Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Buddhist Talk
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@dharmaseed
Language:
English
Website:
http://dharmaseed.org/talks/
Email:
contact@dharmaseed.org
Episodes
Tim Geil: Sympathetic Joy
4/18/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided meditation on Sympathetic Joy, including self, dear one, and friend whom you are envious of.
Duration:00:27:07
Tim Geil: The Challenges of Sympathetic Joy
4/18/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Sympathetic Joy sometimes reveals its opposite, such as envy or jealousy. This can be a gift that grows into wisdom.
Duration:00:29:49
Jill Shepherd: talk: Exploring the third precept in relation to desire for intimacy
4/17/2025
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
Duration:00:25:45
Roxanne Dault: Guided Metta for Self
4/16/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inviting this warmth in meeting all that we are and cultivating kindness
Duration:00:45:10
Ayya Santacitta: Imagining Worlds Worth Working For
4/16/2025
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.
Duration:00:47:14
Tim Geil: Joy Outside of Conditions
4/16/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we relax the thinking mind, a natural joy is revealed, independent of the conditions of our lives.
Duration:00:28:04
Tim Geil: Compassion Meditation
4/14/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion meditation with the body and breath.
Duration:00:25:47
Tim Geil: Compassion vs. Codependency
4/14/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compassion can be freed of patterns of codependency. We learn to trust suffering as a teacher.
Duration:00:25:49
Rebecca Bradshaw: Steadying The Heart
4/12/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding a home base to steady our heart.
Duration:00:45:03
Ayya Santussika: Inspring Teachers and Inspiring Students | Ayya Santussikā
4/12/2025
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on April 12, 2024 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!
Rebecca Bradshaw: The Graceful Heart
4/12/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to live life graceful poise.
Kevin Griffin: Step 4 and Mental Purification
4/11/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation & Dharma Talk
Duration:01:12:49
Jeanne Corrigal: Friday afternoon metta
4/11/2025
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)
Duration:00:24:18
Jeanne Corrigal: Friday morning instructions
4/11/2025
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)
Duration:00:54:14
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 3 - Exploring the second training precept to abstain from taking what is not given
4/10/2025
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the second of Thich Nhat Hanh's Five Mindfulness Trainings, which he expands to include "I am committed to practicing Right Livelihood so that I can help reduce the suffering of living beings on Earth and stop contributing to climate change"
Duration:00:25:57
Jill Shepherd: talk: Foundations of the Path
4/10/2025
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Looking at the second of Thich Nhat Hanh's Five Mindfulness Trainings, his expanding of the second precept about abstaining from taking what's not given, and focusing on this in relation to climate change
Duration:00:25:57
Jeanne Corrigal: Liberative Dependent Origination: Liberation
4/10/2025
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community) This talk traces the insight sequence of knowledge and vision of how things are - disenchantment - dispassion - release in retreat and daily life experience, with the intention of exploring the release of clinging as an accessible and understandable process that we can work with intentionally.
Duration:00:57:51
Tim Geil: Compassiom Meditation
4/10/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.
Duration:00:25:30
Tim Geil: Compassion: The Personal and Universal
4/10/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.
Duration:00:27:41
Kristina Bare: Liberative Dependent Origination: Knowledge of things as they really are, Disenchantment, Dispassion
4/9/2025
(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)