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: 15 talk: equanimity
January 18, 2022 19:30 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An overview of equanimity, including its near and far enemies, and how it supports deepening peace
Ajahn Sucitto: Attend to the Heart Tones
January 18, 2022 18:00 - 18 minutes - 8.56 MB(Bandar Utama Buddhist Society) When your heart becomes buried under thought, or you can’t manage what’s happening in the heart, then you need your body to bring you back. Body provides the steadying effect that allows the heart to come out. The other approach is through kindness, the ability to maintain presence, pausing and lingering whilst waiting for the heart’s response. This is how we begin to put aside the reactions and compulsiveness, and find our way out of the tangled web of confusi...
Jill Shepherd: 14 instructions: muditā
January 18, 2022 14:30 - 8 minutes - 3.85 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short introduction to muditā as a support for skilful qualities of heart and mind
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: compassion
January 18, 2022 09:45 - 21 minutes - 10.1 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by steadying the body, heart and mind, then cultivating kindness and care in relation to pain
Jill Shepherd: 12 instructions: compassion
January 18, 2022 09:00 - 11 minutes - 5.42 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Compassion as the second of the four brahmavihāra practices, building on a foundation of mettā or good will then extending that kindness to meet all forms of pain, stress, distress and suffering
Ajahn Sucitto: Presence and Sharing It
January 18, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(Bandar Utama Buddhist Society) Wherever you are, you’re always present. We tend to focus on what we’re present with, the sights and sounds, but what’s the capacity to be present with them? Remove the fear, agitation, craving, imagined hostility of other people – these block presence. Presence is a certain stability, freedom from regret and agitation, goodwill towards myself and others. This is the most peaceful abiding.
Jill Shepherd: 11 talk: three characteristics and contemplation of death
January 17, 2022 19:30 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the universal characteristics of impermanence and not-self, and how these can come together in the contemplation of death to support living with more ease, happiness and peace
Jill Shepherd: 10 intstructions: mindfulness of mind-states
January 17, 2022 14:30 - 11 minutes - 5.22 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Bringing awareness to the underlying qualities of mind underneath the content of thoughts and emotions
Jill Shepherd: 09 meditation: mindfulness of mind and awakening factors
January 17, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by establishing stillness and spaciousness in the body and mind, allowing thoughts to come and go, then tuning in to the underlying qualities of the mind, including the seven factors of awakening
Gulwinder Singh: The Five Recollections and the Cultivation of Metta in Daily Life--(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 16, 2022 19:34 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This Dharma Talk reflects on the 5 subjects for frequent recollections (also called the 5 remembrances): (1) I am of the nature to age, I have not gone beyond aging, (2) I am of the nature to sicken, I have not gone beyond sickness, (3) I am of the nature to die, I have not gone beyond dying (4) All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, Will become separated from me (4) I am the owner of my kamma, heir to my kamma, born of my kamma, related...
Gulwinder Singh: Evening Dharma Talk--(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 16, 2022 19:34 - 1 hour - 61.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 08 talk: Right Effort p2 - Seven Factors of Awakening
January 16, 2022 19:30 - 42 minutes - 19.8 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Continuing to explore Right Effort as the capacity to release the hindrances and help the Seven Factors of Awakening to arise
Eugene Cash: Inspiring People: The Dharma of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & bell hooks
January 16, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 129 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: 07 instructions: mindfulness of the body in terms of the four elemental qualities
January 16, 2022 14:30 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An introduction to experiencing the body in terms of the elemental qualities of earth, water, fire and air
Jill Shepherd: 06 meditation: spaciousness and mettā
January 16, 2022 09:45 - 21 minutes - 10 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Orienting to the energy of mettā / kindness as a support for more openness and ease in the body, heart and mind
Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: cultivating spaciousness and metta
January 16, 2022 09:00 - 13 minutes - 6.54 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Continuing with the exploration of clinging and release, noticing what gets in the way and what supports more openness and ease, with an invitation to orient to mettā
Kaira Jewel Lingo: Justice is What Love Looks Like in Public: Celebrating Dr. King's Legacy of Love--(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 15, 2022 19:37 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Given on Dr. King's birthday, we explore how we can each give rise to bodhicitta and support the realization of justice: the expression of love in public. Kaira Jewel first shares about the personal impact of Dr. King on her life, introducing her father, Al Lingo, who makes a cameo appearance to briefly share about working with Dr. King in the Civil Rights Movement in the South. She then explores the friendship between Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. King and their com...
