Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Inviting this warmth in meeting all that we are and cultivating kindness

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Finding a home base to steady our heart.

(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!?!

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Learning to live life graceful poise.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Meditation & Dharma Talk

(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

(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"

(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

(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.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Begining with the body, offering compassion to all aspects, including mind and emotions.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The movement of compassion between the personal and universal helps us when our hearts are closed and when overwhelmed.

(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth prayer by Stephanie Kaza | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings.

(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talks focuses on one of the three areas of practice discussed a week before, on developing samadhi (or concentration), the theme of Donald's four weeks of practice in March. We begin by more generally discussing the nature of samadhi, including short account of the etymology in Pali, and the Tibetan sense of samadhi as "staying," as developing in the nine stages of the "Elephant Path." We look at the place and importance of developing samadhi in our practice and its relationship to insight practice; developing samadhi is one of the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path and appears in many of the Buddha's core teachings. We discuss some ways to practice developing samadhi, and then focus especially on several challenges of such practice and how to work with such challenges. The talk is followed by discussion, including further exploration of the relationship of cultivating samadhi and insight practice, the nature of skillful effort, and the joy that can arise in the development of samadhi.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation gives more detail on developing samadhi than the guided meditation from a week ago. First, after a brief overview of the nature of samadhi (usually translated as "concentration"), instructions are given for a practice session developing samadhi, including on posture, gaze, possible objects of focus, and skillful effort. Midway through the session, some further guidance is given on "intensifying," which helps both to deepen samadhi and to cut through background thinking as well as foreground thinking.

(Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)