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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.

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    Renate Seifarth: Praxis freudvoll im Leben fortsetzen

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 35:47


    (Waldhaus am Laacher See) Nach dem Retreat gilt es die Praxis fortzusetzen. Das besteht im wesentlichen darin, "Böses" zu unterlassen, "Gutes" zu tun und Herz und Geist von Gier, Hass und Unwissenheit zu läutern. Dies wollen wir freudvoll tun. Dazu können wir das Glück kontemplieren einen Weg zum inneren Frieden begegnet zu sein, ihn als etwas Wertvolles erkannt zu haben und uns auf den Weg gemacht haben. Unterstützen tun uns weiter Gleichgesinnte auf dem Weg. Sich mit ihnen anfreunden, hilft ungemein, wobei wir nicht zu viel von ihnen erwarten sollten.

    Jeanne Corrigal: Guided Meditation: Wise Intention of Kindness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 20:37


    (Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

    Jeanne Corrigal: Eightfold Parth: A Dependable Life Path

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 31:35


    (Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

    Kim Allen: Dharma talk and Q&A

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 27:31


    (Uncontrived)

    Kim Allen: Second Meditation: Allowing Wholesomeness to Develop

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 42:24


    Ajahn Sucitto: Extinguishing, cooling, release

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 49:40


    (Cittaviveka) Through a steady inclining towards release from personal habits, the root clinging of 'me' is exposed. Training challenges this, and with dispassionate perseverance, there can be a surprising release from the 'me bag'.

    Jeanne Corrigal: Eightfold Path: overview and wise view meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 73:39


    (Saskatoon Insight Meditation Community)

    Kim Allen: Introduction and First Guided Meditation: Cellular Ease

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 4, 2025 45:42


    Renate Seifarth: Geduld und dulden lernen - khanti

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 43:38


    (Waldhaus am Laacher See) In der Sutta über die Bambusakrobaten überlegen die beiden Artisten, wie sie unbeschadet ihre Kunststücke zeigen können. Sie sind gegensätzlicher Ansicht. Achte ich besser auch mich oder achte ich auf den anderen? Der erläutert der Buddha anschließend, warum beide Recht haben. Achten auf sich selbst bedeutet Achtsamkeit zu kultivieren. Dadurch achtet man auch auf den anderen. Guduld, Gewaltlosigkeit, Liebe und Teilnahme zu entwickeln, bedeutet auf den anderen zu blicken, wovon man selbst ebenfalls profitiert. Geduld ist ein wesentliches Element. Geduld öffnet Raum und Zeit für Entwicklung. Zu Geduld gehört aber auch etwas Schwieriges dulden zu können. Dadurch wird Reaktivität verhindert.

    Andrea Fella: Morning Reflection: Further Reflections on the Four Noble Truths

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2025 19:42


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Jill Shepherd: talk: Reflections on retreat practice and the cultivation of muditā: gladness and appreciative joy

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 22:45


    Andrea Fella: The Four Noble Truths as Direct Experience and Insight

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 63:58


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Jill Shepherd: meditation: Settling into muditā / gladness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 28:03


    (Auckland Insight Meditation)

    Renate Seifarth: Mitgefühl leben

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 38:40


    (Waldhaus am Laacher See) Wer achtet auf wen? In einer Sutta diskutieren Bambusakrobaten darüber wie sie vorgehen sollen, um unbeschadet ihre Kunststücke zu zeigen. Für den Buddha ist es eine Gelegenheit darzulegen, dass sowohl das achten auf sich selbst wie das achten auf den anderen wichtig ist. Ersteres wird durch die Praxis der vier Grundlagen der Achtsamkeit erreicht, während das Achten auf den anderen in der Praxis von Geduld, Gewaltlosigkeit, Liebe und Teilnahme besteht.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Undoing obsessions through mindfulness

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2025 46:02


    (Cittaviveka) Ingrained habits and obsessive emotions can be met and released through mindfulness established in the body. The practice of mindfulness of breathing purifies perception and volition to undo the sense of self based in time,

    David Loy: What does Buddhism teach about the natural world?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 48:48


    (Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

    Ayya Santacitta: Finding a Different Way to Move With All of It

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 52:46


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

    Ajahn Sucitto: Effort means using energy wisely

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2025 46:54


    (Cittaviveka) The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Indriya allies for citta's release

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2025 50:50


    (Cittaviveka) The five indriya are factors that are accessible and take one's attention from the sensory world of circumstance to the citta -heart or mind. The initial indriya is faith, a quality that serves as a wellspring off support through the ups and downs of life.

