Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation South Bay

2020-02-02 Guided Body Scan 28:35
Sharon Allen	Download Listen
Sharon Allen guides the listener through a body scan meditation to bring a gentle clear attention to the body from head to toe. The body scan practice is not just a practice for beginning meditators, or as a stress-reduction tool. It serves as a key foundational practice for all meditators who are earnest about following the Four Foundations of Mindfulness, and strengthening mindfulness of the body.
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2020-01-28 Practicing the Path 36:54
Carla Brennan	Download Listen
Do the actions we perform lead us to liberation or continued suffering?
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In collection: Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths

2020-01-21 Realizing Freedom 46:17
Toni Bernhard	Download Listen
In the Third Noble Truth the Buddha explained it is possible to end suffering and our inclination for making it worse.
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2020-01-07 Dukkha - Understanding How Things Are 36:53
Lisa Dale Miller	Download Listen
The Buddha explained in the First Noble Truth how the inherent unsatisfactoriness of human existence gives rise to all forms of human suffering. True understanding of this teaching liberates habitual tendencies to harm oneself, others and our world.
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In collection: Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths

2020-01-07 Buddha's Core Teachings: Finding True Happiness Through the Four Noble Truths 2:46:38

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with Carla Brennan, Lisa Dale Miller, Shaila Catherine, Toni Bernhard

No one wants to suffer, and yet stress is everywhere in our lives. After the Buddha awakened under the Bodhi Tree, the first thing he talked about was how to find true happiness. He described four wise ways you can work with your mind in the midst of ordinary and meditative experiences, popularly known as the Four Noble Truths. You can (1) comprehend your suffering; (2) abandon its causes; (3) realize that it is possible to end suffering; and (4) follow the path that leads to its end. Practicing this path, you will become free—not by avoiding what is unwanted, but by developing a wise relationship to your mind and all the myriad conditions by which it manufactures stress.

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2019-10-01 Right View Comes First 47:57
Thanissaro Bhikkhu	Download Listen
Thanissaro Bhikkhu reviews the Four Noble Truths as the categorical teaching of the Buddha - true and always beneficial. He describes the duties that enable us to fully understand and comprehend them and how the three characteristics - Dukkha, Annica, Anatta - are used in support of these duties and this understanding.
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2019-09-10 Listening as a Spiritual Practice 52:55
Daniel Bowling	Download Listen
Daniel Bowling describes the many ways that we filter what we hear, which prevents us from really listening. By recognizing when we are listening through our sense of self and our conditioned thoughts and reactions, we can become aware of, and short-circuit, the patterns that disconnect us from life. This enables us to follow the Buddha's instructions to Bahiya -"there will be only the seen in reference to the seen, only the heard in reference to the heard, only the sensed in reference to the sensed, only the cognized in reference to the cognized."
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2019-09-03 The Joy that leads to Enlightenment 37:35
Ayya Santussika	Download Listen
Ayya Santussika describes the Six Recollections taught by the Buddha and how they may benefit our meditation and practice.
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2019-08-13 Every Day is a Gift 34:29
Misha Merrill	Download Listen
Misha describes the alternatives to dealing with hardship when it inevitably comes. Ignoring, despairing or delusionary optimism are unskillful; instead she discusses a kind of wise hope based on deep investigation of the heart.
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In collection: Meditation in Hard Times

2019-08-06 Dukkha as a Chronic Illness, with Tony Bernhard 48:26
Tony Bernhard	Download Listen
Tony covers the four noble truths and the 8-fold path with many modern metaphors. He suggests the dharma is like an inoculation against the suffering we tend to add on top of the inevitable pain that comes with living a human life. He describes how a vedana meter can be a useful means of bringing attention to the range of feeling tones evoked by experiences and thereby sharpening insight into the way things are.
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In collection: Meditation in Hard Times