Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
2,083 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 14 hours ago - ★★★★ - 242 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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Cara Lai: Awakening is for everyone
March 04, 2024 19:29 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How doubt can manifest as the belief that one is not fully on the path if they have chosen the life of the householder. Using nature as affirmation and support.
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Standing, tuning in to feeling-tones and cetanā
March 04, 2024 14:45 - 20 minutes - 9.23 MB(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Nathan Glyde: Dāna Talk: Generosity, Participation, and Contribution as a Liberating View
March 03, 2024 17:03 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB(Gaia House)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 5
March 03, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes - 80.6 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 4
March 03, 2024 13:49 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 3
March 03, 2024 12:00 - 35 minutes - 49.3 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 2
March 03, 2024 11:00 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Nathan Glyde: Anattā: The Liberating View of Non-identification
March 03, 2024 10:37 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MB(Gaia House) Meditation Instruction and Practice
Mark Coleman: Your Brain Isn't Broken, Part 1
March 03, 2024 09:22 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Devon Hase: Effortless Effort
March 03, 2024 08:31 - 14 minutes - 6.74 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Thoughts on the cultivation of practice and also the naturalness of our own goodness. Includes a reading of St. Francis and the Sow at the end.
Nathan Glyde: Truly Useful View of Neither Self Nor Not-Self
March 02, 2024 20:16 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB(Gaia House) Exploring anatta, the not-self strategy, from the foundation of our experience of the liberating insight lenses of anicca and dukkha ways of conceiving, perceiving, and relating.
Carol Wilson: Power of steady awareness to change our relationship to life
March 02, 2024 19:28 - 47 minutes - 21.8 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Nathan Glyde: Anicca: The Liberating View of Inconstancy
March 02, 2024 10:45 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MB(Gaia House) Meditation Instruction and Practice
Ayya Santussika: Staying Balanced With the Help of Our Friends
March 02, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Ayya Santussika: Staying Balance With the Help of Our Friends
March 02, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Devon Hase: Three Honorings
March 02, 2024 08:32 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Starting retreat with honoring ancestors of land, lineage, and family of origin. Grounding and embodied sense of taking refuge.
Nathan Glyde: Three More Liberating Views - An Introduction to Our Retreat Theme
March 01, 2024 20:51 - 30 minutes - 13.9 MB(Gaia House)
Devon Hase: Ordinary Love
March 01, 2024 19:10 - 48 minutes - 22.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Reflections on metta and the power of ordinariness in cultivating this friendliness and goodwill in the heart-mind.
Jaya Rudgard: What Makes the World Spin? (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 28, 2024 19:22 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The eight conditions or worldly winds (gain, loss, status, disrepute, praise, censure, pleasure, pain) that blow on everyone and how to find an unshakeability in their midst.
JD Doyle: Cultivating the Refuge of Sangha
February 28, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Donald Rothberg: Transforming the Judgmental Mind 2
February 28, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 52 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by reviewing some and expanding last week's introduction to practicing to transform the judgmental mind, including clarifying our language and the way that in English "judgment" can ambiguously mean either an expression of the judgmental mind or a non-judgmental discernment. We identify examples of the judgmental mind, and point to how it can be understood in terms of the sequence of contact to grasping (and pushing away) in the Buddha's teaching on D...
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring the Judgmental Mind
February 28, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes - 29.9 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a period of settling and general mindfulness practice, we invite noticing and being with any expressions of the judgmental mind (here called "judgments") if they occur. In the second part of the guided meditation, there is also a more direct investigation of a selected judgment, exploring it at the levels of body, emotions, and thought, and seeing whether any underlying painful or difficult experience can be noticed. We close with a brief three-part self-...
Jeanne Corrigal: Morning Reflection - Recollecting our Virtue and Generosity
February 28, 2024 08:29 - 16 minutes - 7.57 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Jeanne Corrigal: Metta and Liberation
February 26, 2024 19:01 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores metta and mindfulness as partners in liberation. It describes the abiding practice in 5 steps, and closes with 3 sacred going home stories.
Noliwe Alexander: Non-separation ~ Interconnection The Elements as US
February 26, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour - 45.4 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Jaya Rudgard: Mudita - Sympathetic or Appreciative Joy (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 26, 2024 13:56 - 45 minutes - 42 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Introduction and lightly guided meditation.
Jeanne Corrigal: Abiding Practice
February 26, 2024 08:30 - 8 minutes - 4.04 MB(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Ayya Santussika: Changing - Part One
February 25, 2024 09:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Kim Allen: Liberative Dependent Arising (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
February 24, 2024 19:25 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Liberative, or Transcendent, Dependent Arising describes an arc that runs from suffering (dukkha) to liberation, including many beautiful qualities like faith, joy, and tranquility. It shows how the mind gradually untangles through a lawful process.
