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

Erin Treat: Morning instructions – anchors

March 04, 2022 08:16 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: talk: Taking Refuge in Sangha p2 - the support of dāna / generosity

March 03, 2022 19:30 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring how generosity is the life-blood of sangha, and how taking refuge in sangha can help strengthen generosity and provide an antidote to some of the toxic effects of capitalism

Erin Treat: Mindfulness as a path of happiness

March 03, 2022 19:29 - 43 minutes - 20 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Matthew Brensilver: Guided Metta practice

March 03, 2022 16:15 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The alternatives to love, hate or apathy, are not visible

Anushka Fernandopulle: Morning Sit with Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 03, 2022 08:15 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Shelly Graf: Faith: An honorable starting place

March 02, 2022 19:30 - 53 minutes - 30.5 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Sylvia Boorstein: Balancing the Mind in the Middle of Sorrow

March 02, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Winnie Nazarko: The Frame Around Insight Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

March 01, 2022 19:28 - 1 hour - 57.6 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk was offered at a month long insight meditation retreat, where most of the day is devoted to sitting and walking practice. The discussion acknowledges and explicitly points out the larger framework within which these meditations are done. It briefly reviews the 4 Noble Truths and the 8 Fold Path, especially focusing on Mundane Wise View and Wise Intention. These place in context, and inform, why and how these practices support the heart/mind in finding...

Greg Scharf: Introduction to Metta and Guided Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 28, 2022 13:58 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Intimacy with Experience (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 28, 2022 08:15 - 1 hour - 63.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome

February 28, 2022 07:30 - 44 minutes - 20.3 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Monday morning "start your week well" meditation: cultivating an attitude of welcome to whatever our experience is right now

Ayya Santacitta: Ein Geschenk

February 27, 2022 14:52 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 6/6 ~ Abschluss

Ayya Santacitta: Wie beziehe ich mich zu meiner Erfahrung?

February 27, 2022 14:45 - 21 minutes - 29.8 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Vier Vipallasa 5/6 ~ Zusammenfassung

Mark Nunberg: Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 6: Non-Distraction – Talk

February 27, 2022 10:30 - 31 minutes - 14.7 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 6: Non-Distraction – Meditation

February 27, 2022 10:30 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Ayya Santacitta: Die Dinge existieren nicht aus sich selbst heraus, sie sind bedingt entstanden

February 26, 2022 15:14 - 51 minutes - 71 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Vortrag & geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 4/6 ~ Anatta

Ayya Santacitta: Wir können Samsara nicht endgültig reparieren, aber wir können etwas tun

February 26, 2022 10:22 - 54 minutes - 74.7 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 3/6 ~ Dukkha

Tempel Smith: The Three Trainings to be in the Stream of Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 25, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sariputta equated the stream of liberation to being the very same 8 fold path of the Buddha's main teachings. The 8 fold path can be summed up as the three higher trainings: training in Sīla, Samādhi, and Pañña. To stay in the stream which only flow in one direction - liberation - we only need to embrace Sīla (ethical attunement), Samādhi (cultivating beautiful aspects of heart), and Pañña (living with wise perspective). Whether you wear robes on the outside of...

Ayya Santacitta: Genauer hinschauen & hinterfragen

February 25, 2022 16:21 - 53 minutes - 74 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 2/6 ~ Anicca

Ayya Santacitta: Nicht in Kontrolle & trotzdem bereichert

February 25, 2022 10:16 - 1 hour - 83.8 MB

(Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Vier Vipallasa 1/6 ~ Asubha

Tuere Sala: The Relationship Between the Hindrances and the Five Faculties

February 23, 2022 19:30 - 37 minutes - 21.7 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Sylvia Boorstein: Ne stressez pas! (Don't make things more complicated.)

February 23, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 50.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Ayya Santacitta: Die vier Brahmavihara oder himmlischen Verweilszustände bringen den Geist zu Ruhe & Weisheit

February 23, 2022 08:05 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB

(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation

Tempel Smith: Guided Brama Vihara: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 22, 2022 13:59 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 7 – Meditation

February 21, 2022 19:30 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 7 – Talk

February 21, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

James Baraz: Guided sit with brama vihara (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 21, 2022 14:04 - 55 minutes - 51.2 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Eugene Cash: Inquiring into the Dharma

February 20, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Eugene Cash: The 2nd Factor of Awakening: Investigation and Inquiry

February 20, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 85.6 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Tempel Smith: Morning sit with Instruction (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

February 20, 2022 08:16 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Nathan Glyde: Responsive to a Fluid Self

February 19, 2022 19:47 - 1 hour - 114 MB

(Gaia House) We can habitually and instinctively feel like our self, and apparent things of the world have the nature of fixity and stability. Yet, when we look deeper, what appeared independent and inherently there, seems to melt into a kind of fluidity. From this more sensitive meeting, can we find an appropriate response to how we actually feel in the current moment? As if we can go beneath the frozen surface of the idea of who and what is into the dependently originating and fading fluidity.

