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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Episodes
Molly Swan: Instructions and Practice
January 01, 2021 09:00 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MB(True North Insight)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Feeling Tone - Guided body sweeping meditation
January 01, 2021 08:30 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided body sweeping meditation on the three feeling tones - pleasant, painful, neither-pleasant-nor-painful.
Norman Feldman: Pause and Intention
December 31, 2020 19:00 - 42 minutes - 58.1 MB(True North Insight)
Venerable Dhammadipa: Bright Mind of Compassion
December 31, 2020 19:00 - 39 minutes - 54.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation on karuna, mudita, upekha
Ayya Santacitta: Worldly & Unworldly Feelings
December 31, 2020 18:00 - 19 minutes - 15.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Morning Reflection
Venerable Dhammadipa: The Power of Loving Kindness
December 31, 2020 18:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dharma talk on metta as well as karuna, mudita, and upekkha, their inter-relationships, leading to jhana and transformation of the karmic stream.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Letting Go of Resentment - (the last day of 2020)
December 31, 2020 16:15 - 37 minutes - 42.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) At the end of a challenging year, reflections on letting go of resentment, cultivating a loving heart and opening to the bigger picture.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Radiant Heart Practices
December 31, 2020 13:30 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation on the Four Brahama Viharas with a radiant heart.
Venerable Dhammadipa: Reflection on the Four Elements as Food
December 31, 2020 11:00 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Meal reflection
Venerable Dhammadipa: Simple Compassion Meditation
December 31, 2020 09:30 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation using brief phrases of compassion and the wish for beings to be safe
Ayya Santacitta: Metta, Space, Awareness
December 30, 2020 18:40 - 56 minutes - 38.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Anandabodhi: Meal Time Reflection
December 30, 2020 11:20 - 9 minutes - 10.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Bringing the Four Brahma Viharas to eating.
Ayya Santacitta: Metta & Agape Spring Forth from Going Through the Fire
December 26, 2020 18:40 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Zohar Lavie: Exploring Trustworthy Well-being and Happiness
December 26, 2020 18:38 - 1 hour - 85.8 MB(Gaia House) Guided meditation and talk
Venerable Dhammadipa: The Buddha's Difficult Conversations
December 21, 2020 20:00 - 37 minutes - 52 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Stories from the Buddha's life as pointers for how to face failure, doubt, and have difficult conversations with faith, investigation, and compassion.
Mark Nunberg: Delighting in Non-Proliferation - Talk
December 20, 2020 10:30 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Delighting in Non-Proliferation - Meditation
December 20, 2020 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Practicing at the Winter Solstice: Embracing the Dark, Inviting the Light
December 19, 2020 16:30 - 1 hour - 50.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After setting the context of the Winter Solstice, in terms of the earth and the history of many varied cultures which have had rituals and ceremonies at this time, we explore, through teachings, stories, and poems, five ways that we open to the dark: (1) We stop and become still, like the earth. (2) We learn to be more able to be skillfully with difficulties and challenges.. (3) We become more comfortable and skillful in conditions of not knowing, as we open ...
Ayya Santacitta: Besinnung auf die Vortrefflichsten Arahant-Bhikkhunis
December 18, 2020 20:17 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Ayya Santacitta: Ermächtigung ~ Wie Funktioniert Das?
December 18, 2020 20:08 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom
Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 18 2020
December 18, 2020 09:30 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 3
James Baraz: The Choice is Ours: Wise Relationship to Our Experience
December 17, 2020 20:30 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) These days have even more ups and downs than usual. For many it's both a time of sorrow and a time of joy. The mind can easily get caught in the difficulties when it's contracted by stress. But our Dharma practice shows us we have a choice how to wisely relate to our experience.
Jill Shepherd: meditation: breathing, then contemplating the benefits of sangha
December 17, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes - 12.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A guided meditation for the end of year, beginning with settling into the body breathing, then after some silence, reflecting on the year as it ends, attuning to and acknowledging any benefits that have come from practising together in community
Nathan Glyde: Dissolving the Boundary between Retreat and Daily Life
December 17, 2020 12:39 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MB(Gaia House) Transition talk for the closing of the retreat. Questioning what is the Dharma teaching (for) us, what is our goal, our path, our understanding of ethics, sangha…and expressing the idea of an ever-expanding Dharma.
Nathan Glyde: Blurring the Boundary of Retreat and An Ever Expanding Dharma
December 17, 2020 12:39 - 39 minutes - 45.8 MB(Gaia House) Questioning what is the Dharma teaching (for) us, what is our goal, our path, our understanding of ethics, sangha…
Chas DiCapua: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 17 2020
December 17, 2020 09:30 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Stillness within the Storm, Part 1
Nathan Glyde: Guided Mettā to All Phenomena
December 16, 2020 20:27 - 43 minutes - 50.3 MB(Gaia House) Expanding our mettā practice to offer kindness and care to anything at all that appears in consciousness.
