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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. N…

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    The Dharmaseed.org: dharma talks and meditation instruction podcast is an exceptional resource for anyone interested in deepening their meditation practice or learning more about Buddhism. This podcast features talks from some of the best Buddhist insight practitioners and instructors in the world, allowing listeners to explore different teachings and find the ones that resonate with them. Additionally, this podcast provides a variety of topics, styles, and approaches, making it a valuable tool for both experienced practitioners and beginners.

    One of the best aspects of The Dharmaseed.org podcast is its extensive selection of teachers and teachings. With a wide range of speakers from various meditation centers, listeners can explore different perspectives on mindfulness, Buddhism, and the practice of meditation. This diversity allows for a more comprehensive understanding of these subjects and provides an opportunity to find teachers whose voice and approach resonate with each individual's needs. Additionally, the talks often include humor, quotes, poems, and personal experiences, making them engaging and relatable.

    Another great aspect of this podcast is its accessibility. The Dharma Seed website offers free access to a vast library of talks spanning many different topics and lengths. This makes it easy for individuals to integrate these teachings into their daily lives without any financial barrier. Furthermore, by providing downloadable episodes, listeners can access these talks offline at their convenience.

    However, one possible downside to this podcast is its limited availability of older episodes. As mentioned in one review, the selection is often limited to the most recent 20 episodes or so. This means that if listeners download episodes to listen later, they might discover that those episodes have been removed by the time they get around to them. While this limitation can be seen as an exercise in mindfulness of impermanence, it can also be frustrating for those who want access to a wider range of content.

    In conclusion, The Dharmaseed.org: dharma talks and meditation instruction podcast offers an outstanding collection of teachings from some of the best Buddhist insight practitioners in the world. The accessibility, variety of topics, and engaging delivery make this podcast a valuable resource for anyone interested in deepening their meditation practice or exploring Buddhism. Despite its limited availability of older episodes, this podcast remains a refuge in a wild world for countless individuals seeking spiritual growth and understanding.



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    Mark Nunberg: Suffering and the End of Suffering - Part Two - Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2025 32:51


    (Common Ground Meditation Center)

    Nathan Glyde: Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 2—Developing Mettā To An Easy Relationship

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 46:15


    Nathan Glyde: Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk 2—How We Meet Matters

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 41:47


    Kim Allen: Dharmette and Q&A: Investigating Thinking

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 30:21


    Kim Allen: Lightly Guided meditation: What Knows Thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 43:29


    Zohar Lavie: Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 2—Meeting With Appreciation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 50:21


    Kim Allen: Intro and Guided Meditation: Discerning Thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 44:13


    Kim Allen: Intro and Guided Meditation: Discerning Thought

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2025 44:13


    Nathan Glyde: Living With Illness and Loss: Intro to Reflective Exercise

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 5:48


    Zohar Lavie: Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation 1—Meeting Experience With Kindness and Care

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 44:12


    Zohar Lavie: Living With Illness and Loss: Guided Meditation—Meeting Experience With Kindness and Care

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 44:12


    Zohar Lavie: Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk 1—Opening To The Whole of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 30:44


    Zohar Lavie: Living With Illness and Loss: Dharma Talk—Opening To The Whole of Life

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 30:44


    Nathan Glyde: Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 1-2—Kind Attention (guided practice)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 26:09


    Nathan Glyde: Living With Illness and Loss: Meditation Instructions 1-1—Kind Attention (intro)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2025 30:16


    Devon Hase: Body Metta Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 67:12


    (Various) Reflections and Guided Meditation on Metta for the Body moving into boundless loving awareness.

    Devon Hase: Impermanence

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 17:16


    (Various) Brief reflections on three levels of Impermanence.