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Right Effort p1 - the Five Hindrances
January 15, 2022 19:30 - 50 minutes - 22.7 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: Right Effort and the Five Hindrances
January 15, 2022 19:30 - 50 minutes - 22.7 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 03 instructions: mindfulness of the body
January 15, 2022 14:30 - 12 minutes - 5.87 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning to sensitise our awareness to notice the physical symptoms of clinging and release
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: mindfulness of breathing
January 15, 2022 09:30 - 26 minutes - 12.1 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by establishing awareness of the body sitting, and simply receiving the experience of breathing
Jill Shepherd: 01 instructions: developing mindfulness and steadiness of mind
January 15, 2022 09:00 - 20 minutes - 9.56 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Developing sati / mindfulness and samadhi / steadiness of mind, to sensitise us to what supports ease, and what gets in the way
Donald Rothberg: Metta and Forgiveness--(Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 14, 2022 19:32 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We first explore several important themes in metta practice: (1) how metta practice can be seen as a training in learning to “lead” with the heart; (2) ways of working with difficult experiences, such as anger, fear, and the presence of the judgmental mind, that can arise in the “purification” process connected with metta practice; (3) how metta practice opens us to our radiant depths; and (4) the nature of metta practice with the “difficult person” and its con...
Gulwinder Singh: Brahmavihara practices (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 13, 2022 16:00 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Oren Jay Sofer: Training the Heart
January 12, 2022 19:35(Various) How do we meet the challenges of our times? This talk reflects on how we can shape and train the heart-mind to have access to qualities that enrich our potential and resilience.
Kaira Jewel Lingo: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 12, 2022 19:33 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Introduction to Buddhist Awareness Practice, Week 1 - Talk
January 12, 2022 19:30 - 31 minutes - 14.3 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Compass of Our Heart
January 12, 2022 19:30 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) All of our actions, our entire life experience, arises from the energy of intention. While it’s natural that our intentions are shaped by egoic wants and fears, when we bring this into conscious, compassionate awareness, we can discover the deep aspiration that guides and energizes our awakening hearts and minds. This talk explores the movement from egoic intention to liberating intention…the movement from “my will” to “my heart’s will” (a favor...
Dawn Scott: Equanimity: balanced intimacy
January 12, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 33.7 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Introduction to Buddhist Awareness Practice, Week1 - Meditation
January 12, 2022 19:30 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (20:04 min.)
January 12, 2022 19:30 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we fully inhabit our body, we discover the space and wakefulness of awareness itself. In this meditation, we rest in this open awareness, and when the attention narrows into thoughts, we practice relaxing back into the openness that includes passing sounds, sensations and feelings. We close with a brief offering of lovingkindness to our own hearts and our world (with community OMs – no bell at end).
Oren Jay Sofer: Guided Meditation: Nourishing the Heart
January 12, 2022 19:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MB(Various) Guided meditation on noticing and dwelling on what's uplifting in the heart.
Ajahn Sucitto: Wisdom - The Intelligence that Leads to Stillness
January 11, 2022 06:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MB(Cittaviveka) The cultivation of wisdom is not just a matter of intellectually knowing something, it’s a practice of handling, and staying in touch with what’s felt. Steadying citta so it can come out of its fixed gripped state, there’s a turning towards dispassion and right response. Stay in touch with the process, do the process and see where it goes – that’s how you learn.
