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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Jack Kornfield: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night Talk
July 19, 2021 18:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We are each other's bond. We are each other's community. We are each other's family. What we most want, perhaps, is to be listened to in the deepest way, to be met with the heart. When we learn to rest in awareness, there’s both caring and silence. There is listening for what’s the next thing to do and awareness of all that’s happening, a big space and a connected feeling of love. When there is enough space, our whole being can both comprehend the situation an...
Jack Kornfield: Meditation: Listening with the Heart | Monday Night
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...
Nathan Glyde: What is Dukkha?
July 18, 2021 17:52 - 1 hour - 77.8 MB(Gaia House) An exploration and meditation on understanding dukkha and reducing it. Maybe we can reverse engineer the experience, then reduce or move in the opposite direction
Ayya Santacitta: Tathata = Soheit ~ Es Ist Wie Es Ist
July 16, 2021 20:28 - 1 hour - 39.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom (schlechte Tonqualität)
Brian Lesage: Getting Practical about Practice
July 16, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes - 61.8 MB(Albuquerque Vipassana Sangha)
Nathan Glyde: Fabricated for Freedom
July 16, 2021 15:12 - 1 hour - 70.1 MB(SanghaSeva) Concerning ways to deepen, widen, and extend our practice, retreat, and awakening. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Day 6 Instructions: Not Self
July 16, 2021 10:31 - 1 hour - 83 MB(SanghaSeva) Bringing a way of looking that sees all that we can know as not belonging to the self, or being who we are. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Effort p2 - cultivating skilful mind-states
July 15, 2021 19:50 - 18 minutes - 8.65 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring appreciation and gratitude as aspects of mudita, to support the development of Wise Effort
James Baraz: Accessing Your Triggers for Insight
July 15, 2021 19:30 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Have you ever had a profound meditation experience and tried with frustration to recreate it?This is a common experience for many practitioners. Just as trauma can be triggered in our body and mind, the same is possible with positive experiences that we've gone through. This talk explores how this works and how we can access those profound moments and the wisdom that they've awakened in us.
Jill Shepherd: meditation: opening to appreciation and gratitude
July 15, 2021 19:00 - 26 minutes - 12.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) orienting to appreciation and gratitude as a support for gladdening the mind, an aspect of Wise Effort
Nathan Glyde: Sensitive to the Sense of Self
July 15, 2021 15:31 - 1 hour - 71 MB(SanghaSeva) Exploring the middle way between self and not-self. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Day 5 Instructions: Unsatisfactory
July 15, 2021 09:53 - 1 hour - 77.3 MB(SanghaSeva) Bringing a way of looking that sees all phenomena as not peaceful, all modes that hold them in attention as not freeing, to engender a deeper letting in, be, go. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Reliably Unreliable
July 14, 2021 15:50 - 1 hour - 70 MB(SanghaSeva) Bringing dukkha (unreliable/unsatisfactory) as a way of looking brings freedom from dukkha. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Day 4 Instructions: Seeing as Inconstant
July 14, 2021 09:55 - 1 hour - 75.2 MB(SanghaSeva) An anicca way of looking. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Day 3 Instructions: Not Reacting to the Niceness Opinion
July 13, 2021 10:07 - 1 hour - 76.7 MB(SanghaSeva) Exploring the teaching and practice of vedanā as a way to ease dukkha. This guidance has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Brian Lesage: Coming Together Again as Community: Sangha and Place
July 12, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Nathan Glyde: Ending the Argument without Saying a Word
July 12, 2021 15:10 - 54 minutes - 62.8 MB(SanghaSeva) This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Nathan Glyde: Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart
July 10, 2021 19:42 - 50 minutes - 57.4 MB(SanghaSeva) This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next guidance.
Nathan Glyde: Opening Meditation - Bright Mind, Open Heart
July 10, 2021 19:42 - 50 minutes - 57.4 MB(SanghaSeva) This simple guided meditation for presence and intimacy with life, has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next guidance.
Nathan Glyde: Opening Talk - Bright Mind, Open Heart
July 10, 2021 19:38 - 39 minutes - 45.3 MB(SanghaSeva) Introducing the theme of the retreat: insight, samatha (calm-aliveness) and metta. This talk has a live translation into Czech that is not recorded, yet it might seem slow as Nathan waits for the translation to complete before offering the next sentence.
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: Practicing with Reactivity
July 07, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of last week's opening exploration of deepening daily life practice, naming some of the challenges of daily life practice, some initial ways of deepening such practice, and the centrality for such practice of mindfulness of the body. We then, for the rest of the session, explore how we can practice with reactivity when it arises, in its two forms--grasping after the pleasant and pushing away what is taken as unpleasant. We ground such pra...
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 2: Practicing with Reactivity: A Guided Meditation
July 07, 2021 10:10 - 26 minutes - 20.9 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. Toward the end of the guided meditation, there's an invitation to track for any moment of reactivity (grasping onto the pleasant in some way, or pushing away the unpleasant).
