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
Mark Nunberg: Composure with Uncertainty - Meditation
September 27, 2020 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Composure with Uncertainty - Talk
September 27, 2020 10:30 - 39 minutes - 18.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Zohar Lavie: 3 Characteristics
September 26, 2020 18:19 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB(Sangha Seva) Hebrew Dharma Talk
Zohar Lavie: Hebrew - 3 Characteristics
September 26, 2020 18:19 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB(Sangha Seva) Hebrew Dharma Talk
Nathan Glyde: Tuning into Mettā
September 26, 2020 15:13 - 43 minutes - 20 MB(Sangha Seva) Guided Mettā Meditation - offering an easeful relationship, more neutral beings (the inbetweeners), and the image of oneself then expanding to all beings.
Nathan Glyde: Day 2 Instructions - Vedanā.mp3
September 26, 2020 08:16 - 57 minutes - 26.2 MB(Sangha Seva) Meditation Instruction
Nathan Glyde: Vedanā - the Current in the Ocean of Life
September 25, 2020 18:07 - 49 minutes - 22.9 MB(Sangha Seva) Dukkha is dependently originating with tanha (demands), demands are dependently originating with preference, preference is dependently originating with unquestioned belief in the subjective arising of vedana. But more and more peace is possible.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3
September 25, 2020 16:02 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB(Sangha Seva) Metta in Hebrew
Zohar Lavie: Hebrew - Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3
September 25, 2020 16:02 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB(Sangha Seva) Metta in Hebrew
Zohar Lavie: Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant
September 25, 2020 10:31 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MB(Sangha Seva) Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
Zohar Lavie: Hebrew - Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant
September 25, 2020 10:31 - 50 minutes - 69.6 MB(Sangha Seva) Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
Zohar Lavie: Fabrication - Ways of Looking and The Shaping of Experience
September 24, 2020 17:55 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MB(Sangha Seva) Hebrew Dharma Talk
Nathan Glyde: Samādhi Surfing
September 24, 2020 16:22 - 45 minutes - 20.9 MB(Sangha Seva) 1st guided meditation of the retreat, steadying into the present experience of body-heart-mind unification. Riding the wave of the present moment in intimate connection with breath & body sensations or sounds near and far.
Nathan Glyde: Bringing Insights to Life
September 24, 2020 13:36 - 17 minutes - 8.16 MB(Sangha Seva) Introducing the theme of the retreat: Insights To Live By, by defining insight (as Rob Burbea has) as ways of relating to life that bring freedom here and now. Insights are transferable between us, between sessions of meditation, and very possibly between all aspects of our lives.
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 7: The Foundations of Wise Speech 4: Becoming More Skillful with Difficult Speech Situations 2
September 23, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 56.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of the foundations of wise speech and the eight guidelines for skillful speech when there are difficult or challenging situations, we explore the connection of inner practices with such situations. We look at two dimensions of such practice: (1) looking at and transforming conditioning that makes it hard to engage in such situations, such as related to negative views about conflict and anger, and discerning when there is spiritual bypassing...
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 2 - Talk
September 21, 2020 19:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 2 - Meditation
September 21, 2020 19:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Venerable Dhammadipa: The Mind That Knows Itself
September 20, 2020 19:00 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dhamma talk on coping with environmental stress by practicing the third foundation of mindfulness - mindfulness of mind. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the Berkeley area Aloka Vihara community.
Venerable Dhammadipa: How Captivating the Moment Can Be
September 20, 2020 14:00 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dhamma talk on the joy of practicing internal and external mindfulness. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the San Francisco Dharma Collective.
Mark Nunberg: Allowing Impermanence and Uncertainty to Transform the Heart - Guided Meditation
September 20, 2020 10:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Allowing Impermanence and Uncertainty to Transform the Heart - Talk
September 20, 2020 10:30 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
James Baraz: Holding a Positive Vision
September 17, 2020 20:30 - 53 minutes - 30.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It seems like an accomplishment just getting through such tumultuous times--wildfires on the West Coast, storms around the country, coronavirus lockdown and the US in daily chaos. It would be understandable to succumb to anxiety and overwhelm. But as the Buddha taught, practice is about overcoming negative thoughts when they arise and cultivating wholesome thoughts and mind-states. We will explore the importance of holding a positive vision even thro...
Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Nonviolent Action: Transforming Inner and Outer Reactivity, Cultivating Love in Action
September 17, 2020 19:20 - 45 minutes - 36.4 MB(Insight Meditation Tucson) We explore the deep resonance between Buddhist practice and nonviolent action (in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, and others). We first examine the core of Buddhist practice as expressed in the Buddha's statement: "I teach dukkha and the end of dukkha; we explicate dukkha as "reactivity." We then show how the nonviolence of Dr. King follows the same core understanding of developing non-reactive and nonviole...
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 6: Wise Speech 3: Practicing with Difficult Speech Situations
September 16, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After reviewing three foundations of Wise Speech--the four ethical guidelines for skillful speech, presence and mindfulness during speech, and the practice of empathy--we explore, on the basis of these foundations, how to be skillful during difficult or challenging situations of speech and communication, whether involving two individuals, a group, or a larger society. We identify eight perspectives, practices, and capacities that support skillful speech during ...
