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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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Ayya Medhanandi: Noble Subt...

11.20.2020

(Ottawa Buddhist Society) How can we trick the mind out of its old habits? The Buddha emphasized the power of the four Right Efforts. These royal allies advance the mind to its highest potential, the supreme wisdom possible for a ...

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11.20.2020 Ayya Medhanandi: Noble Subtrefuge - Four Royal Efforts (Ottawa Buddhist Society) How can we trick the mind out of its old habits? The Buddha emphasized the power of the four Right Efforts. These royal allies advance the mind to its highest potential, the supreme wisdom possible for a ...
11.20.2020 Ayya Medhanandi: Noble Subtrefuge - 4 Royal Efforts (Ottawa Buddhist Society) How can we trick the mind out of its old habits? The Buddha emphasized the power of the 4 Right Efforts. These royal allies advance the mind to its highest potential, the supreme wisdom possible for a ...
09.26.2020 Zohar Lavie: 3 Characteristics (Sangha Seva) Hebrew Dharma Talk
09.26.2020 Nathan Glyde: Tuning into Mettā (Sangha Seva) Guided Mettā Meditation - offering an easeful relationship, more neutral beings (the inbetweeners), and the image of oneself then expanding to all beings.
09.26.2020 Nathan Glyde: Day 2 Instructions - Vedanā.mp3 (Sangha Seva) Meditation Instruction
09.25.2020 Nathan Glyde: Vedanā - the Current in the Ocean of Life (Sangha Seva) Dukkha is dependently originating with tanha (demands), demands are dependently originating with preference, preference is dependently originating with unquestioned belief in the subjective arising of vedana. But more and more peace is possible.
09.25.2020 Zohar Lavie: Guided Metta to Easeful Relationships and Oneself.mp3 (Sangha Seva) Metta in Hebrew
09.25.2020 Zohar Lavie: Day 1 Instructions - Opening to the Pleasant (Sangha Seva) Hebrew Meditation Instructions - On Body Awareness
09.24.2020 Zohar Lavie: Fabrication - Ways of Looking and The Shaping of Experience (Sangha Seva) Hebrew Dharma Talk
09.24.2020 Nathan Glyde: Samādhi Surfing (Sangha Seva) 1st guided meditation of the retreat, steadying into the present experience of body-heart-mind unification. Riding the wave of the present moment in intimate connection with breath & body sensations or sounds near and far.
09.24.2020 Nathan Glyde: Bringing Insights to Life (Sangha Seva) Introducing the theme of the retreat: Insights To Live By, by defining insight (as Rob Burbea has) as ways of relating to life that bring freedom here and now. Insights are transferable between us, between sessions of meditation, ...
09.23.2020 Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 7: The Foundations of Wise Speech 4: Becoming More Skillful with Difficult Speech Situations 2 (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of the foundations of wise speech and the eight guidelines for skillful speech when there are difficult or challenging situations, we explore the connection of inner practices with such situations. We look ...
09.21.2020 Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 2 - Meditation (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.21.2020 Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 2 - Talk (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.20.2020 Venerable Dhammadipa: The Mind That Knows Itself (Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dhamma talk on coping with environmental stress by practicing the third foundation of mindfulness - mindfulness of mind. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the Berkeley area ...
09.20.2020 Venerable Dhammadipa: How Captivating the Moment Can Be (Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A Dhamma talk on the joy of practicing internal and external mindfulness. This talk was given as part of the regular monthly series of talks to the San Francisco Dharma Collective.
09.20.2020 Mark Nunberg: Allowing Impermanence and Uncertainty to Transform the Heart - Talk (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.20.2020 Mark Nunberg: Allowing Impermanence and Uncertainty to Transform the Heart - Guided Meditation (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.17.2020 James Baraz: Holding a Positive Vision (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) It seems like an accomplishment just getting through such tumultuous times--wildfires on the West Coast, storms around the country, coronavirus lockdown and the US in daily chaos. It would be understandable to succumb to anxiety ...
09.17.2020 Donald Rothberg: Buddhist Practice and Nonviolent Action: Transforming Inner and Outer Reactivity, Cultivating Love in Action (Insight Meditation Tucson) We explore the deep resonance between Buddhist practice and nonviolent action (in the tradition of Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, Cesar Chavez, and others). We first examine the core of Buddhist practice as ...
09.16.2020 Donald Rothberg: Deepening Our Practice in the Pandemic 6: Wise Speech 3: Practicing with Difficult Speech Situations (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After reviewing three foundations of Wise Speech--the four ethical guidelines for skillful speech, presence and mindfulness during speech, and the practice of empathy--we explore, on the basis of these foundations, how to be skillful during difficult ...