    Kristina Bare: Deepening Samadhi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 56:35


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of Samadhi and its role on the overall path of Liberation

    Jill Shepherd: talk: An overview of the four brahmavihāra and introduction to mettā practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 27:37


    (Auckland Insight Meditation)

    Jill Shepherd: meditation: Mettā for someone we care about

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2025 27:50


    (Auckland Insight Meditation)

    bruni dávila: Nourishing a Courageous and Steady Heart

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 61:03


    (Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

    Winnie Nazarko: Wise Effort

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2025 56:00


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A description of the Wise Effort step of the 8 Fold Path, how it fits into the Buddha's teachings, and examples of how to specifically apply it.

    Kristina Bare: Harmonizing With The Hindrances

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 59:51


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully work with the 5 Hindrances in concentration practice. Threee Strategies are discussed: Ignoring, anti-dotes, mindfulness/inquiry

    Brian Lesage: Becoming the River

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2025 28:14


    (Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

    Donald Rothberg: Talk: Bringing Our Practice to the Current Difficult Times: An Eightfold Path

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 66:51


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) For the Buddha, practice was understood as involving three trainings, in wisdom, meditation, and ethics (sila). Ethics, typically under-emphasized in later Buddhism, including Western Buddhism, with sometimes clear negative consequences, had as its horizon helping others. The Buddha said: “Wander forth . . . for the welfare of the multitude, for the happiness of the multitude, out of compassion for the world.” The later emphasis on the bodhisattva develops this emphasis further. In this talk, we suggest a contemporary “Eightfold Path” for understanding and responding to the current difficult times in the society and world. It's outlined in terms of three wisdom guidelines, two meditation guidelines, and three ethics guidelines. The talk is followed by discussion.

    Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation on the Two Main Forms of Buddhist Practice, Developing Concentration and Insight (Directed by the Core Wisdom Teaching)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2025 39:28


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with brief instructions for developing samadhi (“placing together” or “concentration”), followed by basic mindfulness instructions and then guidance for working with the feeling-tone of pleasant or unpleasant, when it appears in the moderate range. We are mindful of pleasant or unpleasant and look for grasping or pushing away in some form, guided by core wisdom teachings.

    Ajahn Sucitto: Attending to the way of release

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 26:57


    (Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)

    Ajahn Sucitto: Guided meditation - Attention as an exercise

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2025 20:44


    Nathan Glyde: Spacious Approach

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2025 84:52


    (Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of spacious intimacy: and what it reveals and opens about experience (wisdom), and creative well-being (samādhi), and positive action in the world

    Eugene Cash: Paradox of Life and Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2025 59:07


    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Exploring how the Buddha gave up the intoxication with youth, health and life. How mindfulness of death supports opening to our Buddha nature. Includes personal story about the experience of discontinuity in my near death experience.

    Ayya Santacitta: Restoring Ancestral Relationships

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 55:41


    (Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a quote by Arundhati Roy | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

    Chas DiCapua: Going Against The Grain and Creating a Wholesome Field

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 35:03


    (Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

    Donald Rothberg: Talk: The Big Picture 3: Introduction to Ethical Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 63:19


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After a brief review of the first two talks in this series, we explore the nature of ethical practice, one of the three core inter-related areas of training for the Buddha, along with training in meditation and in wisdom. We see how ethical practice has often been understood historically as having a social dimension, both in the teachings of the Buddha and later, as in the edicts of King Ashoka. We also explore some of the ways that ethical practice has been marginalized in Western Buddhist practice, with significant consequences. Then we look at the commonality of ethical guidelines in cross-religious context, with Donald telling some personal stories. Finally, we outline several ways to carry out ethical practice and then open up to discussion.

    Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration, Mindfulness, and Insight Practice Exploring Impermanence and Reactivity, with Reflection on Daily Life Practice at the End

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 39:10


    Jean Esther: Morning Instructions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2025 56:25


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) These instructions introduce "thinking" as one of the six sense doors to cultivate mindful awareness of this includes identifying emotions and how to meet them in ones meditation practice. Included in these instructions are a brief introduction to choiceless awareness practice.

