Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(London Insight Meditation)

(Cittaviveka)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teaching and guided meditation on practicing the fourth foundation of mindfulness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The second refuge invites us into intimacy with truth: something alive, immediate, and here for us whenever we remember to look. Using the ancient chant of the Dhamma’s qualities (here and now, timeless, inviting us to come and see, leading inward), this talk explores awareness as a refuge that can hold even chronic pain and old grief with both equanimity and compassion. Drawing on the suttas, Thai Forest masters, and poets like John O’Donohue and Ada Limón, we turn to kalyāṇa, the Pali word for the Dhamma as beautiful in the beginning, middle, and end. Beauty shows up in our practice, our actions, and our spiritual friendships, and it can become a companion and guide on the path home.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Teachings on vedana and mindfulness of emotions; guided RAIN practice.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) At the moment of his awakening, Kondañña saw that whatever arises also passes away. This talk explores impermanence at three scales: the vast span of geologic and cosmic time, the arc of our own aging and mortality, and the moment-to-moment flicker of experience. Drawing on the suttas, poetry, and stories from practice, we look at how assuming permanence shapes our lives, and how seeing through it can open into awe, gratitude, and the freedom of letting go.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Last night talk: How to take our natural belonging into the world

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short teaching and guided meditation on arriving, settling, steadying at the beginning of a retreat.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The talk describes the five Jhana factors supporting both momentary and fixed concentration. It explores their function in steadying the mind and how to balance them.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The Metta of all those who hold us.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores holding the pain of change & loss in compassion.

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores how a nature retreat/practice/immersion is an ideal way to cultivate the 4 foundations of mindfulness.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Insight Santa Cruz)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(Cittaviveka)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How to skillfully incorporate the tendency to judge and compare into our practice.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Guided meditation on forgiveness towards our body, mind, heart and relations with others

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Including pleasant, unpleasant and neutral in the meditation field

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Wise Effort includes not only weakening unwholesome states but strengthening wholesome states. This talk explores how to do the latter.

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha recommended mindfulness of difficult states but also beautiful states such as peace joy as objects of meditation

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The five common difficulties for meditators and the courage and trust needed to transform our relationship to them

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Using primary object of breath, body or sound to stabilize the attention

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Common Ground Meditation Center)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Auckland Insight Meditation)

(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) A talk on The Hidden Intelligence of Anger - What is your anger trying to tell you? Anger may look like one thing, but it can arise from very different conditions. Anger rooted in violated boundaries is communicating something different from anger arising from grief, fear, shame, attachment wounds, injustice, or the frustration of not getting what we want. Because the conditions are different, each calls for a different response—and each can open into a different possibility for freedom. Rather than simply managing anger, expressing it, or trying to let it go, this talk explores what becomes possible when we learn to listen more precisely. What is this anger responding to? What is it protecting? What is it asking us to understand? Through meditation, teaching, and inquiry, we’ll explore anger as a doorway into greater discernment, choice, and freedom.

(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)

(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)

(Moulin de Chaves)

(Moulin de Chaves)