Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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.
Jill Shepherd: 25 talk: The Awakening Factor of Joy
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Pascal Auclair: Briser l'enchaînement : contact-conception-prolifération ⛓️💥
(True North Insight)
Jill Shepherd: 24 meditation: Exploring the self-constructing process
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 23 short instructions: Exploring the self-constructing process
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Pascal Auclair: Qu’est-ce que le monde? Qu’est-ce que le tout?
(True North Insight)
Amita Schmidt: The Field of Awareness Guided Meditation
(Clintonville Sangha Ohio) This meditation will help you feel more of the depth and breadth of your awareness. It is an exploration into your unlimited, open awareness, here now.
Jill Shepherd: 22 talk: Wisdom and Compassion
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Pascal Auclair: Une cueillette de données de très haute qualité 🦫
(True North Insight)
Ayya Santacitta: On the Threshold to a New Relationship with Life
(Sacred Mountain Sangha) Short reflection on the Four Vipalllasa & the Code of Modernity followed by a guided meditation
Pascal Auclair: Deux visions qui s’affrontent ou se complètent 🪢
(True North Insight)
Jill Shepherd: 21 meditation: Self-compassion
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Pascal Auclair: Monde matériel et monde intérieur 🌏💭
(True North Insight)
Jill Shepherd: 20 talk: The Awakening Factor of Viriya, Unshakeable Energy
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Devon Hase: I Will Not Abandon Myself
(Refuge of Belonging) What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores *adhiṭṭhāna*—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
Devon Hase: I Will Not Abandon Myself
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) What does it mean to truly keep a vow to ourselves? Devon Hase explores adhiṭṭhāna—the cultivation of resolve—as both the courage to stay with what is difficult and the wisdom to soften, surrender, and listen when pushing harder becomes its own form of self-abandonment.
Jill Shepherd: 19 meditation: Choiceless attention
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Diana Clark: No Need to Look for Insights
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Looking for insights can subtly pull us away from what is actually happening. Practice is simply to be aware of experience as it is.
Jill Shepherd: 18 talk: The awakening factor of investigation and its connection to insight into impermanence
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Diana Clark: From Judgment to Understanding: A Path to Freedom
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores how curiosity, discernment, and seeing conditions clearly can loosen judgment and support greater freedom.
Jill Shepherd: 17 meditation: Mindfulness of mental activity
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 16 instructions: Mindfulness of mind
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Bringing awareness to different types of mental activity
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Learning From What is Here
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) When we stop trying to create the "right" meditation, every experience can become something to learn from.
Jill Shepherd: 15 talk: An Overview of the Seven Factors of Awakening, with a focus on Mindfulness
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Ajahn Sucitto: Right livelihood and non-dispute
(Cittaviveka) This is the final talk of this one week series
Jill Shepherd: 14 meditation: Mindfulness of hearing
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 13 meditation: Mettā for oneself
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Steady, Not Strained
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Right Effort asks for commitment, but not strain. This recording begins with a reflection and guided meditation, followed by silence, with further reflections at the end
Jill Shepherd: 12 talk: Dāna and Mettā as supportive conditions for the development of the awakening factors
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Ajahn Sucitto: The sea of goodness supports release
(Cittaviveka)
Ayya Santacitta: An Emergent Knowing that the Intellect Can Serve, But Not Lead
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection including a poem by Matty Weingast & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
Jill Shepherd: 11 meditation: Exploring cetana or intention, the about-to moment
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 10 meditation: Mindfulness of feeling-tones / vedanā
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Andrea Fella: Continuity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided reflection, followed by silence, followed by further reflection
Jill Shepherd: 09 talk: The five hindrances part 2 - sloth and torpor, restlessness and worry, and sceptical doubt
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Ajahn Sucitto: Not taking a stand
(Cittaviveka) Ajahn reads from S.12: 38-40. It can be found here: https://thebuddhaswords.net/sn/sn12.html
Matthew Hepburn: Infusing Awareness With Care
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Jill Shepherd: 08 meditation: Mostly silent, with suggestions at the start for choosing which practice to do
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Jill Shepherd: 07 meditation: Mental noting of physical sensations
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre) Using the tool of mental noting or labelling to help stay present with elemental qualities in breathing and the whole body, including the experience of pain
Jill Shepherd: 06 talk: Supportive conditions
(Blue Mountains Insight Meditation Centre)
Ajahn Sucitto: Balance obsession and the 'me program'
(Cittaviveka)