    Jean Esther: The Unshareable Liberation of the Heart and Mind

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 53:20


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) What is the state of our current existance? How does Buddhist practice lead us to being fully ourselves with this world while remaining steady and rooted in love and wisdom? This talk includes a brief reflection on the healing power of the 7 factors of awakening and how to identify them.

    Eugene Cash: Anathapindika and the Presence of Mindfulness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2025 54:32


    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How Satipatthana directs us to the development of not just being present but presence of Mind. Presence of mind support letting go. Anathapindika faces death directly and is given instructions of not clinging to anything. This Sutta changes the teachings of Buddhism for non-monsastics.

    Jean Esther: Loving Kindness Meditation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 31:09


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this 2 part guided meditation, we begin with recieving the loving care from someone who loves us in an uncomplicated way. Which could, include our pets, a spiritual figure, a teacher, etc. The 2nd part is offering love and care to ourselves including what we find difficult in ourselves.

    Shinmu Tamori Gibson: The Deep, Simple Gratitude for Knowing Awareness

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2025 107:23


    Cara Lai: Breaking out of Samsara

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 53:35


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A talk about Samsara and suffering that doesn't bum everybody out

    Eugene Cash: Normalcy of Life and Death

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 47:41


    (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) How we understand death dharmically and in our personal lives holds the potential for mindfulness of death in ways that enrich and bring the fruits of the dharma into our lives.

    Mushim Ikeda: Three Messages for Thriving: Cultivating a Durable Spiritual Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2025 67:03


    Ajahn Sucitto: Unicorns, Demons and the Heart of Release

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2025 53:09


    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The renunciate quality of retreat removes our psychological cushions. Therefore soothing, not intensity, is needed. Gaining health and psychological flex, we can disband the fantasies that haunt the heart.

    Ayya Santacitta: Widening the Arc of the Crash of Modernity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 56:21


    (Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including a benediction by Master Eckhart | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

    Donald Rothberg: The Big Picture 2: Nine Ways of Deepening Daily Life Practice

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 65:55


    (Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We continue our series of meditations and talks exploring the foundations of contemporary Buddhist practice. We begin by reviewing last week's talk on the basic model of Buddhist meditation, identifying three aspects of practice. These three are (1) developing samadhi or concentration; (2) cultivating three modes of liberating insight--into impermanence, dukkha or reactivity, and not-self; and (3) opening to awakened awareness. Then we focus on a crucial, central, and not always developed dimension of contemporary practice, especially for the vast majority of Western Buddhist practitioners who do not live in monastic contexts--bringing practice to everyday life. We identify nine ways of deepening daily life practice. The talk is followed by discussion.

    Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation: Developing Concentration, Mindfulness, and Insight into Impermanence and Reactivity

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2025 38:54


    Jeanne Corrigal: Joy as a Brahma Vihara: Abiding and Radiating

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 41:53


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk offers a way of abiding in joy and other wholesome qualities through an acronym of CARE - Connect, abide, release/refresh, enjoy. A short talk is followed by a short guided meditation in abiding and radiating sympathetic joy.

    Jeanne Corrigal: Love and Joy as Pathways to Liberation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 69:40


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This talk reflects on joy and metta as central to the practice, and as supports for non-clinging. It explores this theme through the suttas, in everyday practice, and in challenging times.

    Gullu Singh: Instructions + Sitting (Retreat at Spirit Rock)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 55:12


    Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Morning Instructions: The Un-United Mental States of Emotions

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2025 175:39


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): mental states, emotions, sati (to remember), body, breath, hindrances, vedana (feeling tone), train rides.

    Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Karuna: Compassion for the Heart-Body-Mind (Centering You)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2025 61:14


    (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) 2025 E-BIPOC Retreat, day 5 (4th full day): guided meditation centering One's heart-body-mind. suggested for experienced meditators only.

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