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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Episodes
Donald Rothberg: (Lightly) Guided Meditation: Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant Experiences and Tendencies toward Reactivity.
August 25, 2021 18:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Challenges: Individual, Relational, and Collective
August 25, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We name some of the personal, relational, and collective challenges of our current times, and point to a number of guidelines and support that help us to skillfully take such challenges as part of our practice of awakening. Discussion follows the talk.
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Morning meditation on the 6 sense bases
August 25, 2021 08:00 - 40 minutes - 23.4 MB(Dharma Seed)
Brian Lesage: Perception Changes and a Doorway Opens for the Heart
August 24, 2021 19:00 - 27 minutes - 50.4 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Sally Armstrong: Brama Vihara Meditation: Karuna (Compassion)
August 24, 2021 14:29 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Wise Effort, Week 2 (Evening) - Meditation
August 22, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: The Many Dimensions of Anger
August 20, 2021 19:15 - 33 minutes - 62.2 MB(Albuquerque Vipassana Sangha)
Oren Jay Sofer: The Art of Samatha-Vipassana: Instructions & Guided Meditation
August 20, 2021 07:05 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MB(Insight Meditation Retreats) Morning instructions and guided meditation on finding your own way with the art of meditation practice, putting things down, and picking them up.
Brian Lesage: Introduction to the Three Ways of Perceiving and to the Perception of Impermanence
August 19, 2021 18:30 - 31 minutes - 57.2 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Santacitta: Bewusste Vulnerabilität macht uns zunehmend unverletzlich
August 18, 2021 06:57 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MB(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien)
Eugene Cash: Living From the Dharma
August 15, 2021 18:00 - 56 minutes - 78.1 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Wise Effort, Week 1 - Talk
August 15, 2021 10:30 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Wise Effort, Week 1 - Meditation
August 15, 2021 10:30 - 34 minutes - 15.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Loslassen, sein lassen und gehen lassen
August 14, 2021 17:24 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Fuchshaus, Papoc
Ayya Santacitta: Vulnerabilität & Unverletzbarkeit
August 14, 2021 17:21 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Fuchshaus, Papoc
Ayya Santacitta: Alle Phenomäne haben Befreiung als ihre Essenz
August 14, 2021 17:05 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Fuchshaus, Papoc
Ayya Santacitta: Warum geht es in unserer Praxis?
August 13, 2021 16:59 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Fuchshaus, Papoc
Laura Bridgman: Teachings and Meditation - Finding the Balance Between Ease and Effort
August 13, 2021 14:30 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB(Gaia House)
Laura Bridgman: Teachings And Meditation - Natural Ease, Kindness, and Right Effort
August 13, 2021 09:30 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MB(Gaia House)
James Baraz: The Buddha's Teaching on How Practice Unfolds: The Five Spiritual Faculties
August 12, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The Five Spiritual Faculties is a central teaching of the Buddha that explains how the practice develops and unfolds: This classical list of five qualities expresses both the importance of balance as well as a natural progression of development with one quality leading to the next.
Ayya Santacitta: Stufenweise aus Konstrukten aussteigen
August 11, 2021 20:52 - 57 minutes - 78.9 MB(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien) Vortrag & geführte Meditation
Sylvia Boorstein: Transforming the Mind from I to We Through Wisdom and Kindness
August 11, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 27 meditation: choiceless attention
August 11, 2021 10:45 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning with mindfulness of breathing to steady the mind, then letting go of the primary object or anchor to connect with whatever experiences are predominant, using mental noting to help stay present with changing experiences
Jill Shepherd: 26 instructions: mindfulness of mindfulness
August 11, 2021 10:30 - 19 minutes - 8.98 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring some different approaches to mindfulness, and how different mindfulness methods can be used to maintain a balanced practice
Brian Lesage: To Love and Say Goodbye: A Poetic Approach to the Teaching on Gratification, Drawback, and Escape
August 10, 2021 19:00 - 30 minutes - 56.3 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: 17 meditation: practising with physical discomfort
August 09, 2021 10:45 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by bringing awareness to physical sensations, practising non-reactivity to discomfort, then exploring how opening to neutral and pleasant feeling-tones can support the mind to stay balanced
Jill Shepherd: 16 instructions: working with pain
August 09, 2021 10:30 - 12 minutes - 5.9 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Some different approaches to working skilfully with pain in meditation
Eugene Cash: Right Speech & Mindful Speech
August 08, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 130 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Santacitta: Loslassen ist das Resultat von Klarsicht/Einsicht
August 08, 2021 12:44 - 22 minutes - 25.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Ayya Santacitta: Wie können wir das befreiende Potential der Erwachungsfaktoren erschliessen?
