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: Removing Distortions - That's Why We Practice
November 16, 2020 04:48 - 39 minutes - 23.6 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Berkeley Buddhist Monastery))
Ayya Santacitta: Developing Our Capacity to the Fullest
November 16, 2020 04:39 - 41 minutes - 17.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Berkeley Buddhist Monastery)) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santacitta: Mindfulness and Putting Down Wrong Ideas
November 15, 2020 23:46 - 25 minutes - 11.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)
Ayya Santacitta: Just Because It Is
November 15, 2020 23:40 - 46 minutes - 19.5 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation
Ajahn Sucitto: Release from the restricted in this life
November 14, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 23 MB(Cittaviveka) The dukkha of restriction is experienced in this very body, and manifest as a person restricted by upbringing, ethnicity and gender (etc) living in a world restricted by nationality and social structures. We can train ourselves in the unrestricted state through meditation and through living in a way that connects the open heart to service, in the ‘all -encompassing world’ touched by goodwill.
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Opening body, opening heart
November 14, 2020 06:00 - 12 minutes - 7.73 MB(Cittaviveka) Jhāna is an embodiment practice. Absorbing and settling deeply into presence, use awareness to encourage opening each part of the body. Enriched energy and heart can then begin to digest the events of the day and release them.
Caroline Jones: IMS Daily Dharma, Nov 13 2020
November 13, 2020 09:30 - 21 minutes - 31.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
James Baraz: Across the Great Divide: What the Dharma Can Offer for Healing Our Country
November 12, 2020 20:30 - 52 minutes - 71.7 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) However you feel about the outcome, the presidential election has underscored the polarization that currently exists in our country. As long as each side mistrusts and fears the other, we cannot truly have peace and work together to make this a better society. What does the Dharma offer to help heal this divide? How can our practice support us individually and collectively to open our hearts with compassion and bridge the gulf with those who seem s...
Bob Stahl: 32 Parts of the Body—Flesh, Sinews, Bones, Bone Marrow, Kidneys/Kidneys, Bone Marrow, Bones, Sinews, Flesh
November 11, 2020 18:00 - 37 minutes - 51.1 MB(Insight Santa Cruz) We are happy to announce a special opportunity to practice the 32 Parts of the Body meditation, which is rarely taught in the West. This practice deepens insight into impermanence and non-self by penetrating into the true nature and wonders of the body. We will also explore how the body interrelates with the four primary elements of earth (solidity), air (motion), fire (temperature), and water (liquidity). This methodical practice of the 32 Parts of the Body Meditation ca...
Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Views
November 11, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Practicing with one's views or opinions or beliefs is central both to traditional Buddhist practice and to what is needed in a society polarized by views; it is also central to relationships and skillful communication, especially in difficult or conflictual situations. We establish in this session a foundation for such practice, by identifying both the core teachings on views by the Buddha and three basic ways of practicing with views. We explore the core teach...
Brian Lesage: Standing in Front of the Other: Going Beyond Diviseness
November 10, 2020 17:30 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the spiritual act of beholding another being in a way that goes beyond harmful divisiveness.
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: mindfulness of thoughts and emotions
November 09, 2020 20:00 - 20 minutes - 9.63 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with stablising mindfulness in the body, then opening to sounds, thoughts, and any emotions that might be present
Jill Shepherd: 12 talk: mindfulness of mind, including emotions
November 09, 2020 19:30 - 18 minutes - 8.45 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short overview of working with emotions in meditation
Mark Nunberg: The Coming Together of the Coolness of Wisdom with the Inclusiveness of Love - Guided Meditation
November 08, 2020 10:30 - 33 minutes - 8.53 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: The Coming Together of the Coolness of Wisdom with the Inclusiveness of Love - Talk
November 08, 2020 10:30 - 37 minutes - 8.37 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Yuka Nakamura: Die transformierende Kraft des Mitgefühls
November 07, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB(Zentrum Freier Buddhismus Essen) Mitgefühl ist eine zentrale Qualität, die wir entwickeln wollen. Es ist nicht nur die angemessenste Antwort auf das Leiden in uns selbst und in anderen, sondern es hat auch die Macht, den Herzgeist zu transformieren. Durch Mitgefühl können wir schmerzhafte Erfahrungen besser halten und geschickter mit ihnen umgehen. Mitgefühl lässt auch innere Klarheit und Raum entstehen, in dem sich tiefe, befreiende Weisheit entfalten kann.