Yuka Nakamura: Den vergleichenden Geist loslassen
December 16, 2020 18:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MB(Zentrum für Buddhismus - Bern) Wie entsteht unser Ich-Gefühl? Ein wichtiger Mechanismus ist unsere Tendenz, uns ständig mit anderen zu vergleichen und zu messen. Der Dünkel (mana), der dabei entsteht, also das Gefühl besser, schlechter als oder gleich wie andere zu sein, ist die Quelle von viel Leiden. Der Vortrag behandelt verschiedene Formen von Dünkel aufgrund von Geburt, Wissen, Schönheit u.a. und zeigt Wege auf, wie wir damit praktizieren können.
Nathan Glyde: Day 3 Instructions - Anattā
December 16, 2020 11:42 - 1 hour - 71 MB(Gaia House) Bringing a not self view as a way to open more mettā and well being into life here and now
Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Dec 16 2020
December 16, 2020 09:30 - 21 minutes - 29 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Gladdening the Heart-mind, Part 2
Zohar Lavie: Guided Mettā to Sounds and Sensations
December 15, 2020 20:34 - 44 minutes - 61.8 MB(Gaia House) Bringing the relational field of mettā to sense contact rather than specific beings.
Nathan Glyde: Anattā and Mettā
December 15, 2020 19:36 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MB(Gaia House) The not-self strategy (anattā) is indicated, invited, and supported by kindness (mettā).
Zohar Lavie: Day 4 Instructions - Dukkha Insightful Way of Relating
December 15, 2020 12:22 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB(Gaia House) Opening and relaxing contraction as a way of expressing an understanding of tanha roots in the dukkha field
Nathan Glyde: Guided Mettā to Challenging Relationship
December 14, 2020 20:22 - 43 minutes - 20.1 MB(Gaia House) Gently wishing well for those we have a more difficult relationship with
Nathan Glyde: Mettā to Challenging Relationship
December 14, 2020 20:22 - 43 minutes - 16.6 MB(Gaia House) Gently wishing well for those we have a more difficult relationship with
Jack Kornfield: Monday Night Dharma Talk
December 14, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 129 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Zohar Lavie: A Wise Relationship to Dukkha
December 14, 2020 17:38 - 39 minutes - 26.9 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Day 3 Instructions - Vedanā Insightful Way of Relating
December 14, 2020 11:26 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB(Gaia House) Easing reactivity by bringing attention to the hedonic classification of experience.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Mettā to Neutral Relationship
December 13, 2020 22:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB(Gaia House) Spreading mettā to a being from an easy relationship, to self, being from a more neutral relationship and outward to all beings
Zohar Lavie: Metta to Being from an Easy Relationship, Self, Being from a More Neutral Relationship And All Beings
December 13, 2020 22:00 - 45 minutes - 30.3 MB(Gaia House)
Nathan Glyde: Untangle the Entangled
December 13, 2020 20:10 - 48 minutes - 22 MB(Gaia House) Exploring meeting the hindrances in skilful ways. Firstly seeing them as wonderful opportunities for growth and development of heart. Secondly not taking them personally, not fully believing what they say (shape) about the world. And thirdly finding skilful means through mettā, insight, and samādhi practices to find well-being in the midst of the entanglement of dukkha.
Ayya Medhanandi: Love Everyone Or Die
December 13, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB(Toronto Theravada Buddhist Community (TBC)) We may speak of or feel that we know about death but until we truly contemplate, approach and move into death, what do we know? This is a tale about looking into the eye of a tortoise shell butterfly while it lay dying on the shrine. Straining as it reached up towards us waving its frail antennae when it heard our chanting, we felt at one even with this tiniest of creatures - who also wanted only to be loved.
Zohar Lavie: Day 2 Instructions - Getting Comfortable with Discomfort
December 13, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MB(Gaia House)
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ A Template for Training the Mind
December 12, 2020 22:19 - 36 minutes - 29 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: The Four Foundations of Mindfulness ~ An Introduction
December 12, 2020 22:12 - 33 minutes - 26.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: The First Foundation of Mindfulness ~ 3 Contemplations of the Body
December 12, 2020 22:04 - 33 minutes - 27.2 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Nathan Glyde: Mettā to an Easy Relationship, Self, and World
December 12, 2020 20:30 - 44 minutes - 17.1 MB(Gaia House) Guided well-wishing and kindness practice as part of the heart training of mettā practice. Particularly emphasising getting to know the particular qualities we are radiating in this intentional practice.
Nathan Glyde: Guided Mettā to Easy Relationship
December 12, 2020 20:30 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MB(Gaia House) Guided well-wishing and kindness practice as part of the heart training of mettā practice. Particularly emphasising getting to know the particular qualities we are radiating in this intentional practice. Includes sending mettā to oneself, and to all beings in the world.
Zohar Lavie: Possibilties of Mettā and Insight
December 12, 2020 19:07 - 43 minutes - 35.2 MB(Gaia House)