Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

1,862 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings

Dharma 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

Ayya Santacitta: Investigate into the Cracks (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

May 27, 2023 19:33 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflection on Emptiness & Anatta

Ayya Santacitta: Leaving it all Behind as you are stepping into the next moment. (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

May 27, 2023 13:56 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation on the six elements and the present moment.

Ayya Santussika: Seven Kinds of Wealth

May 27, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)

Ayya Santacitta: Connecting with Our Human and More-Than-Human Ancestors

May 10, 2023 18:08 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Wednesday-Mornings | 3

Donald Rothberg: Being with Daily Life Experience As Sacred: Some Ways of Practicing

May 10, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.7 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Cultivating Presence and a Devotional, Appreciative Attitude to Each Moment

May 10, 2023 10:05 - 40 minutes - 32.6 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Donald Rothberg: Seven Stages of the Spiritual Journey

May 08, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 62.7 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We work with the metaphor of the spiritual "journey" and distinguish seven successive stages of this journey, using as main reference points the poem by Mary Oliver called "The Journey" (read near the beginning and at the end of the talk), the life of the Buddha, the lives of several great practitioners in the Thai Forest Tradition (Ajahn Mun, Ajahn Chah, and Mae Chee Kaew), and our own lives. The stages begin with taking life for granted, move through some sen...

Nathan Glyde: Unstuck in the Middle

May 06, 2023 17:42 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB

(Gaia House) Finding a middle way between dukkha extremes. Includes a mention of https://media.ngly.de/intending-to-meditate-and-meditating-with-intent-74aad2387b8c as a way of exploring this theme in the whole of our life. Includes a guided meditation, talk, and discussion (in which only responses are recorded)

Ayya Santussika: Understanding Rigidity

May 06, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MB

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)

Ajahn Sucitto: Embodiment and the Buddha's teaching

May 04, 2023 19:30 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MB

(Bodhicharya Centre - Berlin) Description pending

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - posture

May 04, 2023 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23.4 MB

(Bodhicharya Centre - Berlin)

Ayya Santacitta: Cute & Pathetic ~ Homo Sapiens in Transition

May 03, 2023 23:39 - 51 minutes - 23.5 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on Metta | Wednesday-Mornings | 2

Ajahn Sucitto: How kamma can be directly sensed and released

May 03, 2023 19:30 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

(Sage Institute) Description pending

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation

May 03, 2023 19:00 - 21 minutes - 12.1 MB

(Sage Institute)

Brian Lesage: Facets of Connection: Being Together and Being Alone

May 02, 2023 19:00 - 31 minutes - 57.9 MB

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

Kate Johnson: not yet titled

May 01, 2023 02:27 - 1 hour - 29.4 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Eugene Cash: The 2nd Factor of Awakening: Investigation & Inquiry

April 30, 2023 18:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Exploring the dynamism of dharma as we discover the potential for freedom here, in body, heart & mind.

Ayya Santussika: Implementing The Brahmaviharas In Your Practice

April 30, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MB

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)

Ayya Santacitta: Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene

April 30, 2023 04:49 - 55 minutes - 75.7 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Reflection & Guided Meditation on Elements

Nathan Glyde: What You Imagine You Can Do

April 29, 2023 17:43 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

(Gaia House) Using our imagination is useful for extending the range of what feels and thereby is possible for us. Yet, we might feel (or imagine) like the teachings and practices we do are to be with reality more directly than via imagination. But, is it that even possible?

Carol Wilson: Merging our minds with the Dharma

April 27, 2023 19:41 - 26 seconds - 210 KB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Dana and Sila as essential in transforming the habits of mind/heart and liberation

Ajahn Sucitto: Body - internal and external

April 27, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MB

(The Buddhist Academy Berlin Brandenburg) Description pending; walking instruction at 32:29

Sylvia Boorstein: Being a 21st century Western Buddhist

October 19, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.3 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Brian Lesage: There's a Bluebird in My Heart

October 18, 2022 19:30 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MB

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

Greg Scharf: Teachings from the metta sutta - part 3

October 17, 2022 19:30 - 54 minutes - 25 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Carol Wilson: Bringing Mindfulness/Wisdom to Our Actions

October 16, 2022 19:30 - 1 hour - 28.2 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Intention, and wise attention

Pamela Weiss: The Climate Crisis and the Middle Path

October 16, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 128 MB

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

Mushim Ikeda: Civic Discourse, Right Speech, and Get Out the Vote!

October 16, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 37.1 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reference: https://www.mindourdemocracy.com/

Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery

October 14, 2022 12:00 - 59 minutes - 33.8 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Jill Shepherd: talk: taking refuge in dharma p2 - dukkha and mettā

October 13, 2022 20:00 - 28 minutes - 13.3 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the relationship between dukkha (unsatisfactoriness, stress, distress, suffering) as the First Noble Truth, and mettā (kindness, good will, benevolence) as the first of the four brahmavihāra

Greg Scharf: Teachings From The Metta Sutta - Part 2

October 13, 2022 19:30 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: meditation: acceptance of what is

October 13, 2022 19:15 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MB

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Beginning with mindfulness of the body and breathing, then making space for whatever experiences arise, orienting to acceptance and letting go of trying to control the process in any way

Devon Hase: Equanimity (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

October 13, 2022 15:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections and guided practice on equanimity, including images and phrases

Devon Hase: Big Mind Meditation (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

October 13, 2022 08:48 - 52 minutes - 72.3 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided practice on open awareness and the nature of the mind.

Ayya Dhammadīpā: Mindfulness of Breathing - the first 12 steps

October 12, 2022 13:41 - 38 minutes - 44.4 MB

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community) Guided meditation using the first three tetrads of anapanasati

Mark Nunberg: Contemplating the Supports for Faith in the Practice

October 12, 2022 08:30 - 14 minutes - 6.46 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

Eugene Cash: Conventional Mind & Luminous Mind (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

October 11, 2022 19:40 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Exploring the pith instruction from the Satipatthana refrain: 'one abides independent, not clinging to anything in the world'. This level of letting go or release reveal what is here: both ordinary mind and Luminous Mind.