Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
1,862 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 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: Allow Your State of Wonder to Stay Open, Without Always Trapping It into Meaning
July 19, 2023 17:55 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Wednesday-Mornings | 9
Donald Rothberg: Cultivating Wise Speech 2: A Review of Three Foundations of Wise Speech and An Introduction to a Fourth: Empathy Practice
July 19, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We first focus on the importance of the practice of wise speech and then review three foundations of such practice: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) integrating our practice to be mindful and skillful with thoughts, emotions, and body states with our speech practice. We then introduce a fourth foundation, empathy practice, aiming to understand and con...
Brian Lesage: When Things Don't Work Out the Way You Want Them to
July 18, 2023 19:00 - 29 minutes - 54.3 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Donald Rothberg: The Nature of Awakening: Traditional and Contemporary Paths of Awakening
July 17, 2023 12:58 - 1 hour - 31.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We examine first the Buddha’s teachings about awakening, We see how he understands the process as involving two processes. We are mindful of and work through what gets in the way of touching our natural awakening—greed, hatred, and delusion (or the two forms of reactivity—grasping after the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant, along with ignorance about the nature of impermanence, reactivity or Dukkha, and not-self). We also develop those qualities which b...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring the Factors of Awakening
July 17, 2023 12:13 - 31 minutes - 42.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Basic instructions in developing concentration and stability, on the one hand, and mindfulness, on the other, are given in the context of the teaching of the Seven Factors of Awakening; concentration and mindfulness are two of the seven factors. We also explore inquiry or investigation, a third factor, in the context of mindfulness.
Eugene Cash: Sampajañña: Clear Comprehension, Introspection, Full Awareness
July 16, 2023 18:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) The support and functionality of Clarity and Mindfulness
Ven. Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: Application of the Vinaya in the Contemporary World part 3 Nissagiya Pacittiya
July 15, 2023 16:43 - 1 hour - 130 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Tuere Sala: Concentration and Wisdom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
July 14, 2023 19:24 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Kevin Griffin: Self / Not Self in Recovery
July 14, 2023 18:02 - 1 hour - 28.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Susie Harrington: Impermanence: The Portal to Freedom (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
July 13, 2023 19:25 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) With a stable and unified mind we can turn to impermanence. This turning into our observing change in our vipassana practice leads us to see not only the temporality of everything but the interconnected and impersonal Nature of experience.
Ayya Santacitta: Becoming Alive Again ~ Stepping out of the hamster wheel of repetition
July 12, 2023 17:57 - 53 minutes - 24.6 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Wednesday-Mornings | 8
Donald Rothberg: Cultivating Wise Speech 1
July 12, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We look first at the importance of wise speech, the way that it forms an integral part of the path of awakening, the way that it is often underdeveloped in Western Buddhist practice, for various reasons, and some of the challenges of speech. We then examine three aspects of wise speech practice: (1) developing presence in the midst of communication; (2) working with the four guidelines for skillful speech developed by the Buddha; and (3) integrating our practic...
