Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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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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James Baraz: Intrinsically Empty, Naturally Radiant Ceaselessly Responsive: Awareness and Compassion (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

June 20, 2024 19:34 - 1 hour - 59 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Awareness is not only spacious and wakeful, compassion is also an inherent component. Expressing care to address the suffering in the world is understood to be an essential part of practice. This talk explores the greater implications of this understanding especially at this critical time of global dukkha on so many levels.

JoAnna Hardy: Recognizing delusion

June 20, 2024 19:23 - 53 minutes - 24.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to see that which is hard to see - delusion and what brings us to wisdom.

Trudy Goodman: Guided Meditation for the Last Day (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

June 20, 2024 08:33 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation for the last full day of retreat

Ayya Santussika: Retreat Closing

June 20, 2024 08:30 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Closing questions and advice

Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Open into Full Presence

June 19, 2024 19:30 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) The pathway to presence does not involve efforts or striving. As you will find in this simple, gentle meditation, a vibrant and healing presence is possible as we wake up all our senses and intentionally relax with our changing experience. The gift is a true sense of homecoming, and with that openheartedness and peace.

Ayya Santussika: Q&A 4

June 19, 2024 19:30 - 1 hour - 86.1 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The final Q&A and the final evening for this retreat.

Ayya Santacitta: Our Calling Fuels Our Evolution

June 19, 2024 17:47 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Ayya Santussika: Metta Meditation

June 19, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes - 33.2 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Lightly guided metta meditation

Ayya Santussika: Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Space

June 13, 2024 08:45 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) MN 62

Ayya Santussika: Developing Upekkha

June 12, 2024 19:00 - 53 minutes - 73.3 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) AN 7.53 Nanda's Mother MN 152 The Development of the Faculties

Ayya Santacitta: Connecting With Your Calling ~ How the Biosphere Wants to Heal Itself Through You

June 12, 2024 17:53 - 54 minutes - 25.1 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Ayya Santussika: Present with the Cycle of Feeling and Letting Go

June 12, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes - 41.2 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Based on a guided meditation by Ajahn Amaro, found in his book, "Just One More..." pg. 63.

Donald Rothberg: Practicing with Views, Beliefs, and Positions 1

June 12, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Ayya Santussika: Finding Your Own Inspiration

June 12, 2024 08:45 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) What do you find inspiring? Sutta Nipata 5.19, "Preserving the Way to the Far Shore", or Anguttara Nikaya 11.2, "Making a Wish", or is it something else?

Ayya Santussika: Choosing Mudita

June 11, 2024 19:30 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Examples from the suttas of mudita arising from living in harmony and its importance in developing the practice.

Ayya Santussika: Compassion

June 11, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)

Ayya Santussika: Karuna - compassion - is not about "suffering with" others

June 11, 2024 08:45 - 31 minutes - 43.5 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Using wisdom to develop the true brahmavihara of karuna, without becoming enmeshed in "suffering with" others.

Ayya Santussika: Q&A 1

June 10, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour - 94.3 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Sila, samadhi, panna, rebirth.

Leslie Booker: Wisdom, Nature and the Divine Feminine

June 10, 2024 16:00 - 1 hour - 73 MB

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Ayya Santussika: Immersion through Metta

June 10, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Establishing metta and tending towards immersion factors.

Ayya Santussika: Making Loving Kindness Our Basis and Vehicle

June 09, 2024 19:30 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) When your mind is steady and well settled internally, and bad, unskillful qualities that have arisen don’t occupy your mind, then you should train like this: ‘I will develop the heart’s release by love. I’ll cultivate it, make it my vehicle and my basis, keep it up, consolidate it, and properly implement it.’ That’s how you should train. AN 8.63

Ayya Santussika: Dropping What Binds Us

June 09, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes - 46.9 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Dissolving the layers of identity for relief and insight.

