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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Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 13: Abandoning Selfing - Talk
April 11, 2021 10:30 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ajahn Sucitto: The Inner Tyrant Q&A
April 10, 2021 18:00 - 19 minutes - 9.08 MB(Dharma Realm Buddhist University) How to take the teachings seriously but not make them into causes for suffering; strategies for non-compulsiveness when writing; how to skillfully relate to regret and remorse over our past actions; advice for living with the constant conditioning of the world that does not support a harmonious way of living; role of being a teacher seems to make the inner tyrant virus worse – any advice?
Ajahn Sucitto: The Inner Tyrant
April 10, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB(Dharma Realm Buddhist University) We are engaging in a world that is innately unsatisfactory. Yet, within that it’s important to find an accurate sense of purpose, ethical orientation and belonging. These are areas where the self-critical ‘inner tyrant’ quality will inevitably be activated. The Tyrant’s ‘I’m not good enough’ message can be recognized as a program rather than a meaningful description of ‘who I am’. Through the practices of disengagement, embodiment and goodwill, the program c...
Ajahn Sucitto: Being a Person
April 10, 2021 12:00 - 27 minutes - 12.5 MB(Cittaviveka) Although Dhamma practice is often geared to dissolving the sense of being a person, ‘the person’ is a required entity in the everyday world. The firm center and open awareness developed in Dhamma practice work together to support this person. They provide stability and allow duties, purpose and engagement to arise straight from the heart rather than from mental habits, or from the idea of a person. Then the beauties, steadiness and generosity of Dhamma practice and Dhamma fruit...
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Disengaging from Sense Consciousness
April 10, 2021 06:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB(Dharma Realm Buddhist University) In meditation we’re stepping back from sense consciousness, dipping beneath it to find something deeper, balanced and bearing value. This is where the wealth of our life lies, and it naturally comes forth when we disengage from sense data.
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Dissolving and Consolidating
April 10, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB(Cittaviveka) Instructions begin with dissolving: guidance for disengaging from contact, soothing and steadying the mind. Instructions end with consolidating: determining what I want to move forward with in the future, and what’s been learned or left behind.
Jill Shepherd: 05 talk: Wise Intention p2 - metta, kindness
April 08, 2021 19:50 - 22 minutes - 10.3 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the second aspect of Wise Intention, metta or kindness, as a support for understanding anatta, not-self
Jill Shepherd: 04 meditation: simple mindfulness of the body and breathing, with an orientation to metta
April 08, 2021 19:00 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with chanting the Karaniyametta Sutta in English as an invitation to orient towards kindness while settling into mindfulness of the body and mindfulness of breathing
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing into Living Presence
April 07, 2021 19:30 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us to awaken to sensation using the image of a smile and scanning through the body. We then open to sound and to the entire changing flow of experience. When we connect with the changing flow of sensations, feelings and sounds, we also discover the formless awareness that is our Source… and home. We end with a prayer that includes our own being and all beings.
Oren Jay Sofer: The Foundations of Contemplative Practice
April 07, 2021 19:30 - 52 minutes - 29.8 MB(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Tara Brach: Radical Self-Honesty: The Joy of Getting Real
April 07, 2021 19:30 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our suffering arises from the unseen, unfelt, resisted parts of our psyche. This talk explores ways we can deepen self-honesty and reconnect to a wholeness of being that enables us to live with spontaneity, confidence, wisdom and love (a favorite from the archives).
Sylvia Boorstein: The Preciousness of Life and Connection
April 07, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Shaila Catherine: Refraining from Intoxication
April 06, 2021 07:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MB(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) This talk explores the fifth precept: the commitment to refrain from intoxicating the mind through the use of alcohol, drugs, or addictive desires. Originally this precept highlighted the dangers of home-brewed alcohol, but can be expanded to address the many ways we may seek to excite, dull, distort, or intoxicate our minds. By working with this precept, we not only strengthen our capacity for restraint, but importantly, we investigate how the ...
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 5 - Meditation
April 05, 2021 19:30 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 5 - Talk
April 05, 2021 19:30 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 12: Delighting in Letting Go - Meditation
April 04, 2021 10:30 - 46 minutes - 21.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 12: Delighting in Letting Go - Talk
April 04, 2021 10:30 - 30 minutes - 13.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Ajahn Sucitto: Emptying the Sense Fields
April 03, 2021 18:00 - 15 minutes - 7.27 MB(Cittaviveka) Instructions to help empty the sense fields and cultivate the right kind of attention. Sustain a wide focus as sense objects arise in awareness. Practice with spreading attention on body, the wider visual field and the quality of breathing.
Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung von Achtsamkeit
April 03, 2021 02:59 - 38 minutes - 22.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Übungsfelder zur Entwicklung der Achtsamkeit
April 03, 2021 02:59 - 38 minutes - 22.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom | Geführte Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Zusammenhänge sehen befreit!
April 03, 2021 02:52 - 39 minutes - 22.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Oren Jay Sofer: Compassion like an Old Friend
April 01, 2021 16:15 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MB(Insight Meditation Retreats) (Day 1) Compassion is the open heart's response to suffering and a profound resource for meeting life. By attending to our experience closely we can develop compassion for ourselves and the world with the care and strength of an old friend.
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Presence
March 31, 2021 19:30 - 11 minutes - 8.21 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are stressed, our body and mind contract, and energetically we resist the life in the present moment. This meditation helps de-condition the stress reaction by guiding us to relax open from thoughts, relax physical tension, and gently relax back over and over into living presence.
Tara Brach: Fear of Aging: Finding Freedom in this Impermanent World – Part 2
March 31, 2021 19:30 - 1 hour - 44 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) While it’s natural to have fears of what’s ahead, when we learn to face the inevitability of change and loss without resistance, we discover true peace and freedom in the midst. In a very direct way, our awareness of impermanence awakens unconditional loving. These two talks explore the ways we habitually deny or resist reality, and the three interrelated pathways—refuge in the present moment, love and awareness—that liberate us.
Donald Rothberg: Doing and Not-Doing in Meditation and Daily Life 3
March 31, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a brief review of what we’ve explored in the last two sessions on this theme, including the importance of both doing and not-doing in Buddhist practice and the nature of identification with the “doer” (and the related themes of self, time, and the future). We then go into more depth inquiring into the nature of the “doer,” including a brief guided meditation looking into the experience of “doing” and opening to not-doing in meditation. We lastly f...
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 4 - Talk
March 29, 2021 19:30 - 29 minutes - 13.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of Feeling Tone, Week 4 - Meditation
March 29, 2021 19:30 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Merit & Blessings
March 29, 2021 19:00 - 41 minutes - 76.8 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Amita Schmidt: Question and Answers The Cauldron of Emotions
March 29, 2021 11:30 - 12 minutes - 8.73 MB(Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community) Question and Answers including: What is the one breath and one awareness? What is a spiritual bypass? What is a way to open up space when stuck in emotions? How do we act with right action in Buddhism?
James Baraz: Befriending Ourselves Daylong
March 28, 2021 20:30 - 4 hours - 153 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) James Baraz and Eve Decker When we develop a basic kindness towards ourselves we not only learn to accept the difficult parts, but in the process embrace our humanity and see more clearly the beauty that's inside. As we do that we allow our goodness and True Nature to shine through. This becomes a gift to everyone we meet, a healing energy that awakens the goodness in others as well.
Zohar Lavie: The Buddhas Advice on Cultivating Wellbeing and Happiness
March 28, 2021 10:47 - 1 hour - 90.4 MB(Gaia House) Meditation and Dharma talk. The Sutta that is mentioned: AN 8.54. To Dighajanu from the Aṅguttara Nikāya, in the Book of the Eights.
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 11: Understanding Letting Go, Giving Up - Talk
March 28, 2021 10:30 - 31 minutes - 14.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Amita Schmidt: Equanimity Meditation
March 28, 2021 10:30 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MB(Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community) An equanimity meditation to help you find the eye of the storm. This practice teaches you how to open up space within the difficulty itself.
Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 11: Understanding Letting Go, Giving Up - Meditation
March 28, 2021 10:30 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: The Great Practice of Life
March 27, 2021 18:25 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB(Gaia House) Online Dharma Hall session exploring practice in all four postures, and making the efforts to awaken the paramis and abandon the hindrances, and their roots and routes.
Ajahn Sucitto: Rest Intention through Embodiment, Dhamma Stream Live Puja
March 27, 2021 18:00 - 33 minutes - 19.3 MB(Cittaviveka) Intention is the basis for action, giving shape to what we do and who we become. Conditioned intentions around beliefs, work and security cause stress. The process of meditation takes us into the somatic domain, to the roots of the mind. Here intentions and reflexes can be reset to be lighter, more flexible and comfortable.
