Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Orienting to spaciousness and ease as supports for the steadiness of equanimity

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) An overview of equanimity, including its near and far enemies, and how it supports deepening peace

(Bandar Utama Buddhist Society) When your heart becomes buried under thought, or you can’t manage what’s happening in the heart, then you need your body to bring you back. Body provides the steadying effect that allows the heart to come out. The other approach is through kindness, the ability to maintain presence, pausing and lingering whilst waiting for the heart’s response. This is how we begin to put aside the reactions and compulsiveness, and find our way out of the tangled web of confusion and distraction.

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) A short introduction to muditā as a support for skilful qualities of heart and mind

(Bandar Utama Buddhist Society) 00:06 Mind in body or body in mind; 01:31 Citta voice and thinking mind voice – how to bring them together; 03:12 Mind storm leads to confusion, compulsive thoughts; 05:51 Sleeplessness, especially accompanied with anxiety; 08:02 how to ensure qualities like love are not coming from self-centeredness or craving; 11:09 Fear around upcoming surgery; 13:34 Losing the balance of mind when overcome with pain; 20:22 Others means of practice in addition to meditation; 21:59 Practicing meditation with the aim of attaining jhānas; 27:04 Getting a sense of pīti during meditation; 34:55 If there's no self who inherits the karmic residues from past lives; 36:51 discernment vs judgment.

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Beginning by steadying the body, heart and mind, then cultivating kindness and care in relation to pain

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Compassion as the second of the four brahmavihāra practices, building on a foundation of mettā or good will then extending that kindness to meet all forms of pain, stress, distress and suffering

(Bandar Utama Buddhist Society) Wherever you are, you’re always present. We tend to focus on what we’re present with, the sights and sounds, but what’s the capacity to be present with them? Remove the fear, agitation, craving, imagined hostility of other people – these block presence. Presence is a certain stability, freedom from regret and agitation, goodwill towards myself and others. This is the most peaceful abiding.

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Exploring the universal characteristics of impermanence and not-self, and how these can come together in the contemplation of death to support living with more ease, happiness and peace

(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Bringing awareness to the underlying qualities of mind underneath the content of thoughts and emotions