Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,862 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 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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Jill Shepherd: 23 instructions: different modes of mindfulness
February 16, 2022 19:30 - 8 minutes - 6.95 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the quality of mindfulness itself, and the benefits of using different modes of mindfulness to keep the mind in balance
Tara Brach: Cultivating Loving Kindness
February 16, 2022 19:30 - 56 minutes - 39 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.
: Cultivating Loving Kindness
February 16, 2022 19:30 - 56 minutes - 39 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The ground of loving kindness is seeing the basic goodness in ourselves, each other and our world. This is what gives rise to pure appreciation, friendliness, love and the felt-sense of belonging. In this talk we explore what obscures and contracts our perceptual field, and the pathway of purposefully awakening this transformational capacity of cherishing all life.
Tara Brach: Heart Meditation: Loving Kindness – Befriending our Lives
February 16, 2022 19:30 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This heart meditation guides us in how to cultivate a deep quality of friendliness in relating to our inner life and each other. The gift of this practice is a direct sense of belonging – knowing that we can never be alone (given at the Fall 2019 IMCW 7-Day Silent Retreat).
Gil Fronsdal: 22 talk: Inconstancy
February 16, 2022 14:30 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring insight into anicca or inconstancy
Gil Fronsdal: 21 instructions p2: developing respect for emotions
February 16, 2022 09:45 - 8 minutes - 5.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Having respect for our emotions helps us be upright in the middle of it all, and that still, quiet attention gathers what's good in us
Gil Fronsdal: 20 meditation: mindfulness of emotions
February 16, 2022 09:15 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Practising recognising, allowing, feeling and teasing apart emotions (RAFT)
Gil Fronsdal: 19 instructions: mindfulness of emotions
February 16, 2022 09:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to emotions and using the acronym RAFT to stay present with the experiences in the body and the mind
Ayya Dhammadīpā: When the World Doesn't Get You
February 16, 2022 01:28 - 32 minutes - 45.4 MB(Dharma Seed)
Jill Shepherd: 18 reflection and standing meditation
February 15, 2022 19:30 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Reflecting on the day's themes and practices of mindfulness of the body and dharma confidence, exploring these through the practice of standing meditation
Gil Fronsdal: 17 talk: Confidence
February 15, 2022 14:30 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the third of the three conditions that support insight: confidence, or dharma confidence
Gil Fronsdal: 16 instructions: mindfulness of the body
February 15, 2022 09:45 - 9 minutes - 6.64 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring how body sensations can be an early warning system that reactivity is taking over; and the benefits of bringing mind and body into harmony with each other
Gil Fronsdal: 15 meditation: mindfulness of the body
February 15, 2022 09:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Progressing from mindfulness of breathing to mindfulness of the body, bringing awareness to physical sensations
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: Well-being
February 14, 2022 19:30 - 15 minutes - 7.32 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by orienting to appreciation as a support for settling the body, heart and mind into well-being (note: due to a technical glitch, the recording stopped after the first set of instructions and the ending instructions weren't included)
Gil Fronsdal: 13 talk: Well-being
February 14, 2022 14:30 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) The importance of cultivating dharma joy or well-being, which includes qualities such as ease, warmth, happpiness, contentment, gladness, delight, bliss, as supports for the path to freedom
Gil Fronsdal: 12 instructions and meditation: mindfulness of breathing
February 14, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to how we're paying attention, allowing it to be relaxed and easy as we steady our mindfulness on the experience of breathing
Oren Jay Sofer: Revealing the Clear Mind
February 13, 2022 20:37 - 55 minutes - 101 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An overview of how the path cultivates clarity of mind, through mindfulness and knowing the obscurations.