Yuka Nakamura: Verbundenheit

February 19, 2022 18:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

(Seminarhaus Engl) Eine Sichtweise des Selbst, die von einem unabhängig existierenden Selbst ausgeht, führt zu viel Leiden, individuell und kollektiv. Wir können aufwachen zu einer Sichtweise der Verbundenheit und Bezogenheit und erkennen, wie wir durch unsere Gedanken, Worte und Taten an der Ganzheit des Lebens teilhaben und mitgestalten.

Gil Fronsdal: 34 talk: Anukampa as caring

February 19, 2022 14:30 - 43 minutes - 59.1 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Anukampa as the capacity to care is a natural expression of our practice deepening

Mark Nunberg: Understanding What Supports and Hinders Mindful Awareness – Meditation

February 19, 2022 10:30 - 11 minutes - 5.11 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Understanding What Supports and Hinders Mindful Awareness – Talk

February 19, 2022 10:30 - 51 minutes - 23.4 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Gil Fronsdal: 33 meditation: practice review

February 19, 2022 09:00 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with the body and breathing, opening to emotions and thoughts then awareness itself

Jill Shepherd: 32 meditation: spaciousness

February 18, 2022 19:30 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with the body, then gradually opening up awareness to include the space beyond the body

James Baraz: Equanimity

February 18, 2022 19:29 - 1 hour - 56.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Equanimity is on many lists is thee teachings--always the last on every list which shows it's importance as the culmination of the mind that can be with all things. Cultivating a balance and centeredness in the midst of our joys and sorrows we can know the peace that the Buddha encourages us to experience.

Yuka Nakamura: Die Khandhas und Nicht-Selbst

February 18, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

(Seminarhaus Engl) Obwohl wir normalerweise von der Existenz eines festen, unabhängigen Selbst ausgehen, lässt sich ein solches nicht finden. Diese Illusion entsteht durch das Anhaften an den fünf Khandhas (Daseinsgruppen), die Identifikation mit dem Körper, den Gefühlstönungen, der Wahrnehmung, den Willensregungen und dem Bewusstsein als 'ich', 'mein' oder 'mein Selbst'. Indem wir erkennen, wie das Selbst geschaffen wird, werden wir frei von einer fixierten Identität.

Gil Fronsdal: 31 talk: insight into not-self

February 18, 2022 14:30 - 46 minutes - 63.4 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Learning to see more clearly what takes us out of the stream of the present moment, and how preoccupation with self-referencing keeps us stuck

Gil Fronsdal: 30 instructions: awareness of awareness p2

February 18, 2022 09:45 - 5 minutes - 7.92 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Simplicity of awareness highlights what is extra and not needed, for example ideas of me, my and mine

Gil Fronsdal: 29 meditation: awareness of awareness

February 18, 2022 09:15 - 35 minutes - 49 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Cultivating simple, clear and spacious presence

Ayya Santacitta: Die sieben Erwachungsfaktoren ~ Vertiefen & Erweitern von Erfahrung

February 18, 2022 09:05 - 31 minutes - 18 MB

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

Ayya Santacitta: Das Dharma antwortet uns durch Lebensumstände ~ Rechte Bemühung & Rechte Achtsamkeit

February 18, 2022 09:02 - 35 minutes - 20.1 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom

Gil Fronsdal: 28 instructions: awareness of awareness

February 18, 2022 09:00 - 12 minutes - 16.9 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to awareness itself, and notice if we're adding anything extra to it

Jill Shepherd: 27 meditation: compassion

February 17, 2022 19:30 - 28 minutes - 13.8 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Meeting dukkha with mindfulness and compassion

Yuka Nakamura: Einführung in die Leerheit

February 17, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

(Seminarhaus Engl) Einsicht in die Leerheit aller Phänomene zu entwickeln ist zentral in der Dharmapraxis. Sie bedeutet, die Täuschung einer festen, unabhängigen Selbstexistenz zu durchschauen. Im Vortrag werden Beispiele von Leerheit besprochen, die aufzeigen, dass damit die Abhängigkeit von Bedingungen, von Teilen oder vom wahrnehmenden Geist gemeint ist. Die Einsicht ermöglicht einen mittleren Weg zwischen Nihilismus und Eternalismus und eine freiere, spielerischere Haltung zum Leben.