09.14.2020 Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 1 - Talk (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.14.2020 Mark Nunberg: The Four Noble Truths: Understanding Suffering, its cause, its release, and the way toward its release - Week 1 - Meditation (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.13.2020 Mark Nunberg: Aligning with Change - Talk (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.13.2020 Mark Nunberg: Aligning with Change - Guided Meditation (Common Ground Meditation Center)
09.13.2020 Nathan Glyde: Transcending Distractions (Gaia House) Invitations to relaxation, energy perceptions, anattā, surrender, and devotion as ways of relating to thoughts and other phenomena that appear as distractions to our steady relaxed attention.
09.11.2020 Kevin Griffin: Dharma and Recovery (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
09.11.2020 Zohar Lavie: התמיכות לויריה - חלק 2 (Sangha Seva)
09.10.2020 Jill Shepherd: meditation: exploring dukkha (Auckland Insight Meditation) Bringing awareness to any dukkha present in the moment, noticing any reactions of clinging or resistance, and using wisdom, compassion and equanimity to help that clinging release
09.10.2020 Jill Shepherd: talk: impermanence and dukkha (Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the three universal characteristics, looking at the relationship between impermanence and unsatisfactoriness, dukkha, and how wisdom and compassion can help release clinging / resistance to dukkha
09.09.2020 Tara Brach: Meditation: Meeting Life with a Spacious Heart (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Especially when we’re stressed, we need pathways to an allowing, kind presence. This meditation guides us to relax and open through our bodies, and then meet changing waves of experience with a sea of ...
09.07.2020 Brian Lesage: Finding Freedom from Becoming (Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This talk offers one way of beginning to understand the dynamic of becoming through a few examples and an initial way of practicing with it.
09.07.2020 Venerable Dhammadipa: Manifesting Metta in All Directions (Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A guided meditation offered as part of the Sunday evening program of Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
09.07.2020 Venerable Dhammadipa: The Immeasurable Mind of Metta (Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) A talk given as part of the Sunday program at Sacramento Buddhist Meditation Group (SBMG)
09.06.2020 Donald Rothberg: Practicing Dukkha and the End of Dukkha in a Time of Crisis (White Heron Sangha) The Buddha said, “I have taught dukkha [usually translated as “suffering”] and the end of dukkha.” This teaching is the heart of our practice, yet it is often misunderstood or even confusing to people, primarily because there ...
09.06.2020 Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A – Desire, Hatred, Deathless and Boundaries (Cittaviveka) How to manage inconvenient feelings of attraction; reacting impulsively towards sexual desire and hatred; working with boredom and drowsiness; how does one turn towards the deathless; is nibbana “a ground of being”; what does the use of “internal and ...
09.06.2020 Sally Armstrong: Sit with Instructions (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.06.2020 Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Arrive at the Basis (Cittaviveka) Citta has its own basic clarity and sanity. Practice to establish citta on its own ground, where there is no suffering. This is the upright citta, the foundation for all the virtues leading to awakening.
09.05.2020 Guy Armstrong: Dharma Talk (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.05.2020 Nathan Glyde: Mettā Can Go Everywhere To Everything (Gaia House) A meditation and reflection about metta and emptiness
09.05.2020 Zohar Lavie: התמיכות לויריה - חלק 1 (Sangha Seva)
09.05.2020 Guy Armstrong: Sit with Instructions (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.04.2020 Sally Armstrong: Dharma Talk (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.04.2020 Sally Armstrong: Sit with Instructions (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.03.2020 Sally Armstrong: Dharma Talk (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.03.2020 Jill Shepherd: talk: insight into impermanence (Auckland Insight Meditation)
09.03.2020 Guy Armstrong: Sit with Instructions (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
09.02.2020 Tara Brach: Meditation: Relaxing Back into Awareness (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) When we are in our daily trance, we are often leaning forward, on our way somewhere else. In this meditation we are guided to relax back into the awareness that is always, already here. ...
09.02.2020 Tara Brach: Transforming Your Relationship with Anxiety (Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Strong anxiety frequently triggers fight-flight-freeze, our survival brain’s strategy for dealing with threats. This can become a trance that dominates our thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and deepest experience of who we are. This talk explores ...
09.02.2020 Guy Armstrong: Dharma Talk (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

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