Jill Shepherd: 11 meditation: body, breathing
February 13, 2022 19:45 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Establishing awareness of the body sitting, then experience of breathing, attuning to the rhythm of receiving and releasing, and gently letting go of involvement in thinking
Jill Shepherd: 10 reflections: strengthening steadiness and stability
February 13, 2022 19:30 - 12 minutes - 5.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short reflections on the preliminary processes of this retreat: orienting to steadiness and stability, and noticing what gets in the way; sensitising ourselves to the stress of self-referencing thought-patterns, and to the ease that becomes available when they're released.
Gil Fronsdal: 09 talk: Cultivating Stability
February 13, 2022 14:30 - 45 minutes - 21.7 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Cultivating stability as one of the beneficial conditions htat supports insight to arise
Jill Shepherd: 03 meditation: orienting to kindness and ease
February 12, 2022 20:00 - 14 minutes - 6.86 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by establishing a kind relationship to technology, then people on the screen, then settling into the body and orienting to ease
Jill Shepherd: 02 instructions: orientation to the retreat
February 12, 2022 19:45 - 15 minutes - 7.14 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) How to approach the online retreat format
Jill Shepherd: 01 meditation: arriving and settling in
February 12, 2022 19:30 - 14 minutes - 7.01 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short meditation to help people arrive for the start of the retreat, settling into the body sitting and breathing
Donald Rothberg, Fresh Lev White: Opening Our Hearts to Love—For Ourselves and For Others
February 11, 2022 19:45 - 51 minutes - 58.7 MB(East Bay Meditation Center) Just before this Valentine’s Day, we’ll explore, in meditation and a talk and discussion, what helps us to open our hearts to our deep loving nature, and what gets in the way of such opening. We’ll focus on how central it is, and often how hard it is, to be able to develop and express self-love and self-compassion. Yet these qualities are necessary for bringing love into our relationships and into our world, which deeply needs love and heart connections. We’ll ide...
James Baraz: Awakening Joy: The Buddha’s Teaching on the Gladness of the Wholesome (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 11, 2022 19:33 - 1 hour - 57 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha taught that one should cultivate and, when possible, maintain wholesome states. This talk explores teachings on cultivating states of well-being and how to deepen them in our practice.
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sangha as refuge
February 10, 2022 19:45 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Weaving together themes of dāna or generosity, mettā or kindness, and kalyanamitta or dharma friendship as supports for creating and maintaining a healthy sangha or community
Jill Shepherd: meditation: metta infusion
February 10, 2022 19:00 - 25 minutes - 12.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by attuning to the body, then listening to the heart, and inviting a sense of warmth and kindness that can be suffused through the whole being
Tara Brach: Meditation: Spacious, Clear Awareness
February 09, 2022 19:30 - 22 minutes - 15.6 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation begins with a breath that calms and collects the attention, and then a body scan that enables us to awaken our senses. Finally, we relax open fully to include the changing flow of sounds and sensations, in a spacious, clear awareness.
Matthew Daniell: One Auspicious Day: The Bhaddekaratta Sutta
February 09, 2022 19:30 - 50 minutes - 28.9 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Love in Action: Realizing Interbeing
February 09, 2022 19:30 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The suffering in our world arises out of a sense of separation—from our own bodies and hearts, each other, and this living web. These two talks explore this trance of separation and how it’s led humans to destroying our larger body, Earth. We then look at the pathways of awakening to the truth of “interbeing” and responding to our precious world with love.
Donald Rothberg: Donald Rothberg and Yassir Chadly in Dialogue on Buddhist and Sufi Perspectives and Practices: A Gathering of Wisdom, Love, and Respect
February 09, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 61 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Yassir Chadly, a long-time friend of Donald's who is a Sufi teacher, musician, and former Olympic swimmer, originally from Morocco, is in dialogue with Donald, and then, during the last part of the session, with the whole group. We explore Yassir's background, the three main levels of practice in Sufism, practicing in Sufism with what arises in the heart, parallels between Sufi and Buddhist practice, how to make sense of how and why some act negatively in the ...
