Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation South Bay

2017-02-23 Meditating On Breath 1 13:11
Sharon Allen	Download Listen
Guided meditation on Breath #1
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Developing a Mindfulness Meditation Practice

2017-02-23 Meditating on Breath 2 11:57
Sharon Allen	Download Listen
Guided meditation on Breath #2.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Developing a Mindfulness Meditation Practice

2017-02-21 Dharma in Challenging Relationships 43:10
Lisa Dale Miller	Download Listen
Lisa Dale Miller gave the second talk in a speaker series titled "Everyday Dhamma." She explored how difficult relationships can be rich grounds for practice, because they require us to use skills of wisdom and compassion.
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In collection: Everyday Dhamma

2017-02-14 Four Gateways of Samsara: I, Me, Mine, and Mind 36:18
Ronald Purser	Download Listen
Ron Purser gave the first talk in a speaker series titled "Everyday Dhamma." He explained how our minds filter almost all of our experiences through the framework of "I, me, and mine." Is it possible to develop another way of knowing? Our practice can help us to loosen our minds' strong addiction to "I."
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Everyday Dhamma

2017-02-14 Everyday Dhamma 4:02:31

Ronald Purser, Kim Allen, Laura Lin, Lisa Dale Miller, Misha Merrill, Sean Oakes

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Can busy lay practioners realize the fruits of the Buddhist path? How can we bring mindfulness, wisdom, and compassion into our family, community, and workplace activities? This speaker series will explore the intersection of the Buddha's teachings with the complex demands of contemporary daily life. Each speaker will explore a theme that highlights social issues or practical applications related to living a mindful life at work, with family, and in today's society.

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2017-01-12 Wisdom 43:32
Berget Jelane	Download Listen
Berget Jelane gave the tenth talk in a eleven-week series titled "Ten Perfections", on the parami of Wisdom. Wisdom is broader than knowledge, also encompassing compassion. Three characteristics of wisdom are: understanding impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha), and emptiness, or non-self.
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2016-12-29 Energy, Effort 58:55
David Cohn	Download Listen
David Cohn gave the eighth talk in the eleven-week series "Ten Perfections," on the parami of Energy and Effort. David discussed bringing the present moment into awareness, letting go of negative states, and cultivating positive states of mind.
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2016-12-22 Determination 41:04
Chris Clifford	Download Listen
Chris Clifford gave the seventh talk in the eleven-week series "Ten Perfections." Four factors focus our resolve and strengthen our determination, namely discernment, truth, relinquishment and calmness.
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2016-12-01 Patience 30:48
Sharon Allen	Download Listen
Sharon Allen gave the fourth talk in the eleven-week series "Ten Perfections." Mindfulness and patience are important qualities to develop on our path.
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2016-11-10 Loving-kindness 54:51
Kim Allen	Download Listen
Kim Allen gave the second talk in the eleven-week series "Ten Perfections." She discussed loving-kindness, or Metta, a strength of heart we develop through goodwill, both inner and outer. We develop goodwill through interpersonal relationships, and also through complete acceptance of all aspects of ourself. The path to complete Metta is inward through the heart.
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