Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 3 - Meditation

January 24, 2021 10:30 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Mindfulness of Breathing, Part 3 - Talk

January 24, 2021 10:30 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Brian Lesage: Discovering Inspiration for our Lives through Wise View

January 22, 2021 17:00 - 52 minutes - 95.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Ajahn Sucitto: Freshen Up through Integrity and Resolution

January 21, 2021 18:00 - 47 minutes - 27.4 MB

(Cittaviveka) Being affected by hindrances is a natural hurdle in Dhamma practice. Meet them by cultivating and suffusing wholesome heart qualities through the body. Application of integrity and resolution as we practice encourages citta to grow up and learn from the difficulties.

Brian Lesage: 1st Noble Truth: Perceiving our Human Situation in a Liberating Way

January 21, 2021 11:00 - 55 minutes - 76.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This offering consists of a Dharma talk followed by a guided meditation.

Rebecca Bradshaw: Exploring Kwan Yin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion

January 20, 2021 19:30 - 47 minutes - 27.5 MB

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Tara Brach: Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence

January 20, 2021 19:30 - 12 minutes - 8.46 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to moment experience of our senses. It includes a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff, “Wherever you are, Find a Trail.”

Tara Brach: Cultivating a Courageous Heart – Part 2

January 20, 2021 19:30 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) In the face of violence, hatred and loss, how do we handle the reactivity we feel? Our own anger, hatred and fear? These two talks offer guidance and practice in letting our own vulnerability be a portal to responding—to ourselves, each other and our world– with courageous, wise hearts.

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Intentions 2: Developing Intentions and Vows to Guide Practice in One's Communities, Society, and World

January 20, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a review of the January 6 session on practicing with intentions in individual formal and daily life practice, and on Inauguration Day, we explore practicing in more community, social, and collective settings. In this context, we point to the importance of combining i"inner" and "outer" practice, and to two possible inspirations: (1)the figure of the bodhisattva who combines awakening and helping others, and (2) the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King,...

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 2 - Meditation

January 18, 2021 19:30 - 32 minutes - 15 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 2 - Talk

January 18, 2021 19:30 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Zohar Lavie: Equipoise in Challenging Times

January 16, 2021 18:58 - 1 hour - 94.7 MB

(Gaia House) Guided meditation and Dharma Talk

Ayya Santacitta: Erstes Übungsfeld der Achtsamkeit ~ Anatomische Teile & Elemente

January 16, 2021 04:52 - 35 minutes - 20.1 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom

Ayya Santacitta: Die Vier Übungsfelder der Achtsamkeit ~ ein Überblick

January 16, 2021 04:45 - 39 minutes - 22.6 MB

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom

Stefan Lang: Reflexionen über Karma

January 15, 2021 19:00 - 53 minutes - 86.1 MB

(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg)

Jeff Haozous: Practicing Metta with the Difficult Person

January 13, 2021 16:30 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Jeff Haozous: Metta for the Difficult Person

January 13, 2021 16:30 - 54 minutes - 43.7 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Kaira Jewel Lingo: Equanimity and Loving Our Enemies within the Framework of the Four Brahmaviharas

January 12, 2021 16:30 - 59 minutes - 48.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk begins with an introduction to the Four Brahmaviharas and an exploration of how they are distinct (drawing on Ven. Analayo's sun simile). We then explore what equanimity is and how it supports metta when it comes to keeping our hearts open to those we find difficult. We also explore how equanimity helps us to stand up for what we believe in. The talk ends with a song based on a Thich Nhat Hanh poem about how to face injustice and hatred and still conti...

Ajahn Sucitto: Untangling the Heart through Equanimity

January 12, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 25.5 MB

(Cittaviveka) Place attention on themes that hold the mind and heart steady, using body to anchor the tangle of reactivity. Heart (citta) can then step back from phenomena and return to its own center that is knowing, equanimous, open. Investigation and handling of the somatic and emotional effects, rather than the topics, lead out of the tangle.

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 1 - Talk

January 11, 2021 19:30 - 41 minutes - 19 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies: Mindfulness of the Body, Week 1 - Meditation

January 11, 2021 19:30 - 43 minutes - 19.8 MB

(Common Ground Meditation Center) Course introduction followed by guided meditation

Konda Mason: The Challenges of Metta Practice and Guidance from the Metta Sutta

January 11, 2021 16:30 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Ajahn Sucitto: Of Donkeys and Riptides

January 11, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB

(Cittaviveka) When citta is collected in itself, it can begin to review the aspects of its experience that overwhelm and bind it, aspects not sensed or felt before. Train attention to go lightly, slow down, and open awareness to these unknown places. Fortify the citta with the rich energy of goodwill and recollections that warm the heart.

