Dharma Seed - Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society

2019-12-04 Dawn of the Liberating Path - Accomplishments 1:46:26

Shaila Catherine

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The Buddha teaches that, just as the dawn precedes the rising sun, so developing certain qualities prepares us for fully engaging in our practice of the Noble Eightfold Path. Seven of these qualities are taught in the Samyutta Nikaya (SN 45:49-90): good friends, virtue, desire, completeness of mind, view, diligence, and careful attention. This speaker series introduces each of these qualities and illuminates how developing each one can support our path to liberation.

Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-12-03 How Meditation Supports the Path of Awakening 34:33
Shaila Catherine	Download Listen
Scientists have documented some significant and measurable changes that occur as a result of meditation. But Buddhist practice is not limited to calm, pleasant, relaxing states of meditation. The liberating path includes a broad range of practices that produce a wide variety of benefits. We learn how we encounter the world of the senses; we unravel distortions of perception. We weaken defilements. We learn to let go. In this talk, Shaila Catherine points to the liberating potential of the path.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-29 Perception and Volitional Formations 48:14
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the clinging-aggregates of perception and volitional formations.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-11-26 Q&A 65:45
Joseph Goldstein	Download Listen
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2019-11-22 Wisdom and Vedana / Feeling-tone 49:00
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring clinging and release with a focus on vedana: knowing worldly and unworldly pleasant, unpleasant and neutral feeling-tones, and understanding why the Buddha placed so much importance on the experience of unworldly feeling-tone as a support for the deepening of dharma practice
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2019-11-19 Guided Metta meditation 51:36
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
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2019-11-15 Wisdom and the Body - Part Two 49:22
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Exploring clinging and release with a focus on the body, using three practices from the Satipatthana Sutta as support for developing a wiser relationship to the body: contemplating the body in terms of its anatomical parts; its elemental qualities; and as a corpse in decay
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2019-11-12 Patience 44:59
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
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2019-11-08 Wisdom and the Body 51:58
Jill Shepherd	Download Listen
Cultivating a wiser relationship to the body through an understanding of the First Noble Truth, focusing on some of the ways we cling to our bodies
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2019-11-05 Determination 46:16
Caroline Jones	Download Listen
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge : November 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge