Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

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Latest Episodes:

Diana Winston: Mindfulness Meditation: Getting Started (Retreat at Spirit Rock) Aug 30, 2026

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(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) This short talk and longer guided meditation offers a clear introduction to how to practice mindfulness with an emphasis on finding and anchor and gathering your wild mind.

Pamela Weiss: Untangling Karma: It is Possible Aug 29, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) This talk explores the Air element: breath and breeze and the unseen. It recounts stories of Prajna Paramita, the mother of all Buddhas, and my mother's life & death

Diana Clark: The Freedom of Simplicity Aug 28, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) This talk explores the freedom that becomes possible when the mind discovers what it no longer needs to carry, protect, or try to control.

Devon Hase: Metta for a Friend Aug 28, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Teachings and Guided Meditation on Metta for a Friend

Yahel Avigur: Talk and Guided Practices: Dissolving the Sense of Self (and Other) into Mettā Aug 28, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) The Buddha suggests that the practice of mettā and the other brahmavihāras can serve as a basis for refined perceptions, in which the solidity of “self” and “other” begins to dissolve. In this sequence of reflections and guided meditations, we begin to explore and experiment with such possibilities.

Pamela Weiss: Guided Meditation: Body/Earth Aug 28, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Jill Shepherd: talk: Wise Action and Wise Activism Aug 27, 2026

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(Auckland Insight Meditation)

Devon Hase: Like the River Flows: Anattā, Impermanence, and the Freedom of no Fixed Address Aug 27, 2026

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(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) A dharma talk exploring anattā through the five aggregates and the Anattālakkhaṇa Sutta, alongside Anāthapiṇḍika's deathbed teaching from Sāriputta. Weaves impermanence and death contemplation together with not-self - drawing on Thanissaro Bhikkhu's pragmatic (not metaphysical) framing of not-self - and closes with mettā as the natural fruit of a loosened, undefended heart.

Pamela Weiss: Robaishin: Grandmotherly Hands Aug 27, 2026

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(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Stories about Mary Oliver, Grandma Helen, the Buddha, Ananda, Mahapajapati and Izumi Shikibu

Yahel Avigur: Guided Practice: Mettā and Insight Aug 27, 2026

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(Vrážné Zen Center) In this guided practice, we integrate mettā with practices of letting go through sensitivity to change and the direct relaxation of reactivity.