Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) "A mendicant develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors depending on and grounded on ethics, acquiring great and abundant good qualities." This reflection points out several ways that virtue supports us in our practice, as the "water for arahant soup".

(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.

(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

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of Samsara." Bhava comes right after Craving and Grasping and is usually translated as "Becoming." Bhava or Becoming is something that that most of us find ourselves caught in. However, bringing kind awareness to this tendency can be a major support for living our lives fully in the present moment.

(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

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(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

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How kindness and the breath can be used when feeling fear.

(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?

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring how the 5 hindrances can become opportunities for growth.

(Insight Meditation Center) GM at Insight Meditation Community of Western Mass

(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

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An brief over view of the Bramaviharas, focusing on Metta for easy being, neutral being and self

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflections on awareness + wisdom and how to bring the practice home.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Reflections on Joy