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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Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 5: The Foundations of Wise Speech 2: Empathy (continued) and the Buddha's Ethical Guidelines for Skillful Speech
August 26, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of the previous talks in this series, and a clarification of the different dimensions of our practice, we continue to explore the foundation given last time--empathy practice and the intention to understand and connect with another. We work with two brief exercises which point to ways of practicing empathy. Then we examine the four guidelines for wise or skillful speech given by the Buddha--for our speech and communication to be truthful, h...
Jill Shepherd: 31 meditation: compassion practice
August 25, 2020 15:00 - 17 minutes - 8.62 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with compassion for a friend who's suffering, then oneself
Jill Shepherd: 30 instructions: the four brahmavihara and compassion practice
August 25, 2020 14:30 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) An overview of the four brahmavihara, and an introduction to compassion practice
Jill Shepherd: 26 meditation: metta as an inquiry practice
August 24, 2020 20:15 - 13 minutes - 6.47 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring metta as an inquiry practice, noticing the effects on the body, the heart and the mind as kindness is fully received
Jill Shepherd: 25 talk: the two wings of Wisdom and Compassion
August 24, 2020 19:30 - 40 minutes - 17.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) How insight and the brahmavihara practices of kindness, compassion, appreciative joy and equanimity mutually support and reinforce each other; includes an exploration of metta as an inquiry practice
Brian Lesage: Appreciative Joy - Mudita
August 24, 2020 19:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the practice of Appreciative Joy.
Jack Kornfield: Monday Night Dharma Talk w/Q&A
August 24, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 156 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 17 talk: mindfulness of the body and impermanence
August 23, 2020 14:30 - 28 minutes - 12.3 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Returning to the First Noble Truth and the five clinging-aggregates, exploring clinging to the body as a source of dukkha and opening to impermanence as an antidote
Ajahn Sucitto: Citta as Conjurer and Healer
August 23, 2020 06:00 - 38 minutes - 53.5 MB(Cittaviveka) We don’t so much experience phenomena, but the citta affected by phenomena. The sense of “I am” keeps us fascinated and hypnotized by the resulting feelings and reactions. The process of purification is to clear citta of defilements and hinderances. Cultivation of samadhi and suffusion of wholesome qualities are means for purification and healing.
Jill Shepherd: 12 short instructions: Relational practice p2
August 22, 2020 15:30 - 5 minutes - 2.39 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to the physical experience of non-clinging, of release, through sensations associated with relaxing, ease, spaciousness and so on
Jill Shepherd: 11 instructions: relational practice exploring clinging
August 22, 2020 14:50 - 18 minutes - 7.88 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) An introduction to relational practice, exploring the physical symptoms of clinging in the body as tension, contraction, tightness etc
Jill Shepherd: 10 talk: clinging and release
August 22, 2020 14:30 - 18 minutes - 8.17 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) An introduction to the Four Noble Truths, framed in terms of clinging and release
Jill Shepherd: 05 instructions: the power of aspiration
August 21, 2020 20:35 - 6 seconds - 3.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Getting clear about our aspirations for this retreat, then exploring this together in groups of three
Jill Shepherd: 03 talk: ethical training
August 21, 2020 20:00 - 9 minutes - 4.3 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A brief introduction to the commitment to non-harming as a support for retreat practice, finishing with taking the five ethical precepts together
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: arriving online together
August 21, 2020 19:45 - 15 minutes - 7.07 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short meditation to bring awareness to our relationship to technology, then to each other, then to the breath, orienting to steadiness and ease
Jill Shepherd: 01 short talk: orienting to our online retreat
August 21, 2020 19:45 - 5 minutes - 2.53 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Very short intro talk, orienting to online retreat practice
Ayya Medhanandi: Empty the Basket
August 21, 2020 13:00 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MB(Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)) Let us hone our expertise to witness the charade of gain and loss arising each moment. Seeing the eight worldly winds, impermanent, not giving in when the mind perches in 'self', purify wrong view, empty the basket, and begin here where we are, balanced, the Middle Way.
Ayya Medhanandi: Safe Domain: How the Quail Escaped the Hawk
August 20, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) The contemplative path of purification of mind is the most important journey of all - inward. Just as the little quail that tricked the hawk, we no longer fall prey to the 'maras' of the world, safe in our proper ancestral domain of virtue. Therein, the heart of generosity is further refined into qualities of joy, selflesssness, compassion and wisdom, thus benefiting ourselves and all beings.