Ajahn Sucitto: Unconditioned Supports the Conditioned
November 07, 2020 18:00 - 41 minutes - 23 MB(Cittaviveka) The unconditioned gives us a place to step back from experience, to meet the conditioned world with sensitivity and equanimity. We access qualities of faith, energy, mindfulness and wisdom to accept and meet exactly what’s happening right now.
Venerable Dhammadipa: Grounded in Skin, Flesh and Bones
November 07, 2020 16:00 - 17 minutes - 23.8 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation on the earth element, part of a day of retreat online, hosted by Red Clay Sangha
Venerable Dhammadipa: A Platonic Relationship with Body and Mind
November 07, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dhamma talk on the 6 sense fields, part of a day of retreat online, hosted by Red Clay Sangha
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: recognising skilful states
November 07, 2020 08:30 - 15 minutes - 7 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short meditation tuning in to skilful qualities of heart and mind
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Faith as the Basis of Meditation
November 07, 2020 06:00 - 15 minutes - 10.2 MB(Cittaviveka) We enter meditation with a sense of faith, that there’s something beneficial that can be derived just by coming into the present moment. Witnessing, aware of, not in it, not rejecting it – a firmness of presence builds up. The initiation is faith, the consummation is wisdom.
Venerable Dhammadipa: Expansive Six Sense Fields
November 07, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 75.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation on the six sense bases, part of a day of retreatonline, hosted by Red Clay Sangha
Ayya Santacitta: Die fünf Indriya
November 06, 2020 23:02 - 31 minutes - 18.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Geführte Meditation | Aloka-Dharma-Zoom auf Deutsch
Ayya Santacitta: 37 Qualitäten die das Erwachen beflügeln
November 06, 2020 22:09 - 36 minutes - 21 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Aloka-Dharma-Zoom auf Deutsch
Yuka Nakamura: Das Licht der Weisheit
November 06, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB(Zentrum Freier Buddhismus Essen) Was ist Weisheit? Und welche Bedeutung hat sie? Der Vortrag erläutert die drei Formen der Weisheit im Dharma, die sich gegenseitig ergänzen, und gibt Hinweise, wie man die Weisheit in der Meditation geschickt fördern kann.
James Baraz: Letting Go of Knowing
November 05, 2020 20:30 - 50 minutes - 28.6 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) The election and its aftermath has been quite a roller coaster ride. Can we find balance and patience with all feelings that arise while allowing the unfolding to happen in its own time? We explore this theme and offer some practices going through these uncertain times.
Jill Shepherd: meditation: mindfulness of mental activity
November 05, 2020 19:00 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Settling in to the body, then bringing mindfulness to thoughts and emotions
Yuka Nakamura: Wie man einen Elefanten zähmt - die Hemmnisse in der Meditation
November 05, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MB(Zentrum Freier Buddhismus Essen) Die fünf Hemmnisse sind geistige Zustände, die in der Meditationspraxis häufig auftreten und sie erschweren können. Es ist sehr wichtig, sie zu erkennen und achtsam mit ihnen umzugehen. Statt uns von ihnen behindern zu lassen, wollen wir sie in die Praxis integrieren und mit ihnen arbeiten. Der Vortrag zeigt Wege des Umgangs mit ihnen.
Donald Rothberg: Practicing after Election Day
November 04, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The morning after Election Day in the U.S., with the result in the Presidential election still uncertain, we explore a number of ways of practicing--in both a more inner and a more outer way. Participants, who include several from outside the U.S., share some of what they are experiencing, and we explore several ways of working with challenging emotions, thoughts, and body-states. We emphasize the importance of compassion for self and others, empathy--including...