Victor von der Heyde: Steps towards an Enchanted World View
July 11, 2023 19:30 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MB(Australian Insight Meditation Network) Exploring some of the possibilities when there's less clinging to a materialist world view
Brian Lesage: Learning to Walk with the World
July 11, 2023 19:00 - 35 minutes - 65 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Tuere Sala: Metta (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
July 10, 2023 15:58 - 1 hour - 59.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika: DN 26 | Discourse on the World Ruler
June 27, 2023 15:58 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Sutta Contemplation
Ayya Santussika: SN 36:21 | Sivaka
June 27, 2023 00:54 - 10 minutes - 14.4 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Conditions in addition to kamma
Ayya Santacitta: Contemplation of Death & Metta
June 26, 2023 18:28 - 43 minutes - 59.6 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Guided Meditation
Ayya Santussika: Four Suttas on What Can and What Can Not be Done
June 26, 2023 17:14 - 50 minutes - 70 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santacitta, Ayya Santussika: Chanting the Fire Sermon
June 26, 2023 01:05 - 12 minutes - 17.5 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Chanting
Ayya Santacitta: Six Elements Meditation
June 25, 2023 20:21 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Guided Meditation
Elizabeth Day, Jill Shepherd, Willa Thaniya Reid: 08: Questions and Reflections
June 25, 2023 16:30 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 07 meditation: opening to pleasant feeling-tones
June 25, 2023 16:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Ayya Santussika: SN 35:28 | Burning ~ the Fire Sermon
June 25, 2023 15:46 - 45 minutes - 62 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Sutta Contemplation
Willa Thaniya Reid: 05 meditation: feeling tone and responses
June 25, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: 04 meditation: exploring feeling-tone in relation to sounds
June 25, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring feeling-tone in relation to hearing: noticing pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones and releasing any tendency to move into reactivity
Willa Thaniya Reid: 02 meditation: feeling-tone in relation to embodied experience
June 25, 2023 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Elizabeth Day, Jill Shepherd, Willa Thaniya Reid: 01 short opening talk and guided meditation establishing the theme of exploring feeling-tone
June 25, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Alex Haley: Guided Loving Kindness & Other Practices Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 24, 2023 19:39 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santacitta: Buddhanusati & the Four Protective Meditations
June 24, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutes - 45.3 MB(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies) Guided Meditation
Gullu Singh: Afternoon Teaching (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
June 24, 2023 16:26 - 1 hour - 59.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Santussika: The Gradual Path in MN 39 At Assapura
June 04, 2023 19:30 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This is an examination of the steps in the Gradual Training as represented in MN 39 The Longer Discourse at Assapura. Here the Buddha includes beautiful similes for the five hindrances and the experience of the four jhanas. Our study has the aim to deepen our own practice and progress on the path.
Pascal Auclair: 3 formes de protections menant à 3 formes de joie
June 03, 2023 20:54 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
Ayya Santussika: Brief intro
June 03, 2023 19:35 - 11 minutes - 7.65 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Gradual Path outline
Ayya Santussika: Earth Meditation
June 03, 2023 14:30 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Guided meditation on the earth element, internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Ayya Santussika: Advice to Rahula
June 03, 2023 14:00 - 24 minutes - 22.9 MB(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Using the Buddha's advice to his son, Rahula, on developing different types of meditation, starting with meditating on the earth element internally and externally, and meditating "like the earth."
Pascal Auclair: Le passage des états affligeants aux états bénéfiques
June 02, 2023 17:58 - 55 minutes - 25.5 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
Jill Shepherd: talk: the pāramī of resolve
June 01, 2023 20:00 - 35 minutes - 16.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the quality of resolve as a resource in three arenas: for strengthening our commitment to regular meditation practice; going on retreat; and facing in to the challenges of the climate crisis
Pascal Auclair: La vie secrète des phénomènes
May 31, 2023 18:06 - 58 minutes - 26.9 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
Pascal Auclair: La conscience du corps et des émotions
May 31, 2023 11:57 - 54 minutes - 25 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
JD Doyle: The Four Noble Truths
May 31, 2023 01:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Brian Lesage: Shifting the Perception of Death
May 30, 2023 19:00 - 32 minutes - 60.2 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Pascal Auclair: Ce que révèle une conscience généreuse
May 30, 2023 17:55 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
Pascal Auclair: Les 3 piliers du bien-être
May 30, 2023 09:51 - 55 minutes - 102 MB(Moulin de Chaves)
Gavin Milne: Evening Mettā Practice
May 29, 2023 20:30 - 23 minutes - 10.9 MB(Gaia House) Inner parts and other beings.
Ajahn Sucitto: The four postures are four 'Buddhas'
May 28, 2023 19:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MB(Cittaviveka) To internalize Buddha, we can direct mindfulness to each of the four bodily postures. Through these they will guide our psychologies to balance and steadiness in the midst of conditions.
Ayya Anandabodhi: A Geater Perspective (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
May 28, 2023 08:48 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on upekkha (equanimity) and a guided meditation on birth, aging and death.