Ayya Medhanandi: A Safe Domain: How the Quail Escaped a Hawk
August 20, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB(Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)) The contemplative path of purifying the mind is the most important journey of all - inward. Just as the little quail that tricked a hawk, we no longer fall prey to the 'maras' of the world, safe in our proper ancestral domain of virtue. Therein, the heart of generosity is further refined into qualities of joy, selflessness, compassion and wisdom, thus benefiting ourselves and all beings.
Ayya Medhanandi: Like A Well-hewn Wheel
August 19, 2020 20:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MB(Sati Saraniya Hermitage) Wherever we go the mind does not remain happy - unless we fully awaken. How can end the restless tides and remain inwardly stable, content within ourselves like the well-hewn wheel that stood still when it stopped rolling and did not fall down? Purifying our bodily acts, speech, and mind in the Buddha's gradual training, we go beyond the eight worldly winds - to the Deathless.
Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 4: The Foundations of Wise Speech 1: Cultivating Empathy
August 19, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 53.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We start with a brief review of the three previous talks on deepening practice during the pandemic (and other crises), including clarifying three broad areas of practice: Formal meditation practice, daily life practice, and work, service, and/or activism as practice. In this session, we explore the foundations of Wise Speech as practice, mentioning three foundations. The first two include (1) the ethical guidelines given by the Buddha regarding skillful speech,...
Ayya Medhanandi: A Thousand Days Chopping Wood, A Single Day Burn It All
August 18, 2020 20:00 - 23 minutes - 22.6 MB(Satipanna Insight Meditation (SIMT)) Too busy in the world, all entangled, we yearn to be free. So direct the mind to Nibbana - like a tree that leans to the East. And when it falls, it will fall in that direction. We too will arrive if we aim well. Aim for the far goal but keep attention in the present where we are. Chop wood for a thousand days, but in a single moment, we see into the emptiness of it all. Burn everything and light the mind with the fire of wisdom.
Ayya Santacitta: Being with Discomfort is a Core-Competency on the Path
August 17, 2020 20:03 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MB(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery (Berkeley Buddhist Monastery))
Jill Shepherd: talk: Noble Eightfold Path p2 Right View and Right Intention
August 17, 2020 19:30 - 41 minutes - 18 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) Looking at the Wisdom factors of the Noble Eightfold Path, exploring Right View in terms of understanding kamma, and Right Intention in terms of renunciation or relinquishment
Brian Lesage: Foundations for supporting the habit of a daily meditation practice
August 13, 2020 18:00 - 18 minutes - 25 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: contemplating the Four Noble Truths in direct experience
August 10, 2020 19:45 - 18 minutes - 8.84 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) A contemplation of each of the Four Noble Truths arising in immediate experience, touching in to the factors of the Noble Eightfold Path as support for releasing dukkha
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies - The Eightfold Path: The Buddha's Path of Awakening, Week 6 - Meditation
August 10, 2020 19:30 - 28 minutes - 13.1 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: Buddhist Studies - The Eightfold Path: The Buddha's Path of Awakening, Week 6 - Talk
August 10, 2020 19:30 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path
August 10, 2020 19:15 - 40 minutes - 17.5 MB(Sydney Insight Meditators) An overview of the Noble Eightfold Path and its context within the Four Noble Truths
Mark Nunberg: DT - Showing Up As Liberation - Meditation
August 09, 2020 10:30 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: DT - Showing Up as Liberation - Talk
August 09, 2020 10:30 - 39 minutes - 18.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: Closing Talk - Metta and Samadhi into the Whole of our Life and World
August 08, 2020 15:11 - 33 minutes - 19.6 MB(Sangha Seva)
Zohar Lavie: Day 3 Instructions - Mettā to All Kinds of Phenomena
August 08, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MB(Sangha Seva) In Hebrew
Nathan Glyde: Guided Mettā to Easy, Self, Neutral and All
August 07, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 25.4 MB(Sangha Seva) Getting deeply familiar with the felt-sense of wishing well-being and kindness, and allowing ourselves to be deeply touched as we wish particular aspects: clarity of mind; health in body; peacefulness; at-home-ness in our bodies and in the world; contentment; joy; and profound ease and freedom with all things.