Ayya Santacitta: Baby Jesus in the Rubble or Our Collective Reluctance to Feel
December 27, 2023 22:33 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Online Wednesday-Mornings | 32
Brian Lesage: The Thread of Generosity
December 26, 2023 19:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Tuesday Tune In
December 26, 2023 18:30 - 1 hour - 146 MB(Dassanāya Buddhist Community) Meditation followed by a dhamma talk.
Eugene Cash: Goodbye 2023 Welcoming 2024
December 24, 2023 18:00 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Celebrating the Dying & Rebirth of the Light. “You can pick all the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.” - Pablo Neruda
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni: The Reason for the Color of our Robes
December 24, 2023 06:03 - 16 minutes - 7.42 MB(Songdhammakalyani Monastery)
Nathan Glyde: May All Beings Be Happy?
December 23, 2023 20:41 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB(Gaia House) Exploring what it means to wish for all beings to be happy. Looking at a couple of ways we compromise on the fullness of 'all', or limit our understanding of where happiness comes from and depends upon; Bringing head and heart together à la Thānissaro Bhikku, we can find a new drive to wish lasting blameless happiness for all beings, now, gone, and yet to come. Sabbe Satta Sukita Hontu.
Ayya Santussika: Q&A with Ajahn Anan: Relationships and Meditation Practice
December 23, 2023 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
James Baraz: The Light Inside the Darkness: A Winter Solstice Reflection
December 22, 2023 07:30 - 56 minutes - 78.3 MB(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This Thursday our meeting will take place just as we arrive at this year's Winter Solstice (7:27pm Pacific Time). This longest night of the year has given rise to many holidays of light (Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Soyal, the winter solstice celebration of the Hopi Indians, and many others). We will explore accessing the light within as we experience the solstice and navigate the shadow within us and in the world.
Ayya Santacitta: Re-Rooting In the Web of Life Is the Way to Go
December 20, 2023 20:03 - 54 minutes - 25 MB(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Online Wednesday-Mornings | 31
Donald Rothberg, Stephen Fulder: The Dharma in Times of Crisis
December 20, 2023 10:45 - 1 hour - 64.2 MB(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Stephen Fulder, the founder and senior teacher of Tovana (the Israel Insight Society), is in conversation with Donald Rothberg. We hold the understanding of "crisis" broadly, remembering that we are in the midst of multiple crises, while giving more attention to Israel/Palestine. Such crises are a major challenge to our dharma practice. In this context, we explore a number of different themes, including bringing our practice to difficult experiences that often ...
Brian Lesage: In A Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See
December 19, 2023 19:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MB(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Ayya Santacitta: Gathering Our Resources
December 17, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MB(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) Re-rooting in Inter-being enhances perception and expands the solutions we can see for the world.
Elizabeth Day, Jill Shepherd, Willa Thaniya Reid: Q&R session
December 17, 2023 16:30 - 26 minutes - 24 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Awakening Factor of Equanimity
December 17, 2023 16:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Willa Thaniya Reid: meditation: Awakening Factor of Tranquillity or Passaddhi
December 17, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutes - 13.6 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Establishing settledness, groundedness, attuning to the body's earthiness supports sittingn like a mountain, the mind becoming stable, calm, non-trembling, not agitated
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Awakening Factor of Pītī, Joy
December 17, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 14.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Using mindfulness of breathing to support energising and lightening into subtle pleasantness and joy
Willa Thaniya Reid: meditation: Awakening Factor of Investigation
December 17, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 15.4 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Establishing conditions that support the mind to know what is here, and what is needed
Ayya Dhammadīpā: Joyful Without a Reason | Sunday Sound of Dhamma
December 17, 2023 09:30 - 40 minutes - 93.7 MB(Dassanāya Buddhist Community) Brief meditation followed by a dhamma talk.
Elizabeth Day, Jill Shepherd, Willa Thaniya Reid: Introduction to the theme of the day: attending to the Awakening Factors
December 17, 2023 09:00 - 37 minutes - 17.2 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Introduction to the teachers and the theme: the Awakening Factors as good friends Guided meditation establishing mindfulness of the body and breathing
Ayya Santussika: The Removal of Unwholesome Regret
April 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 69.5 MB(Karuna Buddhist Vihara)
Jill Shepherd: talk: pāramī of patience
April 20, 2023 20:00 - 29 minutes - 13.5 MB(Auckland Insight Meditation) Patience is a quality that is undervalued in mainstream society with its emphasis on instant gratification, but in the Buddha's teachings, it's seen as the foremost of all the pāramī. Fortunately, it's something that can be trained in, initially by recognising where we're IMpatient, then making the effort to orient to steadiness and non-resistance.