Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(True North Insight)

(True North Insight) Pascal parle des trois fausses perceptions qui nous accablent et raconte la pratique libératrice festive de la danse du demembrement de l’égo

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(True North Insight)

(True North Insight)

(Seminarhaus Engl) Der Buddha gibt Hinweise wie wir miteinander friedvoll leben können. Dazu gehört die geistige Haltung, mit der wir anderen begegnen, wie wir miteinander sprechen und wie wir handeln. Von großer Bedeutung ist dabei, welche Geisteszustände sich bei uns selbst und anderen entwickeln.

(True North Insight)

(True North Insight)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(True North Insight)

(Auckland Insight Meditation) What haunts you, and what helps you face fear?

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)

(True North Insight)

(True North Insight)

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center)

(True North Insight)

(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Short Reflections and guided meditation

(Seminarhaus Engl) Unsere Wahrnehmungsverarbeitung lässt den Eindruck einer dauerhaftigen Welt entstehen. Zementiert wird dieser Eindruck durch unser Haften an unserer Vergangenheit und unseren Vorstellungen von der Zukunft.

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene II | Online Wednesday-Mornings. Medicine song (ikaro) by Manari Ushigua.

(Spirit Rock Meditation Center) We begin with a review of last week's talk and exploration, on being a bodhisattva in our times. The theme was inspired by Donald's experience teaching two retreats north of Asheville, NC during Hurricane Helene and being inspired by the response of the retreat center, Southern Dharma, both locally near the center and in Asheville, combining community, inner practices, and helping others. In this session, we look first more at the traditional understanding of the bodhisattva, both in the context of the Buddha's teachings and later Theravada, and then Mahayana. We bring in images of the archetypcal bodhisattvas, Avalokiteshvara, Tara, Kwan Yin, and Manjushri, as well as examples of the vows of bodhisattvas, and an outline of the training of a bodhisattva in the ten paramitas (or "perfections"). We then ask about the nature of a contemporary bodhisattva, pointing to how connecting inner work and helping others can be a corrective to exclusively outer-oriented forms of activism and exclusively inner-oriented forms of Buddhist practice, in the context of a number of systemic crises that are facing us. After then looking at some of the capacities of a contemporary bodhisattva, we invite bodhisattva vows from those attending and hear from many. Discussion follows.