Nathan Glyde: Day 2 Instructions - Inviting In Ease And Well Being
August 07, 2020 06:00 - 57 minutes - 33.1 MB(Sangha Seva) Two radical non-habitual approaches: lingering with what is perceived as pleasant, and bringing kindness to what is perceived as unpleasant.
James Baraz: Keep Out the Hate, Let in the Love
August 06, 2020 20:30 - 46 minutes - 26.9 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) How can we prevent succumbing to all the negativity around us--messages of fear, hatred or despair from the media or people in our lives? Can we protect ourselves and process the very real issues facing us while letting ourselves still be nourished by the goodness that's around us?
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: noticing the presence or absence of the awakening factors
August 06, 2020 20:15 - 19 minutes - 9.48 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Short meditation using the checklist of the seven factors of awakening, to notice which ones are present and which absent
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: an overview of the Fourth Establishment of Mindfulness
August 06, 2020 19:30 - 36 minutes - 15.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) A brief introduction to Mindfulness of Dhammas, focusing on the five hindrances and the seven awakening factors
Nathan Glyde: Opportunities for Samadhi and Metta
August 06, 2020 18:00 - 50 minutes - 29.1 MB(Sangha Seva) Drawing the hindrances towards samadhi. Exploring how we can find ways to ease greed and aversion by relating to them as energy, rather than as content and story. Based around the insight that all obstacles to practice arise in our ways of relating. And remembering there is always a possibility for another way of relating, leads us towards the liberation of possibilities.
Zohar Lavie: Guided Mettā to Easy Person, Self and All Beings
August 06, 2020 12:00 - 44 minutes - 25.6 MB(Sangha Seva) In Hebrew
Zohar Lavie: Day 1 Instructions - Wide Body Awareness And Attending With The Breath
August 06, 2020 06:00 - 1 hour - 35.7 MB(Sangha Seva) In Hebrew
Tara Brach: Guided Meditation: Openhearted Presence
August 05, 2020 19:30 - 21 minutes - 15.2 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This meditation guides us to arouse mindfulness through attention to our senses, and to rest in that wakefulness with a receptive and tender presence.
Tara Brach: Radical Love: Part 1 - Reflections that Awaken our Heart
August 05, 2020 19:30 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Radical love arises from the purity of our awake awareness, and cuts through the delusion of being separate and not OK. It comes from and brings out our intrinsic goodness. These talks explore the barriers to this embodied, inclusive and active loving, and include reflections that can help us to free our own hearts and bring true healing to our world.
Zohar Lavie: Metta and Samadhi
August 05, 2020 18:00 - 59 minutes - 34.3 MB(Sangha Seva) In Hebrew: Exploring how metta and samadhi co-create conditions and experiences of non-dukkha. How metta reveals intimacy, and expresses non-demanding. And how samadhi tunes us beyond our habitual capacities, so we can linger in what is deeply okay, and open into liberating well-being.
Nathan Glyde: Guided Meditation Opening the Metta And Samadhi Retreat
August 05, 2020 16:00 - 43 minutes - 25 MB(Sangha Seva)
Brian Lesage: The Experience of Meaningfulness
August 03, 2020 19:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers reflections on the importance of Meaningfulness in our Spiritual practice.
Mark Nunberg: The Body as the Training Ground for Awakening - Talk
August 01, 2020 19:00 - 48 minutes - 22.4 MB(Common Ground Meditation Center)
Jill Shepherd: 02 meditation: mindfulness of the mind, including emotions
July 30, 2020 20:15 - 25 minutes - 11.8 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with the body and breath, opening to sounds, then thoughts, then emotions
Jill Shepherd: 01 talk: introduction to practising mindfulness of emotions
July 30, 2020 19:30 - 23 minutes - 10.3 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing with mindfulness of the mind, a short intro about practicing with emotions
Tara Brach: Your Awake Heart is Calling You
July 29, 2020 19:30 - 50 minutes - 35.1 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) As individuals and societies, we are pulled by both the insecurity of our evolutionary past, and by our awake heart, our capacity for mindfulness and compassion. This talk explores the ways we can listen to and respond to the call of our awake heart, by training ourselves to open to vulnerability (our own and others) and widen the circles of compassion (a favorite from the 2017 archives).