Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Buddhist Talk
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.
Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Twitter:
@dharmaseed
Language:
English
Website:
http://dharmaseed.org/talks/
Email:
contact@dharmaseed.org
Episodes
Ayya Santussika: Meditation on Loving-Kindness
6/9/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.
Duration:00:21:30
Ayya Santussika: Letting Go of Resentment - Bringing in Loving-Kindness
6/9/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) A short reflection on letting go of resentment through investigation and bringing in metta.
Duration:00:05:38
Ayya Santussika: Breakthrough Defilement Killers
6/8/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Wearing away the defilements using the Buddha's method for effacement MN 8, including the 5 hindrances.
Duration:00:33:45
Ayya Santussika: Body Contemplation (33 Parts!?)
6/8/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfully and kindly bringing attention to the body parts on the traditional list plus.
Duration:00:23:58
Ayya Santussika: Dropping in for Contemplation
6/8/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Establishing mindfulness and turning to investigation of whatever is present in this moment.
Duration:00:25:14
Ajahn Sucitto: Q and A
6/7/2025
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) 01 06 Q1 I don't have any particular devotional practice. Is this like a Brahmavihara practice? 01:41 Q2 Regarding the relationship between citta and yoni as in yoniso manasikara, I relate to citta on a moment to moment basis. Yoni seems to be a seat of integrated wisdom. 20:15 Q3 Can you explain about metta practice. 27:31 Q4 Someone said resentment and aversion are natural conditions of the mind. They're not self and when seen as not self, they disappear. Can you comment please? 34:17 Q5 I would like to know if the inner tyrant is considered wrong view.
Duration:00:43:32
Ayya Santussika: Nibbana Biofuel: The Causes for Awakening
6/7/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) "It's like when the heavens rain heavily downhill to fill the hollows ... they fill the ocean," starting with the factor of associating with noble people, factors are fulfilled all the way to Nibbana. AN 10.62 Craving
Duration:00:41:24
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided meditation
6/7/2025
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)
Duration:00:14:05
Ajahn Sucitto: A simple short mantra is offered
6/7/2025
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)
Duration:00:03:20
Ayya Santussika: Guided Tour of the 5 Hindrances and 7 Awakening Factors
6/7/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) After establishing mindfulness and scanning through the body, this guided meditation addresses the 5 hindrances and describes a natural progression through the 7 Factors of Awakening.
Duration:00:42:27
Ayya Santussika: Water for Arahant Soup
6/7/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) "A mendicant develops and cultivates the seven awakening factors depending on and grounded on ethics, acquiring great and abundant good qualities." This reflection points out several ways that virtue supports us in our practice, as the "water for arahant soup".
Duration:00:32:44
Ayya Santussika: Vital Conditions for Developing the Awakening Factors
6/6/2025
(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Beginning this two week retreat with the encouraging words of the Buddha from two discourses: SN 46.1 The Himalaya and AN 9.1 Awakening.
Duration:00:18:42
Jill Shepherd: talk: Sīla part 6 Mindful listening as a support for Wise Speech
6/5/2025
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Continuing to explore the fourth precept, the commitment to refrain from false and harsh speech, by looking at mindful listening as a support for skilful speech
Duration:00:17:50
James Baraz: The Problem with Becoming: The Buddha's Teaching on Bhava
6/5/2025
(Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) This talk explores Bhava, one of the 12 links on the Wheel of Dependent Origination also called the "Wheel of Samsara." Bhava comes right after Craving and Grasping and is usually translated as "Becoming." Bhava or Becoming is something that that most of us find ourselves caught in. However, bringing kind awareness to this tendency can be a major support for living our lives fully in the present moment.
Duration:00:46:00
Amana Brembry Johnson: Mindful of Thoughts and Mind States
6/4/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) In this instruction we will move from a focus on the object and turn towards an investigation of the quality of the mind and an awareness of what arises in the body
Duration:00:58:51
Brian Lesage: It Was Like This
6/3/2025
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Duration:00:25:30
Amana Brembry Johnson: Being at Home in the Body
6/3/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) A remembrance of The Body as home and an understanding that we are not the body but a part of an interconnected web of life
Duration:00:47:43
Carol Cano: Letting Go, Coming Home to the Earth: Nature as Teacher
6/2/2025
(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
Duration:00:41:23
JoAnna Hardy: Metta mish mosh, choose your practice
6/1/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Last full retreat day. Giving choice to choose the practice that you love.
Duration:00:29:39
Bart van Melik: Trust Impermanence
6/1/2025
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How attuning to change can bring the greatest happiness
Duration:00:47:00