Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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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.
Episodes
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
(Online) The deepest transformation unfolds over years, too gradually to see — yet the only unit we ever actually work with is a single moment, met with kindness and a willingness to let go. Like a tree growing ring by ring, a whole life takes shape one moment at a time, with far less to manage than we think.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
(True North Insight) Retreat at Villa La Tosca in France
(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) In the Simile of the Cloth sutta, the Buddha describes liberation as going beyond mere "purity" to an inner freedom from mental limitation.
(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) We often hope something outside us will do the purifying for us. The Buddha gently redirects: we need to do the inner work. This talk is based in the Simile of the Cloth sutta (MN7) and explores what that inner purification actually requires, and how wisdom makes it possible.
(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) Recognizing and Cultivating the Wholesome
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center) The Buddha taught, “Whoever is addicted to society and worldly bustle, they will not partake of the happiness of renunciation, dispassion, peace, and awakening.” Wisdom and awareness practice is an invitation to wholeness and intimacy. We practice opening and receiving the activities of the mind and body with a wisdom that discerns the futility and stressfulness of attachment. The renunciation of attachment is a natural result of seeing things as they are, that all experiences arise and pass lawfully following impersonal causes and conditions. Renunciation, letting go, or letting be, is a profound giving of the heart to the moment just as it is.
(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) Drawing on the Buddha's Simile of the Cloth (MN7), this talk explores how greed, aversion, and delusion stain the mind and obscure clear seeing. We look at how these defilements manifest in meditation and everyday experience, and how to meet them with awareness rather than resistance.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Instructions on cultivating compassion by starting small and gradually building to an expansive orientation of the compassionate heart.
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation with a poem by Mark Nepo | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Sets the condition for wisdom to arise - help us see through the concotions of perception, thought and view.
(Insight Meditation Community of Richmond) An introduction to the retreat theme of Awakening the Pure Heart.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) After some personal stories from Donald about his father, who was a veteran, and about Donald’s experiences growing up at the time of the Vietnam war and being introduced to nonviolence, we explore the three main dimensions of our practice (training in ethics, meditation, and wisdom) related to the holiday. We focus on the ethical teachings about killing and nonviolence, including the complexities of these teachings; the importance of bringing mindfulness to grief, loss, and sadness, and of grounding in kindness, compassion, and love; and the wisdom and insight teachings about seeing the roots of violence. The talk is followed by discussion.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Guided Loving-kindness instruction after a brief description of the potential of the Brahmaviharas in daily life.
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Through stillness, playfulness, and deep listening to the body, we rediscover our interconnectedness, resilience, and capacity to live fully awake in a changing world.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Right View is seeing in a way that aligns with reality. It is not a static belief or fixed opinion, but an ongoing, dynamic, experiential alignment with what is true. Right View brings the mind and heart into harmony, like a wheel properly set on its axle. With Right View comes clarity. We begin to see the distortions caused by clinging, greed, hatred, and delusion, and that seeing empowers us to act in ways that reduce suffering. One of the most important teachings on wise view, the Sammādiṭṭhi Sutta (MN 9), offers a simple organizing principle—a kind of Dhamma algorithm—that, when practiced, can lead to greater well-being, deeper wisdom, and ultimately freedom from grief, sorrow, lamentation, dukkha, and distress. The slides referenced in the talk can be found at https://links.gullusingh.com/e005e6
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An exploration of the First Establishment of Mindfulness
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided meditation on space and the SOS (Sound of Silence)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Reflection on the four brahma viharas followed by a guided meditation.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Guided Meditation on the five elements & SOS (sound of silence).
(Online) Drawing on the Mettā Sutta, this talk from Clear Dharma Sangha explores mettā as a way of life, a profound wish for the safety and happiness of all beings, and a way of seeing. Through the practice of the neutral person, we begin to extend goodwill beyond preference — and to cultivate a refuge that steadies us not to escape, but to turn toward the world with clarity, courage, and care.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) A guided meditation of attending to the Sound of Silence within the framework of the Seven Awakening Factors. (This meditation practice begins with a period of guided standing meditation.)
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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