16 episodes
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: dharma talks and meditation instruction dharmaseed.org
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4.9 • 15 Ratings
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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.
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Sylvia Boorstein: Listen to the Rain & Knit
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Short meditation, dharma talk, and group discussion
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Ayya Santacitta: Dharma the Supreme Medicine
(Aloka Vihara Forest Monastery) Reflection & Guided Meditation for San Francisco Dharma Collective
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Nikki Mirghafori: Receive and Release the Breath
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Nikki Mirghafori: The Crucial and Everyday Practice of Wise Speech: What Questions Should We Ask Ourselves?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
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Tara Brach: Meditation, Psychedelics, Mortality: A conversation with Tara Brach and Roland Griffiths
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Roland is a long-term meditator, a psychopharmacologist and professor at Johns Hopkins, and a leader in researching the clinical effects of psychedelics, including their impact on those struggling with cancer, depression or addiction. At the end of 2021, he discovered he had incurable stage 4 Colon Cancer. This conversation explores the relationship between meditation and psychedelics, and how they both can serve profound spiritual awakening and deep inner freedom in the face of mortality.
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Tara Brach: Meditation: The Silence That is Listening
(Insight Meditation Community of Washington DC) Listening to sounds is a powerful way to quiet the thinking mind and connect with the natural openness of awareness. This meditation emphasizes the anchor of listening, and guides us to relax through our bodies and let sounds wash through us. In this receptivity we find a homecoming to full presence and peace.