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

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness–Mindfulness of Dhammas, Week 8 - Meditation

November 01, 2021 19:30 - 33 minutes - 15.1 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness–Mindfulness of Dhammas, Week 8 - Talk

November 01, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Brian Lesage: A Passion For The Path: Following In Love

October 31, 2021 19:31 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Eugene Cash: Halloween - Celebrating the Magic of Each Moment

October 31, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 122 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Zohar Lavie: Awareness: Internally, Externally, Both

October 31, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 92.2 MB

(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma Reflection in the Gaia House Online Dharma Hall

Mark Nunberg: The Art of Retreating, Part 2

October 31, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: The Art of Retreating - Meditation

October 31, 2021 10:30 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: 04 talk: challenges to mettā practice

October 31, 2021 08:30 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) An overview of some of the difficulties that can get in the way of cultivating mettā, and some strategies for working with these

Nathan Glyde: Perceiving is Believing

October 30, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 102 MB

(Gaia House) Exploring the aggregates of perception in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House. A meditation and Dharma reflection, with questions and responses.

Ajahn Sucitto: A fruitful merging

October 29, 2021 18:00 - 59 minutes - 68.1 MB

(Cittaviveka) Structures can be helpful, but they only get you so far and then you have to trust something more deeply felt – mindfulness internally and externally, conscience and concern. That’s the ultimate system. The qualities of this spiritual intelligence then blend into something affirmative and potent. We can begin to relax who we think we are, focus instead on these spiritual qualities that merge into the deathless, and allow the unbinding of that fixation of self.

James Baraz: Am I Enough?

October 28, 2021 19:30 - 53 minutes - 73 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) A great Zen treatise says that someone truly enlightened is "without anxiety about non-perfection." It's no wonder that, with such impossible standards that most people hold themselves to, they always seem to fall short. How is it that others can so easily see our goodness while we're often the last ones to see our "True Nature"? The talk includes a short excerpt of Ram Dass sharing his primary practice to remember who we really are.

Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - A Compassionate Response

October 27, 2021 19:30 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MB

(Gaia House)

Lila Kate Wheeler: Bodyfulness

October 27, 2021 19:30 - 50 minutes - 28.9 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Yanai Postelnik: Instructions and Silent Meditation

October 27, 2021 09:30 - 43 minutes - 59.5 MB

(Gaia House)

Ayya Santacitta: Mit Ungewissheit sein

October 27, 2021 06:18 - 54 minutes - 74.3 MB

(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien) Vortrag & Geführte Meditation | Klimakrise & Sinnstiftung 5/5

Yanai Postelnik: Dharma Talk - The End Of Separation

October 26, 2021 19:30 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

(Gaia House)

Yanai Postelnik: Guided Metta (Lovingkindness) Meditation

October 26, 2021 16:30 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MB

(Gaia House)

Mark Coleman: Guided Metta Meditation

October 25, 2021 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Mark Coleman: Morning Sit With Instructions

October 25, 2021 08:31 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Eugene Cash: Heart of Emptiness

October 24, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Amita Schmidt: The Fire of Change

October 24, 2021 15:30 - 55 minutes - 102 MB

(Tri State Dharma) In the fire of change, ways to maintain an awake view and a loving heart.

Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Valuing Truthfulness, Week 3 - Talk

October 24, 2021 10:30 - 36 minutes - 16.6 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Valuing Truthfulness, Week 3 - Meditation

October 24, 2021 10:30 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: mettā for the benefactor or easy being

October 24, 2021 09:00 - 21 minutes - 10.2 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning by establishing ease in the body, then offering mettā to a benefactor using reciting phrases and radiating energy

Zohar Lavie: Radiating Metta

October 23, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 88.9 MB

(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma Reflection in the Gaia House Online Dharma Hall

Amita Schmidt: Death/Letting Go Meditation

October 23, 2021 12:30 - 28 minutes - 52.5 MB

(Tri State Dharma) A progressive meditation on letting go that simulates the death process. Letting go of the senses, emotions, thoughts, and perception. See what remains.

Mark Coleman: Meeting challenges on the path with awareness and wisdom

October 22, 2021 19:39 - 58 minutes - 53.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How we work with the five hindrances and other challenges in meditation and in life with wisdom, kindness and clear awareness

Ajahn Jutindharo: Guided Meditation; Practicing Outside of Retreat

October 22, 2021 09:30 - 53 minutes - 73 MB

(Gaia House) This recording also includes Laura Bridgman

Jill Shepherd: Befriending the Mind

October 20, 2021 19:30 - 42 minutes - 24.1 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Sylvia Boorstein: Buddhas Teaching on Impartial Kindness: The Metta Sutta

October 20, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk references the New Yorker cover from September 6, 2021 and the Karaniya Metta Sutta. Here are links to access them: The New Yorker Cover and Karaniya Metta Sutta

Jill Shepherd: Muditā or gladness as a support for samādhi, unification of mind

October 18, 2021 21:30 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MB

(Sydney Insight Meditators) Part two of an exploration of samādhi, unification of mind, and how opening to gladness can support deeper calm and ease

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness–Mindfulness of Dhammas, Week 6 - Talk

October 18, 2021 19:30 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: The Fourth Foundation of Mindfulness–Mindfulness of Dhammas, Week 6 - Meditation

October 18, 2021 19:30 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Pamela Weiss: Illusion and Delusion

October 17, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Maura Sills: 4 - Prajna Paramita Chant and Short Meditation

October 17, 2021 16:30 - 13 minutes - 7.74 MB

(London Insight Meditation)

Maura Sills: 3 - Intro to Empathetic Holding Field practice

October 17, 2021 15:00 - 4 minutes - 3.53 MB

(London Insight Meditation)

Maura Sills: 2 - Talk on Ignorance

October 17, 2021 14:00 - 23 minutes - 18.6 MB

(London Insight Meditation)

Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Valuing Truthfulness, Week 2 - Meditation

October 17, 2021 10:30 - 37 minutes - 17.1 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Jaya Rudgard: Loving Kindness (Metta) Practice - Radiating to the Ten Directions

September 07, 2021 14:30 - 44 minutes - 61.9 MB

(Gaia House)

Ayya Santacitta: Anhaften & Verwirrung enstehen simultan

September 04, 2021 18:15 - 12 minutes - 17.1 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Buddhistisches Zentrum Bad Gams

Ayya Santacitta: Grundlegende Muster erkennen

September 04, 2021 17:48 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Buddhistisches Zentrum Bad Gams

Ayya Santacitta: Erkennen von Zusammenhängen ist befreiend

September 01, 2021 19:55 - 38 minutes - 52.3 MB

(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien) 4 Übungsfelder der Achtsamkeit

Donald Rothberg: Awakening

September 01, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a number of sessions focused on practicing with reactivity and with challenges, we focus on awakening and awakened qualities. We survey the Buddha's main understanding of awakening as the ending of greed, aversion, and ignorance, as well as his pointing to a "signless, boundless, luminous" awareness at times. We also explore some of the understandings of a similar "awakened awareness" found in the Thai Forest tradition and the Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamud...

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Settling, Tracking Reactivity and Awakened Qualities

September 01, 2021 10:10 - 36 minutes - 29 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with the intention to cultivate awakened qualities, then have a period of settling, followed by opening up experience and particularly noticing any reactivity (habitual grasping and pushing away) and awakened qualities, such as mindfulness, concentration, equanimity, joy, etc.