Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) How can we stop our habit of reinforcing the first two fetters: personality view and cultural and social conditioning that bring us suffering and keep us in ignorance?

(Aloka Earth Room) Short Reflection & Guided Meditation including an Earth Prayer by Ralph Metzner | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Chi Gong to "shake off" tension in the body and ground the body with a mindful body scan that ends in sitting meditation.

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) There comes a point when we don't need more information, we just need to practice and to come to the practice with a willingness to work our way through whatever challenges arise. This includes the doubt that we can awaken, that we can do it. In the story of Culapanthaka, a monk who seemed unlikely to absorb the Buddha's teachings, awakens. It is a reminder that we can, too.

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The Buddha's instructions on how to develop the 7 awakening factors all the way to realization of Nibbāna.

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community)

(Flagstaff Insight Meditation Community) This accompanies the talk entitled: Listening for the Deeper Silence

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) How can we develop the awakening factor of energy without trying to accomplish something, without coming from the personality view and our long conditioning to achieve?

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) The arising, persisting, non-arising and vanishing of the 5 hindrances and 7 awakening factors are based on causes. What are they? And, how can we use them to starve the hindrances and fuel the awakening factors? (SN 46.51)

(Cloud Mountain Retreat Center) Infusing our investigation with an atmosphere of loving-kindness.