Amita Schmidt: The Cauldron of Emotions
March 27, 2021 14:30 - 53 minutes - 30.9 MB(Dharma Zephyr Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores tools to navigate the Cauldron of Emotions that is our changing times. The tools include working with the pain body, balancing and healing our psychology, equanimity practices, and zeroing out the mind.
Ajahn Sucitto: Breaking Out of the Box
March 27, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MB(Cittaviveka) Conditioned by ignorance, we can end up concocting the very scenarios we feel trapped in. The citta leaves its own center and gets stuck in conditions. Samādhi gives us the possibility of disengaging from the tangles, and allowing wisdom to be directed to the heart of the problem – ignorance and outflows. This directed wisdom can dismantle the box we unconsciously create for ourselves.
Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation – Jhāna is Based on Disengagement
March 27, 2021 06:00 - 11 minutes - 6.86 MB(Cittaviveka) Properly establishing jhāna begins with disengagement. With eyes slightly open, downcast, poised between the inner and outer world, widen attention. Open up sensitivity of awareness without focusing on any particular object, attentive to the qualities that sustain that cool balance.
Ajahn Sucitto: The Place Where the Floods Don’t Go
March 26, 2021 06:00 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MB(Cittaviveka) The untrained mind is always half crazy. Citta has left the safety of its home and is affected by conditions and circumstance. But it can be trained to turn back to immovable ease, to remain in the place where the floods and tides of suffering don’t go.
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: Wise Intention and the bliss of renunciation
March 25, 2021 19:50 - 29 minutes - 13.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Ajahn Sucitto: How to Not Go Crazy
March 25, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MB(Cittaviveka) On account of the untrained citta, consciousness is skewed – its input is unstable, unsatisfactory, doesn’t fit. It can make one feel crazy. How to get free? In meditation we practice disengagement, the possibility to be ‘with it’ rather than ‘in it’. Lingering in that space, what can arise is action based on sanity, that comes from a trained and healthy citta.
Tara Brach: Transforming Two Fears: FOF and FOMO
March 24, 2021 19:30 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) There are two common fears that can block us from our full potential – fear of failure (FOF), and fear of missing out (FOMO). This talk explores how to meet these fears with mindful presence, and discover within them the essence energies of loving awareness and full aliveness (a favorite from the Archives).
Tara Brach: Meditation: Embodying Loving Awareness
March 24, 2021 19:30 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Love is often abstract, and not fully alive. In this practice, with the supportive image and felt sense of a smile, we are guided to awaken loving in our body, mind and whole being.
Ajahn Sucitto: The Work of Ease
March 24, 2021 06:00 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MB(Cittaviveka) It’s a natural inclination for citta not to suffer, but it’s confused, it needs to be trained. Citta can turn away from the tangles of ignorance towards signs that produce ease. Training with nimbleness and flexibility, citta becomes grounded, stable, not easily knocked over, easily handling what comes its way.
Guy Armstrong: Deepening in Emptiness
March 23, 2021 07:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MB(Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley) Emptiness has been one of the most important themes in Buddhist teachings since their very beginning. This talk will explore how the realization of emptiness unfolds in us through dharma practice to lead to greater and greater degrees of freedom.
Ajahn Sucitto: Open the Centre, Reset the Boundaries
March 23, 2021 06:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB(Cittaviveka) Meditation is often approached from the standpoint of a person who ‘does’ the meditating. This self view is not a position that will give rise to calm or release – it’s the condition we want to be released from. Meditation can be used to change the ways we attend that form the separate self. Eventually the steadiness of mindfulness, rather than the ‘I am’ sense’, can become the orientation.
Ajahn Sucitto: The Happy Misfit
March 22, 2021 06:00 - 41 minutes - 23.5 MB(Cittaviveka) Citta jumps and rushes towards experience it thinks will bring security. It’s a compulsion, an addiction. But citta can turn, starting with disengagement, then stabilizing and calming. Settle into the happiness of these effects, and you have a good foundation to eliminate the irrational drives and compulsions that cause suffering.
Ajahn Punnadhammo: The Nature of Time
March 21, 2021 19:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MB(Arrow River Forest Hermitage)
Ajahn Sucitto: Opening into Consciousness
March 21, 2021 06:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MB(Cittaviveka) In meditation we rest into what’s always here. Like dropping a net into the river and seeing what we catch, we simply take note with awareness, deep listening and open presence. Use structures and qualities as a skillful tetherings, to turn citta away from the complexity of stimulation, activity and abstraction. When energies are no longer running out, citta settles in itself. This is samādhi.