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.
(East Bay Meditation Center) We begin with a short account of some of the history of Juneteenth and its origins in Texas, as well as how it developed in the decades after 1865, including under Jim Crow. We ask how consideration of Juneteenth and the ensuing history informs our practice, considering the three main elements of our practice: Training in wisdom (particularly in understanding the roots of racism in greed for power and wealth and a "divide and conquer" approach); meditation (both in examining our conditioning and working with difficult emotions), and ethical practice (developing care and addressing harm, for the benefit of all beings). The talk is followed by discussion.
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Adam will give the talk. Over the past seven months, Adam traveled through Bali, Nepal, and Japan on a pilgrimage that became both an outer journey and an inner exploration. At the heart of this journey was a simple question: What allows a human being to feel truly at home within themselves? Drawing from meditation, spiritual pilgrimage, and somatic practice, Adam reflects on how love transforms shame and restores our innate dignity and belonging. He will share how he sees the journey through the lens of the five elemental stages of SomAwaken that he teaches.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wisdom is having the characteristic of penetrating the individual essences is of one kind; as mundane and supramundane, it is of two kinds, etc. The breaking up of formations.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Repeated comprehension of materiality; * Enlightenment factors promote the growth of wisdom; * Liberations and hindrances; * Seeing the breaking up of formations develops wisdom.
(Parayana Vihara)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the Brahma Viharas in Nature
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Equanimity as an Enlightenment Factor and equanimity arising from insight bring a kind of gentle joy to the heart and lead to awakening.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Guided meditation using the chant from the Pali Sutta text for the Divine Abidings (Brahmaviharas)
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Brahmaviharas, equanimity, kamma and joy.
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Second Q & A, with questions about demons and devas, practice, assisted suicide, and feeling like a dog that finally got up on the couch.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Drawing in the Buddhist teaching of dependent co-arising, this talk explores what it means to belong to a living world
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Mundekulla Retreat Center)
(Insight Santa Cruz) Gil's first connection to Buddhism in Santa Cruz goes back 49 years, two years after he was introduced to Zen Practice. His involvement with Buddhism in Santa Cruz has been an important part of those next 49 years. He shares his personal stories and lessons from his half century adventure with Buddhist practice in Santa Cruz and beyond.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) General and specific aspects of the unfolding of wisdom.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This is a brief sample of "Feeding Your Demons," developed by Lama Tsultrim Allione.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) In the First Noble Truth the Buddha encourages us to turn towards dukkha, acknowledge it and understand it. This is essential for awakening, for freeing ourselves from bondage. This talk contains stories about how one might do this, ending with a brief intro to the process "Feeding Your Demons."
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) On the lighter side, tranquility and some stories.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The field of mental defilements resembles a weed-infested piece of land, and the field of wisdom is likened to a beautiful garden.
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection on the 1st Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including parts of a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye| Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploration of how nature practice is a doorway to understanding the 3 characteristics. The impermanent, uncertain, & selfless nature & self reality
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Relaxing into tranquility using the breath and instructions from the Buddha, followed by a short sutta, "About Nibbana" (4th) from the Udana 8.4
(Insight Santa Cruz)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin by reviewing briefly last week's session, including how contemporary practice can expand the traditional focus on ignorance to include contemporary psychological and social perspectives on further dimensions of ignorance, including our initially unconscious social conditioning. We look again briefly at how the Buddha related both to caste and to women's roles in the sangha, and the basic of social conditioning, including how this is related to "in-groups," "out-groups," and "implicit bias." Most of the talk is devoted to suggesting the basic ways that we can explore and transform social conditioning. We focus on the main supports for such practice, including working with groups and guidelines, knowing the history of a particular form of conditoning (we give the examples of gender and race), using different forms of inquiry, mindfulness in meditation and daily life (including being mindful of the judgmental mind, anger, sadness, shame, etc.), the heart practices (including the importance of self-love, compassion, forgiveness, and joy), and other practices, such as involving ritual. The talk is followed by discussion.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) This talk is based on the verses of the Enlightened Monk called Gotama. He was in the Buddha's family, but a different Gotama. The verses are found in the "Verses of the Enlightened Monks," the Theragāthā 10.7
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center)
(Insight Santa Cruz)
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The Buddha taught that there are some qualities, such as virtue, that naturally lead to Samadhi and on to seeing reality as it is.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Questions on devas, chanting and Dhamma in general.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Virtue, concentration, meditation, desire (chanda), striving, faith, approaching a teacher, and more.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Scanning the front, back and inside of the body with the image of warm oil flowing slowly over all its parts.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Using SN 28.1 "Born of Seclusion" as a basis, we can come to understand what "ultimate goodness" is: the end of "eradicated I-making, mine-making, and the underlying tendency to conceit."
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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