Ayya Santacitta: Metta & Agape sind das Resultat eines alchemischen Prozesses
February 09, 2022 08:31 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MB(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Die Vier Schutz-Meditationen 2/2
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Right Speech in These Times
February 09, 2022 01:32 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB(Dharma Seed)
Brian Lesage: Inspirations from the Maha Gosinga Sutta
February 08, 2022 19:00 - 35 minutes - 64.6 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) Here is the program that I referred to in the Dharma talk: https://www.buddhistinquiry.org/course/developing-the-foundations-of-practice-3-cohorts-2/
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 5 – Meditation
February 07, 2022 19:30 - 30 minutes - 14 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies Course: Liberating the Heart with Goodwill, Compassion, Appreciative Joy, and Equanimity, Week 5 – Talk
February 07, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Revealing What Was Hidden or Holding Up a Lamp in the Dark
February 06, 2022 20:56 - 36 minutes - 50.5 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Eugene Cash: Practice of Sincerity
February 06, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 127 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Santacitta: 3rd Vipallasa: Anatta ~ Person Is a Mere Concept
February 06, 2022 16:07 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: 2nd Vipallasa: Dukkha ~ Challenges Can Bring Out the Best of Our Human Potential
February 06, 2022 10:53 - 20 minutes - 28.3 MB(Gaia House)
Mark Nunberg: Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 4 – Meditation
February 06, 2022 10:30 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Understanding the Experience of Freedom, Week 4 – Talk
February 06, 2022 10:30 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: 1st Vipallasa: Impermanence as a Dharma-Gate
February 05, 2022 20:46 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: 1st Vipallasa: Anicca ~ Impermanence as a Dharma-Gate
February 05, 2022 20:46 - 39 minutes - 54.6 MB(Gaia House) Talk & Guided Meditation
Nathan Glyde: A Wise and Kind Way of Seeing All Things as Unsatisfactory
February 05, 2022 19:31 - 1 hour - 118 MB(Gaia House) All changing and unreliable phenomena are neither satisfactory nor dissatisfactory. They neither contain the ingredients for contentment nor for distress. It is in the way of relating to them that the tangle of dukkha (distress) arises, or the openness of freedom, well-being, and happiness come to be. How much freedom might come from reminding ourselves that all things are both non-dissatisfactory and unsatisfactory? Guided meditation and Dharma Reflection, followed by a Q&A.
James Baraz: Loving the Moment: Opening to it All (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 05, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 57.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Being in the present requires us to open to all experience, the beautiful moments and the challenging ones. This talk explores essential qualities that help us not only accept the moment, but embrace and even love it as our true refuge.
Ayya Santacitta: Having the Humility & Courage to Start Exactly Where We Are
February 04, 2022 20:49 - 28 minutes - 38.9 MB(Gaia House) Guided Meditation
James Baraz: At some point we can fully let go of all our concerns to give our full attention to the breath and body. As we build faith and devotion to this simple fullness of attention we can feel the mind healing from its habits of being scattered and exhausted. This practice develops into full absorption and becomes the basis for liberating wisdom. (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 04, 2022 14:14 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In order to open the heart and extend kindness and compassion to others we need to soften the places of contraction through practicing forgiveness. This guided meditation invites us to practice forgiving ourselves– our body, our mind, and our heart – and then extending it towards others as well.
JD Doyle: Exploring the Three Refuges as Paths of Practice (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 03, 2022 19:31 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) An exploration of how the three refuges can be used during retreat to support practice. Recognizing the lineage and Buddha nature, the Dharma of our bodies, and the Sangha as a network as support systems that undergird our practice. Includes working with perceptions and using the natural world as part of practice.
Jill Shepherd: talk: finding (moments of) ease in the midst of it all
February 03, 2022 13:35 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB(Insight Meditation Center of Pioneer Valley) Exploring how we get caught in busyness, stress and overwhelm, withsuggestions for helping to find moments of ease and equanimity in the midst of it all