Brian Lesage: Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way
November 03, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) Facing Uncertainty: Allowing Love to to Return in a Different Way
Jill Shepherd: 11 meditation: kindness
November 02, 2020 20:15 - 13 minutes - 6.15 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short guided medition introducing the practice of cultivating kindness
Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: beginning mindfulness of mind practice
November 02, 2020 19:45 - 20 minutes - 9.28 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Opening up the field of awareness from the body and breathing, to sounds, then to thoughts
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 8 - Talk
November 02, 2020 19:30 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center) The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 8 - Talk
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 8 - Meditation
November 02, 2020 19:30 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: mindfulness of mind
November 02, 2020 19:15 - 22 minutes - 9.86 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) An introduction to bringing mindfulness to different types of mental activity, including thoughts, emotions, moods, and mind-states
Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma Stream – Uposatha, training in wise ways
October 31, 2020 18:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB(Cittaviveka) Uposatha is the occasion to bring up and integrate wholesome qualities so they become felt realities in the mind and heart. Refer to the Mangala Sutta (Sutta Nipata 2:4) for topics of cultivation that give rise to skillful states and conditions.
Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma Stream GM – Recollection of Uposatha
October 31, 2020 12:00 - 15 minutes - 12.1 MB(Cittaviveka) Uposatha days are times in the Buddhist calendar established for people to step back from daily chores and reflect upon the broader meaning of life, whether they’re living in harmony with the cosmos. Recollect our uniquely human potential to bring forth virtue, lovingkindness and wisdom into this world.
Zohar Lavie: Hebrew Day 2 Instructions
October 31, 2020 10:01 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MB(Sangha Seva) Lessening the contraction that co-arises with a dukkha manifesting push-pull.
Ajahn Sucitto: The Real World
October 31, 2020 06:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MB(Cittaviveka) What we call the real world is actually concocted, arising from unskillful response to contact. The energy can be frantic, cruel, excluding. But it’s possible to give rise to a different reality, by knowing what to give attention to. Paying attention to skillful dhammas can uplift and sustain the heart so it can come out of its struggles and sorrows.
Nathan Glyde: Mettā to the Whole World
October 30, 2020 14:54 - 40 minutes - 18.8 MB(Sangha Seva) Guided mettā meditation where we are really feeling the feeling behind the phrases. Offering unconditional kindness: to someone from an easy relationship; to more neutral relationships; even towards slightly more difficult ones; or to ourselves; and then out to all of life and the whole world.
Nathan Glyde: Day 1 Meditation Instructions - Befriending the Moment
October 30, 2020 09:15 - 56 minutes - 26 MB(Sangha Seva) Radical shifts are possible for us: Understanding that mindfulness already has kindness in it we can bring this metta quality to all things. We can also support this atmosphere by relaxing body, heart and mind. We can do this by resting back into back of the body, and bringing forward a more open, sensitive, naturally-caring, non-demanding attention to what is appearing.
Zohar Lavie: מדיטציה מונחית - התרווחות אל הגוף והנשימה
October 30, 2020 05:31 - 30 minutes - 17.4 MB(Sangha Seva)
James Baraz: A Time For Equanimity
October 29, 2020 20:30 - 1 hour - 83.5 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) We are in a unique moment in time for the United States and the world. How can we stay centered and even cultivate equanimity? Is it possible to hold a positive vision without getting caught in extra anxiety about the outcome? Can we allow for things to unfold as they will while having a clear focus of what we want to help create? Equanimity includes surrendering attachment while being inspired by gratitude, awe and possibility.
Jill Shepherd: no excuses: 15 minute mindfulness meditation
October 28, 2020 14:30 - 14 minutes - 6.87 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Just 15 minutes to steady awareness with the body and breathing, as a support for steadying the mind and practising non-reactivity to thinking
Jill Shepherd: no excuses: 10 minute mindfulness meditation
October 28, 2020 14:15 - 10 minutes - 4.65 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Just ten minutes to strengthen mindfulness of the body sitting, as a support for mindfulness of breathing
Jill Shepherd: no excuses: 5 minute mindfulness meditation
October 28, 2020 14:00 - 5 minutes - 2.38 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Just five minutes to prractice mindfulness of the body, breathing
Jill Shepherd: 08 instructions and guided walking meditation
October 26, 2020 20:00 - 10 minutes - 4.94 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short instructions and guided walking meditation, for the whole group walking in a circle together
Jill Shepherd: 07 meditation: mindfulness of hearing
October 26, 2020 19:30 - 15 minutes - 7.45 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Practising mindfulness of sounds, settling back and receiving the experience of hearing (includes occasional bell sounds)