Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring Greg Kramer's time-based categories of over-arching intention, episodic intention and momentary intention

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) How to bring the energy of the mind and heart together in unification or concentration. What are the causes for samadhi. How we can live with nondistractedness and what are its benefits.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk shares a teaching from the great 10th Century Tibetan master, Tilopa. Tilopa and his succession of Dharma heirs formed the core of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He passed his teachings on to Naropa, whose student Marpa transmitted them to Milarepa, who then gave transmission to Gampopa. Tilopa's teaching is summed up in his timeless "Six Words Of Advice" which are instructions on how to stay connected to the present moment. These instructions are explored in this talk.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with an Icaro (medicine song) by Manari Ushigua | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Morning

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this talk, Gullu reviews prior week's teachings on Wise Effort, including what supports initiating effort, the middle way between extremes, and the four wise efforts using the acronym PACE: (P)reventing unwholesome states from arising, (A)bandoning unwholesome states that have arisen, (C)ultivating wholesome states, and (E)xtending (sustaining) those wholesome states. He then briefly discusses the Seven Factors of Awakening (Satta Bojjhaṅgā)—mindfulness, investigation of dhammas, energy, joy, tranquility, concentration, and equanimity—emphasizing that energy naturally arises from Mindfulness and investigation. He concludes with a quick overview of the Four Bases of Power (Cattāro Iddhipādā): chanda, viriya, citta, and vīmaṃsā. Particular attention is given to viriya as the engine of awakening and to vīmaṃsā as the spirit of ongoing discernment and refinement in practice. NOTE: Group discussion has been removed.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Stories and humor from beloved teacher Ajahn Brahm.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Seminarhaus Engl) Durch Weisheit erreichen wir Nibbana, einen inneren Ort, an dem uns Mara nicht beeinflussen kann. Mara ist die Personifizierung allen Übels, des Bösen. Er verleitet zu verletzenden Handlungen, zu Verstrickung in Hochmut und Gier oder stellt unsere Fähigkeit zu erwachen infrage. Er provoziert, reizt, versteckt sich in anderen. Wir widerstehen indem wir unseren Geist zähmen und die Wirklichkeit durchdringen. Dann breitet sich eine wohltuende Stille und Weite in uns aus.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Guided practice for directly experiencing the four elements in the body, followed by reading of Mary Oliver's "Humpbacks."

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In the receptive awareness style of practice taught by Sayadaw U Tejaniya, people often ask how the Brahma Viharas fit in to the practice. This talk describes several ways the BVs connect with this style of practice.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Buddha's contemplation of the four elements — earth, water, fire, and air — offers a gentle but radical path: from the conceit of "my body" to the felt sense of being nature itself. A guided exploration of elemental awareness, grounded in retreat experience, Satipatthana practice, and the luminous body-wisdom of beloved poets.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Gaia House)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Learning to discern pleasant, unpleasant, neutral in sense experience. Developing awareness of our habitual reactivity to each, which is unnecessary and stressful.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Gaia House) Dharma Talk

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Seminarhaus Engl) In der MN 131 erläutert der Buddha, dass wir nicht hängen sollen an der Vergangenheit, noch auf eine bestimmte Zukunft hoffen. Das können wir erreichen, in dem wir lernen, uns nicht an den entsprechenden Gedanken zu ergötzen. Von dem, was in der Gegenwart geschieht, sollen wir nicht überwältigt werden. Dazu betrachten wir die fünf Khandha und untersuchen sie darauf, ob ein Selbst darin zu finden ist.

(Gaia House)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Parayana Vihara)

(Uncontrived)

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House) Meditation instructions.

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Practicing with wise view and effort.

(Gaia House) Dharma Talk

(Dassanāya Buddhist Community)

(Gaia House)

(Gaia House) Meditation instructions.