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.
Brian Lesage: Acting Into the Darkness
(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)
Mark Nunberg: The Soft Power of Metta
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
Ajahn Sucitto: Mae Thorani and parami
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)
Ajahn Sucitto: Guided meditation
(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions)
Bhante Buddharakkhita: The Joy of the Dhamma
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Pt. 2 Hiri and Ottappa with Vedana (pleasant, unpleasant, neutral - neither one) a guided meditation
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Pt 1. Hiri and Ottappa: The Guardians of the World and our Morality
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) shame. fear of wrongdoing. clear knowing. reality. being protected and guided by the energies of shame and fear of wrongdoing. knowing the first (1st) and second (2nd) arrows.
Kim Allen: Dharmette: Safety and the Pull Toward Being and Non-being
(Uncontrived)
Kim Allen: Meditation: Not Pushing or Pulling
(Uncontrived)
Kim Allen: Introduction and Guided Meditation: OK For Anything to Arise or Cease
(Uncontrived)
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Metta with / for / from self, easeful and neutral beings.
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) practicing to feel what neutral feels like in the body; how metta with / for / from a neutral being feels in the body. a spacious guided meditation.
Shinmu Tamori Gibson: Dana + Appamāda: Giving and Care
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) "giving. generosity. care. giver, receiver, gift. view, intention, action. beginning again as we enter into the flow and container of retreat. this is the opening talk for the retreat titled: Rooted in Presence: A Natural Path of Insight and Belonging"
Ayya Santacitta: Distortions of Perception VIII ~ Commitment Being Born of Practice
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Summary of the Four/Five Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including the 'Ten Subjects for Frequent Recollection' | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
JD Doyle: Monday Night Talk: Cultivating Generosity: No Self, No Other
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Mark Nunberg: What is the Buddha’s Wise View?
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)
JD Doyle: Monday Night Guided Meditation
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Ayya Anandabodhi: Direct Heart Practice
(Parayana Vihara)
Ayya Anandabodhi: The Earth is Taking Back Her Sovereignty
(Parayana Vihara)
Devon Hase: Open Hands, Open World: Taking Anapanasati Home
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) This closing talk distills the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati Sutta into what's most portable for daily life — calming the body, calming the mind, opening the heart, and letting go — offered as one continuous gesture rather than four separate teachings. We'll explore simple, concrete tools for carrying retreat-mind into ordinary moments, and extend the practice into patience and sīla as it meets daily relationship and speech. The talk closes with reflections on love, belonging, and letting go: what becomes possible once the hands are finally empty enough to receive what is already
Devon Hase: Open Hands, Open World: Taking Anapanasati Home
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This closing talk distills the sixteen steps of the Ānāpānasati Sutta into what's most portable for daily life — calming the body, calming the mind, opening the heart, and letting go — offered as one continuous gesture rather than four separate teachings. We'll explore simple, concrete tools for carrying retreat-mind into ordinary moments, and extend the practice into patience and sīla as it meets daily relationship and speech. The talk closes with reflections on love, belonging, and letting go: what becomes possible once the hands are finally empty enough to receive what is already here.
Yahel Avigur: Jhāna, Insight, and Awakening (Evening Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Nathan Glyde: Happiness Lasting
(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the distinct expressions and paths of hedonic, eudaimonic, and nibbanic happiness, it's relationship to pleasant abiding, our deepest values, ethical conduct, and release.
Ayya Santussika: Death: The Value in the Unavoidable
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, comments, questions and responses was offered on July 18, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - 25:05 GUIDED MEDITATION 25:05 - 54:10 DHAMMA TALK 54:10 - 1:29:02 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
Brian Lesage: To Love and Say Goodbye
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Yahel Avigur: The Third and Fourth Jhānas: Entering and Abiding in Heavenly Realms (Evening Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Yahel Avigur: A Note on Refinement (Morning Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Devon Hase: How's the Water, Boys?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening...
Devon Hase: How's the Water, Boys?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) In this guided meditation, the breath becomes a frame - a halo around whatever picture we slot into it - as we move through the third tetrad's four ways of looking at the mind. We'll settle into the stillness already underneath the mind's activity, the way silence sits beneath sound; let a basic gladness surface, an inward brightness already present rather than something we have to chase down; gather the mind into a felt sense of wholeness and integration; and finally practice the small, ordinary liberations already available to us - the fist opening, the self...
Yahel Avigur: Second Jhāna: Wellspring of Happiness (Evening Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Yahel Avigur: First Jhāna: Mastery (of the First and of All Jhānas) (Morning Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Ayya Santacitta: Distortions of Perception VII ~ Naming Not Blaming
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection on the '5th' Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including a poem by John Soos | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
Ayya Santacitta: Naming Not Blaming
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection on the '5th' Vipallasa & Guided Meditation including a poem by John Soos | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene IV | Online Wednesday-Morning
JoAnna Hardy: Session 2: Camille Dungy
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)
Nakawe Cuebas Berrios: How to Keep Faith Alive in Our Practice
(Cambridge Insight Meditation Center)
Devon Hase: The Rose-Apple Shade: Joy, Happiness, and Wholesome Pleasure on the Path
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Drawing on Bhikkhu Anālayo's scholarship on the Ānāpānasati Sutta, this talk explores the second tetrad of mindfulness of breathing: the four steps in which joy, happiness, and the subtler mental formations become doorways into deep practice. We look at why pleasure, met clearly, has always belonged on the path, and how the Buddha's own early memory of ease under a rose-apple tree pointed him toward awakening long before any formal practice did. Along the way we'll draw on the words of contemporary BIPOC and queer dharma teachers on what it means to a...
Yahel Avigur: First Jhāna: Engaging in a Jhāna (Part II) (Evening Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Yahel Avigur: First Jhāna: Opening to Well-Being (Part I) (Morning Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Brian Lesage: Planting the Seeds of Practice: The First Tetrad of Ānāpānasati Sutta
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
Yahel Avigur: Developing Pīti: Skill with Delight (Part II) (Evening Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
Yahel Avigur: Developing Pīti: Skill with Delight (Morning Session)
(Barre Center for Buddhist Studies)
