Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) The 4 Foundations of Mindfulness & the 4 Vipallasa ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided Meditation on the 4 Foundations of Mindfulness ~ What Compels You to Practice? ~ Retreat for White Heron Sangha

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery)

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Guided meditation on the 6 senses, contact, impermanence, ends with chant of the 5 subjects for frequent recollection and a traditional Theravada blessing in English, chanting together with Ayya Santacitta. Offered as part of an online weekend retreat with White Heron Sangha.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) As we relax and awaken through our physical body, we discover the formless dimension of awareness or spirit that permeates all of life. This meditation includes a poem from Mary Oliver.

(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Spiritual hope opens us to possibility and energizes us to manifest our potential for love and wisdom. In contrast to attachment or egoic hope, which is the grasping for what will benefit a separate self, spiritual hope arises from trust in the openhearted awareness (bodhichitta) that is always and already within us. This talk explores how, as individuals and as a society, we can nourish spiritual hope, and create the grounds for healing and radical transformation.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Traditional Buddhist training occurs through development in wisdom, ethics, and meditation. We use this model to help us to understand Buddhist practice that aims to transform racism. We start by reviewing briefly the first three perspectives offered in the previous week, which fall under training in wisdom. Then we look at how ethical practice and in particular the practice of non-harming can be the basis for action, based on an understanding of ethical practice as guiding both one's personal behavior and one's responses to harm in one's communities and society. Lastly, we explore meditative training and how in particular mindfulness and compassion play central roles in the transformation of racism.

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk explores the dynamics of Racism and bringing our practice of the Dharma to these dynamics.

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) This is a talk on karma, the 5 precepts, right speech, Black Lives Matter, and the #MeToo movement.

(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) a guided meditation given as part of the Third Sunday program with the Aloka Vihara community that usually meets at Berkeley Buddhist Monastery. June 2020