    Marjolein Janssen: The Four Great Efforts: PACE Yourself on the Path

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 58:31


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.

    Trudy Goodman: Dharma Talk (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 120:34


    Nikki Mirghafori: Working Mindfully with Technology

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2025 97:40


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

    Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika: Nothing to Accomplish - Except Building A Kuti, Two Monasteries, and Realizing Nibbana

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2025 88:54


    (Karuna Buddhist Vihara) For this Dhamma Talk Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda were joined by the Clear Mountain Monastery monks Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho.

    Jill Satterfield: Checking-In | JC2C25 | Week 4 | 9.26.25

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 12:49


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Check-in | JS2C25 | Week 4

    Ayya Cittananda, Ayya Santussika: All Conditioned Things Are Impermanent - All Things Are Not Self l KBV & CMM

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 69:16


    (Karuna Buddhist Vihara) 00:00 - 10:00 Morning Chanting 10:00 - 35:27 Sutta Reflections 35:27 - 1:09:21 Comments, Questions and Responses This video is a recording of the regularly presented Sutta Study by Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda that occurs most Friday evenings at Karuna Buddhist Vihara. These meetings start with the Morning Chanting followed by the study of discourse(s) of the Buddha from the Sutta Pitaka. In this video Ayya Santussika and Ayya Cittananda are joined by Ajahn Kovilo and Ajahn Nisabho from the Clear Mountain Monestary. The Suttas discussed include: Arising AN 3.136 https://suttacentral.net/an3.136/en/sujato With Channa SN 22.90 https://suttacentral.net/sn22.90/en/sujato With Ananda SN 44.10 https://suttacentral.net/sn44.10/en/sujato The Shorter Discourse with Saccaka MN 35 https://suttacentral.net/mn35/en/sujato You can find more information about Karuna Buddhist Vihara at the website below: https://www.karunabv.org/

    Andrea Fella: Morning Questions and Reflections

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2025 63:54


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Andrea Fella: Dependent Origination

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 64:37


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    James Baraz: You Are Loving Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2025 45:21


    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) Seeing sacredness, not only around us, but focusing inside the one who is perceiving. This mind/body (YOU) that is interacting with the world around it. I use Ram Dass's practice of seeing beyond this mind/body by abiding in the perspective "I Am Loving Awareness". This is where the devotional and non-dual meet. To aid in this exploration James shares some powerful cuts from the album Ram Dass, a collaboration of Ram Dass's voice and teachings with background music by East Forest, who will be offering a hybrid concert "Echoes of Ram Dass" at Spirit Rock October 19, 2025.

    Ayya Santacitta: Art & Symbols Are Portals Into New Realities

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 60:33


    (Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a poem by Ingrid Goff-Maidoff | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

    JD Doyle: Meeting Yourself With Kindness: A Guided Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 26:44


    JD Doyle: The Worldly Winds

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 24, 2025 28:50


    Erin Selover: Guided Equanimity Meditation - Cultivating the Strength to Stand in the Center of Things (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 46:49


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation starts with brief talk on equanimity. Followed by a guided meditation.

    Marjolein Janssen: Morning Instructions: Intention

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2025 62:47


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Marjolein Janssen: The Benefits of Walking Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 56:44


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) While walking meditation often receives less attention than sitting meditation, it offers numerous benefits worth exploring. In this talk, we will go into the 'Walking Meditation' sutta, where the Buddha outlines five benefits of this practice. We'll conclude with a bonus benefit.

    Kate Johnson: Falling in Love with Anicca (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 47:19


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) When met with love and awareness, change opens the path to liberation through letting go

    Erin Selover: Guided Meditation: Establishing Your Seat (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 55:51


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This guided meditation lead you through a series of practices to establish yourself as you enter into formal meditation.

    Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Further Reflections on Noticing Feeling Tone

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 22, 2025 61:40


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Renate Seifarth: Die Gefahr von Begierde erkennen

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2025 40:30


    (Buddha-Haus) Vergänglichkeit ist das Wesen aller Dinge. Daraus ergibt sich, dass Freude und Glück aufgrund verschiedenster Erfahrungen zu Leiden führen. Weil wir das nicht erkennen, folgen wir Begierde und Gier. In einer Lehrrede führt der Buddha auf, dass wenn wir die Gefahr von Begierde nach Sinnesbefriedigung, nach Form, nach dem Glück der Vertiefungen erkennen, wir uns von ihnen abwenden. Die Begierde nach Sinnesbefriedigung ist für ihn die Grundlage für Streit, Zwietracht und Krieg. Die Begierde nach Form die Grundlage für Raub, die Begierde nach dem Glück der Jhana die Ursache, dass wir keine wirkliche Befreiung finden. Dukkha ist. Mitgefühl ist die einzige tröstende Antwort darauf.

    Pawan Bareja: Light of Your Happiness

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2025 75:44


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

    Marjolein Janssen: Guided Meditation: Metta (loving-kindness) for dear friend and neutral being

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2025 60:23


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.

    Ayya Santussika: What Are We Really Building?: An Empty Hut, Community, Our Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2025 79:51


    (Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, questions and responses was offered on September 20, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - GUIDED MEDITATION 15:30 - DHAMMA TALK 46:36 - Q&R

    Jill Satterfield: Breath of Nature | JC2C25 | Week 3 | 9.19.25

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 18:13


    Marjolein Janssen: Morning Instructions: Working With Thoughts

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2025 60:20


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    Andrea Fella: Untangle the Tangle

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 53:57


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Exploring the tangle of dukkha, and how it is related both to the nature of experience as impermanent, unreliable and uncontrollable and to the deep wish for happiness, safety and ease.

    Andrea Fella: Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Mind States

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 62:41


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

    James Baraz: Longing for the Sacred

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2025 48:30


    (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) With so much violence and insensitivity all around us, we can lose touch with our love for what is sacred. All that is required is a heightened sensitivity to tune into what is always around us.

    Mark Nunberg: Healing and Liberation in Times of Activation and Entanglement

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 60:00


    (Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) We live in times when fear, greed and anxiety provoke our hearts & minds daily. Often, we relate to these triggers in ways that only amplify agitation and conflict in and around us. The Buddha's teachings and practices help us uncover the stabilizing, tenderizing, and liberating force of wisdom and awareness. Wisdom and awareness is the necessary antidote for troubled hearts in troubled times.

    Ayya Santacitta: Giving In Rather Than Giving Up

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 55:24


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

    Dawn Mauricio: Sloth & Torpor and Restless & Worry (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 61:43


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A talk exploring these two hindrances, our relationship to them, and ways to embrace them as parts of our path

    Donald Rothberg: Awakening from Ignorance: Going beyond the Main Habitual Constructions of Experience 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 63:38


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of how the Buddha saw "ignorance" of the basic nature of things (not so much of facts or information) as the basic problem of human life; we are as if asleep, caught in dream-like living, and need to "wake up." For the Buddha, we are especially ignorant about impermanence, dukkha (or reactivity--grabbing at the pleasant and pushing away the unpleasant or painful and believing that this is the way to happiness), the nature of the self, and nirvana or awakening. We bring in a brief report of the experience of attending the previous week's EcoDharma retreat at Spirit Rock, emphasizing especially the pervasiveness of a sense of separation--from the earth, other living beings, and each other--and the connection of such sense of separation with our systemic problems. Indigenous teachers at the retreat particularly emphasized living without such separation. The second part of the talk, we focus on the teaching of not-self (anatta), and ways of practicing that deepens our understanding of not-self, as well as how we hold this understanding of pervasive human ignorance with compassion and kindness, including in our responses to the manifestations of ignorance. The talk is followed by discussion.

    Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Exploring the Constructions of Experience: Being with Impermanence, Choiceless Awareness, and Experiences with a "Thick" Sense of Self

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2025 39:09


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with about 7-8 minutes of developing stability of attention and less distraction, through concentration practice or some other practice. We then explore several aspects of how we "construct" experience. We look at impermanence in several ways, noticing the arising, staying and changing, and passing away with (1) the breath, (2) body sensations, (3) sounds, and (4) the open flow of experience (about 3 minutes). Then there is a period of mindfulness practice with the additional instruction of looking out for a moderate or strong sense of self. We close with a short period of a heart practice such as lovingkindness or compassion.

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