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.
(Common Ground Meditation Center)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk overviews the four foundations of mindfulness, and then explores the second foundation of vedana, feeling tone, as a doorway to freedom.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) Ajahn responds to several questions around the themes: Is it necessary to have an attitude of sanctity or divinity when one is mindful in the sati sampajanna way? Is it possible to get anywhere in the practice without being ordained? How long should I sit and what particular process should I go through? Will I arrive at a certain recognizable state?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on June 21, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - Intro 02:07 - Guided Meditation 24:48 - DHAMMA TALK 38:18- Q&A
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk explores two qualities of equanimity - balance, and balance in the midst of change. It also explores the wisdom that builds on these qualities - the wisdom of knowing that it is our response to what is happening, not what is happening, that holds the key to our liberation.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The essence of compassion is honesty about suffering. Compassion is what naturally arises when we turn towards hurts, pain, suffering with love.
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Observing phenomena in light of the three characteristics of existence: impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and not-self and the arising of wisdom as described by Ajahn Chah. Readings from "Stillness Flowing" - pages 201, 373-374, 534-535
(True North Insight) Enseignement sur la pratique, méditation guidée, enseignement sur la conscience, pratique guidée et questions/réponses
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Dispassion, cessation, delusion, Buddhas before Shakyamuni, Piti all night long, sharing merit and metta practice
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Guided meditation (following Chi Gong practice) beginning at the root chakra paired with mindfulness, traveling up through the chakras and awakening factors for visualization and investigation.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) A detailed look into recognizing the sense of self in action and "stepping back" to the Dhamma perspective.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Seeing our life through the lens of Dhamma instead of through the perspective of Personality View.
(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of wise perception: knowing this is a dependently originating appearance. And expanding wise and skilful (right) speech to include not exaggerating or simplifying! Perhaps these alongside other ideas, will support our practice to deepen, and widen to help liberate peace into the world.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) These meditations were taught to the Buddha's son Rahula (MN 62) on the elements: earth, water, fire, air and space, followed by the advice to develop meditation like each of these of these elements so that whatever might be experienced by the mind, likeable or dis-likeable, that would not invade the mind and remain.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The Buddha's step-mother and most senior bhikkhuni, Venerable Mahāpajāpati, came to him for a teaching in brief that she could use for ardent practice. We can use this advice to guide our practice today and our relationship with the world.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) We know there is a need for letting go when we experience suffering, but how do we do it? When we find that we can't let go just because we want to, we need to know how to put in the causes and conditions so the practice ripens in letting go.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring the four diving abodes amidst the natural world
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Our experience may not match what we've read in the suttas or heard teachers describe. The encouragement here is to use the teachings as guideposts and learn for ourselves what works and what doesn't.
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring the training to refrain from misusing intoxicants and broadening it to investigate other aspects of our lives where there can be a more compulsive or addictive relationship, for example in how we relate to our phones and technology
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Tips on cultivating the awakening factors of piti (joy) and tranquility (passaddhi) and encouragement to follow your intuition.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) How do we change the habits that continually bring us suffering? This is a reflection based on SN 3.13 "A Bucket of Rice" and a personal experience providing some ideas on how to let go of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair, anger, resentment, righteous indignation, and so on that keep us bound up in suffering, pointing to Nibbāna here and now.
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This accompanies the talk entitled: Listening for the Deeper Silence
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Explores the relationship between wise effort and faith on the path of insight. Through story, sutta, and reflection, this talk offers guidance for navigating striving, doubt, and comparison.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfully and kindly bringing attention to the body parts on the traditional list plus.
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Establishing mindfulness and turning to investigation of whatever is present in this moment.
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) 01 06 Q1 I don't have any particular devotional practice. Is this like a Brahmavihara practice? 01:41 Q2 Regarding the relationship between citta and yoni as in yoniso manasikara, I relate to citta on a moment to moment basis. Yoni seems to be a seat of integrated wisdom. 20:15 Q3 Can you explain about metta practice. 27:31 Q4 Someone said resentment and aversion are natural conditions of the mind. They're not self and when seen as not self, they disappear. Can you comment please? 34:17 Q5 I would like to know if the inner tyrant is considered wrong view.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided practice "May Loving Kindness Arise"
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
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