Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Gaia House) An exploration of the Iddhipāda (Bases of Power) as part of our noble path. Seeing them more in the light of empowerment of our deepest aspirations or most wholesome desires.

A guided meditation and Dharma Talk, with time for questions: for privacy, only the teachers voice is on the recording.

(Auckland Insight Meditation) A short introduction to Right or Wise Action

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Mostly silent sitting with a few minutes orientation to compassion at the beginning

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Experiencing our aliveness through our senses is the gateway to resting in formless loving presence. This meditation guides us to awakening through our body, and recognizing the backdrop of silence, of awake awareness, that is the source of all being.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) All that we cherish—creativity, love, wisdom, realization—arises from an embodied presence. Yet as we know, the wounds and trauma of our society and individual lives leads toward dissociation. These two talks look at the challenges to awakening through our bodies, and the practices and teachings that guide us on the path.

(Cittaviveka) Mind is always searching – in the personal, social and sensory realms – for solidity and satisfaction. But to find this, we must go forth – set aside the virtual world that we compulsively create and come into presence. This is the place of realization, where we meet what arises with the compassion, goodwill and discernment of the heart.

(Gaia House) An exploration of the Dharma teachings of the four ennobling truths as inviting questions into a deep exploration of dependent origination for profound and immediate freedom.

Mediation and Dharma Talk

(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community)

(Gaia House) A few simple ideas to keep the heart and mind open and receptive when pressure builds, instincts are flared, and patterns call us. Freedom is supported by good influences, and shape good effluences (outward-flows).

(Cittaviveka) We seek steadiness and happiness from that which is inherently changing and unsteady – the constructed notions of future, past, myself and others. Withdraw from the tangle, acknowledge without getting involved. When you collect your heart with presence and acknowledge the tangle and the stress, there’s empathy rather than agitation. Good qualities naturally arise from that stable empathetic basis.