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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Ayya Santacitta: This Body Belongs to Nature
June 19, 2021 16:33 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Contemplation of the Body ~ the Non-Beautiful & the Elements | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Protective Meditations
June 19, 2021 03:10 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) An Introduction & Overview | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: Wisdom is Experience Understood
June 19, 2021 03:04 - 31 minutes - 42.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation | Canmore Theravada Buddhist Community
Ayya Santacitta: Maranasati ~ Achtsamkeit der Sterblichkeit / des Todes
June 18, 2021 18:29 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Die 4 Iddhipada ~ Wege zum Erfolg
June 18, 2021 18:23 - 32 minutes - 18.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Livelihood
June 17, 2021 20:00 - 24 minutes - 11.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A beginning exploration of how "livelihood" includes every aspect of how we live our lives, grounded in the orientation to non-harming
Oren Jay Sofer: How we Hold the Practice: Guided Meditation and Instructions
June 17, 2021 08:30 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MB(Insight Meditation Retreats) Morning instructions and guided meditation on how to hold and relate to the primary object/anchor.
Tara Brach: Meditation: The Heartspace Where All is Welcome
June 16, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 13 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation scans through the body, and awakens attention to the open, inclusive awareness that all life arises in. We then explore experiencing that openness in the region of the heart, saying yes to life and including whatever is here with unconditional presence.
Tara Brach: Fierce Self-Compassion – A conversation between Tara Brach and Kristin Neff
June 16, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 42.5 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Kristin Neff is a pioneer in self-compassion research and a leader in bringing practices of self-compassion alive in our world. This conversation is on her latest book, Fierce Self-Compassion, which helps women awaken both receptive and active dimensions of compassion – tenderness and fierceness.
Brian Lesage: Being Somebody and Being Nobody
June 16, 2021 18:30 - 45 minutes - 83.1 MB(Mountain Hermitage)
Brian Lesage: Preliminary Experiential Tastes of Emptiness
June 16, 2021 18:30 - 46 minutes - 84.7 MB(Mountain Hermitage)
Sylvia Boorstein: Loving Well is the Best Response
June 16, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Appreciative Joy
June 16, 2021 15:45 - 37 minutes - 68.7 MB(Mountain Hermitage) This talk offers reflections on Appreciative Joy followed by a guided meditation
Brian Lesage: Freeing Our Hearts through Forgiveness
June 15, 2021 15:45 - 37 minutes - 69.6 MB(Mountain Hermitage) This talk offers reflections on the practice of forgiveness as well as a guided meditation on Forgiveness.
Ayya Santacitta: Good Or Bad Does Not Apply to the Path
June 10, 2021 17:32 - 22 minutes - 31.4 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Am i aware of what is happening in meditation & in daily life and how do i relate to my experience?
Ayya Santacitta: Tear Down the Walls of the Mind
June 09, 2021 18:12 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) The sincerity of the Heart-Wish opens us up to see things differently.
Sylvia Boorstein: There Is No Time but the Present: Reflections on Impermanence
June 09, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 76.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Zohar Lavie: Sharing the Benefits
June 09, 2021 11:56 - 6 minutes - 7.11 MB(Gaia House) The last meditation of the retreat: feeling into the benefits of our time of practice, and wishing them to be a support that can touch all beings: especially those who really need the peace and calm, the kindness and compassion, the clarity and wisdom at this time.
Nathan Glyde: Path Making: A Transition and Continuation
June 09, 2021 11:06 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MB(Gaia House) A review of the practices, and ways we can keep them going, and developing onwards in new creative ways.
Ayya Santacitta: Allowing Life to Speak for Itself
June 09, 2021 04:10 - 51 minutes - 70.5 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Anatta & Meditation on the Elements
Ayya Santacitta: The Elements & Being the Knowing
June 08, 2021 22:19 - 40 minutes - 56.2 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Guided Meditation
Nathan Glyde: The All of the All is Fabricated
June 08, 2021 19:56 - 54 minutes - 63 MB(Gaia House) Maintaining a deep practice across the whole of our life is supported by wisdom and clear intention, and those are rooted well in an understanding of the dependent origination of dukkha and release.
Brian Lesage: Dharma Practice as Artistic Endeavor
June 08, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 53 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Nathan Glyde: Guided Equanimity Practice with Intro
June 08, 2021 16:37 - 42 minutes - 48.8 MB(Gaia House) The fourth of the brahmavihārās, Upekkhā, is a well rooted flexibility; a deeply steady openness; a kindly unshaken intimacy with all things.
Zohar Lavie: Day 4 - Instructions: A Vast Awareness
June 08, 2021 10:27 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MB(Gaia House) Equanimous and spacious, we can allow all things to arise and pass within a calm and sensitive awareness.
Donald Rothberg: Doing, Not-Doing, and The Doing That Comes from Not-Doing: In Meditation and in Daily Life
June 07, 2021 20:10 - 1 hour - 52 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We inquire into doing and not-doing in five ways: (1) identifying the importance of a number of different kinds of "doing" and skillful effort in meditation; (2) pointing also to the centrality of a kind of not-doing (or letting go of doing) and receptivity in meditation; (3) the importance of investigating the "doer" and one's identity as a doer, in a number of different ways, in meditation and daily life; (4) the vision of a doing that comes out of being, tha...