Ajahn Sucitto: Cracking the Shell Is Pleasant
January 10, 2022 06:00 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MB(Cittaviveka) The process of cultivation is a pleasant one of cleaning away the dross and delusions that cause us suffering and stress. Drop by drop the bucket fills up with skillful actions and overflows into something more deep, steady, reliable. Be a stable presence rather than search for it, ‘out there’ – gradually the chaos will begin to still. There’s a process there, and the result is purification.
Eugene Cash: The Dharma of 2022
January 09, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 132 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Joseph Goldstein, William Edelglass: Exploring Nibbana: A Conversation with Joseph Goldstein
January 09, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 126 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Zohar Lavie: Saddha: Conviction; Trust; Faith
January 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MB(Gaia House)
Ajahn Sucitto: Careful Attention: Food for Awakening
January 09, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MB(Cittaviveka) With careful attention we pick up those qualities within experience that are most supportive for liberation. It means we notice how things affect us and the results that follow. Mindfulness of body gives you something to rest in as you breathe through the rocky areas of heart and mind. Citta comes out of its restricted state and there’s a widening, stepping back, letting go.
Nathan Glyde: Conditioned Towards Freedom
January 08, 2022 20:43 - 1 hour - 121 MB(Gaia House) Exploring how a wide expanse of Buddha Dharma is implied in Dhammapada verse 1: Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a corrupted heart, then suffering follows you— as the wheel of the cart, the track of the ox that pulls it. Phenomena are preceded by the heart, ruled by the heart, made of the heart. If you speak or act with a calm, bright heart, then happiness follows you, like a shadow ...
Howard Cohn: Evening Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
January 08, 2022 19:41 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: To Begin and To Continue
January 08, 2022 19:30 - 37 minutes - 68.3 MB(Mountain Hermitage)
Brian Lesage: Appreciative Joy - Mudita: An Introduction and Guided Meditation
January 08, 2022 16:45 - 36 minutes - 66.3 MB(Mountain Hermitage)
Jill Shepherd: 34 meditation: equanimity
January 06, 2022 14:45 - 23 minutes - 11.2 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Starting with the usual anchors of body, physical sensations and sounds, then opening to choiceless attention and cultivating an attitude of equanimity or non-reactivity in relation to whatever we're experiencing
Jill Shepherd: 33 instructions: equanimity
January 06, 2022 14:30 - 11 minutes - 5.45 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A short introduction to equanimity as a support for the ending of the retreat
Jill Shepherd: 32 meditation: mudita as appreciation for outer conditions and inner qualities
January 06, 2022 09:45 - 29 minutes - 14.2 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Beginning by acknowledging what we can appreciate about the outer conditions of being on retreat, then orienting to the skilful inner qualities that have been strengthened, specifically the seven factors of awakening
Jill Shepherd: 31 instructions: mudita p2
January 06, 2022 09:30 - 6 minutes - 3.29 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) As the retreat comes to a close, noticing the tendency for the mind to go into future thinking, and come back to abiding in the skilful qualities that have been developed here, specifically mudita as a form of appreciation or gratitude
Mark Nunberg: Establishing and Trusting Awareness, Part 2 - Talk
January 05, 2022 19:30 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Chas DiCapua: Dukkha and the End of Dukkha
January 05, 2022 19:30 - 43 minutes - 24.8 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 30 talk: working with afflictive thought-patterns
January 05, 2022 19:00 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators)
Donald Rothberg: Inquiry as a Factor of Awakening in Formal Meditation and Daily Life 2
January 05, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this second exploration of the nature of inquiry or investigation, we first review some of what was covered in the first talk. We situate inquiry or investigation within the teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening, as one of the three "energizing" factors. After outlining five modes of inquiry and reviewing the first two--inquiring with mindfulness and deep listening--covered last time, we explore a third mode of inquiry--using a teaching to guide one's p...