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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2025
Ayya Santussika: Yes, Please Do Resuscitate: Reviving Your Practice | Ayya Santussikā
(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, guided meditation, and Q&A was offered on July 26, 2025 for “How do I apply the Dhamma to THIS!?!”
00:28: Meditation
13:42: Dhamma talk
49:05: Q&A
01:19:42 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
Sayadaw U Jagara: From Patience to Equanimity
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The various aspects upekkha can take in regard to our practice.
00:13:45 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Tempel Smith: Morning Instructions: Mindfulness of Self'ing
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) Once we have a base of simple connection to breath, body, and our immediate senses, we can explore our driven habits of adding a sense of self to these very simple exp…
00:48:08 |
Fri 25 Jul 2025
Jill Shepherd: talk: Exploring some of the obstacles that can get in the way of mettā practice
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
00:28:44 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Jill Shepherd: meditation: Radiating energy method of mettā practice
(Auckland Insight Meditation)
00:28:54 |
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Ayya Santacitta: Ancient Evolutionary Structures Rumbling
(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings
00:56:29 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Tempel Smith: The process of self obsession and how we untangle this very deep habit.
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) For those new to directing there mindfulness practice towards the experience of self production, there are a few relatively simple practices to expose and let go of th…
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Donald Rothberg: Honoring the Life and Work of Joanna Macy
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This talk occurs five days after Joanna's death at age 96, and two days after Donald attended a wake for Joanna at her home, saying good-bye to her.
Donald first met J…
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Donald Rothberg: Guided Meditation Inspired by Joanna Macy's Work
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a period of settling, developing greater samadhi or concentration, and then move to mindfulness practice, including giving some attention to noticing mod…
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Sayadaw U Jagara: Back from Space
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The 5 Faculties (Indriya) represented as diligence, its coachman, and its 4 horses.
00:11:33 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Cara Lai: What Really Matters?
(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) The beautiful adventure of curiosity and how if we follow it, we find that everything in our experience is always calling us home to love.
01:40:19 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
Eugene Cash: The Parami of Patience
(San Francisco Insight Meditation Community) "Patience is the highest form of Prayer" ~Rumi
Suzuki Roshi said, "In Zen the word is 'constancy."' Instead of patience,
constancy is a kind of dedicatio…
00:33:26 |
Sun 20 Jul 2025
Brian Lesage: What is Insight?
(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)
00:43:44 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Nathan Glyde: Radically Wise Acceptance
(Gaia House) A meditation, reflection, and (just the) responses to questions on the theme of bringing intentions to life. Feeling what brings more meaningfulness, checking in with how we are right no…
01:19:02 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sayadaw U Jagara: Start with a nice day
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Investigation into the process of cognition based on the six sense doors and questioning the reality of the self-identity.
00:17:08 |
Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sayadaw U Jagara: Elephant's Training
(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How the training of our mind brings a clearer perspective. Understanding the process of dying on the experiential level.
00:52:50 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
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