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
Ayya Santussika: Vital Conditions for Developing the Awakening Factors
6/6/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Beginning this two week retreat with the encouraging words of the Buddha from two discourses: SN 46.1 The Himalaya and AN 9.1 Awakening.
Duration:00:18:42
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
6/5/2025
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Duration:00:17:50
Amana Brembry Johnson: Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States
6/4/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Duration:00:58:51
Brian Lesage: It Was Like This
6/3/2025
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Duration:00:25:30
Amana Brembry Johnson: Being at Home in the Body
6/3/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Duration:00:47:43
JoAnna Hardy: Metta mish mosh, choose your practice
6/1/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.
Duration:00:29:39
Bart van Melik: Trust Impermanence
6/1/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
Duration:00:47:00
Bart van Melik: Emergency Metta
5/31/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How kindness and the breath can be used when feeling fear.
Duration:00:44:29
Ajahn Sucitto: Embodied awareness and the 'me bag'.
5/30/2025
(Insight Retreat Center) A talk given at the Insight Meditation Center of Western Mass with QnA. Questions are précised: Q1 33:26 You were talking about the inner and outer skin. It seems this inner skin creates suffering. How do we start to be able to deal with this?Q2 37:34 Those words: Open, allow, let go are such a release. But something can happen that scares me, fear of annihilation. How do you practice with the insecurity of monastic life without being scared? Q3 42:03 In moving from control, do you go through indifference? Q4 43:50 Would you mind speaking about qualities of willfulness, striving, urgency, rigidity around meditation and holding attention in the body and that urgency. Q5 52:10 I feel very uplifted being so close to a monastic. Could you say something about the challenges and the fruits of being in robes for so long?
Duration:01:00:30
Bart van Melik: What's in the Way, is the Way
5/30/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring how the 5 hindrances can become opportunities for growth.
Duration:00:46:16
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation
5/30/2025
(Insight Meditation Center) GM at Insight Meditation Community of Western Mass
Duration:00:29:06
JoAnna Hardy: Morning Instructions, hindrances, sense doors
5/30/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Touching in to normalize the hindrances, then guidance on sense doors, internal/external awareness and curiosity of sensations and experience
Duration:00:41:53
JoAnna Hardy: Metta Introduction and Instructions
5/29/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An brief over view of the Bramaviharas, focusing on Metta for easy being, neutral being and self
Duration:00:42:12
Andrea Fella: Awareness and Wisdom Doing their Jobs
5/29/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Duration:00:41:37
Andrea Castillo: Illuminating the Present Through the Past and the Noble Eightfold Path
5/28/2025
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Duration:00:36:01
Devon Hase: Sampajanna: The Wisdom That Knows What To Do (Retreat at Spirit Rock)
5/28/2025
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on awareness + wisdom and how to bring the practice home.
Duration:00:55:33
Erin Treat: Reflections on Joy
5/28/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Reflections on Joy
Duration:00:54:50
Ayya Santacitta: Help Nature to Do Its Thing!
5/28/2025
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an icaro by Manari Ushigua @ www.dreamworldprogram.com | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
Duration:00:55:42
Carol Wilson: Morning Reflection
5/28/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wise reflection - advice from the Buddha to Mohanama
Duration:00:40:27
Carol Wilson: Transferring Habits of Greed, Aversion, and Delusion
5/27/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Advice from the Buddha on some ways of cultivating wise attention to feed/support wholesome qualities of mind, and starve the unwholesome habits