Pamela Weiss: True Happiness - Independence and Interdependence
July 04, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 131 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: 06 meditation: mindfulness of the body and thinking
July 04, 2021 10:30 - 14 minutes - 6.92 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short meditation establishing mindfulness of the body, then noticing the effect of getting caught in thinking and returning the awareness to relaxing physical tension
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Investigating
July 03, 2021 17:55 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB(Gaia House) 4th exploration of the bases of success: prior ones are in the: Online Dharma Hall - Jun 2021 'retreat album'. This final one explores vīmaṁsa the skilful analysis of experience to develop deeper well-being and freedom on the path of practice. Each exploration stands alone, as well as being part of a series.
Ayya Santacitta: Die Fünf Indriya & Bewusstes Gewahrsein
July 02, 2021 23:25 - 38 minutes - 22.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Die Fünf Indriya & Bala ~ Fünf Stränge eines Seils
July 02, 2021 23:10 - 34 minutes - 19.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Effort part 1
July 01, 2021 19:45 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at Wise Effort generally, how it is supported by Wise View, and some of the common challenges of maintaining momentum in daily life practice
Ayya Dhammadipa: Anxiety Responsive Care (ARC)
July 01, 2021 14:04 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A standing guided meditation for moments of high anxiety
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Daily Life Practice 1
June 30, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In an important sense, daily life practice is central and vital; it is where we live! Yet at times in the non-monastic Insight Meditation approach as it's developed in the West, such practice has been somewhat marginalized, with retreat practice and formal meditation practice at the center. We explore first the challenging context of daily life practice for many Western practitioners, including not just such a lack of sustained emphasis on daily life practice, ...
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 1 - Meditation
June 28, 2021 19:30 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Mind, Week 1 - Talk
June 28, 2021 19:30 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Eugene Cash: Awakening the Three Centers - Body, Heart, Mind
June 27, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 121 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Acknowledging Dukkha
June 26, 2021 06:00 - 14 minutes - 6.74 MB(Cittaviveka) When we try to settle, what we might notice is unsettledness. Rather than go into the topic, recognize the energy. Give attention to places in the body that are non-agitated. Use body and breathing to change the speed of the mind, steady it. Once settled, then dilemmas and unfinished business can be related to with dispassion, compassion, detachment.
Ajahn Sucitto: Innate Nobility
June 24, 2021 18:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB(Cittaviveka) The world that consciousness presents us as existing within is divided into self and other; this is a source of suffering. Authentic relatedness is needed to realize that there is no fundamental self or other. So we need to establish a relationship with the uncertainty of this that’s harmonious. Stop the topic, experience the energy. If we meet suffering not in terms of me and you, but with awareness of agitated energies, then lovingkindness, compassion and patience naturally a...
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Staying Present with Experience
June 23, 2021 18:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MB(Cittaviveka) There are 2 qualities of citta: it is affected and it is knowing, aware. With cultivation, awareness can become much more apparent and encompassing while the affective sense can steady, calm and subside into something still. The process is to go through the body. As the body eases, citta settles and collects into itself – samādhi. Happy, easeful, refreshed.
Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Transforming Racism: Nine Reflections from the Last Year
June 23, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A year after the massive demonstrations in the US following the killing of George Floyd, we reflect on different aspects of the integration of Buddhist practice and transforming racism, identifying nine key themes.
Zohar Lavie: Opening Awareness
June 21, 2021 20:21 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MB(Gaia House) A session for the Online Sitting Group at Gaia House, opening to wider field of sound, expanding awareness for deeper well-being.
Ayya Dhammadipa: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire: Fear and the Five Aggregates
June 21, 2021 00:08 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Buddhanussati | Recollection of the Buddha
June 20, 2021 22:04 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: Faith in the Buddha & Our Own Capacity to Awaken
June 20, 2021 22:02 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Buddhanussati ~ Recollection on the Meaning of Nine Qualities of the Buddha | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: Getting to Know How the Mind Works
June 20, 2021 16:57 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation on the Seven Factors of Awakening & Metta | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: Metta is the Result of Going Through the Fire of Craving
June 20, 2021 16:56 - 25 minutes - 34.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Zohar Lavie: Kindness to all Kind
June 20, 2021 11:10 - 1 hour - 91.5 MB(Gaia House) A guided practice and talk offered in the Online Dharma Hall of Gaia House.
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Aspirational Intentionality
June 20, 2021 11:06 - 1 hour - 94.6 MB(Gaia House) Continuing the theme of Bases of Success. An Online Dharma Hall session with a guided meditation and dharma talk, and some responses to questions in the hall (the questions are not recorded for privacy reasons, but are explained if not explicit in the response).
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Moral Integrity and Sensitivity - Meditation
June 20, 2021 10:30 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis: Moral Integrity and Sensitivity - Talk
June 20, 2021 10:30 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Maranasati ~ Recollection of Death
June 19, 2021 21:12 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Talk & Guided Meditation | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: The Non-Beautiful, the Elements and the Knowing
June 19, 2021 16:41 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation on the Body | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community