Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks

2012-08-25 Samatha and Vipassana Retreat 58:05
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
Exploring the two qualities that are essential to develop creative awareness.
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-24 Opening Talk for Meditation and Mindfulness Retreat 46:13
Martine Batchelor	Download Listen
This talk also includes Jake Dartington
Gaia House : Meditation and Mindfulness

2012-08-23 Q&A and Guided Meditation 37:45
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Teaching what we need to learn. 54:56
James Baraz	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley : IMCB Regular Talks

2012-08-23 Working With Trauma 61:42
Amma Thanasanti	Download Listen
Shakti Vihara : Working with Things that Arise, a 3-day Series

2012-08-23 Questions and Answers 66:58
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Guest Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-22 Self and Not Self VI--Integration and Review 59:21
Donald Rothberg	Download Listen
We explore in this integrative sessions, how a "thick" sense of self appears in various ways, and how we open to experience with progressively "thinner" senses of self. We also look at how anxiety and disorientation may arise at each stage, and how to understand what skillful uses of self are.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Monday and Wednesday Talks

2012-08-22 Part 2: 1000 Serious Moves 1:21:27

Tara Brach

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We easily habituate to feeling stressed, leaning forward, trying to figure things out and get things done. The undercurrent is we are living reactively--resisting unpleasant experience, seeking out more comfort and ease--perpetually wanting life to be different than it is. In response to this confined way of living, the Buddha invites us to discover our innate capacity for happiness, the well-being that arises in full presence. These two talks explore the ways we get caught in the trance of reactivity and grimness, and the pathways to unconditioned happiness.

Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC : IMCW Wednesday Evening Talks

2012-08-22 Effortless Effort 60:32
Kevin Griffin	Download Listen
Dharma Talk
Common Ground Meditation Center

2012-08-21 Gladdening the Heart, Training the Mind 54:39
Sally Armstrong	Download Listen
As we do the practice of samatha (tranquility) meditation, it is important not to strive towards any particular experience but rather to see the practice as a training of the mind that leads to well being and happiness here and now.
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Concentration Retreat