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Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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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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United States

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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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@dharmaseed

Language:

English


Episodes
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Bob Stahl: Instructions on Feeling Tones - the 2nd Foundation of Mindfulness

1/12/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning abut the importance of this 2nd foundation of mindfulness as a gateway to lessen suffering and as a gateway to greater peace.

Duration:01:07:02

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Ayya Santussika: Opening to the Training, Generosity and Unconditional Love

1/11/2025
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on 11th of January , 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”

Duration:00:45:34

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Bob Stahl: Working with the 5 Hindrances as a pathway to Wisdom

1/11/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) No doubt there are challenges that may come up when we practice meditation and so helpful to learn how to work with them wisely so they can transform as gifts of wisdom.

Duration:01:02:26

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Ajahn Sucitto: The Welcome Vihara

1/9/2025
(Cittaviveka)

Duration:00:46:25

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James Baraz: We Are What We Think

1/9/2025
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Happy New Year to you! This Thursday we will meet both live at the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery and online. I want to discuss the opening verse of the Dhammapada, the famous collection of the Buddha’s teachings. The verse starts out with these words: “We are what we think. With our thoughts we make the world.” This teaching can be truly transformative in one’s meditation practice as well as in one’s life. I look forward to exploring it with you

Duration:00:47:51

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Chas DiCapua: Finding Refuge During Difficult Times

1/8/2025
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

Duration:00:49:12

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Ayya Santacitta: A Launching Board for Growth

1/8/2025
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation on the Four Brahmavihara & Earth Awarenes | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.

Duration:00:51:12

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Donald Rothberg: The Nature of Awakening and the Path to Awakening

1/8/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) As we begin a new year, it's helpful to remember the deep motivation of our practice--to awaken--and to ask how our intention to awaken manifests in our practice. In this talk, we explore the Buddha's metaphor of "awakening" (from sleep, from dreams) as a metaphor for spiritual practices, and how he also speaks of realizing Nirvana. We unpack how the Buddha understood Nirvana and awakening--both negatively, as the end of ignorance, and dukkha and reactivity--and more positively as going fully beyond the ordinary constructions of experience. We also look at how the Buddha understood the practical path of training to realize awakening and Nirvana, and how this was explicated through different teachings and practices. At the end, we briefly bring up the question of what a contemporary path of awakening looks like. The talk is followed by discussion.

Duration:00:58:53

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Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Identifying Some of the Ways that We Construct Experience

1/8/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After some basic instructions in developing concentration and stability, as well as mindfulness, we practice in silence. After about another ten minutes, there are several periodic brief periods of guided practice, in which we are guided to notice our main patterns of thought and perception of objects. In the latter part of the period, we are guided to drop constructions of experience in two ways.

Duration:00:37:10

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Brian Lesage: Wise View and the Fluidity of Perception

1/7/2025
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) The Image that is referred to in this talk is included below.

Duration:00:37:56

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Ajahn Sucitto: Collecting, settling and resting, immersed in body

1/7/2025
(Cittaviveka)

Duration:00:43:41

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Yanai Postelnik: Compassionate responses - inner practice and outer action

1/6/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

Duration:02:14:34

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Phillip Moffitt: Being available leads to choice and how we relate to our experience

1/6/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Duration:02:05:17

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Phillip Moffitt: Utilizing the four noble truths for how you relate to your life

1/6/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Duration:01:04:34

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Phillip Moffitt: Meditation: Being available leads to choice and how we relate to our experience

1/6/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Duration:02:05:17

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Phillip Moffitt: Dharma Talk: Utilizing the four noble truths for how you relate to your life

1/6/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

Duration:01:03:51

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Akincano Marc Weber: Morning Reflection: 4 Tasks of Satipaṭṭhāna & 4 Dimensions of contemplative practice

1/6/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Naming the tasks of the individual satipaṭṭhāna channel; psychological map of the contemplative territory. (Including some common hangups)

Duration:00:54:19

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Yanai Postelnik: Approaching the Heart of Wisdom

1/5/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Reflections on deepening wisdom and awakening

Duration:01:01:25

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Akincano Marc Weber: Guided Mettā–Forgiveness- Gratitude Meditation (no phrases)

1/5/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided practice on the themes of mettā, gratitude, connectedness, and forgiveness

Duration:00:43:58

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Akincano Marc Weber: Metaphors of realisation: Sudden and Gradual

1/4/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do we make ourselves growth and realisation? Tracing the historical, psychological and Two sources of valid forms of knowlege: – Paccakkha "before the eye," i.e. 'perceptible to the senses' 'direct experience'. – Anvaya – 'inference' History of Sudden & Gradual. Aside of the the historical background, these terms have taken on a metaphorical meaning: the talk looks at how these metaphors chart the path of practice, their respective analogies and their images, their framing of the probleme and their respective values and drawbacks. – May these metaphors ultimately have their bases in the differeing mind functions of samādhi (gradual) and sati (sudden)? The speaker, despite little canonical evidence, thinks so.

Duration:01:10:58