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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Donald Rothberg: The Development of Faith, Confidence, and Trust in Our Practice
May 12, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Our practice points toward a deep kind of faith (or confidence or trust) that is possible, in which there is faith both in our unique being and in our connection to being itself. We explore how we develop such faith, starting with a brief account of how faith (saddha) is understood in the teachings of the Buddha, and then exploring how faith is developed at different stages of our practice, particularly beginning and intermediate.
Ajahn Sucitto: Converting Difficulty into Skilful States
May 11, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 42.1 MB(Cittaviveka) Cultivation, bhavana, can be described as the desire to bring forth skilful qualities. It’s an eager, inspired willingness to receive every situation that arises, and know what is needed to turn it into a skilful state. The old historical person begins to fade out, transformed by the deepened and strengthened resolve of the heart.
Lila Kate Wheeler: Practical Dharma
May 11, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 31.8 MB(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) The Buddha’s teachings are often compared to a finger pointing to the moon. Without that finger, we might never lift our gaze and see for ourselves. Tonight’s talk offers encouragement to stay present and awake as a lived experience so that we can lead a more centered, caring, ethical life. As Dharma practitioners, we make efforts to be more present for the experiences in ourselves and others. As we do so we’ll surely hear and see things we didn...
Eugene Cash: Unhardening the Heart
May 09, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 124 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Dhammadipa: The Buddha Has a Teaching for Them
May 07, 2021 13:55 - 21 minutes - 11.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Buddhanussati ~ A Springboard for the Heart & Mind
May 07, 2021 13:30 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Recollection of the Buddha's Wisdom and Love
May 07, 2021 10:00 - 31 minutes - 18.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Sharing a few key stories of the Buddha's life
Ayya Anandabodhi: Buddhanusati - Recollection of the Buddha
May 07, 2021 08:50 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Speech p2
May 06, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 8.57 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at lesser-known aspects of Wise Speech, including how the Buddha at times endorsed harsh speech if necessary to prevent harm; also exploring the role of wise listening to help discern when and how to speak
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Brahmaviharas are Craving Transformed
May 06, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour - 29.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Radiating Metta for the Entire World
May 06, 2021 13:30 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation
Ayya Dhammadipa: In a World Full of Mixed Messages
May 06, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Dhammadipa: Filling the mind with metta
May 06, 2021 08:50 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Meditation: Letting Go into Living Presence
May 05, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) We resist reality by tensing our body and contracting into thoughts. This meditation guides us into letting go of resistance by surrendering over and over into the aliveness and presence that is right here.
Tara Brach: Three Dimensions of Conscious Prayer
May 05, 2021 19:30 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Prayer can be a creative, vibrant and infinitely tender part of our spiritual awakening. This talk explores the dimensions of embodied presence, sincere expression and silence that bring transformational power to our prayers.
Sylvia Boorstein: Anyone Who Understands Impermanence Ceases to be Contentious
May 05, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 70.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Anandabodhi: If You Were to Die Tonight...
May 05, 2021 16:15 - 1 hour - 29.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The Buddha encouraged us to reflect on the fact that death could come at any time. This sobering reflection, when used in the right way, brings sharpness and clarity as to what is important in our lives
Dawn Mauricio: Embodying Mettā: A Daylong Retreat
May 02, 2021 17:00 - 3 hours - 123 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Those who are familiar with the practice of mettā, or lovingkindness, know that it is one of four divine abidings of the heart according to the Buddha’s teachings. One way that this quality can be cultivated—as traditionally and so frequently taught—is through the recitation of phrases. However, without a deeper understanding or familiarity with the subtle expressions of mettā, or the alternate doorways into cultivating this profound and limitless quality, lovi...
Mark Nunberg: Paramis, Week 2: Calling on the Beautiful Qualities of the Heart - Meditation
May 02, 2021 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Paramis, Week 2: Calling on the Beautiful Qualities of the Heart - Talk
May 02, 2021 10:30 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Four Elements & Seven Factors of Awakening ~ A Blessing for Ekuthuleni
May 01, 2021 18:15 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 30 2021
April 30, 2021 09:30 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Cultivating Calm
Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Apr 29 2021
April 29, 2021 09:30 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Tara Brach: Meditation: From Head to Full Being
April 28, 2021 19:30 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are lost inside thoughts we lose connection with our heart, aliveness and spirit. This meditation guides us to a wakeful presence and invites us to return over and over from virtual reality into the mysterious, tender vastness that is our true being.
Tara Brach: Namaste: Honoring the Light in All Beings
April 28, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The ritual of Namaste - bowing to the sacred in ourselves and others - helps us live from the loving awareness that is our true nature. This talk looks at how we suffer because we forget this basic goodness, and explores the pathways of remembering that carry us home.
Ajahn Sucitto: The True Good Person (Sappurisa)
April 26, 2021 18:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB(Cittaviveka) The good person is considered to be the bedrock, the first condition that should be established, for someone seeking after liberation. We are both formed by associating with good people, and we can become good people. In meditation we purify the bodily base so it can act as the reference point for our intentions and behaviors. A sense of meaningful purpose and alignment to true duty then inform the ‘true person’.
Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma Stream Q&A
April 24, 2021 18:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MB(Cittaviveka) What is sati; How to stop awareness landing on negative thoughts; ‘Energies’ don’t seem to be mentioned much, what are they; What to do about lots of romantic preoccupations; Please review 4 relationships mentioned in last Dhamma Stream teaching: to self, to nature, the sacred, to other people; How to handle toxic relationships/ones that require forgiveness; How to deal with clashes with views in relationship; How do you maintain awareness in relationship?
Ayya Santacitta: The Six Elements ~ Where We Belong
April 24, 2021 16:31 - 37 minutes - 34 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Return to Earth
April 24, 2021 16:21 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Attentive Disengagement
April 24, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 8.33 MB(Cittaviveka) In meditation we’re making a shift from being engaged to being attentive but disengaged. Disengagement has a cool, easeful quality to it, giving us leverage against the strong emotional pressures of the mind. From this place we can make peace with the mind that is never at ease.
Jill Shepherd: tallk: Wise Speech and the power of truth
April 22, 2021 19:45 - 18 minutes - 8.59 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: arriving and steadying
April 22, 2021 19:00 - 29 minutes - 14.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Tara Brach: Belonging to the Earth
April 21, 2021 19:30 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) As a species, forgetting our belonging to our larger body of Earth is causing suffering for this entire living web. In this talk we look at what causes and sustains this trance of forgetting. We then explore the ways we each can awaken a sense of loving connectedness and active caring toward our natural world.
Tara Brach: Meditation – Opening to Full Aliveness
April 21, 2021 19:30 - 18 minutes - 12.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our tension is a way of defending against the aliveness that is here and now. This meditation guides us in relaxing tension, awakening our senses and discovering the vitality and presence that express our natural being.
Jill Shepherd: short meditation orienting to mudita, appreciation and gratitude
April 21, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutes - 6.89 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 5: Talk, Guided Meditation, Discussion
April 21, 2021 10:55 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We briefly review the main themes of our practice in the last sessions: The importance of "doing" and skillful effort in our formal practice and in our daily lives; the parallel importance of "not-doing" (particularly receptivity) in these areas; some ways to inquire into the nature of our identities as "doers"; some ways of bringing these practices into daily life; the experience of "flow" and being an "expert" in a given area as pointing to a kind of "doing" ...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation on Doing and Not-Doing in Our Meditation Practice
April 21, 2021 10:08 - 30 minutes - 24.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A thirty-minute or so guided meditation, lightly guided, with three successive instructions: (1) to set intentions in light of whether one needs in general to emphasize "doing" more or less, and then to focus initially on settling, connecting with the primary object and noticing when one is distracted; (2) to emphasize receptivity as a dimension of not-doing in being with what is predominant, after an initial period of settling; and (3) opening to a kind of "ch...
Brian Lesage: Living with Integrity
April 20, 2021 19:00 - 28 minutes - 51.9 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Mark Nunberg: Relating Wisely to this Sensual World
April 20, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) The Buddha’s teachings encourage us to cultivate an intimate ongoing mindful presence, a deep respect for cause and effect, and a profound equanimity as we live our sensual embodied lives. The Buddha asks us to directly discern the very real experience of gratification, the inevitable stress that arises with any attachment to sensuality, and the deepening insight of the heart’s release from the burning of craving and dependence that we experienc...
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 7 - Meditation
April 19, 2021 19:30 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 7 - Talk
April 19, 2021 19:30 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Zum Gewahrsein Erwachen
April 17, 2021 03:34 - 10 minutes - 6.18 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit & bewusstes Gewahrsein
April 17, 2021 03:19 - 45 minutes - 25.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Tara Brach: “Make Love of Your Self Perfect” - retreat talk
April 14, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 43.6 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Like a dense fog, chronic self -judgment blocks the light of our true nature. This talk explores the challenges to loving the life within us, and the pathways of practice that lead to holding our own being and all life in a boundless tender heart.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Coming Home with the Breath
April 14, 2021 19:30 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This guided practice has a short period of relaxing the body, and establishes the breath as a home base for attention. We practice arriving again and again, deepening the pathway of homecoming. The meditation ends with lovingkindness for ourselves and our world.
Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 4: Talk, Guided Meditation, and Discussion
April 14, 2021 10:55 - 1 hour - 59 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We review briefly the basic perspectives that we've explore in preceding sessions: the importance of active "doing" in meditation and daily life, the importance as well as receptivity and "not-doing" in meditation and daily life, and ways in which to inquire into our more fixed identity as a "doer." We then look at two broad perspectives on a doing coming out of a deep not-doing: (1) in "flow" experiences and the experiences of "experts" in a given area, with e...
Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life: Guided Meditation 1
April 14, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 23 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) About a 30-minute guided meditation emphasizing the balance of more active "doing" and more receptive awareness (a kind of "not-doing") in meditation. We start with intentions and then settling of attention and awareness, followed by opening up to what is predominant, integrating both more active and more receptive dimensions of practice. This session is followed by a talk on the theme of doing and not-doing in meditation and daily life, and a second guided me...
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 6 - Talk
April 12, 2021 19:30 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 6 - Meditation
April 12, 2021 19:30 - 31 minutes - 14.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 13: Abandoning Selfing - Meditation
April 11, 2021 10:30 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)