Donald Rothberg: Our Training in Cultivating Metta: An Overview

January 10, 2021 16:30 - 55 minutes - 44.2 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing metta is an ancient vocation in which we incline toward metta, toward a warm, expansive friendliness, each moment. In doing so, we also come to see what gets in the way of metta. A metta retreat offers us a focused period of training, helping us then to bring our metta more into our formal practice, our daily lives, and a world deeply in need of metta. Yet there are challenges in metta practice. We also identify a number of these challenges, and how ...

Ajahn Sucitto: Opening out of Reactivity

January 10, 2021 06:00 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MB

(Cittaviveka) We are encouraged to investigate the region of feeling, perception and reaction. By creating space before the reactivity, citta has the choice to go down the same path of agitation or settle back into itself. Develop citta’s capacity for this through seasoning the heart to be contented in itself.

Nathan Glyde: Beyond the Present Moment

January 09, 2021 19:11 - 1 hour - 73.5 MB

(Gaia House) Being present is an essential component of the Dharma path. It feels good to bring body, heart, mind, attention, consciousness, all together in the present moment. But being present is not the goal of the Dharma. (Guided meditation and Dharma reflection from Gaia House's Online Dharma Hall)

Zohar Lavie: טיפוח דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות

January 09, 2021 12:27

(Sangha Seva)

Zohar Lavie: טיפוח דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות

January 09, 2021 12:27

(Sangha Seva)

Zohar Lavie: תרגול מונחה קלות: דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות

January 09, 2021 12:26 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MB

(Sangha Seva)

Zohar Lavie: תרגול מונחה: הפתחות וטיפוח של דרכי הסתכלות מיטיבות בתרגול

January 09, 2021 12:22 - 41 minutes - 57 MB

(Sangha Seva)

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Sensitivity in Embodiment

January 09, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MB

(Bodhi College) The ability to sense and feel, read how citta is affecting body and body is affecting it – this is initiation into the process. Use the language of touch rather than seeing. Our fundamental base to support this process is the wide-open body. It contains all of the kammic stuff we need to work through.

Ajahn Sucitto: The Real World Begins in the Heart

January 09, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 20.2 MB

(Cittaviveka) When we step back from the sense fields, citta can become steadied on itself. Clear meaning can come from this place of rest and ease. Then we can steer through input of the sense sphere, discern the meanings, and notice the effects in the heart and body. This is practice.

Oren Jay Sofer: Touching Joy and Meeting Difficulties

January 08, 2021 16:15 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Retreats) As we walk the Buddha's path, difficulties and challenges are part of the journey. It takes support and a heart of joy to meet the hard places. This talk explores some of the common challenges and three key supports on the path to Awakening.

Ajahn Sucitto: Contact that Is a Release from Contact

January 08, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MB

(Cittaviveka) Liberation by wisdom comes from a healthy citta having resources to experience the range of contact and its effects. The gentle fluidity of practices like breathing and walking help soothe the agitation and fixity of contact so we can be with the feeling rather than in it. Then it can move, release, empty, cease.

Alexis Santos: Guided Meditation: Feeling the Joy, Lightness, and Ease of Returning to Awareness.

January 07, 2021 23:24 - 26 minutes - 48 MB

(Unknown) This is the closing guided meditation from the December daylong online retreat.

Nathan Glyde: Appropriate Attention

January 07, 2021 10:39 - 1 hour - 77.3 MB

(Gaia House) A guided meditation and reflection on yoniso manasikāra and being skilful in questioning experience.

Ajahn Sucitto: Unbind and Protect the Heart

January 07, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 19.5 MB

(Cittaviveka) Citta’s receptive quality is both its vulnerability and strength. It has to be protected until it is strong enough to repel corrupting influences. Cultivate themes and meanings that unbind and strengthen the heart – Buddha, precepts, lovingkindness. Citta then has a place to withdraw to.

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - The Inner Experience of Body

January 06, 2021 18:00 - 53 minutes - 30.5 MB

(Cittaviveka)

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Intentions 1

January 06, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At this time of transition, for the earth in the Northern Hemisphere, for many of us in the New Year, and for the U.S., in which clarity of intentions is so important, we explore two types of intentions: (1) aspiration or being guided by one's deeper values and intentions, sometimes taking the form of vows; and (2) moment-to-moment intentions. We are especially interested in connecting the two types of intentions. A focus on moment-to-moment intentions (cetana)...

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