Ayya Santussika: Relaxing into Retreat 2

June 09, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes - 45.8 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Anapanasati - Body, feeling, mind

Ayya Santussika: Cooling the Mind, Making it Firm

June 08, 2024 19:30 - 49 minutes - 68 MB

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) What methods are you using to cool the mind? How about making it steady? Using anapanasati and various reflections, including the three characteristics.

Ayya Santacitta: Inviting Archaic Memories of Confidence & Wellbeing to Emerge Organically

May 29, 2024 17:50 - 52 minutes - 23.9 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Brian Lesage: Memorial Day - Ending the War Within

May 28, 2024 19:00 - 34 minutes - 47.3 MB

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

Ayya Anandabodhi: Finding Our Way Back to Presence

May 27, 2024 03:15 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MB

(Parayana Vihara) Dhamma reflection given for Fourth Sunday Dhamma online program

Nathan Glyde: Dukkha Demands Objectification

May 25, 2024 18:41 - 1 hour - 71.8 MB

(Gaia House) An exploration of the dependent origination of dukkha down to the level of making things to grasp, demand, and obsess over. If we find things are ungraspable, really, how could we grasp onto them or push them away? What happens to reactivity, stress, and suffering in a world with no thing in it? A lightly guided meditation, Dharma reflection, and responses to (unrecorded questions).

Ayya Santussika: Vesak: Ceremony Bathing the Buddha: Letting go of what is past and opening to the future

May 25, 2024 09:39 - 43 minutes - 79.4 MB

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, Vesak Ceremony Bathing the Buddha and Q&A was offered on 25th of May , 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center

Ayya Santussika: Vesak Morning Session: The Buddha Coming Into the World

May 25, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 168 MB

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This Dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on May 25, 2024 for the Vesak celebration daylong retreat.

Pascal Auclair: Un cœur vaste et stable

May 24, 2024 14:38 - 1 hour - 29.4 MB

(Moulin de Chaves)

Ayya Santacitta: Our Bodies, the Elements & Integration of Deep Time

May 23, 2024 18:28 - 59 minutes - 27.5 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Reflection followed by a Guided Meditation

Pascal Auclair: Ne plus s’agripper

May 23, 2024 14:30 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB

(Moulin de Chaves)

Gregory Kramer: Walking the Buddha's Path: Taking Refuge in a Human Teacher

May 23, 2024 11:30 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MB

(Insight Dialogue Community) Offered May 23, 2024 Gregory Kramer invites the Insight Dialogue Community to celebrate Vesak together. Vesak day is a celebration and recognition of the Buddha’s birth, awakening and death. It usually occurs on the first full moon of May. A common intention set on this day is a recommitment to Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha. This is a day to remember the Buddha's legacy and celebrate our potential for progress on the path to liberation, just as Gotama did before his...

James Baraz: Thursday is Wesak! Thursday is Wesak! Honoring the Life and Teaching of the Buddha

May 23, 2024 07:30 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This Thursday, May 23rd is Wesak, the most special day in Theravada Buddhist countries (Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka). The full moon in May is said to be the day that the Buddha was born, became enlightened at the age of 35 and died at the age of 80. The three holiest of days all rolled into one! On this Wesak, we can reflect on who this person was, what he discovered on his journey and the legacy he's left us.

Ayya Santacitta: Sense Yourself as a Fully Networked Organism!

May 22, 2024 20:55 - 22 minutes - 10.2 MB

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Tara Brach: Three Blessings in Spiritual Life – Part 2: Inner Fire

May 22, 2024 19:30 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) This 3-part series explores three capacities we all have, that when cultivated, bring spiritual awakening and serve the healing of our world. Drawing on an ancient teaching story from India, we explore together the power of a forgiving heart, the inner fire that expresses as courage and dedication, and the inquiry of “who am I” that reveals our deepest nature.

Tara Brach: Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence

May 22, 2024 19:30 - 19 minutes - 13.1 MB

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true transformation and healing. It closes with a powerful poem by Gunilla Norris, “Sharing Silence.”