Zohar Lavie: Guided Appreciative Joy Meditation with Intro
June 07, 2021 15:36 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MB(Gaia House) Muditā meditation
Nathan Glyde: Day 3 - Instructions: This is not Peaceful (A Dukkha Insight Way of Looking)
June 07, 2021 10:23 - 59 minutes - 68 MB(Gaia House) Noticing the unsatisfactory nature of all phenomena might sound bleak. But instead of ruminating on whether it is true or not, consider whether it is useful: notice if this lens of attention brings release and an ever deeper sense of freedom.
Nathan Glyde: The Arrows of Dissatisfaction
June 06, 2021 20:05 - 46 minutes - 52.9 MB(Gaia House) =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =---> =--->
Ayya Santacitta: Disenchantment & Reaching Out a Gentle Hand to My Own Mind
June 06, 2021 18:38 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Nibbida = Not Finding
Nathan Glyde: Empowerment of Desire and Aspiration
May 29, 2021 17:49 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB(Gaia House) An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires. A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Action
May 27, 2021 20:00 - 16 minutes - 7.59 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short introduction to Right or Wise Action
Jill Shepherd: meditation: compassion
May 27, 2021 19:00 - 27 minutes - 13.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Mostly silent sitting with a few minutes orientation to compassion at the beginning
Ajahn Sucitto: Going Forth to the Place of Realization
May 26, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MB(Cittaviveka) Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.
Nathan Glyde: The Four Dependently Originating Truths
May 24, 2021 20:43 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB(Gaia House) An exploration of the Dharma teachings of the four ennobling truths as inviting questions into a deep exploration of dependent origination for profound and immediate freedom. Mediation and Dharma Talk
Eugene Cash: Exploring the Dharma: Surprise, Discovery, Mystery
May 23, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 125 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Nathan Glyde: I Shall Not Hate
May 23, 2021 09:48 - 1 hour - 72.5 MB(Gaia House) A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape good effluences (outward-flows).
Ajahn Sucitto: The Power of Presence
May 22, 2021 18:00 - 38 minutes - 21.9 MB(Cittaviveka) We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Return to the Basis of Citta
May 22, 2021 06:00 - 13 minutes - 6.22 MB(Cittaviveka) Encourage attention to find its way back through the tangle, back to the basis of citta. Sentient, present, withdrawn from the mental landscapes and the personal scenarios. Fully dwelt in, lingered in, citta, in its basis, is happy.
Joanna Macy, Stephanie Kaza: A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy on Grief, Gratitude, and Belonging
May 22, 2021 01:30 - 1 hour - 127 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) The powerful COVID-19 virus teacher has brought us to the brink of widespread systems change and deep uncertainty about how things will unfold. There is a hunger for a more profound understanding of the links between ecosystem collapse and public health threats, between patterns of economic domination and racial injustice. Systems thinking and Buddhist views together offer skillful means for making sense of these interlocking calls for action.
Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Rechten Anstrengungen & Loslassen
May 21, 2021 20:44 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Rechten Anstrengungen Münden in Anstrengungsloser Anstrengung
May 21, 2021 20:33 - 36 minutes - 33.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Norman Fischer: Online Book Talk -- When You Greet Me I Bow
May 21, 2021 19:30 - 56 minutes - 32.2 MB(Gaia House) In this Dharma talk and discussion Norman Fischer presents his just-out book “When You Greet Me I Bow: Notes and Reflections from a Life in Zen,” a collection of thirty years of his Dharma essays, with his own contemporary reflections. Covering topics as wide-ranging as what is a Zen teacher, racism and Buddhism, politics and religion, women in Zen, and the dialogic nature of Zen practice, the book is a broad look at the Buddhist movement in the West, its challenges and changes o...
Tara Brach: Meditation: Yes to Life
May 19, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In the moments we release all resistance, we relax open to inhabit the fullness of our Being. This meditation guides us to an embodied, openhearted presence that welcomes the changing flow of life.
Tara Brach: Entering the Mystery
May 19, 2021 19:30 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) John O’Donahue writes, “We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.” This talk looks at the ways we pull away from the mystery and the path of “beginners mind” that enables us to encounter this living world with freshness, courage and wonder (a special talk from the 2013 archives).
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Realization of Anicca
May 19, 2021 18:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MB(Cittaviveka) The realization of changeability can be transformational and liberating. When we deepen into presence, we can review the contents of the mind with spaciousness – without identifying with anything, without creating a self. With this quality of relinquishment, wonderful dhammas arise – spaciousness, clarity compassion – the ending of suffering.
Donald Rothberg: The Development of Faith, Confidence, and Trust 2
May 19, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue to explore the nature of faith (or confidence or trust), how it is developed, and the challenges that arise. We look at the traditional teachings on faith (or saddha) in several contexts, and examine how faith or confidence develops in our practice and in our lives We particularly look at some of the challenges that arise, both in the everyday experience of the Eight Worldly Winds, and in more protracted experiences of something like the "Dark Night...
Brian Lesage: The Lotus Flower and the Pause
May 18, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 51.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on a metaphor found in the Dona Sutta as well as offering a way of pausing found in the course: Practicing in 3D found at https://mailchi.mp/3af4c5cd014d/practicing-in-3d
Pamela Weiss: Mother Trees - The Roots of Connectivity
May 16, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 125 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)