Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction

(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Recognizing the cyclic nature of our lives, we can make different choices and start to transform the patterns of our lives.

(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Reflections on sati - awareness - as a refuge. Grounding and settling in the body. The first guided meditation of the retreat.

(Aloka Earth Room & Parayana Vihara) Reflections on awareness (sati) as a refuge from the storms of the body and mind.

(Gaia House) An Online Dharma Hall session includes a Guided Meditation, a Dharma Talk, and responses to unrecorded questions. A three-part series examining the role of passion, compassion, and dispassion on the Buddha's path to peace. This week, the disentangling release that comes from renunciation of paths that promise a happiness but don't deliver. What we can learn from compassionate engagement or the refined happiness of an unhindered heart-mind. And how they open the heart and mind to support us to let go of narrow (fiery, lustful) passions for a grander freedom (of meaningful purpose).

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on December 28 , 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk and Q&A was offered on December 28 , 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

(Karuna Buddhist Vihara) This dhamma talk, meditation and Q&A was offered on Decemberr 28,, 2024 for a Daylong Retreat at Karuna Buddhist Vihara Meditation Center.

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

(Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge)

(Online) 03:01 Q1) Do you believe in Devas, and other subtle bodied beings in higher, lower and parallel realms? 03:12 Q2) When did you first start to believe in these things and why? 22:32 the next three questions flow together: Q3) Do you believe that belief in such things is central to the Buddhist world view and to Buddhist practice? Q4) What are the benefits if one can take this aspect of cosmology on board? Q5) What are the possible drawbacks if one does not? 41:03 Q6) Are there potential dangers in believing in such things? 44:28 Q7) Can you tell us some stories from personal experience, or things that you have heard first hand from your own teachers and friends, which might help us to be more open to the possibilities?