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 1 - Talk
September 14, 2020 19:00 - 54 minutes - 24.9 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 1 - Meditation
September 14, 2020 19:00 - 24 minutes - 11.3 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: Transcending Distractions
September 13, 2020 10:28 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB(Gaia House) Invitations to relaxation, energy perceptions, anattā, surrender, and devotion as ways of relating to thoughts and other phenomena that appear as distractions to our steady relaxed attention.
Jill Shepherd: meditation: exploring dukkha
September 10, 2020 19:45 - 24 minutes - 11.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to any dukkha present in the moment, noticing any reactions of clinging or resistance, and using wisdom, compassion and equanimity to help that clinging release
Jill Shepherd: talk: impermanence and dukkha
September 10, 2020 19:15 - 30 minutes - 13.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the three universal characteristics, looking at the relationship between impermanence and unsatisfactoriness, dukkha, and how wisdom and compassion can help release clinging / resistance to dukkha
Brian Lesage: Finding Freedom from Becoming
September 07, 2020 19:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers one way of beginning to understand the dynamic of becoming through a few examples and an initial way of practicing with it.
Venerable Dhammadipa: Manifesting Metta in All Directions
September 07, 2020 04:38 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation offered as part of the Sunday evening program of Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
Venerable Dhammadipa: The Immeasurable Mind of Metta
September 07, 2020 04:07 - 56 minutes - 78.4 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A talk given as part of the Sunday program at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
Donald Rothberg: Practicing Dukkha and the End of Dukkha in a Time of Crisis
September 06, 2020 18:30 - 1 hour - 54 MB(White Heron Sangha) The Buddha said, “I have taught dukkha [usually translated as “suffering”] and the end of dukkha.” This teaching is the heart of our practice, yet it is often misunderstood or even confusing to people, primarily because there are at least four different understandings of dukkha in the teachings. We’ll explore the nature of the teaching, emphasizing particularly the interpretation of dukkha as "reactivity" (particularly linked to the teaching of the Two Arrows or Two Darts...
Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A – Desire, Hatred, Deathless and Boundaries
September 06, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MB(Cittaviveka) How to manage inconvenient feelings of attraction; reacting impulsively towards sexual desire and hatred; working with boredom and drowsiness; how does one turn towards the deathless; is nibbana “a ground of being”; what does the use of “internal and external” mean?
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Arrive at the Basis
September 06, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 15.1 MB(Cittaviveka) Citta has its own basic clarity and sanity. Practice to establish citta on its own ground, where there is no suffering. This is the upright citta, the foundation for all the virtues leading to awakening.
Nathan Glyde: Mettā Can Go Everywhere To Everything
September 05, 2020 17:46 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB(Gaia House) A meditation and reflection about metta and emptiness
Jill Shepherd: talk: insight into impermanence
September 03, 2020 19:30 - 37 minutes - 16.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness
September 02, 2020 19:30 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back into the awareness that is always, already here. We explore relaxing back through a body scan, and then with all our senses wide open. With practice we increasingly find our pathway home by relaxing the clench of doings, and resting in what is.
Tara Brach: Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety
September 02, 2020 19:30 - 1 hour - 36.4 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores how we get caught in this reactive trance, and ways of calming anxiety and radically shifting our way of relating to the experience of threat. The gift is discovering an inner freedom in the midst of life,...
Jill Shepherd: talk: Right Livelihood
August 31, 2020 19:30 - 36 minutes - 16.1 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Expanding the traditional understanding of Right Livelihood to include all aspects of how we live, including what we produce and what we consume
Brian Lesage: The Empowering Quality of Karma
August 31, 2020 19:00 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk shares how the teaching on karma can be empowering to our lives. It also clarifies some misconceptions about karma.
Nikki Mirghafori: Monday Night Dharma Talk
August 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 126 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Nikki Mirghafori: The Five Daily Reflections
August 31, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 126 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Contemplating Impermanence - Meditation
August 30, 2020 10:30 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Contemplating Impermanence - Talk
August 30, 2020 10:30 - 39 minutes - 22.5 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
James Baraz: Keeping Your Heart Open
August 27, 2020 20:30 - 57 minutes - 39.9 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It seems like we're collectively going through an intense initiation in so many ways--the wildfires, the virus, racial injustice, economic collapse and an election fraught with acrimony. The Buddha taught: "Hatred never ceases from hatred. Hatred only ceases from love." How can the teachings support us to skillfully keep our hearts open not only to those suffering but those who, through ignorance, cause suffering as well?
Jill Shepherd: 37 talk: common afflictive thought-patterns and some ways to help them release
August 26, 2020 19:30 - 44 minutes - 19 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Learning how to recognise common afflictive thought patterns such as "lack" mind and comparing mind, and using wisdom and compassion to help them release
Jill Shepherd: 36 instructions: the clinging aggregates of perception and mental formations
August 26, 2020 14:30 - 13 minutes - 5.81 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the role that perception and volitional mental formations play in constructing identity, and can easily lead to proliferation when there's no mindfulness