August 08, 2021 12:37 - 17 minutes - 20.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Ayya Santacitta: Medizin gegen Anhaften
August 08, 2021 12:31 - 39 minutes - 45.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Theravada Gruppe Salzburg
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Wisdom According with Nature, Week 4 - Meditation
August 08, 2021 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Wisdom According with Nature, Week 4 - Talk
August 08, 2021 10:30 - 39 minutes - 18 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
DaRa Williams: Cultivating a Quality of the Heart: Compassion
August 08, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 70.4 MB(True North Insight)
DaRa Williams: Equanimity: The Time is Now
August 07, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 141 MB(True North Insight)
Dawn Mauricio: Metta: Love Is Strong
August 07, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 62.8 MB(True North Insight)
Ayya Santacitta: Die Sieben Bojjhanga ~ Erwachungsfaktoren ermöglichen Loslassen
August 06, 2021 18:57 - 30 minutes - 17.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Leigh Brasington: The Honeyball Sutta (MN 18)
August 04, 2021 19:30 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 4: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds 2
August 04, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by naming some of the important supports for daily life practice and by exploring further the importance of practicing with reactivity (compulsively and habitually grasping after or pushing away). It's helpful to focus on the center of practice: Transforming reactivity and learning better how to respond skillfully in all parts of our lives. It's also important to name some of the complexities of practicing with reactivity: (1) Seeing that the pleasant ...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds 2
August 04, 2021 10:10 - 37 minutes - 30.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After some general instructions for settling and seeing clearly and a period of practice, there is guidance for practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds (pleasure or pain, gain or loss, fame or disrepute, and praise or blame). We focus first on being attentive to moderate or greater levels of pleasant or unpleasant experiences (when the experiences are in the "workable" range). Then we bring in attention to the other Winds, when they arise.
Ayya Santacitta: Was ich von meinen Lehrern gelernt habe
August 04, 2021 07:45 - 37 minutes - 52 MB(ÖBR Theravada Schule Wien)
Brian Lesage: The Wisdom and Complexity of Gratitude
August 03, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes - 48.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Mindfulness or sati
July 29, 2021 20:00 - 30 minutes - 14.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short talk on what makes mindfulness Right or Wise, then a group guided meditation/contemplation exploring different aspects of sati, based on questions from Gregory Kramer's book A Whole-Life Path
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 3: Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds
July 28, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of the last two sessions related to deepening daily life practice, including identifying some of the challenges of contemporary daily life practice and some basic ways of deepening such practice, the importance for such practice of mindfulness of the body, and the centrality of practicing with reactivity (based on looking closely at the sequence from contact to grasping or pushing away). We then, for the rest of the session, explore the t...
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 3: A Guided Meditation: Settling, Practicing with Pleasant and Unpleasant and Tendencies to Reactivity, Practicing with the Eight Worldly Winds
July 28, 2021 10:10 - 37 minutes - 30.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, we start with about 10 minutes of settling. We then attend to when there is a moderate or greater pleasant or unpleasant feeling-tone, bringing some investigation as to what occurs in ones' experience, including tendencies to reactivity (grasping or pushing away). Toward the end of the guided meditation, there's an invitation to track for those forms of reactivity coming after one of the Eight Worldly Winds (pleasure or pain, gain or ...
Victoria Cary: Sunday Night Sit with guest teacher Victoria Cary
July 25, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 122 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Rebecca Bradshaw: Ways of Knowing
July 21, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 31 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Sylvia Boorstein: Understanding Impermanence Liberates the Mind From Suffering
July 21, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 47.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Crossing the Flood
July 19, 2021 19:00 - 31 minutes - 57.2 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jack Kornfield: Listening with the Heart Meditation
July 19, 2021 18:00 - 23 minutes - 33 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Direct mindful loving awareness to the mind. The mind secretes thoughts, stories and memories. You are the loving awareness that feels the stream of the mind, that knows it—all the busyness, hopes, and ideas. Listen now to the wisdom mind. It has a message for you. It has wisdom that you need just now. Now let the field of loving awareness open, so the heart knows you can listen to the world around you with tender care. By listening with a compassionate heart a...