Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction
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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.
Ayya Anandabodhi: Exploring Anatta - 4th Sunday Dhamma Talk 08-23-26
(Parayana Vihara) In an online 4th Sunday Dhamma talk, Ayya Anandabodhi deconstructs how mental habits create the personality and sense of self.
Aug 23
20 min
Ayya Anandabodhi: May I Abide in Well-Being - Sunday Dhamma Talk 08-23-26
(Parayana Vihara) In a Sunday Dhamma talk at Parayana Vihara, Ayya Anandabodhi encourages re-training the mind to abide in the present to experience the peace, joy, and freedom this brings.
Aug 23
Ayya Santussika: Use your ideals, but don't cling to them
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This guided meditation, dhamma talk, comments, questions and responses was offered on August 22, 2026 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!” 00:00 - 10:30 GUIDED MEDITATION 10:30 - 37:12 DHAMMA TALK 37:12 - 1:28:23 COMMENTS, QUESTIONS & RESPONSES
Aug 22
1 hr 27 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: The Experience of Not Picking Up Experience.
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring the difference between knowing experience and becoming involved with it. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
Aug 22
45 min
Diana Clark: When the Spell is Broken
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores disenchantment: how seeing through what experience seems to promise us can soften any greed and aversion toward that experience, allowing greater freedom
Aug 21
47 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: Not Needing Anything From This
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Exploring what it is like to know experience without asking it to provide something more. (There is a lot of silence in this reflection)
Aug 21
48 min
Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Speech 3
(Auckland Insight Meditation) Exploring societal conditioning that affects how we relate to each other
Aug 20
27 min
Diana Clark: Morning Reflection: What happens When We Want?
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A gentle investigation of wanting, including what happens when the mind gets and doesn’t get what it is reaching for (This reflection includes a lot of silence).
Aug 20
46 min
Devon Hase: Peace and Stillness: On Passaddhi and Equanimity
(Various) A talk on tranquility as its own awakening factor, not a lesser cousin of joy or concentration. We look at how calm arises naturally out of a happy mind that knows how to let go, what it actually feels like in the body, and how it matures into the absorption of samadhi and, further still, into a stillness governed by equanimity rather than effort.
Aug 20
39 min
Dawn Neal: Heartwood of your Practice
Aug 19
20 min
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