma hall of Gaia House.
Mark Nunberg: Freedom to Practice - Part 1 - Talk
March 13, 2022 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Freedom to Practice-Part 1 - Guided Meditation
March 13, 2022 10:30 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: Connecting Into Interconnection
March 12, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 116 MB(Gaia House) Can we live in a sense of interconnection: where meaningfulness has meaning; and sensitivity takes priority? And can we be willing to live from there? Where the necessary renunciations call us into deeper, nourishing connection. Includes a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and responses to questions.
Greg Scharf: Guided Meditation - Radiating Metta to All Beings (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 11, 2022 14:01 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Radiating Metta to All Beings
Jill Shepherd: talk: sangha as support for facing the challenges of our time
March 10, 2022 19:30 - 26 minutes - 12 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring sangha as an expression of interconnectedness and how this can be an antidote to mainstream values of individualism; includes perspectives from indigenous climate activists from around the world (Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, Bayo Akomolafe, India Logan-Riley)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: breathing and resilience
March 10, 2022 19:00 - 28 minutes - 13.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short instructions for orienting to the body then breathing, and how returning to the breath can support more resilience
Andrea Fella: Dependent Co-Arising Part 1 (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 08, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Broadening Our Practice of the Dharma
March 08, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 61.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Matthew Brensilver: Love and its relation with wisdom.
March 07, 2022 19:30 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: Morning sit with Instructions (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 07, 2022 08:14 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Erin Treat: Compassion and the three kinds of suffering.
March 06, 2022 19:30 - 45 minutes - 20.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Guided compassion practice: grieving as a factor of growth
March 06, 2022 16:13 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Greg Scharf: Morning Instructions & Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 06, 2022 08:17 - 50 minutes - 46 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided standing meditation and instruction on mindfulness of feeling tone (Vedana)
DaRa Williams: Working with pain and the gift of working with vedana
March 06, 2022 08:16 - 54 minutes - 25 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pain a body and emotions is a part of opening. Understanding the importance and usefulness of including Vedana in practice
Nathan Glyde: Wise Acceptance and Wise Non-acceptance
March 05, 2022 19:15 - 1 hour - 120 MB(Gaia House) Getting to know our experience is so essential, and that is greatly deepened by accepting what has already arisen. But the Dharma is also about cultivation of beautiful, skilful, and wholesome qualities. And that also means abandoning unhelpful habitual ways of being and acting: wise non-acceptance is a part of wise and timely acceptance. This recording contains a guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and questions.
Erin Treat: Guided compassion meditation
March 05, 2022 16:14 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Thoughts (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 05, 2022 08:16 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Guided meditation: feeling as a prediction of risk
March 05, 2022 08:15 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Matthew Brensilver: Memory, prediction, Bharatanha, and the present
March 04, 2022 19:31 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
DaRa Williams: Loving-kindness instruction – day two
March 04, 2022 16:16 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Circle of benefactors
Andrea Fella: Guided Metta Practice: Neutral Person (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
March 04, 2022 14:01 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Samadhi als Erwachungsfaktor & Metta/Karuna
March 04, 2022 08:54 - 34 minutes - 19.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Samadhi eröffnet Einsicht ~ Rechte Sammlung
March 04, 2022 08:53 - 21 minutes - 12.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom